Welcome to the Silver Spring Camera Club. Visitors and new members are invited to our public meetings, which take place the first three Thursdays of every month, September through May. We also welcome you to our field trips. Signups are through Meetup.

Meetings are either in-person, or virtual on Zoom.

The first meeting of the month is our speaker night, held virtually.

In person meetings will take place on the second Thursday of each month, and will generally be our competition. In person meetings are held at Christ the King Presbyterian Church (formerly called Northwood Presbyterian Church), 1200 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD.

On the third Thursday of each month we hold a virtual meeting. This will generally be our Photo Forum which includes discussion, member presentations, and photo sharing.

The April

Cable Release

Events

This week at the Silver Spring Camera Club

April 23 at 7:30 on Zoom – Photo Forum
April 23rd: Submissions due for the Feedback Session on April 30

This month at the Silver Spring Camera Club

April 2 – No Meeting (Passover)
April 9 – Speaker Night (7:30 p.m. on Zoom)
April 16 – Competition: ‘SSCC Field Trip Images’ (7:30 p.m. at Christ the King Presbyterian Church)
April 26 – Field Trip: B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore (10:00 a.m.) and Walters Art Museum
April 23 – Photo Forum (7:30 p.m. on Zoom)
TBD – Board Meeting
**April 30 – Feedback Session** (7:30 p.m. on Zoom)

Winners of the March Competition

March’s competition was open. Ed Palaszynski was our judge.

Projected Image Competition

Advanced Projected

First Place: Beauty in Repetition, Wendy Kates
Second Place: Fanciful, Beth Koller
Third Place: Beam Me Up, Karen Finkelman
Honorable Mention: Cowboy Silhouette, Karen Finkelman
Honorable Mention: Oaxaca Discussion, Larry Gold

Wendy Kates ~ Beauty in Repetition

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This image is a composite of four images of the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library, combined in-camera. I made a copy of the combined image, flipped it vertically, expanded the canvas of the original combined image downward, and pasted the inverted copy below the original combined image, thus creating a mirror image of the composite.

Novice and Intermediate Projected

First Place: Curved and Straight, Will Rabinovich
Second Place: Jazz Singer, Tom Allen
Third Place: Walking on Clouds, Diane Sanders
Honorable Mention: Buns of Steel, Jim Riley
Honorable Mention: RGB, Tanya Riseman

Will Rabinovich ~ Curved and Straight

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This photo was taken in Hudson Yards in New York City. The building in the foreground is The Shed, a performance space. The image was taken with a Sony A7riv and a Tamron 28-75 mm lens at 75 mm. I did some basic processing in Lightroom.

Print Image Competition

Combined Print

First Place: Light Jewels, Beth Koller
Second Place: Mist on the River with Empty Chairs, Kay Carkhuff
Third Place: Curiosity, Sherm Edwards

Beth Koller ~ Light-Jewels

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There is a lot of serendipity with light painting even with advance planning—so it is important to keep shooting, make adjustments, and capture multiple images. The light is delivered by a light wand tool from behind the balls. The lens balls and the reflective mylar underneath them bounce the light around. The colors of the light demand attention because some are hotter than others requiring exposure adjustments. Here the colors were relatively similar, and the intense saturation made the simple geometry just pop.