Spring 2013 NECCC Interclub Print Competition Results

The Spring 2013 NECCC Interclub Print Competition scores have been posted on the NECCC Web Site. The images will be forthcoming as soon as they're received  from the makers.

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NECCC 2013 Digital Projected Image Competition

New England Camera Club Council
2013 Digital Projected Image Competition
(Slides have been discontinued)

Digital Image Closing Dates:
July 7, 2013 for emailing digital images
July 12, 2013 at 4:00pm at the Conference 
($20 Fee to enter after July 8, 2013)

 Two Sections:
Open and Nature

► Please read the Entry Rules before submitting your entry.

► Digital images must be mailed to necccdigitalcomp@gmail.com by July 7. (Note this is a NEW email address)

► Check the status of your submission.

The equipment used for judging this competition uses 1024 x 768 pixel size.
The image must fit into this window (1024 x 768 pixels).
Horizontals must have a width of 1024 pixels or smaller; verticals must have a height of 768 pixels or smaller.
Resolution should be 100.
Please double check the sizing before submitting images.
Smaller images are acceptable.
The images will be projected as received.
Resolution should be 100 ppi.
Winning images will be reproduced on the NECCC website.

Your electronic file name will consist of the Category followed by your name and the title of your image.  Please separate each piece of information with a dollar sign $.  For example: 

                             N$Lintner, Pam$Bull Elephant.jpg

                             O$Lintner, Pam$Pemaquid Light.jpg

You will get a confirming reply email within a day or two, so you should inquire about your entry if you do not receive one.  No entry form is needed, but please be sure your name and the image title are on the image files and indicate your camera club affiliation.

Thanks for competing and good luck to everyone!

Tony Sweet, John Barclay & Denise Ippolito at the Whitney Center in Connecticut

July 27, 2013 (9-4:30)- Tony Sweet, John Barclay & Denise Ippolito at the Whitney Center in Connecticut

• John Barclay - Discovery & The Creative Choice. Have you ever arrived at a location and wonder what there is to photograph?  Discovering worthy images can be a challenge.  John’s inspirational program is filled with ideas that will help you overcome your feelings of  F.U.D (Fears, Uncertainties and Doubts} and create your own unique images no matter where you are.
• Denise Ippolito ~ "Before & After the Filters"
• Tony Sweet - Loosen Up!! Break out of the box of traditional photography
• John Barclay – Crafting Images with Topaz, Nik and Totally Rad
• Denise Ippolito -Lightpad Photography
• Tony Sweet - The invisible worlds of photography

To read more and sign up please visit: http://deniseippolito.com/triple-header-tony-sweet-denise-ippolito-john-barclay/

Sunday Follow up Workshop at the Bannerman Castle. Participants will join all three leaders on a private island tour photographing the castle ruins. We will work on creative in-camera techniques as well as HDR capture and IR. Bring your love for photography and your willingness to try new ideas for this one of a kind workshop opportunity. A detailed info sheet will be provided upon registration. Price includes the boat ride to and from the island. You may bring a picnic basket if you like. Sunday July 28th from 4:30pm-8:30pm.

Photographic Society of America - Recognition of Service

Photographic Society of America - Recognition of Service

By Rick Cloran, FPSA, EPSA, MNEC Chairman of PSA’s Honor Committee

It is with considerable pleasure that we recognize the election of three NECCC Board of Director Vice Presidents as Associates of the Photographic Society of America (PSA). The honors will be officially conferred on Antoinette Gombeda, HonNEC, Hazel Meredith, MNEC and Shiv Verma, MNEC at the PSA Conference in Portland, Maine this coming September. The Associateship is awarded for contributions to the advancement of photography that are primarily service oriented. These may include service to PSA or other photographic organizations or photography related service to the general community. While a high degree of photographic proficiency and achievement are often evident, personal achievement alone does not qualify a candidate for this honor.

While we cannot provide the full citations, Antoinette Gombeda, MNEC is being recognized for her years of supporting photography in New England, particularly through NECCC, and multiple chairmanships of the annual photo conference, the Connecticut Assoc. of Photographers (CAP) and her local club. Hazel Meredith, MNEC is being recognized for her service to PSA as well as to NECCC, CAP and her local club. Antoinette and Hazel are both members of the Greater Bridgeport (CT) Camera Club. Shiv Verma, MNEC is being recognized for his service to PSA, NECCC and his work as a lecturer, workshop leader and photography tour leader. Shiv is a member of Stony Brook, Greater Lynn, and the Massachusetts Camera Naturalists.

Bob Singer’s and Jim Pennypacker’s unique three-day Whales and Wildlife Weekend Workshop

A quick reminder that a very worthwhile early bird discount ends on April 15^th—in just a few more days—for Bob Singer’s and Jim Pennypacker’s unique three-day Whales and Wildlife Weekend Workshop this May 31, June 1 and 2 on Cape Cod. The fee for this unique Photography Center of Cape Cod Friday-through-Sunday weekend includes all workshop sessions, whale watch boarding passes including box lunches aboard and a Barnstable Harbor eco-tour by boat. You won’t find a better deal anywhere for a workshop like this one. For more information, click on this link: http://www.photographycenterofcapecod.org/WhalesSeals.html

Lisa and Tom Cuchara - workshops

Lisa and Tom Cuchara have just announced some new workshops. They are offering camera, post-processing and on location classes and workshops. You can see what they are offering here: http://www.meetup.com/Image-Enhancement/

Highlights

• Night photography at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: http://www.meetup.com/Image-Enhancement/events/113496082/
• HDR and Macro at Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum: http://www.meetup.com/Image-Enhancement/events/104979702/
• HDR (High Dynamic Range) Workshop with tripods and models at Grand Central Terminal: http://www.meetup.com/Image-Enhancement/events/113495292/
• Photo Hi-Jinx (photo setup) Workshop:  http://www.meetup.com/Image-Enhancement/events/112992842/
• Classes on using your Camera, exposure, HDR photography, post-processing (layers, masks, plugins), Processing RAW images with ACR (Adobe Camera RAW) in CS6 and Lightroom, etc. 

Don't miss "THE MOMENT" a reality show on the USA Network Thursday April 11, 2013

Professional Boston photographer "Lou Jones", well known to a lot of us for the terrific programming he has given at many clubs and past NECCC conferences as a speaker on PJ, Street Photography, Speed lights and other subjects,will be on a new reality television program this Thursday April 11 at 10 pm on the USA Network. The title of the program is "THE MOMENT" Lou will be the mentor of a woman who wants to be a sports photographer. His promos for the show are already running on the USA Network and the Comcast demand Channel 1 network. 

Be sure to tune in and watch and then drop Lou a note at  FotoJones@aol.com to congratulate him or join in on his blog for the discussion     http://fotojonesblog.blogspot.com

Lou will also be lecturing at Berks Photo Conference in June in PA and has a new book coming out also in June 2013 on Speedlights. For those of you from NY, Lou  will also be lecturing in May 2013 at the GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE in Rochester, New York

Night Photography Workshop with Lance Keimig April 26, 27, and 28, 2013

3 Session Night Photography Workshop with Lance Keimig

From $595.00

Friday, Saturday, Sunday evenings – April 26, 27 and 28

Session one: 2.5 hour classroom session to cover introductions and expectations, the basics of night photography, and to get everyone’s cameras set up for shooting at night – followed by a 3.5 hour urban shoot with ambient artificial light.

Session two: a 3-4 hour classroom session to review the images from the previous night and go over developing them in Lightroom, instruction on light painting, followed by a second night of shooting in a darker landscape environment to take advantage of moonlight and light painting and light drawing techniques.

Session three: The third session would repeat the second session with a different shooting location and another critique. This gives students an opportunity to build on their experiences and learn from their mistakes on the first and second nights.

Details at http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/product/night-photography-workshop-with-lance-keimig/

or click here.

37th Greater Lynn International Exhibition

The 2013 Greater Lynn International Exhibition showcase will be shown at Greater Lynn headquarters,564 Boston St. Lynn, Ma 01905, on Sunday afternoon, April 7, 2013 at 2 PM and on Monday night, April 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM. 

This years exhibition had 1405 entrants with over 5600 images, from 31 states and 65 different countries. While our New England club participation remained about the same this exhibition saw an increase in foreign club participation with submissions from clubs in Japan and Brazil as well as the usual countries of China, Russia, Poland, Turkey, Iran, and nine other countries. The club from China which won the largest club medal last year with sixty-three entrants submitted seventy-five entrants this year. 

For the first time in our exhibition history we had a tie for the Best Club Medal between Cape Cod Viewfinders  (MA) and Gateway Camera Club (MA). Over 350 entrants came from New England Clubs who were all trying to win the best club medal.  

Please join us to see this spectacular array of images from all four corners of the earth. This years exhibition has some very unique and dramatic images in it. After the show we will present the Medals to those winners who are in attendance, and catalogs to those of you in attendance who entered the exhibition..

The multi-media showcase is being put together by a Greater Lynn talented audio-visual producer, Barbara Rozavsky, MNEC. A master of music selection, her theme segments are a joy to hear and watch. She always matches the images to the music perfectly. The show will run approximately 90 minutes with a short intermission. It will contain about 1700 of the higher scoring images that were "accepted into the exhibition" by the judging panel, Elizabeth Keery,APSA, MNEC of Florida, Michael Di Stefano, MNEC of RI, and Jacob Mosser, FPSA, EPSA, HonNEC of MA. 

The admission cost will be $8 for non Greater Lynn Photo Asso. members. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from Susan Mosser s.jmosser@comcast.net .

Please visit the clubs website www.greaterlynnphoto.org for  more information and directions to the club. The winning medals images are also available in a gallery for viewing. To view the images, go to the GLPA website and on the home page, click on the link on the top of the left column.

Creative iPhone Photography Workshop in Plymouth, MA

Sat, May 4th, or Sunday, May 5th 2013. 9am - 4:30pm

Great location at a private bird sanctuary overlooking the bluffs of Cape Cod Bay in Manomet, Plymouth.

$140 before April 1st midnight, after that $150 per person.  Small class size, individual attention.

Workshop is taught by master iPhoneographer Rad A. Drew from Indianapolis. Have you noticed the many stunning photographs being made with the iPhone? Want to learn how you can turn your iPhone into a more creative tool?

The new iPhones do an amazing job of capturing images and have made the creation and processing of images more fun (and more portable) than ever before. Many traditional point and shoot cameras, and even the DSLRs of professionals, are giving way to the iPhone. But, do you know how to take your images to the next level and to effectively use available iPhone apps to create images that no one would guess were taken AND processed with your iPhone?

For more information and to register go to Photography Events by Amy. http://www.meetup.com/Photography-Events-by-Amy/