“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” 
― Salvador Dalí

 

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BILL SCHAFER TO SPEAK ON “PHOTOGRAPHS AS ART” IN DECEMBER

Bill Schafer will be our speaker on December 7, with the subject “Photographs as Art”.  Our meeting will start an hour early, at 6:30 p.m., with our Winter Social.  

Bill Schafer and his wife Cheryl are the owners of Moments in Time Photography.  Bill has photographed with large format, medium format, and 35mm in film and digital.  Recently, Bill has been inspired to move into digital and color techniques.   (read more)

 

 

 

 

 

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COMPETITION COLUMN

The competition on December 14 will be on the Low Light Photography theme:

The term “Low Light Photography” encompasses images that has been made when the ambient light that illuminates their subjects is low. So, for example, an image taken outdoors at sunset or during the night qualifies as low light. The term also includes images that have been rendered in “low key.”  Low key refers to a style of photography that utilizes predominantly dark tones to create dramatic looking images. Low key lighting intensifies the contrast in an image through intensely reduced lighting in some part of the image. Accordingly, low light photographs can be made either indoors or outdoors, at any time of day or night, and may contain an artificial light source that has been supplied by the photographer. The term “low” in this definition is not susceptible to a specific, quantitative valuation: Rather, its parameters are left to the subjective determination of the judge.

Please be mindful that electronic submissions for projected images must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. on December 7th. The images should be emailed to: SSCCphotography@yahoo.com. (One important detail – In order to participate in the competition, you must have paid the club’s annual dues before the competition.)

Please refer to the Member Handbook and/or 2017-18 Competition Topic Definitions for the definition of each of the competition topics:

• December              – Low Light Photography
• January                   – Open
• February                 – Anything Washington D.C.
• March                     – Open
• April                        – Architecture Photography
• May                         – Monochrome Photography
• June                         – End of Year Competition (special rules apply)

To learn the nitty gritty about the competitions, please refer to the Competition Rules and the Member Handbook, both of which are accessible from the SSCC website. 

As always, if you have any questions about the competitions, please feel free to contact Larry Gold at competition@ssccphotography.org.

 

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TONY SWEET IS OUR DECEMBER 14 JUDGE FOR LOW LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

 

We’ve had a change in our judge for December, and are lucky to have Tony Sweet as our judge for Low Light Photography!

Tony Sweet is a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens.

After successful careers as a jazz musician/educator, and professional magician, Tony settled on photography as his chosen means for personal expression.  Beginning as a film photographer, Tony has become facile in image editing software and plugins and is an in-demand speaker throughout the United States and Canada on creativity in the digital age.

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A CLOSER FOCUS  (DECEMBER 21)

An opportunity to share ideas, images, questions, and inspirations

For the December meeting please bring in a couple of your images from your work – a recent field trip or any picture you are proud of or have questions about.  We will spend about half an hour sharing.

Half an hour will be an open forum discussing issues at hand:

• David Terao will continue where he left off last time presenting the features of the new Photoshop CC 2018 and Lightroom Classic.
• Gene Luttenberg will discuss “point of view”, a topic on photographic composition.
• We will also discuss what makes an image a photograph.

There will also be half an hour for 10 minute presentations by members: further information about PSA, a book report, gallery review, equipment or gadget sharing. 

Future topics might include: compositional strength, HDR, abstract images, or anything else photographic you want to bring to the table. This is an opportunity for you to provide input to the SSCC experience.

If you would like to be on the agenda, please email me at: 
davidwesleypowell@gmail.com

 

 

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DECEMBER 16 FIELD TRIP: MORMON TEMPLE – FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS!

The impressive Mormon Temple and its surrounding grounds shine brightly with more than 650,000 sparkling holiday lights. Each night, a different local musical group performs a live concert in a state-of-the-art theater.   See a life-sized outdoor nativity scene, an indoor exhibit of international crèches, and Christmas trees in international themes.      (read more)

 

 

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♦ CLUB NEWS ♦

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SSCC MEMBER SNAPSHOT:  JAMES RAGUCCI

Like many new SSCC members, James Ragucci found his way to our camera club via the internet.  James had been living abroad (in Germany) for several years, and when he returned to Maryland he was interested in joining a DC-based camera club.  SSCC turned up as one of the top results of his internet search.   (read more)

 

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BOARD MEETING

• The Quote: “This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day.” – Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, about the Sony Walkman.
• The Top Song was My Sharona by The Knack
• The Big Movies included Kramer vs. Kramer, Superman and The Amityville Horror
• TRS-80 Computer, 4k, Model 1: $499.00
• Price of a gallon of gas in 1979: 88 cents
• The World Population was ~ 4,312,000,000
• In 1979 the US had specific days to get gas based on if you’re license plate ended in an odd or even number, due to a gasoline shortage.
• 52 Americans are taken hostage in Tehran, Iran for 444 days. 
• And… The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck-open pressure release valve, aired only 12 days before the 3 Mile Island Meltdown, caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck open pressure release valve.