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Please join us at our usual meeting location, 17 Fox Hill Drive, Natick, MA for a hands-on Light Painting workshop.  The sun sets at 7:02, and we’re starting at 7:30.

What is Light Painting?  If you missed Elyssa’s presentation on September 24, you can check out the following links for examples of works that inspired this workshop.

http://lightpaintingphotography.com/

http://haroldrossfineart.wordpress.com/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/lightjunkies/pool/

We’re going to set up three indoor sets sets for you to take turns experimenting with various light painting techniques.  Weather permitting, there will also be some outdoor shooting opportunities.

Where: We’re meeting at the home/office of David Kahn, our usual meeting location: 17 Fox Hill Drive, Natick, MA

What to bring:

• Your camera.  Before you arrive, you should figure out how to take exposures of 15 seconds or longer.
• Remote shutter release (wired or wireless) if you have one.  (If  you don’t have a shutter relelase, you can use your camera’s self-timer.)
• A tripod.
• Light sources, including flashlights, light sabers and anything else that can add light creatively to a scene.  You might want to label them so you’ll know which ones are yours.  Extra batteries will also be useful.
• Black panels, tablecloths or other materials that can be used as backdrops.
• Black gloves or equivalent will be helpful, so yours hands don’t show up in the photographs.  (Dark clothing is also useful.)
• Any objects you want to try light painting on.  Objects with interesting texture are particularly interesting.

Participating artists – please pick up your artwork at the bank between 9:00AM and 9:30AM.

Participating artists – please drop your artwork off at the bank, 9:30AM.  Your artwork should be framed and ready to hang (wire only, no sawtooth or loop).

Tonight’s topic: Filter Forge

by Tony Mistretta

This presentation will explore the use and capabilities of Filter Forge 3.0, a Photoshop Plug-in that allows users to build their own filters or use any of about 4,500 filters that have been created by others.  I have been using Filter Forge for almost two years now, and have found it to be useful for creating effects that I cannot find anywhere else.  I will demonstrate the use of filters in the library and show some of my images that have been successfully modified with Filter Forge.

The Filter Forge site: http://www.filterforge.com/

Tonight’s topic: TBA

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Tonight’s topic: TBA

Occasionally, one of the other local camera clubs schedules an interesting event on our regular meeting night.  When this happens, we plan to join them instead of scheduling a conflicting meeting.  If there’s any interest, we can get together for dinner or a snack after the presentation.

The Newton Camera Club and the Boston Camera Club invite you to join them on November 25th at the Newton Free Library for An Evening with Damian Strohmeyer.  This program is free to the public and will run from 7:00pm to 9:00pm in the library’s Druker Auditorium.

Damian Strohmeyer is a Boston photographer who has been telling stories with photographs for more than two decades. Adept with a wide range of skills he is comfortable working in portraiture, photojournalism, and fast moving news, sports and feature photography in the advertising, commercial and editorial markets.

Damian is a member of the exclusive Canon “Explorers of Light” program a group of 50 of the world’s most influential photographers and is a frequent speaker at education events.

He has been affiliated with Sports Illustrated magazine for over 20 years. Among the major sports events you might spot Damian are: The World Series, The NCAA Basketball Tournament, The World Cup, The Stanley Cup, The Olympics, and the past 27 Super Bowls. His work has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated over 60 times.

Some links: Damian Strohmeyer, Newton Camera Club, Boston Camera Club

Our annual NELP holiday dinner will be Monday, January 13, 2014 at 6:30 pm, at the Lotus Flower restaurant in Framingham (near Walmart).  They have an excellent dinner buffet ($16.95), or you can order exactly what you’d like from the menu.   They have a great bar too, with a selection of delicious drinks.

If you can’t make it at 6:30, it is ok to arrive a bit later.  The buffet is open until 8:30.  If you’d like to join us, please let me know so I can reserve enough seats.  I’ll call in a count on Sunday, with a few extras for walk-ins.  I initially reserved a table for 12.

See you then!