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Photo Management for Real Life: A Practical Guide to Organization & Backup Taking photos is the fun part. Managing them? That’s where things get complicated. Between your camera, phone, and however many hard drives you’ve accumulated over the years, it’s easy to end up with photos scattered everywhere and no real system for finding what you need. In this session, I’ll share practical strategies for organizing your files, building a backup workflow you can trust, and a few time-tested tips[...]

The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the room at 6:30 pm for setup and social time. Join us for our Monthly Critique Night! Our judge for September will be Andrew Hertel. 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[...]

Interclub competitions connect us with photographers beyond our own club. Selected images represent Darkroomers and are judged alongside work from other camera clubs in the region through the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs (SCACC). For submission instructions, please visit the Darkroomers Member Handbook.

Join Darkroomers for a full day of photography at the Miramar Air Show. This is an all-day event, but you are welcome to stay for as much or as little of the day as you like. The air show offers plenty of opportunities to photograph fast-moving aircraft, aerial demonstrations, and displays on the ground. For the best chance of filling the frame with aircraft in flight, bring your longest lens. A 500–600mm lens is ideal, but don’t let that stop[...]

For this meeting we are going to try something a little different. We hope you will find it both interesting and inspiring. Afterward, we’d would love to hear your thoughts–what you enjoyed, what you did not, and whether you’would like to see more meetings like this in the future. This is not intended to replace our Member Spotlight presentations or our regular critiques. Instead, it is an opportunity to explore photography from a different perspective and add another type of[...]