May 12, 2012 – Saturday 9:00 AM -12:00 PM
Close-up Photography Workshop
Location: Vicki Cobb’s home, Orland Park
Fee: $15.00 (includes lunch)
Stan Kotecki, pro-photographer, will conduct a workshop that teaches several ways of getting close to your subject. His instruction, supplemented by tips from our own Bruce Dawson, will be followed by hands-on practice both indoors and out. Indoor photography would consist of shooting tabletop set-ups that you arrange. Bring the subjects you would like to photograph, including but not limited to flowers (store-bought or hand picked), sea shells, buttons, coins, jewelry, and old wooden spools. Even bring small items you’d like to sell on e-Bay! Outdoor photography subjects may include plants in the adjacent woods and perennials in Vicki’s garden, or possibly birds, toads and butterflies. Use your imagination! Prerequisite: You should know how to use your camera and must bring whatever equipment you own for achieving close-ups. Members will be sharing, so no worries, just bring what you have on the list. An asterisk means it’s required (a must-have).
*DSLR camera or a point & shoot that gets close (up to about 12″)
*tripod (be sure you know how to turn off VR on your camera)
extension tubes diopters cable release macro lens light stand wide angle lens (it can get relatively close) flash, flash extension cord long lens (70-200mm, 70-80mm, or 24-70mm) video LED lights backgrounds (neutral colors, white, black, grey, blue, green) diffusers spring clamps, plumps reflectors (store-bought or home-made such as a white board or board covered with aluminum foil)
May 15, 2012 - Tuesday
End of Year Banquet
June 19, 2012 – 7:15 PM
Portrait Workshop
More details to follow soon
Saturdays in July
Summer Judging Seminars
Foresters Camera club will be running a seminar for those interested in becoming judges or learning to become a better judge. It will be held in two separate identical sessions, each consisting of two consecutive Saturdays in July. The first session will be held on Saturday, July 7th and Saturday, July 14th from 1:00 – 4:00 PM each day, and the second session will be held on Saturday, July 21st and Saturday, July 28th , also from 1:00 – 4:00 PM each day. All sessions will be held at the Vogt Visual Arts Center, located at 17420 South 67th Court in Tinley Park, which is a handicapped-accessible facility.
Material to be covered will include
• what to look for in a photograph,
• bad points and good points in a photograph,
• actual practice judging on photos that have already been judged,
• familiarization with the scoring equipment,
• the scoring procedure,
• critiquing,
and many other topics of interest to judges.We will also be covering specific categories such as Nature, Photojournalism, Alterations of Reality, and others. Experienced and new judges will be on hand to answer all questions, and hand-outs on judging criteria and scoring criteria will be given to each attendee. There will be a $2 fee to attend the sessions.
If you would like to learn about judging with the intent to possibly become a judge or would just like to find out more about how the judges score photos and you are a member of a south Chicago or south suburban club, then please join us. Seating will be limited to 25 people per session, so pre-registration will be necessary. Please specify which session you will be attending. Checks should be made payable to Foresters Camera Club and should be sent with the registration form to Lynn Polyak, 7848 West 80th Place, Bridgeview, IL 60455-1425. Registration forms will be sent to all of the south suburban clubs in the first week of May. If response is larger than we think, a third session may be planned for later in the year, possibly in September.
August 21 – 7:15 PM
Scavenger Hunt Photo Share
In July, club members will be provided a scavenger hunt list of 10 subjects to photograph. Participants must submit ONE digital photo of each subject on the list. Those ten images only should be burned to a CD or copied to a flash drive and brought to the church for viewing at the photo share by 7:15 PM. The members present will view all the projected images and vote on their favorites. Prizes will be awarded!
You Be the Judge - Bill Brown
Learn the basic concepts used to judge CACCA club images and why certain scores happen. Then try your hand at judging images that were previously scored by 28 CACCA judges and see how your scores compare. This program was devised to encourage camera club members to volunteer as CACCA judges.Bill Brown has been in photography since 1955. He has had his own photography business for more than 35 years. Bill now produces fine art images for sale. Since 1999 he has been shooting digitally and now shoots only with digital equipment. Bill uses Adobe Photoshop to prepare his images. He is past president of the Chicago Area Camera Club Association and teaches Adobe Photoshop, Elements, The process of shooting HDR and basic digital photography throughout the Chicago Area Camera Club Association to the local clubs and colleges. He has also presented programs at The Chicago Area Photographic School, which is held in the Chicago area every two years, teaches at the Clearing in Door County and has presented several programs at SWMCC. Bill is a member of P.S.A., past president of CACCA, past president and founder of The Elgin Area C.C., and is also a member of Elgin Area Camera Club and Lake County Camera Club.
September 18, 2012
Post-Processing Workflow With Elements 10 by Bruce Dawson
Bruce will begin by showing how to prepare images for DPI competition. Then he’ll go through his steps for post-processing images, starting with a RAW image file on a memory card straight from the camera. He’ll show file storage and organization using the Elements Organizer, adjustments in the Adobe Camera RAW converter, and manipulations with the Elements Editor. These will include straightening, cropping, lighting and color adjustments, selective adjustments using layers and masks, spot healing, cloning, noise reduction, resizing/resampling, and sharpening.
October 16, 2012 - Tuesday 7:15 PM
Post-Processing Member-Images In Photoshop Elements 10 - Mark Southard
Interested in seeing what Mark would do to enhance your image in Photoshop Elements? Just submit your digital image on a flash drive or by e-mail two weeks in advance of the program. Mark will make the creative decisions that may elevate your image to a work of art. If time allows, he will ask for audience participation. Come and see the master at work!
November 20, 2012 - Tuesday 7:15 PM
Creativity & The Power of Passion – Will Clay
Landscape photographer Will Clay will present a three-part program, relating the power of passion to art, music, and photography. He will define passionate creativity, illustrating it with a Creativity Triangle. Creativity leads to Passion, and finally to the expression of Creativity. Clay includes examples of artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as a number of musicians such as Beethoven, Bach, Dave Brubeck, and the Beatles. Finally, he shows the passion of creativity in the works of several photographers, including Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Alfred Steiglitz , and himself. He will probe the question, “You have this passionate creativity, now what do you do with it?” The program concludes with the advice of Joseph Campbell, “Follow your bliss.”December 18, 2012
Christmas Banquet
January 8, 2012
Business Meeting and January Competition
January 22, 2013
Workshop: Topic TBA
February 19, 2013
TBA
March 19, 2013
TBA
APRIL 16, 2013
Pizza & Processing Night
May 21, 2013
End of Year Banquet
