Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Agenda for meeting on November 18, 2010

Here's the agenda for our upcoming meeting on Thursday, November 18, 2010

7:00 - 7:30 : Announcements, Introduction of new members/guests, Member News and Club Business

7:30- 8:15: Guest Speaker - Steve Hopson, Street and Music Photography

8:15 - 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, November 16th 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.

About our Speaker: Steve Hopson



Steve Hopson began photography with a High School graduation present camera from his parents (a Pentax Spotmatic). Within a few days, he found himself at the base of an Interstate overpass in Houston trying to make the concrete columns look like Roman ruins. Within a few years, he found himself taking Art Photography from Garry Winogrand at UT Austin. Now, many years later, Steve has explored most genres of photography with special emphasis on portraits, landscape, street photography, macro, travel, and music photography. His commercial clients include Rolling Stone, Budweiser, MSNBC, C3 Presents, Transmission Entertainment, Microsoft, J. Walter Thompson, and TBG Partners. His work has been exhibited as part of the New American Talent show in the Arthouse at Jones Center and other museums, and he regularly contributes photo essays to Austinist.com. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science from UT Austin in Radio, Television and Film and a Master of Public Administration degree from Texas State University, and is currently employed as a Policy Analyst for the Texas Sunset Commission. Steve doesn't think that there will ever be another photographer as great as Henri Cartier-Bresson, but that doesn't stop him from giving it his best shot.