… On the 4th Tuesday of the month SPS hosts their popular member "Learn Shops"; informal lectures/presentations from club members to help teach each other a variety of photographic skills, from lighting and composition to Photoshop and Lightroom. Roughly every other month SPS also sponsors a member workshop/field trip that is free to all paid members except when additional costs will be incurred for the venue and/or travel & lodging. In order to enter images into competition (digital or prints) …

WHO? 'ALL' levels of Photographers and associated MISSION: My mission here is to help you enjoy growing as an artist and photographer, to teach you to see even better. After taking a breather the last couple of months we’re ready to kick off 2010 with an even better year; more professional makeup, better photo shoots, better models and more in depth instruction. WHY JOIN? Here you can: • Learn from professionals about posing, lighting and making money • Save money while learning • Network wi …

… Apache Cafe is equipped to allow a variety of lighting arrangements. At the beginning of the figure drawing session, the model is often requested to make a series of brief poses in rapid succession. These are called gesture poses, and are typically one to three minutes each. Gesture drawing is a warm-up exercise for many artists, although some artists sketch out the gesture as the first step in every figure drawing. Since the purpose of figure drawing classes is to learn how to draw humans of al …