Smugmug Class - it's free

I joined a SmugMug user meet-up group a couple months ago.
The last meeting was about pricing your photography and the one this Thursday (3-31-11) is about Color Management.
2 experts are flying in from EZPrints from Atlanta to go through monitor calibration ,web submission and making final prints.
If you could, spread the word

Best part it's Free

Here's the website,
http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-SmugMug-User-Group/

Jeff Henningsgaard

Minnesota Arts Council Census

The Minnesota Arts Council needs the input of all individuals and groups engaged in creative expression. Yes that means you! They want artists engaged in all creative processes to take a survey and let them know you exist. So take a moment to take the survey and help the Arts Council help all of us in the future. To take the survey go to mnartscount.com. You can get more information about the survey below.

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AC Johnson Workshops

For those of you who wanted to go to the badlands and found Rikk Flohr's May workshop full take note. You can still attend a workshop there in June with Alec Johnson. He is leading a workshop in the badlands from June 12 -16. He also has some space still available for his Lake Superior workshop in August. Go to acjphotoworkshops.com for more information and to sign up.

LIGHTROOM 3 AT A DISCOUNT

If you don't have Lightroom 3, but are ready to jump in, then now is the time.

Adobe is offering $100.00 off of the purchase price of a full edition of this software for a limited time only.

Rikk Flohr Spring Break Follow-up

At Rikk's Flohr's presentation durning Spring Break a number of attendees asked him to post instructions regarding the basic steps he uses for his Content Aware Scale and Fill methods demonstrated in his Holy Crop session. So here they are:

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Also remember, if you have any questions, or want to keep up to date on Lightroom, you can always follow Rikk's blog at: Holy Crop.

St. Paul Camera Club on HIstory Detectives

On March 20, 2011, St. Paul Camera Club Historian Gene Schwope was flown to Washington D.C. to be interviewed by the PBS History Detectives television show. The taped interview took place over five hours, at a town house in Arlington, Virginia, just up the street from the Pentagon. The crew included two Producers, a cameraman/lighting expert, a sound technician, a person to watch for continuity,and History Detective Wes Cowan.

The History Detectives program, which should air on a Tuesday evening in August, will deal with Marion Carpenter, a former member of the St. Paul Camera Club.

We will keep you posted as to the date it is scheduled to air on the show.


Watch for this History Detectives program In August for the complete story!


Photo by Pat Schwope

Above: Gene Schwope greets History Detective Wes Cowan, who is visiting
Gene's home in Arlington, Virginia for a History Detectives interview.
The cameraman, sound technician, Producer, and assistant are taping
for the show, which will air sometime in August.

Pat Malcolm, a member of the MLAPS is participating in the "60 Artists on 50th" exhibit being held on April 2nd. The exhibit is being held at the Burroughs School, 1601 West 50th Street in Minneapolis from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Below are the three beautiful images that Pat contributed to this exhibit:





ABOUT PAT: I have been interested in photography most of my life. Fifteen years ago I decided to venture deeper and see where it would take me. I have taken classes at Hennepin Technology College in the Professional Photography program, multiple seminars and recently workshops at the Maine Media Workshops working with Vincent Versace and Jay Maisel. Vincent Versace has had a tremendous influence on my work. __ Pat Malcolm

Crosstown Camera outing to Grand Marais - February

Peter Wong of the Crosstown Camera Club organized an outing last month in warm and sunny Grand Marais. It was sunny for three of the four days resulting in number of beautiful sunrise photos of the harbor there. However, it wasn't warm. At a sunrise shoot one morning the temperature was between -7° and -15° before the windchill. Despite the cold everyone had a very warm and wonderful time. We stayed at the East Bay Condos right on the lake and within walking distance to the harbor where many of these shots were taken. Despite the cold many of us ventured out to other areas around Grand Marais to take some of the shots seen in this video. Our thanks to John Olson for producing this video.

The members of Crosstown hope to put on more organized photo shoots in areas of interest to its members and may send out notice of these outings to the other clubs as well, so any members can attend. One is already planned for Lanesboro Minnesota in August, and Crosstown hopes to have other day and overnight trips planned this spring and fall. Also, club members are participating in Rikk Flohr's badlands workshop this May. The May workshop is filled, but remember Rikk has another one scheduled in December and Alec Johnson is hosting one in June.

Untitled from Mark Karney on Vimeo.