Our next meeting is on Thursday, February 21st. Please mark your calendars!
7:00 - 7:15: Introduction of New Members/Guests, Announcements, Member News7:15 - 8:15: Presentation - "Flower Photography 101" - Rose Epps
8:15 - 9:00: Image Reviews - Topic: Matters of the Heart. Our topic is inspired by Valentine's Day. Be creative!Don't forget to send your 2 review images (jpg 800 pixels wide) by Tuesday, February 19th via email to: hcphotoclub@gmail.com.
Reminder about our image review process:
When we display your image we'll ask you to select one of these reviews:
- 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.
- Show and Tell - You'd simply like to share information about this image with us such as technique or location.
More about our image review process here:
Meeting Location: Horizon Bay (formerly Merrill Gardens) in San Marcos. Map and directions available on our club website.
About our Program
Our own Rose Epps will present the program this month! She will share a short slide show of her flower images, and will cover her equipment (including flash), camera settings, tips for shooting outdoors, tips for shooting indoors, post-processing possibilities and examples of before & after. If there's time and interest, she can also show a few processed images and go through them, layer by layer, to quickly show the changes made.
Rose will also have many of the small equipment items that she'll talk about - i.e. right angle finder, extension tubes, ring flash, etc. She'll also have a couple of small floral canvases and a few of the notecards that she sells.
Her interest in photography began in the early 1990s when she purchased an SLR to replace her broken P&S. She learned she could control the outcome! As she approached retirement from the telecom industry, she took an excellent darkroom class at the local vo-tech school in Oklahoma City. Realizing she could have even more control, she purchased all the darkroom equipment necessary and "played" with various chemicals until late 2005. After purchasing the first Canon 5D (full frame) camera, she never returned to the darkroom. Since that time she's been continually learning to shoot better, through photo workshops (such as RMSP) and better post-processing NAPP workshops. Although she shoots a variety of subjects, esp. landscapes, her favorite subject is flowers.
She belongs to several photo groups in the Austin area and participates in group exhibits. She's also a volunteer Heart Gallery photographer. Last year she won 2nd Place in the Battlefields category with the Civil War Preservation Trust and her image is August in their 2013 calendar. She's also had several images in the HCA calendar over the years.
