General Information. Camera Club Mailing Address. Club Officers. Newsletter of the Camera Club of Brevard FEBRUARY 2015

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1 thef-stop Newsletter of the Camera Club of Brevard FEBRUARY 2015 General Information Website: Address - info@ccbrevard.com Camera Club Mailing Address Camera Club of Brevard, Inc. PO Box 542 Melbourne, FL Club Officers Title Name Phone # President Richard Thomson VP of Programs open VP of Field Trips Patty Corapi Secretary Shannon McGregor Treasurer Judy Pastore Special Competition Erik Magnuson Coordinator F-Stop Editor Ann Bernick Membership Marsha Sea Webmaster Terri Wells Monthly and Quarterly Contest Themes Monthly & Quarterly Contest Themes Month Theme 2015 February Beautiful Blur March Emotions (Quarterly) April Open and Creative Class Please vote for new themes when the survey is sent out. Thanks everyone. Becoming a Camera Club of Brevard Member Yearly dues are $30.00 for individuals, $35.00 for families, and $15.00 for full-time students. Checks are to be made payable to the Camera Club of Brevard, Inc. When you join the CCB after July 1st, your 2015 dues will be half price. You can pay dues at all monthly meetings. Or, you may mail them to Camera Club of Brevard, PO Box 542, Melbourne, Florida February Club Meeting Date and Location Next program meeting is on Tuesday, Februray 3rd at 6:30pm at the Eau Gallie Civic Center located in Historic Eau Gallie. The address is 1551 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL. Click HERE for map. February Board Meeting Our next board meeting will be held on Thursday February 12th, at 7:00 pm. All club members are welcome to attend. Location is at Panera Bread, 275 E Eau Gallie Blvd in Indian Harbour Beach. February Program Meeting The CCB is honored to have John Buck for our February program presenter. John is a former photographer for Eastman Kodak. Today, he runs his own photography business based in Rockledge. John s program is all about Taking Pictures of People. This is an area where John is a master photographer. Within his presentation, he will concentrate on the problems encountered with people photography, and the solutions used to overcome these problems. For more information about John Buck, visit his website at:

2 2015 Membership Dues It s time to renew your Camera Club of Brevard dues for You can pay your dues at the February 3rd program meeting (arrive early). Or, you may mail your dues to: Camera Club of Brevard, PO Box 542, Melbourne, FL Dues are $30.00 for a single membership and $35.00 for a family membership. Please note, the CCB is proud to inform you that membership dues have remained the same for the last 8 years. CCB Elections The CCB will hold elections during our February meeting. According to CCB By-Laws, the voting will be conducted by a raise of hands for the following board positions and candidates: President- Richard Thomson Vice President Programs- Open Vice President Field Trips- Patty Corapi Treasurer- Judy Pastore Secretary- Shannon McGregor Field Trips February Field Trip February s field trip will take place in historic Cocoa Village, and it incorporates the fascinating Annual Scavenger Hunt. The field trip will be on Saturday, February 7th. Meet in Cocoa Village in front of the Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse Theater (Oleander St and Brevard Ave) at 8:30am. During the field trip, photography teams of three are asked to find and photograph easily found "subjects". The goal for photographers is to find interesting and creative ways to capture a photographic image. The subjects are easy to find, however it s up to the team to photograph them in a unique and dynamic way. When all images are "captured", we will visit the nearby Central Brevard Reference Library (308 Forrest Ave, Cocoa) and review all of the best subjects each team captured via the club s projection system. After the review, we will visit a nearby eatery for a nice lunch. It really is amazing the creative skills CCB photographers have. During the review session, you ll be amazed how the every team finds different ways to capture the same subject themes. This is a really fun field trip and a great way to get to know your fellow CCB members. Page 2 of 10 Calendar of Events - February 7th Field Trip- This is our famous Scavenger Hunt field trip. This year's location will be in Cocoa Village with our fascinatingly fun photo review at the Main Brevard Library in Cocoa - February 21st- Our famous Camera Workshop returns to Erna Nixon Park. Have a new camera? This workshop features a one-on-one learner to teacher ratio to help you explore your camera's features, dials, knobs, and menus - February 28th- March Field Trip- a visit to the Florida Agricultural Museum near St. Augustine. This place has thousands of photoops. A truly unique place for photography. Important note: the field trip will take place on Saturday February 28th. - March 3rd- CCB Program Meeting featuring world class photographer and Canon Explorers of Light, Adam Jones. This will be a great program Birds of a Feather If you would like to sponsor a Birds of a Feather (BOF) by inviting CCB members on a photographic outing, all you have to do is the club with the details of your outing. BOF outings can be to local places, drives to further locations, or even to museums with photographs. The CCB will send an out to all the members with your BOF request. s should be sent to info@ccbrevard.com Upcoming Events CCB s Famous Camera Workshop Our famous Camera Workshop returns to Erna Nixon Park on February 21st at 9:00am. The workshop features a one-on-one learner to teacher ratio to help you explore your camera's features, dials, knobs, menus, and even it s software. Do you have a new camera, even a new DSLR? Want to learn more about your new/existing camera? It doesn't matter if you have a DSLR or a Point and Shoot, this workshop is for you. The CCB will have experts at the workshop for any camera system you would like to learn.

3 2015 FCCC Conference The premier 2015 photography conference in the Southeast United States will be hosted by the Florida Camera Club Council from March 6th to 8th in Ft. Myers, FL. They have lined up many world class photographers to speak along with many great workshops and vendors. Registration is now open. Here are three useful links to learn more about the conference and how to register: - All about the Conferencehttp://f3c.org/conference/overview/ - How to register for conference and workshopshttp://f3c.org/conference/registration/ note, spaces are limited FCCC Conference flyer- FCCC flyer Design Principles for Remarkable Photographs George and Mary Ester Bollis are hosting a composition class presented by Chuck Palmer titled "Design Principles for Remarkable Photographs" for the Indian River Photography Club. This is an excellent workshop. The location is the Indian River County Library located at st Street, Vero Beach. It will be held on Saturday, February 28th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Cost is $15.00 for CCB members, and the price includes lunch. Mail a check to Indian River Photo Club, PO Box 1491, Vero Beach, FL Review of Events January Program Review Our very own CCB member s created 12 dynamic AV slideshows that incorporated photographs taken from the Space Coast, Morocco, Quebec City, the Danube, Ireland, to an underwater world, to Civil War times, Iceland, and the cold north. Every show was unique in terms of imagery, locations, music, themes, styles, and energy level. And, they were all uniquely creative. A time lapse slideshow was shown depicting the CCB s Annual Print Competition Party that was fast pace and funny. We also showed a slide show featuring last year s field trips, members, and all the fun we had during the field trips. What a great way to start the New Year! The CCB would like to thank the photographers who shared their AV slideshow during the program Big thanks goes out to: Chuck and Nancy Palmer, Marc Szczesny-Pumarada, Ed Quillian, Cheryl Howard, Al Rollins, Steve Hanulec, Kim Hunt, Jerry Gembarowski, Dawn Currie, and Ann Bernick. January Field Trip Review The Camera club thanks Terri and Galen Wells for opening their yard, including their house, to the Camera Club of Brevard members for a close-up and macro photography session. Around their house were numerous stations featuring lots of flower, fruits, oranges and lemons, jewelry, yard art, Christmas villages, roses (these were side lit), and much more. Members were able to take some great close ups all these subjects. See below for photographs taken on the field trip. Classified Ads For Sale: Ikelite underwater housing, for Olympus C700/C720/C730 digital camera. In excellent condition. If interested, please contact Bob Creswick Photography Trivia Free Hasselblad Cameras: Even today, Hasselblads are legendary cameras with an unrivaled reputation for quality. So, where would you find free models of this seminal camera? On the moon! During the NASA Apollo missions, blads were taken to the moon by astronauts to record the surface or our nearest neighbor. However, their weight meant that they need to be left behind when the missions returned to earth. The astronauts brought only the film rolls back. There are thought to be around 12 Hasselblads still on the moon. Upcoming Photo Ops Rocket Launches All times and dates are tentative February 8th- Space X Falcon 9 DSCOVR- Launch time:6:10 p.m. EST Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A Space X Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory for the U.S Air Force Page 3 of 10

4 February 17th (maybe) - Space X Falcon 9 Eutelsat 115 West B & ABS 3A. Launch window: TBD. Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Local Photo Ops January 31st and February 1st Melbourne Music Marathon Weekend. February 5th to 16th- Florida State Fair near Tampa. What could be better than the biggest State Fair in Florida? More info here: Feb 7th- Eau Gallie Arts Districts Founder's Day Fish Fry. Music and food in a nice old town setting. Website: Feb 6-7th, Nikon School will be in Orlando presenting two great school sessions titled; "Action and People Photography" and "Elements of Photography" Nikon has graciously approved all CCB members to receive a discount to the Orlando location. You will receive a 15% discount on registration costs by using the discount code NSCCB Feb 20-22nd- Vero s Thunder on the Beach Powwoww. This is a beautiful culture event, See the dancing and Native American entertainment. Lots of fun and food, Na-Ma-Wo-Chi Drum and Red Bird Jrs are going to rock the place. Indian River County Fairgrounds, : th. St, Vero Beach. $8.00 admission Fort Christmas Park. Website: Page 4 of 10 festival/ Feb. 28th- 6th Annual Scrub Jay Festival Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge will host the on February 28th from 10am to 3pm. Location- Refuge Visitor Center, Feb 28th-March 1st- The 48th Grant Seafood Festival. Excellent food and good music all in a very eclectic colorful setting. Website: Florida Photography Hot Spots Check out the CCB s Florida Photography Hot Spots interactive map at: map show you the location and description of great places to take photographs around Florida. Every 1st Friday of the Month- Eau Gallie s First Friday. Located in Historic Eau Gallie from 5:30pm to 8:30pm Every 2nd Friday of the Month- Downtown Melbourne's Friday Family Fest located in Historic Downtown Melbourne from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. If you know of a nice photo opportunity, please the Camera Club at info@ccbrevard.com so we may include it in the photo-ops calendar. Thanks. Member Spotlight Feb 21st- Orlando Wetlands Festival on Saturday, February 21, 2015, from 9am-3pm at Feb 20-22nd St. Katherine Greek Festival FREE admission N, Wickham Rd. Melbourne Free parking at Imperial Plaza on Wickham Rd, free shuttle. Homemade Greek food and pastries. Live Greek Music. Grecian Odyssey Dancers, check website for times. My name is Nelson Ngo. I was born and raised in a small city (Qui-Nhon) in the central part of southern Vietnam. I escaped VN two years after the North communist government took over the entire country in 1975 by political and military force. I ve been in the US for 35 years, including 31 years in California and the last 4 years in Brevard County.

5 Rockwell Collins in Melbourne is my employer as a Senior ECAD Designer in their engineering department. My Interest in photography developed at a young age with beautiful calendar photos inspiring me. But I have really explored photography in the last 15 years while joining the camera clubs.. My first camera was a Chinon, later the Minolta and a few film cameras - the Nikon F5, Contax and Hasselblad. Today, I use Panasonic FZ-200 and Nikon D810 cameras for hobby photographs. I found my favorite photographic opportunity when joining the Camera Club of Brevard, learning and sharing knowledge about photography. Recently, I m interested in bird and macro photos In Asia, but especially Vietnam, there are so many opportunities for photographs within a short distance between cities. Whenever I have a chance, I revisit VN for exploration of different nature landscapes, underwater scapes, ethnics, cultures, food and friendly people Upcoming Photograph Competitions The CCB s photo contest theme for February is Beautiful Blur. Everyone has taken a blurred photograph maybe hundreds of them. The challenge for club photographers in this monthly contest is to make the blur work in favor for you photograph. Bring your favorite picture depicting Beautiful Blur to the February program meeting, and perhaps you will win a ribbon. Good luck to all the CCB photographers who submitted images for the George Glennie Nature Salon photography contest. The CCB will jury the many excellent photographs submitted, and choose the top ten to represent the CCB in this International Nature Photograph Competition. These ten images will be sent to the contest organizers before February 4th. We ll keep you informed on how the club does. And, keep your fingers crossed our photographers gather some of the top individual awards. The Pelican Island Wildlife Festival will be having their beloved photography contest during the festival on Saturday March 14, Deadline to enter your photographs is March 1, To see the photography contest details, and to enter your photographs into the photography contest, click here: The contest is for the benefit of the Pelican Island Preservation Society which is the public support organization for the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. More info for the festival here: for more information contact Patty Corapi, co-chair PIWF photo Page 5 of 10

6 Upcoming Photograph Competitions The CCB s photo contest theme for February is Beautiful Blur. Everyone has taken a blurred photograph maybe hundreds of them. The challenge for club photographers in this monthly contest is to make the blur work in favor for you photograph. Bring your favorite picture depicting Beautiful Blur to the February program meeting, and perhaps you will win a ribbon. Good luck to all the CCB photographers who submitted images for the George Glennie Nature Salon photography contest. The CCB will jury the many excellent photographs submitted, and choose the top ten to represent the CCB in this International Nature Photograph Competition. These ten images will be sent to the contest organizers before February 4th. We ll keep you informed on how the club does. And, keep your fingers crossed our photographers gather some of the top individual awards. To review the CCB s monthly photo contest guidelines, visit the CCB website at: Remember, the CCB Monthly and Quarterly contest rules are listed on the Club s web site. Normal ratio photographs are to be no larger than 15 inches on a side and a minimum of 7 inches on the shortest side (exceptions are listed on the CCB web site). Panorama images must be at least a 2x1 ratio and the image can be up to, but not larger, than 20x10 inches. No frames are allowed, photographs may be matted or mounted, one entry per person, the photos must have been taken within the last 18 months, and you must be a club member to enter. Monthly Articles: New Feature in f-stop CCB member, and remarkable photographer, Chuck Palmer will be writing instructional and enlightening articles for the f-stop newsletters. Each month, the f-stop will feature an Adobe Lightroom Tips and Tricks article and an Educative Photography article about various facets of photography. These articles will certainly help you with your photography. Adobe Lightroom Tips and Tricks Getting Exposure Right by Chuck Palmer One of the most confusing things to learn about photography is understanding how your camera s exposure metering works. How often have we set the exposure our camera metering says is perfect only to find the image is over-exposed or underexposed? Well there is nothing wrong with your camera. It s the way your camera exposure metering works. Let s take a closer look at our typical digital camera metering system. Perfect exposure is of course subject to the photographer s interpretation of the scene or subject. But we commonly think of exposure as the amount of light that provides us with the true tonality of the subject in the photo. A proper exposure provides details in both highlights and shadows. Although not always accurate for all scenes, one exposure method DLSR users commonly use is to avoid the binkies, or highlight clipping warnings on our LCD screen after a test shot. Understanding how our DLSR meter works might avoid numerous test shots. The meters in our digital cameras are reflective light meters. They measure the amount of light bouncing off of our subject. But a meter has to have some point of reference to compare the light measured. Reflective meters try to set the exposure to make whatever light it sees medium gray, or 12.5% gray. The older value of medium gray many of us may have learned at 18% comes from the print world. A newer ANSI standard meters use puts medium gray at 12.5%, a 1/2 stop under the 18% gray commonly found in printing. Try this experiment with your own camera. On a bright sunny day, shoot a black card and a white card with your camera set to Program (P) mode. Fill your image frame with each card. Be sure to spot meter directly on the white and black cards Make sure both cards are photographed in the exact same light. Don t look at your LCD monitor until you have taken both photos. You now have a photo of a pure black, and pure white card. Correct? Not exactly. Review your photos. You will Page 6 of 10

7 see that you have two almost identical gray card photos. What happened? Your camera meter measured the reflected light and set your exposure to reproduce 12.5% gray. So understanding that your meter pushes or pulls your exposure to reproduce medium gray, we probably have to compensate exposure unless of course our subject reflects medium gray tones. Modern digital cameras incorporate some very sophisticated matrix or evaluative metering sensors that interpret tones and contrast of the scene with complicated algorithms which significantly improves meter accuracy. But we often still have to compensate for metering error, depending on the tones and light contrast of our scene. So do we just guess at exposure compensation? Well sort of. Understanding a reflective metering chart may help us pinpoint our exposure compensation target. If our subject is mostly white (think snow scene), and our meter gives us an exposure reproducing 12.5% gray, we would have to add 1.5 to 2.5 stops of exposure to reproduce white with some details. Likewise, if our subject is mostly dark, and our meter gives us an exposure reproducing 12.5% gray again, we would have to reduce our exposure 1 to 2.5 stops to reproduce blacks with some details (see chart). The most critical thing to remember is that a reflective meter will tend to under expose a white (light toned) subject, and over exposes a black or very dark toned subject. So we have to compensate. Reflective Metering Chart be entered into a drawing for a gift card.) But we can use our new knowledge of how our meters work to help us solve exposure challenges. The reflectance chart helps us make some decisions in setting our exposure compensation, or at least it provides an understanding as to whether we should add or subtract light for proper exposure. Exposure compensation can be changed by changing our lens aperture (f-number), shutter speed, ISO, or by just dialing in a compensation value using the Exposure Compensation feature on digital cameras. As you gain experience judging the tonality of your subject, you will be able to quickly dial in a target exposure compensation. Here is a good rule of thumb guide I have used for exposure compensations when metering subjects with reflective light meters: Subject Tonality Compensation (Exposure Stops) Very Light +1 2/3 Light +1 Medium Toned 0 Dark -1/2 Very Dark -1 And here s a real-life example. Nancy is photographed in a white blouse in front of a very light background in the shade. Photo 1 on the left shows a zero compensation exposure with a Nikon camera set to Matrix metering mode (Evaluative on Canon). You can see Nancy s blouse is a predictable medium gray value, and her face is a little dark. Adding 1 1/3 stops of exposure compensation for Photo 2 on the right renders her blouse white with details and provides a proper exposure on her face. Of course we typically don t take photos where the tonality is extremely black (dark), or totally white (light). (If you read this article please the club at info@ccbrevard.com and the first ten replies will Page 7 of 10

8 Photo 1 Photo 2 Zero Compensation Plus 1 1/3 stops more light Once you have a good handle on how your meter works, and have some experience with exposure compensation, break some rules! Often the best and most interesting photos come from making the subject look a lot darker or lighter in the photo than it looked in real life. Turning a scene into your own artistic interpretation is what makes photography so much fun and rewarding. Keep experimenting, and may the remarkable photos be yours. Lightroom Tips and Tricks by Chuck Palmer Happy New Year. It s time to update your Copyright Preset. It s a new year, so that means you probably need to update your copyright metadata preset in Lightroom. Many photographers take advantage of adding copyright information in the metadata of each digital image upon importing into Lightroom. It s an easy way to mark your files with your personal copyright and contact information. Here s how to update your Lightroom preset: 1. Go to the Library module and click on the Import button in the left panel. 2. In the right panel of the Import window, click on the Metadata drop down under the Apply During Import panel. 3. If you have previously created a metadata preset, click on Edit Presets. If not, click on New. 4. In the Edit Metadata Presets window, name your new present if you are creating a new one, or select the preset you want to edit. 5. Scroll down to the IPTC Copyright section. In the Copyright field, if you re a Windows user, you can hold the Alt key and type 0169 to reproduce the copyright symbol. Or you can enclose the letter c in parenthesis. Your copyright may look like 2015 Chuck Palmer. You might consider entering All Rights Reserved in the Rights Usage Terms field too. 6. Enter your appropriate contact information in the IPTC Creator fields. 7. Click on Done in the bottom of the window. Now you can apply this import preset to images you import by selecting your Metadata preset before importing your images into Lightroom. Select the appropriate Metadata preset in the Apply During Import panel on the right side of the Import dialog window. Now you will apply your digital Copyright and contact information automatically in the digital file of each new image you import into Lightroom. Page 8 of 10

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