Next Camera Club Outing - Saturday August 16

This is an afternoon - evening trip to South Holston Dam and the Weir Dam with a Picnic Dinner

Weir Dam

Meet in Colonial Heights at Ingles Grocery Store Parking lot 4:30 PM.  Park near McDonalds.  We'll carpool up there.

Drive to South Holston Dam – about 40 minutes
Have picnic dinner at the park, so bring your picnic food and drinks.

Shooting Opportunities:

• South Holston dam at the top.
• Weir dam, (another dam) fog rises around the dam in the evenings.
• Osceola Island walking paths.
• Sunset at 8:10.

We won’t know if TVA is releasing water over the dam until a day or so before. If they are generating you get a scene like this one

If they are not generating you get a scene like the ones on this post.

Either way it will be nice to eat together and then walk around. If the fog rises off the water we will be treated to something like this

There should be some wildflowers still blooming.  These were taking on August 18 two years ago.

Come join us. You do NOT need to be an Eastman employee to
join the camera club. Membership is only $10 year for non
employees. Join us and ask anyone about membership if you are interested.

Contact Richard Siggins r.siggins@charter.net if you have questions.

July 26th Outing to Grayson Highland State Park

While we did go to Grayson Highlands State park last year, we just couldn't pass up the chance to photograph the foals.  It has been reported that there are around 11 foals this year.

 

Time and weather permitting, we may visit a near by waterfall or go to Whitetop Mountain.  Whitetop Mountain is the second-highest mountain in Virginia. The highest navigable road in Virginia leads to its summit.  The summit provides panoramic views of three states.

Time: July 26th, 7 AM
Meet Location: Ingles Parking lot in Colonial Heights (area between McDonald's and Bank)
Contact: Richie Hayward - (305) 216-6666

Also, check out the latest Newsletter from the 3CT club.

Topics for July 17 and August 21 Camera Club Meetings

We have a couple good topics for the next two meetings

July 17 - Color Balancing

Allan Barnett will be covering color/white balancing your photos.  This will entail use of both in camera and software tools to provide a starting point in your workflow.  The camera is very precise, it records exactly what it sees while your brain adjusts to the lighting automatically.  By using any of the tool presented this will take the guess game out of the equation and saves time in processing your images, insuring you get the same results every time on all your cameras.

August 21 - Blending Multiple Exposures

Kent Ervin will show some of the techniques he uses to:

• Blend images of different exposures together in order to create a natural looking image with a greater dynamic range.
• Blend a series of images where the focus point is different in order to create an image with a greater depth of field - this is a common approach when creating a macro image.
• Blend a series of images for night photography image stacking in order to create an image with a longer exposure than is possible with a single frame. 
• Images with long star trails require very long exposures, however the ambient light of a scene is often intense enough to limit the exposure to something much shorter. The sky and foreground thus often require two radically different exposures. The solution to this dilema is image stacking! Image staking allows you to take a lot of shorter exposures and combine them for a longer total exposure time with star trails.

Both meetings are in Room 219 of the Eastman Employee Center starting at 6:30 PM.  Google map to the Employee Center.