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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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Join us as Lightroom Classic Expert, Paul Shilling, guides us through the Develop module in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Paul will demonstrate how the many buttons, dials, and sliders in the Develop module can be used to bring your raw images to life. He will also review some tips and tricks that even advanced Lightroom Classic users may not be familiar with. Since the editing tools in the Develop module are almost identical to those in Adobe Camera Raw, this presentation should also be of interest to Photoshop users.
Paul retired from the UCSD Department of Psychiatry after a productive 30-year career investigating the brain mechanisms underlying schizophrenia and the antipsychotic drugs used to treat this severe brain disease.
Paul’s passion for photography began when he was a graduate student. He loves to capture nature stories with his camera and is especially passionate about creating artistic images of birds, as well as a variety of macro subjects. Creating macro images of subjects such as insects and flowers has allowed him to share interesting details and patterns in nature that usually go unnoticed.
Paul has exhibited his award-winning photography in numerous local shows and competitions. He most recently was awarded first place in the San Diego Floral Association/Museum of Photographic Arts contest “The Power of the Single Flower” and his winning image is displayed on the cover of the July/August 2023 edition of California Garden. His images have also been published in the book, San Diego’s North County Coast: A Photographic Portrait, and Nature’s Best magazine.
Paul has developed expertise in image post processing using a combination of Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Topaz filters. He currently trains photographers how to better organize, manage and edit their images in Lightroom Classic. You can learn more about Paul’s Lightroom Classic training sessions at shillingphotojewelry.com/lightroom-training
Paul lives in Encinitas, California with his wife Lesley, a retired special education teacher, who is now a jewelry maker and painter.
You can see more of his photography at shillingphotojewelry.com
This event will be held live via Zoom
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the building at 6 pm for setup and social hour.
Join us as award-winning photographer, Paulette Donnellon, takes us on a photographic journey to some of our state and federation recreational lands. She will share her favorite subjects to photograph within a day’s drive from San Diego, an overnight trip outside of San Diego County, and a quick plane ride for a weekend excursion.
About Paulette
Paulette is an award-winning photographer who enjoys taking pictures of nature and wildlife as a hobby. Her image of an Eastern Collared Lizard will be on the 2024 America the Beautiful National Park Pass. When she isn’t taking pictures, she is employed by LEGO® Education and, in her spare time, serves as a trustee for the San Diego County Board of Education. Paulette also served nine years in the U.S. Army and was deployed during Desert Storm.