OCTOBER 2015 the f-stop Newsletter of the Camera Club of Brevard CAMERA CLUB MAILING ADDRESS AND INFORMATION Camera Club of Brevard, Inc. PO Box 542 Melbourne, FL 32902 WEBSITE: http://ccbrevard.org/ OCTOBER CLUB MEETING DATE AND LOCATION.Next program meeting is on Tuesday October 6th at 6:30pm at the Eau Gallie Civic Center located in Historic Eau Gallie. The address is 1551 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL. OCTOBER PROGRAM The CCB is proud to have Reinier Munguia from Lakeland, Florida as our speaker for the CCB s October program meeting. Reinier is a commercial and nature photographer with a strong education and conservation vision. He is the founder of Wildstock Photography. His work has appeared in many publications including textbooks and magazines. Reinier s program for the evening is titled Tips and techniques for Wildlife Photography This promises to be an excellent program. For more information about Reinier Munguia, visit his website : http:// wildstockphotos.com/home.html Become a friend of Reinier on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/ reinier.munguia OCTOBER BOARD MEETING Our next board meeting will be held on Thursday October 15th, at 7:00 pm. All club members are invited and welcome to attend. Location is at Panera Bread, 275 E Eau Gallie Blvd in Indian Harbour Beach. By attending, you ll see it takes a team effort to make the club successful. We would like your help to make it even better.
CLUB INFORMATION BECOMING A CAMERA CLUB OF BREVARD MEMBER Yearly dues are $30.00 for individuals, $35.00 for families. Checks are to be made payable to the Camera Club of Brevard, Inc. When you join the Camera Club of Brevard after July 1st, dues will be ½ the yearly rate. You can pay membership dues at all monthly meetings. Or, you may mail them to Camera Club of Brevard, PO Box 542, Melbourne, Florida 32902. CLUB OFFICERS Club Officers Title Name Phone # President Richard Thomson 321-848-1110 VP of Programs OPEN VP of Field Trips Patty Corapi 321-431-6801 Secretary Shannon McGregor 321-868-1916 Treasurer Judy Pastore 321-723-6940 Special Competition Erik Magnuson 321-536-5965 Coordinator F-Stop Editor Ann Bernick 321-723-2575 Membership Marsha Sea 321-254-9629 Webmaster Terri Wells 321-427-7314 MONTHLY & QUARTERLY CONTEST THEMES Monthly & Quarterly Contest Themes Month Theme 2015 October Open ~ including Creative Class November The Perfect Moment December Annual Print Competition 2016 January Black and White February Shadows March Vintage ~ Quarterly Contest April Open ~ including Creative Class
OCTOBER PHOTO CONTEST The October CCB photo contest will include the ever popular Creative Class. You may enter two Creative photographs in addition to the one foe class A or class B. The theme for the month is Open. Anything goes! Photos must have been taken in the last 18 months. Visit the CCB s guidelines for the photo contests here: http:// ccbrevard.com/?q=contest%20guidelines 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. HELP NEEDED ANNUAL PRINT COMPETITION AND PARTY Terri Wells is looking for an assistant to help her plan the 2015 Annual Print Competition and Party that is held in December. If you would like to help Terri plan and organize this event, please contact her at aquababy466@yahoo.com or call 321-427-7314. If we do not find someone to take over the APC there may not be one. COMMITTEE POSITIONS The Camera Club of Brevard needs members to step up to be President, Vice President of Field Trips, Photo Coordinator, and several other committee positions. Please contact the CCB at info@ccbrevard.com or any executive member listed on the clubs website. You can find the phone number there. CCB website: http://ccbrevard.com/?q=officers NEWSLETTER INFORMATION Is there something you want to see in the f~stop? Any suggestions or comments? Email the club at info@ccbrevard.com. If you wish to have something put into the f-stop you must send it in no later than the 25th of the month. Please remember to include your name not just your email.
OCTOBER FIELD TRIP OCTOBER 10th The Camera Club of Brevard will be visiting the scenic Cracker Creek environmental sanctuary located in Port Orange on Saturday, October 10th. This photographic adventure will include a scenic boat ride on beautiful Spruce Creek and a tour of the Gamble Place lodge complex. Yes, this is one of the Gambles of Proctor and Gamble fame. Cost is $15.00. Arrive at 9:00am. Here is Cracker Creek's website http://www.crackercreek.com/ and, here is a map link to Cracker Creek s location: Map to Cracker Creek Mark your calendar. Photo's taken from the Cracker Creek Face book page OCTOBER S PHOTO CONTEST THEME- "OPEN The CCB s photo contest theme for October is Open. Anything goes! Remember, months with Open Themes include the popular Creative Class. Photos must have been taken in the last 18 months for the Class A and B entries. Creative Class entries can have photos that were taken more than 18 months ago; however, you must have created/photoshopped your Creative Class entry recently. You may enter two photos into the Creative Class in addition to your one photo for Class A or B. For more information about the Creative Class, visit the Rules and Guidelines at: http://ccbrevard.org/?q=contest%20guidelines Bring your Open Theme photo/s to the CCB s October program meeting. The Class A, Class B, and Creative Class 1st place winners will receive an 11 x14 photographic print compliments of Southern Photo Supply. Visit the Rules and Guidelines at: http://ccbrevard.org/?q=contest%20guidelines CCB MONTHLY AND QUARTERLY 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.
REVIEW OF EVENTS SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP REVIEW Camera Club of Brevard members and guests had a great photographic time at the Brevard Zoo in early September. The weather was perfect for this early morning of photography. Many of the animals actually cooperated with excellent posing sessions for the members. You can see many of the images taken at the Zoo later in the newsletter. After the photography at the Zoo, members gathered at nearby Sonny s BBQ for a great lunch and to talk about their photographic endeavors. SEPTEMBER PROGRAM REVIEW September Program Review September s CCB program meeting offered CCB members many answers to lots of questions pertaining to various aspects of photography. CCB members submitted all the questions that were answered. The Camera Club of Brevard would like to thank the following members who provided the answers to the questions; Rob Scharpf, Erik Magnuson, Patty Corapi, Arnold Dubin, and Chuck Palmer. The CCB thanks the following members who submitted questions; Nancy Williamson, Paul Austin, Chip Hines, Chip Mores, Don Roberts, Janel Cahill, Judy Pastore, Cheryl Howard, Kemp Carson, and Debby Hamilton. LIGHTROOM WORKSHOP REVIEW The CCB would like to thank Chuck Palmer and Arnold Dubin for presenting an excellent Lightroom workshop to the CCB members in September. Their hard work in developing the workshop was evident in their presentation. Thank you Arnold and Chuck!
UPCOMING AREA EVENTS October 8th-11th- Atlantic Surfing Federation Championship. Sebastian Inlet. This is a nice amateur surfing competition. It s very good for surfing photography because the surfers are quite close to the beach. More info here: https://www.floridastateparks.org/park-events/sebastian-inlet October 9th 11th 6th Annual Florida Women of the Waves Weekend 2015 Presented by the Florida Surf Museum www.floridasurfmuseum.org October 9th-11th East Coast Boat show at Port Canaveral October 10 th Clayton s Crab Company is hosting their 3rd Annual Seafood. There will be lots of local art and craft vendors, local restaurants that are locally owned and operated October 10th- Celebrate Sanford River Front Festival at Sanford s Riverwalk and other locations- Air Show, Vintage Volkswagen Show, Food, Beer Garden, and Music Festival.. More information here: http:// www.celebratesanford.com October 16th and 17th. The 1st Annual Indian River Birding Festival : PIPS Website. Don't forget to enter their art/photography contest. Click here for the contest application and details: Contest Application October 24th - 25th, : Rockledge Gardens 19th Annual Fall Festival All October- Harvest Festivals are all around the Space Coast at this time of year. There are numerous pumpkin patches that provide great photo-ops. Please ask permission to photograph them, and be courteous of the visitors and product. Fall is a great time for photography. UPCOMING PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS The CCB s 2015 Annual Print Competition is fast approaching. This is our end of the year spectacular and amazing photograph contest. To enter this contest, you must bring your photographs to the November 5th program meeting. For all the rules and guidelines, visit here: http://ccbrevard.org/?q=contest%20guidelines FLORIDA STATE PARKS Florida State Parks Photo Contest - The Florida Division of Recreation and Parks is conducting monthly photo contests. For more information https://www.floridastateparks.org/content/florida-state-parks-photo-contest-rules THE FLORIDA CAMERA CLUB COUNCIL 3RD TRIANNUAL The Florida Camera Club Council 3rd TriAnnual competition will be open for submission from November 1st to November 30th. All CCB members are eligible to enter this contest. You must first register (one time) as a member of the Camera Club of Brevard. Cost is $4/triannual contest. Also, it takes up to 24 hours for the FCCC to process your payment before you can submit you images. Click here for more F3C information: http://f3c.org/ 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 email 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 email out to all the members with your BOF request. Emails should be sent to info@ccbrevard.com
MONTHLY AREA EVENTS FRIDAY FEST S Every first Friday of the month ~ Friday Fest Cape Canaveral hosts Friday Fest on Taylor and Poinsett Avenues in Cape Canaveral, Florida Every 1st Friday of the Month ~ Eau Gallie s First Friday. Located in Historic Eau Gallie from 5:30pm to 8:30pmUPCOMING ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS Every 1st Friday of the Month ~ First Friday at the Bay Palm Bay hosts First Friday at the Bay US1 and Palm Bay Road Every 2nd Friday of the Month ~ Downtown Melbourne's Friday Family Fest located in Historic Downtown Melbourne from 5:30pm to 8:30pm Every 2nd Friday of the Month ~ Downtown Titusville Street Party, Julia Street parking lot Every 3rd Friday ~ Downtown Cocoa Beach near City Hall 6:00-9:00pm FARMER S MARKETS Saturday ~ Old Eau Gallie Farmer's Market is held every from 8 am - 2 pm in Eau Gallie Square Park Saturday and Sunday ~ Downtown Melbourne Farmer's Market is held every in historic Downtown Melbourne at the corner of US 192 and Highway US1 Wednesdays and Saturdays ~ from 10 am to 2 pm, Rockledge Gardens hosts a Farmers Market Wednesday ~ Farmer's Market in Myrt Tharpe Square Gazebo, located in the heart of beautiful Cocoa Village! 10-4 Thursday ~ from 9am to dusk, the City of Rockledge hosts a farmers market in Levitt Park on the corner of Fiske Blvd and Levitt Parkway Drive Thursday ~ Brevard County Farmers Market Wickham Park Equestrian Center 3:00-6:00pm CLASSIFIED AD S Stuart Liberman contacted the club with a brand new, never used Nikon D5500 and a Tamaron 16-300 f3.5-6.3 lens for sale. Includes a 3 year warranty and UV filter. He is asking $1500 for all. Contact him at pdoc@cfl.rr.com John Buck is accepting students for his digital photo course. Currently 3 members of the Camera Club are taking the course in addition to students in Texas and Guatemala. This is a simple and fun one on one course taken at your own pace. If you have questions or are interested in the course, please contact John Buck @ 431-5929 or email me at tourfoto@gmail.com
FLORIDA PHOTOGRAPHY HOT SPOTS Check out the CCB s Florida Photography Hot Spots interactive map at: http://www.ccbrevard.org/? q=node/181 The map shows you the location and description of great places to take photographs around Florida. If you know of a nice photo opportunity, please email the Camera Club at info@ccbrevard.com so we may include it in the photo-ops calendar. Thanks. Full moon this month October 27th Full Moon UPCOMING ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS UPCOMING ROCKET ALL TIMES AND DATES ARE TENTATIVE October 2nd at 6:09 am United Launch Alliance Atlas V MEXSAT-2 October 30th at 12:17 pm United Launch Alliance Atlas V GPS IIF-11 NOVEMBER BUS TRIP November Bus Trip Our annual bus trip will be to historic St. Augustine. The bus trip is one of the many highlights for CCB members each year. The CCB is proud to announce the bus trip has already sold out. We have found out St. Augustine will be holding their famous Pirate Festival right next to the old town. Also, members will have the opportunity to visit the historic lighthouse if they would like to. Be prepared for an all day photography outing at an exciting and picturesque setting.
CREATING INTERESTING TRAVEL PHOTOS By Chuck Palmer Bruges, Belgium (Using Framing Elements) Capturing special travel moments enables us to really experience the feeling of a time and place where we were changed forever. To paraphrase Jimmy Buffett, a travel photograph is a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling. Travel Photography tells our story that we get to relive time and again in the future. By capturing the landscapes, people, customs, cultures, transportation, history, and architecture, we get to share our experiences and maybe change a few perceptions people have about the world in which we live. Of course, along the way, we get to be creative in how we tell our travel story too. Travel Photography provides us with a great opportunity to be creative in so many genres of photography... Landscapes, Portraits, Architecture, Photo Journalism, Food, Documentary, Street, and Night Photography to name a few. So let s discuss a few photography techniques we can use for remarkable travel photos. Creative Travel Photography Techniques : Make good use of the best light in early morning and evening. You have certainly heard this tip before. But there is an added advantage while traveling. No crowds! Get out early, and stay out late to avoid the busloads of tourists walking through you favorite shot. Include people. Although you often want to avoid crowds, including people in your travel photos gives the viewer the feeling of being right there with you experiencing the moment. Position travel companions close to the camera with the landmark in the background if you want to feature them. Silhouettes of people enjoying a sunrise or sunset adds drama and interest.
CREATING INTERESTING TRAVEL PHOTOS contd. Dordogne River Canoe Trip - La Roque-Gageac, France (Include people in your scene) Creative Travel Photography Techniques contd. Add props and family members as models in your scene. Ask a family member to wear bright colors and to step into the scene looking like the typical tourist. An umbrella, or foods and drinks from the location make good props. Use Framing elements to surround your subject. Window frames or overhanging tree branches make excellent framing elements to focus your viewers on your main subject while making the photo much more interesting. Show Action. Your viewers will feel what you felt when you show the action you experienced. Use slow shutter speeds, or pan your camera while capturing moving subjects to convey motion in still photography. With your camera mounted on a table top tripod, hold it firmly against a street light pole, or wall to avoid camera shake during long shutter speeds. Shutter speeds 1/30 of a second or less work best for panning shots. Duval Street - Key West, FL (Panning moving subjects shows the action) See next month s newsletter for part two of this article.
Adobe Lightroom Tips and Tricks Painting with your perfect color By Chuck Palmer Note to Photoshop users... Adobe Camera Raw has the same tools and functions as Adobe Lightroom. You can use these tips and tricks in Camera Raw too! Three of the most powerful tools in Lightroom s Develop module are the selective adjustment tools. The Graduated Filter, Circular Filter, and most importantly, the Adjustment Brush really help us fine-tune our images. Many Lightroom users probably routinely adjust white balance, tonality, clarity, color saturation, sharpness, and noise in specific local areas of their photos. However, one of the most overlooked capabilities of these selective adjustment tools is the ability to load them with a Color! Have you ever wanted to paint the water in your image a little bluer? Or how about adding the rich glow of the warm sun to another area of your photo, or even another image. Let s look at an effective method to load your selective adjustment tool with just the right color. Follow the steps below to load your Adjustment Brush with a specific color hue and saturation already in your photograph. Step 1 In the Develop module, select the Adjustment Brush tool. Double Click on the word Effect in the Brush panel to reset all the sliders to zero. Step 2 Hit the F11 Key. A secondary window of the active photo will appear. With the secondary window open, click on the Color Swatch square next to the word Color in the Brush panel. A small Select a Color window will open. Notice you can select a color to paint by selecting a color with the Eye Dropper tool anywhere on this small palette. The color you select appears in the upper right corner of the palette. But don t stop here. Step 3 - Click and hold the eye dropper tool anywhere inside the small color palette, but keep moving your eye dropper to anywhere on your photo inside the secondary window just opened. Notice you can select your color of choice from anywhere in your photo. Do not release your mouse button until you have selected your exact color of choice. Notice as you move around the secondary window while holding your mouse button, the color selection changes in the upper right hand corner of the small color palette window. Release your mouse button over your color of choice. Your adjustment brush is now loaded with your chosen color hue and saturation. Step 4 Hit the F11 Key to close the secondary window. Paint the color you selected onto the area of the photo you desire. You can always re-open the Color Palette again to fine-tune the color saturation, or modify the hue. You might find it useful to select a specific color shade from one photo then without closing your selective adjustment tool, move to a different photograph to paint your desired color. I have often taken the rich blue colors from the water in one photograph and painted the water with the same rich blue color in a completely different photo. Give it a try! A special note to users of older versions of Lightroom... Older versions of Lightroom allow you to select colors from the primary window of the Develop Module via the same methods described above. If you have an older version, try selecting colors without opening the secondary window.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT NANCY WILLIAMSON Originally an Ohio girl, I came to this area in 2003 as a result of a career move and have never looked back. Do I miss the cold, snowy, gray days of Ohio winters? Silly question. But by far the best part of moving to Florida was meeting my husband. We had worked in the same job field at Wright Patterson Air Force Base for many years, but had never met. Then, we both moved to Florida and met here. Just like a fairy tale I'm happy to say. After retiring as a Contracting Officer for the Air Force, I worked in a similar position at NASA for a few years, but am now retired for the second time and have never been busier. I have always had an appreciation of photography in terms of the amazing things an image can convey. But only recently did I realize that I could create some of that same magic myself. I bought my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel T3i, only five years ago and have no plans to upgrade. It does everything I need it to do. Coming to photography later in life means playing catch-up by immersing myself in everything about the subject. I try to take advantage of every opportunity to learn by reading, taking classes at Eastern Florida State College and attending as many Camera Club of Brevard events as possible. But the real learning comes from doing.
UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS October 10th Cracker Creek and the Historic Gamble Place Nature Preserve. Two part visit one hour boat ride and one hour at the Gamble Place. Nov 7 th Bus Trip St Augustine FULL 2016 January 9th - The Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens- Winter Park February 6th Scavenger Hunt March 5th Ft Christmas Historical Park April TBD Gatorland EARLY SELFIE Kemp Carson found great of example of a Very, very, very early selfie. The World s Largest Camera In this day and age of increasing miniaturization you might be supposed to find that the largest camera was in fact built very recently. Created by renowned photographer Dennis Manarchy, it takes large format to another level with its film format of 6ft by 4ft and an overall length of 35ft. Its resolving power is said to be 1000 times that of modern day digital cameras, although getting the film to the lab can be quite difficult.
MEMBER SUBMISSIONS CCB member Don Martin just came back from a road trip to the New England States and submitted this report I am a newcomer to the camera club and thought I would share some of my favorite photos from a recent road trip my wife and I took to New England. Our first visit was to the coastal towns of Camden, and Rockland, ME. We have been there several times and it is one of our Maine favorites, the Rockland Lobster Festival is always a highlight of this trip. Next stop was with my daughter and her family in Unity, ME for four days. We enjoyed the company of our three grandkids, taking day trips to a number of scenic areas, parks, and towns. Our next and final stop was the North Shore of Massachusetts, staying in Danvers with day trips to Gloucester and Rockport. We had lived on the North Shore area for thirty years but hadn't been to these seaside communities in over twenty five years. Funny how little changes in these historic towns. Hermann and Lib Schiefner sent this photo of a colorful North Carolina hillside and split rail fence to the camera club. The photograph was taken in the Blue Ridge Mountains just South of Ashville, NC. The fall colors are certainly beautiful. Thanks Lib and Hermann.
MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS Congratulations go out to the CCB members who had their photographs exhibited in the 100% Pure Florida art exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery located in Historic Eau Gallie: They are: Suzanne Kasven, Carol Hansen, Dawn Currie, and Barry Schoenholz. Congratulations! "Bus Repairs" by Dawn Currie was accepted into the Going Places Juried Art Exhibition at the PhotoPlace Gallery. The Exhibition runs from September 22 - October 16, 2015. All images in the exhibition - http:// photoplacegallery.com/going-places/ Congratulations "Peering thru Feathers" by Dawn Currie was accepted into the Projected Image Division (Color Open) of the 17th PSSNY International Exhibition of Photography. The exhibition will be held on November 15, 2015. More information here: http://pssny.net/ Congratulations Dawn "Vida de la Ciudad" by Dawn Currie has been accepted into the 2015 Miami Photo Salon to be held at the Spectrum Art Show (Dec 2-6, 2015) and on-line gallery starting on October 5th. More information here: http://www.miamiphotosalonfestival.com/ Congratulations Dawn The CCB thanks Bob Watkins for helping the camera club at the recent Cultural Arts Showcase held at the King Center for the Performing Arts. The camera club promoted photography to the Arts world and to the Brevard Community. Mike Hamilton, Debby Hamilton, Patty Corapi, and Cheryl Howard also provided their time at the CAS. Thank you.; Central Brevard Art Association had a show at the Cocoa Beach Library September 25th-26th. CCB members showing were; Patty Corapi, Cheryl Howard, Ed Quillian and Ruth Stanly. Congratulations to Cheryl and Patty who both received a Ribbon of Merit Award.
SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP ~ ~ BREVARD ZOO Lek Wallace
SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP ~ ~ BREVARD ZOO Betsy Carson Kemp Carson Bill Odem
SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP ~ ~ BREVARD ZOO Arnold Dubin Jodi Showangen Richard Thomson
SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP ~ ~ BREVARD ZOO Lek Wallace Lois Fredricks Rob Scharpf
SEPTEMBER FIELD TRIP ~ ~ BREVARD ZOO Terrance Jackson Tyson Showagen Ann Bernick