c IN Focus Des Plaines Camera Club Des Plaines, IL February 2011 Inside This Issue Second annual Bring your camera night Food Fight CACCA Spring Salon Cultural Center Show Adobe Event Competition Results Upcoming Schedule February2011 Monday, Feb. 14 7 pm Club Meeting, Bring Your Camera Night Monday Feb. 28 7 pm Club Meeting, Adobe Lightroom Presentation March 2011 Monday, March 14 7pm Club Meeting; Sharon Peterson, Guest Speaker: Guide to Competition Judging Monday, March 28 7pm CLUB COMPETITION Des Plaines Camera Club Officers President...Jerry Hug Vice President.Tom Mulick Treasurer Irene Szilagyi Secretary/Publicity Cindy Uhlig; Theresa Hart Recording Secretary Kay Michaely Program Director Tom Mulick INfocus Editor.Sue Lindell Mark Belter at the 2010 BYCN - Image by Jerry Hug Second Annual Bring Your Camera Night The Des Plaines Camera Club will once again have its popular Bring Your Camera Night, Monday, February 14 th at 7 pm. Several experienced club members will have stations set up in our meeting room and club members are encouraged to participate in photographing portraits of models, macro settings or tabletop groupings. Members can practice and learn how to position lights and objects for best effects and exposure. A full variety of equipment will be available under the guidance of skilled photographers. Learn tricks of the trade or try your hand at the various types of studio photography. Everyone will be able to freely walk about the entire area, easily joining in the multitude of conversations or asking questions as well as photographing the stations. You are also encouraged to bring any owner s manuals or information about your camera to help answer any questions you may have. You will have the opportunity to socialize and discuss techniques of photography with other club members as well as personal preferences of gear. IN Focus Newsletter Page 1-8
Food Fight Our Des Plaines Camera Club will live up to our club motto, Dedicated to Photography, Creativity and Community by participating in the Des Plaines Chamber of Commerce Food Fight. Local civic and community organizations are asked to help replenish the supplies at the Des Plaines Self Help and Pantry. During the winter months the need for food and other household items increases dramatically and the food pantry is nearly empty. Camera Club members are asked to bring canned and boxed food items to our February meetings, Monday the 14 th and Monday the 28 th. Officers of the club will bring our donations to the pantry Tuesday, March 1. We ask that you bring food items only. Last year our club had one of the highest donations, among larger group contenders. Our members showed wonderful generosity. The Food Pantry has offered some suggestions regarding the food donations: Watch the grocery ads for Buy One, Get One Free and give the extra things to the Pantry. Please, no food with expired dates. We won t distribute expired food items. Breakfast cereal Canned fruit, tuna, vegetables Dry pasta items Macaroni and cheese mix Peanut butter & jelly Pasta sauce Juices While the above items are always welcome, as of this posting, we are especially in need of "sides" such as boxes or packets of pasta salad, noodles & sauce, easy fix rice or potato dishes, etc. IN Focus Newsletter Page 2-8
CACCA Spring Salon Written by CACCA When All day - Saturday, March 19, 2011 Where - United Methodist Church of Palos Heights, 121st and Harlem, Palos Heights, IL All entries and fees must be turned in at CACCA by Saturday, March 12, 2011. What really is the CACCA Spring Salon? The CACCA Spring Salon is the largest one-day Competition for both CACCA Camera Club Members and non-members. Competitions are held in 13 different categories. Four separate images may be submitted into the Spring Salon for each Competition Division by any one maker. Any one maker could have a total of 52 different images submitted. No one image can be used in more than one category for the Spring Salon. No entrant may enter more than one Class in any division. The same or similar image may be entered only in one division each year. Images from Club and CACCA competitions may be used in the Salon. Cost: There is a fee for CACCA Club Members of $3.00 for each Category that any one photographer enters and a $5.00 fee for non CACCA Club members. Deadline for all entries and fees: All entries must be turned in at CACCA by Saturday, March 12,2011. Instructions are on the Entry Cards: Both DPI competitions must use the envelopes for the fee payment and e-mail in the entries as instructed. Your CACCA Club Rep. should have Salon Entry forms. (Editors Note): Please see Norb Wrobel or Jerry Hug for instructions and information to enter the salon. Information is also available from the Spring Salon Co-Chairmen; Nancy Jacobek, APSA (NJacobek@aol.com) or Rudy Navarro (rudyn40@sbcglobal.net) Additional details may be found on the CACCA web page.. IN Focus Newsletter Page 3-8
Next Club Assignment -Depth of Field Submit four (4) photos taken between January 11 and February 26th. All photos are to be of the same subject. The first photo is to show the foreground of your subject in focus and the remainder of the photo out of focus.. The second photo is to show the middle of your photo in focus with the foreground and background out of focus. The third photo is to show the back of the photo in focus with the foreground out of focus. The last photo is to show as much of your subject in focus as possible. Please resize your photo to no larger than 1024 pixels on the width and no larger than 768 high. Also please rename your files with your name - DOF front, for the first photo. The second should be DOF center, the third DOF back and the last DOF full. Here is an example "Tom Mulick - DOF front". MAC users please put your files into a folder and send me the folder. This assignment will be shown at the February 28th meeting prior to the start of our regular program. and should be sent to me at photobytomm@comcast.net, no later than February 26th. Images received after the due date or without proper sizing will not be shown at the meeting. Lunch in Hand by Tom Mulick Competition Results The Digital Projected Image or DPI of the month for February is Lunch in Hand, by Tom Mulick. It was a good eagle shoot, I want to go back again this year The image was taken using a Canon 7 D, with a 100 400 lens; f-5, 800 ISO, at 336 mm. John Kowalyk earned an impressive maximum score of 27 for his image, Building a Nest. The image was awarded Print of the Month for February and was shot using a Nikon camera, 18 200 mm lens at f-8. Further competition results can be found starting on page 5 Building the Nest by John Kowalyk. IN Focus Newsletter Page 4-8
Lightroom Presentation Our meeting on February 28 will feature a special Adobe Lightroom presentation given by Nancy Strahinic with Jerry Hug. Nancy is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Expert in Lightroom. To achieve certification she needed to undergo extensive training and maintain her certification by means of teaching a Lightroom course at least once a month with student evaluations. She currently fulfills this requirement as an instructor at the Chicago Photography Classes in Chicago. This presentation will show how Lightroom can help photographers bring out the best in their images. The presentation will explain the various tools and capabilities of Lightroom using typical examples and scenarios common to photographers wanting to organize, sort and edit their work. Nancy will demonstrate and explain how Lightroom has the ability to completely organize and edit images from camera to project completion using an extensive choice of options for file retrieval. Editing is done without any changes or degradation to the original image file. We will also see there are many tools available in Lightroom to help guide new photographers in editing their images to top quality standards as well as fill the needs of professionals. There will be several drawings for Adobe prizes including a full Lightroom program, camera bag, and other items. Detailed Composition Results Continued next page IN Focus Newsletter Page 5-8
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