In Focus! November 2017 - Camera Club of HendersonvilleIn Focus! November 2017 UNDER THE FOLD Long time members of the Club may recognize the name Dick Spicka. Dick was a member of

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Ginny Bedell Education Director [email protected] Bob Benedict Communications/ rcbenedict36@ gmail.com Newsletter Bob Coffey Programs Director [email protected] Guffey Treasurer [email protected] Weaver Chairperson kennethweaver@

kenzlenz.com

CLUB MEETINGS - Are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Chamber of Commerce Building, 204 Kanuga Road (intersection with Church Street). 6:30 Social half hour; 7:00 Meeting.

The next meeting is Tuesday, November 28.

CRITIQUE GROUP - meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 1:00 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 2021 Kanuga Road. Next meeting is November 14 .

In Focus! November 2017

UNDER THE FOLD

Long time members of the Club may recognize the name Dick Spicka. Dick was a member of the Steering Committee, and still follows the Club after his move to Colorado. He responded to the call for autumn color with the photo on the masthead.

The theme for Gimme Your Best Shot is: Alphabet.

Please refer to the President’s Message for the 2018 Program and other important changes for next year.

Camera Club of Hendersonville, est. 1979 Page 1

Dennis Guffey Newfound Gap Dick Spicka

In This Issue

Message from the Chair p. 22017 Program Schedule p. 2October Meeting pp. 3-6November Meeting p. 7November Outings pp. 7-9The Learning Corner pp. 9-10Photographer Profile: pp. 10-11 Carol GreenMini Workshop pp. 11-12Awards p. 12

Key Dates:November 1, Outing to Paris Mountain State ParkNovember 7-8 Outing to Old Car CityNovember 13 Outing to Lake LureNovember 31 Mini-Workshop Hendersonville County Library

CHAIR’S MESSAGE BY KEN WEAVER

The Steering Committee(SC) has been hard at work planning 2018. The 2018 Calendar of Meetings is listed below and will be published shortly on the website as well.. Bob Coffey has already committed all of the 2018 Speakers and Critiquers.The Quarterly Forums have been restructured as PhotoCritique and the themes have already been selected. Gimme Your Best Shot will continue so please note the schedule below and the website for the subjects for each month. The Tuesday Critique Group will be called PhotoShare and is restructured to allow for videos, trip recaps, and post processing techniques. More information will follow during the month of November.

We will be collecting the 2018 Annual Dues at both the General Meeting on November 28 and at the Christmas Party on December 12. Many of our fixed expenses such as rents for the Chamber of Commerce meeting room and the church basement for PhotoShare are due on January 1. We will need to know our renewal status before completing the 2018 Budget so please remember to bring your check( $35 Individual, $60 Couples) to either of the next two meetings. If you cannot attend either of the meetings, please mail your check to: CCoH, c/o Ken Weaver, 24 Kanuga Forest Drive, Hendersonville, NC 28739.


OCTOBER MEETING

The theme of the Critique Session was Simplicity. As the scheduled critiquer had a conflict, Bob Coffey’s long-time friend Bob Hunt stepped in as a replacement. Bob recently retired from the Delaware Photographic Society, where since 2002 he held a number of positions, including Club President.

The theme of Bob’s remarks was “Crop it. Crop It. Crop It”. By using a laser-pointer he offered examples of photos he believed could be improved by judicious cropping. He also indicated that moving elements of a photo around with such tools as Photoshop’s Content-Aware Move was not “cheating”; instead was often necessary to win the judges’ favor at competitions.

Believing is that we can learn as much from fellow members as we can from outside experts, the editor asked a sample of those who submitted images how their photo served as an illustration of Simplicity.

Susi Luard - Sailors’ Ropes

I was at a re-enactment event in Rochefort, France, when I saw saw a sailing ship's rigging simulation structure where people could try and find out what it was like to be up there! The graphic nature of the rigging against the stark sky illustrates simplicity. The two persons on the rigging punctuate the image so they were a necessary part of the composition. I turned the image into black and white to further emphasize 'simplicity' as it removes the small amount of colours on the clothing on those two people.

Greg Lambert - Umbrella

Choosing images to illustrate the Simplicity theme of the recent forum proved to be a bit of a challenge and took some thought.

I decided I wanted images which had visual impact but at the same time were relatively uncomplicated. In addition, I wanted images that didn’t tell a particular story, or would cause the viewer to wonder what was going on in the image, or for that matter require the viewer to do anything but simply look at the image and accept it for what it showed.

To me the umbrella fulfilled my criteria. The strong red, white and blue provided visual impact, as did the simple composition. The choice of the image showing the figure of the monk with only the robe and the umbrella hiding the face was deliberate. I have lots of similar images with the umbrella in various positions but all showing the monk’s face. In my opinion that changes the image to a portrait; that is not what I wanted to show. Simply showing the red robe and the red and black umbrella made it a more graphic and simple image that was my objective.

The comments from Bob Hunt, who provided excellent critique during the evening, were that he would like to have seen the face. His wife (who claimed to be a better photographer) disagreed and liked the image without the face showing.

This shows there are no absolute or rights or wrongs in this business!


Rob McKelvy - Kiss

The spoons were handed down to me from my father. They belonged to his great grandmother. His father gave them as a wedding gift when my dad and mom got married. Attached was a note as to the spoons history and well wishes of many happy years of eating strawberries with them. I did not have any strawberries, but I did have Hershey’s kisses. The kiss would be a reminder that these spoons were a wedding gift since weddings and kisses go hand in hand. Simple and symbolic. Just what I wanted.

Ken Weaver - After the Sedona Flood

This photo is an example of Altered Reality. Only one of our members recognized the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Chapel of the Holy Cross which sits on a rock shelf. I used a piece of software called Flood which allows me to place the level of the water anywhere I desire. I could then adjust the wave action and the reflection. The sky was clear, the water not too choppy and the front exposure of the church gave nice symmetry to the image. By converting the image to a monochrome I further simplified what the eye would see.

Ginny Bedell - Secured

This image was captured while on an outing with friends in the River Arts District (RAD) in Asheville. I was drawn to the subject since it incorporated core elements of visual design such as color, texture, shape and form. It has visual balance and dimension. The orientation of each bolt added a whimsical and playful feel. My goal was to have the viewer’s eye explore the image.

I processed the RAW image using Lightroom and Photoshop.


John Ayre - Repair

I took this photo while at “The Battle of Aiken” on February 25, 2017. It was between battles and I was walking around the many camp sites when I happened upon this re-enactor repairing his weapon. I used my 300 mm fixed lens. The image was full frame and I did not have to crop it. I tried Black and White as well as Sepia, but did not like it as much.

I believe the photo is an example of “Simplicity” for several reasons. It isolates his hands and what they were doing. It focuses on the center of the photo by adding a color layer the same as his uniform. The use of a large soft eraser tool to take out the center of the covering colored layer results in soft surrounding edges that add to the notion of “Simplicity”.

Dennis Guffey - Phillip

I selected this photo of my grandson Phillip because it is one of my favorite photos him. It is a simple pose. He is looking straight ahead. No facial expression. No smile. The lighting is soft window light on the north side of the house. The background is a white sheer covering the window. The bright simple white back lit background isolates the subject. I made this photo in mid-May 2016 a few days before his high school graduation ceremony. This image was one of several images that turned out well that day. It was a special time for Phillip and our family. This photo is very special to me. It was made with a Canon 5D MkIII, EF 70-200 MkII lens, ½ second, 200mm at f/ 4.5.

David Powell - Simplicity and a Water Drop

In a word, “Composition”. This image wasproduced with minimal processing and a crop. Nothing else was in the original other than some small amount of surface trash. I retained the foreground reflections to act as a “leading line”. The background color was from the sun reflecting off a tan building, which complimented the blue of the water.

As an aside, the critiquer said that it was not sharp, so I looked at it this morning. It is sharp on my monitor.


Dennis Stefani - Light

On an Asheville photo walk with David Simchock and others on one of his “Vagabond” photo walks, the idea that evening was to shoot street photography, blue hour photos, and night photos. I happened to walk down this narrow industrial, and a little intimidating, street. Had I been in any other downtown but Asheville I may have headed for a more populated area. I was looking for something simple to shoot but it had to have some light around or behind it. This light hanging off a building over a doorway was the perfect subject. I took several shots and brought them into Photoshop. I cropped the shot to remove distractions and useless details, and did a very small amount of tweaking. Viola!!!

Bob Coffey- Trojan Horse(s)

The little "Trojan Horse" sets in a small window surrounded by a bookcase in our living room. One very foggy morning last week this setting caught my eye and I captured it with my Samsung Galaxy S6. I was struck by the simplicity of the subject set on the shelf with the window making a nice frame for the barely discernible trees in the foggy background.

In Lightroom I trimmed away part of the window sill, squared up the vertical framing and adjusted the exposure, clarity, shadows and luminosity for a more ethereal appearance.

The critiquer asked what was on the horse and it is a pink bow of ribbon that had been added for decoration.

After the critique I went back and made some adjustments following his suggestions and have included it (Trojan Horse 2) for comparison.



NOVEMBER MEETING

Our November meeting features Asheville commercial photographer Tim Barnwell who will be speaking on the topic of Black and White Faces of Appalachia. Tim’s photography has been included in over 65 exhibits since 1967. His work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Asheville Art Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

He is the author of five books that have focused on the scenic beauty of the Blue Ridge region (i.e. the latest edition of Great Smokey Mountain Vistas) as well as its culture (i.e. Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia). His website is barnwellphoto.com

NOVEMBER REFRESHMENTS

John Orolin and Fernando and Peg Podio

Our thanks to Marjorie Decker & Diane Trochim for providing the October refreshments.

NOVEMBER OUTINGS

Field Trip Wednesday, November 1, to Paris Mountain State Park, 2041 State Park Road, Greenville, S.C.

(This is actually located in Travelers Rest, S.C. off Hwy 25, a 40 min drive.)

Meetup at Ingles at the corner of Spartanburg Hwy and Greenville Hwy (625 Spartanburg Hwy) at 9:00 am.

Drive South on Hwy 25 into South Carolina. Just North of Travelers Rest turn left on State Park Road, merge right and continue on State Park Road, take a sharp right into Paris Mountain State Park. Entrance Fees: Adults $5, Seniors 65+ $3.25

Drive thru park to lake at the lodge. We will shoot the fall colors and reflections on and around the lake. Around 12:30/1:00 pm we will return to State Park Road and Hwy 25. Cross the intersection and continue to the town of Travelers Rest and Shortfields Restaurant, a 4 star eatery on 24 S. Main St. in Travelers Rest, SC. 29690. Return to Ingles after lunch. As always join us at any part of the field trip.


As with all our field trips, we require a completely filled-out Release Agreement for each person attending our organized events. It is important that you have it downloaded, printed and filled out before you leave home. Have it with you when you arrive at Ingles. Also Please RSVP Mike Merrill at [email protected].

Field Trip Wednesday, November 8 to Old Car City, 3098 US Highway 411, White Georgia 30184

Old Car City is 30+ acres of old cars, bikes and junk, with 6 miles of trails. Time: 9:00 sm to 4:00 pm. Entrance Fee: $25.00 Phone: 770-382-6141

See Club Video Teaser http://www.cameraclubofhendersonville.com/ p400722037 for photos captured by the CCoH Scout Team.

This is the next-to-last field trip this year and is a little different than the others. We will have no set meet up time to leave. Estimated drive time one way is 3 hours 40 min. Add stop time for eating, gas or if you see something along the way.

Mike Merrill Photo

Suggestion: Leave on the 7th and stay overnight in Cartersville Ga. Approx. 10/ 15 miles S.W. of our shooting location. Motel room prices range from $75.00 to $120.00. We can meet at 7:00 pm at the "Mellow Mushroom" 20 South Wall St. Cartersville, Ga. for dinner.

On the morning of November 8 meet at the front office of Car City at 9:00 am. Shoot until noon, then break for lunch. There is a restaurant across the street. Shoot from 1:00 until 4:00pm and return home. There are only two meet up times scheduled; the rest is up to you and whoever you team up with for the ride down and back. This gives us about six hours of shooting time.

The suggested route for driving is : I-40 West to 74 thru Bryson City and Murphy to 60 to the state line into GeorgiaThen 60s to Mineral BluffThen 76 to ElljayThen 515 to Talking RockThen 136 to FairmontAnd 411 to White/Cartersville.

Mike notes: Hope everybody has a GPS. The drive time is the same as going thru Atlanta but traffic time is not figured into the Atlanta route. Google: Junk Cars in White, Ga. or U Tube, Old Car City White, Ga. for further viewing.

Please RSVP Mike Merrill at [email protected]

As with all our field trips, we require a completely filled-out Release Agreement for each person attending our organized events. It is important that you have it downloaded, printed and filled out before you leave home. Have it with you when you arrive at Ingles.

Note: Some members may be as route challenged as the editor. Therefore as a courtesy to members, when a trip from Hendersonville to Old Car City is put into Google Maps, three alternative routes appear. That map, along with mileage and drive times, is listed in the Appendix on page 13.

Field Trip and Lunch to Lake Lure and Cynthia Riley's home. Monday November 13th.

We will meet at "Lake Lure Park" and the "Flowering Bridge" for morning photo-ops then have lunch at Cynthia's home near "Mirror Lake" and the Broad River. Cynthia will serve lunch and preform classical piano selections while we dine and photograph the surrounding property.

http://www.cameraclubofhendersonville.com/release-and-indemnity-agreement-ccoh.pdf


mailto:[email protected]




Catching The Viewer’s Eye!

As photographers we all have had the experience of going out on a day we deemed “photographically” “photographically” perfect to capture a pleasing image. Our subject has been identified and the image image has been compositionally and technically well crafted. In short, we are excited and look forward forward to sharing our work with others! But alas, at times we may find that others don't share our our excitement. What caught our eye may not attract or keep other people’s attention nearly as much much as we had hoped.

What is attractive to our eye, excluding the personal subject matter of our image, can easily differ between us and the viewer. So, if you want a viewer to be attracted to your images and feel the way you feel about them, it's worth examining what it is that attracts the viewer’s eye. One of the main factors that tend to draw the attention of a viewer is focus. If an image has some areas in sharp focus and other areas that are less sharp, the eye generally is drawn to the areas in focus.

Contrast also plays a major role in what a viewer tends to look at in an image. The eye is drawn to bright areas within an overall dark frame, or to significantly dark areas within an otherwise light frame. Simply making sure that the subject contrasts with its surroundings can also be an effective way to draw the eye to it. This can be done as light on dark surroundings, dark on light surroundings or simply by ensuring the dominant colors of the main subject contrast with the surrounding colors.

Saturation and color can also serve us well. Differences in color intensity contribute to defining the subject in the eye of the viewer. Warm colors such as yellow and red tend to draw the eye while cool colors such as blue and green often seem to recede in importance. A saturated warm color can serve as an exceptionally strong cue to attract attention.

An object that breaks the frame will prevent the eyes from naturally scanning the frame. For example, a small rock or other object of sufficient contrast that lies partially in the frame and partially out of the frame will cause the eyes to stop for a moment as they scan the frame.

Use leading lines to “point” to other objects. Look for objects such as fences, paths, tree branches or other lines that can be used in your composition to draw the eye of the viewer to an area of the image that you want them to look at.

The lighter areas of a photograph will often draw more attention from a viewer than the darker areas. If the main subject of your image is brighter compared to its surroundings then it will naturally draw the eye. One easy post-production technique used by a lot of photographers is to add a vignette which adds a darker area around the edges of the image, leaving the center brighter.

Finding contrasting subjects can be a very effective way to draw the eye. For example, a cat in a group of dogs will obviously stick out simply by virtue of the cat being out of place.


Let’s meet at 9:00 am at Ingles on Hwy 64 and Howard Gap Road. 3643 Howard Gap Road, Hendersonville. Park next to the gas pumps. Take Hwy 64 to Bat Cave, and then Alt 74. Drive to "Lake Lure Park” behind the marina at 2930 Memorial Hwy, Lake Lure. We will shoot until noon then drive to Cynthia's home. Continue East on Hwy 64 past "Larkins on the Lake", where Hwy 9 forks to the right. Continue East on 64 to "Riverbend Community" on the left. This entrance will have a gate attendant; tell him you are visiting Cynthia Riley's home. If there is no attendant, you went too far. Once inside you can use your GPS. Cross the bridge and turn left on Rainbow Circle. The address is 306 Shannons Walk, Lake Lure. Her Phone # is 828-447-8886.

This year-end event was put together by Cynthia as a thank you to all the CCOH members for welcoming her to the group. Thank you Cynthia!

Please RSVP Mike Merrill at [email protected]

As with all our field trips, we require a completely filled-out Release Agreement for each person attending our organized events. It is important that you have it downloaded, printed and filled out before you leave home. Have it with you when you arrive at Ingles.

THE LEARNING CORNER BY GINNY BEDELL, EDUCATION DIRECTOR





The human eye will be often be drawn to looking in the general area of where the thirds converge (Rule of Thirds) on an image.

The aperture setting on your camera presents an opportunity to bring into sharp focus a specific element of the image you are capturing. By having blurred foreground and background, you can literally and figuratively place the focus on the exact part of the photograph that you want to. This is probably one of the easier and more effective techniques to draw the viewers eye.

Remember that whatever it was that attracted your eye and caused you to shoot an image may not be what the viewer's eye is naturally drawn to when they look at that image. It's up to you to take steps to have these factors reinforce your intended subject, not compete with it. And that’s just the capture side. Then there is post-processing, but that’s a subject for another time…

PHOTOGRAPHER PROFILE: Carol Green Like many Camera Club members, I took snapshots with my Brownie during my childhood. What piqued my deep interest was when I was gifted a Hasselblad! I Enrolled in a Photography/Darkroom course from Professor Geoff Winningham at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He said, “Show me a moment in time I’ve never seen before and can never be duplicated.” These are the words I hear whispering in my ear whenever I am shooting. My favorite photographer is Imogen Cunningham. I did a Pink Chair series publishing a daily shot on Facebook for 30 days straight. Pink Chair became a living character doing creative things. Friends on Facebook still ask two years later to bring back Pink Chair. Currently, I’m capturing interesting things I come across in Henderson County that may vanish soon, like the Grey Hosiery Mill. I use an iPhone 6S Plus, a Canon Power Shot Elph 300 HS, a Canon EOS Rebel T5i, and for enlargements - Adoramax.

NOVEMBER MINI WORKSHOP

Creating in Lightroom and Photoshop: Presets and Local Adjustments

Greg Lambert and Warren Bedell will team up to continue our theme of post processing. Greg will show how to create, import, save and apply Lightroom presets to your photographs. In the previous workshop, Warren had discussed "global" adjustments (those applied to the entire image). For this program he will discuss post processing "local" adjustments (those applied to a specific area) in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Camera Club of Hendersonville

Mini Workshop

1-4 pm, Thursday, November 30

At the Hendersonville Library

Kaplan Auditorium


AWARDS

Susi Luard received a gold medal / first prize in Mono category in the RPS Documentary Photographer of The Year competition. The competition was run by the RPS Documentary group but open to all RPS members worldwide. Contestants were invited to submit a documentary photo essay consisting of five images, with a title on a subject of the photographer’s own choosing. Contestants had to submit either in the colour or mono category.

Susi provided the background for her photographic essay and her five images.

MOURNING THE CLOSURE OF THE WHITE HORSE STRIP PUB IN SHOREDITCH

When the family run strip pub closed because of rising rents, the strippers lost their place of work. The East London Strippers Collective protested with an 'RIP Shoreditch' New Orleans style funeral procession on 14 August 2016 from the White Horse Pub, along Rivington Street, and ending at the Red Gallery with an exhibition and party. The atmosphere was electric with the beautiful ladies in their strippers costumes carrying a life-size coffin accompanied by fabulous jazz music provided by a saxophonist and a drummer. I was caught up with emotion and sympathy for the strippers, that after photographing the procession I joined the procession with flowers in my hand. Has Shoreditch just lost more of its wildness?


Appendix: Google Maps Routes to Old Car City

When a trip from Hendersonville to Old Car City is put into Google Maps, three routes appear. “Via I-85 South” is listed as the fastest route of 218 miles and 3 hours 49 minutes. But note the construction logos at several parts of this route. “Via US-74 West” is listed as 207 miles with travel time of 3 hours, 53 minutes. “Via SC-11 South” is listed as 222 miles and 4 hours, 19 minutes.


LEGAL STUFF - THE FINE PRINT

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In Focus! November 2017 - Camera Club of HendersonvilleIn Focus! November 2017 UNDER THE FOLD Long time members of the Club may recognize the name Dick Spicka. Dick was a member of