Ok, I'm going to give this blog thing another try. I've got to be wary of sliding into 21st century technology lest I just become another tweet--er.
I wanted to share a couple observations from the New England Camera Club Council Conference. First, this year they had a few presenters who are from New England and are members of camera clubs in this region. Though I've not met any of them I do know of them. The thing I appreciate most is the recognition of the excellent photographic talent we have in this region, and how well they share their expertise. I was not disappointed with their effort.
Second, the tenor of the programs was oriented less towards software and more towards image making, travel, night photography, macro photography, flash photograhy, and other techniques. There was some Photoshop stuff and suff on high dynamic range, but generally the thrust of the programs was for inspiration and getting better at composition and expression.
I hope we can get a bigger group to go down in 2010. It was a good social opportunity (other than the fixation on past reproductive experiences), and the food is very good.
One of the Nikon presentors talked about something that struck a chord. Personally, I dislike spending time on a PC flubbing around with my image files in one of the software packages I don't understand how to use. I'd like to blame someone else for my feeble skills, but the truth is it's my lack of interest in becoming competent with the many and varied manipulations a person can do to an otherwise poorly executed exposure (I have LOTS of those, maybe we should have an exhibit "Bad Idea, PoorlyExecuted") is behind my dislike. The Nikon guy addressed this issue by stating he captures images in both raw and jpg format, and seldom uses the raw files. His shooting philosophy is to get the image "right" in camera so all he needs to do is either print or post the result. He did state he does crop and sharpen for prints, but little else. What a concept! Capture what you want in camera, and show everybody what you did!!
I know some of you get enjoyment out of working with software, and I encourage you to continue. For the rest of us........maybe we should go back to shooting the best shot we can do and not worry about what follows....
On to the Bangor Fair. thank you for all your help during collection, judging and hanging. We had a very good hanging crew. I guess a lot of you enjoy a good hangin' after a hard days work! We had several club members do well in the competiotion, including Alice Frati and Marty Hipsky with Best in Show awards.
I am curious, hopw many of you would like a club trip to the Philidelphia area........just an off the wall idea....
BlogDon
Philidephia sounds great. It will take some planning for sure. Not sure about how we would do the timing with everyone's work schedule.
ReplyDeleteThe fair routine went well, I think. The hanging of the photos went smoothly except the lack of pins near the end. But that was fixed easily. We should order everything we need right off to be prepared for next time.
I still cannot believe I won best in show. It hasn't quite come to reality for me.
Alice