Another good turnout of twenty-five people showed up for our June 2nd meeting which included several educational presentations including a
"Raw vs JPG" image format discussion and our first hands-on workshop by
Bert Jenkins demonstrating some basic techniques that he uses to edit images in
Photoshop Elements. A Bird Festival slideshow of a collaboration of
member's images was presented along with a wonderful collection or
highly creative and entertaining images submitted to our May monthly
challenge - "Reflections". We reached a new high in terms of both member participation and also in the number of images submitted to our theme challenge.
We did have a few technical glitches, trying to get the
computers and the projector working in sync and I have been working hard to resolve these
difficulties for future meetings.
Several decisions were taken at the meeting. The first was
the acceptance by the membership of a club logo. It has a fresh
design, is immediately recognizable as relating to photography, has an
attachment to the County and is inclusive of all members. I'd
especially like to thank Tina Konecny for her work on this project. Our new logo looks as follows:
On a separate front, given the cost of printing
up the Wellington 150th anniversary booklet, coupled with the
uncertainty of being able to sell enough to breakeven, it was decided not to
proceed further on the booklet concept. We have, however, uploaded the
Wellington images to our Facebook page and have shared the link with
the Wellington Business Development Association, so that the general
public has access to those images. They can be seen by using the
following url link:
In addition, both the "Bird Festival" and the
"Reflections" images have been posted to our facebook page, so get on over to it and have
a look - especially those of you who were unable to make it to the meeting. Our facebook page is located at
www.facebook.com/countyfotoclub. You don't need a facebook account to view the images.
The June monthly challenge/assignment was handed out with the theme - "
Up Close & Personal".
So get your macro gear out of storage and let's see what you can do.
Be colourful, be creative, but most of all, just be you! Normal
requirement - five images, sized 1024x768px (approx), watermarked and
file names to include your name and something descriptive about the
image. Images due by Wednesday, July 3rd.
We are also going to try another club outing on Sunday June
23rd (1pm) at Lavender Fields which is located at 732 Closson Road.
More on this closer to the date but please earmark it into your
calendars. I'm planning to show a lot of purple images at our next club
meeting on Sunday July 7th.
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