Monday, July 20, 2026 @ 7pm
Zoom Meeting – Bruce Herwig
Editing with AI is a controversial subject in the photography world, but using AI is all around us. I’m going to show you how to use AI to take better photos in the first place, without touching the editing side at all. We’ll look at how to plan your outings, how to get AI to explain concepts you’re stuck on (like the exposure triangle), how to look up features on your camera you don’t understand, and how to come up with ideas for composition, time of day, and what the light’s going to do at sunset. Whether you’re just learning the basics or you’ve been shooting for years, there’s something here for you.
I’m also going to walk through two AI projects of my own: AIPhotoJudge.com, which gives you critique and feedback on your photos, and Star Trail CleanR, which I built to clean up airplane trails from my star trail images. I’ll show you what each one does and give you some insight into how they came together.
Come ready with questions — this is going to be an interactive session, and we’ll be able to ask AI right there on the spot, so there’s plenty of time for discussion.
Zoom meeting opens at 6:30 pm for a social time before the presentation. Visitors are always welcome.
Presented by Bruce Herwig
An award-winning Redlands photo enthusiast, you will often find Bruce out and about taking pictures.
“I love photography because you have to ‘be there’ in order to take the picture. It’s a chicken and egg thing with me. Events get me out to take pictures and I go to events to take pictures.” Bruce likes spending time outside in nature, so landscape photography is a natural fit for him. In the last few years he has learned to shoot the Milky Way in Joshua Tree and other “dark sky” desert communities.
“For me, getting home after a photo shoot and loading the pictures into the computer has the anticipation of Christmas. While you know what you shot (subject matter), you don’t know what you got (captured with your camera). I enjoy editing my photos as much as taking them. It’s when you edit you really get to see the possibilities of what you’ve captured.”