This is the area where we can present additional text notes that support some of our lectures. Geared towards beginners as well as our more experienced members, we hope you will find the articles useful.
NEW FOR 2025-2026
Third Wednesday Workshops
Workshops will be a place to learn and mentor. We will be able to revisit lecture procedures and discuss content and practical applications or just sit around and chat about photo problems. Members can bring in images for sharing or personal evaluation.
Each month will also have a Theme Challenge, where images will be shot with a stipulation such as, only using one lens at a specific focal length, or taking all your images with your widest aperture.
The point of these challenges is to introduce the photographer to the mechanical tools available on his/her camera and how they can be used for storytelling effect by forcing him/her to make decisions about what you see through the specific lens.
Spending an afternoon working only with one focal length will really sharpen your ability to see and evaluate images. Exploring the fast and slow speeds of you camera will provide you with the experience to make better faster decisions about how you want to adjust your camera settings.
Basic Tools Spring Tune Up
Text & Images by Stuart Blower Photography
The Spring Tune Up lecture will acquaint beginners with the basic camera tools of Shutter Speeds, Depth of Field focusing, and ISO manipulation, the so called “Exposure Triangle”. More experienced photographers will be reminded of the potential and compositional options the basic tools offer!
The Exposure Triangle Myth
Text & Images by Stuart Blower Photography
Almost every photographer in the world has heard of the “Exposure Triangle”, the Holy Grail of understanding how to properly use your camera with manual controls. It is this arcane knowledge that is purported to separate the Neophytes from the Masters. But, there is a fundamental problem with how we illustrate this “Trinity” of basic camera tools.
Street /Event Photography
Text & Images by Stuart Blower Photography
Street and event photography, is a balance between capturing pictures in the split second and finding enough compositional elements to elevate the final images above the simple snap shot.
Technique and planning as well as a fluid senses of your subjects are all skills the can be developed by shooting in the street and improved those skills will be applicable to all aspects of photography.
Improving Your Judgeing Scores
Text & Images by Stuart Blower Photography
Judges do have a certain way of evaluating images. The main elements for consideration are Overall Effect, Artistic Merit, and Technical Competence.
This article breaks down the task of critiquing images into 10 general areas to examine and improve on, in order to raise your score.