The next Lewisburg Photography Club meeting will be Thursday March 22, 2018 from 7-9 p.m. at The Village Common building on Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village's campus.
Our speaker will be Photo Club member Dan Hyde and he will discuss historical aspects of technologies for photography.
History of Photographic Technologies Have you ever heard of ambrotypes, calotypes, daguerreotypes, wet-plate colodions, dry-plates, or tintypes? Why so many types of types? Why should we care? What and when were the beginnings of photography? How did the photographic technologies effect the art and practice of photography?
Theme for this month's Photo Quest is "Green." Submit one or two jpeg images that portrays Green to Dan Hyde by 5 pm Tuesday March 20, 2018. For future reference, the Photo Quest theme for April is "Black and White" photos.
Also, before the Photo Quest, we will have a Critique Forum of submitted images. All images for the Critique Forum should be in by 5 pm Tuesday March 20.
The next Lewisburg Photography Club meeting will be Thursday February 22, 2018 from 7-9 p.m. at The Village Common building on Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village's campus.
Our speaker will be Photo Club member Charlie Guttendorf and he will speak on Urban Night Photography.
Urban Night Photography - utilizes available ambient light to capture the often hidden beauty of cityscapes. Without daylight the buildings themselves as well as the light and color expose different properties due to the wide dynamic range that would not be possible with conventional landscape photography. Each city has its unique story to tell and it is often after sunset that they truly unfold. Topics for the class include an overview of night photography, recommended equipment, tips and tricks, and recommendations for further study. Photographs used will feature: Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Washington DC, and NYC.
Theme for this month's Photo Quest is "Red." Submit one or two jpeg images that portrays Red to Dan Hyde by 5 pm Tuesday February 20, 2018. For future reference, the Photo Quest theme for March is "GREEN"
The Lewisburg Photography Club will hold our next meeting on Thursday January 25, 2018, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the large room at The Village Common building on Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village campus, Lewisburg, PA. Our speaker will be Photo Club member Francoise Bettner who will discuss lighting with flash.
A bit bewildered about speed lights, studio lights, slow sync, high speed sync, hyper speed sync, remote triggers? Why would one ever want to use flashes when there is plenty of ambient light? How do you combine flash and ambient light? Want to try something fun with flashes? Ever done light painting, multiple flashes in one exposure, dark daytime flashes, silhouette flashing (backlighting)?
Important: Bring your camera, flashes, tripod, triggers to the meeting, and let's explore what we can find in the confines of the meeting room.
Bio for Francoise Bettner: Artist trapped in a pharmacist's body, but the pharmacist pays the bills. Self-taught photographer. Love drawing and watercolors too.
Second hour NO Photo Quest but play with flashes! After Francoise's talk, we will break for light refreshments and have a chance to look at Francoise's flash equipment. The second hour will be different from our usual routine. Instead of the Photo Quest, we will have an opportunity to play with our flash equipment and try some new things. If you don't own flash equipment or can't bring it to the meeting, you may join a group with equipment.
For future reference, the Photo Quest theme for February 2018 is "Red."
Throughout history the night sky has been a source of wonder and fascination for humanity. Join us as Kyle discusses the basics of photographing the night sky and the Milky Way right here in Central Pennsylvania. Topics will include needed equipment, basic camera settings, locations to observe and photograph the night sky as well as various resources that can be utilized to take better photographs of the night sky.
Kyle's Bio: A self-taught photographer, Kyle is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys spending much of his time outdoors in the mountains and forests of Central Pennsylvania where he can be found hiking, canoeing, camping, and capturing the beauty of nature through photography. He can often be found volunteering for various organizations including the Pennsylvania Amphibian & Reptile Survey, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the United States Army Corps of Engineers for whom he has helped with various projects ranging from removing graffiti from natural features and cleaning litter from rivers and lakes to surveying populations of venomous snakes.
PDF version of Kyle's slides Photographing the Night Sky (PDF)
This talk will attempt to justify the speaker's recent existence by describing some of the preparations required for effective travel and travel photography. The specific types of travel that will be considered are treks and safaris, reflecting the speaker's special interests in remote landscapes and wildlife. The specific preparations that will be considered include trip planning and the photographic gear most appropriate to trips of very different types.
Owen Floody is a retired Bucknell professor of psychology and neuroscience. At an apparently formative stage of his professional training, he spent several months in Uganda studying African wildlife. This helped to create the life-long interests in photography, wildlife and travel that he now pursues.
Commercial photography involves shooting images for commercial use. Career opportunities exist for photographers who work with businesses and/or advertising agencies to produce product images for print, websites, menus and other promotional materials.
Maybe you have a product or service and want to best represent yourself and your product online. Rebecca Mohr and Penny Patterson are both local business owners who use their websites to promote and sell products. They will share information on types of product photography, shot set ups, workflows and resources that they each use to create the images for their businesses.
Rebecca Mohr's first dive into photography was during graduate school in the early 1990s where she was one of the first researchers to study metallic corrosion using atomic force microscopy. The images were digital but there was no way to print the pictures with the color and quality viewed from the monitor. So she bought a tripod and camera and took film photographs of the monitor that were glued into her thesis. Twenty years later, she found herself developing a small jewelry business and desperate to learn jewelry photography. So again, she bought a tripod, this time with an extension arm, and camera and set out on her journey to learn product and promotional photography. She is currently retired from her 22-year Chemical Engineering career and has started a full-time jewelry business, Mohr Designs. Needing quality promotional and product photographs to support her business website (www.mohrdesigns.com) she understands the needs of product photography and is still learning how to improve the original photographs, edit the images, and manage the workflow.
Penny Patterson is a self taught photographer who grew up in and around the business of commercial photography. Her father is a retired commercial photographer and Penny spent many hours as a child in his studio, watching him work and create images for catalogs and various corporate media clients. When she and her husband started Spices, Inc. (www.SpicesInc.com) in 2008 she became interested in using photography to promote their business. She has developed a unique style over 8 years of shooting and is specifically interested in food photography.
Macro photography is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size.
Dan will discuss what is macro photography and show macro photos he has taken. He will discuss different approaches to macro photography including how to do it cheaply. He will demonstrate the equipment he uses and show images taken using the different approaches. He will describe the techniques and issues for doing macro photography.
Dan will show that macro photography can be a lot of fun!
Abstract: The talk is simply an introduction to the Cyanotype process, a brief history, some shared images, and selecting images that make ideal negatives to expose for creating a cyanotype. I will also share tips on how to coat paper, the best places to find pre-coated paper, and how clean, store, and care for your art materials during this process. Come hear Jen discuss this old but interesting alternative process in photography.
Biography: Jennifer Singer is a professional photographer in the Mid-Atlantic region. She teaches workshops and classes and gives private photo lessons as well! She taught the Spring 2017 photography class "Exploring Digital Photography" for Lewisburg's Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning (BILL). Ms. Singer majored in Photography, earning a BFA. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, graduating cum laude in 2003. She earned a Master's Degree in Secondary Education, grades 7-12 at the University of Phoenix in December 2009.