InFocus NewsletterMarch 2018

Photos in this issue are from last month's 'Altered Reality' competition.

Have you Paid your Dues for 2018?

Focus club dues have to be paid by March 9 (Friday) this year in order for members to con-tinue participating in competitions. And to get all the wonderful training, resources and fel-lowship the club offers.

Make sure you have a Membership Form and check in your hand when you attend the Friday Program meeting. Better yet, stop reading this and go put that stuff in an envelope and get it in the mail. Instructions are on the form.

Featured Article

I heard this year’s Altered Reality competition was the best one in years. So many outstand-ing images were submitted.

Here is a bunch of them, besides the ones em-bedded in the newsletter pages.

Phoenix at Night While Using Hallucinogens by Dan Greenberg

Member galleries on the Focus Website

With the new website design it’s time to refresh one of the features on the site – Member Galleries. You can have a dozen of your best images there, along with a short bio and link to your website.

Email Webmaster@FocusColorado.com for details.

In This Issue

Excellent Altered Images....................2

Program & Competition Meetings. 3

February ‘Altered Reality’ Competition Results.............................4

Photo Contests.......................................5

Local Photo Opps & Events...............6

Frame #37.................................................7

Focus Camera Club Offcers and Committee members

Officers

President: Joe Bonita

Vice President: Clint Dunham

Treasurer: Alicia Glassmeyer

Secretary: Laura Moran

Committee Chairs & Members

Executive: Joe Bonita, Clint Dunham, Alicia Glassmeyer, Laura Moran, and the Committee chairs listed below

Competitions: Larry Hartlaub

Programs: Dick York

Membership: Kim Ross

Our MissionThe purpose of the Focus Camera Club is to further its members’ enjoyment, knowledge and mastery of photographic skills through cooperative efforts and fellowship.

Focus Camera Club Monthly MeetingsMeetings are held the Second Friday & Fourth Wednesday of each month. Our meeting place is Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Pkwy, in Lone Tree. Meetings start promptly at 6:30 PM and will end by 9:00 PM after we breakdown the chairs and tables in the room. Get a Google Map by clicking here.

InFocus – The monthly newsletter of the Focus Camera Club March 2018

Excellent Altered Images

This year’s Altered Reality competition was one of the best ever. Fantastic images.

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Program & Competition Meetings

Program Schedule Competition Schedule

03/09/18 Program – HDR Processing by Mike Stebritz

03/28/18 Subject – Frozen / Ice / Snow

04/13/18 Program – Image Repair and Enhancement Techniques by Dan Greenberg

04/25/18 Subject – Vehicle and Machinery Details

05/11/18 Program – Beyond Nature by John Kieffer

05/23/18 Subject – Abandoned / Decay

05/30/18 Member Critique Meeting

March 9 Program with Mike Stebritz

In this presentation, you will learn how to create a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image using a minimum of three images of the same scene taken under different exposures, and how to process the HDR image to reveal its details in highlights and shadows.

HDR images contain more detail in bright and dark areas than ordinary images. However, because of its large dynamic range, an HDR image does not look “correct” when displayed on your monitor.

With Photoshop CC, Photomatix or Lightroom Classic CC, you can process the HDR image for output to a printer, display on your monitor, or digital image for the web or competition.

About Mike: I have actively been into photography for 43 years. My 1st black/white darkroom was built in 1975. I made the long progression from flm/slide photography to digital photography and wet dark-rooms to the digital darkroom on my computers in 1995.

During that time, I have taught all phases of photography, had my work published, and the last two years awarded as Photographer of the Year for Denver Photographic Society. I am a two time past president and current Digital Projection Manager and Web Master for Denver Photographic Society. I was presi-dent of North Jeffco Camera Club for 7 years until the club folded in December 2014.

This Month's Competition is Frozen / Ice / Snow

The offcial defnition: Photos of snow and frozen liquids such as water, taken in any fashion (outdoors or in-doors), in which the snow or ice is the primary subject. Not allowed would be photos of manmade, or woman-made, sculptures of snow or ice. However, frozen streams or liquid emanating from fountains would be allowed. Also not allowed would be a scene where it appears that snow was falling at the time of the photo but the falling snow is not the primary subject.

Judge will be Ken Stoecklin

If you need the Competition Entry forms or the template for the stick-on labels, you can get both from the Focus website on the Competition Rules page.

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InFocus – The monthly newsletter of the Focus Camera Club March 2018

February ‘Altered Reality’ Competition Results

Media Artist Image Title Score

f5.6 Digital Kim Ross Future Neighbor 9

f8 Digital Dave Hull Racing the Rhino 9

Dave Hull Rock On...Rodney 9

Jeff Kuhn You Are What You Eat 9

Gwen Paton Eye of the Storm 9

Ally Green Tempting 10

f11 Digital Larry Hartlaub Homage to M.C. Escher 9

Jeff Hochwalt Road to Nowhere 9

Jeff Hochwalt Vodka Bar 9

Larry Hartlaub Pharo with Glasses 10

Alicia Strunk (Glassmeyer) Exposing Summer 10

f16 Color Peggy Dietz Turmoil 9

Gary Witt Neon Night 9

Travis Broxton Where To? 10

Peggy Dietz The sinking of old Technology 10

Frank Gibbs Remember the Sixties 10

Oz Pfenninger Blue Arc 10

Digital Joe Bonita Outrageous Peacock 9

Travis Broxton in for the landing 9

Butch Mazzuca A bowl full of magic 9

Butch Mazzuca Aspen Grove 9

Gwen Piña First Steps on planet Musk-Elon 9

Leander Urmy Frozen Pipe 9

Travis Broxton a musical box 10

Dan Greenberg Phoenix at Night Viewed While Using Hallucinogens 10

Oz Pfenninger Another Migraine 10

Oz Pfenninger Dream World 10

Gwen Piña Exodus 10

Leander Urmy Modern Refection 10

Dick York Santa Fe Art 10

Monochrome Wayne Corrigan Waiting to Blink 9

Mary Paetow "Equine Dream" 9

Judge for this competition was Jeff Johnson. See all the winning images in the Online Gallery.

Remember to send your winning Print images to Webmaster@FocusColorado.com for the online galleries. And please use the same naming conventions as we do for Digital Submissions.

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Photo Contests

C4FAP – Black + White 2018

Deadline: March 28, 2018

All Black and White imagery is eligible for submission. All types of photographic processes are eligible for this exhibition. This includes all flm, alternative processes, traditional, digital, and all post-production techniques. All subject matter is welcome. All sizes are eligible.

Juror: Catherine Couturier is the Owner and Director of Catherine Couturier Gallery. Upon its inception, the gallery quickly evolved into the premier photography gallery in Hous-ton and sits at the center of Gallery Row. The gallery is a mem-ber of AIPAD, and Catherine serves on the advisory council of Houston Center for Photography. Couturier also reviews port-folios for organizations and festivals such as Photo Nola, At-lanta Celebrates Photography, and Fotofest.

Visit the Center for Fine Arts website for details about the CFE.

The American Landscape

Deadline: April 27, 2018

For the past seven years, photographers have submitted their fnest landscape images for consideration in Outdoor Photographer’s American Landscape Photo Contest, celebrating the beauty of our country’s natural spaces. Enter your best landscape photos today for your chance to be published in Outdoor Pho-tographer and win other great prizes!

Visit the Outdoor Photographer website for prize info, entry details, and to submit your images.

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Tempting by Ally Green

Exodus by Gwen PiñaDream World by Oz Pfenninger

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Local Photo Opps & Events

Russ Burden Photo Tours www. R uss B urden P hotography.com 303.791.9997

2018 Upcoming Tours and Dates

Apr 5-18, Tanzania Photo Safari #1

Apr 19 – May 2, Tanzania Photo Safari #2

Aug 18 – 24, Goats and Gods

Sept 4 – 17, Tanzania Safari, Mara River Crossing

Dec 1 – 7, Bosque Del Apache / White Sands

The Image, Deconstructed

The 6th The Image, Deconstructed Workshop!

The workshop is a 3-day immersive workshop experience, geared for those interested in a career in visual communi-cation. Attendees are welcome from all levels of experi-ence. The training will help attendees become more aware of their own purpose, and how to express that to others more effectively, while building community along the way.

The workshop will be held in Denver, Colorado from April 20 to 22. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of The Den-ver Post, it will be held in the auditorium in their down-town Denver location.

Cost is only $150. Complete details about the event, a speakers list, and registration info is on their website.

Great Sand Dunes Workshop

Pro photographer Dan Ballard is hosting a workshop from May 4-6th at the Great Sand Dunes near Alamosa. This is a great opportu-nity to enhance your skills, improve your post-processing tech-niques and come back with some incredible photos.

“Join me on a photography journey exploring the tallest and most awe-inspiring sand dunes in North America. We will be adventuring out to some of the most amazing areas of the dunes that can only be accessed by 4wd and fairly challenging hiking. These scenes are not visited by most people who photograph the dunes. The combination of desertscape in the dawning light, spectacular mountain scenery and meandering fow of the Medano creek bed will give ample opportunities for creating remarkable works of art. “

Photo club members can use the code CAMERACLUB for $50 off. Visit Dan’s website for details.

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Future Neighbor by Kim Ross

Turmoil by Peggy Dietz

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Frame #37

A collection of extra tidbits I've discovered during the past few weeks.

— Film has had a resurgence in the past few years. And Ilford is posting videos to help new photogra-phers understand (and old photographers remember) what flm processing and printing is all about. Check out the Youtube Channel for their recent videos on processing B&W flm and making prints.

— Last month, Photographers across the interwebs were in an uproar about Peter Lik’s “Moonlight Dreams” image. At frst, he and his company maintained it was not a composite image at all. The folks at the Fstoppers website pointed out some anomalies, including a lookalike moon in a previous image from the photographer. Jared Polin (of FroKnowsPhoto fame) gets to the bottom of it all here.

— Now that you’ve watched the video above, read this articulate and well reasoned article about “...the topic of artistic composites and unrealistic post-processing” in landscape photography. He makes some very good points about the believe-ability of images you see, what we as photographers need to do, and how proper planning can help you get natural images that others are willing to just Photoshop together.

“If you have something to say with a camera then show it, otherwise it’s better to bake a cake.”

– Jason Eskenazi

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Remember the Sixties by Frank GibbsEye of the Storm by Gwen Paton