Hi Folks,

Our education committee has considered the best use of the Topaz Room as it relates to certain of our regular sessions, and we’ve come up with a plan to replace the Camera Specific SIGS (Canon and Sony) with a more general session that would appeal to a broader audience, but retain the ability to provide “camera specific” assistance where needed.

We’re considering calling this session “Techniques for Utilizing your Camera” or the TUC SIG. It would explore a specific technique in general, but then “break into” camera-specific groups to provide more specific information for the various camera brands our members use. Examples of the topics we might consider would be:

1. Macro shooting utilizing focus stacking, shooting rails, etc.

2. HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography

3. Panoramas

4. Bird Photography

5. Shooting the night sky

6. Time-lapse Photography

This is our first pass at possible topics of interest, and we welcome suggestions from the membership as to other topics of interest. Suggestions for those topics should be sent to myself or Michael Reale.

Our first TUC Sig will be the second Friday in December in the Topaz room at 10:30 am. The topic for that session will be Macro Photography

Facilitated by: John Triebe