Jim DeLutes will present a program on how traveling to Italy resulted in some very creative images. Jim is a long time professional photographer who has participated in numerous art shows over the years. He was recently a featured photographer in Photoshop User Magazine. This year his photographic images have appeared in three separate issues of Color Magazine. He has developed techniques to create interesting photographs of what might otherwise be considered ordinary subjects. To see some of his work visit his web site at http://www.jdlphotos.com/
January Competition Results
February 2, 2011 Digital Study Group
The FPC sponsored digital study group meets Wed. 2/2/2011 in the cafeteria of the Mapleton Center.
February 10, 2011 Program – From Photo to Graphic Art, Lesa Snider
February 10, 2011 Program: From Photo to Graphic Art, by Lesa Snider. In this presentation you’ll learn how to create beautiful partial color effects, darkened edge vignettes, and more using Photoshop. You’ll also learn how to push a photo through literally anything (including text), as well as how to use CS5’s new Refine Edge enhancements to create interesting photo edges. Lesa presented a more detailed version of this at Photoshop World and will describe her techniques with examples of her work. Lesa is the author of Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual. She is the creator of several videos on the use of Photoshop, and offers seminars sponsored in part by Mike’s Camera which will be presented in Denver and Boulder in late January and February 2011. Here is a link – Lesa is giving the first 4 seminars on this list http://www.mikescamera.com/classesseminarsandworkshops.html
Butterfly Pavilion Photo Ops
Check out the following link to find out about photography and educational opportunities at the Butterfly Pavilion.
http://www.butterflies.org/education/adult-senior-groups.php
Photography sessions with tripods allowed start one hour before opening to the general public. The complete schedule is found here:
http://www.butterflies.org/education/photo-opportunities.php
January Digital Study Group
The next digital study group meets 1/5/2011 in the cafeteria at Mapleton Center at 7 PM.
January 2011 Meeting and Special Topic
The January meeting is Thursday Jan. 13, 2011 at the Mapleton Center, starting at 7:00 PM.
The special topic is:” Taken with my mobile phone”
January 13, 2011 Program – iPhone Art by Russ Croop
Russ Croop will present images made with the iPhone – photographic, creatively enhanced, and fully created on the iPhone using special software (iPhone Apps) and describe how they were made. Russ is a well known photographic and iPhone artist. He is a retired high school english and photography teacher. He has been a member of Flatirons Photo Club and was one of the year end competition judges in 2009. To view some of his images and get an idea of the types of images that can be made using the iPhone visit his web gallery at: http://web.mac.com/rcroop/http%3A/Welcome_to_Russ_Croop_Photography.html. Once there you can click on iPhone Photos, Photo Art, and iPhone Paintings (or any of his other galleries).
Year End Competition Results
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- Print B&W Third Place, Murth Murthy, “Lily”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Brian Hooker, “Ants”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Peter Bandurian, “Streamboat Rock Sunset”
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- Print Special Effects First Place, Russ Dohrmann, “Seen Better Times”
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- Digital Open First Place, Thomas Walsh, “Winery Cleaning”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Bruce Henderson, “Untitled”
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- Digital Special Effects Third Place, Tim Lacey, “Painted Marmosette”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Margie Robinson, “Woman Sho Hu China”
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- Print Special Effects Third Place, Russ Dohrmann, “Mystical Path”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Peter Bandurian, “Watchman at Sunrise”
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- Digital Special Effects First Place, Cary Wolfson, “Zoom Racers”
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- Print Open Third Place, Jim Downs, “Korean Lanterns”
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- Digital Open Second Place, Daniel Joder, “Faith and 83 Years”
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- Print Open Second Place, Donna Colville, “Abandon”
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- Print B&W First Place, Gail Dohrmann, “Abandoned House”
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- Print Open First Place, Donna Colville, “Morning at Book End Cafe”
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- Print B&W Second Place, Peter Bandurian, “Sunset on the Dunes”
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- Print Special Effects Honorable Mention, Murth Murthy, “Emergence”
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- Digital Special Effects Second Place, Bruce Henderson, “Untitled”
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- Digital Open Third Place, Bruce Henderson, “Untitled”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Jim Downs, “Laundry Dayin Dhaka”
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- Digital Open Honorable Mention, Margie Robinson, “Dragonfly”
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- Print Special Effects Second Place, Gail Dohrmann, “Chief Pontiac”
December Meeting
The December meeting is Thursday, Dec 9 at 7 pm.