Birds of Prey Photography Workshop
The Howell Nature Center has scheduled two more photography workshops where you can get up close to various birds of prey in a natural setting. The birds are tethered at the edge of a large field, with a great deal of attention given to props, perches and backgrounds. The workshop is under the direction of Steve Gettle or Skip Moody, nationally known, well published, professional nature photographers. Steve and Skip, along with three other experienced photographers, donate their time and knowledge of the fine art of nature photography to benefit the participants. The workshop will last three to four hours and will include a great lunch and a slide show that starts at 11am!
Registration is REQUIRED!!!! Space is limited to 35. These workshops fill up weeks
in advance so register early! No registration at the door. See info on the HNC website for details which includes this Registration Form to mail in.
Date: Sundays, January 17 and February 28, 2010
Time: 12 Noon for Lunch then photograph
Rates: $60.00 Non-member, $55.00 HCNC Member, $20.00 Non-shooting Participant
Attend the Early Lecture and Slide Show at 11:00am - included in the price.
January 17, 2010 Workshop & Slide Show
Steve Gettle will host the shoot and Pat Denin and Gary Peace will host an informational talk/slide show titled: “Tips on improving your Photos"
February 28, 2010 Workshop & Slide Show
Skip Moody will host the shoot and present his new slide show titled: “Hardships of Winter"
"New Members" page added
A "New Members" page has been added to the website, containing a Membership Form as well as additional information about the club and the benefits of joining. This should make it much easier for anyone looking to join the MCCC o easily find the information needed, fill out a form and mail in their check.
Lighting and Posing Program
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Our next Program Night will be a Lighting and Posing Program put on by Master Photographer James Schmelzer. Owner of Elite Photographic Studio, Jim specializes in Wedding and High School Portrait photography. As a technical representative for F.J. Westcott Company for over 25 years, James has been actively involved in designing new light modifier products as well as creating instructional videos demonstrating control of light. He conducts workshops, speaks at seminars, and demonstrates lighting at trade shows. He's also the author and creator of the Quality of Light video series.
Jim will be set-up for demos in the Parish hall where we meet. We will have a few still life stations set up in the hall lobby for those was will want to shoot stills after Jim's presentation.
We need models! If you can bring anyone, let Susan know beforehand.
As always bring your cameras, lenses, tripods, cable release, batteries & memory cards. Be prepared to shoot.
Motor City Camera Club 2009 Scavenger Hunt
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Location: Stoney Creek Metropark, Shelby Twp, Mi. 48316 (586) 781-4242
North side of 26 Mile Rd. between Dequindre Rd. & Mound Rd.
Office: 4300 Main Park Dr, Shelby Twp, MI 48316-4907
(south of 26 Mile Rd.)
http://www.metroparks.com/parks/bb_stony_creek.php
Park fee: $4.00 per car
Time: 8:00am to 1:00pm
Where to meet: Winter cove Picnic Area
Cost: $7.00 per person entry fee (to cover cost of awards)
- Bring your lunch for picnic lunch at noon (weather permitting)
- Upon arrival you will receive a list of 10 subjects to photograph while in the Stoney Creek Park.
- All 10 subjects must be photographed within the park between the hours of 8:00am & 12:00pm. (All Participants are on their honor)
- We will return to our original meeting spot Winter Cove Picnic Area at 12:00pm (noon) to enjoy each other’s company and picnic with you bagged lunch that you will bring.
Image due date: Sunday Nov. 8 - 12:00am All images for this competition must be received by Nov. 8, 12:00am Any images received after this time & date will be rejected. Images will be judged by non-MCCC judges at a later date
Rules for submitting
- Submit up to ten (10) images, one (1) of each subject given
- Anything is accepted - this means that you can change or manipulate your image as much or a little as you wish. However ... ALL elements in the image MUST have been taken at Stoney Creek on Nov 8 between 8:00am & 12:00pm. Monochrome or Color is acceptable.
- All submission for each subject will be judged together (CC, CG or MG)
Same sizing rules for club competitions: Maximum length on any side is 768 pixels and 100 dpi resolution
File name: 01-LastName-FirstName.jpg
- The number at the beginning is the subject number from the list you received on Oct. 24
- Be sure to give all images a subject number!
Email your images to mcccdpd@yahoo.com with "Scavenger Hunt" in subject line
Rain Date: Sunday October 25
If it is Raining contact Susan Browne (313) 550-0922
It will need to be pouring to cancel event
A new "Events" page has been created for photo exhibits, lectures, workshops and such. The initial information is for the DIA and their current photo exhibit and future lecture.
Effective August 8, 2009 there have been some up-dates to our tentative 2009-10 schedule. See the complete schedule on the Calendar page.
Oct. 17 - Scavenger Hunt has been rescheduled to Oct 17 (previous date Sept 19) to allow members to try to also photograph color while in the park. Details of scavenger hunt to follow later.
Nov. 9 - Bryce Dennison of Mid-west photo, has confirmed visiting his Farmington Hills studio for tour and presentation.
Dec. 15 - Tuesday - St. Hugo of the Hills has given permission to photograph their church and sanctuary. Note: this had previously been scheduled for Monday, Dec. 14 but has since changed to Tuesday
Feb. 1 – Wm Buchannan will be making a presentation on HDR or High Dynamic Range. If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. HDR software offer ways to solve this problem.
Feb. 22 – Visit Great Frame up – learn and experience mounting and matting your images
Reminders To all Motor City Camera Club members,
- Birmingham Community House Exhibit:
- Meet Susan Browne at the church parking lot on Thursday July 30 between 7:00pm and 8:00pm to collect your images.
- You can remove you images anytime on Thursday on your own. Susan will be going to the Birmingham Community House around 5:00pm to take the images down and transport them to the church by 7:00pm.
- We need members to RSVP with their intentions of attending for our Awards Presentation on September 14, at 7:00pm. This will be a dessert and coffee gathering only, provided by Motor City Camera Club, and it is open to guest. Please RSVP to Tom Foot, 1st VP, 248.404.7782 mifoot@ameritech.net
- If you can help out please contact Caroline Bobb or Susan Browne.
- $40.00 dues for current members can be mailed to John Slocum
- dues must be paid before entering any competition.
- Our new MCCC website is up and running (up-dates are still needed). Please contact Frank Andreae with any updates you may have.
A revised club website has been launched! Frank Andreae has now become the third volunteer webmaster of the MCCC website. Thinking it would be a simple transition, he soon realized that it would be easier to recreate a new layout with folder structures and links rather than try to link to existing pages and templates.
The new layout is meant to be easy to navigate, read and (most importantly) update. The navigation bars at the top should be easy to follow to find the information you are looking for. The Home page has a News box on the left side with a date of the latest items, so a quick glance will let you know if anything important has been updated.
This is a work-in-progress, but hopefully everything will be up and running soon. If you see a missing/bad link, typo or general error, please let the webmaster know, at the following email address: webmaster@motorcitycameraclub.com
The new Officers, Board Members and Directors had their first meeting on Sunday, June 14. We are all very excited about the up coming 2009-10 club season. There are several major, final changes to club operations.
First, we need members to RSVP with their number of attending for our Awards Presentation on September 14, at 7:00pm. This will be a dessert and coffee gathering only, provided by Motor City Camera Club, and it is open to a guest. Please RSVP to Tom Foot, 1st VP. If you can help out please contact Caroline Bobb or Susan Browne.
Second, we are going to need members to sign up to bring munchies/refreshment to each meeting we will have a sign-up sheet passed around at the first few meeting of the season.
Last, we need members to be more aware that we need help to set-up for each meeting and especially clean up following each meeting.
New Officers for the 2009-2010 season are:
- President - Kelly Todd
- 1st VP - Tom Foot
- 2nd VP - Marilyn Feather
- Treasurer - John Slocum
- Secretary - Caroline Bobb
Board Members (active past presidents):
- Howard Parsons
- Emily Patz
- John Slocum
- Susan Browne
- Frank Andreae
Directors (these are appointed positions):
- Print Director - Bob Olinski
- DPD Director - Susan Browne
- Webmaster - Frank Andreae
Changes for next year:
- Schedule changes:
- Motor City Camera Club will have 2 competitions per month
- First Monday - Digital Projection
- Third Monday- Print Competition
- Additional Mondays during the month will be reserved for a variety of programs.
- We presently have planned such activities as in club presentations to short local shoots and/ or tours.
- Minimum of 1 program each month.
- Additional programs can be scheduled where fitting and appropriate.
- There are many programs and field trips planned, if you have a suggestion please contact Tom Foot or Susan Browne.
- Number of Digital entries allowed per competition:
- Number of Digital entries has been changed
- There will be 5 categories in DPD
1) Color; 2) Monochrome; 3) Creative Color; 4) Nature ; 5) Assignment (all assignment submissions will be judged together) - Members will be allowed a maximum of six (6) entries per competition
- Members can choose which category they want to submit their images into.
- There is a maximum of two (2) images in any one category.
- Number of Print images allowed per competition
- Maximum of six (6) images per competition.
- Monochrome assignment & Color assignment has been combined into one (1) category and will be judged together.
- Members can enter a maximum of two (2) assignment images per competition.
- There is a maximum of two (2) images in any one category at each competition.
- Scoring
- In order for an image to win (1st, 2nd, 3rd, HM), in any competition, the entry must receive a minimum score of 18 points.
- Any submission below 18 cannot receive a win in any place.
- Membership dues
- Membership dues for the 2009-10 seasons will be reduced to $40.00 for any person that had paid dues for the 2008-09 season.
- New member dues for the 2009-10 season will continue to be $45.00
- Please complete the form enclosed and mail in your dues payable to:
MCCC, c/o John Slocum, 4291 Wabeek Lake Dr., Bloomfield Hills, Mi 48302
- 2008-09 Awards Presentation
- There will be an awards presentation on Monday September 14.
- Club will provide Dessert & coffee.
- We need members to RSVP their attending numbers for this presentation.
- We need volunteers for set up and clean up.
- Contact Susan Browne or Caroline Bobb if you can arrive early by 5:30pm or stay late to clean up.
- September 19 - Saturday - Photo Scavenger Hunt
- Mark you calendars for this date. The location is tentatively plan for Stoney Creek and it will include "bring your own" Picnic Lunch. Details later.