Photography Critique and Tall Tale Telling

About this event

Purpose: Get evaluations of your photographs from other photographers, show off, steal ideas, learn new things, be inspired, be inspiring, tell tall tales, and have fun.

When: Every third Wednesday of the month. Arrive at 6:00 pm to socialize and hand over your photos. The critique officially starts at 6:30 pm. Official ending at 9:00 because that's when Minerva's closes. Ya don't gotta go home, but you can't stay there.

Location: Minerva's Restaurant & Bar at 2111 N Lacrosse St, Rapid City, SD 57701

https://www.minervasrestaurants.com/rapid-city-menus/

Where: There is an open (as in no door) meeting room by the bar. That's where you'll find us. If you come in the front door the host station will be in front of you, restaurant to your right, bar to your left. Go left.

Guidelines:

1. You can eat and drink during the event. That's the point of doing this at a location that has food and beverages. Some people have started showing up before 6 pm to take advantage of happy hour and get started on food. This seems to work fine as the room has usually been available before our scheduled time of 6 pm.

2. Bring up to 6 photographs. Export as JPG, full-size resolution. Be sure to export all your metadata with the image because someone is going to want to know your f/stop or shutter speed, or ISO. People will want to zoom in to spot check your sharpness. Hence, the full size.

3. Bring the original image before any edits if you like. Don’t bring RAW files, if you can avoid it. Export as JPGs, full size. Name the files with the same filename as the edited version, then add “original” or something similar to the file name.

4. If you have photos you have edited based on feedback from a previous critique, we will look at those first. This will be a quick look, not an in-depth critique. Thus, you can show six images as norma,l in addition to showing your critique-inspired edits.

5. We do have to keep time limits because Minerva's closes at 9 pm. Time for each photographer will be determined by how many people bring images to show.

6. If it's your first time attending, you don't have to bring photos to show. After that, you have no excuse.

7. You can bring prints instead of or in addition to digital files.

8. Bring your images on a USB drive or SD card. I will copy them to my hard drive. I have a PC. Use a file system that Windows can recognize.

10. If you want your photos shown in a specific order, name them so they will sort in that order when sorted by name.

11. Once your photos have been critiqued, we will vote on which was your best, and the selected photo from each photographer will be submitted to the newsletter for publication. Our webmaster, Alex, will also put them on the website. You can opt out of this.