our past meetings

April 19, 2008 (DISIG)

Photographers from the Midland Daily News discussed how they tell a story with photos.

April 12, 2008

Lee Pavlik and Doug Leng discussed different resources you can use to find help when you need it.

March 15, 2008 (DISIG)

Lynn Dumbrille presented Photoshop's minimum tools, Capture NX, mechanic, and RAW processing.

March 8, 2008

Ritch Clayton talked about Digitizing Audio, including how to digitize audio from LPs/casettes to play them on your Mac.

February 16, 2008 (DISIG)

Owner of Midland One Hour Photo and Frame, Roger Loschke, answered your questions on how to get the best pictures from your camera.

February 9, 2008

JP Hansen and Mike PJ talked about all the latest announcements that were made at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

January 19, 2008 (DISIG)

Lynn Dumbrille conducted a workshop. Groups of 2-3 people shared a Mac and performed image touch-ups using operations such as crop, select, copy, paste, transform, sizing, blend, burn, dodge, adjustment layers, paint bucket, sharpen, saturate, tone, white balance, and a filter.

January 12, 2008

Dan Lacher showed the club all the new features in Mac OS X Leopard.

December 15, 2007 (DISIG)

Sandy Clark presented a short lecture on archival framing and some low-cost ideas for displaying our work. Then, next door at the Meier Camera Store, Jerry showed us what's new and exciting.

December 8, 2007

Doug Leng briefly presented SnapZPro, WireTap Studio and Spam Sieve.

November 17, 2007 (DISIG)

We will have a one hour discussion on the different types of tripods and monopods that are available. Then, Doug Leng will show how you can use iPhoto to make cards, letters, and calendars for the holidays.

November 10, 2007

Mike Piatek-Jimenez gave an overview of Apple's iLife '08 with an emphasis on the new features in iPhoto.

October 20, 2007 (DISIG)

Making Fall Colors Pop! This meeting focused (no pun intended) on taking pictures of autumn colors.

October 13, 2007

Mary Nesset presented "So You Want a New Mac?" She gave an in-depth look at what to consider when purchasing a new computer, and went through the specifications of all the Macintosh computer models currently available from Apple.

September 15, 2007 (DISIG)

This meeting involved outdoor photography — people, plants and structures. Controlling lighting outdoors including the use of filters and reflectors was demonstrated.

September 8, 2007

Doug Leng took a detailed look at the book "Take Care of Trouble Shooting Your Mac." All members have received a free pdf copy of this book!

August 11, 2007

Mary Nesset presented a couple of inexpensive shareware applications.

July 14, 2007

Mike Piatek-Jimenez gave a presentation talking about the latest announcements made at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC).

June 9, 2007

Doug Leng demonstrated the new Photoshop CS3. Doug showed us some of the new features of this comprehensive photo editing application.

May 12, 2007

Our May meeting took place at Messiah Lutheran Church, where we held a MacCamp with the Saginaw Macintosh Users Group (SMUG). A great time was had by all and everyone learned a lot.