April 2016 Workshop focuses on having FUN with your camera
Tue, April 26 2016, 1:30pm
Campus Club ABC
Following the UMRA lunch meeting Tuesday, April 26, the UMRA Photo Club will be hosting a workshop, “People Using Little Cameras Can Do Huge Things.”
Most of us grew up taking pictures as prints or slides, and now we find ourselves in the digital age. Part of digital photography is the same—you aim your camera, focus the picture, and press the shutter. But other parts of digital photography are quite different: Digital cameras will focus for you and offer lots of other options.
Using your computer you can now make adjustments to your digital pictures in ways only professionals could before. These changes can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand the control you can exercise is great, while on the other hand it can, at times, be an exercise in frustration.
Come to learn how your fellow UMRA members are exploring this brave new world. A display table will be set up before the luncheon with photo items from members of the UMRA Photo Club. Come early and stop by to see some of the creative ways club members use their photos.
Members of the UMRA Photo Club are aspiring amateurs along with a few very good photographers who are generous with their help and understanding. We have lots of questions, and we help each other find the answers.
We’d love to try to answer your questions too. If you have any now, you can send them to Sheri Goldsmith at [email protected] so that we can include them in our preparations.
The workshop begins at 1:30 p.m. in Campus Club ABC following the lunch meeting Tuesday, April 26. Bring your friends. UMRA workshops are free and open to everyone.
— Craig Swan, co-leader for the UMRA Photo Club
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