Year end message

6/5/2014

The camera club year has drawn to a close. It was both a pleasure and a challenge to serve you all as president again. I would also like to give a big THANK YOU to the rest of our officers and board members. Without their help we would not have a club. Some of the jobs we do are small and some are big. We always need people to help with both big and small jobs. If you want to help out, we’d love to get more people involved. Let me know if you have some time to spare next year and we’ll find a job for you.

Last night those who attended the annual business meeting/pot luck supper enjoyed a wonderful spread of food. I heard several remark that it was one of our best pot-lucks. It was a shame that many of you missed it. I’m sorry if you haven’t felt welcome and part of our group. I hope the only reason you missed the meeting was having a more important commitment.

We also saw some lovely and interesting images from club activities. But I suspected that some of you did not contribute to the slide show even though you attended the meet-ups. Perhaps next time?! If you have ideas for meet-ups and activities please send them to me or Nick. He hopes to run a couple meet-ups this summer. Also, if you know of photo ops coming up, please share the info and I’ll forward it to the rest of the club.

We have what we think is a fun project for next year and I hope a lot of the members will participate. If it’s not posted yet to the web site, it will be soon. No one should think they have to be a first class photographer to join in the slide shows. It’s about having some fun with photography. And maybe we’ll all learn something as we practice. Please participate in the Song Title project so we have a nice slide show next Spring.

Enjoy your Summer!

1 Comment

Howard Margules

7/18/2014 12:17:36 am

Since I went to the NECCC conference under the auspices of the club, I thought I would report on my impressions. IT appeared to me that the overall theme of the meeting was "bucking the trends". (My theme, not the organizations) There were two very good presentations by Denise Ippolito and Arthur Morris on creating Pleasing Blurs and Denise also conducted a flower program. Both presentations called for the acceptance of flower images that were not tack shape and deliberately blurred images as long as they created an artistic mood.

The renowned Ian Plant completely ripped the current thinking on composition. He indicated that the the world's great artists did not use the "rule of thirds", and some of world' great images were dead center Ala The last Supper. He indicated dead center is fine as long as there are other interesting elements to counter balance the middle one. He indicated he has never won a camera club competition.

Macro photographer, Andrey Antov, only crops his images; he does not edit them in photoshop. Sam Abell, retired from National Geographic, never edits his photos in Photoshop, and he purposely does not correct flaws. A few of his images are on the list of 50 best ever National Geographic images. Cemial Ekin gave a presentation on B&W conversions. He does not use the black and white conversion modular in Lightroom for making the conversion, but uses the basic LR tools to generate B&W images.

The length of the presentations were extended this year to and hour and a half because prior attendees thought there was not enough time especially for questions, and there was too little time to get to the next presentation. This year many people including me, thought that the presentations were too long and should be reduced to around and hour and fifteen minutes. Also folks attending prior years indicated there were fewer presentations this year.

Overall, I would say I got a lot out of it and it was a rewarding experience. It certainly demonstrated that the constraints in photography are diminishing.

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