Upcoming Events for the WOW Photo Club in August ‘09

Lake Allatoona Field Trip hosted by John and Debbi Lindsay on Saturday, August 15

We’ll be meeting at 10 AM at the City Hall parking lot across Church Street, along the side of the church.

John Lindsay is graciously hosting our club’s field trip on his house boat at Lake Allatoona

Here’s his preview of what we’ll be doing: 

“I suggest that I furnish hotdogs, buns and chips, some drinks and we grill out on the lake.

We can leave the church around 10am and head out for Holiday Marina, get on the boat and head out on the lake.  We can find a nice cove and cook out.”   - John

Please mark this on your August calendar as I know it’s going to be lots of fun, and bring your camera.  Thank you John!

Please RSVP to both waldyphoto@hotmail.com and jdlindsay@bellsouth.com

Fun at the Beach Photo Contest at the August 19 Club Meeting

The next WOW Photo Club will be on August 19 at 6:30 PM in the Fellowship Hall, under the main Sanctuary.  Due to the construction please enter the church through the lower, side entrance on the City Hall side.  Remember that you can park across Memorial Street from our church in the parking lot of the future Kennesaw University campus in Dallas.

Fun on the Beach: this can be a landscape or a photos of people or pets having fun on the beach. The shot must showcase the beach or being on the beach.  The photos are limited to those taken within the last three years.

The entries can be color, black and white or something in-between if you want to get artsy.  You can enter up to 3 photos and they should be 8x10 or larger, matted or not matted.  Please do not put your names on the entries, but do indicate the “top orientation” of the picture by drawing an arrow on the back or just writing “Top” to indicate the proper orientation.

We will still judge our own competition as we’ve done in the past.   It was lots of fun last time.  After the winners are chosen we will all get a chance to talk about our photos, and John Lindsay is working on getting an “outside of the club” photographer to critique the photos. This should be a valuable learning experience.

We will have a table at our church’s Simply Serve day on Saturday, August 23. 

I would appreciate winners of our photo contests bringing your winning photos so we can have them on display.  I’ll collect them at our Aug 19 meeting.  Other members are welcomed to contribute up to two photos.  Also, I’d love for one or two club members to sit at the table with me that day.  We will have three sessions after each service.

Simply Serve was the catalyst that got me involved in our church. Here’s a description from our church digital bulletin.

SIMPLY SERVE 2009
Our Simply Serve" ministry fair will take place August 23, after all three services, in the Family Life Center. Please come and see what Dallas First has to offer. You will be amazed at the magnitude of our Ministries. It is something to see!

Tips from our July 15 club meeting where Waldy spoke about Perspective, Effects of Shutter Speed, Depth of Field and Aperture Selection and Focus.

The key to perspective is subject to lens distance.

    

The first photo was taken at a long distance from the subjects (using telephoto), and the distance between them is compressed . . . they look close to each other.  The second photo was taken as the second runner passed close to the camera (using wide-angle) so the distance between the foreground runner and the other runner is exaggerated . . . that “explosive wide-angle” look where the subject closer to the subject is much bigger and the photo recedes behind it.

Another example of the same “telephoto – wide-angle” contrast in perspective is illustrated below.

  

Same photo, but a change in subject to lens (subject to camera) distance creates a different perspective.  Left picture was taken at a greater distance with a medium telephoto, while the right picture was taken with the camera much loser to the sign with a wide-angle lens.

 Explosive wide-angle perspective

Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot . . . have fun . . . photography is a wonderfully creative art form.

Waldy  (770-241-6383)