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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 September is Duane Murphy.
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 Duane
Duane started Great American Portraits to change people’s lives by creating custom photography based on the unique experiences of each person’s life.
I want to help make people’s lives better by allowing them to see themselves and what respect, love, comfort, and more all look like in their own lives by creating fun, loving custom portraits that take them to a special emotional time in their lives.
When not photographing people, I help photographers become better at the business and the art of photography to make their own lives better! There is so much to the art and science of photography we all learn best by learning hands-on from those who have already traveled this road before us. I love to share this journey with you!
- 2022 Orange County Photographer of the Year
- PPA Master Photographer
- PPA Craftsman Photographer
- PPC Certified Photographic Judge
- 5 Time President of Professional Photographers of Orange County
- 2021 & 2022 Orange County, San Diego County Fair Judge and Panelist
- 10+ Years of Showing families the love they have for each other.
- Featured Artist for the Bold Beauty Project in Los Angeles Sept 30, 2023
- Designer and Photographer for the Segerstrom Shelby Event Center 2024 Collection calendar
Great American Portraits change the world one person, one pet, one family at a time. We look forward to making your world a better place!
Join us as the creative genius Stephen Burns shows us abstract art and photography and how to be an abstraction.
Sign up at https://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/best-of-balboa-park-with-darkroomers-photographic-club/
Join the Darkroomers Photographic Club members for a photo walk around Balboa Park. We’ll share our favorite spots to capture the park’s amazing architecture and the best places for people-watching and street photography. The walk will last approximately two hours, starting and ending at the Photographic Arts Building next to Spanish Village (NOT the Museum of Photographic Arts).
At a minimum, you’ll want to bring a camera (Phone, DSLR, Mirrorless, you choose!). If you have interchangeable lenses, keep it simple with gear you’re comfortable walking with and carrying. Tripods are optional.
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 October will be Susan Hill.
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 Susan
Susan Hill is an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer and co-owner of Photo Darkroom. Her commercial work has appeared in national and international trade journals and publications, including AD, Sun Valley Magazine, and the Nature Conservancy Magazine. Her architectural photography work is also housed at the Smithsonian.
Susan is among a small group of photographers who avidly continue to shoot film, preferring black & white medium format. Her fine art photography is collected by individuals and corporations across the country. Presently, much of her fine artwork is commission-based, giving her creative freedom from concept to completion of her work.
As co-owner of Photo Darkroom, Susan manages the custom printing digital lab. She combines film-based printing techniques with digital technologies to achieve professional printing results.
Susan has curated numerous photographic exhibits and is a founding member of the Photographers Eye Collective.
“I am so fortunate to work in a craft I love alongside a wonderful human being, my husband.”
