Quinebaug Valley Photography Club

The end of the year Banquet will be held on Saturday, June 5th at 5:30 pm.  This is a pot luck supper and we ask each family to bring 2 dishes…one entree and one salad or dessert…enough to feed your family plus a few more.   We will have dinner promptly at 6:00 pm followed by year end awards and a raffle.

Our program for the evening is entitled “Mystical Far Away Places” presented by Michael Goodman. This is an absolutely wonderful slideshow with extraordinary images from around the world and backed up by music that has been expertly selected to complement the mood of the images. Don’t miss this opportunity to be mesmerized and entertained!

All are welcome to attend this event…club members and their guests pay a very small fee of $3.00 per person…all others $6.00.

Please come by 7:30 if you are unable to join us for the potluck but would like to attend the program.

Tickets will be available at the door.

May 7th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Angelo Marinosci, Jr. will be hosting a workshop/photo shoot in his lovely, quaint town of Warren, RI on May 23rd.  We are expected to arrive in Warren by 8:30 am to catch the nice early morning light.  We expect this event to last for 2 to 3 hours.

There are other areas to photograph in the vicinity so it is possible to make this a full day for shooting.  Those who wish to carpool should meet at 7:15 at the municipal  parking lot on Kennedy Drive.  According to Mapquest, it is 1 hour and 6 minutes to Warren…approximately 42.5 miles.  Directions to Angelo’s will be emailed to club members.

You can pack a picnic lunch or there are restaurants in the area to grab a sandwich.

This event is on…rain or shine…so let’s get together and have a great day!

May 7th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Our program for May will be held at 191 Providence Street, Putnam at Karen’s studio. The program begins at 7:00.  You will need your camera, a lens in the 70 – 200 range, your tripod and bring your external flash.  We will have 2 models and 2 stations set up for shooting.  Refreshments will be served.   PLEASE NOTE:  NO DEMPSEY CENTER FOR THURSDAY, MAY 20TH

May 7th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Members learned the basics about sharpening images using Lightroom and Photoshop.  Cemal is an excellent teacher who made this bland subject come alive with his clear and concise explanation of those otherwise mysterious “radius and threshold or detail” sliders!  It does not matter what program you use to sharpen your images, those who attended now have an understanding of why we sharpen and what does happen when we move those sliders.  THANK YOU Cemal!

We do have a few extra handouts for those who were unable to attend.  Check the front desk when you arrive for the May 6th meeting.

Thanks to Diane LeBlanc for putting this program together….excellent!

April 19th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Angelo Marinosci is planning on taking us on a photo shoot in the quaint village of Warren, RI on May 23rd.  This will be a great time to tap Angelo’s talents and skills and build a few of our own.  All club members are invited to attend but a definitely RSVP is needed by May 6th.  Please email Lois.   No info yet on a possible rain date…information to follow.

Known info:  Must be in Warren by or before 8:30 am.  Carpooling can be arranged…speak to Lois at the May 6th club meeting.

April 19th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

QVPC is very excited about our upcoming Lou Jones presentation Speedlights & Speedlites to be held on March 18th at 7:00 pm.   Visitors are welcome and there is no fee.

Lou Jones is a commercial and fine art photographer based in Boston.  He specializes in photo-illustration and location photography for corporate clients…such as IBM, major league baseball, FedEx, National Geographic, People Magazine, Aetna and many more.  His assignments have made him a world traveler!

In addition to all of these skills, I hear that he is a fabulous speaker….you will enjoy learning from him.  So….come on down to the Dempsey Center in Putnam and join us for a very entertaining evening.

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Mary Anthony, Executive Director of the 1772 Foundation has enlisted the help of QVPC photographers in decorating the walls of their new space in the Montgomery Ward building in downtown Putnam.  We are embarking on a very fun project as we contact the historians in several nearby towns to locate interesting sites in their towns that may not be well known to the general population.  Our mission is to photograph the sites, obtain information about the sites, present them to Mary for final printing, matting and framing.

At the conclusion of the project (June at the latest), the Foundation will host a reception for the photographers and guests to view the images as they are displayed in the beautiful, gallery like setting.

Town coordinators are:

Brooklyn and Woodstock – Lori Labrecque

Eastford and Union – Suzanne Buell

Killingly and Sterling – Jeff Graley

Putnam – Jim Cutler

Plainfield – Diane LeBlanc

Hampton – Marcia Kilpatrick

Pomfret – Leslie Atsales

Thompson – Charlie Perry

Any club member is invited and encouraged to contact any one or more of the coordinators to go out and photograph with them.  Photography reflects our vision of  a place, scene or object.   Lend your vision to the project!!

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Club members will meet on Sunday, Jan 10th 2010 at 5:00 pm at Lois Latraverse’s house in Dayville to select entries for the Winter NECCC print and digital competitions.  We will also be selecting entries for the Glennie competition which is held in March.

Please bring a maximum of 6 images (print) and email a maximum of 6 images for each category.  The categories are:

Print:   Open and Black and White

Digital:  Nature and Open

Glennie Digital:  There are several nature categories so send your birds, bees, flowers, wildlife, amphibians, etc.

We would like to have excellent entries in all contests and not settle for lesser quality because we don’t have enough images presented for selection.  Got that?  It may be confusing…so, in other words, we know we have a lot of excellent images within our club, we just want to make sure that you bring (or send) a good selection of your work so that we send our best quality images to these regional competitions.

Please email your images to mrsaj1@ct.metrocast.net by Saturday at 9:00 pm, Jan 9.   The images need to be sized and named according to standards.  That would be sized horizontal to 1024 pixels and vertical 768 pixels at 72 DPI resolution.  Please name your images as follows:  QVPC$Nature$LastNameFirstName$titleofimage.jpg   If the entry is for OPEN category, change Nature to Open.

Thank you and look forward to seeing you on the 10th.  If you need directions please email me.

January 8th, 2010 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment

Whether you agreed with her or not, Drea Koval of Southeastern Camera Club, gave us in-depth critiques for each of the entries in last nights’ competition.  Newer members, and our 3 visitors, as well as the camera club veterans  picked up valuable information from Drea’s remarks on every image.   It was a relaxed evening with time to spare before our 9:00 pm curfew!

Some housekeeping notes during the meeting portion of the evening:

• NECCC Fall Print competition was held Nov 4th….we should have the results  soon.

• NECCC Fall Digital competition…entries were sent for the Nov 18th judging in Framingham, MA. Here is the address of Boston West Photography Club if you are interested in attending the judging… Marist House, 518 Pleasant St., Framingham at 7:30 pm. The following club members have images in that competition:  Harriett Cotnoir, Lois Latraverse, Bill Marchand, Marcia Kilpatrick, Chris Atsales, Lori Labrecque and Jim Cutler.   These entries were selected on October 30th by the attendees at the selection meeting. (Remember that all club members are invited and encouraged to attend QVPC selection meetings.  We welcome varied and open opinions and we all wear thick skin for these events so you are free to share your constructive views.

• We urged members to view Carol Dunn’s website, www.caroldunnart.com, to view her many talents as an artist, photograher, printer, etc.   We are looking forward to her program on November 17th.

• Themes for December’s competition are Harvest and Festival.

• Our next selection night for the Winter Print and Digital competitions will be held in early January….a date to be announced.   Also, prior to that meeting, there will be an officer’s meeting.

November 6th, 2009 | Category: Minutes | Leave a comment