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Photographing Milky Way NightScapes with Royce Bair

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Photographing Milky Way NightScapes with Royce Bair

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Royce Bair will give a presentation on how to photograph starry night landscapes and it will be loaded with a lot of technical, how-to information, including planning when and where to shoot the Milky Way, forecasting, finding dark skies, calculating star alignment, choosing the right lens, exposure calculation, noise reduction techniques, light painting, and exposure blending. Many of his unique photos are shot as one exposure with very little digital manipulation. There will also be time for questions and answers.

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Royce is based in Salt Lake City and is semi-retired magazine photographer who has been doing "NightScapes" for three decades. His photography has appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, and American Photo, just to name a few publications. In recent years, many have tried to copy his night photography style and techniques, but Royce continues to teach via free lectures and paid workshops. "Seeing many of my students go beyond what I have done, and use these skills to photograph the Milky Way with new landscape features is very satisfying," reports Royce. He also offers free night photography techniques on his blog, where he features the work of other night photographers: NightScapeBlog.com

Agenda:

6:00-7:30pm: Presentation (Please arrive on time)

7:30-8:00pm: Q&A and networking

Sports Basement will offer a 10% discount on products at the store that evening to attendees. Free snacks and drinks will be provided.

Thanks Sports Basement!!

Please keep your RSVP status updated:

We have a strict no show and uninvited person (showing up without a Yes RSVP) policy. No shows/uninvited persons will not be allowed to attend future events. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/NightPhotography/pages/Why_Am_I_Marked_as_a_No_Show/ .

If you cannot attend, please be considerate and change your RSVP to a No as soon as possible to allow someone else to attend. People who change their RSVP to No after Tuesday, March 24th, 5pm will be counted as a no show. We take attendance to discourage people from taking spots from others and not showing up.

Event Organizer: Sarita

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