Interested in the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it shaken up photography? David will present a 30,000-foot view of AI and demonstrate current examples of AI that are currently in use in photography software editing programs. He will demonstrate Photoshop’s Generative Fill and Generative Expand tools and Luminar Neo’s newest AI tools, GenErase, SceneExpand, and SceneSwap.

Bio

Photography is David Crooks’ passion and capturing the beauty of nature is the reward. David pursues his love of photography from his early days of chasing cardinals in his neighborhood to visiting many local and faraway, parks, reserves, and other places where “wildlife” lives.

In 2014, David, his wife Cynthia, and their dog Sam moved to Annandale, Virginia, from Leesburg, Virginia, to be closer to work. He was a member of the Loudoun Photo Club for about 5 years and then in 2015, joined the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS). In 2016, he volunteered to be the Webmaster of the NVPS website.

David is also the organizer of the Virginia Beltway Photography Meetup Group which has over 2,700 members and leads about four to five field trips a month. The Group also does a Photo-A-Day for the year and a monthly project. The goal is to take photos every day and post the best one to the Meetup site. This is a proven way to improve your photography. In 2021, David wrote the Virginia Beltway Photography Meetup Group Guide Book. It is available at Amazon in Kindle version for $9.99 and paperback for $15.99: https://cutt.ly/VBPMGB_Amazon There is a website that has a document called “Updates and Errata” and it can be found at: https://cutt.ly/VBPMGB. David is an affiliate of Skylum and has done a few of these live edit sessions for the Meetup Group. He has a discount code and affiliate links. He receives a small commission on the sale but this does not increase the price.

In Person at the Dunn Loring Firehouse