Christmas Party! 2018
Our Christmas gathering and dinner is coming up soon! If you would like to join us or want to find out more details please contact Cynthia Briseno. Let’s party !
December Calendar
December is almost upon us! Here are three dates to remember in December.
Dec. 5th – Education Meeting
Dec. 14th – CHRISTMAS PARTY!
Dec. 19th – Competition Meeting
Education Meeting Dec. 5th, 7pm
Our Education Coordinator Jim Ingraham has planned an open discussion of prints and digital images for our upcoming meeting. Please see the details below for more information.
The next education meeting on December 5 will be an image sharing evening. No scores, just open discussion. You can share how and why you made the image. If you choose to bring an image or three, be prepared for feedback on how they can possibly be improved. Can be old or new. Everyone is encouraged to share their opinions and feedback but no one is required to. If you had an image that you submitted previously and feel it should have done better, this is a good opportunity to discuss what might have held it back. This will be discussion with back and forth opinions, not necessarily just straight critiques. If you have an image that you feel is perfect and you do not want to hear otherwise, don’t share that one! Can be digital or prints. If digital,send to Russ using normal guidelines except you don’t need to title them. If prints, can be any size, loose or mounted. If you can, try to bring prints as we will also talk a bit about printers and printing. I will bring a print and volunteer to go first. That way, if my feelings get hurt I can slip to the back of the room and sip on a tiny bottle of Tequila while silently judging everyone. (insert smiley face)
Photo by Linda Williams
Image Of The Month for November 2018
Do It Myself
Image by Greg Smith
Congratulations! Greg on a beautiful image. Look for Greg’s image in print in the Daily Courier.
Greg Smith
November 2018 Print Winners
First Place
Annabelle Dale George
Halloween brings out my “darker side” and I always feel like it’s a photographic opportunity that most do not explore. I purchased this horror movie doll from our local Halloween store because I knew her piercing blue eyes and weird face would command attention. I shot this in an upstairs bedroom on a Victorian chair and placed her and Frank against the wall. Natural light was coming from the right and a speed light from the left. Most of the processing was done in On1 software by adding several textures in modest amounts to give it a slightly gritty look and lastly with a sunburst texture.
Shot with a Canon 5DMKIV and 24-70 lens combination. ISO 100, f/5 at 1/30 second.
Four Second Places
Daddy’s Home Rose Christner
The Venetian Dale George
Picture Of Happiness Greg Smith
Hello There Beautiful Lori Quinn
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Three Third Place Winners
Grayback Creek Jim Heern
Rock Star Susan Sheets
This image is from the Boatnik carnival this year. It was a little showery that evening. I caught this young boy with his umbrella taking it all in on the steps of the Rockstar ride.
Cosmic Clouds Bobette Heern
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November 2018 Electronic Winners
First Place – Assigned Category – Human Hands And Feet
Three First Place Winners
Do It Myself Greg Smith
My Father’s Hands Ozzie Cummins
I Got This Gramma Maeve Devlin
Four Second Place Winners
Grace Julie Padgett
The Chalk Walk Rose Christner
The Knife Maker Susan Sheets
Girls Like Mud Too Daniel Allen
First Place Winner – Open Category
Lunch Time Susan Sheets
Five Second Place Winners
Chinon Night Street Dave Church
Polly Jim Heern
Enchanted Night Cry Nomeca Hartwell
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
New Normal Dave Low
Autumn Umpqua Ross Steensland
Five Third Place Winners
Mother Earth Milk Bobette Heern
My Friend Dennis Dale George
River Boat Dave Church
Watchful Eye Jim Heern
Just A Number Jim Ingraham
Electronic Image Submission Deadline is Nov. 11th
The deadline for submitting electronic images for our Nov. 14th Competition Meeting is Sunday the 11th by midnight. Please submit your images to Russ Williamson. If you don’t have his email address please contact a fellow club member.
Sign in your prints when you arrive for the print competition.
The Assigned category is: Human Hands and Feet.
How to prepare your images: Go to the Competition Tab and scroll to #8 and #9.
Looking forward to some interesting images and hope to see you there!
Photo Scavenger Hunt Sat. Nov.10th at 2pm
Photo by Rose Christner
Meet at the Haul’s parking lot at 5th and H. 2pm.
Let’s see if we can all find and photograph a fun list of things in and around our town. Everyone gets the list and can go anywhere, by any means to find the things on the list. We’ll all meet back up in about an hour to see what we found. Hope to see you this Sat.!
Image of The Month for October
Image of The Month October
Image by Dale George
Congratulations! Dale on a beautiful image. Dale’s image will be printed in the Daily Courier. Below find out a little about Dale and this amazing shot.
I joined the Caveman Camera Club in 2013 to be around other like-minded photographers and to broaden my skills. Always looking for new challenges, I decided to try my hand at high magnification macro photography. I needed an interesting subject, and flies being particularly plentiful, it seemed like a good subject.
This image is 43 images stacked one on top of another. Extreme magnification images have a shallow depth of focus, so multiple photos are taken to bring the whole image into focus, exposing all the disgusting details of the fly. This image is taken at 5x magnification and no cropping. I used a Canon 5D Mk IV camera and Canon MP-E65 macro lens.
This was set up and photographed on my dining room table, and took about 3 hours from start to finish to render this final image. Not an easy process, but for a photographer…well worth the effort for a good image.
October 2018 Print Winners
First Place
I Puke On Food Dale George
Second Place
Five Second Place Winners
Lone Rock Sunset Jim Ingraham
Just Ducky Greg Smith
Wishes Susan Sheets
Here Today Gone Tomorrow Dale George
Deadly Dancers by Bobette Heern
Third Place
Three Third Place Winners
Mischief Lexi Gasperson
Basking In The Sun Rose Christner
Ropin’ Cowboys by Laurie Hayden-Quinn (Image not available)