Wednesday, 7:00 pm LOCATION--Alpharetta Arts Center – 238 Canton Street, Alpharetta, GA. (Corner of Canton St. and Mayfield Rd.) Overflow parking, if required, will be at the Elementary school about 1 block from the Arts Center on Mayfield Road. Doors will open at 6:30 pm. 6:30 to 7:00 pm will be time for socializing. Presentation will begin at 7:15 pm. Members as well as guests are invited to join us. We know the classic images of Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and the modern classics of John Sexton and Vincent Versace. Their black and white images are still striking for their use of light and… Read More >>>

7 PM Thursday, Fernbank Science Center, 156 Heaton park Drive, Atlanta GA Enter your photos for a club competition GNPA Members Only The categories are macro, wildlife, and/or landscape. Horace Hamilton, Tom Simpson, and Jerry Black will serve as our judges. They will offer gentle critiques of our photos and award 1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention ribbons to the winners. Size your photos to 1200 pixels on the longest side in jpg format. Label them as follows: For Macro: 1_TitleOfPhoto_YourName For Wildlife: 2_TitleOfPhoto_YourName For Landscape: 3_TitleOfPhoto_YourName (For example, John… Read More >>>

On July 2, 2019, at Central Chapter in Griffin, GA, David Shively will explain and demonstrate these processes. The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM at the Spalding Senior Center, 885 Memorial Drive, Griffin, GA 30223. Members as well as interested potential members are invited. This meeting is free and open to the public. David will use photographs he has taken in his travels around the Pacific, and show how to use only Adobe Lightroom to process those images taken in an exposure bracketed sequence, or for purposes of creating an HDR image. David is an accomplished amateur photographer, and has… Read More >>>

On Tuesday, the Griffin Chapter of Georgia Nature Photographers Association in Griffin, GA, Art Stiles will explain and demonstrate some techniques for post processing images in Adobe LightRoom. This meeting will be held in Conference Room (#109) of the Spalding Senior Center, Griffin, GA. Members as well as interested potential members are invited. The meeting is free and open to the public. Using photos he has taken, Art will demonstrate most of the tools and techniques available in Adobe LightRoom to enhance and improve the original RAW images. He will explain the difference between global… Read More >>>

RENA JOHNSON IS FORMING A NEW GNPA CHAPTER IN THE LAKE SINCLAIR AREA FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT RENA AT: Read More >>>

The Smyrna Chapter of the GNPA is excited to have Cecil Holmes present “Night Sky Photography.” The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm at the Smyrna Community Center. This presentation will discuss the basics of capturing the beauty of the world above us. We will discuss the technical aspects of camera settings and why those settings are the right choice for this type of photography. We’ll cover shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focal lengths, focusing modes, etc. and how each of these plays an important role in the images we capture of the dark skies. We will talk about mobile apps used to locate the… Read More >>>