Photochrome Camera Club

Here’s the pdf version of Color News, February 2010. If you are still receiving your Color News through snail mail and would prefer to get it electronically in your email (and save Photochrome a little overhead into the bargain) please emailSFalice@aol.com and Alice Steele will sort you out.

By Garrett Griffin

Sixteen Photochromers braved lowering skies and met at the Esplanade in Yerba Buena Gardens on a gray, soggy Saturday morning in mid-January. Their assignment: capture images of the environs a bit differently from what a casual observer sees. After a short briefing by our intrepid leader, Gary Larsen, we agreed on a meeting place for our post-assignment de-briefing, a key element of these trips.

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Alan Heald, Chair

Photochrome holds its first Print Night of 2010. Since the club now holds just three of these events a year, it behooves our print makers to mark this date down on their calendars. Of course, it also means that it is time to begin warming up those printers so you can make some prints to show to the group.

As for myself, at the moment I have two prints ready to go, as well as several more candidates that I think will be good candidates. Only time will tell. I also have a semi-embarrassing print-related story that I may, or may not, tell on myself about a recent printing difficulty.

In any case, as of this moment, you cannot claim to have been left out in the dark about Print Night. There is still plenty of time to come up with some images to show to the group!

All members are invited to attend these monthly meetings where activities of the Club are planned.

Let’s meet in front of the museum. Situated at 601 Skyway Road in San Carlos, this interesting museum features exhibits of 50 aircrafts, prototypes, models and other aviation displays. We will wander through the atrium and exhibit hall photographing anything that catches our eyes. You may also see a few things outside. Tripods are permissible. We need to pay a small fee of $11.00 for adults or $7.00 for seniors (age 65+).

Directions: Take Hwy 101 south to Holly Street/Redwood Shores pkwy exit. Go east onto Redwood Shores Pkwy. Turn right onto Airport Road. Turn right onto Skyway Road. For more information go to: http://www.hiller.org

This meeting will feature presentations by Martin Taylor and Alan Heald. On this evening Martin and Alan will share their knowledge and experiences about two aspects of working with images in this digital age.

Alan Heald calls his presentation “How to Get Rid of Stuff”. He will demonstrate methods he uses to quickly eliminate distracting elements in digital photographs. There are significant differences between the Cloning tool, the Spot Healing Brush, and the Patch tool. Each tool has strengths as well as weaknesses. In fact, it often helps to use these tools in combination with one another to get the best results. As a bonus he will demonstrate the use of a Wacom tablet, a gadget he says is invaluable when working with Photoshop.

Martin Taylor’s demonstration will illustrate the different methods he uses for converting color digital images into quality black & white images. His presentation is especially pertinent since Photochrome will be soon be holding a black & white only evening, at the Theme night on March 4th. So, if you aren’t completely comfortable converting your images into black and white it would be smart to attend Martin’s presentation.

Martin and Alan each hope that you will find the evening of value.