Photochrome Camera Club

Here is Martin’s presentation from Thursday on Black and White photography:

B&W Digital Photography: The How’s and Why’s from Martin Taylor on Vimeo.

• The free channel mixer effect I mentioned can be downloaded here: http://hiddenelements.com/
• The Virtual Photographer plugin can be found here: http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

If you want to see just the conversion methods, skip forward to minute 12. If you want to be able to see more detail of the screencasts (i.e. the exact menus I’m navigating to etc.) click the Vimeo link bottom right of the video to open the host’s site, then watch full screen by clicking the icon bottom right of that video.

Let’s meet in front of the museum. Situated at 601 Skyway Road in San Carlos, this interesting museum features exhibits of 50 aircrafts, prototypes, models and other aviation displays. We will wander through the atrium and exhibit hall photographing anything that catches our eyes. You may also see a few things outside. Tripods are permissible. We need to pay a small fee of $11.00 for adults or $7.00 for seniors (age 65+).

Directions: Take Hwy 101 south to Holly Street/Redwood Shores pkwy exit. Go east onto Redwood Shores Pkwy. Turn right onto Airport Road. Turn right onto Skyway Road. For more information go to: http://www.hiller.org

This meeting will feature presentations by Martin Taylor and Alan Heald. On this evening Martin and Alan will share their knowledge and experiences about two aspects of working with images in this digital age.

Alan Heald calls his presentation “How to Get Rid of Stuff”. He will demonstrate methods he uses to quickly eliminate distracting elements in digital photographs. There are significant differences between the Cloning tool, the Spot Healing Brush, and the Patch tool. Each tool has strengths as well as weaknesses. In fact, it often helps to use these tools in combination with one another to get the best results. As a bonus he will demonstrate the use of a Wacom tablet, a gadget he says is invaluable when working with Photoshop.

Martin Taylor’s demonstration will illustrate the different methods he uses for converting color digital images into quality black & white images. His presentation is especially pertinent since Photochrome will be soon be holding a black & white only evening, at the Theme night on March 4th. So, if you aren’t completely comfortable converting your images into black and white it would be smart to attend Martin’s presentation.

Martin and Alan each hope that you will find the evening of value.

All members are invited to attend these monthly meetings where activities of the Club are planned.

Members enter up to two images for discussion and critique by a guest judge.