Photography Critique Meetup

Purpose: Get evaluations of your photographs from other photographers, show off, steal ideas, learn new things, be inspired, be inspiring, tell tall tales, and have fun.

Where: There is an open (as in no door) meeting room by the bar. That's where you'll find us. If you come in the front door the host station is in front of you, restaurant to your right, bar to your left. Go left.

RSVP: If you can RSVP please do so. On Facebook or you can let me know directly via email or text.

Guidelines:

1. You can eat and drink during the event. That's the point of doing this at a location that has food and beverages.

2. Bring up to 6 photographs. Export as JPG, full-size resolution. Be sure to export all your metadata with the image because someone is going to want to know your f/stop or shutter speed or ISO. And people will want to zoom in to spot-check your sharpness. Hence the full size.

3. Bring the original image before any edits if you like. Don’t bring RAW files if you can avoid it. Export as JPGs, full size. Name the files with the same filename as the edited version then add “original” or something similar to the file name.

4. We will have a 25-minute time limit for each photographer's critique. After the first 3 or 4 critiques - depending on how fast they go - we will take a 10-minute break and then jump back into it.

5. If it's your first time attending you don't have to bring photos to show. After that, you have no excuse.

6. You can bring prints instead of or in addition to digital files.

7. Bring your images on a USB stick or SD card. I will copy them to my hard drive. I have a PC. Use a filesystem Windows can recognize.

8. If you want your photos shown in a specific order name them so they will sort in that order when sorted by name.

9. Once your photos have been critiqued we will vote on which was your best and those photos will be submitted to the newsletter for publication. You can opt out of this.