WOW Photo Club September 16 Meeting and August Club Wrap-up

Waldy teaches editing at the September 16 meeting

WOW dinners are back at 5:45 PM so come early and have a great meal for only a $4 donation.  After dinner we’ll meet at 6:30 PM in the Fellowship Hall, under the main sanctuary.  Remember, that due to construction parking is at City Call, across Memorial Street in the new Kennesaw/Highland University Dallas Campus, at Regions Bank or around the old courthouse.

Waldy will concentrate on showing editing techniques in Picasa, our club’s recommended editing/database software that is free for downloading from Google.  He will also introduce Adobe’s PhotoElements, a fantastic editing program that sells for about $80.  Please bring your questions, and a notepad and pen.

 

    Picasa in editing/cropping module         Picasa in library/database module

Adobe’s PhotoElement editor 

Also, remember to bring a couple of your photos for a “share’n tell” at the end of the meeting.

Simply Serve was a big success!

Simply Serve is the church’s ministry fair that provides the congregation with information and an opportunity to join the many ministries of our church.

WOW Photo Club sponsored a table, and I’m we ecstatic to report lots of interest and that nine folks joined our club.  Folks were excited to see what we’ve done in our first six month as a club.

 

Fun at the Beach Competition drew many entries.

We had a really good turn out for our Fun at the Beach competition with Lynn Cochran taking 1st Place, Eliza Nobles taking 2nd and Waldy coming in 3rd.  Lynn and Eliza are repeat winners.

                             Waldy 3rd,    Eliza 2nd   and Lynn, 1st 

 

Our next competition on October 21 will be Street Scenes:  “slice of life” photos of city or town scenes and the people that live there.  Please limit the photos to those taken in the last two years.  As always we are able to enter three photos in color, back and white or an artistic treatment.  They should be 8x10 or larger, matted or not matted.

   

In November the WOW Photo Club will hang an exhibit in the Family Life Center for the whole congregation to enjoy.

August Field Trip was a blast at Lake Allatoona on John Lindsay’s houseboat, “Five O’clock Somewhere.”

Again, thank you John for being such a gracious host and for cooking those delicious hamburgers and hotdogs.

 

Our next field trip will to Berry College in Rome, GA on Saturday, Nov. 7.  Berry College is Eliza’s alma mater, and it’s a beautiful school with two unique campuses.  I believe it is considered the largest “land-mass” college in the world.

 

 

What if I only have a Point’n Shoot Camera?

I hear that all the time . . . but, hey . . . Eliza has won three times with her “point’n and shoot camera.  Almost makes me want to throw away my expensive camera.  Just kidding, but point’n shoot can take really great pictures, and this club is about helping you do just that.  All the pictures below were done with various consumer, point’n shoot cameras I’ve owned over the years.

These photos where shot with a Nikon P60 that I got on close-out for only $100.  I had it in a Ziploc baggie to protect it from the water. I’d take it out from time to time to snap a few pictures . . . or until my partner told me to stop taking pictures and get pack to paddling!

Photos below were taken with my old Canon Elph, 4 megapixel camera that finally bit the dust.  These were taken on cycling rides.

Remember, shoot, shoot, shoot . . . practice makes perfect, but above all enjoy this wonderful hobby we call photography!

Waldy