Dorchester — May 27th 2008
The first talk was by David Martin, and introduced members to various aspects of Digital Photography. These included the use of the 'Capture One' programme (www.phaseone.com) to operate a camera linked to a mac with a firewire or USB cable, the manipulation of RAW images, and correcting for colour balance. Essentially, the advice was to make all the adjustments required to an image in its uncompressed form before making a jpeg file for printing.
Before we all descended to the Bar for an interval drink, Alan Webber, newly returned from the USA, displayed two of the artefacts acquired during the course of his travels, being a Mac Book Air, and an iPod Touch. Members were allowed to explore the features of the iPod, re-sizing images with finger tip precision, and scrolling through photos, but the Mac Book remained obdurately inanimate, despite the entreaties of the assembled throng, being intended as a gift, to remain inviolate until its donation.
The formal business of the evening concluded with a presentation of Scrivener (www.literatureandlatte.com) by Chris. This appeared to be a useful programme for authors and researchers working in text, as the output for printing did not appear to allow for images to be included. The programme showed a binder in which sections of text could be assembled, and also research documented (here, pictures could be included). In Chris' opinion, this was not for him, for the type of work that he does, but he could readily imagine that it might well be just what somebody needed, and Euan supported this, confirming that it would have been useful in some of his recent work.
The meeting was brought to a close with the usual Q & A session, which was mainly concerned with the problems of networking printers.
SR
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