Hi Everyone,Please read the info below from Kathy about Sandy. I am not sure who sends out the news on email about NHCC, but I would appreciate if a email could be sent about Sandy so he could receive get -well cards. Jan
Jan, We transferred Sandy to the Saybrook Healthcare Center at 1775 Boston Post Road, Old Saybook CT 06475 room 401 --he was resting comfortably at 8:45pm tonight--he would LOVE to see you!! You know how much he loves you--he may still be on oxygen, but he is looking none the worse for wear--the more people who can send cards will be great--I am working hard to keep him oriented--he is very positive about wanting to live life and get out of there, so his spirits are fine. I will be there after church on Sunday. KK
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Interclub competition results
Dear Club Members,
One or more of your images were used in either the NECCC nature or pictorial competitions or the Electronic Imaging Division of PSA interclub competition.
NECCC PICTORIAL COMPETITION
The individual scores of the Pictorial competition were as follows:
Antov, Andrey-Heading for Naples-21-HM
Barnett, William-Sheep and Threatening Sky-21-HM
Dionne, James-Jester-17
Vietzke, Barbara-Very Busy-19
In this competition the judges score 3 to 9 for a total between 9 and 27. We scored a total of 78 points. Greater Lynn won with 85 points and Boston West was in second with 83 points. This is the first year the competition has been divided into two classes; as a result we are in Class A with 14 of New England's best clubs.
NECCC NATURE COMPETITION
The individual scores of the Nature competition were as follows:
Sisken, Harold-Egret-22
Mahon, Gerri-Death Valley Sand Dune-22
Antov, Andrey-Eastern Tiger Swallowtail-20
Prestash, Gary-Yellow Warbler Calling-24-2nd (6-way tie)
Again, this competition is scored between 9 and 27. We received a total of 88 points which put us in 4th place. Gateway Camera Club was first with 93 points and Cape Cod Viewfinders was in second with 91 points. This competition was also divided into two classes this year for the first time; we are in Class A with 12 of New England's best nature clubs.
ELECTRONIC IMAGING COMPETITION
The individual scores of the EID competition were as follows:
James Dionne-Jester-10
William Barnett-Birds on the Dock-Award-12
Andrey Antov-Diagonals-11
Barbara Vietzke-Very Busy-10
Gary Prestash-Yellow Warbler Calling-HM-13
Frank Gilroy-Winter Light-10
The scoring for each of three judges in this competition was 1 to 5 producing a total between 3 and 15. I checked with the chairman and he reported that awards and HMs are decided by the judges after scoring and are not necessarily score related. I thought that a 12 getting an award and a 13 getting only an HM was an error, but he assures me that there was no error.
In this competition we scored 66 points. Three clubs scored more points: Ridgewood (NJ) Camera Club 71, Santa Rosa Photographic society 67, and St. Louis Camera Club 68. The Terra Australis Digital Image Group tied with us at 66 points. There are two classes in this competition; we are in class A along with a number of clubs from other countries. There is stiff competition.
Best regards, Bill
One or more of your images were used in either the NECCC nature or pictorial competitions or the Electronic Imaging Division of PSA interclub competition.
NECCC PICTORIAL COMPETITION
The individual scores of the Pictorial competition were as follows:
Antov, Andrey-Heading for Naples-21-HM
Barnett, William-Sheep and Threatening Sky-21-HM
Dionne, James-Jester-17
Vietzke, Barbara-Very Busy-19
In this competition the judges score 3 to 9 for a total between 9 and 27. We scored a total of 78 points. Greater Lynn won with 85 points and Boston West was in second with 83 points. This is the first year the competition has been divided into two classes; as a result we are in Class A with 14 of New England's best clubs.
NECCC NATURE COMPETITION
The individual scores of the Nature competition were as follows:
Sisken, Harold-Egret-22
Mahon, Gerri-Death Valley Sand Dune-22
Antov, Andrey-Eastern Tiger Swallowtail-20
Prestash, Gary-Yellow Warbler Calling-24-2nd (6-way tie)
Again, this competition is scored between 9 and 27. We received a total of 88 points which put us in 4th place. Gateway Camera Club was first with 93 points and Cape Cod Viewfinders was in second with 91 points. This competition was also divided into two classes this year for the first time; we are in Class A with 12 of New England's best nature clubs.
ELECTRONIC IMAGING COMPETITION
The individual scores of the EID competition were as follows:
James Dionne-Jester-10
William Barnett-Birds on the Dock-Award-12
Andrey Antov-Diagonals-11
Barbara Vietzke-Very Busy-10
Gary Prestash-Yellow Warbler Calling-HM-13
Frank Gilroy-Winter Light-10
The scoring for each of three judges in this competition was 1 to 5 producing a total between 3 and 15. I checked with the chairman and he reported that awards and HMs are decided by the judges after scoring and are not necessarily score related. I thought that a 12 getting an award and a 13 getting only an HM was an error, but he assures me that there was no error.
In this competition we scored 66 points. Three clubs scored more points: Ridgewood (NJ) Camera Club 71, Santa Rosa Photographic society 67, and St. Louis Camera Club 68. The Terra Australis Digital Image Group tied with us at 66 points. There are two classes in this competition; we are in class A along with a number of clubs from other countries. There is stiff competition.
Best regards, Bill
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Results of Fall Inter-club Print Competition
Results of Fall Inter-club Print Competition
The NHCC participates only in the color print competition.
There were 28 clubs participating and the individual scores ranged from 17-25. New Haven Camera Club tied for first with Stony Brook with a club score of 91. Two clubs tied for second with 90. They were Charter Oak and Photographers Forum. Club scores ranged from 74-91.
Individual honors from our club went to Vic Krasenics (HM) for "Upper Yosemite Falls from Valley" (23pts.), and to Art Yost (3rd. place) for "Monarch on Mohonk" (24points)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Images from November's competition now online
Thank you Bill for creating the image galleries from November's competition images. You can view them on the NHCC website under images: http://www.newhavencameraclub.org/images.htm
Thank you Jim for the monthly scores and cumulative scores, which can be viewed on our website here under scores:
http://www.newhavencameraclub.org/scores.htm
There were many, many winners last months, but I would love to get copies of the FIRST PLACE images, along with some technical information about how they were captured and some aesthetic information about the location, the inspiration, etc. Please email me at photographer67 [at] comcast.net and I will post them for all to see.
Thank you Jim for the monthly scores and cumulative scores, which can be viewed on our website here under scores:
http://www.newhavencameraclub.org/scores.htm
There were many, many winners last months, but I would love to get copies of the FIRST PLACE images, along with some technical information about how they were captured and some aesthetic information about the location, the inspiration, etc. Please email me at photographer67 [at] comcast.net and I will post them for all to see.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Annual Holiday Party -- Last call
Annual Holiday Party of the New Haven Camera Club at POMPEO'S RESTAURANT485 West Main StreetBranford, CT on MONDAY DECEMBER 14th 6:00 PM Drinks and appetizers 6:30 PM Dinner
There will be a somewhat different menu this year (fewer hot appetizers and a veggie platter and an upgraded buffet). The cost will be $30.00 each (tax and tip included). Please make checks payable to New Haven Camera Club
As we have done the last couple of years, instead of a grab bag, we will give to a charity. This year it will be TOYS FOR TOTS. http://www.toysfortotsnewhaven.org/ New, unwrapped toys can be brought to the party with a value of $10. If you prefer, a money contribution can be given - checks to be made out to "Marine Corps Toys for Tots" Toys for all ages up to 17 are appreciated, but the greatest need is in the 0-2 or 15-17 age brackets.
Please send your reservation to Ann Yost, 163 Woodvale Road, West Haven, CT 06516. The December 4th deadline for reservations is VERY COSE so do not delay, send your reservation now for a great time!!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Last call for holiday slideshows
NHCC Holiday slideshows due to Bill Barnett by the 11-23 meeting (or by 12-1 if mailing a CD to him)
This is the last reminder...
Anyone who wants him to project his/her NHCC Holiday slideshow will have to mail a CD to Bill (William Barnett, 66 Jasmine Circle, Milford, CT 06461-1788). You could also use Yousendit.com but if you do please be sure to email Bill and let him know that it will be arriving.
Be sure it arrives on or before December 1st, so that he has time to make sure it will run properly.
If you have any questions you can contact Bill at BarnettW@optonline.net.
For the full post please see the Blog http://nhccphotoblog.blogspot.com/ for details
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
new PSA Nature Division definition
Hi Lisa, It is probably worth sending out a blog blast to our members with the new PSA Nature Division definition of what constitutes nature. This new definition was adopted at the recent PSA Convention held in West Yellowstone.
The new definition is as follows:
"Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed person will be able to identify the subject material and to certify as to its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining a high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements enhance the nature story. The presence of scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals is permissible. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add to, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content are permitted. All adjustments must appear natural.”
This new definition means we have new freedoms to use digital techniques to enhance our nature images. In two recent communications Dan Charbonnet added the following clarifying comments which help to understand the new rules:
“For most people, this means that the various HDR techniques are now allowed and it means blurring the background is now allowed, provided the results look natural.”
“All images must be considered “Digital Realism”, where a photographer may perform any enhancements and modifications that improve the presentation of the image to make it more closely represent the original scene photographed but that does not change the truth of the original nature story. Cropping and horizontal flipping (equivalent to reversing a slide) are acceptable modifications. Removing spots due to dust on your sensors is allowed. Removing rounded slide mount corners on scanned images is allowed. Adding elements to your images, removing pictorial elements from your image other than by cropping, combining separate images or rearranging and/or cloning and/or copying elements in your image are not still acceptable and can lead to disqualification of your image in the competition.
Since HDR techniques and Helicon Focus techniques are techniques that enhance the presentation without changing the pictorial content, they are now considered allowable techniques. Please note that all adjustments must still look natural. Just because a technique is legitimate does not guarantee the image it was used on will get a good score.”
I request that any member who enters a nature image in our competition that does not meet the above definition because of manipulations performed on it please send me an e-mail so that I do not enter it in either the NECCC or PSA nature interclub competitions. Our competitions are open without any restrictions, but we must adhere to these rules when submitting entries into the nature interclub competitions.
I would also appreciate it if you would give your nature entries descriptive names since titles are read before judging the PSA Nature Interclub. Also, try to size your entries to 350 killobytes or less as this is a requirement of the PSA EID Interclub competition and it will save me having to resize the images before I send them out.
Best regards,Bill
The new definition is as follows:
"Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed person will be able to identify the subject material and to certify as to its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining a high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements enhance the nature story. The presence of scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals is permissible. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add to, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content are permitted. All adjustments must appear natural.”
This new definition means we have new freedoms to use digital techniques to enhance our nature images. In two recent communications Dan Charbonnet added the following clarifying comments which help to understand the new rules:
“For most people, this means that the various HDR techniques are now allowed and it means blurring the background is now allowed, provided the results look natural.”
“All images must be considered “Digital Realism”, where a photographer may perform any enhancements and modifications that improve the presentation of the image to make it more closely represent the original scene photographed but that does not change the truth of the original nature story. Cropping and horizontal flipping (equivalent to reversing a slide) are acceptable modifications. Removing spots due to dust on your sensors is allowed. Removing rounded slide mount corners on scanned images is allowed. Adding elements to your images, removing pictorial elements from your image other than by cropping, combining separate images or rearranging and/or cloning and/or copying elements in your image are not still acceptable and can lead to disqualification of your image in the competition.
Since HDR techniques and Helicon Focus techniques are techniques that enhance the presentation without changing the pictorial content, they are now considered allowable techniques. Please note that all adjustments must still look natural. Just because a technique is legitimate does not guarantee the image it was used on will get a good score.”
I request that any member who enters a nature image in our competition that does not meet the above definition because of manipulations performed on it please send me an e-mail so that I do not enter it in either the NECCC or PSA nature interclub competitions. Our competitions are open without any restrictions, but we must adhere to these rules when submitting entries into the nature interclub competitions.
I would also appreciate it if you would give your nature entries descriptive names since titles are read before judging the PSA Nature Interclub. Also, try to size your entries to 350 killobytes or less as this is a requirement of the PSA EID Interclub competition and it will save me having to resize the images before I send them out.
Best regards,Bill
Monday, November 23, 2009
Easy Directions for Filing, Sizing, Titling Images for Competition
Easy Directions for Filing, Sizing, Titling Images for Competition
Photographs must be submitted as JPEG images with the .jpg extension.
Convert the photograph to the sRGB color space. Your images may already be in that color space. If the color of your images seems off when they are projected, you may want to check this.
Our projector requires that images be no more than 1024 WIDE and no more than 768 HIGH. (If you submit a vertical image, it will typically be approximately 500 wide to allow it to be 768 high.) See illustrations.
Convert the photograph to the sRGB color space. Your images may already be in that color space. If the color of your images seems off when they are projected, you may want to check this.
Our projector requires that images be no more than 1024 WIDE and no more than 768 HIGH. (If you submit a vertical image, it will typically be approximately 500 wide to allow it to be 768 high.) See illustrations.
From looking at the illustrations, you can see that images which are vertical or square will be smaller than horizontal images.
Titles - Please use the following format.
Class&Image Number$LastName$FirstName$Title$Year-month (numeral).jpg
Examples B1$Jones$Bill$Red_Skier$2009-11.jpg
B2$Jones$Bill$At_The_Beach$2009-11.jpg
S1$Jones$Bill$Glassware$2009-11.jpg
S is used for the assigned subject.
Do not leave any spaces. Use the underline character “_”instead of spaces.
Note: Your computer may automatically put .jpg at the end of the title. If that is the case, you should not put .jpg at the end or you will end up with .jpg.jpg
Look carefully at your completed title to make sure that it is correct.
Have you used the dollar sign $ to separate fields?
Class&Image Number$LastName$FirstName$Title$Year-month (numeral).jpg
Examples B1$Jones$Bill$Red_Skier$2009-11.jpg
B2$Jones$Bill$At_The_Beach$2009-11.jpg
S1$Jones$Bill$Glassware$2009-11.jpg
S is used for the assigned subject.
Do not leave any spaces. Use the underline character “_”instead of spaces.
Note: Your computer may automatically put .jpg at the end of the title. If that is the case, you should not put .jpg at the end or you will end up with .jpg.jpg
Look carefully at your completed title to make sure that it is correct.
Have you used the dollar sign $ to separate fields?
Have you used the underline “_” between words in the title?
Are the year and month correct?
Does it end in .jpg ?
Attach your images to an email and send to nhccwin@yahoo.com
Organization Hint: Make a folder for NHCC Possible Comp images. These should be duplicates of your better photographs. Make another folder for NHCC Competition 2009-10. Don’t put anything into this folder unless it is sized correctly and titled correctly. When you open this folder, all of your images will be in the same format and you can simply copy what you have
previously done.
I hope this helps. Paul Peterson pmjpeterson@sbcglobal.net
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Annual Holiday Party of the New Haven Camera Club
Annual Holiday Party of the New Haven Camera Club
Come one, come all to the annual
Holiday Party of the New Haven Camera Club
MONDAY DECEMBER 14th 6:00 PM Drinks and appetizers 6:30 PM Dinner
POMPEO'S RESTAURANT485 West Main StreetBranford, CT
There will be a somewhat different menu this year (fewer hot appetizers and a veggie platter and an upgraded buffet). The cost will be $30.00 each.
Please make checks payable to New Haven Camera ClubAnd remember we will have our annual mini digital competition (5 minute max) on any subject after dinner. If you want Bill Barnett to run your show on his laptop, images are due to him by December 1st. Otherwise, you may bring your own laptop.
As we have done the last couple of years, instead of a grab bag, we will give to a charity. This year it will be TOYS FOR TOTS. http://www.toysfortotsnewhaven.org/ New, unwrapped toys can be brought to the party with a value of $10. If you prefer, a money contribution can be given - checks to be made out to "Marine Corps Toys for Tots" Toys for all ages up to 17 are appreciated, but the greatest need is in the 0-2 or 15-17 age brackets.
Please send your reservation to Ann Yost, 163 Woodvale Road, West Haven, CT 06516. The deadline for reservations is December 4th. Don't delay - send your reservation now for a great time!!
Come one, come all to the annual
Holiday Party of the New Haven Camera Club
MONDAY DECEMBER 14th 6:00 PM Drinks and appetizers 6:30 PM Dinner
POMPEO'S RESTAURANT485 West Main StreetBranford, CT
There will be a somewhat different menu this year (fewer hot appetizers and a veggie platter and an upgraded buffet). The cost will be $30.00 each.
Please make checks payable to New Haven Camera ClubAnd remember we will have our annual mini digital competition (5 minute max) on any subject after dinner. If you want Bill Barnett to run your show on his laptop, images are due to him by December 1st. Otherwise, you may bring your own laptop.
As we have done the last couple of years, instead of a grab bag, we will give to a charity. This year it will be TOYS FOR TOTS. http://www.toysfortotsnewhaven.org/ New, unwrapped toys can be brought to the party with a value of $10. If you prefer, a money contribution can be given - checks to be made out to "Marine Corps Toys for Tots" Toys for all ages up to 17 are appreciated, but the greatest need is in the 0-2 or 15-17 age brackets.
Please send your reservation to Ann Yost, 163 Woodvale Road, West Haven, CT 06516. The deadline for reservations is December 4th. Don't delay - send your reservation now for a great time!!
The images below were chosen to represent the club in the first PSA Nature Competition for this year. The results are shown below:
New Haven Camera Club
Image Title Score Award Maker
Golden Eagle 8 Paul Peterson
Green Heron w Moth 1 13 Vic Krasenics
Orangutan Baby 9 William Barnett
Immature Osprey 12 Tom Cuchara
Bluebird with Moth 13 Lisa Cuchara
Yellow Warbler Calling 12 Gary Prestash
67
This competition was judged by the West Cumbria Photo Group of Great Britain, the first time the competition has been judged outside of North America. This year the competition has been divided into two classes, A and B. We are in class A along with a number of very strong nature clubs. For this competition Boston West Photographic Society was in first place with 76 points. We were near the middle of the pack with 67 points. In this competition, which was scored from 3 to 15, it took a score of 14 to earn an HM. Best regards, Bill
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