Member Share
Please join us for our August meeting on Thursday, August 17th, at 7pm. It is all about YOU! In lieu of a guest speaker, this month we will share, share, share. Please come with great questions, or useful information to share with your fellow club members.
Things you may want to share:
- Your favorite book publishing company – since My Publisher has closed its operations, I am looking for a quality substitute for travel books. You may even want to bring a sample and tell us why you like it.
- What is your “go-to” photo editing software for laptops and desktops. Photoshop or Lightroom, On1, On1Raw, Topaz, MacPhun, etc.
- What is your favorite cell phone app or apps – what do you know that we don’t??
- Can you print your cell phone images? What about quality?
- If you have your work printed, who do you use?
- If you do your own printing, where do you get your paper, and why?
- Do you have a website that offers good tutorials on editing?
- How do you share your images? Do you have a website? Do you need a website?
- Do you have a project your are working on, and need backers to help fund your cause? Come and share your project with us!
Please come ready to share and ask questions. We have a wealth of informed photographers who are happy to share what they know, and eager to learn more from you!
Agenda:
7:00 – 7:20 Welcome, Introductions, and Member News
7:25 – 8:15 Program: Member Share
8:20 – 9:00 Critiques: Black & White – Before & After
Dues for 2017 are $12.
New members joining after the first of the year will pay a prorated amount. You may pay by check at the next meeting or mail to our treasurer, Winifred Simon, at 600 Red Hawk Road, Wimberley, TX 78676, or pay using PayPal.
Critiques: Black & White – Before & After
This month’s theme is Black and White. Since we have extra time for sharing our images, we will combine the theme with Before & Afters. If you prefer not to show your before, that is fine.
You may submit up to 2 pairs of images. Prepare your files as follows: Resize your image to 2,000 pixels on the long side, and a resolution of 72, and rename your files 1FirstName_LastName_Before, 1FirstName_LastName_Edit, 2FirstName_LastName_Before, etc.
Please email them to hcphotoclub@gmail.com by Tuesday, August 15th, so Jørgen will have time to prepare them for the meeting.
Reminders
- If you have a Facebook account, you may join our club’s Closed Group page and keep up with current member news as well as postings of Calls for Entry that you may wish to enter, or share other important or interesting information with our group. Go to HCPC Members. You must be a paid member to post and use this account. It is the easiest and best way to keep current on photo opps and member news. Carolyn Whiteside is the administrator of this page – thank you Carolyn!
- You may also send a write-up of Accomplishments and Awards information that you would like to share on our website by submitting your information in a concise manner, and email to Art Arizpe at webmaster@hcphotoclub.org.
Jerry Moreno was born in Mexico, and immigrated to the US in 1999. He has been living in Dripping Springs since moving to the USA. His passion for photography began in 2012 when he was at a cousin’s wedding, which was in the middle of nowhere. He tried to capture pictures of stars using nothing but his hands as a tripod but the results were disappointing. That night Jerry went online and bought a tripod and shutter remote. He became greatly interested in Astrophotography in the summer of 2015 and it is all he has done for the past 2 years. Jerry received First place in the Texas Night Sky Festival in 2016, and was a runner-up in 2017. Jerry is also a member of Photographers of Dripping Springs (PODS), our sister photography club.
Bruce Leander earned a B.S. in Biology from Springfield College an M.S. degree in Zoology from Texas Tech University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. After one semester as an undergraduate art major his Dad said he wouldn’t pay for his education unless he changed his major to something more business-like. His previous work experience includes positions in a number of companies in the biotechnology industry and he retired in 2007.
In Charlie’s words: “It was an assignment quite different from the norm. I was asked to build with Photoshop three large (3 ft x 3 ft) panels depicting different aspects of Native Americans from the Iroquois Nation. The panels focused on: 1) the paintings, sketches, photographs of the people from the 1600’s to the present, 2) treaties and documents of the tribes and 3) the totems of their ancestors. Within each panel, individual images were cut and pasted and blended with different degrees of transparency so that images grow out of one another and give an integrated look to each panel. The tenor of the panels was to be ‘artistic’ and not historical or literal in interpretation. I worked with several museums that provided digital access to historic paintings and historic photographs, living artists, and Native Americans. The panels were reviewed by a representative of the Mohawk tribe to make sure they were accurate.”
I was their publications editor, doing the writing, photography, and graphic design for three publications. I had originally been drawn into Journalism because of writing, but as I worked I discovered that my interests and talents were more in photography and graphic design. My Journalism training still influences me today. I am less of an “artistic” photographer, and more of an “event” photographer.
teaching and doing research at the following universities: Texas A & M, Kansas State University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and currently at Texas State University. She has 24 years of experience in Public Horticulture at the following gardens: Norfolk Botanical Garden as Landscape designer & Taxonomist; Planting Fields Arboretum, as Horticultural Taxonomist; at Zilker Botanical Garden as Education Coordinator; at KSU Gardens as Acting Director; and The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, as Director of Education.