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Houston Photochrome Club

Volume MMXV No. 10 October 2015

www.houstonphotochromeclub.org

Deadline for digital submission…

All digital entries must be sent

to

Carmen Sewell

csewell3@comcast.net

by October 3

Entries received after that will not be

eligible for October competition

FYI… the deadline is always the

Saturday before the

competition meeting.

PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER

Back by popular request Competition and Dis-cussion program. The opportunity to discuss the images and see some actual changes to images as suggested by the Group has been deemed helpful by the members and so we will repeat our successful August format. Be sure to enter some your images in the com-petition this month so you will have a chance to benefit from the discussions. Remember, if you enter only one or two you need not enter an assigned category, so jump in. See you there at 7pm October 8 at the Tracy

Gee Community Center, 3599 Westcenter

Drive, which is one block inside Beltway 8 be-

tween Westpark and Richmond.

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Cookies for October

Helen Wing Pan

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER

Mark your calendar for the November meeting. You won’t want to miss hearing our guest speaker, Dr. Cathryn Hoyt . Dr. Hoyt is a naturalist, anthropologist,

geographer, writer and photographer.

She states the she just doesn't know

what she wants to be when she grows

up, but finds the world too interesting to

narrow her focus.

She wants to share the beauty that she

finds in vast landscapes, small details

and interesting stories through her writ-

ing and photography.

Dr. Hoyt is the former Executive and Re-search Director of the Chihuahuan De-sert Research Institute near Fort Davis in West Texas. A Graduate of the Univer-sity of Arizona with a BA in Anthropol-ogy, she also has an MA in Nautical Ar-cheology From Texas A&M and a PhD in Paleoecology from The University of Texas. To read more and see some of her

work check out the website:

http://cathrynahoyt.com/about/

https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?company=Chihuahuan+Desert+Research+Institute&trk=prof-exp-company-namehttps://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?company=Chihuahuan+Desert+Research+Institute&trk=prof-exp-company-name

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September Workshop

Joe Smith conducted the workshop on Macro photography After a brief explanation of whatit is and how to do it , the participant were able to try out their new information with a number of subjects provided.

The workshop was well timed as it coincided

with the Nature assignment for September

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Workshop for October

As a result of the interest from the mem-bers at the August the meeting, this month will be about the use of the tools in Photo-shop and Light room for post processing of images. James Gamble will present the Lightroom portion and Carmen Sewell will talk about Photoshop “magic” .

So many of the tools in PS are under utilized

because their use is not known or under-

stood and we will seek to correct that. It

should be a fun and informative evening.

If you wish, and have either Photoshop or

Lightroom (or both) on your laptops feel free

to bring them along and work along with us

as we demonstrate. If you chose to bring

your lap top be sure you have a full charge

on your battery as their may not be enough

power sources for everyone to plug in.

Last one for 2015...the Tracy Gee will be

closed on our normal November and De-

cember workshop days.

Inter Club

Results for the September Inter Club com-petitions have not be returned at Publica-tion Date. Look for them in November.

Top Joe Smith with Participants, Philip Tan and Donnie Walton Bottom: Janet Chung and James Gamble

Texas Parklands Pass

Persons 65 years of age and over, who are

also Texas residents, are entitled to 50%

reduced entry fee at Texas State Parks. All

you need is proof of age and Texas Resi-

dency. Details at:

http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/texas-

parklands-passport

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ATTENTION:

All Competition Participants

Images must be submitted according to club guidelines or your image may not be included in the monthly competition Please follow the sizing instructions carefully: A horizontal image cannot be longer than 1024 pixels along the horizontal side; A vertical image cannot be longer than 768 pixels along the vertical side. ( Vertical images cannot be sized 1024 pixels along the vertical side!) The size of the JPEG image is not to exceed 1MB.( See above for pixel size.) Rename the image according to the guidelines below. For example: A Nature Assignment of birds by John Brown would appear as NA_Bird_BrownJ.jpg ( NG for Nature General, PA for pictorial Assigned, PG for Pictorial General and BW for monochromes) DO NOT use first names, nicknames or ini-tials only, for identification. Also, the size of the title is limited to 35 characters when naming images. It is important that the guidelines for naming files be followed when submitting images for the monthly competitions otherwise you run the risk of not being credited with your entries.

Images that are not easily identi-fied will be discarded.

Month Pictorial Nature

Oct Urban Scapes Macro

Nov Creative Trees/Leaves

Dec Churches/Mission

Insects/Spiders (No butterflies)

Jan ‘16 Landscapes Reflections

Competition Assignments for 2015

Assignments for October

Nature Macro: Macro Photography is

extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size A macro photo-graph is one in which the size of the sub-ject on the image sensor is life size or greater. This is different from "close-up “

Pictorial Urban Scapes: These are

landscapes shot in cities and towns, also referred to as street photography and may include people.

Looking Ahead to November

Nature Trees/Leaves: As the title sug-

gests these images can be of branches whole tree or woods, even a single leaf and in any season .

Pictorial Creative /Altered Reality/

Manipulations: Creative images may be created in the camera, like multiple exposures or use of special filters; sand-wich of two or more transparencies or computer images to make one image; computer manipulation of one or more images; changing focal length of lens during image capture; etc. Texas Parklands Pass

Persons 65 years of age and over, who are

also Texas residents, are entitled to 50% re-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-uphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor

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SEPTEMBER 2015 Competition

Judges: Ray Bookwalter, Julie Cheng, James Gamble

Nature Assignment .-Sunrise/Sunset Nature General

Pink Sky at Chasm Scott Meyer 23 Sandhill Crane Flying Janet Chung 23

First Light at Acadia Carmen Sewell 23 Yellow Cactus Flower Carmen Sewell 21

Sunrise at Foggy Bottom Eric Westling 22 Sea Otter in Sitka, Alaska Joe Schmitt 19

Glacier Bay Sunset Philip Tan 22 3 images Avg. 21.0

Sunrise in Hoonah, Alaska Joe Schmitt 21

Sunrise at Camp Allen Joe Smith 21 Pictorial General

Galveston Sunset Jane Ashley 20 The Face of Lingtren Scott Meyer 24

Sunset Under Clouds C.T. Edwards 19 Lovely Lotus Flower Julie Cheng 24

BBSP Sunset Syed Bulghdadi 19 Yellow Hibiscus Jane Ashley 23

9 images Avg. 21.1 Red Daylily Philip Tan 23

Classic Still Life James Gamble 23

Pict.orial Assignment Cultivated Flora Dragonfly in Spotlight James Gamble 23

Longwood Water Lily Philip Tan 24 Spring at 9500 Feet Eric Westling 22 Orchid Joe Smith 24 Pelicans at Sunrise Acree Carlisle 22

Pink Lotus Janet Chung 23 Flamingos Swimming Helen Weng Pan 22

Beautiful Tulips Julie Cheng 23 Block Island Sunrise Janet Chung 21

Water Lily James Gamble 23 Sea of Blue Janet Tan 21

Clematis, Scotland Jane Ashley 22 Mission San Jose Janet Tan 21

Dahlia 2 Carmen Sewell 22 Sunrise in Kemah Syed Bulghdadi 21 Pink Lily Scott Meyer 21 Flamingo & Young Helen Weng Pan 21

Christmas Beauty Eric Westling 21 Lake Scene at Sunrise Joe Smith 21

Herman Park New Garden C.T. Edwards 21 Reflections at Dawn Acree Carlisle 20

Water Lily Syed Bulghdadi 20 Fish or Rock Ninfa Palazzolo 20

Magnolia Flower Joe Schmitt 20 Mercer Garden Flowers C.T. Edwards 19

Lilies Floral Helen Weng Pan 20 Backyard Cardinal Ninfa Palazzolo 19

Nuns Orchid Ninfa Palazzolo 17 19 images Avg. 21.6

14 images Avg. 21.5

Monochrome Total Entries - 55

White Jellyfish Julie Cheng 23 Sept. Avg. - 21.3

Wrangell Island, Alaska Joe Schmitt 22 Photographers - 16

Sand Dunes Jane Ashley 22

Sunset @ Herman Park Syed Bulghdadi 21

Gymnastic Dancers Helen Weng Pan 21

Palace Cafe James Gamble 21

Forward Men Scott Meyer 20

Brown Pelican Carmen Sewell 20

Rocky Passage Eric Westling 19

White Lily Ninfa Palazzolo 19

10 images Avg. 20.8

Happy Halloween

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Houston Photochrome Club is a member of the Gulf States Camera Club Council and the Photographic Society of America