 Brewery Art Walk, March 24 11 a.m. one weekend each year this area opens its doors to the lofts and workshops of the artists. It’s a great opportunity for seeing what other creative people are doing and to get images during the day. Please let me know that you are coming so I can coordinate carpooling. [email protected]
 The Huntington Library Feb 25 at 10 a.m. Tour the gardens where there is opportunity to shoot landscapes, people, birds, flowers and architecture. You will need to go online to purchase a ticket. Please let me know that you are coming so I can coordinate carpooling. [email protected]
 There is a herd of wild horses that roam freely through Oak Creek canyon near Mojave. They have been there over a hundred years. Oak Creek canyon is located near Mojave and Tehacipi. There is a caretaker on the property that allows groups to come in and visit the horses for the price of bales of hay. This is a unique opportunity to visit and photograph these wild horses. Though they are wild, interactions with humans over the years has inured them to humans and you can wander among them and get acquainted with them. Eilish Hathaway has visited the horses three times and has gotten to know the caretaker. The next visit is scheduled for April 7th and in order to catch the early light, it will be an appropriately early start. If you are interested or just have questions Eilish would love to hear from you. A very limited number of places are available so please contact her soon.
You can email to eilish.hathaway@sbcglobal.net or text to 818 458-2831 The group will be on 4 wheel drive vehicles and will travel into canyons, up hills and out toward the Mojave Desert chasing wildflowers. There are only two spots left. Contact [email protected] if you are interested. There is a $25 fee.Join us on Saturday, March 25, when we work on our April assignment - Street Photography. We'll walk down famous Fairfax Avenue, a mix of multiple cultures and ethnicities, including the Orthodox Jewish, Russian and Ethiopian communities. It's just footsteps away from Farmers Market, another place to shoot. We'll meet up at 10 am and plan on having lunch nearby - perhaps Canter's Deli. More information to come...
On Saturday, February 11, we will shoot the urban landscape in downtown Los Angeles with a focus on the new 6th Street bridge and the 4th Street bridge to shoot the skyline during the golden/blue hour. Later, those who want can have dinner together nearby. It will be an afternoon/evening event. Stay tuned for more details shortly. On Sunday, January 22, we will visit the Santa Monica Pier. We will meet at 3 p.m. People can arrive earlier and enjoy the area as they wish, and also stick around later to shoot the sunset with the pier as a backdrop. If interested, contact Lloyd Delaney at [email protected]. Provide your name and cell number. Please let Lloyd know if you are willing to carpool and would like to drive. A week before the event we can plan out the final arrangements and set the meeting location.
DECEMBER 4 - RED ROCK CANYON IN MOJAVE Features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations Carpools would leave at 5:30am to get best morning light All Day event - contact Sharon Sega at [email protected] or Dan Katz [email protected]  Event Photos Photos from fStops event at DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (DAY OF THE DEAD) 10/29 Olvera Street NOVEMBER 18TH - 20TH - CATHEDRAL CITY HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL
Information to come. https://www.hotairballoonfest.com/ DECEMBER 4 - RED ROCK CANYON IN MOJAVE Features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations Carpools would leave at 5:30am to get best morning light All Day event - contact Sharon Sega at [email protected] or Dan Katz [email protected] DECEMBER 8 - fSTOPS HOLIDAY MEETING At The Village - Presentation and Exhibition of the Photo Series by members For information, email Dan or Contact Us JANUARY Potential workshop on studio photography at Dan’s home or in studio. TBD Hello f-stoppers. A quick note to mark your calendar for our next group event.
VENTURA COUNTY FAIR - August 14th. We will be meeting at noon at the entrance. More information to follow. Here is the link to pre-purchase your ticket/s and take advantage of the pre-sale prices: https://venturacountyfair.ticketspice.com/ventura-county... Also - please let me know if you will be attending. Hope to see you there. -Sharon June 8th and June 15th from 7 pm -9 pm - Must register/10 people maximum - RSVP form below. We will have a GROUP B if first group is filled: June 22 and June 29 from 7-9  Have you been using Lightroom Classic or ACR, but masking does not make sense to you? Let’s learn all the new options: How to Brush, Linear, and Radial Gradient tools in the floating Masking panel. Automatically select a subject or sky in your image. With this one-click selection, you can define areas and enhance editing to bring out exactly what you desire. Explore your options for adjusting localized areas within your images. This workshop will cover: • Using the AI Select Subject • Using the AI Select Sky • Mask display customization • Masking feature: Add and Subtract • Adjust the Depth Range • How are masked organized in the panel • How to create special effects with light & shadow or color effects • Learn a fun way to brush with Light in Lightroom or ACR • Make Precise Selections with Luminance Range Masking • Make Precise Selections with Color Range Masking • Invert Select this option to select everything else except the initial selection you made. This option is only available for tool selection masks • Intersect Mask with Select this option to create a new component in the existing mask that intersects with the other components of the same mask. • Create custom color grading presets Technical Level: Intermediate to Advanced. Understanding of Importing and basic folder organization is required. Biography: Following her undergraduate work at Otis Parsons School of Design, Natasha Calzatti went on to shoot award-winning work for THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE, and VIBE and has been syndicated internationally. Her photography is represented in many private collections and continues to regularly show in galleries. Simultaneous to her photography career, Natasha sought the cutting edge of imaging as it transitioned from the chemical darkroom to the digital darkroom where her digital retouching abilities became increasingly in demand for magazine clients TV Guide, Marie Claire, Time Magazine, The Source, and Vibe as well as advertising clients Midas, MCI and Dreyfus. In 2011, Ms. Calzatti was invited to The Getty Center to share her behind the camera experiences of Cuba as she presented an in-gallery exploration of A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, and, in September 2016, DIGITAL PHOTO PRO magazine ran a feature with Ms. Calzatti on navigating the proper workflow in the digital darkroom. The interview was conducted by celebrated NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC photographer, Mark Edward Harris. Ms. Calzatti divides her time between shooting assignments and lecturing on digital imaging both in the U.S and abroad. Join us Saturday, June 4th for the 37th Annual American Civil War Reenactment at Fort Tejon. There are activities throughout the day and a battle in the afternoon. There may be food vendors, but in case there are not, bring along your own food & beverage. You'll photograph solders and civilians "living the life" of the period and going into battle. The battle begins at 3 pm. There is a $20 entrance fee for adults. There is free parking along the road and some limited paid parking in their parking lot. Club members meet at the entrance at noon and plan on staying through the afternoon for the battle. We may even get an opportunity to watch a demonstration of making real tintypes. For information, call Dan Katz at (818) 714-0714, or email Dan at this link.  The Cars at the Nethercutt Museum  The Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar showcases more than 130 of the world’s greatest antique, vintage, classic and special interest automobiles dating back to the beginning of the driving age. It features many top winners of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. And all of them are fully operational. The meeting time is Saturday, March 26 at 1:00 pm. If interested complete the form below.
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