About Us History Newsletters 2007 SCC Newsletter - Jan 2007
| Sweetwater Camera Club Newsletter - January 2007 |
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| January 2007 |
Macro |
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February 2007 |
Children |
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March 2007 |
Elderly People |
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April 2007 |
Transportation |
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May 2007 |
Cultural Icon |
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June 2007 |
Self Portrait |
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July 2007 |
Abstract |
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August 2007 |
Birds |
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September 2007 |
Macro |
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October 2007 |
Color |
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November 2007 |
Holidays |
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December 2007 |
Favorite Photo |
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January 2008 |
Photoshop Fun |
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February 2008 |
Forces of Nature |
Heads Up On the
Upcoming Contest Topics
Our contest chair, Lesa Wills, has put together a 2007 Monthly Competition Topics chart beginning with March 2007. This chart should be available at our February meeting. In this chart, she has listed the topic for the 2007 contests, as well as a short description of just what she is looking for in entries for each month. To give you time to think about your entries for upcoming competitions, I am listing below the topic descriptions for the February and March 2007 contests.
February 2007 – Children. This is pretty self-explanatory, and as the topic descriptions in the above-referenced chart begin with the March contest, I’ll leave this one as is!
March 2007 – Elderly People. Get a picture of the people who have history written on their faces, outlined on their hands, and the weight of the world on their backs. Your picture should tell a story with lots of depth and drama.
Birthday Celebrations
Maria Roseberry February 21
Sean Trevino February 27
I stumbled on this website just the other day. It’s a blog format with do-it-yourself ideas for photographic accessories, such as backdrop stands, softboxes for hotshoe flashes, etc. Definitely some helpful ideas for keeping costs down in our photographic endeavors!
Tips and Tricks
“Blur Frame in Photoshop”
Author: Tyger
While there are various ways to create a blur frame, this particular tutorial will walk you through the easiest way to do it in Photoshop 7 (though the same steps will work in Photoshop 5-C2).
Step 1: Copy the layer of the original photo and place that layer as the top layer.
Step 2: Using the guides to outline the frame, use the square selection tool to select the outline of the frame.
Step 3: With the selection still active delete that selection
Step 4: With the selection still active, do a reverse selection by pressing ‘ctrl’ + ‘shift’ + ‘I’. This will highlight the frame border.
Step 5: Add a gaussion blur to your liking, and if you like, adjust the colour, saturation etc.
Step 6: With the selection still active do a reverse selection by pressing ‘ctrl’ + ‘shift’ + ‘I’.
Step 7: With the selection still active, create a stroke, go under ‘Edit’ > ‘Stroke’ (The example below uses a 5px width with white colour, but you can do what you like here).
Step 8: Adjust the original image which should be on the bottom layer accordingly, whether you want to move it, scale etc. and voila!
Article referenced with express permission by the author and originally published at www.photographycorner.com
Noteworthy Contests Below is a link for the Atlanta Audubon Society’s 2007 photo contest, which will be judged by Charles Needles. The deadline for submission is 11:59 p.m. (EST) on Friday, March 16. To learn more about this contest, please click on the link below:
and Workshops
Speaking of Charles Needles, he will be presenting a “Shoot the Aquarium” workshop at the Georgia Aquarium on February 8. The registration deadline for this workshop is January 31. He will also be doing a workshop entitled, “Callaway Gardens in Springtime” on April 1-6, which will be co-presented with Photoshop guru, Mark Johnson.
For details on both of these workshops, visit Charles’ website by clicking the following link: http://www.charlesneedlephoto.com
UPDATE ON CHARLES NEEDLES SEMINARS: Charles e-mailed on January 29 to inform me that both the aquarium workshop and the Callaway Gardens workshop are filled.
He does have a class coming up entitled, "How to Create Dazzling Digital Slide Shows" on March 3. While it is almost filled, there are some slots still available. Visit Charles’ website for more information.
Below are the winning images from the January 2007 contest, which was on the topic of “Macro.” Congratulations to our winners. Very nice images!! These winning images will be published in the Chapel Hill News and Views.
Color
First Place, Greg Knobloch
"Dragonfly"
Second Place, Jane Cupp
“Caterpillar on a Lotus Plant”
Third Place, Frank Karycinski
“Anticipation”
Honorable Mention, Frank Karycinski
"Flower with Dew"
Black and White
First Place, Nicolette Dunn
"Initials in Tree Bark"
Second Place, Nicolette Dunn
“Pipes”
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Photography Quote:
“Sometimes I do get to places
just when God’s ready
to have somebody click the shutter."
~Ansel Adams
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That’s it for this first newsletter of 2007. Happy Shooting!
Judy Bruner
Comments
Just wanted to thank you so much for mentioning me and my workshops in this issue of the Sweetwater Camera Club newsletter. I love your new format!
The Aquarium workshop is unfortunately filled (with a waiting list of 14 people!), and the Callaway Gardens class with Mark Johnson is also filled with a shorter waiting list.
My “How to Create Dazzling Digital Slide Shows” class on March 3rd, however, does still have openings but is almost full. Perhaps you might want to replace a small write-up about this seminar with the one just posted. (Details about this class on my website.)
Many thanks again for all the publicity. I really appreciate it.
~Charles
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