Tonight’s topic: Natick Night Photo Shoot (Light Painting postponed)

Please note that this night has been swapped with the Image Review Night that would normally take place on the 2nd Monday.

New November Topic: We’ll be meeting in downtown Natick to photograph the town center at night.  We’ll be experimenting and sharing ideas for shooting with limited ambient light.  After the shoot, we’ll meet somewhere for food and/or drink if anyone is interested.

Where we’ll meet: We’ll meet at the main entrance to the Morse Library on E. Central Street (Rt 135) in Natick Center at 7:30 pm.  From there, we’ll walk around Natick Center, including the town common and its gazebo.

What to bring: Bring your camera, a tripod, and any accessories you’d like to work with.  If you’re not familiar with your camera’s options for time exposures, it makes sense to review your manual and/or take a couple of test shots at home first.

Parking options: There is some parking on Rt. 135 in front of the library, on Washington Street next to the library, and around the town common.  There is also a lot behind the police station on South Street.

Rain Date:  If the weather doesn’t look good, we’ll move the shoot to November 26 and the image review to November 12.  I’ll send an email before 4:00 pm to let you know if there’s a change.

Image Review:  The November image review optional topic will be “Sunrise/Sunset”.  This is scheduled for November 26.

Tonight’s topic: Movie Night

Please join us for Movie Night—we’ll be streaming a movie via Netflix.  You’re welcome to bring some refreshments to share with the group.  I’ll provide cups and paper goods.  Last year the group selected Public Eye, and it was excellent.

The following movies feature the theme of photography in some way, and they all stream on Netflix.  Feel free to bring any other suggestions to the meeting.  We’ll choose one of the available options, based on a consensus of those who are attending.

• High Art
• Calendar
• Photographing Faeries
• Memento
• The Bang Bang Club

Note: We’re swapping our education night and image review night in February.

Tonight’s topic: A presentation by member Virge Lorents.

* * * LOCATION CHANGE * * *

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.

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

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

Tonight’s topic: Movie Night

Please join us for our annual Movie Night—we’ll be streaming a movie via Netflix.  You’re welcome to bring some refreshments to share with the group.  I’ll provide cups and paper goods.

The following movies feature the theme of photography in some way, and they all stream on Netflix.  Feel free to bring any other suggestions to the meeting.  We’ll choose one of the available options, based on a consensus of those who are attending.

• High Art
• Calendar
• Photographing Faeries
• Memento
• The Bang Bang Club

On previous Movie Nights we’ve watched Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus and Public Eye.

Tonight’s topic: Portfolio Review

Donna Dufault will be visiting us for our Education Night on March 24, 2014 for a Portfolio Review.  This meeting will continue the process started several years ago when Donna came to talk to us about portfolios.  The concept we’re developing is for each of us (if we’re so inclined) to create and assemble photographs that share a common theme or concept.  The common theme could be something obvious like subject (e.g. portraits) or appearance (e.g. blue), or something more subtle.  Each portfolio can evolve, if desired, into a solo show, a book, etc.

We have three volunteers signed up to present portfolios, and have room for one more.  If you’d like to share a portfolio and receive feedback from Donna and the group, please let me know.  Our current volunteers are:

• Andrea Gardner
• Virge Lorents
• Linda Crews

Volunteers will be bringing a portfolio of ~ 12 to 20 printed images, ~ 8.5″ x 11″ in size, that can be laid out on the table for review.  

The meeting will be at 7:30 pm, as usual.  The location is 17 Fox Hill Drive, in Natick.  See you there.