Tonight’s theme is “Americana”. Miriam Webster’s dictionary defines Americana as such:

Americana
1: materials concerning or characteristic of America, its civilization, or its culture, broadly: things typical of America
2: American culture
3: a genre of American music having roots in early folk and country music

Basically, Americana is anything from the past that invokes a sense of nostalgia. Most people might associate it with old stuff: cars, abandoned homes or buildings, old collectors items, or even historic cities.

You may interpret “Americana” any way you like, literally or figuratively. Get creative!

As always, submit your images to fit the theme before 5pm on the meeting date. When you export them, be sure they are resized to 2500 pixels on the long edge. 

Link to the Zoom meeting is below, and an invite will be sent shortly before the meeting.

Hope to see you all there!

Some info about our “FrameIt” sessions. We’ve decided to add some light critiques and post-processing recommendations, along with praising the submitted images.

Critiquing doesn’t mean condemning or scolding or being mean, its a way for folks to point out some things that they may perceive as could be improved upon so that the photographer may consider it and maybe tweak their processes. Maybe there’s a distraction you missed, maybe a color cast is making it look “off”. Many of the things could be fixed with a bit of additional post processing work - or at the least, something to think about next time you’re shooting in a similar situation. As with all critiques, you can take the statements and learn from them, or if what they pointed out was intentional, you can choose to ignore them.

A little something I learned from getting my own images critiqued by professionals, EVEN THEY make mistakes. Everyone does, and anyone can miss something. It comes down to this, would you rather people see a big piece of spinach stuck in your teeth and say nothing? Or would you like for them to say something so you can fix it? Yeah, sometimes its a bit of a hit to our egos, but in the long run, you’ll learn something and hopefully improve.