Quinebaug Valley Photography Club » Northeast Photography Enthusiasts

The Christmas Party will be held but we must limit the food to finger foods.  The Center’s Christmas Store is set up in the big room so we will adjust by not
having a “sit down” meal.  We will still have a good time….byob if you like. Wine and spirits are okay.  We can do some hot appetizers too.  We’ll  be
showing the PSRI International Salon….there will be different images from all over the world.  You are welcome to bring family and friends.  It won’t be a
late evening…probably a couple of hours or so…but a nice chance to visit with each other.

See you December 15th!

FOCUS ON NATURE

The deadline for submitting entries is Sunday, Dec 11th.  Entries can be framed or just matted.  If you would like your image (s) to be for sale, please
indicate your asking price on the label.  Images will hang at the Center for the month of January.  Judging will take place the first week of January…day and
time tbd.  We’d like to see as many of you as possible enter this photo contest…remember that this is our annual fundraiser for the Audubon to thank them for letting us use their facility free of charge.  Outside entries are coming in also.

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Regrettably our fall prints did not make it into the fall competition.  They were shipped Priority Mail  on October 18th to meet the 24th deadline.  The competition was held on October 31st. I was told the label came off during shipping even though it was affixed with shipping tape.  It was lost for more than 2 weeks before it went to Skip Hoyt, the Greater Lynn organizer of the print competition.  Skip said when it came back with no label  the competition had been completed so he thought the images had been judged and he put a new label on and sent it back to us.  Whatever happened the images will get judged at the winter competition along with our new entries.  The club will not be penalized and NECCC will pick up our extra shipping costs.  In addition, Bill Barnett and Cindy Gosselin (NECCC coordinators) will adjust the scores to reflect the scores of the fall competition.

The electronic competition scores can be found at  http://www.neccc.org

For our program night, QVPC is hosting the Fall NECCC Interclub Competition for Digital Images. The categories for the images are Open and Nature. This event will feature images from all NECCC member clubs, including QVPC.

Each club that is a member of NECCC is allowed to send up to four images in each category. The images will be judged by James Dionne (MNEC), Holly Trahan (PSRI), and Francis Baranski (QVPC). This will give us an opportunity to not only observe the judging process, but to see what other clubs are doing and what types of images are scoring well.

Refreshments will be provided by Nicole Bushey.

This month’s second meeting was a Lighting Workshop presented by  Karen Leaf and Norm Abin of Karen Leaf Photography. Their emphasis was indoor  lighting using a single Speedlite. By tethering a camera to a projector, they illustrated a number of techniques that can be used to improve images produced  using on camera flash.

The presenters began with an overview of the camera settings that affect the brightness of the portion of an image illuminated by ambient light and those that affect the  brightness of the portions illuminated by the flash. They  progressed into comparisons of images illuminated with direct specular lighting versus those taken with diffuse bounced lighting. Their demonstrations showed the affects of: varying subject distances from background; varying flash exposure compensation; varying distance from subject to flash; using the Speedlight’s E-TTL and Manual Modes.

They concluded by giving participants an opportunity to practice techniques using their personal equipment.  Equipment was provided for those interested in making images using off camera flash and light modifiers.

Ross Tomlin, Barbara Tschirpke, and Laura Casella were guests who attended the workshop. Thanks for stopping by and we hope we’ll see more of you.

We encourage all members to leave comments that will help presenters design workshops that help us in our quest to become better photographers.