Topeka Camera Club

May 2012 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:43:59 +0000

Wow! It’s hard to believe that April is almost over.We had a great time judging the Creative Print category this month. Thank you to Bob Wright, Richard Nelson, and Pam Carmichael for taking the time out of their busy schedules to judge the contest. Also, a big thank you to everyone else who came out and helped out. Without your help, we would have been there much longer than we were. Thank you for all your help!!!! Now onto this month.…We are meeting in the Anton Room at the Topeka-Shawnee County Library on May 1st at 6:30 p.m. You are welcome to participate or just come and learn about Topeka Camera Club.

Our program and photo theme for this meeting will be “Generating Next Year’s Themes & Programs”. If you have theme or program ideas please summit photographs for this discussion. You have two choices for entering: printed photographs or digital images for projection. Most of us enter digital images for projection. If you choose to enter digital images, you may bring them on a disc, USB drive or email them to Scott. In order to prepare the computer slide show, please email Scott no more then three images by 4:00 PM Tuesday evening, May 1. Please make sure the files are correctly formatted and labeled before you send them. If you have questions about formatting and labeling, please see the Monthly Photo Contest Requirements on this website. If you would like to enter the print categories, please bring your prints with you to the meeting. The categories for print are Color Print, Nature, Black & White, and Photojournalism. Print size for Photojournalism is no larger than 8x12 and if mounted, make sure it is a lightweight mount. All other categories the maximum size is 16 x 20. They can be mounted and/or matted but do not have to be until they win 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or honorable mention. You also need to label each print with the title of the print, category, member number, maker’s name, and the camera club on the back side of the mount in the upper left corner. We can send up to 8 per category. So far the most we have had is 6 in Color Prints and Photojournalism. Because we judged the Creative Prints category this month, we can enter 16 entries next month. While we don’t normally enter this contest, we are planning on entering it in May. We will also talk about Springbrook, look at last months N4C entries and talk about and elect Officers Positions for next year. We are looking forward to seeing all your photos at the meeting where names become faces and faces become friends.

April 2012 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:17:49 +0000

Hi All! Our next meeting will be at Topeka-Shawnee Public Library on April 3rd at 6:30. Please check the schedule board in the rotunda to find the room we are meeting in. Our program is Photographic Composition. Please submit 1 to 3 photos for open photo critique in photographic composition. We have the four categories: Creative, Pictoral, Nature, and Photojournalism. If you would like to enter the print categories, please bring your prints with you to the meeting. The categories for print are Color Print, Nature, Black & White, and Photojournalism. Print size for Photojournalism is no larger than 8x12 and if mounted, make sure it is a lightweight mount. All other categories the maximum size is 16 x 20. They can be mounted and/or matted but do not have to be until they win 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or honorable mention. You also need to label each print with the title of the print, category, member number, maker’s name, and the camera club on the back side of the mount in the upper left corner. We can send up to 8 per category. So far the most we have had is 6 in Color Prints and Photojournalism. We are looking forward to seeing all your photos at the meeting where names become faces and faces become friends.

March 2012 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:09:12 +0000

Hi All! Our next meeting will be at Topeka-Shawnee Public Library on March 6th at 6:30. Please check the schedule board in the rotunda to find the room we are meeting in. Our topic is Getting to Know Your Camera. I believe the photo topic is your choice. We have the four categories: Creative, Pictoral, Nature, and Photojournalism. Bring a photo for each category, but no more than 5 per category. I want to congratulate all the winners in the digital categories we have from February! Good job to all! I haven’t received the prints back yet, but I’m sure they will be here this week. Hopefully we will have some winners in those categories as well. If you would like to enter the print categories, please bring your prints with you to the meeting. The categories for print are Color Print, Nature, Black & White, and Photojournalism. Print size for Photojournalism is no larger than 8x12 and if mounted, make sure it is a lightweight mount. All other categories the maximum size is 16 x 20. They can be mounted and/or matted but do not have to be until they win 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or honorable mention. You also need to label each print with the title of the print, category, member number, maker’s name, and the camera club on the back side of the mount in the upper left corner. We can send up to 8 per category. So far the most we have had is 6 in Color Prints and Photojournalism. We are looking forward to seeing all your photos at the meeting where names become faces and faces become friends.

October Winners

Melissa Turkin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:27:49 +0000

Congratulations to the following people:

Kaleidoscope by Verla Hershell 1st Place Digital Creative

Inside Out by Don Thun Honorable Mention Digital Creative

Mountain Stream by Greg Hoglund Honorable Mention Nature Print

Wonderful job everyone!!

November 2011 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:06:38 +0000

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library’s Marvin Auditorium Room 101A at 6:30 P.M. We will be postponing the program: Portrait Photography until next month while we secure our guest speaker. We will look at our N4C digital winners and entries, but we will also be looking at Prints in addition. If time allows, our President, Scott, would like to talk about the Topeka Camera Club Constitution in preparation for the end of his leadership. He would also like to discuss the type of projector we are going to purchase for the club. Please bring any and all suggestions for this purchase.

Our theme for this months photos is Kids at Play/The Zoo. Please submit no more than 5 images to scott’s e-mail or bring them with you to the meeting on a flash drive. Please make sure to correctly size and lable your photos before submission. If you don’t have a member number, please contact Scott to receive one. If you are unsure of how to resize and lable your photos, please read the Monthly Photo Contest Requirements post on this website.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting where names become faces and faces become friends!

What A Great Convention! Time to Get Back to Work.

Melissa Turkin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:55 +0000

Ok, it’s been a couple of weeks, so it is time to get back to work. After the convention, I decided to rest for the first week. It was a lot of work, but everyone pulled together and got things done. I want to thank everyone who pitched in and helped. I also want to thank the Ramada for doing such a great job with the convention. Everything went very smoothly, and the food was wonderful. A very special thank you to Wolfe’s Camera for donating the wonderful door prizes for the convention.

Last week, I took the time to go through the pictures I took at the convention. I enjoyed the Topeka tour. I saw things that I didn’t even know happened in Topeka! The Topeka High running of the halls was a special highlight. Thank you to the Civil War Re-enactors for coming out to Ward-Meade Park and firing off the cannon. The graciously posed for many, many photos. Thank you again to everyone! Awesome Job!!

Now, our next meeting is 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, October, 4th at the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library. Please read the board in the rotunda to find out which room we are in. The program will be on panoramas and unusual croppings. The theme of the meeting is reflections and shadows, so bring your best reflection and shadow photos! Looking forward to seeing everyone there where names become faces, and faces become friends!

August 2011 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:12:16 +0000

Wow! It is hard to believe that summer is almost over, and our first Topeka Camera Club meeting for the 2011–2012 season is upon us. Tuesday, August 2nd, we will meet at the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library at 6:30 P.M. I believe we are meeting in the Marvin Auditiorium 101A, but double check the signs in the lobby. This month’s program is a review of the N4C contest rules including resizing images and labeling them. Everyone needs to submit one digital image for each category (Photojournalism, Creative, Nature, and Pictoral) in preparation for the September contest. With the N4C Convention right around the corner, we will have a lot of things to cover. Hope everyone can make it!

May 2011 Meeting Happenings

Melissa Turkin — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:48:42 +0000

First, I want to convey our deepest apologies for the mixup at May’s meeting. Scott, our President, thought he had the library booked through May. Unfortunately, this was not the case. For those of you who made the trek to the alternate site, thank you for your good naturedness about it. For thouse who didn’t make it, please consider coming to our June meeting. We will have a picnic for this meeting, so details will follow.

On to what happened at the meeting! Greg and Scott talked about the Springbrook meeting they attended at the end of April. Greg created a wonderful photo essay of their trip.

Scott purchased 4 $25 gift certificates from Wolfe’s before he left to take to Springbrook and raffle off. Wolfe’s generously matched our purchase, so we had 8 $25 gift certificates to raffle off. We also talked about the upcoming N4C Convention and went over the schedule. We are planning to do a dry run of the tours in July or August to make sure they will run smoothly in September. August 8th is the deadline for Convention reservations.

We discussed possible photo themes and programs for next year from the photos everyone sent in. A list of themes was generated and will be presented at June’s meeting.

We had two winners in April’s N4C contest! Greg Hoglund took 3rd place in the Digital Photojournalism for his photo, “Mable takes Flight,” and John Sanders received an Honorable Mention in Digital Nature for his photo, “Owl.” Congratulations to Greg and John!

Our last scheduled meeting for the 2010–2011 year is June. For any new people, our year runs from September to May. We have a picnic in June, and take the summer off to travel and take more photos for next year. This year though, we are hosting the Annual N4C Convention September 9–11, so we will possibly have regular meetings throughout the summer. We have a lot to do and September will be here before we know it! If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Scott or anyone on the e-mail list.

May 2011 Meeting

Melissa Turkin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:49:12 +0000

The May 2011 meeting will be held at the Topeka Library on May 3rd at 6:30pm. Please see the signs in the lobby for the exact meeting room being used.

This month we will be deciding on the Themes and Programs for the upcoming year. Please bring your list of ideas for themes and programs to be discussed.

We will also look at the N4C winners from April. If you have any photos you would like to have submitted for the N4C contest, please e-mail correctly formatted photos to Scott Udey by 4:00pm on Tuesday, May 3rd or bring them on a flash drive or CD. If you are not sure how to format your photos, Dave Navarro has a post on here called “The Monthly Photo Contest Requirements” that will be helpful.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Taking pictures in the snow

dnavarrojr — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:01:49 +0000

With the blizzard/snow conditions we have, you might be tempted to run outside and take some pictures. But when you do, the color might be off or they might look underexposed. Here’s some tips you might find useful:

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