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Next Meeting:
February 13, 7:00 PM - Virtual
Subject: Image Review and Critique -QCC #3
Judge: Dennis Thornton
Bio
Dennis became interested in photography
during high school. His first camera was a folding 35mm Kodak
Retina viewfinder which was paired a Weston IV light meter.
In his senior year Dennis purchased his first SLR, an Asahi Pentax
Spotmatic II. It was love at first sight. Spotmatics
were the camera of choice for many years, although a Mamiya C 330
twins lens was great for making B&W negatives. Many hours were
happily spent in his makeshift darkroom.
Life intervened and while a camera was often
in hand during his college years, there was no darkroom and other
more necessarily activities encroached on the pleasure of the hobby.
Then the cameras were put out to pasture during graduate school, the
early years of career building, marriage and starting a family.
Eventually, a career was established,
children had grown up, a new house was purchased with a basement
room suitable for making a darkroom. Dennis unboxed darkroom
equipment that had been in storage, dusted off his cameras and
joined a local photography club, the Westchester Photographic
Society.
Dennis expanded his acquisitions by picking
up a pair of Pentax 6x7s “super SLR” with lenses and attachments.
This beast weighed a ton, had a mirror slap that could be heard a
block away but produced incredible negatives for printing.
He also switched from 35mm Pentax brand to Nikon.
Just as he was getting back into the
darkroom, Dennis was caught up in the popular movement to digital.
Eventually, the film equipment would go and was replaced with
increasingly sophisticated Nikon DSLRs and now mirrorless cameras.
Involvement in camera clubs and
organizations has been rewarding and contributed to skill
development and the enjoyment of sharing a passion with like-minded
hobbyists. Dennis competes on the Salon level, has
participated in regional competitions, has had images accepted in
juried shows and has received awards and other acknowledgement of
distinction for his work. Most of all, photography is an
activity that is intellectually stimulating and artistically
rewarding.
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WAUSSAUK Competition
The Charlotte Camera Club is hosting the WAUSSAUK competition. The
WAUSSAUK competition is a four continent club competition. The
four clubs are from Western Australia, the US, South Africa and the
United Kingdom. We need a volunteer to coordinate it. The
coordinator would work with the judges of the competition to
document the images scores and report back to the board when this is
done. The images would be uploaded to the SmugMug by March 1st.
Judging would occur in the weeks after and Anastasia Tompkins will
then take the information and the images to create the PowerPoint
that goes back to the participating clubs.
Here are the rules for the competition:
Rules
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The theme
will be “Open”.
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There will
be two categories:
1.
Color
2.
B/W
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All four
clubs will enter a total of 25 images each.
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A maximum
of two images per photographer may be submitted.
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It does not
matter how many photos are entered in the Color category or the B/W
category, as long as the total number of images submitted by each
club does not exceed 25.
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There will
be scoring for the Color category and scoring for the B/W category..
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The scores
will be combined to get the final scores to determine the overall
winning club.
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The images must not have been submitted to a past WAUSSAUK competition.
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There are
no restrictions on the age of the images.
·
The
dimensions of each image may not exceed 1920 pixels in width
and/or 1440 pixels in height.
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The file
name should be in the following format <Location>-<Title>-<Maker
Name>.jpg Example: US-El Capitan-Eric Notheisen.jpg
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Locations
are as follows: Western Australia (WA), United States (US),
Great Britain (UK), South Africa (SA)
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Images must
be in .JPG format and sRGB color space
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