Photo by Bob Baikauskas
Lincoln Hills
Photography Club
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The Photo Club is comprised of residents of the Sun City Lincoln Hills community in Lincoln, CA.
Below is a list of our monthly meetings and activities
General Meeting - 2nd Wednesday @ 8:30am
The General Meeting usually features a guest speaker on a specific aspect of photography. It also is a forum for the President or Board Members to discuss current and upcoming events of interest to the membership.
Summaries of General Meeting Presentations are archived HERE
YouTube links to General Meeting videos are HERE
Field Trips
Find information on recent and upcoming trips HERE
Exhibits
Exhibitions offer club members an avenue to show their photographs. Some use these occasions as an opportunities to sell their work. Find information on current and upcoming exhibits and how to participate HERE
Lifestyle Photography Group - First Thursday
The Lifestyle Group provides photo journalistic services to Sun City Clubs and Community Association sponsored events and activities. To learn more visit the Group's page HERE
Board Meeting - One day before the General Meeting
Board Meetings are open to any current Photography Club member. Copies of the approved "Board Meeting Minutes" are posted HERE
The purpose of the Photo Enhancement SIG is to help you make your photos better using photo editing software. Meetings are held in the Orchard Creek Multi-Purpose room. For more info go to the SIG's Webpage HERE
Round Table SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 8:30am
The Round Table SIG provides an opportunity for any member to discuss any topic related to photography. It is the perfect forum for asking all of those, "How do I" questions. For more info about the Round Table SIG click HERE
Print SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 10:30am
The Print SIG will meet quarterly (January, April, June, October) in the Orchard Creek Multi-purpose room immediately following the Round Table SIG. The Print SIG provides an opportunity for members to present and discuss their prints and receive feedback from fellow Club members. To learn more about the Print SIG visit our page HERE
Learning Initiative
The Learning Initiative be structured by topic and technique. Topic examples may include street photography, vacation photography and night photography; while technique examples include composition, ISO, shutter speed, selective focus, etc.
Show Off Your Stuff at the March General Meeting Show and Tell
Anything goes . . . well almost anything! Show us your best shots, best efforts or what did and didn't work. You choose the format-it can be images, presentations or videos. Got new gear? Tell us about it! Found an awesome new spot to shoot? Share! Just follow the tips below:
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Just like the General Meeting, all images and movies will be displayed from a PC
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Each presenter will have a maximum of 5 minutes
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Put your name on the folder containing your images/movie
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If the sequence of your images is important, prefix them with either a numeric system (e.g., 001, 002, ...) or an alphabetic system (e.g., AAA, AAB, ...)
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Image size: maximum of 1920 pixels horizontal, 1080 pixels vertical
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If you have a video file, format it as MP4
Looking forward to your presentation!
Deadline to get your images to Truman isTuesday, March 13th, 8:00 PM
If you have questions, ask us:
Truman Holtzclaw: 916-966-2917, truman@otruman.com
Bill Kress: 916-380-2058, wckress@gmail.com
The Photography Club at the Lifestyles Expo, February 27, 2018
Dale Petersen, Patrick Jewel, Charlie Schuman and Brad Senn staffed the Photography Club tables for the February Lincoln Hills Association "It's the Lifestyle Expo" held February 27 in the Orchard Creek Ballroom.
There were many visitors to our display attracted by the parade of photos displayed on two computers and the wonderful prints by Patrick Jewel and others.
This Expo resulted in four new people signing up to join our club and many more seriously thinking about it
Dale Petersen, Brad Senn and Patrick Jewell at our Club's table
Ed Rotberg Shared his Passion for Photography at our February Meeting
Ed Rotberg
We were delighted to welcome Ed Rotberg as our February guest speaker. Ed is an avid photographer, and has been since 1972. He made the switch from film to ‘digital and Photoshop’ in 2003.
While Ed photographs everything from architecture and street scenes, to portraits and landscapes, his real passion is photographing wildlife and nature, especially birds. He and his wife have greatly enjoyed combining photography with their travels throughout the United States and to such places as Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Costa Rica, Tanzania and Namibia.
His work has appeared in galleries and books, and his work has been featured both inside and on the cover of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Shoreline Magazine and the cover of their current Visitor’s Guide.
Makalani Palms along Namibia stream
Ermine
Basics of Great Photography February Workshop: Composition
The topic of the mini-workshop for February was composition. All successful images are composed so that different elements in a photograph come together to tell a story. Composition involves looking and thinking and then deciding what it is you want to say with your pictures. It’s one way of making order out of the chaos of life, but it’s also perhaps the hardest thing about photography to master. Just about anybody can master nice light, focus, and exposure, but it takes patience, thought, and honest self-criticism to learn how to make well-composed photos.
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The next Learning session will be March 20th in the Multipurpose Room starting at 9:00 a.m. The topics will be "Shadows, Silhouettes and Simplicity."
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For links to past workshops, click HERE
Rule of Thirds
Leading Lines
Next Enhancement SIG Meeting - Wednesday February 7th 2018
The Photo Enhancement SIG Image Processing/Interpretive Challenge
will resume in March 2018. There is a link below to view and download the challenge photos.
Image Processed by Truman Holtzclaw
This meeting will feature the return of the Image Processing.Interpretive Challenge.
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After the challenge presentations I plan to discuss some noise reduction techniques. At the February meeting there was some discussion about Noise Reduction Software and how so far none seem to do a great job. I have run across some techniques that while more time consuming do a decent job of reducing noise while still maintaining detail sharpness.
I hope to see you there.
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More details about this challenge along with the three challenge photos and the instructions on how to download them can be found HERE
Volunteers Needed for Video Production
The Association’s Video Services Group (“VSG”), a sub-group within the Communications and Community Relations Committee, is seeking volunteers to assist with producing a variety of different types of video pieces. These videos are almost all intended for posting to our Association’s YouTube channel to be viewed by residents.
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VSG is particularly interested in hearing from residents who have experience in all aspects of video creation. We want to hear from YOU if you would like to become involved with the planning, directing, camera operating, video editing, audio engineering, and/or assisting more experienced members of the group. If any of the foregoing piques your interest, please contact Peter Beckett via e-mail at videography@sclhca.com.
To learn more, click on the PDF icon:
New Gallery by Bob Springer and Carmel Fedors Updates Her's
Click on photo to go to their Gallery Page on this website.
Photo by Bob Springer
Photo by Carmel Fedors
"Motion and Long Exposures" Replaces "Field Trips and Other Adventures" as the Theme of the Winter Simple Pleasures Exhibit that will be on display until April 23rd.
SLIDING HOME - Larry White - highlights the concept of one of the themes "Motion" - in our current exhibit at Simple Pleasures.
Would you love to exhibit your photos at Simple Pleasures or some of the other great venues available to the Photo Club but don't know how to get started? Check out our Photo Display Guide, click on the PDF icon:
The exhibit features work by Club Members: Allen Adler, Truman Holtzclaw, Stephanie Huntingdale, Bill Kress, Klara Kleman, Diane Margetts, Joe Mello, Ron Nabity, Larry White, and James Wronkiewicz. On display until April 23rd.
Current: Kilaga Springs Spa
Kilaga Springs Spa Exhibits Pictures from Club Photographers including Allen Adler, Brad Senn, DeAtley Cahill, Klara Kleman, Mary Selfridge, Michael Johnson, Klara Klamen, Pat Monda, and Patrick Jewell. The pictures chosen for display were hung on November 5.
Year-Long Challenge: California Missions
Don't forget our year-long challenge to photograph California Missions which ends July 1, 2018. More information available on the Exhibits page HERE
The BLOG is Here!!! Check it Out.
The latest blog post is on backing up your photos
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We all know we should backup our photos but how many of us do and more importantly are we doing it properly? The latest blog post gives my opinions and that of experts on backing up photos as well as other important files and presents links to articles that deal with the subject of backups. It will discuss backup software some which is free and some you have to pay for. It will also list cloud based solutions for backing up your photos and other important files.
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You may think you are doing everything right when it comes to backups but are you? Check out this blog post and then you can make an informed decision on whether to keep doing it the way you are doing it or switch to a different and hopefully better way.
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The For more information go to the Blog.
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We want to hear from You!
One of the nice things about the Blog is you have the ability to comment on blog posts and respond to someone else's comments. You can even put a photo in your comment. So far no one has commented on any of the posts. We were hoping members would get involved and express there opinions. In fact we encourage you to do so.
If you have any experience with, or opinions about, any of the information presented in the blog posts please share your thoughts with your fellow Club members. Post a comment. I would prefer the Blog be a conversation and not a lecture.
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Have a post idea... Let us know.
One final reminder. Any member can make a Blog post. Just write it up and send it to me. You can even remain anonymous however you do have to tell me who you are but I won't use your name as the author.
To navigate to the blog look for the BLOG link at the end of the main menu, or click HERE
We hope you will enjoy this feature and participate by commenting on blog posts, responding to the comments of others, and asking questions.
Gary Stephens is our Blogger!!
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