Golden Gate Computer Society

Next GGCS General Meeting:
January 25, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Embassy Suites Hotel (Larkspur Room)
101 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael

Click here for directions.
Open to the public – admission and parking are free

Night Photography with Your Camera
Isn't Shooting in the Dark
GGCS Welcomes Back Harold Davis,
Photographer and Author

Do you put your digital camera back in its case when the sun sets? No need to do that after Harold Davis shows us the exciting and amazing effects you can get with Night Photography – his newest focus and subject of one of his recent books.

He'll introduce us to the night as an uncharted universe filled with surprisingly rich color, texture, and mood - just waiting to be captured by our digital cameras. The challenges of night photography are significant. Nevertheless, we can learn to see another world, enter into the unknown, and become camera creatures of the night.

During his talk, Harold will invite us to:

Experience the joy of night photography
Get the right equipment for shooting in the dark
Learn how to expose photos at night
Extend the dynamic range of night photos
Capture star trails
Minimize noise in night photography

And, after his night photography talk and a Q&A session on those techniques, he'll show us some of his stunning shots from Cuba and tell us about that trip, followed by more photography related questions from the audience.

Harold Davis is a photographer and author. His award-winning photographs have been widely published, exhibited and collected. Author of more than thirty books, among his most recent titles are Creative Night: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques (Wiley), and Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing (Focal Press). Harold gives frequent digital photography workshops, many under the auspices of the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, covering night photography, landscape photography, etc., and he's a columnist for Photo.net. You can preview some of his comments on and work with night photography at http://www.digitalnight.us/index2.php
and follow his blog at
http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/

About the Meeting:

Our general meetings offer a friendly forum for people interested in computers at all user levels, from novice to expert.

Before the General Meeting, between 6:00 and 7:00 PM in the Petaluma Room, just down the hall from the main meeting room, there is a free Introduction to Computing Class. Ask at the reception table outside the meeting room for directions.

Hungry? Have dinner before the meeting in the Grille 101 Restaurant, at the north end of the building.

From 6:30 to 7:00 PM Door Prize raffle tickets are given out to members, memberships are renewed, etc. You can stand around talking to people who know lots and lots about computers.

The meeting usually follows this schedule:

7:15 pm – Announcements, followed by an open session during which members and guests can ask the group for help or opinions.

7:30 pm – Main presentation. Click here for a list of prior speakers.

9:00 pm – Closing with a raffle of various hardware, software and books. There are often quite a few items from which to choose. Each member gets a free raffle ticket, both members and non-members may purchase additional raffle tickets.

Future meetings: Our general meetings are normally on the fourth Monday of the month. There is no meeting in December. The May meeting is sometimes a week earlier or later than normal when necessary to avoid Memorial Day.