Monday, May 15, 2006

Can I take a photo?


When is the light good enough for taking photos? The attached may help to remind us how critical the right light is.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

May 1st scavenger hunt winners

Rain by: Rob Fisher

Favorite Photo by: Rob Fisher

Sprout (tie) by: Paula Johnson

Flow by: Rob Fisher

New by: Nate McGarrahan

Sky by: Kathy Dammers

Sprout (tie) by: Nate McGarrahan

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Stanley Park Field trip - May 20th

As we discussed at the meeting I would like to make a field trip up to Westfield, MA to visit Stanley Park and shoot the many gardens they have there .. Please let me know if you are interested in going .. we will meet, to carpool, at the senior center @ 8:30 on Sat. May 20, 2006 .. I know the park inside and out,almost, and will make a game plan to cover the parks gardens .. I would think we would be back in town around noon ..
 
-Rob Fisher

Meeting Notes: May 1, 2006

Granby Camera Club
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Meeting Notes: May 1, 2006

Harry welcomed and introduced our visitors.



Treasurer’s Report: $572.76

1.Voted to reimburse $10.60 to Rob Fisher for the cost of the great posters that he designed and had printed for the club.

2.The suggestion was made that the club look into sponsoring a photography class for children at the Holcomb Farm Learning Center. Paula will follow up to get pertinent information.



Old Business
1. Our field trip to Wendy Van Wylie’s studeo was a great success. She walked us through a typical photo shoot using Rob’s daughter as our model. We all took shots and asked lots of questions. She also explained how she handles her work load and prepares her photos for her clients.

2. Harry reviewed information concerning our Blog and explained our monthly scavenger hunt for our visitors. He and Peter also reminded us about the Simsbury Bank Calendar contest and encouraged all to get out and shoot, shoot, shoot!!!!!



New Business
1. Field Trip: Rob will coordinate a filed trip to photograph flowers at Stanley Park in Westfield, MA on Saturday, May 20. Those interested should contact him via email: paintblr@cox.net

The plan is to meet at the Senior Center at 8 am to car pool. Sunday would be the rain date. If there are some that would like to go up on a week day next week email Paula and we can set a date and time: phj38@cox.net.

2. Ideas were mentioned for future workshops or meeting programs: Color Management and Working with Adobe Photoshop. A program committee will meet this summer to plan for next year. If you wish to help call or email Harry. We need every ones imput!!!!!

3. Rob shared his video on Stanley Park at the end of the meeting.



Monthly Program: Weather Photography

Members shared the pictures that they had taken after our program in March on weather photography.



Scavenger Hunt
Another round of great pictures!!!! Winners were:

Flow, Rain, and Favorite: Rob

New: Nate

Sprout: Nate and Paula

Sky: Kathy



Next Month’s Meeting: Monday, June 5 at 7:30 pm at the Granby Senior Center
Program: Photographing Fireworks



The Scavenger Hunt Words for May:

Flowers, Leading Lines, Sticky, Street Lights, Three and Favorite Picture

Digital Darkroom Questions E-mail Service

There is an excellent e-mail service that provides answers to digital darkroom questions. You can sign-up the receive this service (DDQE-mail service) by going into Tim Grey's site shown below and look for the DDQE-mail service page.

You can only ask questions if you subscribe $$$, but if you're interested in learning from other people's questions, it is a great place. He's an author, lecturer, etc.