Members Night

Members night! Members bring your work to share. Club will provide food.

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Competition: “Nature” (Judged)

Official, judged competition. Must be a member to enter. Please bring your membership card. See competition rules

For this one competition, the maximum size will be increased from 11×14 to 16×20 to allow members to enter photos that did not make it into the Meadowlark Competition.  Any LPC member Meadowlark submission (that wasn’t accepted) matching the theme can be entered.

 The judge for the evening will be Josh Taylor.  Learn more about Josh at his website – http://archiphotoworkshops.com/bio.html

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Members Night with Photog. Jean-Louis Monfraix

Members night! Club will provide food. Professional photographer Jean-Louis Monfraix will join us and discuss Photographing the Galapogos. Members bring your photos to share, we will have a photo share after Mr. Monfraix’s talk.

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Competition: “People and/or Places” (Judged)

Official, judged competition. Must be a member to enter. Please bring your membership card. See competition rules

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Members Night – Holiday Party & Shoot and Show

Happy Holidays! Members bring your photos to share. Everyone bring a side dish, dessert or beverage to share. Club will provide pizza as well as the usual cups, plates, cutlery, etc.

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CMPRC Exhibit

Our exhibit at the Claude Moore Park Recreation Center will start soon! The new date will be the first week in November. Once volunteers have signed up to hang, then they will get to choose the specific day. Members will need to bring their images at the specified time to hang them. They MUST have eyelet screws or a VERY WELL ATTACHED device that acts like an eyelet screw. Neilsen frames tend to have these well attached. Note, the ones that just simply clip in will not work very well. Not only are they hard to hang, but all the weight of the frame will be on those little pieces and if they fall out, your frame will come crashing to the floor. Sawtooth hangers will NOT work. This is not because of any sort of silliness on my part, as it took me a long time to figure out how to put eyelet screws in (all my frames come with sawtooth hangers). This is purely out of necessity for how they will be hung.

Basically, CMPRC will attach a firm wire to the brick/cement wall. This creates, well, think of it as a curtain rod. This “curtain rod” is placed high so that works of varying sizes can be accomodated. Then “S” hooks are slipped onto this “curtain rod”. This allows the artist to adjust the work to the height they want. So that art does not “swing”, we use two wires to hang them. What has worked superbly in the past is fishing wire. This way the hanging mechanism blends into the wall. So, fishing wire is tied onto the S hooks, then hangs down to each frame, where it is connected to the eyelet screws or similar. Sawtooth hangers will not work because there is usually only one and because it will cut thru the wire over time. Note that the entire weight of the frame is on these eyelet screws, so they must be attached securely. The fishing wire will be hooked via one of two methods, shown in the diagram below. You can also see Bob’s diagram and images of the display space below the diagram.

Exhibit Diagram

View Bob’s diagram of the CMPRC space

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Thursday Competition – “Abstracts”

Hello everyone.  Our first official competition of the season is Thursday, Oct. 23rd!  We are excited to have Joseph Rossbach back to judge for us.  The theme is the same topic he spoke on, “Abstracts”.  Note, while Joe focused on abstracts in nature, any abstract image (family friendly) will be accepted.  Please don’t forget to read the competition rules and abide by them.  While we are lenient, we expect everyone to try to follow the rules.  You must enter your images by 7:15pm!  Late images will not be accepted, especially if the competition has already been judged!

We will have dinner at Ruby Tuesday in Ashburn. Dinner starts around 5:30pm and usually lasts until 6:30-6:40.  Everyone is welcome to join us and our judge if he’s available.

Lastly, those who are entering photos into the competition, please remember your  membership card to make verifying you are a member easier.

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Meeting Changes

Our speaker for the Oct. 9th meeting has unfortunately fallen ill.  We will either have a new speaker or we will have a member night.  I will let everyone know.  I’d suggest bringing stuff to share just in case.

Also, DON’T FORGET: MEETING IN BUILDING 2, the same building as last time.  That’s the one where at the stop sign, you turn RIGHT, then RIGHT again, and it’s that building.  If you get lost, go to the normal building and ask the guard/receptionist, they can direct you.  (It’s very close to the normal building.)

We will meet up for dinner beforehand, check the mailing list and website for more.

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New Photoshop CS4 – Content Aware Scaling

The new photoshop cs4 is here! Probably it’s neatest feature is called “content aware scaling”. At first this sounds pretty boring. But seeing a demo makes a world of difference. The software recognizes the “important” parts of an image and allows you to scale the image by reducing the “unimportant” pixels and keeping the important ones. For example, in a picture of a car, the tires and headlights should be kept to a certain proportion, but the middle of the door can be squeezed or even thrown away.

See the demo here at Adobe TV:

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New Building for Sept 25 and Oct 9 Meetings

We will still meet at the George Washington University Virginia Campus on Sept 25 and Oct 9. However, we will be in a different building. When coming from Rt. 7, you come to a stop sign/intersection. Usually you go left. Instead, for these two meetings, go RIGHT. It will be the first building on your right. The entrance is in what appears to be the back. There will be a receptionist to sign in with as usual and someone will be there to tell you where to go.

View the new building location in google maps

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Updated Competition Rules

 Charles, our Competition Coordinator, has updated the competition rules for the 2008-2009 season.  Please read through them carefully before our first competition in Oct.  There have been a few changes and some clarifications.

LPC Competition Rules 2008-2009

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Meeting Fees Reduced

Hi everyone, in this time of high gas prices and skyrocketing national debt, LPC is actually lowering its membership fees! Our membership fees for this year are $30, with additional family members $10 each.

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Calendar Updated!

Hi everyone – we have our first half of the season updated in our online calendar (thanks, Abigail!) We also have a list of programs for the year off our Meetings page (go directly to the 2008-09 list of meetings).

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Claude Moore Park Photo Expo

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Claude Moore Park Photo Expo: Entries Due

Entries are due by Saturday. Entries will also be collected at our meeting on Sept. 11th by Joe Ellis, the expo coordinator.
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Member Night: “What I Did on My Summer Vacation”

Members, it’s time for our annual member night show and tell, “What I Did on My Summer Vacation”. Bring photos you’ve taken or processed over the summer (or anytime) to share! We’ll have food and fun!

Non-members are welcome to come and share in the festivities, but displaying of photos is for members only.

This meeting will be in a different building at GWUVC – view location in google maps

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Speaker: Jim Clark, a Career Perspective

Jim Clark, one of the top nature photographers in the country, will provide a retrospective of his career as a professional nature photographer.

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Speaker: Astrophotography – an out of this world topic

Tom Kennedy will talk about photographing the night sky and the equipment you should use.

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Speaker: Backyard Bird Photography

Jack Nevitt, of Virginia Digital Photo Safaris, offers a brand new presentation on capturing stunning bird photos in your own backyard.

This meeting will be held in a different building at GWUVC – view location in google maps

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Speaker: Abstract Photography

Joseph Rosbach will discuss shooting nature in the abstract.

Also note, Joe Ellis, coordinator of the Claude Moore Park Photo Expo, will accept entries for the expo at this meeting.

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