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Join Darkroomers members for a lovely evening at Windandsea! We’ll be focusing on WAVES for our 2nd Quarter Theme.
We’ll meet at 4:30 PM above the tiki hut, then have ample time to explore and take photos before sunset (7:37 PM). Low tide is at 4:03 PM, so the tide will be on its way back in (high tide is at 10:23).
Dinner at Mandarin House to follow.
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 May will be Stephen Burns.
Members bring prints for critique on the third Wednesday of each month. Prints accepted by the Judge will hang for up to 2 months in the Photographic Arts Building gallery.
Visitors are welcome, however, submitting images for critique is 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 Stephen
Stephen Burns (www.chromeallusion.com) is a digital artist and author of books on being creative with your digital tools. He is an Adobe AEL (Adobe Educational Leader) as well as an Adobe Community Expert and has taught digital creativity internationally. He is an Instructor at Goldenwest College, Santa Monica College, Coast College, and Studio Arts of Los Angeles. He worked as a Pro-Artist for WACOM Technologies and is the president Of Photoshop Users Group (www.sdphotoshopusers.com), currently the largest Adobe Photoshop Users group in the country. You can view the Facebook section at https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoshopusersgroup.
He is a guest writer for a number of magazines, including the feature article and front cover of Photoshop User Magazine (http://www.chromeallusion.com/articles_index.htm). In addition, Stephen is the author of the following books (http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm):
- “3D Photoshop For Creative Professionals”
- “Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX”
- “The Art Of Poser & Photoshop”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX”
- “Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX”
- “Photoshop CS Trickery & FX”
He has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 years ago and, in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His artistic influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists, including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few.
Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 29 years internationally. He has been exhibiting digital fine art around the world at galleries such as the Durban Art Museum in South Africa, the Citizens Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, and the CECUT Museum Of Mexico, to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
Our 5th Wednesday meetings are member spotlight presentations. Hob-knob with some of the area’s experts in amateur photography and enjoy delicious Hors d’oeuvres!
Join us for Panama: More Than Just a Canal, presented by Janie Anderson.
About Janie and Traveling to Panama
Following her career in nonprofit management and fundraising, Janie Anderson has had more time to combine her passions for photography and foreign travel. A member of Darkroomers since 2017, Janie will share photos and experiences from her 2024 trip to Panama, including some reflections on differing styles of photo guides, as well as the challenges and opportunities of small-group travel with photographers. The Panama trip included birding, street photography, and visits to a coffee plantation, a beekeeping and honey enterprise, a racehorse breeding farm – and, of course, the Panama Canal.
This meeting will be held in person at the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park (next to Spanish Village).
There are only 2 ways to show your art – prints and online. The Darkroomers are experts at printing, but let’s face it: it’s expensive to print, and limited by the people you can show your prints to in-person. On the other hand, sharing your work online offers you a tried and true way to reach greater audiences and open your work up to the entire world – which, by the way, could lead to print sales!
Scott Kelby once said that your Portfolio website can make you a better photographer. And, Bob DiNatale said that you’re not known by what you shoot, but by what you show!
Since 2010, SlickPic has provided a user-friendly, professional-caliber platform for easily creating private/secure Galleries with which to share your images AND includes a modern Portfolio website builder that is genuinely powerful as any other and easy to use. Join folks like Scott Kelby, Lindsey Adler, Joe Edelman, Serge Ramelli, Matt Suess, Deb Sandidge, Tony Sweet, Rick Sammon, and tens of thousands more in showcasing your best work online with SlickPic!
Kevin La Rue is a long-time photography and software enthusiast who will show you the essential knowledge you need to get started with your own website utilizing the SlickPic platform! You’ll learn key elements for a successful portfolio website, how to create, work with and share galleries (privately or publicly), and finally we’ll build a website from scratch in just a few minutes!
Don’t miss this fast-paced meeting – it will change the way you present your amazing images online, even if you’re on alternative platforms or – perish the thought – social media! Join Kevin and learn the modern way to put your images online – take control of your online destiny!
About Kevin
Kevin La Rue is a senior manager whose 35+ year background in consumer software and entrepreneurship began with one of the early leading independent Mac software developers, traversed through many early-stage start-ups (including one of his own) and ultimately led in 2006 to Nik Software and later Skylum Software, both leading photo editing developers.
In his career, La Rue held many product-related and senior management roles, including Product Manager, VP of Marketing, Head of U.S. Operations and International Business Development and Partnerships. Recently, these influences led him back to photography and the many amazing feats that can be accomplished in the “digital darkroom.” Currently he is an independent Crypto investor, and works with Radiant Imaging Labs (Radiant Photo) and SlickPic.