West Kentucky Photography Club

This is the photo you should download to your computer for editing. Bring your creative version of this image to the March 6, 2012 club meeting where we’ll show and talk about how folks achieved the different results with this same picture. To download the photo, click on the picture till you get the larger version on the screen. Then right click (on your mouse button) on the larger version and select “save image as” and put it on your computer where you can edit it. Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you do! You may also follow this link to download the image: Barn Photo

Our next meeting will be held on Monday, February 6 , 2012 at 7pm in Room 214-215 of the Hatley Building, which is part of the Health Technology Campus, on 750 Laffoon Street, Madisonville, Ky.

Tom Wortham is beginning a monthly series of programs entitled “Photography 101″ that will deal with all aspects of beginning photography ranging to the strange dial on your camera to to developing your own photographic style. This is a new series to help new comers and old timers learn the many options of their cameras. These programs are designed to be about 15-20 minutes long. Everyone is encouraged to bring your camera.

Our main program for this month with be “image workflow techniques.” Tom Wortham and Ray Quijano will demonstrate and talk about their image flow process using Photoshop and other related programs. They each will work with a couple of images going through their entire editing process and there will be plenty of time for questions.

We encourage everyone to attend the February meeting as everyone will leave with a copy of a picture that you’ll format and get creative with to bring back for our March meeting. More details will be forth coming on this in a later post.

Other meeting programs in the works is an Introduction to High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, Publishing your book or calendar using an online service such as Blurb, Lulu and Creative Memories, and we’ll have a guest speaker, Darrin Phegley, photographer from the Gleaner Newspaper in Henderson, Ky. There are a lot of other programs in the works that will be announced once they’re nailed down.

MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST
The contest topic for the February meeting is “Anything Round.” A Photograph any thing where the main subject of the photo is something “Round.”

We’ve made a change to the monthly photo contest which requires all entries to be submitted for judging as a JPG file. So, you’ll need to bring your picture on a CD Rom, DVD, Jump Drive or a memory card so they can be combined together for the contest judging. A first through third place winner will be chosen from the entries. A copy of all the 1-3rd place winners will be retained till the end of the year when we will have an independent guest judge pick the top three photos for the year from all the previous winners. The top three pictures will receive prizes, yet to be announced. We hope you all will start participating in our monthly contests.

CLUB PHOTO OUTINGS
Our Vice President, Tim Blair, has announced the club’s first group photography outing which will be to the Evansville, Indiana Zoo on Saturday, February 18, 2012. Details on this trip will be discussed at the February meeting and posted later here on this website. Tim is planning outings on a monthly basis for those members who want to participate. These events are a good way of getting together and learning to shoot better pictures and share techniques.

We hope everyone makes it to the meeting in February and why not bring a friend that may be interested in joining?