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Newsletter Vol 35 Issue 9 September 2013 In this Edition Coming Club Events Member Shows 2 See the Events page or Event Calendar on our web site for August Competition Winners Tell Us How They Did It 3 updates or further details. Meet Pat Puder, Print Assistant 7 Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:30pm Projected Image Key Contacts 8 Entry Deadline Color, Monochrome, Photojournalism Reminders Monday, September 9, 2013 Too Many Image Entries 5pm Online Print Entry In the last competition, there were some members who entered too many Deadline images. The statement below is included in each Competition Definition. 7:15pm Print Entry Deadline Media are defined as Digital/Projected and Print. Categories are Color (Pictorial), Monochrome, Creative, Travel, Nature, and Photojournalism. Competition: Color, Monochrome, Members may enter a total of four images into a monthly competition with a Photojournalism maximum of three images in any one category and a maximum of three Judge: Hal Geren images in any one medium. Sequences of up to four images are allowed in Digital/Projected and only count as one image, provided you follow the Refreshments: Harry instructions on the website for submitting a sequence. Glatstein, Harvey Gold, Alex Goldberger Photojournalism Definition Monday, September 16, 2013 Journalism entries shall consist of pictures with informative content and Program: Member Shows. emotional impact, including human interest, documentary and spot news. See the next page for details. The journalistic value of the photograph shall be considered over pictorial quality. In the interest of credibility, photographs which misrepresent the Refreshments: truth, such as manipulation of the image, or situations which are set up for Sherman Golub, Joseph the purpose of photography, are unacceptable in Journalism competition. Grapa, Barry Grivett No manipulation or modification of Journalism images is permitted except resizing, cropping, selective lightening or darkening, and restoration of Saturday, October 5, 2013 original color of the scene. No special effect filters can be applied. No 11:30pm Projected Image elements may be moved, cloned, added, deleted, rearranged or combined. Entry Deadline Any sharpening must appear natural. Color, Monochrome, Nature Member Shows The current plan is for the show to take place on Monday, September 16, 2013. Note that this is only one week following the September competition night, which has been scheduled on Sept. 9, 2013 to avoid interfering with people’s Labor Day plans. It is possible, but unlikely, because of uncertainty about the outcome of invitations to some potential speakers, that the Members Night could wind up being postponed to the October program night, but please assume it will happen on Sept. 16 for the purpose of organizing your program! In the past, up until year before last, the show was limited to 15 or fewer images. The point of this was to assure that the programs did not take too long, and each would be concise. The purpose of the Members Show is to allow each member to show a number of related images, rather than just the single or few images that are shown in competitions. The way the Members Show works nowadays to achieve the same general goals is that each member can select any number of photographs you would like everyone in the club to see, so long as they can be shown, and any commentary related to them completed, in approximately five minutes or less. Again, you can show as many images as you would like, and are able to during the allotted time, but If you plan on talking a lot during your show, you may turn out to only have time to present five to 10 images; if you are not going to talk at all, you can probably show up to around 20 or 30 images in that time. Please practice your program before presenting it, so you know that you can finish in the allotted time. Up to an additional five minutes will be allowed after your presentation for the audience to ask questions. The subject of your show can be just about anything, but the idea is to make it cohesive in some way. The program should have a theme, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. The theme can be anything you choose – a collection of a type of images, a subject, about a place, an event, types of people, a story, etc. The photos should be related, and the final photo should be an appropriate one to end your presentation. You can choose to narrate the images, put them to music, or just let the audience enjoy them in silence. The images can be accompanied by a set of comments, explanations, or observations, and/or recorded music, so long as the entire program remains within the approximately five minute time limit. Some technical details: The pictures should be formatted for the projector, SRGB color space, JPG format. It should also be possible to show a PDF slide show or video presentation, but Lightroom or other specialized display software like ProShow Gold will not be available. You can use file formats that can be displayed with Microsoft Windows Media player or Apple QuickTime, for example a movie presentation using MOV or MPEG format. Bring your presentation either on a thumb drive or CD. Those that use Apple PCs must be careful about the formatting of the media. If you format the drive on your Apple computer, you must choose the FAT format or it will not be readable by the club’s laptop Presentations made up of single JPEG files should be named with the following convention so that they will display in the correct order: name_number.jpg name = your name: first_last number = 01, 02 … in the order which you want the pictures shown. Other file formats should be named starting with your name. In case there is a problem with the new sound system playing music from the computer, if you want to use musical accompaniment for your presentation, you should plan on bringing a music player with speakers. September 2013 Los Gatos-Saratoga Camera Club Newsletter Page 2 August Competition Winners Tell Us How They Did It We asked the makers of the August first place images to send stories about what their subject was, when and where the image was taken, how it was created (photographed and/or processed), and why they created it. August 2013 First Place Travel Digital Projected Image - Basic During our recent trip to London, my wife, Sharon, and I were in the Underground, I think it was Leicester Square, and we thought it would be a neat picture to get someone rounding the corner and have their reflection in the mirror. We liked the parallel lines of the tile and the colors, the lighting and the general feel of the location. We waited for several minutes and no one obliged. They were either traveling in clumps, or walking too fast. So she said "why not me?" It took several attempts to get it right. One of the hard parts was getting me out of the mirror image! Reflection in the London Underground David Kirsch August 2013 First Place Monochrome Digital Projected Image We were visiting the de Young Museum December of 2005 and wandered into one of the smaller galleries which was for modern types of sculpture. I was just dazzled when I saw this display, an array of blown glass finished in perfect mirror forms…scattering light in all directions. I like to catch reflections of all kinds, sides of buildings, water in ponds, show windows etc. This was right up my alley, and my little Lumix FZ30 was up to the job. I set it on auto and let the camera go to work, with settings of ISO/160, 7.4 mm, f/2.8 at 1/30. Looked good on the screen, saved it and headed home. Downloaded the card onto my 27" iMac into iPhoto for first viewing, then using the adjustments for levels and other editing tools, I Shiny glass sculptures at the DeYoung saved a copy of the image and opened it in Photoshop for final Museum tweaking and preparation for presentation in the club web site. Gene Faucher This is my basic method of capturing and processing of all my images. September 2013 Los Gatos-Saratoga Camera Club Newsletter Page 3 August 2013 First Place Monochrome Print Last January I took a workshop with American Nature Photography called Winter in Yellowstone. I have taken quite a few workshops but this was the best one I ever attended. Tom Bol and George Theodore took us to places in Yellowstone I didn’t even know existed. Every morning for 5 days we would get picked up by a small yellow school bus with tank treads. The days were long but worth it and I took over 1400 photographs. The goal was to find and photograph wildlife and landscapes. We were very, very lucky with the wildlife. I have photos of the canyon wolf pack, coyotes, bobcat, red fox, bison, trumpeter swans, goldeneye ducks, eagles and otters. The landscape opportunities are too numerous to mention. Lewis River and Falls - Yellowstone One thing about snow landscapes I will mention is you really John Perry need to watch your histogram to get the snow white without being blown out. We even did some night photography of Old Faithful. The Lewis River is south of Old Faithful and just off the main road so we didn’t have to hike very far. For this photo I used my Nikon D800E and 24-70mm f/2.8 lens on a tripod. The shot is a color HDR of three images taken at f/11.