Welcome!

The Brentwood Photography Group encourages and promotes the growth of its members’ photographic skills through education, exhibitions, and fellowship.

If you live in the Nashville area and looking for a thriving photography club where you can learn, grow, share, coach,… you’ll love our group. We look forward to you joining us at a forthcoming meeting.

Photo of the Month - July

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Next Outing

2022 Outings to be announced soon

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MONTHLY Meeting

We meet the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6:00 PM
Otter Creek Church, Franklin Rd, Brentwood

Map and Meeting Details

If you are a non-member and interested in attending our monthly meetings please feel free to join us. You can contact us beforehand if you’d like.

Members: Please come early if you are entering an image into the Photo of the Month competition

Rich Seiling

Understanding Dynamic Range and Latitude

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Dynamic range is about the difference between the light and dark areas of your photos. Your camera is limited in the amount of difference it can record from the brightest to the darkest. Anything outside this range becomes either pure black or pure white with no detail. Choosing lighting conditions that don’t exceed your camera’s ability will help you reveal the qualities of your subject better. Film photographers have exploited this knowledge to their advantage for years, but digital photographers rarely consider it. 

Rich’s talk will introduce you to the basics of dynamic range, so you can learn to read the light to understand when it is “contrasty” (high dynamic range) or “soft” (low dynamic range,) how that affects your exposure choices, and how you can use that knowledge to find better light and get better results. 

Street Photography by Rod Putnam

Upcoming Speakers

Sep 2
David McClister
Photographing American Music

Other Events

See Monthly Newsletter in the Events Menu at top for more details

Mini Clinic
July 17
Rich Seiling
Fixing the Exposure Triangle
Zoom (members only)

Lunch Bunch
Wed, July 9, 11:30 am
Focus: Bird Photography
Open to non-members

Outing
July 12
Sunflower Festival,
Lucky Ladd Farms

Next Outing

Mount Olivet Cemetery

Mount Olivet Cemetery 

Saturday, March 22, 2025
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville
Meeting Place: Parking lot of the Mt. Olivet Funeral Home and Cemetery, just off Lebanon Pike. We can meet there and then drive up closer to the old sections.
 
Time: 8:00 am.  The cemetery is open from dawn to dusk if you want to come earlier.
 
Meet us for lunch 11:00 am at The Lost Paddy (Irish) https://www.thelostpaddy.com/  709 Spence Ln, Nashville. 
 
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre cemetery established in 1856. It includes gothic revival architecture and many prominent people including governors and senators are buried there. A Confederate section includes over 1500 Confederate soldiers. Victorian details abound on markers, mausoleums and statues surrounded by rolling grounds. Landscape, nature and details are all good subjects for photos.
Note that sunrise is at 6:48 am that day. The PhotoPills app can provide info on sun direction for anyone who wants to arrive early!
 
Wikipedia listing includes a list of notables buried there
Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located next to Mt. Olivet on Lebanon Pike
 
Don’t forget to complete the online Hold Harmless Agreement.
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Photo by Janis Tomanek