As of 26 February 2025

The Alaska Photo Chat is an informal zoom-based group that generally meets once a week to chat about photo post-processing, composition, equipment, locations to photograph, to mentor each other, etc. Anyone is welcome to attend. The post-processing chats are a core element of our gatherings and are based on “straight out of the camera” image files uploaded by participants for other participants to edit. The chats are an open forum workshop where the moderator puts up each image. The photographer introduces their unedited image then the edited versions are shown and each editor is invited to share what they did and why. The other participants are then encouraged to politely share their views on each of the edits. Creativity is strongly encouraged. The chats often result in actual demonstrations of techniques, if time allows. The group has participants at all skill levels and everyone has an equal voice. Our participants use equipment that spans the range between smartphones to high-end professional gear and a wide variety of editing software.

We've created a private Facebook Page for the group. The only requirement to join is to attend one of our online meetings.
Search for "Alaska Photo Chat" on Facebook to find the page and request membership.

The chat group grew out of an Ole' shared interest group (SIG), the Photo SIG, but you don't need to be an Ole' member to participate in the chat.

All times are Alaska local time

March 2025
Sun Mon Tues Wednesday Thur Fri Sat
            1
2 3 4 5: Meet 10:30a 6 7 8
9 10: Photo SIG Mtg, 1p
Bob Hallinen
11 12: Meet 10:30a 13 14 15
16 17 18 19: Meet 10:30a 20 21 22
23 24 25 26: Meet 10:30a 27 28 29
30 31          
April 2025
Sun Mon Tues Wednesday Thur Fri Sat
    1 2: Meet 10:30a 3 4 5
6 7 8 9: Meet 10:30a 10 11 12
13 14: Photo SIG Mtg, 1p
Member Slides
15 16: Meet 10:00a 17 18 19
20 21 22 23: Meet 10:00a 24 25 26
27 28 29 30: Meet 10:00a      
May 2025
Sun Mon Tues Wednesday Thur Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7: Meet 10:00a 8 9 10
11 12: Photo SIG Mtg, 1p
Clark Mishler
13 14: Meet 10:00a 15 16 17
18 19 20 21: Meet 10:00a 22 23 24
25 26 27 28: Meet 10:00a 29 30 31

Join Meeting

Watch a video of a typical meeting! Click here.

Index to Meeting and Instructional Videos


The Process

Joining the meeting:

Contributing images for editing:

Downloading images so that you can edit them then submitting your edit:

Finally, if you have questions or would like further assistance, email the moderator (Bart Quimby) at alaskaphotochat@gmail.com