Half an hour will be an open forum discussing issues at hand.  A half hour is devoted to presentations by members.  And a half hour is set aside for member image reviews. 

This is always a great evening of sharing and learning. What topics would you like to explore?  Topics are very wide ranging, such as photo book reviews, an aspect of your own photography that you’d like to share, reviews or discussion of gallery shows, photo gear, software, etc.  Or bring a gadget to share.  

In April we had two presentations and ran out of time to do our camera breakouts.  For May we will do camera breakouts, and we will do that first!  We will then do photo sharing, and finally a discussion with the remaining time:

• Camera Breakout Sessions:   Bring in your camera, any accessories you want (e.g. flashes, triggers, intervalometers, … ), the manuals, and any other materials relating to their operation.  We will break out onto several tables to discuss camera operations, taking advantage of the experienced users in the club.  We will have a Nikon table, a Canon table, and others (e.g. Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, etc).  
• Picture assignment:  Bring in your monochrome photos to share and discuss.  Monochrome is our competition topic for the month, but if you’d prefer to talk about something else bring in some other photos you’d like to share and discuss.
• Discussion: With any remaining time we will have a general discussion about “fill-flash”.  Fill flash is a photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days, though the technique is useful any time the background is significantly brighter than the subject of the photograph, particularly in backlit subjects.
• Book/Gear Reviews:  What book/gear/software have you experienced that you’d like to review?  

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Future topics of A Closer Focus include: compositional strength, HDR, or anything else photographic you want to bring to the table. This is an opportunity for you to provide input to the SSCC experience.

If you would like to be on the agenda, please email me at: 
davidwesleypowell@gmail.com