PPF Presidential Blog

Monthly Assignment for May – HDR

President — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:46:51 +0000

Our next monthly assignment for May will be HDR (High Dynamic Range).

WIKI

HDR – In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.

The two main sources of HDR imagery are computer renderings and merging of multiple photographs, which in turn are known as low dynamic range (LDR) (also called standard dynamic range (SDR) photographs.

Tone mapping techniques, which reduce overall contrast to facilitate display of HDR images on devices with lower dynamic range, can be applied to produce images with preserved or exaggerated local contrast for artistic effect.

Sample 1

Sample 2

Monday Magic with Donna Cummings

President — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:31:04 +0000

Plan to attend our first Monday Magic for 2010. It will be held at Donna Cummings’ Studio at Lake Jacksonville.

April Image Competition Winners

President — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:40:12 +0000

Here are the winning images for April MIC.

Ruel Felipe: Excuse me while I kiss the Goal line!

Ruel Felipe: The Keynote Speaker-Michael Irvin

Shelley Mraz: The Wedding Adventure

Karen White: The Big Dive

April Meeting with Jose Yau

President — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:21:58 +0000

Sports Photographer Jose Yau came and talked to us about the Basics of Sports Photography. He’s a freelance photographer for AP and various newspapers. He is very knowledgeable in the field of Sports Photography. He was sponsored by Full Color.

Our Guest Speaker Jose Yau

The PPF President and Jose Yau before his presentation

PPF President presenting Jose a Certificate of Appreciation

April Meeting

President — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:48:16 +0000

We’ll be back on our normal schedule for our April meeting and our monthly assignment is “OOOPS”!That’s right! We need a little humor in our chosen profession to relieve some of the stress that comes with it. Whether from long hours of editing photos or the stressful wedding that you have to shoot or just those bratty little ones that won’t cooperate when doing children portraits. All that can be very stressful! So, start digging through your archive and find that one picture that made you grin every time you look at it and said, Ooops, I can’t believe I took that! Whether it was a bad angle or bad timing when you pushed the shutter or the cheerleader being ran over by the whole team when they ran through the Banner. Anything funny that tickles your funny bone. You get the idea. Note: Completely black image because you forgot to remove your lens cap doesn’t count!

Our Speaker for April will be Jose Yau. He is an award winning photographer based out of Waco, TX. He is the owner of Jose’s Photography an official photographer for the Heart of Texas Pageant and Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. He is also known for his sports photography.

Photography After Dark a half success!

President — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:49:47 +0000

Our last meeting turned out great even though our supposed Photographing in the Darkness of the night didn’t happen because of the thunder storm, we still managed to have a good turn out. We took turns photographing our model (Holly) instead with the different backdrops inside the studio. Marc Bailey showed few of his posing tricks. Bruce Croft of Ark-La-Tex did a presentation about the Green Screen technique and the production workflow. Hopefully we get do this again soon because I know that some will benefit from it specially those who are not used to photographing at night.

Posing demo by Marc Bailey

Our model for the night Holly!

Marc Bailey posing with the models

Photography After Dark

President — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:30:30 +0000

March 8, 2010

Image Gallery/Ark-La-Tex Color Lab

Longview, TX

March Meeting

President — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:39:51 +0000

Dinner with the Group Leaders

We will not be doing our regular meeting at the Jalapeño Tree for our March meeting. We will meet at Image Gallery (Ark-La-Tex Color Lab) in Longview for our first group shoot-out.
The assigned group leaders will be having dinner at their selected restaurants near and around the area. If you are interested in joining their group and having dinner with them, please email and let them know ahead of time so that they will have an idea for dinner reservations.

We will be divided into 4 groups and each group will have a Group leader:

Group 1: Marc Bailey – The Olive Garden (104 W. Loop 281)
Please email Marc: marcbailey@sbcglobal.net to reserve a seat.

Group 2: Don & Judy - Jucy’s Hamburger (Corner of Hwy. 80 and Spur 63 Next to Whataburger)
Please email Don: dono@cablelynx.com to reserve a seat.

Group 3: Ruel Felipe – Casa Ole’ Mexican Restaurant (280 Spur 63 next to Kroegers)
Please email Ruel: ruelfelipe@mac.com to reserve a seat.

Group 4: Bryan Rockett – The Butcher Shop (102 LeHigh, off Spur 63)
Please email Bryan: bryanrockett@swbell.net to reserve a seat.