June 22, 2017 Presented by Ron Fugazzi
Attendees: 20
Documenting Your Trip With Photos
Ron shared some very helpful tips and strategies for taking and saving remarkable photos during a vacation.
The bulk of Ron’s presentation will focus on using one’s smartphone for taking pictures.
If you are one of those people who takes pictures and then goes through and edits them one by one, a new practice might be to follow a few tips and take better pictures and avoid virtually all of the time editing them later.
To reduce, and possibly eliminate, worry for the potential loss of vacation pictures, find and utilize one of the many cloud services for saving those pictures. All it takes is an internet connection with your phone and those pictures will safely and securely flow to the cloud for safe keeping. Dropbox, iCloud and Google Photo are three of the most popular services.
Ron found a new device that is a flash drive that connects directly to your smartphone. Connect and save photos right on the spot. The brand Ron found is called On The Go flash drive or OTG. Reasonably priced in the $30 range.
Composition of a photo is really critical for taking those remarkable and “wow” pictures. Take a few moments to review the presentation for those tips.
Please feel free to open the presentation to see the other slides talking about these basics of photo taking.
An “off the cuff” assignment was to find the User Guide for your specific smartphone and read the section pertaining to the camera. This will greatly help you discover some of the very easy and fancy features for picture taking. Use a Google Search (or Bing or Yahoo) and type”User Guide for [your smartphone model]. Example “user guide for iPhone 7 Plus” or “User Guide for Galaxy S6”.
