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Making Great Bird Photos with Matt K @ Online

Apr 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://alphauniverse.com/alpha-workshops/bird3/

Join Matt for a 75 minute live webcast on improving your bird photography for photographers of all levels. You’ll even get a free PDF “Bird Photography Field” guide, that you can keep on your phone, for a quick reference while out shooting. In this webcast, we’ll talk about how bird photography can be one of the hardest types of photography, but also incredibly rewarding to have a fun look in to one of natures most interesting animals. During this session we’ll dive in to the various gear, tips, tricks and settings to help make your bird photos stand out from the crowd. You’ll even learn some photo editing tips to help with light, noise and distractions, so that you end up with beautiful razor sharp bird photos to share.

May

5

Wed

Darkroomers Monthly Meeting @ Photographic Arts Building

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May 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us for our First Wednesday Monthly Meeting. First Wednesday Meetings are lectures, talks, discussions, or presentations.

This meeting will be held in person at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park (next to Spanish Village).

Epic Photos in Record Time with Vanelli

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May 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Registration required! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Join Florida-based portrait and sports photographer, longtime LinkedIn Learning Educator, and Skylum’s Director of Education, Vanelli, as he shares his creative process using the innovative technology in Luminar AI. He’ll introduce you to Skylum’s flagship RAW photo editor and show how it can speed up and enhance your photo editing workflow.

We know your time is precious, so in this informative session, you’ll get three things: (a) a complete demonstration of Luminar AI using a wide variety of photo types; (b) an understanding of how artificial intelligence can help you achieve creative results quickly without taking away any creativity or creative control; and (c) how your Adobe workflow can be expanded when Luminar AI is used as a plugin.

Luminar AI is an innovative photo editor from Skylum Software based on Artificial Intelligence that puts incredible power and ease-of-use into your hands. This award-winning software for Mac and Windows is packed full of fast and intuitive tools that let you easily make fantastic images. Use as a standalone or as a creative extension for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Photoshop CC.

Registration required! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

May

14

Fri

Milky Way Photography at Joshua Tree National Park @ Joshua Tree National Park

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May 14 – May 16 all-day

Join your fellow Darkroomers for a quick trip to Joshua Tree National Park to photograph the Milky Way, May 14-16, 2021. (Optional 1 0r 2 nights)

We will meet to caravan in front of the Visitor Center before preceding to the West entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Time to be determined.

There are rooms available at the Super8 Wyndham at Joshua Tree Yucca Valley for $85.00 per night. Camping is also an option. Lots of restaurants and grocery stores. Covid-19 orders are still in place with restaurants offering take out and outdoor dining. Bring your mask.

If you are interested in attending please email Melanie at plummermelanie@ymail.com.

Our plan for the evenings will be developing thru PhotoPills to determine the direction of the Milky Way. I will be scouting sights when I arrive early Friday. There are pit toilets at the Boy Scout Trail and Cap Rock Parking lots. We will start at one of these 2 sights. Possible move to another area early morning. Be prepared for nighttime temps in JTree to be in the 50’s so a warm coat and cap is a must. Also a headlamp with red light.

Why Joshua Tree and why Next week….? Larry McDaniel at George’s Camera suggested the May is the perfect time for photographing the Milky Way arch at Joshua Tree. It is lower in the sky this time of year. The evening weather is better than the frigid night weather at Laguna Mountain and Lake Henshaw next weekend.