Get ready for the best meeting of the year so far. We will have Open Subject on Thursday 1/5/17 with lots of great photos and members’ constructive critics that will help to improve your photography skills. Please submit your four OS photos to: projectionist@photochrome.org
Furthermore, a board meeting is scheduled for 1/12/17 where we will discuss club issues and make plans for up-coming events.
Come join us.
On October 20 we will host Keith Marsh, from the Marin camera club, who will give a presentation on star photography, and in particular, photographing the Milky Way.
Please come and invite anyone else you think may be interested – guests are welcome.
Thursday October 27 Fall Foliage among the vineyards. Car pool from church parking lot at 7:30 AM (Ebenezer/herchurch, 678 Portola Dr.)
Bring a lunch / snack
We will photograph the colors left on the vines and ground. It is well after the harvest but you often find a few stray unharvested grapes to work with. Landscapes, close ups and abstract subjects are likely to be bountiful. You will need to be a part of the carpool (even if you are solo in your own car) because we may have to change some of our destinations based on the changing weather and options available to us in any given vineyard. Bring your tripod.
Stacy Boorn will share a few of her “favorite” Napa/Sonoma sites. We will also share various in-filed camera/photographic methods with each other. Double and multiple exposures, depth-of-field choices, composition, wide angle, macro and much more.
Return home around 5:00 PM.
As San Franciscans you have probably visited G-Square in the last three years so you know a majority of the shops in the upper floors of the Mustard Buildings are now a Fairmont Heritage Hotel and Condos. I was sorry to see those upper shops go because they had windows with interesting and unique artifacts in them. What you may not know is that the upper section of the main plaza is torn up with renovation construction. You have to enter from Larkin St. or Beach St. I first came to G-Square 49 years and 9 days ago to work at KFOG FM when the studios were in the Clock Tower building. There have been many changes…good and bad over those years. But all that said there are
still many unique photo ops that will challenge you to not make travel/tourist photos. Nothing wrong with travel shots but on this field trip we want to get a bunch of unique images of a location photographed a gazillion times. It should be fun and interesting.
Bob and Pam
Ghirardelli Square by Bob Nelson
We’ve made a change of plans for the Saturday, Aug 22, field trip. Fortunately, this change of location will mean a lot less travel, and a lot more fun! Plus, everyone already knows how to get to Ghiradelli Square, and if you wish, The Cannery is nearby as well, with their shops and restaurants.
On that morning the plan is to pack up the camera and head for Ghiradelli ready to start clicking away. The assignment is to come up with photos that are NOT pretty postcard shots or the standard cliché tourist photos.
Instead, we’ll be looking for photos that are a bit different and even “off the wall” images. Look for photos that are different from the usual photos taken of these touristy San Francisco landmarks. Let’s see if you can come up with something different!
This time, lets gather afterwards at the nearby Black Point Café, 882 North Point Street, (near Larkin) around 11 am for a cup of coffee, and some discussion about how the day went. Plan to arrive at Ghiradelli at approximately 9:30 that morning camera in hand… and ready to shoot. We’ll meet up afterwards.
The Photochrome Camera club meets every first and third Thursday of the month (except in December) from 7:30pm – 9pm. We welcome photography enthusiasts of all levels. Please feel free to stop by one if our bi-monthly meet-ups, there is no obligation to join. Learn more
If you want to improve your skills shooting night photographs or want to learn that type of photography for the first time be sure to attend the Photochrome Exploring Photography meeting on Thursday July 17, 2014
at 7:30 pm. The program will be presented by well-known night photographer Tim Baskerville. Baskerville explains: “We will travel from Daguerreotype to digital, in a decade-by-decade survey of night photography and the technological advances that made it ever more possible and popular in the modern psyche. Then historical reference material is “spiced up” a bit with practical hints on how you can improve your nocturnal photographs”.
Baskerville received his BFA degree in photography and liberal arts from the University of San Francisco. He has taught courses and workshops in Night Photography at U.C. Berkeley Extension, U.C. Santa Cruz, College of Marin, Cape Cod Photographic Workshops, and Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. In addition to workshops and classes in California, he has conducted a photographic / cultural workshop in West Ireland, once a year. His work has received many awards, and has appeared in numerous publications and exhibitions in this country and abroad.
He founded The Nocturnes, an exhibiting group of Bay Area artists/educators, in 1991 and the critically acclaimed Web site of the same name in 1996. Since then, the site has grown to become the premier source of information and education pertaining to night photography, as well as an international community for night photographers.
In 2005, Baskerville relocated to Mare Island in Northern California, site of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where he continues to offer Workshops and Private Instruction in Photography. He has served as a Volunteer for the Mare Island Historic Park Foundation since 2006 and was instrumental in developing the Foundation’s Web sites:
www.thenocturnes.com
www.timbaskerville.com
www.mareislandmuseum.org
www.saveoursail.com
We hope to see you all at the upcoming Photochrome Exploring Photography Meeting.
Bob Nelson
PHOTOCHROME ADVENTURES 2014 Number Three is scheduled for Saturday 21 June 2014.
Meet up time will be at 9 am at the front entrance to the Ferry Building.
After the shoot those who want to can meet for refreshments and a show and tell photo discussion
around 11:30 am at the Peet’s Coffee and Tea cafe in the Ferry building.
There are too many photo ops on the Embarcadero to mention here but think of the landscapes,
urbanscapes, seascapes and people subjects: San Francisco Bay, the San Francisco Skyline, Trans
America Pyramid, Coit Tower, Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge, AT & T Park, Cupid’s Span and many
more. Of course the Embarcadero is a long street so your shooting area can be from near Pier 39 in the
North to South Beach Park in the South.
We will hope to see all of you there, but if you can’t make it on that day remember you can make
current photographs for this Embarcadero PHOTOCHROME ADVENTURES any time before the Pic2
meeting on Thursday 3 July.
See you at PHOTOCHROME ADVENTURES 2014 Number Three.
Bob Nelson