The July field trip is not an organized event for a specific date and time.  It can be done at your leisure, at your convenience,  in the air conditioned comfort of your home if you wish,  and at any time between now and July 18.  

We invite you to take pictures of common household items, everyday objects, but take the photos with a twist.  Use macro to take it up close, use zoom and focus on only a small part of the object, or take a normal run-of-the-mill photo and crop in to a partial that might make guessing what is is more difficult.  You don't  want the photo to be too easily identifiable, but at the same time, a challenge for everyone to identify what you have photographed. The game of "What Is It?" on July 18 guarantees an interesting meeting.

There will be a Zenfolio gallery to which you can upload your photos, or you can bring them to the meeting on a thumb drive.

Do you use 'blinkies' on your camera for review purposes, if not, why not?

Remember, there is nothing inherently 'bad' about overexposed pixels, if that is what you want.  Just remember when you get overexposed pixels, especially in a block, there is no detail in that block and post processing generally can't 'fix' it. 

Now take a picture with some overexposed highlights and look at the review. You might initially find that distracting, but run with it for a week or two and you should find it helps a lot with your exposure. Remember, you will get much better image quality if you slightly overexpose in camera and then lower the exposure in post rather than the other way around, understanding this and using blinkies can really help your pictures.