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| Sweetwater Camera Club Newsletter -- September 2007 |
| By Secretary | ||
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Publisher's Corner It seems like forever since I have seen you all, but in reality, it's only been two months. It's so hard to believe that the holiday season is rapidly approaching. The years are going by at warp speed, it seems. Our normally busy lives turn into what can only be deemed overwhelmingly busy at this time of year. For me, it will be more busy this holiday season than it has been for many years, and it's beginning in earnest with an office move scheduled for three weeks from today. Moving a large law firm is not an easy feat. The moving crates and boxes are beginning to appear, file cabinets are beginning to empty out, and bookcases and credenzas in offices are being cleared. It's hard during this time of year for us to remember to take time for ourselves and the things that we enjoy, and I'm going to try to remember that the thing that can calm me quicker than anything is to grab my camera and fire off a few shots. I am encouraging each of you to try to remember to take the time to grab a few shots here and there during this frenzied time of year. It's cheaper than a day at the spa! Member Birthdays We have a few birthday people in October. Happy birthday to each one of you!! Donna Johnson -- October 14 Kent Owings -- October 24 John Fuller -- October 26 October Meeting Our October meeting will be held on Thursday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. We will meet at our usual meeting place, St. Julian's Episcopal Church in Douglasville, Georgia. Hope to see you there! Annual Picnic Our annual picnic will be on October 13 at Sweetwater Creek State Park, shelter # 2 from 11am to 3pm. A Georgia State Park pass or $3 parking fee is required at the park for all vehicles. If you didn't sign up at our September meeting to bring something, please see Nicky at the October meeting to do so.
October Contest: "Color" The theme for our contest at the October meeting is "color." The topic or topics must be of bright color and dominate the picture without question. Bring those colorful images in and join us for our October meeting. September Contest Winners The theme for September's contest was "macro." Winning images can be viewed by clicking on this thumbnail image . . .
Great images, everybody. Congratulations to our well-deserved winners. Website of the Month This month's website of the month Tips and Tricks Our tips and tricks section this month is brought to us by Amy Renfrey. Amy is a digital photographer and author of the popular e-book Digital Photography Success. For more information, or to purchase her e-book, visit her site: Digital Photography Success. Thank you, Amy, for allowing me to re-publish your article in our camera club newsletter. Articles by Amy: Winter Colour and Digital Photography
Winter and colour in digital photography is one of the most beautiful aspects about digital photography. The light that winter offers us provides a great relief from the harsh, unforgiving sunlight causes hard shadows for our digital photography. We can loose detail and definition during the summer months whilst partaking in digital photography, and can be very disappointing
One great thing about winter light and digital photography is that the scene you are working with often shows you colour that isn’t seen as easily in hard light. The way it works is that the filtered effect of winter light helps us see the other colours that otherwise get lost in the warmer summer months. The soft pale greens and pastel yellows in a digital photography scene can become lost in the overexposed contract of the outdoor summer sun. With digital photography in winter, those pastel yellows and pale greens become soft shades of a bigger colour, providing a great opportunity to show themselves as a more true and real presence on your digital photo. And don’t forget about black and white photography during winter. An already black and white scene can make tremendous black and white photos in digital photography. Black and whites of subjects that are already black and white prove to have more of a contrasting effect. If you take this effect with soft winter light you will often find that your black and white digital photos retain some dramatic qualities about them. Just remember though, when you are metering for black and white during winter time on the auto setting, your camera will want to underexpose the black areas and overexpose the whites. Just find a medium shade of grey in your scene and meter off that, providing you with some mid ground for exposure. This will work from a focus point of view if you are shooting some distance away. I hope you are thinking of winter now with a new perspective. It’s a beautiful time for light and the filtered effect can bring otherwise pale colours out into the open making them appear more colorful. Black and white photography during winter can also provide some dramatic images as well. Work with this beautiful light. Photography Quote of the Month
That's it for this month's newsletter. Keep on shooting! Judy Bruner, Secretary, Sweetwater Camera Club
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