Club News

The photography club has been invited to display 9 - 12 photos at St. Luke's church in Lincolnton as a part of their month long exhibit entitled "From the Earth". They will be displaying pottery as well as art pieces. This will also be in display for the Art Crawl. They would like large pieces 16 x 20 or larger framed. If you have a piece(s) you would like to display that expresses this theme please let me know. 

Kathy Goodson kathygoodson@gmail.com 

Here's the Photo Challenge the Club will be working on this year. . If you want to go ahead and start working on the challenge, bring the photos with you to the meeting (on flashdrive) so you can share them. 

Our Next meeting will be Feb. 28th in the Community Room of the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00. See you then. 

Our August meeting is on Monday the 26th at 7:00 in the Community Room  at the Lincoln Cultural Center.  We should all bring 10 summer photos, on a flash drive, to share.

Also, we will discuss adopting Judy's photo club and attending Hart Square.

April Meeting

The Lincoln Photography Club will meet at the Lincoln Cultural Center Community Room on April 22 at 7:00. Members will share and compete with any photo taken in Lincolnton. The photo should be a matted an 8 x 10.

February Meeting

Our February meeting will be Feb. 25 at 7:00 at the Lincoln Cultural Center. As an extension of our last meeting on portraits, Dorreen will be sharing several photos and talk about poses for portraits. She also has some photos to share from when her daughter modeled for the Catawba Camera Club. If you took a photo at our last meeting of her that you would like to share please bring it.

January Meeting

Meeting tonight! Remember to bring your camera and speedlight if you have one. We will be practicing portrait photography.
See you all at 7pm Monday, January 28th.

November Meeting

The Lincoln Photography Club will meet Monday, November 26 at 7:00 in the Community room of the Lincoln Cultural Center. Please bring a snack and a print of your favorite photo taken this year. Visitors are welcome.

October Meeting

Our next meeting will be Monday, October 22 at the Lincoln Cultural center. Our topic will be motion shots. We plan to go outside a see if we can get some car light trails. We have an optional topic in case if poor weather.

September/October Photo Opportunities

September 29-30 Harvest Festival at Murray's Mill.

October 1 - 9:00 am - Buy your tickets for Hart Square - Catawba County Museum of History in person or via phone. Call 828 465 0383. Visa or MasterCard only. Tickets are limited.

October 6 Laney Fly In - Laney Airport
Joe Crouse Rd, Maiden, NC

October 19,20, 21 Statesville Balloon Rally

October 27- Hart Square

Our State Magazine Fall Photography Contest

http://www.ourstate.com/2012-fall-photo/

Meeting Monday, August 27

The Lincoln Photography Club will meet st the Lincoln Cultural Center on August 27 at 7:00. Club members are asked to bring examples from their favorite printing companies.

July 2012 Meeting

Planning for the Year

Meeting Agendas

Survey Data
Photo Editing - Gimp would have some common editing skills

Photo printing

Nations photo
Mpics
Shutterfly
Books
Cpq

Bring photos from different print outlet

Black and white photography

Shooting in Raw

Processing Raw photos

Histograms - how to use them

Suggestions for our Balance

Big Tv and allow the Cultural Center to use

50" TV $1500

Balance - $1000

Kathy Goodson - will ask Cathy Davis

Bring a laptop session

Online training videos
Discuss, practice,

Pick an article and discuss

Camera settings - understanding settings on your camera

Hands on workshops with cameras, and computers

What's new? Mirror less cameras!

Sharing a topic photo - bring one or two

Two shots one topic 2.
2 best of the month. Different person pick the theme for the month. Make a calendar create it ahead if time.

Put all the photos on one computer to make make it flow faster.

Ed Lane - creative process workshop

Critique - what did right and wrong. To make you a better photographer.

Contest -

Field Trips-

August 27 - who prints your photos? Bring samples from your favorite place to print. Share and compare hoots from different printers.

September 24 -

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May 21st Meeting

The Lincoln Photography Club will meet on May 21 at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00. The topic for our meeting will be favorite places to take photos. Bring a digital or print photo of one of your favorite sites and directions on how to get there. We meet on the 2nd floor in the community room.

     So proud of our many club winners in the Arts Council of Lincoln County's  Amateur Photography Competition. Congratulations to Mark Houser for Winning Best of Show. 

The Arts Council of Lincoln County announces the winners of the 2012 Amateur Photography Competition:

Best of Show:  

Roaring Fork Falls, Mark Houser

Category winners:

People-

3^rd    The Jumper, Tina Brittain

2^nd   Guitar Man, Cliff Black

1^st   Sweet Baby, Kathy Goodson

Animals-

3^rd Horse and Rider, Michelle Wayne

2^nd Portrait of the Owl, Cynthia Harman

1^st Huskey, Tina Brittain

Special Effects & Abstract-

3^rd The keyhole, David Hopkins

2^nd Fire in Flight, Paula Sain

1^st Oil and Water, Cynthia Harmon

Miscellaneous:

3^rd   The Cava Factory, Elizabeth Phephs

2^nd  Artist Spectrum,  Sarah Shaffer

1^st   Balloon Peek a Boo,  Judy Broesder

Black and White-

3^rd You Can’t See Me, Kathy Goodson

2^nd Friends,  Mark Houser

1^st  Tressell,  Cliff Black

Plant life/ landscape-

3^rd Orchid,  Cliff Black

2^nd Baby Magnolias,  Diane Keeney

1^st  Lily Pond,  Bob Hodges

The Amateur Photography Competition runs through January 22, 2012 and can be viewed at the Lincoln Cultural Center, 403 E. Main St. Lincolnton, Monday–Friday from 10– 5pm. The Arts Council of Lincoln County thanks Tindalls’ Professional Photography for their generous sponsorship of this event. The Arts Council of Lincoln County would also like to thank Ari Miller for his expertise in judging our competition.

For more from information, please contact the Arts Council of Lincoln County at (704) 732-9044. This project is supported in part by a grant provided through the Grassroots Arts Program of the NC Arts Council, a state agency.

Hope all our club members entered the Art's Council of Lincoln County photography contest. Winners will be announced January 6th. The gallery at the Cultural Center will be open for visitors. Please send a small copy of your entry to me and I will post on our blog.
lincolnphotographyclub@gmail.com

Photography Display at the Lincoln Apple Festival

Roger and Kathy Goodson's

Judy Broesder

Doreen Sugierski

Janice Sill

Jon Arrowood

Carole Lake

September Meeting

Our next meeting will be January 23rd at 7:00 in the Community Room at the Lincoln Cultural Center. We would like to invite the community to bring in any new cameras they received for Christmas and our club members will assist you in learning how to use your camera and how to take better photos. Spread the word so we can help as many folks as possible.

Next Meeting August 22

Our next meeting is August 22, 2011. We will be meeting at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00. The Cultural Center is located at the corner of Main Street and Cedar St. Please enter through the Cedar St. door. We will be meeting on the second floor. Please use the stairs or elevator. Signs will be posted to direct you to the meeting room.

Our topic for the meeting will be how to make Photo Books as well as our club pages on the Internet at Facebook, Flickr and our Blog.

Upcoming Meeting July 25th

The Photography Club will be meeting on July 25th at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00.

Our meeting will be a planning meeting and a contest for members. The topic for the contest is "Summer Fun". All members are invited to enter a 8 x 10 matted photograph. Please put your name on the back only. Looking forward to seeing you at our meeting. Come with your "Summer Fun" photo and lots of ideas for future meetings.

 The Lincoln Cultural Center as generously agreed to sponsor our club meetings free of charge. Their meeting rooms have mounted projectors and screens available for our use.

June 2011 Meeting

Our guest speaker for our June 2011 meeting held at the Lincoln Cultural Center was Robert Dant. Robert is owner of Hickory Photography as well as an instructor at Catawba Valley Community College. Even though Robert has many areas of expertise his topic tonight was Stock Photography.

First Robert always gets permission of people he uses in his photography. He uses two agencies. Photos cannot have copyright violations such as a company name or item in the photo. It must be a high quality photograph.

There are two types of stock photography: Rights management and royalty free. 


Some companies that do stock are:Istockphoto
Shutterstock
Stockpert
Rf. Almay
Corbis

 A website for more info is:Microstockgroup.com.  Pulse of the industry 

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May Meeting

Sorry for the delay posting the notes from May and June Meetings.

May - Our guest speaker for our May meeting held at the Classic Image studio was Seth Mabrey. Seth works for the Lincoln Times News as their head photographer. His topic for tonight was sports photography.
Seth Mabry.


 Seth emphasized using a fast shutter speed faster than 250 to stop sports motions with an Aperture of 2.5 - 3.5. He says it is better to underexposed to freeze motion then adjust post production. A shallow depth of field is best as the background can be distracting. Panning is another good way to get a great sports shot but panning is a practiced skill. Hand holding is usually best for photography but a monopod can help. The better your lens the easier it is to freeze the action without flash. However, using flash will illuminate the subject not the crowd. If using flash be sure your batteries are fresh. Best to use rechargeable batteries with back-ups. 


Other hints include - Lock on center focus, don't shoot people at the foul line, take some dugout shots, golfers are distracted by the camera sounds, take some warmup shots. To shoot  shoot through a fence set your aperture as low as you can.