The View Finder
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Volume 3, Issue 7
July, 2014
A Gold Mine Of American Images– Free!
By Arthur H. Bleich
America, 1935. A land in the midst of a
Great Depression.
Drought and over-cultivation of farmland
had spawned dust storms that stripped
vital topsoil away. In a country that was
predominately rural and small-town, the
massive crop failure that ensued caused
millions to lose their farms and homes.
Blown out, baked out and broke, most
were forced to drift aimlessly from place
to place, looking for whatever work they
could find, desperate just to stay alive.
through in images of family closeness,
folks enjoying simple pleasures, and pride
reflected in the faces of those who were
getting their lives together again as the
government’s “New Deal” began to put
the country back on its feet.
A GOLD MINE OF AMERICAN
IMAGES - FREE
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WHY DO CLOUDY DAY PHOTOS
SEEM FLAT?
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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CHEERS TO OUR BEVERAGES
QUIZ
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WEB SITES TO TRY
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ASK TIM GREY
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ROAN MTN. FIELD TRIP PHOTOS
The Farm Security Administration (FSA)
was charged with implementing government programs to help farmers who had
been displaced. It also hired photographers to document its efforts and results.
In all, FSA photographers shot over
164,000 black and white photographs and
a smaller collection of 1,600 color images
that perfectly defines the U.S. from 1935–
1945
Though they were hired to photograph
government-sponsored projects, their vision went far beyond that, showing the
soul of America and the courage of its
people. Even in the midst of hardship, the
indomitable spirit of the nation shines
Inside this issue:
EVENTS YOU MAY BE INTERSTED
IN
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THE PROBLEM OF WORD INFLATION IN
THE WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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QUIZ ANSWERS
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The guiding light of the FSA photo unit
was Roy Stryker, a former college teaching assistant. During the eight years he
headed the project (which in 1942 became part of the Office of War Information), 44 photographers were hired,
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Why Do Cloudy Day Photos Seem Flat?
by David Peterson
most always come out darn flat!
What could be wrong? First you’ll
need to understand some fundamental aspects of lighting and their visual relationship to the subjects of the
photos you take. Hopefully these
will explain why cloudy day photos
seem to be flat.
“Contrast Lighting
plays a big role in
photography. In fact
photography is often
defined as the art of
capturing light”.
Quality of Light
If you’re like most beginners in photography, taking photos on a cloudy
day is almost often a challenge. It
seems no matter how much you try and
how often you hear well-meaning advice from professionals, the tips don’t
seem to work. The photos you take al-
and Contrast Lighting plays a big
role in photography. In fact photography is often defined as the art of
capturing light. Light sets the mood
of your image or scene. And light
has certain qualities. It can either be
“hard” or “soft”.
1. Hard Lighting This is a directional type of light where you have a
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Calendar of Events
Jul 9
Favorite Image Discussion
Ed Lane
Jul 16
Competition - Print - Family Images
Ed Lane
Jul 19
Field Trip - Asheville, (River Arts District, & More
Doreen Sugierski
Aug 6
Competition - Projection Panning
Ed Lane
Aug 16
Field Trip - Suspension Bridges of NC
Dean Powell
Aug 20
Competition - Print - Open
Ed Lane
Sept 3
Competition - Projection - Sacred Spaces
Ed Lane
Sept 17
Competition - NG Celebrate “Vision on Earth”
Ed Lane
Sept 20
Field Trip - River Banks Zoo, Columbia, S.C.
Janice Setzler
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Web Sites to try
Cheers to Our Beverages
http://500px.com/popular
Milk, Cheerwine, sweet tea. Let’s raise a toast to the drinks of
Carolina, the beverages that pair perfectly with our meals.
1.
http://digital-photography-school.com/
http://photonaturalist.net/
The land where Sidney Weller established our state’s first
commercial winery in 1835 is now occupied by what state
park in Halifax County?
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/
A. Morrow Mountain State Park
http://www.steeletraining.com/
B. Modoc Mountain State Park
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/
C. Crowders Mountain State Park
2.
Click on the links above
Before there was iced tea. Native Americans and early
settlers dank a type of tea made from the leaves of what
shrub found on our coast?
Ask Tim Grey - Sharpening Order
A. Yaupon
Today's Question: I think it is established wisdom that
sharpening should be the final step of an adjustment process.
B. Live Oak
C. Juniper
3.
North Carolina’s official state fruit is what variety of grape
whose “Mother Vine” is more than 400 years old and
grows on Roanoke Island?
My question: If I do any sharpening in Adobe Camera Raw,
which must be done prior to opening the image in Photoshop Elements [or Photoshop], how is it possible to make
any further adjustments but still have done sharpening as
the final step? Is it appropriate to then do further sharpening
[after sharpening in Adobe Camera Raw]?
A Concord
B. Scuppernong
C. Merlot
4.
Pepsi-Cola was invented by New Bern pharmacist Caleb
Brandham in 1893. What name did this popular soft drink
first go by?
Tim's Answer: This is a case of having a perfectly reasonable understanding of conventional wisdom, but with an additional element that may initially seem to work against that
understanding, but actually doesn’t. Allow me to explain.
A Brad’s Drink
B. Caleb’s Cola
The notion that sharpening should be the last step of your
workflow is a very good understanding and a very good
practice, especially in the context of printing. But that
doesn’t mean that you can’t apply any sharpening at all prior to that final output sharpening.
C. New Bern Fizz
5.
Our official state beverage is milk. About how many gallons did N.C. cows produce in 2012?
A. 50 Million
Software for processing RAW captures (among other software) allows you to apply some sharpening to compensate
for softness in the initial capture. That softness is a byproduct of the very process of converting from an analog signal
(light) to digital values (via the image sensor), as well as
due to filters in front of the sensor and other factors. So the
initial sharpening you can apply (and that is applied by default in Adobe Camera Raw) is aimed at compensating for
that minor softness.
B. 75 Million
C. 112 Million
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Roan Mtn. Field Trip Photos
Photograph by Doreen Sugierski
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Events you may be Interested In
Cherokee, North Carolina
Bath, North Carolina
39th. 4th of July Powwow
Pirate Encampment
July 4-6
July 12
Dancers and drummers make their grand entrances on Friday at 7 p.m. to kick off this annual dance competition.
These world-champion dancers will compete in three categories - Traditional, Jingle Fancy, and Grass - turning the
dirt campgrounds into a display of colorful tribal regalia
and Native American song.
The Devilmen of Cape Fear invite anyone who dares to
witness their reenactment of Bath’s part in Blackbeard’s
life and sudden death at Ocracoke. At Bonner’s Point,
there will be cooking demonstrations, knot-work, weapons, and a pirate funeral to complement this traveling exhibit. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free admission (252) 923-3971 or
nchistoricsites.org
Friday and Sunday, 1 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 7 p.m. Admission $10. Acquoni Expo Center. (800) 438-1601 or
visitcherokeenc.com.
Boone, North Carolina
Burning In Effigy
Linville, North Carolina
July 4
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
Visit the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum in
Boone on July 4 to celebrate our nation’s independence
in 18th-century style typical of 1780’s N.C. Enjoy a
reading of the Declaration of Independence, a eulogy for
King George III while his effigly is burned, an apple cider toast (reminiscent of the Toasts of Halifax in 1789),
and a military salute. Donations encouraged.
July 10-13
Our state’s Scottish clans come together for dancing., piping, drumming, and athletic competitions. You don’t have
to have a drop of Scottish blood to appreciate and enjoy
this spectacle of Gaelic cultural traditions.
(828) 733-1333
Call (828) 264-3827 or visit hickoryridgemuseum.com.
Boone, North Carolina
Fireworks Extravaganza
July 4
Tweetsie Railroad Fireworks, can be viewed along Hwy
321, between Blowing Rock and Boone.
Call (877) 893-3874 or visit tweetsie.com.
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The Problem of Word Inflation in the World of Photography
steak and egg breakfast in the Bahamas? Do
I get even further stunned to the point that I
cannot help but drop my jaw to the floor for
the jaw-dropping shot of Hawaii that Yahoo!
says I will not believe? How much more comatose into stundom can I get?
When did every photo become stunning?
And if every photo is stunning, is any
photo stunning?
It’s called word inflation and it’s a little out
of control
I was in Peru years ago and as I crossed the
border they made me cash 60 dollars US into
Peruvian dollars because there was rampant
hyper-inflation and they wanted US Dollars
in the country. I gave them $60 and they
gave me 15 huge stacks of Peruvian dollars
that measured at least a foot high. I felt like a
millionaire. But by the time I left Peru two
days later that same stack of bills was worth
about half of what I changed it for.
It seems every news and blog site that I visit
these days in inundating me with stunning
photos. Sometimes the photos are labeled
“Jaw-Dropping” or “Amazing” or
“Incredible,” and to be honest, the pictures
are usually great. But just as often they are
just above-average pictures with exaggerated headlines.
Well, the same thing seems to have happened
in describing photography. I did a Google
Trend search on the word “stunning” and I
found its use on the Internet nearly doubled
in less than 10 years. Apparently a heck of a
lot more things are stunning than ever before.
What’s going on here? When did every picture become stunning? And if every picture
is stunning, is any picture stunning really? I
mean how stunned can I get?
If I’m initially stunned into a stupor looking
at a Jeffrey Mcgillicuty’s picture of the sunset, do I get progressively more stunned as I
view pictures of Aunty Ellie’s shot of her
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jaw-dropping to tell people about our awesome photographs. Since stunning has become so mundane we need to up the ante a
bit.
Not an excellent graph but it does show a doubling of the
word “Stunning” as it appears on the Internet.
Or we could simply refer to great photographs for what they are… great photographs. And good photographs for what they
are… good photographs.
Now, I leave you with a brain paralyzing
photo:
And the word jaw-dropping appears to be just as bad.
What can we do?
Well the first thing we need to do is find two
new words that far surpass stunning and jaw
-dropping in describing photography. Maybe
we can use “brain-paralyzing” in place of
stunning and “heart-stopping” in place of
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fired and rehired (some several times) and others just
quit. But about 16 would stay long enough to produce
most of the images, acquiring distinctive visual styles as
they exposed negative after negative.
Because the project was funded by the government, the
pictures are not copyrighted; you can download them as
digitized files and make prints of those you like. Most of
the best have been scanned at high enough resolutions to
allow very big images to be printed.
Stryker was not a photographer and frequently was heavy
-handed both with his staff and with pictures that didn’t
meet his esthetic or political requirements– he’d punch a
big hole through negatives he didn’t like. But he was also
astute enough to realize that aside from showcasing government-run projects he also had to show the plight of the
people the programs were designed to help. And these are
the images –like Dorothea Lange’s classic photo of a despairing migrant mother that, more than 75 years later,
have endured.
Some real gems in the FSA collection are the little-known
color pictures that some of the photographers shot,
grouped together for easy access. Using the only color
film then available, Kodachrome with an ASA (ISO) of
10 (that’s “ten”), some photographers weren’t as comfortable with the new medium as they were with black and
white; nevertheless some marvelous pictures were recorded. Beautiful scenics, reminiscent of Currier & Ives lithographs, powerful industrial photos, quirky bits of roadside
Second hand plumbing store, Brockton, Mass, 1940. Jack
Delano
Americana and striking images of people at work and
play.
Once downloaded and in your imaging program they’re
easy to enhance and you can bring out nuances that would
have been lost in the photographic printing processes of
Destitute pea pickers in California (aka “Migrant Mother”),
1936. Dorothea Lange
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with once you get it into your imaging program. Scans
from copy negatives are sometimes good and sometimes
bad. Regardless of which scan type you download, some
sharpening may be necessary and you may also have to
tweak the brightness and contrast; just make changes until
the photo looks good to you.
Navigating the FSA archive is an arduous task due to the
sheer enormity of it, but it is well indexed by subject, photographer and geographical location. If you do it methodically, say, a few hundred pictures a night, the rewards will
be great. It’ll be a long-term project that will open your
eyes to the way America lived during those turbulent
times and shows the courage that was needed to endure. If
you’ve read John Steinbeck’s Grapes Of Wrath, these are
the pictures that come to mind when Ma Joad says: “We
ain’t gonna die out. People is goin’ on– changin’ a little,
maybe, but goin’ right on.”
their time. Since you’re probably not going to be displaying pictures that are six feet wide, remember to downsample them to no more than 300 ppi after you choose their
output size. I recently ran Red River Paper’s Ultra Pro Satin 3.0 13″ x 19″ paper through my Epson R2880 to produce some prints from scanned 4×5-inch color transparencies and 35mm slides. The results were absolutely breathtaking; even prints from slide scans were sharp and virtually grainless with brilliant color.
Don’t overlook the black and white collection. You’ll find
Dorothea Lange’s famous “Migrant Mother” picture there
among many others. Some black and white pictures give
you a choice of downloading a scan from a print, from the
original negative, or from a copy negative. Though the
image from a print usually looks better on the web, the
scan from the negative sometimes gives you more to work
The FSA photographers were in it for the long haul; they
weren’t doing a one day shoot for a Day-In-The-Life
book. On the road for months at a time and expected to
follow shooting scripts that were sometimes 20 pages
long, their unexposed film had to be mailed back to Washington for processing. They never saw what they had shot
until they received a package of prints weeks later. Then
they spent hours captioning their pictures before mailing
them back again. It was exhausting work performed in
Boys on Easter morning, southside, Chicago,
Illinois, 1941. Russell Lee
Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range,
Madison County, Montana, 1942. Russell Lee
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numbing cold and sweltering heat, frequently coupled with bad food, primitive accommodations, and recalcitrant subjects who were suspicious of their motives.
Going through the collections, you can’t help but admire their tremendous dedication as they set out to capture a reflection of bad times and the better ones that followed. To be able to print and display their images for your personal pleasure is a great posthumous gift from them to you. Take advantage of it; they would be touched by your appreciation of
their accomplishments.
How To Access The Collections:
Black and White Images: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
Color Images: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/
Many other image collections are held by the Library of Congress, most of which have been digitized and are copyrightfree: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Ask Tim Grey - Sharpening Order
When you are going to prepare an image for sharing, especially when that sharing will be done via a print, it is
important to apply sharpening to compensate for the
(sometimes considerable) softness that can result from the
spread of ink on paper, for example. That is a bit more
aggressive, and is aimed at compensating for the behavior
of ink on paper (for example) rather than for the initial
capture.
Cheers to Our Beverages
1. B. Modoc Mountain State Park
2. A. Yaupon
It is certainly possible to apply all of your sharpening as a
single step at the very end of your workflow. But it can
also be helpful in some cases (and for various reasons) to
apply at least a minor amount of sharpening earlier in your
workflow.
3. B. Scuppernong
4. A. Brad’s Drink
5. C. 112 Million
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2. Soft Lighting
difference in tones. The result is images with more
drama, more vibrant or saturated colors and more
eye-catching appeal. On the other hand, the image
with soft lighting produced a photo that is known as
a low-contrast image. The range of tones is not really significant since the shadows are subdued. This
creates a drab image, the colors are muted and oftentimes end up being flat or monotone. This happens because there is little contrast in the image
which makes the subject one-dimensional or formless. The subject ends up blending with the background. One of the secrets in photography is learning how to “read” the light and apply it to the subject you have in mind. By understanding the difference in the quality of light, you can now look for
ways on how to use it and capitalize a given situation. Here are some suggestions.
Notice the difference in brightness between the light
and dark areas of both images. This is also known as
contrast. With hard lighting, the photo produced is a
high-contrast image because you can really see the
– Right Subject for the Right Light
Oftentimes our frustration comes from the mindset
of shooting an outdoor subject with the kind of
lighting we expect to see on a sunny day – hard
lighting. Having a cloudy day means having a soft
light. And having a soft light means having a flat
even light with minimal shadows. So the key in
shooting in this situation is to find out the right
subject – subjects that would require even lighting.
Did you know that professional photographers try to
achieve this type of light in a studio using a soft
box? This is usually done when shooting portraits
or product shots. The omni-directional nature of the
soft light minimizes the shadow which in turn hides
imperfections on the skin such as wrinkles, blemishes and bumps. This makes the skin more flattering. Likewise because the highlight-to-shadow contrast is lower as compared to a hard light, it is much
easier to get the details of the subject as in the case
of a product shot. So, learning from this, when
shooting on a cloudy day, we will have more suc-
small light source that is directed towards the subject. This creates hard shadows on the subject which
is typical on a bright sunny day.
This on the other hand is a diffused type of lighting that is achieved by having a
larger light source. Because the light is more spread
apart and coming from different directions this softens the shadow on the subject similar to what is
achieved on a cloudy day.
Tip No. 1
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Even though the light is diffused and shadows are
minimized, still there is a tendency for shadows to
fall under the subject’s eyes. If this happens, ask
the subject to turn his/her head slightly until the
face is fully lighted.
cess if we limit our subjects to people, animals,
flowers or specific, individual things.
– Using a Reflector Another solution
you can do is to use a flat white surface to act as a
reflector to bounce light on the face of your subject.
The light, though diffused, will still brighten up the
face and further minimize or remove unwanted
shadows. This will result in a more appealing and
vibrant photo. The only problem you’d have to anticipate here is for someone to hold the reflector for
you, especially if you are shooting an animate subject like a pet or a little child that would not hold
still. But if you are shooting an immovable object
like a toy car or a flower, clipping the white reflector to a stand will suffice.
Tip No. 3
Also, since a low-contrast subject will have a tendency to blend with the background, it is best if we
shoot close-up or use a telephoto lens. This minimizes capturing the background unnecessarily and
allows us to focus on the details.
Avoid shooting wide, panoramic images as this
would appear flat in cloudy, low-contrast lighting.
– Angle of the Subject Shooting portraits on a cloudy day is just half of the solution.
Tip No. 2
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camera’s picture control menu you will be presented with different options such as standard, neutral,
monochrome, portrait, landscape, vivid, etc. By selecting vivid, you can increase the saturation of
your photo and come up with a vibrant image. So if
you see your subject as plain, uninteresting or monotonous, sometimes boosting the saturation will
add life to the colors. Voila! You now have a much
more interesting image. Or maybe you can choose
the monochrome option and convert your image to
B&W or a toned image. Sometimes, even though
you have a low-contrast image as in a cloudy day, if
your subject has a strong visual appearance and is
not dependent on color, then you can still produce
an outstanding monochrome image.
– Use a Flash Instead of using a white
reflector to add some light to your subject, another
method is to use a flash. The challenge though
would be how to adjust the strength of the flash so
that it wouldn’t overpower the light from your surroundings. The result would be an image looking
unnatural. But sometimes it can work, especially if
you know how to control the direction of the light
like in this image:
Tip No. 4
If you don’t want to be limited to shooting people,
animal or specific things on a cloudy day and would
still like to shoot landscapes or wide-angled shots, it
would still be possible with a flash. This method
will be great if you use the flash off-camera with a
radio trigger. There are a number of cheap radio
triggers available in the market today and they are
very useful. The set comes with a transmitter that is
attached to your camera’s hot shoe and the receiver
to the flash. The radio trigger allows you to reposition the flash anywhere within a 100m+ radius. This
will allow you to light up subjects or points of interest even at a distance. By doing so, you will be imitating a stray of light hitting the subject of interest
on a cloudy day.
– Shoot RAW By shooting the cloudy
scene using RAW format, you will be obtaining an
image with all the picture information that your
camera sensor sees. It’s like having a negative image on-hand. If you shoot in JPEG, the camera
would post-process the image you shot based on the
inputs you’ve made like boosting the saturation (as
in Tip No. 5). The output from your camera would
already be a post-processed image that was done incamera and all other information originally captured will be discarded. With the RAW file, you
could further make adjustments on the drab image
Tip No. 6
– Adjusting the Camera’s Picture Control Another method you can use is to tinker with
your camera’s picture control. If you go to your
Tip No. 5
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using your computer. Not only will it contain the complete original information, you will also have more
leeway in making contrast adjustments, boosting the saturation or converting into B&W.
– Convert to B&W Sometimes an image becomes more dramatic if the distracting pale color is
removed and the eye is left to appreciate the image visually in its graphic form. By converting the image to
B&W using post-processing software, you will have more options as compared to getting the camera to do it
for you. Options like adjusting the contrast to adding tints will come in handy. However it would require
extra time and patience until you get the results you want.
Tip No. 7
– Use Photoshop or Lightroom If none of these suggestions works for you, or if you have already taken the shot before any of these came up, don’t despair. You can still keep your image and postprocess it using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom or any software that allows you to do post-production
work. With Photoshop, you can do further manipulation on the image to make it more interesting. Or with
Lightroom, the software can churn out a number of variations of the image that you can choose from. Hopefully with these suggestions, you won’t find any more reason to skip shooting on a cloudy day.
Tip No. 8
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Club Officers
President:
Vice President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Image Coordinator:
Webmaster:
Donny Teague
Richard Griffin
Judy Young
Chip Young
Ed Lane
Scott M. Powell
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President’s Report
At the end of this week we celebrate our nation birthday, there are many way we celebrate. Some of us will be with family and friends at a backyard bar-b-que, others will enjoy a sporting evnet, and still other will find a fire works display to
boost our patriotic spirit. How you celebrate is not important, but celebrate we should because we live a great country
with freedoms that few people in the world have. So salute the flag and have a great time this week.
Our recent filed trip to Roan Mountain to photograph the Rhododendron was shall I say not successful. When we arrived at the gardens the clouds were so low we could only see about twenty feet in any direction. So hiking up to Jane’s
bald was out of the picture, then just as we were taking the group picture it started to rain. That led us to plan B or Elk
Falls to photograph the water fall. While this was not the trip we had hoped for everyone make the best of a bad situation. Then we headed to Linville Fall and Dugger Creek Falls.
Since I have been the leader on the last two field trips and both of them have been some what of a disaster. You will be
happy to know that for the rest of this year I will not be leading any more field trips. Our next trip will be lead by
Doreen who has put together some really good field trips and I expect she will do a much better job than I have.
We have a competition coming up with a topic of family pictures. This holiday will be an excellent time to take pictures
of family members for this completion, if you haven’t already do so.
Happy shooting,
Donny Teague
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Dues are $35 per year. Meetings are the first and third Wednesday of each month. Students: $15 per year.
New Member ____ Renewal ____ CLUB USE ONLY: Date Received______________ Cash_______ Check______
Please indicate your preference for committee membership on which you would serve if asked.
Program ____ Field Trip Leader ____ Working on Website ____ Newsletter ____ Mentoring ____ Social Events ____
Publicity ____ External Judging ____
Club Website: www.cvcameraclub.org
Occupation:____________________________________________________________________________
Website:_______________________________________________________________________________
My skill level in Photography would best be described as: Beginner ___ Intermediate ___ Advanced____ Professional ____
Do you have accounts with: Facebook ____ Google+ ____ Twitter ____ Other ___________________________________
Shoot Mostly: Film ____ Digital ____ Both ____
Camera Make: Canon ____ Nikon ____ Sony ____ Other _____________________________________________________
Photography Interest: (Check All that Apply)
Architecture ____ Eclectic ____ Events ____ Family ____ Landscapes ____ Macro ____ Nature ____
Photojournalism ____ Portraiture ____ Sports ____ Travel ____ Underwater ____ Waterfalls ____
Wild Flowers ____ Wildlife ____ Other ____________________________________________________________________
Computer System:
Mac ____ Windows ____
Photo Editing Software: Aperture ____ Elements ____ Lightroom ____ Photoshop ____
Other _____________________________________________________________________________
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