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1 On-line Monthly Magazine: Volume 53 Issue #3 Southern Oregon Photographic Association November, 2015 Dome & Night Sky Neal Thompson

2 SOPA News 2 SOPA November 2015 November, 2015 Dues are Due! Don't forget to give your check to SOPA Treasurer Judy LaNier for the dues. (Make check payable to SOPA.) The cost is $45 (individual membership) and $60 (couples). Visitors may attend all meetings without paying dues. Dues are required for anyone entering competitions. EID Deadline Remember to submit your Electronic Images (EIDs) to Al Ingersoll by Sunday, November 1. The theme this month is "Humor." (See EID Guidelines below.) Al is always willing to explain how to submit, so contact him if you have questions: or alanw46@q.com Epic Steam Locomotive Shoot Focal Point Photography (along with Sony) is offering a great photo opportunity: an Epic Steam Locomotive Shoot, December 6th at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland. The event will include the shop and museum, plus the SP&S 700 powered up and steaming up and down the track, both before and after dark. They will be providing lighting after dark. Sony will have a class and loaner equipment available. This will be limited to the first 40 photographers. (Only a few spots left!) Submit Winning Prints If your print image receives one of the top scores in the competition for November, please a high quality electronic image for inclusion in the SOPA Newsletter to Neal Thompson, nealthompson4340@gmail.com as well as to Webmaster Randy Bryan at r8bryan@gmail. com (Neal will be editing the newsletter next month while Barb is out of town.) Happy Fish George Peterson Speaker & Dinner On November 10, Mac Holbert will be our featured speaker. Attendees are invited to a dinner to chat with the speaker and to get to know some of the members. Reservations must be made at Twin Creeks in advance, and they fill up fast. Get your name on the list at the front desk. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and costs $11 a person. See SOPA Winning Entries To see the monthly winning Print and Electronic (EID) images from SOPA, go to: SOPA Business Cards Take a few business cards at the Welcome Table at the next meeting, and keep them handy in your wallet or purse. When you meet a prospective member, introduce yourself and tell them about the club. Write your name, and phone number on the back of the card as a point of contact, and invite the newcomer to attend a SOPA meeting. (When they show up at a meeting, remember to welcome them and introduce them to fellow members.) "Like" SOPA on Facebook! groups/ /

3 This Month's Speaker: R. Mac Holbert On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, R. Mac Holbert will present a program on simple photoshop techniques that he uses every day. These include blending modes, "blend-if" sliders and gradient masking. Mac is the co-founder of Nash Editions. Widely regarded as the world s first digital printmaking studio focusing solely on photography, Nash Editions has established an international reputation for fine art photographic digital output. Prior to Nash Editions, Mac was the Tour Manager for such music groups as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Peter, Paul & Mary and Carole King. He has long been active in the environmental movement helping to produce benefits for the Cousteau Society, Greenpeace, the Algalita Foundation and others. Mac has lectured extensively and conducted workshops on digital output, digital imaging/scanning and fine art printing on the IRIS and Epson large format printers. He is a Beta tester for Epson America, Adobe and other software and hardware manufacturers. 3 SOPA November 2015

4 Speakers for September 8 - David Vanderlip October 13 - Dan Elster November 10 - Mac Holbert December 8 - Richard Krieger January 12 - Jenny Graham February 9 - Deb Harder March 8 - David Winston & Lewis Anderson April 12 - Open May 10 - Sean Bagshaw Dance Dreams Paula McDermid EID Themes for September - Architecture October - Lines *November - Humor December - Waterfalls January - Motion February - Panoramic Photography March - Abstract April - (Non Human) Mammals May - Street Photography *See guidelines next page 4 SOPA November 2015

5 EID Guidelines for Monthly Themes September, Architecture can be a stately Craftsman home around the corner, a shed in your backyard, or an age-old cathedral. Perhaps there's an interesting building or museum you've visited. Think construction sites, bridges, escalators, stairways, or any details of a man-made structure (including windows, doors, roofs). People can also be in the photo, as long as architecture is dominantly portrayed. (No "natural" architecture such as arches or rock formations for this category, please. The structure or detail must be man made.) October, Lines can be actual or implied. They are linear forms in which length dominates over width. Wherever we see the edge of an object, it can be perceived as a line. Actual lines can be straight, curved, jagged, colored, soft or hard. Implied lines suggest visual connections between a series of objects or forms. Picture a pencil drawing of your scene to more fully appreciate its' "line" qualities. Although all images have lines, lines should be a dominate feature of your image. November, Humor is a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement. It can be subtle or blatant. You know: it's a funny picture! December, Waterfalls are steep, vertical falls or a flow of water in a watercourse from a height, as over a precipice; cascade. January, A sense of Motion can be achieved by depicting actual or implied changes in position. Slow shutter speeds can capture the blur of motion. Fast shutter speeds can freeze motion in a way that allows us to see different aspects of motion. Merged action sequences or the rhythmic repetition or moving elements (i.e. legs) may capture a sense of motion. Motion blur filters in Photoshop may be used to emphasize real or implied motion. Fountains, kites, flags, runners, airplanes, flowing water commonly represent motion. February, Panoramic photography is often used to capture landscapes or city skylines. It gives a wide perspective to a scene and captures vastness in an image, which is not often shown by a solitary shot. Although a panoramic view is usually thought of on a horizontal perspective, like in landscapes, the photographic technique can also be used to create a panoramic effect from a vertical perspective. For example, if you are standing quite close to a skyscraper building and would like to capture the towering beauty of the structure, you could use the same technique, but instead of panning horizontally, you will be orienting the camera vertically. With most photo editing software (and sometimes with camera settings) it is now possible to "stitch" together images taken to form a consolidated panoramic image. However, those without software may also crop an image to achieve the same effect. March, Abstract means to extract the "essence" of an object or idea. These can be images in which there are no recognizable objects (i.e. just patterns, colors, lines and/or shapes). Also, abstract images may depict recognizable objects in simplified, distorted, or exaggerated ways. Some extreme close-up's or blended images may appear abstract. Abstract may depict a wide variety of patterns, objects, forms, moods and messages. Be imaginative! April, Non-Human Mammals: warmblooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, and in most cases, have their skin more or less covered with hair. They can be wild, domesticated or ocean mammals. May, Street Photography includes candid (non "studio," non "staged") images of people and events. It often depicts the human condition in public places. People are usually the central focus in street photography; however objects or environments that elicit a human emotion or aesthetic may be depicted. Actual streets or urban environments are not mandatory. Costumed people are acceptable. Benjamin Lowry of National Geographic wrote: "Street photography. It sounds dirty. It sounds urban. Behind every syllable is a honking horn, a toothless grin, a siren wailing in the background. Chewing gum under your shoe, the smells of the street wafting up to hit you in the nose. Street photography is a harsh name for a beautiful pursuit. To tame the chaos. To frame the cacophony of modern life. To capture what it means to be alive." 5 SOPA November 2015

6 EID Categories: Traditional & Manipulated SOPA's Electronic Imaging Division (EID) has an additional category in called "Traditional". There is a list below of minor editing allowed for the Traditional category. SOPA will still continue to have the "Manipulated" EID category we have used in recent years, which allows for extensive image modification (layering, compositing, additions and subtractions of objects, the use of filters, HDR, stitching, infrared, etc.) All entries should be sent to Al Ingersoll by the Sunday preceeding the competition meeting. Please send four images maximum (two for assigned and two for general) to both Al's personal and the SOPA digital entry alanw46@q.com and SopaDigitalSubmissions@gmail.com Labeling Guidelines for EID Entries Traditional images will use the designator A--for Assigned, and B--for General. (See "Guidelines" within this newsletter for a list of Assigned categories for the year.) Manipulated images will use the designators C--for Assigned, and D--for General. Using Al Ingersoll as an example, his second Manipulated Assigned entry would look like this: sop-ingea5590-c2-sunset over Bandon.jpg sop = the name of the club (abbreviated from SOPA), followed by a hyphen (-). ingea5590 = the first four letters of Al's LAST name (inge) plus the first letter of Al's FIRST name (a), plus the last four digits of his phone number (5590), followed by a hyphen (-). C-2 = His second entry in the Manipulated Assigned category Sunset over Bandon.jpg = the title of Al's image. Note: The words in the title do not have to run together (e.g. sunsetoverbandon)--there may be spaces and capitalized words. More information at: or contact Al Ingersoll, alanw46@q.com Traditional EID Entries Allowed: Lens filters (polarizers, neutral density, soft focus etc.) In camera adjustments to vibrance, white balance, sharpness, etc. Cropping and straightening Exposure modification Sharpening and clarity modifications Saturation changes Vibrancy changes White Balance changes Removal of minor distractions Dodging and burning Vignetting Not Allowed: Focus stacking Composited Images (images created from combining layers) Addition of elements to the image Substantial changes to portions of the image HDR (including in-camera settings) Panoramic Stitching of multiple images (including in-camera settings) Infared sensors, filters, or software (including converted cameras) Post processing software (e.g. NIK, Topaz, Silver Effects Pro, purchased presets, Lightroom presets, artistic or painting filters) 6 SOPA November 2015

7 Electronic (EID) Scores October, 2015 Assigned Theme (Lines) Traditional Editing (A) Little House on the Prairie 21 Ellen Ahern Boy with Accordian 21 Barbara Tricarico Please! 20 Judy LaNier Dance Dreams 20 Paula McDermid Air Lines 19 George Peterson Fog Blanketing Vineyard 19 Ellen Ahern Can You See the Railing 19 George Peterson Benches 18 Neal Thompson East Twin Lake 18 Terry Tuttle Wheel Fence 18 Barbara Tricarico Line Drive 18 Terry Tuttle Lifeline 18 Neal Thompson Pangeas Light Bulb 18 Randy Bryan Greek Street 18 Ken Deveney Holy-Leaf 17 Howard Hunt Water Logged 17 Alan Ingersoll Abstract 17 Ken Deveney Boy with Accordian Barbara Tricarico Little House on the Prairie Ellen Ahern 7 SOPA November 2015

8 Electronic (EID) Scores October, 2015 Assigned Theme (Lines) Manipulated Editing (C) Sunrise in the Palouse 20 Ellen Ahern Foot Bridge 20 Alan Ingersoll Boat House Door 20 Howard Hunt Moonbeams 20 Judy LaNier Vancouver Reflection 20 Randy Bryan Undulating Hay Fields 20 Ellen Ahern Oh! Please, Mother! 19 Jack Harmon A Glimpse of Eternity 19 Vivian McAleavey Ancient Rainbow 18 Vivian McAleavey Resting at a Table 18 Jack Harmon Foot Bridge Alan Ingersoll Sunrise in the Palouse Ellen Ahern 8 SOPA November 2015

9 Electronic (EID) Scores October, 2015 General Theme Traditional Editing (B) Parson's Chameleon 21 Howard Hunt Striped Orchid 21 Terry Tuttle Orchids 20 Judy LaNier Yellow Phalaenopsis 18 Terry Tuttle Crawdad Anyone 18 George Peterson Above the Clouds 18 Alan Ingersoll Havasu Falls 18 Ken Deveney Happy Fish 18 George Peterson Wind Surfing 18 Alan Ingersoll On the Fjord 17 Ken Deveney Beauty Rest 16 Randy Bryan Parson's Chameleon Howard Hunt Striped Orchid Terry Tuttle 9 SOPA November 2015

10 Electronic (EID) Scores October, 2015 General Theme Manipulated Editing (D) Dome & Milky Way 23 Neal Thompson Mono Lake Morn 23 Neal Thompson Feeling Blue 21 Judy LaNier Ashland Creek in Autumn 20 Vivian McAleavey Steam Punk 20 Barbara Tricarico Mad-Man-Dreams 19 Howard Hunt Curvatious Antelope Canyon 18 Barbara Tricarico Heavenly Pulpit 18 Vivian McAleavey Mill Creek Bridge 17 Randy Bryan Dome & Milky Way Neal Thompson Mono Lake Morn Neal Thompson 10 SOPA November 2015

11 Large Color Print Scores October, 2015 Dome & Night Sky Neal Thompson 38 Tribute Judy LaNier 37 At the Round House George Peterson 35 Bandon Sunset Neal Thompson 34 Landing in the Thistle George Peterson 33 Aspen Glory Judy LaNier 32 Eating Chips, Listening to Music Jack Harmon 31 Standing Against the Tide Vivian McAleavey 31 Spray 'Em Jack Harmon 31 Tribute Judy LaNier 11 SOPA November 2015 At the Round House George Peterson

12 Small Color Print Scores October, 2015 Ant and Aphids Neal Thompson 35 Fueling to Fly George Peterson 34 Kauai Rooster Judy LaNier 33 Adventure Neal Thompson 33 Dousing the Flames George Peterson 30 At One with the Sea Judy LaNier 30 Fueling to Fly George Peterson 12 SOPA November 2015

13 Large Mono Print Scores October, 2015 The Towers Neal Thomspon 34 First Kiss Judy LaNier 33 Soaring George Peterson 32 Roots of the Giant Judy LaNier 31 The Towers Neal Thompson Small Mono Print Scores October, 2015 Stares Neal Thompson 34 Wings Neal Thompson 34 Happy Fish George Peterson 33 Alone in the World Judy LaNier 33 Thick Knees Judy LaNier 33 What's Up George Peterson 32 First Kiss Judy LaNier 13 SOPA November 2015

14 Vancouver Reflections Randy Bryan Kauai Rooster Judy LaNier Boat House Door Howard Hunt Yellow Phalaenopsis Terry Tuttle Greek Street Ken Deveney 14 SOPA November 2015

15 About SOPA» Meetings: SOPA meetings are held on the first and second Tuesdays of each month (September through May) at 7:00 p.m. at Twin Creeks Retirement Community, 888 Twin Creeks Crossing, Central Point, OR On the first Tuesday of each month, SOPA holds a competition and general meeting. On the second Tuesday of each month, SOPA hosts a guest speaker. On that date, an optional dinner is available at 5:30 p.m. at Twin Creeks at $11 per person. Reservations for dinner must be made in advance by calling Twin Creeks at (Limited seating).» SOPA Competition Rules: Calendar and Newsletter items: Send news to editor Barbara Tricarico btricarico@ gmail.com at least one week before the first Tuesday SOPA meeting.» No Need to Print this Newsletter: Just save it in a folder on your mail server and label it SOPA. It is interactive, so be sure and click on links. To enlarge the print, click on the Plus (+) button. If you re having trouble reading it, make sure you open it in Adobe Reader.» SOPA Dues: $45 (individual), $60 (couple). Make check payable to SOPA and give to Treasurer, Judy LaNier. Visitors may attend all meetings without paying dues. Dues are required for anyone entering competitions.» Board Positions: If you are interested in serving on the SOPA board, contact President Neal Thompson at nealaud@mind.net» Like Us on Facebook: "Southern Oregon Photographic Association": 15 SOPA November 2015

16 SOPA Contact Info Neal Thompson Judy LaNier John Kirk Neal Thompson Barbara Tricarico Terry Tuttle Al Ingersoll Howard Hunt Digital Entries Randy Bryan Dick Simonson Sue Stendebach President: Treasurer: Print Chair: Columbia Council Rep: Newsletter Editor: Publicity & Field Trips: Projected Images Chair: Projected Images: Digital Administrator & Web Master Historian: Newcomers' Chair: Bandon Sunset Neal Thompson 16 SOPA November 2015