Photography Critique and Tall Tale Telling

Name: Photography Critique and Tall Tale Telling
Start: 2025-08-20T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Minerva's Restaurant & Bar at 2111 N Lacrosse St, Rapid City, SD 57701

Schedule

Wed, 20 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Minerva's Restaurant & Bar at 2111 N Lacrosse St, Rapid City, SD 57701 | Rapid City, SD

Photography Critique Meetup
Purpose: Get evaluations of your photographs from other photographers, show off, steal ideas, learn new things, be inspired, be inspiring, tell tall tales, and have fun.
When: Every third Wednesday of the month. Starting at 6:30pm, arrive as early as 6:00pm to socialize and hand over your photos. Official ending at 9:00 because that's when Minerva's closes.
Location: Minerva's Restaurant & Bar at 2111 N Lacrosse St, Rapid City, SD 57701
https://www.minervasrestaurants.com/rapid-city-menus/
Where: There is an open (as in no door) meeting room by the bar. That's where you'll find us. If you come in the front door the host station is in front of your, restaurant to your right, bar to your left. Go left.
RSVP: If you can RSVP please do so. On Facebook or you can let me know directly via email or text.
Guidelines:
1. You can eat and drink during the event. That's the point of doing this at a location that has food and beverage. Some people have started showing up before 6pm to take advantage of happy hour and get started on food. This seems to work fine as the room has been available before our scheduled time of 6pm.
2. Bring up to 6 photographs. Export as JPG, full size resolution. Be sure to export all your meta data with the image because someone is going to what to know your f/stop or shutter speed or ISO. And people will want to zoom in to spot check your sharpness. Hence the full size.
3. Bring the original image before any edits if you like. Don’t bring RAW files if you can avoid it. Export as JPGs, full size. Name the files with the same filename as the edited version then add “original” or something similar to the file name.
4. We do have to keep time limits because Minerva's closes at 9pm. Time for each photographer will be determined by how many people bring images to show.
5. If it's your first time attending you don't have to bring photos to show. After that you have no excuse.
6. You can bring prints instead of or in addition to digital files.
7. Bring you images on a USBstick or SD card. I will copy them to my hard drive. I have a PC. Use a filesystem Windows can recognize.
8. Or you can email your photos to me if you like. If you choose this path you must - must - email them to me no later than noon on Monday before the critique. This is a hard deadline. My email is Adrian204es [at] gmail [dot] com. If it takes multiple emails to get large files to me that's just fine.
9. If you want your photos shown in a specific order name them so they will sort in that order when sorted by name.
10. Once your photos have been critiqued we will vote on which was your best and those photos will be submitted to the newsletter for publication. Our webmaster Alex will also put them on the website. You can opt out of this.