Tuesday, November 9, 2010

November 2010 Club Meeting Summary

Announcements:
In honor of Veterans Day, the Veterans Employee Resource Group will be lining the D and A building entrance roadway areas with small U.S. flags.  They are using the approx. 2000 flags that Terry Pieper used for his fundraiser earlier this year.  Flags will go up Wednesday, Nov 10th at 4 pm, and will be removed on Thursday, Nov. 11th at 4 pm. If you were able to photograph the event and want to share some of your best shots please post them to the share no later than noon on Thursday.
The club is working on a December field trip with a holiday theme such as the Holidazzle parade, holiday lights, etc. Look for more details to come. If you have any ideas for this trip or possible future trips please let us know.
 Presentation:
Jon Laqua showed 41 images from the October field trip. This was a night event and images displayed were of the Broadway Bridge, the Mpls skyline as well as the spoon and cherry.
Jon Laqua held a presentation on infrared photography. The easiest way to achieve this effect is with a filter. For small lenses they are relatively inexpensive, but the price will rise quickly for larges lenses. When using this method remember a tripod, get set up, and then screw the filter on. After that, experiment with exposure times.
Another method is to have a company convert over a camera that you already own. There are steps for you to do this yourself, but Jon stated having someone else do the conversion was well worth the price.
10-2 is the perfect shooting times and be VERY careful when photographing people!
FYI--if anyone has a 52 mm infrared filter to sell Adam Lockhart is interested.
Member Spotlight: Sandesh Sapre
He has been interested in photography all his life. His favorite subjects are big cats (tigers, etc.) nature and creative photos. He also wants to graduate from a P&S to a DSLR. To learn more about Sandesh please visit the web page.
The Salon topic for November was Emotions w/Inanimate Objects. We also had our standard Open category. Many thanks to member judge Shannon Kunkle for offering up her experience and critique for these to salons! Way to go to the winners!
 
Winners Topic:
3rd place: Happy Face - Jason Ponfil
2nd place: Surprise - Jason Ponfil
1st place: If Eggs Could Talk - Jon Laqua

Winners Open:
HM: Green - Deb Shoemaker
HM: Rainy Night - Deb Shoemaker
HM: Spoon Cherry Night Shot - Kalpesh Raicha
3rd place: Cedar Rapids RR Bridge - Adam Lockhart
2nd place: The Minnie Apple - Josh Lemon
1st place: Feeding Birds - Jason Ponfil

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