- 10 Photography Tips for Beginners - PC Magazine January 27, 201210 Photography Tips for BeginnersPC MagazineYou don't have to be a professional to take top-notch photos. Follow these simple tips to improve the quality of your snapshots. By Jim Fisher Digital photography has democratized the medium. More people are taking more photos than ever before, ... […]
- Is it final for film? — Some local shooters hope not - Sault Star January 27, 2012Is it final for film? — Some local shooters hope notSault StarWhat may come as a shock is that the same news also sent chills through a small, but dedicated, group of photographers who not only continue to use film, but insist it is superior to the digital products that have all but replaced it. […]
- Photo studios decry free passport photo service - Korea Times January 27, 2012Korea TimesPhoto studios decry free passport photo serviceKorea TimesBy Kim Rahn With almost all people owning digital cameras and carrying mobile phones that can take pictures, people barely visit photo-printing shops these days. If they do, the main purpose of their visit may be to obtain portrait shots for passports ... […]
- Using Your Camera's Settings: Program Mode, Shutter Speed, and More - PCWorld January 27, 2012Using Your Camera's Settings: Program Mode, Shutter Speed, and MorePCWorldHere's how to get the most from Program mode and use an online digital SLR simulator to learn how shutter speed, aperture, and other settings affect your photos. By Dave Johnson, PCWorld Attend any digital photography workshop, and inevitably you'll ...y más » […]
- Polaroid -- Too Little, and Still Too Late - Huffington Post January 26, 2012Newstrack IndiaPolaroid -- Too Little, and Still Too LateHuffington PostPolaroid -- the company that has been teetering on the brink of extinction for a while now -- recently came out with a new digital camera powered by Android. I think that's a good move, but they're a little late to the game in doing it.Polaroid SC1630 Android HD smart camera re […]
- Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #2 - National Geographic January 26, 2012National GeographicTop 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #2National GeographicAdvances in digital photography have given us the opportunity to capture the beauty and freedom of birds in the wild like never before. In January 2011, the Wild Bird Trust set up a Facebook page with the intention of celebrating free flight and birds ... […]
- Feeling Guilty About the Fall of Kodak - Patch.com January 26, 2012Gulf Daily NewsFeeling Guilty About the Fall of KodakPatch.comBy Marge Neal This roll of Kodak film, found in my camera gear, was supposed to be processed by June 1999, according to the box. Even with a Nikon D300 digital camera by my side and countless compact discs filled with digital photographic files sitting ...Lessons To Be Learned from Kodak's De […]
- Does the future iPhone include Lytro's technology? - Digitaltrends.com January 24, 2012TIMEDoes the future iPhone include Lytro's technology?Digitaltrends.comSteve Jobs wanted to leave his mark on the digital photography industry, and possibly integrate Lytro's groundbreaking light field camera into an Apple product. Is it a matter of when or if his surviving team will carry out this idea?Will Apple's iPhone 5 be the only camera […]
- Kodak was never going to be the Kodak of digital photography - CNET January 20, 2012The Guardian (blog)Kodak was never going to be the Kodak of digital photographyCNETIt's obvious that the great shift from film photography to digital photography changed everything for Kodak. Given that the company invented the digital camera, one might leap to the conclusion that it foolishly failed to understand what it had wrought ...Thanks for the m […]
- digital photography - CNET January 17, 2012digital photographyCNETFrustrated by the sluggishness and photo quality of your point-and-shoot but not thrilled about toting something the size of a dSLR? These cameras were designed with you in mind. The category of interchangeable-lens cameras subsumes a variety of ...y más » […]
March’s Meeting info!
January 3rd, 2011 | 
Author: March’s meeting will consist of:
Hey, we have a special treat in store for you for March’s PSET meeting! Pat Gordy, from the Photographic Society of Chattanooga, will be our guest. The PSC recently held an International Photo Salon. Digital images from all over the world were sent in to Chattanooga for the SCIPE (Scenic City International Photo Exhibition) held this past November.
Over 2500 images from 48 countries were entered. From these, over 900 were judge “accepted” or higher. Pat will be sharing about 500 of these images in two categories in her 50 minute presentation.
Please come and be prepared to be amazed and dazzled by some stunning photography! You will find it interesting to see how photographers from other countries “see.”
Also, bring a friend! There will be only a very brief “club business” time to give Pat all the time she needs.
Meeting is March 3rd. 2011 6:30,
Rose Center, Morristown.
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Kodachrome Film RIP!
It’s the end of the line for Kodachrome, the first commercially successful color film, created by Kodak in 1935. The iconic film will no longer be processed, as Thursday marked the last time Dwayne’s Photo — a lab in Parsons, Kansas — was willing to accept Kodachrome rolls that needed developing.
Kodachrome’s demise was first announced in June 2009. Kodak cited a decline in sales as photographers had traded their old film for digital memory cards — or, in some cases, newer films. This meant that the company also stopped producing the chemicals needed to develop the film.
As The New York Times reported Wednesday, there was a time when there were about 25 labs in the world that could process Kodachrome film. But the number of labs began to decline a few years ago when the last Kodak-run facility in the U.S. closed, followed by another closure in Japan and another in Switzerland. Dwayne’s Photo was the last place still developing Kodachrome, but last week, the lab opened the last of the chemicals used to process the film.
Even though Kodachrome saw diminishing sales toward its end, this is the end of an era for a number of photographers and photography buffs. The film — currently trending at number seven on Google in the U.S. — was noted for capturing rich color and light in a way that many say cannot be replicated by digital cameras or apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram.
As Paul Simon noted in his 1973 song — titled, “Kodachrome,” of course — ”You give us those nice bright colors/ You give us the greens of summers/ Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.”
The film was used to take some world-famous photographs, including Steve McCurry’s National Geographic 1985 cover image of a young Afghan girl. Incidentally, Kodak gave McCurry the last roll of Kodachrome last year. The photographer, who hand-delivered the final roll to Parsons after he finished shooting, has posted some of the last 36 frames on his blog.
Meanwhile, as the Times noted, the last roll to be processed at Dwayne’s Photo belongs to owner Dwayne Steinle. The final frame will feature all his employees standing in front of the business wearing shirts that commemorate the film’s official retirement.
Lunar Eclipse Coming Up!
A total lunar eclipse on December 21, 2010, will be the last eclipse of the year. This will be second of two lunar eclipses in 2010. The last time a total lunar eclipse occurred was on February 21, 2008.
With weather permitting, a total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in most of North America on December 20 and 21. The eclipse will start in the early morning of December 21st for observers in the Eastern United States, and late the evening of Monday December 20 in the West.
Most of Asia and Europe will see part of the eclipse as well. For the path of totality and local dates and times, consult this handy summary located here.
This is an exciting event for photographers and it can provide great opportunities to take some stunning lunar eclipse photos. Photographing the moon is relatively easy compared to other celestial bodies, because it’s relatively close to the earth.
We’ve waited almost three years for a total lunar eclipse — the last one was in February, 2008. We’ll see two in 2011 — June 15 for South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and December 10 for the eastern part of Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific. After that, we’ll have to wait until April 15, 2014, when there will be another total eclipse for Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas, and U.S. citizens will be paying their 2013 income taxes. Details of eclipses — both lunar and solar – from 2001 to 2020 can be found at the enchanting mreclipse.com, a site apparently run by one Fred Espenak, who seems to have made eclipses a big part of his life. The next total solar eclipse visible in the United States won’t take place until August 21, 2017.
Following are some tips showing you how to photograph the moon under normal circumstances, and eclipse conditions. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.
Photographing the Full Moon
Let’s start with the basics. The moon appears full when its orbit puts it in a position where the side of the moon facing us on earth is fully lit by the sun. Therefore, photographing the full moon on a clear night isn’t much different than photographing any other sun-lit object — except that it’s pretty far away — a little under 240,000 miles.
Because it is so far away, the moon is one subject where you’ll get the best results with an SLR (single lens reflex) camera with a long lens rather than using a point-and-shoot or a single-use “disposable” film camera. In fact, with a point-and-shoot or single-use camera, you can get an image of the moon but it will likely be a tiny white point rather than anything that looks like the moon.
It is true that in many aspects of astrophotography, digital cameras face a host of different challenges than their film-based counterparts, including issues with the long exposure times necessary to photograph at night and noise issues in black areas of the sky. But, since the moon is a bright sunlit object, if it fills a good part of the frame, using a digital SLR will be easy. So, you can use either a digital SLR or a film SLR.
Exposure
Since the moon is a sunlit object, the “sunny 16″ rule applies. (This is an easy-to-remember trick for photographing any sunlit subject that photographers relied upon prior to the days of autoexposure.) Simply put, the correct exposure for an object lit by bright sun can be a shutter speed of 1/the ISO setting you’re using, with an aperture of f/16. For example, if you’re using an ISO of 400 (or an ISO 400 speed film), a good starting point for a correct exposure of the moon would be f/16 at 1/400. Since most cameras don’t have a shutter speed setting of 1/400, we would suggest bracketing the exposure and making one at 1/250 at f/16, and one at 1/500 at f/16.
About Bracketing
While we’re on the subject, let’s discuss “bracketing” of your lunar eclipse photos for a moment.
When you bracket your exposure, it simply means that you take a photograph at the setting you think is correct, but you also photograph the same subject several more times, making slight changes in either the shutter speed setting or aperture. For most situations, we suggest that you make one or two images giving the image less exposure, and one or two that give the image more exposure.
You can’t bracket fast-moving subjects — a breaking news photo or sports action shot won’t wait long enough for you to make multiple exposures. But the moon (or a landscape or scenic subject for that matter) isn’t moving so fast relative to your camera. Therefore, it’s always a good idea to bracket your exposure. For our full moon shot, in addition to 1/250 and 1/500 at f/16, you could give a little less exposure by making a photo at 1/1000 at f/16, and a little more by shooting at 1/125 at f/16. You can achieve the same bracket of exposure by keeping your shutter speed at 1/250 but using different aperture openings, such as one exposure each at f/16, f/22, f/11 and f/8.
Use Manual Exposure
There are several reasons for turning off your auto exposure and setting your exposure manually when you photograph the moon. The main reason is that when you point your camera at the full moon, the moon is a little bright spot in a sea of darkness. In lunar eclipse photos, therefore, chances are that your automatic metering system will give too much emphasis to the vast area of dark sky surrounding the moon and therefore call for too much exposure — the result is that the moon will be overexposed. All you’ll get is a clear, white circle.
Another reason to expose manually and to bracket your exposure is that the exact amount of light coming from the moon will depend in part on how clear the sky is when you make your photograph. Water vapor is a factor if humidity is high, and there might be dust in the air if it is windy. If you’re at a high altitude, such as Denver, you’ll likely need a little less exposure than if you’re at sea level in New York or San Francisco. These factors will require small exposure changes. By using the manual exposure settings we suggest a little later in this article and by bracketing your exposure you’ll guarantee that one of your exposures will give the best possible image.
Choice of Lens
Here’s one place where the smaller sensors in the less expensive DSLRs give a real benefit. That 300mm lens will act more like a 400+mm lens if it’s mounted on a digital SLR with a smaller-than-full-size chip.
The full moon occupies about 1/2 of 1 degree of our field of view as you look up into the heavens. A rough guide is that if you divide the length of your lens by 100, you’ll get an approximate idea of how big the image of the moon you record. That means if you use a 50mm lens, you’ll record the full moon as 1/2-millimeter in diameter. However, if you use a 300mm lens you’ll get a 3mm moon, and if you add a 2x tele-extender to your 300mm lens the moon will be 6mm in diameter. If you can get your hands on an 8-inch telescope, you can have a moon that’s about 20mm in diameter, which will nicely fill the frame. These calculations presume that you’re using a 35mm film camera or a full-size sensor that is equivalent to a 35mm film frame.
If you’re unfamiliar with tele-extenders (also sometimes called teleconverters), they’re worthy of an article unto themselves. In short, a tele-extender is a device that effectively increases the focal length of your lens, usually by a factor of 1.4 or 2. A 1.4x tele-extender increases a 100mm lens to 140mm, a 2x extender increases the 100mm lens to 200mm. This boost comes with a price — the effective f-stop decreases and you may need to use manual focus. However, buying a good 300mm lens and a 2x tele-extender can be lot cheaper and more practical than buying a 600mm lens.
Whatever lens you use when taking lunar eclipse photos, it’s probably a good idea to use your tripod to steady your camera. Even with a short lens, if you’re holding your camera pointed toward the sky it is easy to sway a bit and that will cause camera shake and a soft image. With a long lens, a tripod is essential.
ISO Settings.
ISO 400 or 800 is a good choice. If you’re using a film-based camera, color negative, or, since your subject is primarily black-and-white, 400 speed black-and-white film will be fine as well. If you bracket a lot, you could even use slide film, but there’s a greater danger of losing detail because of overexposure if you do.
Most of today’s digital cameras do well at ISO speeds even higher than 800, while other models have either too much noise or overly aggressive noise-reduction that reduces detail.
What should you look for in the test shots? Look at any area with deep shadow, and if you see specks of red, blue and green color you are seeing “chrominance noise.” Compare a shot of the same subject at ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400 and ISO 800 and decide what is an acceptable level of noise for your personal tastes. If your camera performs well enough at ISO 400 or ISO 800, those will work very well. Since you’re going to have your camera mounted on a tripod, the slower shutter speed required by a lower ISO won’t be a problem.
If you follow these simple tips, you should have no problem in your attempt to “Shoot the Moon!”
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Olympus: The DSLR is Dead
Olympus:
Olympus SLR boss Toshiyuki Terada has said that the company will make no more entry-level SLRs. Speaking in an interview, Terada said that “We do not have concrete plans to replace the E-620 and other recent SLRs.”
But don’t worry, Olympus isn’t about to dump the SLR category altogether – yet. While Terada says that “the entry level SLR class can be completely replaced by the Pen system in terms of performance,” the company will continue to support the higher-end SLR market for the immediate future.
In fact, Olympus plans on adding ever more powerful cameras to the Pen lineup and sending all of its customers, even the pros, over to the mirrorless Micro Four Thirds format. And that’s not all. Olympus is also planning on a new range of high-performance compacts.
The first of these cameras will appear next year and will have a very fast lens and “good image quality in comparison to other compacts.” It will also have an electronic port that will be compatible with existing Micro Four Thirds accessories, such as the plug-in optical viewfinders. It seems that the sensors will be smaller than those found in the Micro Four Thirds bodies, but the machine translation (from Polish, which I find impossible) makes this unclear. Any Polish readers care to help out?
I guess there are no surprises here. The mirrorless format is better than an SLR for the majority of photographers, and Olympus has always been a leader in next-gen camera tech. One thing is certain: now that film-shackled camera design is finally being abandoned, we might start to see the full potential of digital photography.
Is there is a place for photography in Art?
I believe that there is a place for photography as art!
The debate on what makes something art goes on and on. I think maybe that the same thing happened when the first photographic image was made some 170 years ago, is this art or just an image to be looked at?
Not surprisingly, the source of objections came mainly from painters and others in the two-dimensional media, many of whom felt threatened by the photographer who could now ‘draw from nature’ with the supposed ease, so it seemed. There were many academics, whose sole aim was to ban photographs from salons and galleries. And though less apparent, that still happens in some quarters today.
Even as this debate continues, the purists among the photographers will argue about what constitutes real photography: silver
halide or digital photography. Some feel that somehow digital imaging is simply not photography, and that film is the ultimate recording medium.
unaided eye
It does not matter to me whether I shoot on film as I have done for most of my career, or whether I shoot digital. Photography is an art form at its core, in that the end result is an image, and that image was what the photographer saw before he pressed the shutte
Living Statue of Liberty! from 1918
INCREDIBLE picture was taken in 1918
I find it amazing that this photo, taken so many years ago, actually still exists! And now, someone has put it online for all of us to see. This INCREDIBLE picture was taken in 1918.
It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge , in
Iowa . EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN!!!!!
WWI Camp Dodge – Living Statue of Liberty
As the web site of the Iowa National Guard explains, the above-displayed photograph of a “human Statue of Liberty,” formed by 18,000 posed soldiers, was taken in July 1918 at Camp Dodge, Iowa, as part of a planned promotional campaign to sell war bonds during World War I:
“On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge.” [This area was west of Baker St. and is currently the area around building S34 and to the west.] “According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted-they were dressed in woolen uniforms-as the temperature neared 105 degrees Farenheit. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds but was never used.” (Grover 1987)
A reader whose great-grandfather appeared in this picture passed along to us some contemporaneous information about the photograph prepared by the Committee on Public Information
The design for the living picture was laid out at the drill ground at Camp Dodge, situated in the beautiful valley of the Des Moines River. Thousands of yards of white tape were fastened to the ground and formed the outlines on which 18,000 officers and men marched to their respective positions.
In this body of soldiers are any hundreds of men of foreign birth — born of parents whose first impression of the Land of Freedom and Promise was of the world’s greatest colossus standing with beacon light at the portal of a nation of free people, holding aloft a torch symbolic of the light of liberty which the statue represents. Side by side with native sons these men, with unstinted patriotism, now offer to sacrifice not only their liberty but even life itself for our beloved country.
The day on which the photograph was taken was extremely hot and the heat was intensified by the mass formation of men. The dimensions of the platting for the picture seem astonishing. The camera was placed on a high tower. From the position nearest the camera occupied by Colonel Newman and his staff, to the last man at the top of the torch as platted on the ground was 1,235 feet, or approximately a quarter of a mile. The appended figures will give an adequate idea of the distorted proportions of the actual ground measurements for this photograph:
Base to shoulder: 150 feet.
Right arm: 340 feet.
Widest part of arm holding torch: 12-1/2 feet.
Right thumb: 35 feet.
Thickest part of body: 29 feet.
Left hand (length): 30 feet.
Tablet in left hand: 27 feet.
Face: 60 feet.
Nose: 21 feet.
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet.
Flame on torch.: 600 feet.
Torch and flame combined: 980 feet.
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000
Total: 18,000
Arthur S. Mole was a British-born commercial photographer who worked in Zion, Illinois. During and shortly after World War I, Mole traveled with his partner John D. Thomas from one military camp to another, posing thousands of soldiers to form gigantic patriotic symbols that they photographed from above. The formations depicted such images as the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Marine Corps emblem and a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson portrait, for example, was formed using 21,000 officers and men at Camp Sherman in Ohio and stretched over 700 feet. His “Human Liberty Bell” was composed from over 25,000 soldiers, arranged with Mole’s characteristic attention to detail to even depict the crack in the bell. Mole and Thomas spent a week or more preparing for these immense works, which were taken from a 70 or 80 foot tower with an 11 by 14 inch view camera. When the demand for these photographs dropped in the 1920s, Mole returned to his photography business in Zion.
This picture, as well as additional photographs produced in the same style by Mole & Thomas and other photographers (and featuring the patriotic themes mentioned in the preceding paragraph), can be viewed at the web site of Chicago’s Carl Hammer Gallery.
Tags: Watch out…Ron has arrived!
Hi Folks, I’ll try my best to be “nice;” even though it goes against my very nature. I’ll be uploading an image soon for you all to critique….if you dare!!
Presenter for October PSET Meeting!
Speaker: James and Ann Ford
area photographers will be showing images from their recent trip to Katmai National Forest in Southeast Alaska to photograph grizzlies at Brooks Falls. Admission is free and all interested individuals are welcome.
Topic: The Bears of Katmai: Brooks Falls is a favorite salmon buffet for area grizzlies which come to dine each year and fatten up for their upcoming hibernation. Boars fight for the prime fishing areas close to the falls and the sows and spring cubs hang out closer to the lodge and the Brooks River for safety. The falls are accessible only by float plane and provide a unique window on the life of the Alaskan Grizzly (Brown Bear).
PSET UPCOMING PHOTO SHOOTS
PSET UPCOMING PHOTO SHOOTS
APRIL
Saturday, April 17—Wildflowers of Porters Creek, Greenbrier, GSMNP—Porters Creek Trail, located in the Greenbrier section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is well known for its awesome display of wildflowers in the early spring. Porters Creek Trail is on an old gravel road and makes for easy walking. Among the many wildflowers you will see are yellow trillium, showy orchis, blood root, hepaticas, white trillium, violets and white fringed phacelia just to name a few. Other photo ops include Porters Creek itself, old stone walls, the John Messer farm site with a cantilevered barn. At 2 miles is Fern Branch Falls if you choose to walk that far. Those wishing to carpool, meet at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Newport. If traveling east on I-40 take exit 435, make a right at the end of the ramp, look for The Cracker Barrel on the right soon after the Best Western Hotel. Contact person is Cathy Holloway at 423-613-4757 or by e-mail at cmholloway1122@gmail.com.
MAY
Saturday, May 15—Highlands, NC waterfalls—Highlands, NC is a very unique mountain town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern, NC. It is well known for the hundreds of waterfalls in the region, including Whitewater Falls, the tallest in the eastern U.S. If you are a waterfall photo enthusiast, this trip is right up your ally. Some of the many waterfalls located in this area include Bridal Veil Falls, Cullasaja Falls, Dry Falls, Kalakaleskies, Lower Satulah falls, Clear Creeks falls—that is just a handful of the falls located near Highlands. This will be an all day photo shoot. Carpooling is highly recommended due to limited parking at some waterfalls. Meet at 7 a.m. at The Cracker Barrel, exit 435 in Newport. Contact person is Ron Plasencia at 865-437-6457 or e-mail at ronplasencia@charter.net.
Saturday, May 22 – Red House Flower Farm- 3393 Rutledge Pike, Blaine, TN (Grainger County). These flowers may not be growing wild, but they are spectacular. Red House Flower Farm grows petunias, begonias, irises, various perennials, etc. You don’t have to go hunting to photograph these blossoms and there is not any hiking involved…well maybe a little walking. Carpooling info and contact person TBA.
JUNE
Saturday, June 5—PSET Annual Picnic/monthly meeting—Cosby Picnic area, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Cosby picnic area with covered pavilions is located on the “quiet” side of the Great Smoky Mountains. Bring a covered dish to share. Sign up sheet will be made available at the May meeting. PSET has the covered pavilion reserved for member use from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Before or after lunch, photo ops in the area abound including Cosby Creek itself, the Cosby Creek Nature Trail, Hen Wallow Falls, etc. From Morristown you can take I-40 East to the Newport exit 435. Turn right (south) onto US-321/TN-32. Travel about 5.7 miles to stop sign. Turn right onto Wilton Springs Road/US-321/TN-32. At 0.1 miles, at another stop sign, turn left onto US-321/TN-32/TN-73). Continue south towards Cosby/Gatlinburg. Once in Cosby at the stop sign (Cosby Post Office will be across intersection on right) continue straight on Rt. 32. The GSMNP Cosby entrance will be 1.5 miles ahead on your right. The picnic area will be ahead on the left just before the entrance to the Cosby Campgrounds.
Saturday, June 19—Blue Ridge Parkway. The Blue Ridge Parkway extends 469 miles from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia south to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina. The section we will explore and photograph is from Balsam Gap where the Parkway intersects with US 23-74 south of Waynesville, NC to the Parkway’s terminus in Cherokee, NC. There are fabulous views at every overlook. Some of the highlights on this section of the Blue Ridge Parkway include Waterrock Knob at 6, 292 ft elevation, Soco Gap and the Oconaluftee Mountain Farm Museum at the end of the Parkway. Meet at The Cracker Barrel Restaurant off exit 435 in Newport to carpool at 8 a.m. Contact person TBA.
All PSET photo shoots are subject to cancellation. Check with the contact person for any additional information or questions you may have.
If any member has a suggestion for any additional photo shoots, and are willing to be the contact person, please e-mail or contact any board member with your suggestions.
Don Wilson – donaldwilson2007@gmail.com
Randal Elkins – randall_elkins@musfiber.com
Jim Ross – jmr1959@charter.net
Rosemary Clark – rhclarktn1@gmail.com
Cathy Holloway – cmholloway1122@gmail.com
Dale Knight – daleknight@gmail.com
Ron Plasencia – ronplasencia@charter.net
Chad Carpenter – chad53@embarqmail.com
1st Annual WNC Foto Fest:
Kevin Adams (author of a number of photography books) and Bill Lea (Bill Lea is a nature photographer living in western North Carolina.)are hosting an event called Western North Carolina Foto Fest.
It is going to be a photographic seminar that we will host every year on the second weekend after Labor Day in Brevard, NC. It is not going to be a workshop, as we are not leading any field trips or working with participants in the field, but instead it is simply a photography seminar with Kevin and I being the primary speakers this first year. We plan to have other professional photographers participate as primary guest speakers in following years’ events. Here is a link to the web page where you can learn more about our 1st Annual WNC Foto Fest:
http://www.kadamsphoto.com/photo_presentations_tours/western_nc_foto_fest.htm