The Photographers of Dripping Springs Meeting will be on Wednesday, November 14th, 6:30 pm at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. (Date moved to accomodate Thanksgiving). All of our meetings are open and free to the general public and all ages are welcome.

This month will be having our general election for Secretary and then we’ll open the meeting for a Show and Tell/Swap Meet. For all the new members this is the meeting where you can bring your favorite and/or new piece of photography related equipment or other photographic technique to share with the group. It can be anything like a favorite website, camera bag, software, camera lens, etc…. We will also have a swap meet so if you have any equipment you’d like to sell/trade/ giveaway – now’s your chance! Great opportunity to pick up some bargains.

The Photographers of Dripping Springs will meet Thursday October 25, 6:30pm at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. All of our meetings are open and free to the general public and all ages are welcome.

We’ll have a special presentation by the National Park “Patch Lady–Sandra Ramos is an avid road tripper and explorer based in Austin, Texas. Known for her accessible photography style and passion for telling the stories of our National Parks, websites like National Park Geek regularly feature her work. An Olympus Camera SuperFan Ambassador, Sandra enthusiastically presents classes on travel photography and tips and tricks for Live Composite with Olympus cameras.

Photographers of Dripping Springs (PODS) will meet Thursday Sept 27th, 6:30pm at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. All of our meetings are open and free to the general public and all ages are welcome!

Our presentation will be provided by Casey Holder, who is the Education and Social Media Director at Precision Camera. His subject is:”Telling Stories: A Look at narrative photography and how it can be applied to any genre to enrich your images.”

PODS August meeting will be held on Thursday, August 23rd starting at 6:30pm at the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. All of our meetings are open and free to the general public and all ages are welcome!
This month we will be having a “What I Did on my Vacation” presentation. We invite all our PODS members to submit up to 5 photos of a vacation they took in 2018. Each attending member will have a few minutes to get up and talk about their photos. You do not have to attend to participate though. Members will still be able to submit photos even if they are unable to attend the meeting.
It will be loads of fun seeing all the exciting places that our PODS photographers have visited this year. This is a great meeting for people that may have an interest in the club. You will get the opportunity to meet our members and see their fantastic photos. Also, a great meeting for getting tips on vacation photography.
We hope to see you at the meeting!

The Photographers of Dripping Springs July meeting will be on Thursday July 26 at 6:30pm. Meeting is held at the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. All of our meetings are open and free to the general public and all ages are welcome!

The program will be “Merging Images Together”, provided by our own member Terry Brim.
He will be discussing the process that he uses for creating panoramas from both his drone and his camera. He will also be discussing image capture for HDR merging and/or exposure blending in Photoshop using luminosity masks. Also on the agenda is the discussion of image capture with an end goal of creation of multi-shot panoramas and the various software tools used for each of these tasks.