Loudoun Photo Club

Wayne Wolfersberger, owner of Nature is Wild Photography, will discuss photographing wildlife.  The presentation will be illustrated with his photographs from Yellowstone National Park.  The location is GWU Ashburn Campus, Research 1, Room 101 (map: 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn, 20147), from 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m

We will be meeting Wayne for dinner at Rubino’s at 5:30 Thursday prior tothe meeting.  Please join us if you are able.

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Many thanks to Ian Plant for his presentation to LPC last night! We had over 50 people in attendance for an informative session. Afterwards, Ian had books for sell and signed copies for our club members.

Ian Plant, author of 50 Amazing Things You Must See and Do in the Greater D.C. Area, will discuss local places to take photographs, both the obvious, and the not so well known. 

NOTICE: The scheduled location has been changed to GWU Bldg 2,  Room 175.  This is the building to the right at the Stop sign.  We will be having dinner with the presenter before the meeting at Rubino’s (see the locations page for directions).

Loudoun Photo Club had its final judged competition on May 28. Corey Hilz did a fine job highlighting the great work done by members of our club and conveying advice on ways to improve our skills in the future. Competiton Results

Prior to the competition, Mary Austin-Keller officiated her last meeting as our club President.  She has done a wonderful job during her tenure but has decided to take a well earned break from the duties.  Club members stepped up to volunteer for various positions with Denise Silva entering as President of LPC for the coming year.

The new LPC board will meet soon to set up the End of Year meeting / competition. 

Details for the EOY meeting will be posted soon.   List of eligible photos ofr the EOY competition

Thursday, May 14 – 7:00p – Ms. Koslow spoke to us a couple years ago on this topic with great interest (it was the hit of the season). She’ll discuss inkjet printing tips, papers, inks, and more. 

Carolyn Koslow’s website:     http://www.koslowfinearts.com/

There will be a dinner meet and greet before the meeting beginning at 5:30p at Rubino’s in Ashbrook Commons

Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this a success. See a pano of our exhibit taken by Tony Moringello.

Hi Everyone, our calendar is now complete with all the speakers, member nights and competitions.

Don’t forget, our holiday party and member night coming up in a few days. The club will provide pizza and everyone is encouraged to bring a side dish, dessert, or beverage. Members bring your photos to share!

Our exhibit at the Claude Moore Park Recreation Center will start soon! The new date will be the first week in November. Once volunteers have signed up to hang, then they will get to choose the specific day. Members will need to bring their images at the specified time to hang them. They MUST have eyelet screws or a VERY WELL ATTACHED device that acts like an eyelet screw. Neilsen frames tend to have these well attached. Note, the ones that just simply clip in will not work very well. Not only are they hard to hang, but all the weight of the frame will be on those little pieces and if they fall out, your frame will come crashing to the floor. Sawtooth hangers will NOT work. This is not because of any sort of silliness on my part, as it took me a long time to figure out how to put eyelet screws in (all my frames come with sawtooth hangers). This is purely out of necessity for how they will be hung.

Basically, CMPRC will attach a firm wire to the brick/cement wall. This creates, well, think of it as a curtain rod. This “curtain rod” is placed high so that works of varying sizes can be accomodated. Then “S” hooks are slipped onto this “curtain rod”. This allows the artist to adjust the work to the height they want. So that art does not “swing”, we use two wires to hang them. What has worked superbly in the past is fishing wire. This way the hanging mechanism blends into the wall. So, fishing wire is tied onto the S hooks, then hangs down to each frame, where it is connected to the eyelet screws or similar. Sawtooth hangers will not work because there is usually only one and because it will cut thru the wire over time. Note that the entire weight of the frame is on these eyelet screws, so they must be attached securely. The fishing wire will be hooked via one of two methods, shown in the diagram below. You can also see Bob’s diagram and images of the display space below the diagram.

View Bob’s diagram of the CMPRC space

Hello everyone.  Our first official competition of the season is Thursday, Oct. 23rd!  We are excited to have Joseph Rossbach back to judge for us.  The theme is the same topic he spoke on, “Abstracts”.  Note, while Joe focused on abstracts in nature, any abstract image (family friendly) will be accepted.  Please don’t forget to read the competition rules and abide by them.  While we are lenient, we expect everyone to try to follow the rules.  You must enter your images by 7:15pm!  Late images will not be accepted, especially if the competition has already been judged!

We will have dinner at Ruby Tuesday in Ashburn. Dinner starts around 5:30pm and usually lasts until 6:30-6:40.  Everyone is welcome to join us and our judge if he’s available.

Lastly, those who are entering photos into the competition, please remember your  membership card to make verifying you are a member easier.

Our speaker for the Oct. 9th meeting has unfortunately fallen ill.  We will either have a new speaker or we will have a member night.  I will let everyone know.  I’d suggest bringing stuff to share just in case.

Also, DON’T FORGET: MEETING IN BUILDING 2, the same building as last time.  That’s the one where at the stop sign, you turn RIGHT, then RIGHT again, and it’s that building.  If you get lost, go to the normal building and ask the guard/receptionist, they can direct you.  (It’s very close to the normal building.)

We will meet up for dinner beforehand, check the mailing list and website for more.

The new photoshop cs4 is here! Probably it’s neatest feature is called “content aware scaling”. At first this sounds pretty boring. But seeing a demo makes a world of difference. The software recognizes the “important” parts of an image and allows you to scale the image by reducing the “unimportant” pixels and keeping the important ones. For example, in a picture of a car, the tires and headlights should be kept to a certain proportion, but the middle of the door can be squeezed or even thrown away.

See the demo here at Adobe TV: