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Have you ever wanted to make amazing nightscape images with the Milky Way galaxy? In this talk, Stephen will discuss all the basics necessary to get started including what camera gear and lenses are recommended, how to plan an outing, how to think about composition, how to photograph in the field, and how to edit your images. Time permitting, we will do demos of planning apps and editing of images in Lightroom and Photoshop.
About Stephen Bay
Stephen Bay is a landscape photographer living in San Diego. His work focuses on capturing local scenes in both the natural and urban environments. He works in an intentional manner and carefully plans his images in advance which may require waiting for the right environmental conditions to materialize. He is deeply involved with photography education and the local community. He regularly holds workshops, gives presentations on photographic technique and vision, and does tutoring and individual coaching. Stephen came to the U.S. from Canada for graduate school in Computer Science. He then met his wife and permanently settled in California. After leaving a career as a data scientist he now devotes his full attention to photography.
Join us for an evening with Antoine Didienne as he discusses and presents his amazing style of portrait photography mixing both street and photojournalism to create amazing imagery.
In his own words
I realized that I preferred to capture real, intimate and honest moments of life rather than posing my kids and get them in their most favorable pose. Taking a photo of my youngest stuck under a chair while my oldest is getting mad at me because I am laughing while taking the photo is much more fun than taking a photo of them in their Sunday clothing flashing a toothy grin. There are absolute moments of beauty in everyday life and we are so busy looking our best on social media that we forget how precious these fleeting moments are. With the crazy lives we live, we often forget how special it is to have a family with their own traditions, weird rules and quirks that we create for ourselves inside of our homes. I personally find great beauty in the mundanity of our lives.
At the intersection of street photography and studio portraiture… In the genres of photography that we all enjoy to dabble in, it is close to an indisputable fact that photojournalism and documentary photography are the hardest forms of this art to do well and beautifully. It is so easy to fall into the mundane or to care only about the aesthetics of the photo that to create a beautiful photo that is emotional and tells a good story is very very hard. The same goes for studio portraiture. Becoming a good street photographer will make you a better studio portrait artist.
Join us!
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for June will be Mickey Strand.
On the third Wednesday of each month, members bring in prints for critique. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Image critiques are available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Mickey Strand
Mickey is a retired Navy Photographers Mate, Chief Petty Officer, and the Leading Chief of the Navy’s elite Combat Camera Group Pacific. Mickey’s current focus is the Veterans Portrait Series, which documents veterans’ stories of service. He is focused on our World’s Greatest Generation. The veterans of World War II.
Mickey interviews each Veteran, collecting and writing their service stories, archiving these amazing historic figures and their stories for generations to come. Mickey has collected and displayed images and stories from over 100 warriors that at one point, signed the dotted line when our country needed their sacrifice of service most.
Mickey continues to collect Veterans from all services for the Veterans Portrait Series. In 2019 the work was displayed at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre Museum from Nov 11, 2019 – to March 1, 2020.
Mickey and the project were in the national spotlight, featured on the Sunday Today show with Harry Smith Today Show Link to YouTube.
In 2022 Mickey has photographed over 25 more WW2 Veterans and will be hosting a print show in San Diego in November with an open house on Veterans Day.
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us for our Monthly Critique Night!
Our judge for July will be Jacqueline Ramirez.
On the third Wednesday of each month, members bring in prints for critique. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Image critiques are available for members only. If you’d like more information about joining Darkroomers, please check out our membership page and email us if you have any questions.
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Ramirez is a San Diego-based artist and educator who has been photographing since high school when she received her first Kodak Instamatic camera. She received a BA in Journalism (Photojournalism emphasis) from SDSU. Inspired by the work of Robert Frank and the creative energy of early punk rock culture, she pursued a spontaneous documentary style which led to further experimentation with pictorial organization, content, and alternative printing and process techniques. She has photographed many notable punk rock artists including the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell. Several of her photographs and issues of Substitute, San Diego’s first alternative music zine (which she co-edited) are included in I’m Not Like You: Notes from the San Diego Underground at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park, an –exhibit with celebrates the independent, uniquely creative spirit that distinguished skate, punk and hip- hop culture from the 1970s through the 1990s in San Diego.
She received her MFA in Creative Photography from California State University, Fullerton in 1997. Her images are characterized by continual experimentation as well as examination and analysis of ordinary, unremarkable moments and sites which characterize contemporary society. Her cameras of choice include several vintage Diana cameras, Nikon FM, Holga, and iPhone.
She is an educator who believes a beautiful thing is never perfect and “the best teacher is also a student” (fortune cookie message).
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