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Once again, we are photographing potholes around Hospitals Reef in La Jolla.
Don’t forget to bring Wide Angle lenses, tripod, cable release, and filters to get silky smooth water at sunset.
Arrive around 6 Sunset at 7pm; Parking is a challenge
Dinner afterward at Mandarin House in Bird Rock
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 Jennifer Wolf.
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 Jennifer
Jennifer Wolf comes from a science background with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in marine biology and ecology. After a couple decades working with sea urchin fisheries and wetland restoration, she now spends more time engaging with the photography community.
She has spent the past 6 years as the program coordinator for the North County Photographic Society. In 2014, after many years of entering the International Exhibition of Photography at the San Diego Fair, she decided to move to the other side of the table and become a judge. She has continued to enjoy judging since then and has been a guest judge at other local clubs as well.
In 2021 and 2022 she applied for and was accepted as an official photographer for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. In addition to photographing balloons, she holds a commercial balloon pilot license.
Her balloon photography can be seen at https://wolfharttimages.com
Jenny and Sandy Zelasko host bi-monthly photo critiques on their YouTube channel @chickstalkingpics
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!