Join us for the PODS September Meeting! Our meeting will be held on Thursday, September 28th starting at 6:30pm. We meet at the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) located at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. This month we are pleased to have our own PODS members Travis and Carolyn Megason as our guest speakers. They will be presenting their travelogue (with photos, of course!) of Southeast Asia with an emphasis on the beautiful and unique people of that part of the world. Our meetings are open and free to the general public and to all ages!
PODS August Meeting- August 24, 2017 6:30pm
The PODS August 2017 meeting will be held this Thursday, August 24th starting at 6:30pm. The meeting is located at the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church (Parish Hall) 301 Hays Country Acres Rd, Dripping Springs, Texas. Our meetings are open and free to the public- all ages are welcome!
Our guest speaker will be our very own Dave Wilson. He will be talking to us about his experience shooting photos for the Dripping Springs High School Tiger Band for the past 4 years. It promises to be both informative and fun!
For more information about Dave Wilson, please check out his website: http://www.davewilsonphotography.com/
PODS Print Show with the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City- July 26 to November 05, 2017
PODS is proud to be a part of the current A Smith Gallery Photography Exhibit “America” showing at the East Main Grill in Johnson City. This show is comprised of photographs from members of the Photographers of Dripping Springs (PODS), the Hill Country Photo Club and the Austin Shutterbugs. The exhibit will be running from July 26th to November 05th, 2017. The East Main Grill is located at 209 E. Main Street in Johnson City, Texas.
*****FREE INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS*****
FREE PUBLIC ENROLLMENT, BUT CLASS SIZE LIMITED
Photographers of Dripping Springs
Introduction to Photography Class
Instructors: Michael Penn Smith, Doug Gephardt
Mentors: Other PODS Veterans
Date: July 29, 2017
Time: 10am – 4pm, with a lunch break
Location:
Dripping Springs Community Library – back meeting room
501 Sportsplex Drive
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
Class Description:
Section 1: Basic Digital Photography
Basics of photography, using any camera you have (camera-phone, point&shoot, dslr, etc). Building a solid foundation in technique, but also composition. Emphasis on refining and sharing your photography, and increasing your enjoyment.
Lunch, 1 hour, no eating in library classroom
Section 2: Moving to Mastery
We’ll start from where we are as a class, and look to identify steps to greater mastery of photography. Getting conversant with manual camera settings, seeing and using lighting, refining composition, challenging ourselves w/ shooting assignments. We’ll explore photography as a skillful and rewarding way of being in the world.
Requirements / What to Bring:
A digital camera! Anything will work for Section 1. To maximize what you can get from Section 2, you’ll need a camera with aperture and shutter priority modes as well as full manual mode (P/S/A/M on mode dial, or P/Av/Tv/M): this would be a DSLR, Mirrorless camera, or advanced point and shoot.
MANUAL: the manual for your camera. Paper version if possible, otherwise PDF downloaded on something you can view easily
A laptop with card reader if you’d like to make it easier to view photos. **This is optional** If you don’t have a laptop – don’t worry you can still participate without one.
How to Register:
Please email Doug Gephardt (mailto:douggep@gmail.com) if you’d like to attend, with:
name
good email address
contact phone number
make/model of your camera
Subject line should be “Intro Class Registration”. You’ll be told via email if you landed a spot or if you were put on the waiting list.
About PODS:
http://photographersofds.us
PODS, aka the Photographers of Dripping Springs, is an organization of local community members from Dripping Springs and the surrounding areas. PODS is banded together for business, networking, and education.
PODS July Meeting-July 27, 2017 6:30pm
The PODS July meeting will be held on Thursday, July 27th starting at 6:30pm. The meeting is located at the Holy Spirit Episcopal Church at 301 Hays Country Acres Rd in Dripping Springs. Meetings are free and open to the public- all ages are welcome.
This month we will be joined by local film photographer and instructor Joyce Kang.
She is a teacher, a workshop instructor for Embrace The Grain Workshops and a film photographer living in Austin Texas. She first fell in love with photography when her uncle, a retired Kodak employee, gifted her a professional SLR Nikon camera and lenses in the 1990s. In 2010, she rekindled her love of film photography and started her business as a professional portrait photographer in Austin, Texas. Although she still shoots with an oldie but goodie DSLR, a Nikon D700, and a brand new mirrorless Fujifilm X-E2, her first love will always be film. Film is soft, luminous, beautiful, nostalgic and romantic. It’s like a Jane Austen novel or a timeless black dress that will never go out of style! In addition to teaching, her work has been featured and published in several international photography blogs and magazines such as Let the Kids Dress Themselves (best of 2014), NAPCP, Clickinmom, Click Magazine, In Beauty and Chaos, Light Inspired and Lemonade and Lenses, and taught Intro to Film at Click Away Conference 2015.
For more information about Joyce Kang you can visit her website at:
https://www.embracethegrainworkshop.com/