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 @ 9:00AM
The General Meeting, in Kilaga Presentation Hall usually features a guest speaker on a specific aspect of photography. It also is a forum to discuss current and upcoming events of interest.
Summaries of General Meeting Presentations are archived HERE
YouTube links to General Meeting videos are HERE
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 opportunity to sell their work. Find information on current and upcoming exhibits below. Overview of our Exhibit Efforts can be found 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
​
To join, click link: LHPC Facebook
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
Enhancement SIG - 1st Wednesday @ 9:00AM
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 @ 9:00AM
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
Learning SIG - 3rd Tuesday every other month {odd months}
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".
​
The Best is Yet to Come!
A Snapshot of Upcoming Scheduled General Meeting Presenters
September 9, 2020 Virtual General Meeting, 9:00 AM
Dan Bailey
Fujifilm X-Photographer
A Stellar Client List, Instructor, and Adventurer...
You can learn about Dan here:
https://danbaileyphoto.com
​
​
October 14, 2020 Virtual General Meeting, 9:00 AM
​
Karen Hutton On Location
Fujifilm X-Photographer
Combining Art with Photography
You can see more about her work here:
https://karenhutton.com
​
November 11, 2020
Virtual General Meeting, 9:00 AM
​
Nigel Danson
Speaking to us from the Peak District in the United Kingdom
Photographer, Writer, Videographer, Teacher,
...and much more.
See can explore his world here:
https://www.nigeldanson.com
​
​
July 1st Online Esig Photo Challenge "Landscapes of Outer Space"
is a Fun Opportunity to Develop Your Compositing Skills!
The idea of the challenge is to create a fantasy Outer Space Scene using images
from our supplied gallery or from images found on the internet.
The July 1st Online Enhancement SIG Challenge will give our members a chance to develop their compositing skills by creating “Landscapes of Outer Space” from multiple images of planets, nebulae, and landscapes from Mono Lake, Alabama Hills, Bristlecone Pine Forest or the Mars Lander. The meeting will begin at 9:00 AM.
This Challenge will present the perfect opportunity to learn, practice and build your skills in using selecting tools, masking techniques, and layer blending.
​
Below is a sample image created by Bob Baikauskas to illustrate the concept. It was assembled using a foreground image of Mono Lake, a star field, several planets and a nebula taken by the Hubble telescope.
​
This should be a fun project that has no rules other than the image should represent that of a scene from outer space.
To get you started we have posted 45 images that you can use to create your masterpiece. We have foreground images from Alabama Hills, Mono Lake and Bristlecone Pines, Planets and Nebulae from Hubble Telescope and a Star field from one of the Club's Galaxy photo outings. They are posted on our July Photo Challenge Page.
​
We have also provided links to a wide variety of YouTube videos that demonstrate compositing techniques and how to create space scenes such as nebulae and planets from scratch.
​
The Enhancement SIG will be held Online at 9:00 AM on Wednesday July 1st using the Go to Meeting (GTM) Video Conferencing system. This is the same platform we use for our General Meeting. SIG Coordinator, Kate McCarthy, will be emailing announcements about the meeting and will follow-up with emailed invitations to join via GTM.
The above image is a composite created with the eight images below.
We have posted 45 high resolution images of foregrounds, planets, stars, and nebulae on our Photo Challenge Page for your convenience.
​
You can also get your own images from various websites, whose links we have also posted on the Photo Challenge Page. Or, you can use your own images that you have or make.
​
Click on the orange button below to go to our July Photo Challenge Page.
Fore those who would like, we have kept the information about the June Enhancement SIG Challenge on the site (see panel below). If you would like to re-work some of the images and share them us during the July SIG we would be happy to do so time permitting.
June 3rd Enhancement SIG to feature Filter Forge Presentation by Steve Stewart and a Photo Editing Challenge using full resolution RAW file images.
The Enhancement SIG meets Online on the first Wednesday of the month at 9:00 AM.
The meetings will be conducted using the Video Conferencing platform "Go To Meeting".
Invitations to join the meeting will be sent by email.
Kate McCarthy will be announcing the invitation email with details regarding
when the invitations should be available in your email "in-box".
The Online meeting will start at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3rd, and will feature a presentation by Club Member Steve Stewart. He will showcase the Filter Forge image processing software that provides over 13,000 the creative filters for enhancing your images.
​
Filter Forge offers over 6300 artistic effect filters (watercolor, paint, grunge, etc.) that can be applied to any image. It takes just a few clicks to achieve an effect that will require hours to implement in other software. In addition it offers over 6700 textures (fabrics, abstracts, concrete, gravel, dirt, paint splatter, etc.) that are ready to use. Realistic and fantastic textures, with render maps and proper real-world HDR lighting to get your project going in a few clicks!
​
Here is a representative example of how Steve uses
Filter Forge to enhance his images.
The Photo Editing Challenge will feature full resolution RAW file images
from noted British Photographer Nigel Danson.
The idea of the challenge is to take a look at how different people interpret
and apply their personal touch to the same image.
Following Steve Stewart's presentation we will review the photo editing approaches that Club Members have applied to Nigel Danson's three RAW file Challenge Images.
​
What is special about this set of challenge photos, besides their beauty, is the fact that the original RAW files are available for download from Nigel’s Website via a Google Drive with a fast download speed. The files are unprocessed just as them came out of the camera with all the raw data intact.
​
The files were originally posted on Nigel’s Blog as a photo challenge to encourage his blog visitors to download and process the images as a challenge/competition. Over 1,000 processed images were submitted and the top selections were then posted on a subsequent blog post.
​
You can view Nigel’s favorites on his blog here:
https://www.nigeldanson.com/blog/raw-edit-challenge
You can watch a YouTube video where Nigel discusses the photo challenge here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=03-h9riFh7c&feature=emb_logo
Here’s a link to Nigel’s About Me page:
https://www.nigeldanson.com/about-me-1
​
The RAW files will vary in size from 56.2Mbs to 70.2Mbs. Download times are very fast as they are hosted on a Google Drive. Typical download will be under a minute depending on your internet connection.
​
You can download compressed png files from our website if you wish. The file sizes are under 14Mbs and can be accessed from our Sig Photo Challenge Page. Click on the button below.
The Enhancement SIG meets Online on the first Wednesday of the month at 9:00 AM
The meetings will be conducted using the Video Conferencing platform "Go To Meeting".
Invitations to join the meeting will be sent by email.
Kate McCarthy will be announcing the invitation email with details regarding
when the invitations should be available in your email "in-box".
​
The Enhancement SIG will be coordinated by Kate McCarthy. The formats will include incorporating Photo Challenges, monthly review and critique (if requested) of members' work, and discussion of the various methods and programs for photo editing.
If members would like specific presentations on software and/or process, please let Kate know. We will look for members who can provide some experience in this area to lead that particular SIG. Our photo club has a wealth of experience and expertise, so the success of the Enhancement SIG will be a community effort.
July VIRTUAL Learning SIG: Exploring Flower Photography
Exploring Flower Photography
​
Expanding on the June Focus on Flowers presentation, July will delve a little deeper into flower photography by challenging you to photograph flowers with a specific purpose in mind.
​
Check out the June Focus on Flowers GALLERY!
​
​
​
​
Photo by Charlie Schuman
See Klara Kleman's Newly Updated Gallery
Click on Photo to go to her Gallery Page on this Website
Photos by Klara Kleman
Upcoming Field Trips
Planners include Truman Holtzclaw.
We are putting together a photo gallery of past field trips. To view it, click HERE
Upcoming Field Trips will be announced during our General Meeting and details will be included on this website on the ACTIVITIES - FIELD TRIPS page for your planning.
​
We have posted over 40 interesting locations on the RESOURCES -> PHOTO LOCATIONS page of our Website: click HERE to view the list of locations. Check these out to plan a trip on your own, and consider forming a small group of friends to go with you.
-- Les Thomas
Exhibits
We are currently exhibiting in Buonarotti's Restaurant from now through November, 2020. We are sharing the opportunity to exhibit with the Painters Group on a four month rotation during 2021. We hung our photos on July 2 2020. Photographers participating include Rhonda Campbell, Wendy Gotcher, Pete Henshaw, Stephanie Huntingdale, Phil Huntingdale, Vicki White, and Loren Winckler.
​
Our next opportunity to exhibit in Buonarotti's will be March 31 - July 31, 2021. Digital files will be due to Vicki White - vickiawhite@me.com - on March 12. You can always send them in early!
​
​
​
Current Exhibit: Kilaga Springs Spa
Photographs for the current Kilaga Springs Spa Exhibit were hung on Sunday, February 9th and will be there through December 2020. Currently there are photographs from Club Photographers: Jim Wronkiewitcz, Ron Nabity, Mary Beth Quallick, Truman Holtzclaw, Jim Moon and Klara Kleman
Themes of the photo images, which must be followed for each Spa room, are: Ponds, Beaches, Lakes, Meadows, Forests, Streams and also Landscapes and Flowers.
Next Opportunity: Simple Pleasures Fall/Winter Exhibit
The Fall/Winter 2020/21 Exhibit will start on November 2 and run through February 2021. The theme for our Fall/Winter exhibit is Macro Photography (close up), flowers, trees or your favorite photo. Digital files are due to Klara (k17kleman@gmail.com) by October 25. Pictures will be hung on November 2 at 2:30 pm.
​
Orchard Creek Rotunda Exhibit
The Orchard Creek Rotunda Exhibit was scheduled to take place in August and September. This is a special exhibit. Due to the uncertainty of when the Lodge will reopen, we do not have an exact date to submit your entries.
Last year LH Photo Club photographers exhibiting at Orchard Creek included: Bob BAIKAUSKAS, John CAMPBELL, Rhonda CAMPBELL, Bob DALE, Pete HENSHAW, Mike JOHNSON , Ron NABITY, Joy PARIS, Sande PARKER, Brad SENN, Kenneth SILVERMAN, Steve STEWART, Bill SZABO, Larry WHITE, Vicki WHITE, and James WRONKIEWICZ
​
There is only one criteria for the Orchard Creek Exhibit - you must have exhibited at Simple Pleasures at least once as a Club member. Digital Files and your Application are due to Rhonda Campbell - Rhonda.photoart@gmail.com. Due to the uncertainty of when the Lodge will reopen we do not have an exact date to submit your entries. Check back in a few weeks for the deadline to submit your application and digital files.
​
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:
Buonarotti's
Application
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.
-
No politics, none, nada.
-
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.
-
Constructive criticism only when critiquing. (Don't tell us that it was a stupid, boring shot, We'll figure it out anyway.)
-
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
