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Welcome Photographers, novice through advanced, with Smartphone through Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR).

An opportunity to learn how to make better photos through member presentations, guest presentations, asking your questions, and member competitions

02/01/2026

The iPhone app, ChatGPT, will allow you to use its AI to link your photos to historic events and more. I've made a tutorial about using ChatGPT with photos. If you use the tutorial, send me some of your creations at [email protected]. Enjoy:

04/14/2025

From Member, Carl Morrison. Finally, a photo in focus! My "View from the Pew" photos of the Anaheim United Methodist Church choir always seem to me either out of focus or showing movement on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. However, using "Portrait" mode, and editing in Lightroom, I now have one image of the choir that I consider the best so far. Double-click the first image to enlarge: 1. the final image; 2. the original photo.; 3. the information from the shot; and 4. the edits I made in Lightroom.

04/04/2025

"Texture" is an assignment in my iPhone Photography Academy class. A tree on the campus of my church seemed a good subject. Which of the following is the best example of "texture"?

03/31/2025

My iPhone Photography Academy class has one assignment - Portraits. I used Portrait modes at Disneyland's Star Wars Galaxy's Edge to clean up a self-portrait with a borrowed helmet. 1. Original with busy background. 2. "Cleanup" in Lightroom used to eliminate busy background and selected "Stage Light Mono" in Portrait. 3. Stage light with original color. (double-click the first photo and read its caption on the right, or below on smart phone. Then continue with the right arrow on the keyboard. )

03/07/2025

The winners of this club's Scavenger Hunt where only simple editing such as cropping was allowed. The categories were: Angles, Cityscape, Graffiti, Minimalism, Motion, and Silouette.

Click the first photo, and the enlrge to full screen arrows, to get a larger copy and its category, title, and maker. Continue with the right arrow on your keyboard or scroll down on a smart phone.
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02/25/2025

This club's annual Scavenger Hunt will soon end and the judges will pick some winners. One category this year is GRAFFITI. I have already entered my two images in this category, but I snapped a couple of photos of graffiti in downtown LA 2/22/25 while my car was on autopilot, so it was safe. Carl Morrison

02/06/2025

Photo Friends: Rainy day today in SoCal, so worked with Christmas present = remote, selfie tripod. Also, wanted to compare size of LIVE (13 images) and RAW images on iPhone 14 Pro Max. Descriptions under images. Both cropped and edited in Lightroom.

02/04/2025

iPhone Photography Tip: I make photos in church worship service, "View from the Pew", and often am not happy with the image of a speaker because I cannot say, "Stop speaking, Smile" before I take their photo. Often in the image, the speaker's mouth is not complimentary.

Solution: 1. Use LIVE mode which actually records 13 images. With the image on your phone's screen, select EDIT (which is the three lines I've circled in the first image).

2. Then select LIVE which shows all 13 images with one selected that your phone thinks is the best. See second Photo.

3. Put your finger on the frame that the phone selected and slide it so you can inspect the 13 different images. Stop on the best one and above that image "Make Key Photo" appears and it will be saved as that image's number.

Before I learned how to select a different image from a Live set of images, I shot 2 images of each situation which gives me 26 images to possibly make a different selection. So when I export photos to my computer for post processing, I am sure I have the best example.

01/23/2025

Our 2025 Scavenger Hunt at the POC club is Graffiti. I never would have chosen that category, but that is one of the advantages of a photo club - new challenges. I've learned that the goal of graffiti artists is to have your art seen by as many people as possible. Graffiti started in the 1960s on New York City street cars, but that was a limited area in which to be seen. Today, to be seen by more people, graffiti artists now paint on freight train cars which will be seen all over the states and perhaps world. Here is some inside information about different types of graffiti: https://theskullandsword.com/graffiti-basics-tagging-throwing-up-piecing/

11/08/2024

November 5, 2024 Competition. I'll share my 3 color and 3 monochrome images and the Judge's comments for improvement and score from 7 to 9.

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