Agenda for meeting on April 22, 2010

Here's the agenda for our upcoming meeting on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

7:00 - 7:20 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News

7:20- 8:20: Gadget and Gear Day - Bring your favorite gadgets and gear whether its cool cameras, lenses, filters, flashes, accessories etc. to show your fellow club members!

8:20 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Before and After. Don't forget to send your 2 pairs of review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, April 20th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.

NOTE: We have a new image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:

1. Critique - You have specific questions you'd like to ask about your image and you want feedback from the other photographers at the meeting. Come prepared with your questions.
   
2. Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.

More about the new image review process here:
http://hillcountryphotographyclub.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-image-review-process.html

Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.

National Geographic Photographer teaching workshop in Austin at very low cost!

Raul Touzon, the Nat Geo photographer is coming to Austin next week and has offered to give a 3 day workshop called “Sharpen Your Photo Skills” for the incredibly low price of $200 per person. Due to a planning error, he ended up with air tickets to Austin but no job booked so he’s going to come down anyway and just try to cover his costs, hence the really low price (he usually charges around $700 for the workshop).

It will take place Thursday evening, April 22nd through the following Sunday lunchtime. If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact Dave Wilson via email (dave@davewilsonphotography.com) and He’ll pass on further details. We need to get 7 or 8 people to sign up to make this work and currently have 4 definites and 2 tentatives so it looks pretty likely that the class will go ahead. Obviously time is of the essence since we need a go/no-go decision by the weekend.

Wimberley Valley Art League Fine Art Photography Workshop

Sign up Now for WVAL's First
Fine Art Photography Workshop!
April 26-28, $265, limited to 14 participants

WVAL is proud to sponsor this workshop by prominent Austin professional photographer and teacher, Chris Dietz. The workshop starts each day from Chris' studio in Driftwood and operates on the following schedule: Monday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Tuesday, 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm and Wednesday, 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Each day is a dynamic combination of classroom study and critique with a subsequent field trip to photogenic locations selected by Chris. The third day includes one of Chris' photography specialties: night light painting photography under the moon. Our own Bob Cook took a previous night light painting workshop with Chris and will be attending this one. I've attached some of Bob's pictures wherein he put to work what he learned.

More information about the workshop is available on the Fizbin Photography website. For the full details of the workshop, please download the 3 page synopsis. You can also check out Chris' website to learn more about him: www.fizbinphotography.com.

To sign up, please send a deposit of $125 to Betty Rhodes, 206 Crestview, Wimberley, 78626.

Dave Wilson Workshop on HDR

When Dave talked at Hill Country Photography Club last month, he mentioned that he was in the process of planning an HDR workshop and promised to forward details once the plans progressed to the point where he was signing people up. He's now got to that point. The workshop will be on Saturday, June 19th at the soon-to-opened Dragonfly Gallery a couple of blocks north of Precision Camera in Austin.

You can find more details at http://www.davewilsonphotography.com/workshops .