Meetings held at the Far Hills Masonic Temple, 5501 Far Hills Ave. Socialize at 7-ish, competition starts at 7:30 PM

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1 Tripod Camera Club April Newsletter Meetings held at the Far Hills Masonic Temple, 5501 Far Hills Ave. Socialize at 7-ish, competition starts at 7:30 PM Visit our web site: Visit us on Facebook: Contact Tripod: Contact newsletter editor: Notes from past presentations: END OF YEAR COMPETITION Time to bring in your winning prints. All non-novice images are eligible, including those that received an Award of Merit. Keep in mind that you can enter one additional projected image or print in each of the six categories. This extra image, while it must be a print or projected image that didn t win a ribbon, it must have been entered in this season s competition - not from previous years competition and not an image that was never in competition. All the eligible projection images are already saved. You do not need to do anything with your winning projection images. Just upload your "extra" image to the appropriate competitions the way you normally would enter image.

2 Please bring your prints in no later than the April 24th meeting. April 10 Print Competition color monochrome small prints Program: Sharp as a tack, presented by Jeff Fisher My program is titled Sharp as a Tack and I ll discuss the why, when, and how of sharpening photos in post processing. I ll cover Lightroom and Photoshop techniques. I ll also provide some great tips and some pitfalls. Hopefully everyone will leave with a better understanding of sharpening in the digital age.

3 Before and after sharpening April 17 CANCELLED Show and tell, CANCELLED April 24

4 Projected image competition: (deadline to submit is April 22) open nature special category digital manipulation Pre-meeting workshop at 6:30, Clipping masks, presented by Paul Bruce Clipping masks are like the Photoshop version of stencils. See how to mask one layer, based on another layer. You can take one layer's content and "push" it through the solid area of the layer beneath it. Sound like magic? It is! Come found out how you can do it too.

5 Program: Photographing Florida birds in flight, presented by Dan Landis After five consecutive years of visiting Florida and photographing birds in the wild, I will be presenting my approach to capturing the beautiful Florida wading birds and raptors in flight. Among other things, I ll be discussing equipment, technique, and locations. Additionally, I hope to convey my love for visiting these beautiful locations and capturing these amazing birds.

6 Red-shouldered hawk. Sally Oberbeck Exhibit Where: Season's Bistro and Grill, 28 S. Limestone St., Springfield (not open for dinner Sun-Tues) When: March 11-end of May Artist's Reception with free appetizers April 19, 5-7PM Coming in May at Tripod Camera Club: May 8

7 Program: members 3 minute slideshows May 22 Banquet First Place Winners, March 27 Projected Competition 1st place Open, Rufous, Ed Sorauf Rufus is an Eastern Screech Owl residing at Raptor Inc. The photo was taken during the Raptor Inc photo shoot last year. The photo was selected to be published in Raptor Inc's calendar for April Photo specs: 1/50 sec., f/6.3, ISO 400, 600mm, Nikon D7100

8 1st. place Open, Malachite Kingfisher, by Karen Frischman The picture was taken in Kenya in 2015 while on a trip with Gerlach Nature Photography. I used Topaz clarity, cropped the image and then applied levels to darken the image. I then used a mask to bring back the bird. 1st. place Open, Take the first step, by Kevin Marano This image was taken at Nashville s Union Station Hotel. The train station was opened in Service started to decline in 1971 and let to closing and abandonment in It was redeveloped as a hotel in I enjoyed looking at the many architectural details. This is one of the stairs from the lobby. I only sharpened and used clarity to bring out details of the railings and balusters.

9 1st. place Open, Two frogs on a vine, by Sally Oberbeck The two blue jean frogs on a vine were taken with a 100 to 400 lens, and fill flash. Post processing was just cropping and some adjustment on exposure and sharpening. Nothing fancy. 1st place Nature, Red-eyed frog on leaf, by Sally Oberbeck The red eyed leaf frog was taken with a macro lens and fill flash. Post processing was just cropping and some adjustment on exposure and sharpening. Nothing fancy..

10 1st place Special-human portraits, Charlotte Rose, by Dan Landis This is a portrait of my nephew s wife and their newborn daughter, Charlotte Rose. I took this with a Canon 5D MkIII and a 50mm lens, at 1/100 sec and f1.8. I used natural light, streaming through a window. In post processing, I rendered it in sepia tone in Lightroom.

11 1st place Special-human portraits, Happy with life, by Paul Bruce The B&W image - We were visiting a monastery in Cambodia and we were able to talk with this nun through an interpreter. She lived in a very small shack she called a home, in the monastery. She was only 62 years old. 1st place Special-human portraits, Young warrior, by Paul Bruce A Samburu (Kenya) warrior was relaxing with his friends after a presentation of their cultural dances. We were allowed to take photos of them and they were very used to it. The women in his village made all everything he was wearing.

12 Tripod Camera Club Elected Officers: President: Jon Neeld Vice President: Ron Wilson Treasurer: Richard Buschagen Secretary: Glenna Bayer Competition rules can be found on the Tripod website at Send items for future s to MIke Nelson,