Lost or Stolen Camera?

stolencamerafinder.com stolencamerafinder uses the serial number stored in your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera http://tinyurl.com/3zeuyy7

Written on January 30, 2012 | Posted in Features | Leave a comment

SOPA And Photography

  From  APhotoeditor .com You have the DMCA so you don’t need SOPA (or PIPA). Like many have suggested SOPA is like banning cars because bank robbers use them to get away. Overkill basically. And, in the wrong hands, ripe for abuse. Also, there are some serious problems with the way SOPA is written, as Clay Shirky explains in the [...]

Written on January 20, 2012 | Posted in Features | Leave a comment

April 25th 2012 Meeting. John Middlebrook, a freelance sports photographer, will give a presentation about sports photography

John Middlebrook, a freelance sports photographer, will give a presentation about sports photography on April 25, 2012. As a sports photographer, John Middlebrook’s first “real” assignment was shooting an Orioles game back in August of 2007. In his 5th year as a freelance sports photographer, he has been fortunate to shoot sporting events such as [...]

Written on January 20, 2012 | Posted in Events | 1 Comment

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Written on January 19, 2012 | Posted in Technique | Leave a comment

February 22 2012 Meeting. Kathy Rus will present on Copyright and Trademark information for photographers.

Kathy Rus, an attorney with offices in Westminster and Parkton, will give a presentation called Copyright & Trademark – What a Photographer Needs to Know on February 22, 2012.  She will discuss the U.S. Copyright and Trademark law, the difference between Copyright and Trademark, how to get Copyright/Trademark protection and what is copyright/trademark infringement.    Kathy Rus’ practice [...]

Written on January 19, 2012 | Posted in Events | Leave a comment

HDR Workflow For The Rest Of Us Vegard Bremma

Another voice on HDR Introduction Alexandre Buisse in A Plea for HDR said it all. He speaks for me. One of my favourite photographic subjects is church interiors (no castles in this part of the world), and HDR is indispensable. But I don’t want my pictures to look like HDR. And I also want HDR to be [...]

Written on January 7, 2012 | Posted in Features | Leave a comment

January Meeting Critique HRD

This month’s CMPG meeting will be the critique of our HDR images.   Lew Lorton will be our critique facilitator. Lew has performed this role before and has been kind enough to offer a short primer on the critique method. His primer is attached. Please take the time to read it before this month’s meeting.  [...]

Written on January 6, 2012 | Posted in Archive Events | Leave a comment

CMPG Monthly Meeting at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, Room 224 on 01/25/12

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CMPG Flickr Gallery

New for 2012 is a Plug-in that displays images on the CMPG Flickr site.  

Written on January 2, 2012 | Posted in Technique | 1 Comment

2012 – Happy New Year!

Here @ CMPG web HQ, we’re looking forward to the new year and of course all the changes it will bring.. And while we’re waiting for new content to arrive from our members.  We can talk about some new 2012  initiatives. The “Photo-of-the-Week challenge has again been brought out of the closet. “Last year we [...]

Written on January 2, 2012 | Posted in Archive Events | Leave a comment

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