Chapter Events

Yerba Buena Chapter hosts Spring and Fall Chapter days, which are full-day programs on a variety of photographic topics. Watch this site for information on upcoming events. In addition, the chapter sponsors salon competitions.

Following is an overview of some past events.

2009 Salon Competition

Last summer, Yerba Buena Chapter hosted a salon competition with monetary prizes for pictorial electronic images in Color or Monochrome which had not been obviously manipulated. The results of the 2009 are in, and we extend a hearty congratulations to first place Grand Prize winner Maureen McGettingan for Cormorant Fisherman in Yunshue China. See the full list of winners.

Chapter Days

Steve Traudt: HDR
2009 Fall Chapter Day

A packed house attended Fall Chapter day and heard Steve Traudt of Colorado demystify the exciting new branch of photography called HDR (high dynamic range). This amazing process allows you to record formerly impossible scenes. By taking a series of exposures and blending them with special HDR software, you are able to maintain detail in both shadow and highlight areas. The process can create many flavors of HDR from subtle to dramatic.

The discussion included a review of various methods of using HDR such as panoramas; hand-held; black/white; infrared, multiple tone mapping and single RAW HDR. Steve also demonstrated the use of Photomatix Pro software

Dick Stahlke: Slide Shows using ProShow
2009 Fall Chapter Day

Also during the 2009 Fall Chapter Day, Dick Stahlke provided an extremely entertaining and informative discussion on creating slide shows synchronized to music using an option that takes a slide show to an entirely new level. Whether it be travel, nature, pictorial or any other subject or photographic style, images can be combined with music, special effects and a variety of transitions to create really impactful programs. Most even have the option of incorporating video clips. Dick presented and discussed a workflow for developing such programs and demonstrated with software the actual preparation of a short show. Samples of completed shows provided some beautiful examples.

Jeremy Sutton: Corel Painter
2009 Spring Chapter Day

Jeremy Sutton is one of the worldrenowned Corel Painter artists, who has taken photographs of average interest and converted them into works of art. His talents far exceed most of ours, but during an information-packed morning, he showed us how to work with Painter to change a so-so photo image into something unusual and spectacular. His presentation abilities are outstanding. He demonstrated how to use Painter for enhancing our photos producing outstanding effects. For more on Jeremy and his amazing images, see his website.

Photo Shoot
2008 Fall Chapter Day

The 2008 Fall Chapter Day program was designed as a Workshop. Participants brought their camera, tripod and whatever lenses they deemed appropriate. Stations were set up throughout the room with plenty of instructors on hand to assist in photographing Portraits, Still Lifes, Black Light Photography, Shoot Like Monet, and more. In addition, participants had the option to photograph the beautiful flowers and other plant life in the adjoining Japanese Garden.

Barry Haynes
2008 Spring Chapter Day

This all-day session presented by Barry Haynes provided a wealth of instruction on dealing with problem images. Some of the topics covered included the following:

Correcting Problem Images: How to get fine prints and electronic images from images that start out too flat, too contrasty, with a strange color cast or having some other problem to solve.
Essential Techniques for Photographers: Photoshop techniques that every photographer should know. Techniques applied to images give that extra special artistic quality.
Image Processing with Bridge:Automating naming, setting your copyright and keyword info, color correction, processing and printing of digital images using Bridge and Photoshop Actions and Layers. Setting up Bridge Preferences and Camera Raw automatic adjustments for photographers, and more.
Compositing Bracketed Photos: Exposing, aligning, combining and color correcting bracketed photos taken from digital cameras or film.

Barry wrote software for Apple Computer for 10 years and is best known as the author of 8 editions of his Photoshop Artistry book series. He has also taught at the Santa Fe Workshops, the International Center of Photography NY, UC Santa Cruz, Palm Beach Photo Workshops and many other places.