Portneuf Valley Photographic Society

We are taking a couple of months off from our regular meetings because of Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We will have our Christmas party on December 8 at 7:30.

We have programs set up for the first couple of months.  In January, Bob Rush will giving us a presentation titled “The Color and Vision Photography”.  In February, Roger Boe will be helping us learn about critiquing.  These will both be great, so be sure to save those dates on your schedule.

In October, Roger Boe will be presenting a program about travel photography.

Roger has had the great opportunity to travel a lot and photograph in many places.  He has worked to develop his photography and artistic talents.  And that work has been very productive.  He will share with us things he has learned about photography and especially about doing photography when traveling.

Be sure to be there to see this program.  It will not only be interesting, it will be instructive.

In September we will almost have a very famous and special guest.  No, David Ziser (the will known wedding photographer, blogger, and workshop instructor) will not be in Pocatello, but we will be watching a video he made.  It talks about 5 of his favorite photos and how they were made.

It is a great insight into how someone who consistently captures amazing images goes about creating those images.  It takes some thought and work to get those, and he shares what was going on and how he did it.  This is a great video and in-spite of the fact that he is shooting weddings and we are not (at least usually not), much of what he talks about is stuff that would help us in whatever situation we are photographing.  He is a master of Light and how to see, manipulate, create, and use it.  So plan to be there.

We will also ask a couple of people to bring in one of their favorite images and talk about how it was created.  So you could just watch this video online, but you would miss out on the locals if you do that.  :-)

The July meeting will be July 28 at 7:30 at the Art Center.

John Bunker will be doing a presentation about HDR (High Dynamic Range).  If you want to know what that is, come listen to John.  Basically it is techniques to allow us to capture a wider range of dark and light.  Cameras have a limited range from black to white.  If things are too bright, we say they are “blown out”.  That is, they are so bright that the camera simply records all of it as pure white and all detail is lost.  Likewise, in dark areas, if things are too dark, the camera calls it all pure black.

There are times when the scene we want to capture has too much difference between the highlights and the darks for the camera to capture it all.  But HDR to the rescue.  And John will be telling us how to do that.