May 21st Meeting

The Lincoln Photography Club will meet on May 21 at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00. The topic for our meeting will be favorite places to take photos. Bring a digital or print photo of one of your favorite sites and directions on how to get there. We meet on the 2nd floor in the community room.

     So proud of our many club winners in the Arts Council of Lincoln County's  Amateur Photography Competition. Congratulations to Mark Houser for Winning Best of Show. 
The Arts Council of Lincoln County announces the winners of the 2012 Amateur Photography Competition:
Best of Show:  
Roaring Fork Falls, Mark Houser
Category winners:
People-
3rd    The Jumper, Tina Brittain
2nd   Guitar Man, Cliff Black
1st   Sweet Baby, Kathy Goodson
Animals-
3rd Horse and Rider, Michelle Wayne
2nd Portrait of the Owl, Cynthia Harman
1st Huskey, Tina Brittain
Special Effects & Abstract-
3rd The keyhole, David Hopkins
2nd Fire in Flight, Paula Sain
1st Oil and Water, Cynthia Harmon
Miscellaneous:
3rd   The Cava Factory, Elizabeth Phephs
2nd  Artist Spectrum,  Sarah Shaffer
1st   Balloon Peek a Boo,  Judy Broesder
Black and White-
3rd You Can’t See Me, Kathy Goodson
2nd Friends,  Mark Houser
1st  Tressell,  Cliff Black
Plant life/ landscape-
3rd Orchid,  Cliff Black
2nd Baby Magnolias,  Diane Keeney
1st  Lily Pond,  Bob Hodges
The Amateur Photography Competition runs through January 22, 2012 and can be viewed at the Lincoln Cultural Center, 403 E. Main St. Lincolnton, Monday–Friday from 10– 5pm. The Arts Council of Lincoln County thanks Tindalls’ Professional Photography for their generous sponsorship of this event. The Arts Council of Lincoln County would also like to thank Ari Miller for his expertise in judging our competition.
For more from information, please contact the Arts Council of Lincoln County at (704) 732-9044. This project is supported in part by a grant provided through the Grassroots Arts Program of the NC Arts Council, a state agency.
Hope all our club members entered the Art's Council of Lincoln County photography contest. Winners will be announced January 6th. The gallery at the Cultural Center will be open for visitors. Please send a small copy of your entry to me and I will post on our blog.
lincolnphotographyclub@gmail.com

Photography Display at the Lincoln Apple Festival

Roger and Kathy Goodson's

Judy Broesder
Doreen Sugierski
Janice Sill
Jon Arrowood
Carole Lake

September Meeting

Our next meeting will be January 23rd at 7:00 in the Community Room at the Lincoln Cultural Center. We would like to invite the community to bring in any new cameras they received for Christmas and our club members will assist you in learning how to use your camera and how to take better photos. Spread the word so we can help as many folks as possible.

Next Meeting August 22

Our next meeting is August 22, 2011. We will be meeting at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00. The Cultural Center is located at the corner of Main Street and Cedar St. Please enter through the Cedar St. door. We will be meeting on the second floor. Please use the stairs or elevator. Signs will be posted to direct you to the meeting room.

Our topic for the meeting will be how to make Photo Books as well as our club pages on the Internet at Facebook, Flickr and our Blog.

Upcoming Meeting July 25th

The Photography Club will be meeting on July 25th at the Lincoln Cultural Center at 7:00.

Our meeting will be a planning meeting and a contest for members. The topic for the contest is "Summer Fun". All members are invited to enter a 8 x 10 matted photograph. Please put your name on the back only. Looking forward to seeing you at our meeting. Come with your "Summer Fun" photo and lots of ideas for future meetings.

 The Lincoln Cultural Center as generously agreed to sponsor our club meetings free of charge. Their meeting rooms have mounted projectors and screens available for our use.

June 2011 Meeting

Our guest speaker for our June 2011 meeting held at the Lincoln Cultural Center was Robert Dant. Robert is owner of Hickory Photography as well as an instructor at Catawba Valley Community College. Even though Robert has many areas of expertise his topic tonight was Stock Photography.

First Robert always gets permission of people he uses in his photography. He uses two agencies. Photos cannot have copyright violations such as a company name or item in the photo. It must be a high quality photograph.

There are two types of stock photography: Rights management and royalty free. 


Some companies that do stock are:Istockphoto
Shutterstock
Stockpert
Rf. Almay
Corbis

 A website for more info is:Microstockgroup.com.  Pulse of the industry 

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May Meeting

Sorry for the delay posting the notes from May and June Meetings.

May - Our guest speaker for our May meeting held at the Classic Image studio was Seth Mabrey. Seth works for the Lincoln Times News as their head photographer. His topic for tonight was sports photography.
Seth Mabry.


 Seth emphasized using a fast shutter speed faster than 250 to stop sports motions with an Aperture of 2.5 - 3.5. He says it is better to underexposed to freeze motion then adjust post production. A shallow depth of field is best as the background can be distracting. Panning is another good way to get a great sports shot but panning is a practiced skill. Hand holding is usually best for photography but a monopod can help. The better your lens the easier it is to freeze the action without flash. However, using flash will illuminate the subject not the crowd. If using flash be sure your batteries are fresh. Best to use rechargeable batteries with back-ups. 


Other hints include - Lock on center focus, don't shoot people at the foul line, take some dugout shots, golfers are distracted by the camera sounds, take some warmup shots. To shoot  shoot through a fence set your aperture as low as you can.