Photographic Frontiers Study Group, Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 7-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder

First Hour
Our presenter will be Flatirons Photo Club’s former president, Thomas Walsh. While much of Thomas’s photography income comes from capturing the heart and soul of people at work, he also concentrates on glamour photography and the creation of composites. This Photographic Frontiers Study Group talk will be on composites, with particular attention given to making and refining selections in both Photoshop and Topaz Remask 5.
Please come to the talk with both questions and suggestions. Compositing is a subject Thomas is somewhat new at, and he would like to learn as much from you as you learn from him.

Second Hour
Feel free to bring an image or two on a thumb drive for discussion. Whether you’d like a critique, or help with post-processing, or just general feedback about your approach — it’s an open forum, so bring it on!

IMPORTANT REMINDER: New venue. The Mike’s Camera location is no longer available to us (they will be renting it out), so we will now be meeting at Boulder Digital Arts (BDA). BDA is located on the northeast corner of Range and Arapahoe, at 1600 Range St,. Boulder, CO 80304. Our times and dates will remain the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9 p.m. Also, this meeting is open to all with an interest in things photographic–no membership required, no experience required — just enthusiasm. Come and join us!

At the Photographic Frontiers Study Group on Wednesday evening, 10/01/14, I said that I was planning a club field trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens for this Saturday, 10/04/14. Since I received no expression of interest in this outing but did receive expressions of interest in Chihuly Nights at the Gardens, I have decided against tomorrow’s field trip and will arrange a trip to photograph the glassworks at night. (My apologies for any confusion, if you do go tomorrow, you will still have a wonderful time.)

In the next few days, I will select a date for the night field trip to photograph the Chihuly exhibit. Note that tickets will have to be purchased in advance at www.botanicgardens.org/chihulyhights.

Thomas Walsh
Flatirons Photo Club President

The Photographic Frontiers Study Group (PFSG) will meet once again this Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at Mike’s Camera (third floor, use the back entrance and elevator), from 7-9pm. No dues, membership, or fees required. At this meeting, Gail Dohrmann will give a presentation on iPhonography that promises to provide a fascinating insight into one of the ways that she creates her beautiful art.

Gail states that, among other things, “I will provide a handout that I created of the top 30 apps and the functions they cover. I was driven to create this because no such handy reference exists that I know of. Members can bring an iPhone Image to show (on a thumb drive) and I will give suggestions as to how it may be modified and improved by using various iPhone apps that are available in the app store.”

Folks, if you’re not coming to the PFSG, you are missing out on something both educational and a hell of a lot of fun. And if you’re at all familiar with Gail’s art, you know you shouldn’t miss this one.

The Flatirons Photo Club will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. tonight, Sept. 11, in the south building at Har HaShem, 3901 Pinon Drive. Turn right off Baseline
into Har HaShem, continue through the parking lot to the south building on the right.
Tonight we will have our annual exhibition of members’ work. Guests and visitors are always welcome.

Jon Van de Grift will give a presentation on, “Weathering the Storm: The Challenges of Photography in Extreme Places.” This presentation will include new photographs from his 2013 field season, a preview of his upcoming work, and a question and answer session for photographers seeking advice on how to cope with the elements.

Jon’s Bio:

Jon Van de Grift is an extreme weather photographer based in Boulder, Colorado. His photographs have been published worldwide in nearly every medium. What makes Jon’s photographs unique is his uncommon approach and lofty perspective. Beyond the typical documentary snapshots of storms, Jon makes true fine art of some of the most dangerous weather on Earth. His platform of choice is a mountain summit and when that’s not available, he uses an aircraft. He is one of only a few fine art aerial photographers in the world. When he’s not behind the camera, he’s in front of the chalkboard teaching earth and atmospheric science at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Please visit WeatherChrome.com to learn more about Jon and see his work. You can also watch for him on “Dispatches” on Outside Television.

Join us at 7p.m. tomorrow night on the third floor of Mike’s Camera (Folsom & Pearl, Boulder) for a great program. We have Ilene Meyers coming to talk about the Nik/Google software suite (Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, etc.). These are very popular post-processing applications and this should be a great learning forum. Then we have our professional traveler “Gunga” Jim Downs on board to give a talk and tips on travel photography and, given his experience in just about every country on Earth not currently at war, this should be quite interesting as well.

Also, as always, attendees are encouraged to bring an image or two that they may have questions about. Maybe Ilene can use yours as an example as she covers the Google/Nik software!

These meetings are open to anyone, they are free, and they tend to be more of an open forum format rather than pure lectures. We are all there to learn from each other and to contribute what knowledge we each might have.

Hope to see you there!

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Daniel Joder and Russ Dohrmann will give a presentation to the Photographic Frontiers Study Group on matting and framing your prints. The meeting will begin at 7 pm at Mike’s Camera on Pearl Street in Boulder. In case you’ve never been to one of these meetings, the entrance to use is about 40 feet to the left of Mike’s Camera’s main entrance. Take the elevator to the third floor. After exiting, walk to the right until you enter our meeting room.