Photo by Bob Baikauskas
Lincoln Hills
Photography Club
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
Field Trips
Find information on recent field 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
Board Meeting, OC Multipurpose Room - 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
This “member only” tool is used to communicate photography ideas, promising sites, area photography activities, and conversation.
Lifestyles Photography Group
The Lifestyle Group provides photo journalistic services to Sun City Clubs and Community Association sponsored events and activities. The Group is accepting assignments. We welcome any Photography Club member who is interested in this type of photography to call Klara Kleman (the Group Coordinator). See the full announcement on the Lifestyles Page under the ACTIVITIES tab. HERE
The purpose of the Photo Enhancement SIG is to help you make your photos better using photo editing software. Meetings are in the OC Multipurpose 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 @ 8:30am
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 SIG
The Learning SIG is 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. To review the past meetings, click HERE
The next Learning SIG meeting will be in January with a discussion of “ISO — The third side of the triangle".
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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!
Photo by Bob Springer
February General Meeting Recap: Uganda, the Pearl of Africa: You can view the video of Paul's presentation HERE
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:
March Learning SIG: Seeing in Black and White
Join us on March 19th at 9:00 am in Orchard Creek's Multi-Purpose Room to learn all you have wanted to know about black and white photography.
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When is Color More Effective?
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Black and White Out of the Camera
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Conversion to Black and White in Post Processing
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And More . . .
Photo by Jerry Hall
March Round Table SIG: Comparing Camera Sensor Sizes
The March Round Table will explore the difference in camera sensor sizes and the how-to techniques to achieve the identical result for photos taken by various sensor sizes. This very informative SIG will prove to be a very instructive resource for anyone shopping for a new camera.
Our Lincoln Heron-Egret Rookery
Between the busy Safeway and Lowe's shopping plazas in Lincoln and 200 feet from noisy Lincoln Blvd, you’ll find a multi-tree heron-egret rookery (a rookery is a nesting colony). On January 30th, we counted 14 great blue herons and one great white egret.
The rookery can be best viewed from behind Dollar Tree.
Bring your camera, binoculars, and/or a chair and just sit there and watch.
For more, click HERE
A Great Blue Heron landing on a branch at the rookery.
Photo by Bill Kress
Photographed using 800 mm lens (35 mm equivalent)
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.
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:
Current Exhibit: Kilaga Springs Spa
Current Kilaga Springs Spa Exhibit will be up from June to November. Currently there are photographs from Club Photographers: Jim Wronkiewicz, Shirley Windle, Larry White, Joy Paris, Debra Raach, and Klara Klaman. Contact Klara (k17kleman@gmail.com) for further information.
Themes of the photo images, which must be followed for each Spa room, are: Ponds, Beaches, Lakes, Meadows, Forests, Streams also landscapes and flowers.
View the current pictures on exhibit at Kilaga Springs Spa.
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:
SCLH Photography Club Facebook Page
This is a place for SCLH Photography Members to have a conversation about photography, cameras, and places to shoot photography in the area. You can ask a specific "how to" or "where can I find..." or "how can I improve this shot?" or "thinking of going to.....does anyone want to come too?" You can post great photography-related websites that others might like. Use your creativity. The SCLH Photography Facebook page is restricted to the Club membership only.
There are a few rules.
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No politics, none, nada.
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The only things you can sell on this page are photography equipment that is usually sold within the club like reselling cameras, printers, etc. Nothing else. Nothing.
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Constructive criticism only when critiquing. (Don't tell us that it was a stupid, boring shot, We'll figure it out anyway.)
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If you are selling your photography, protect your copyright. You may not want that one up on the Internet on Facebook. Post a link to your photography website instead.
To join, use this link: LHPC Facebook