The Focus Group 2011 program

January 14

Field trip to PICS, Dublin.

February 11

Neal Lauron, Columbus Dispatch photographer.

March 11

Abdi Roble, photographer, with an update on the Somali Documentary Project

April 8

Leonardo Carrizo.  Leonardo is a graduate of the OU graduate program in photojournalism and currently on the Faculty at OSU. He has worked for the Columbus Dispatch & the Houston Chronicle. He has recently been on a humanitarian trip to Peru, which he will share with us.

May 13           

Shoot-out, downtown Columbus.

June 10

This Focus Group meeting is all about Studio Shooting! The meeting is NOT at the usual location. We will be meeting at 7PM at R&L Digital Photo Lab 2125 West 5th Avenue.

Bring your cameras! Come prepared to shoot in a studio setting. Learn how to use the rental studio provided by R&L Digital Photo Lab including props and lights! They have one rental studio with a second one planned.

http://www.rldigitalphoto.com/studio_rental.html

July 8

SHOOT-OUT, WITH A TWIST

We will be doing a shoot and tell in and around the Upper Arlington Municipal Building (3600 Tremont Rd) at 7:00 PM.

Make sure you bring your camera, tripod, flash, and etc. We will give each member an opportunity to share their jpegs during the show and tell part of the meeting. We will be adding an interesting challenge to the shooting session; the rules will be explained at the meeting.

August 12

Kevin Deskins, about lighting techniques. Kevin is a lighting specialist at Midwest Photo Exchange

September 9

Joe Wagenhals, “Processing Raw files.”

October 14

 

November 11

 

December 9

 

Plans for 2012

September

 

 

 

 

 

Group exhibition at the Motorist Mutual Building, Broad Street, Columbus Ohio