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Houston Photochrome Club Volume MMXVIII No. 5 May 2018

www.houstonphotochromeclub.org

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May Meeting

The competition and critique meeting will be

7:00 PM May 10 at Tracy Gee Community Cen-

ter, 3599 Westcenter Drive, which is one block

inside Beltway 8 between Westpark and Rich-

mond.

Deadline for digital submission…

All digital entries must be sent

to

Philip Tan

ptchromer@gmail.com

by May 5

Entries received after that will not be

eligible for May Competition

FYI… the deadline is always the

Saturday before the

competition meeting.

from the President...

Greetings! We have some great programs and work-shops scheduled for this year. In addition, we've been exploring some field trips that might be of interest to people. If you have additional suggestions, please let me know. Additionally, we will be judging both a PSA and GSCCC round for work-shops this year. We need your help to do this, and you will have a chance to see some of the best submissions and what has attracted high scores in other clubs. The educational value from being a member of our club remains high, as well as having access to fellow members for sharing information on products, tech-niques and great places to photograph. See you at our next meeting.

Workshop May 28

James Gamble will conduct a workshop on May 24th on the most commonly used ad-justments in post-processing. Both Light-room and Photoshop will be covered. If you would like to practice the techniques along with James, please bring your fully charged pc with some of your photos. Bring your questions and problems so that every-one can learn. If you would like to improve your post-processing, come to this workshop

Field Trip

Mike Simmons has offered to host a field trip to photograph the Milky Way the night of Friday, May 18th . This is a rare opportunity to get some experi-ence in photographing the night sky and stars with a photographer whose specialty is astro-photography. Details of the trip and how to sign up can be found on page 3.

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Inter Club News

The GSCCC convention was in New Iberia, LA April 19-21. At the convention the win-ners from each of the monthly contests are judged by professional photographers, and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 2 honorable mentions are named for the year. We had 12 images from 8 different mak-ers eligible for end of the year awards. Awards are also given to the high-est scoring clubs. Our images that were eligible and the scores received were: Color Projected: Sunrise at Galveston-Julie Cheng- 12

Fireworks Shower-James Gamble - 13

Pink Poppy and Bee-Carmen Sewell – 13

Hungry Babies – Jane Ashley – 12

Monochrome:

Honor Reflected – James Gamble – 11

Male Swan – Janet Chung – 11

Let Us Talk – Julie Cheng – 10

Enjoy Walking in the Snow – Julie Cheng – 11

Fancy Egret – Scott Meyer – 12

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Nature: Finches – Philip Tan – 12 Halloween Pennant Love- Janet Chung – 12 Yellow Billed Stork – F. Joe Schmitt – 11 Come to the May 10th meeting to see if we re-

ceived any awards.

Jane Ashley, GSCCC Rep

Wildlife Photographer

of the Year exhibition opens Friday,

May 4th at the Houston Natural Museum of History. This is the fifty third year of the com-petition developed and produced by the Nat-ural History Museum, London. Additionally, there will be a Photographer's Night on Wednesday, June 20th at 6:00 p.m. Following a viewing of the Photographer of the Year exhibition, photographers can set out on a photo safari in the Museum's Texas and African wildlife exhibition halls while the Museum is closed to the public. http://store.hmns.org/DateSelection.aspx?item=2571

Field Trip Details

Mike Simmons has offered to host a field trip to photograph the Milky Way the night of Fri-day, May 18th. Everyone who is going should plan on meeting at the Buccees #29 at 598 Hwy 332, Lake Jackson, TX at 11:30 p.m. We will caravan together to Kelly Hamby Na-ture Trail at 12083 Blue Water Hwy, Freeport TX. This will give everyone time to get set up and for Mike to answer any questions. He will go over settings in the parking lot. Plan on being there several hours. At the end, Mike has offered to take a group photo of us under the Milky Way! Please wear light colored clothing to be visible in the pho-to. Please remember to bring: Equipment: Camera with manual settings Wide angle lens (preferably 12-35mm) As fast a lens as possible low f-stop 1.4-2.8 Sturdy tripod Remote cable release or intervalometer Hand warmers with rubber band or lens muff Other: Bug Spray Long sleeves/pants if desired Headlamp, preferably with a red light Flashlight for the parking lot or leaving Any desired props for your photos other than people or the stars Portable beach chair or stool Snacks and drinks

Please RSVP to Stephanie Rudd at rudd77024@gmail.com so that we can have an accurate count of how many people to expect. Many thanks to Mike for offering to do this!

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APRIL 2018 Competition

Judges: Ray Bookwalter, Joe Smith, Donny Walton

Assignment-Something Sacred Open

Mt. Golgotha Replica Donny Walton 23 Bee on Texas Squaw Weed Carmen Sewell 24

Maysfield First Presbyterian Jane Ashley 21 Bath Time Tim Bimler 24

Faithful Sacred Place Julie Cheng 21 Displaying Egret Joe Smith 24

Country Church Carmen Sewell 20 Hood County Courthouse Donny Walton 24

Temple Gate Philip Tan 20 Ladybug on Young Blue Bonnet Julie Cheng 24

Watching Over You Stephanie Rudd 20 Playful Janet Chung 24

Edwards Plots C.T. Edwards 19 Mating Spoonbills Joe Smith 24

Monuments Tim Bimler 19 Glacier NP at Dawn Julie Cheng 23

Our Lady's Church Joe Smith 18 Joyful Ride Janet Chung 23

Place to Pray James Gamble 18 Iguazu Falls F. Joe Schmitt 23

Cathedral of Buenos Aires F. Joe Schmitt 18 Fly Away Orange Sulphur Carmen Sewell 22

11 entries Avg. 19 Hair Got Rhythm James Gamble 22

Masked Booby F. Joe Schmitt 22

Monochrome Sunset & Fountain Jane Ashley 22

My Lovely White Jellyfish Julie Cheng 23 El Capitan C.T. Edwards 22

Malaga, Spain F. Joe Schmitt 22 Chaser Spoonbill Philip Tan 21

You and Me Janet Chung 22 Colorful Entity James Gamble 21

White Hibiscus Carmen Sewell 22 Into the Tree Stephanie Rudd 21

Zurich Jane Ashley 21 Lighthouse C.T. Edwards 21

Snowy Egret Joe Smith 21 Lutcher Memorial Church Donny Walton 21

Two Crosses at Mission Janet Tan 21 Spoonbill Preening Philip Tan 21

We Are at War James Gamble 21 View From Castle Window Jane Ashley 21

Gov. Seay Mansion Donny Walton 21 Team Work Tim Bimler 21

Rice Corridor Philip Tan 20 Cabin in the Woods Stephanie Rudd 21

Rocks Arrangement C.T. Edwards 19 Balinese Gate Janet Tan 20

The Last Cross Tim Bimler 18 25 Images Ag. 22.2

12 Images Avg. 20.9

Total Entries - 48

Participants - 13

Avg. Score - 21.3

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ATTENTION:

All Competition Participants Images must be submitted according to club guidelines or your image may not be included in the monthly competition Please follow the sizing instructions carefully: A horizontal image cannot be longer than 1280 pixels along the horizontal side; A vertical image cannot be longer than 800 pixels along the vertical side. ( Vertical images cannot be sized 1280 pixels along the vertical side!) The size of the JPEG image is not to exceed 1MB.( See above for pixel size.)

NEW INFORMATION 4/1/2016

Rename the image according to the guidelines below. For example: An Assignment image by John Brown would appear as AS_Assignment_BrownJ.jpg (Use “M” for Monochrome and “O” for Open categories.) DO NOT use first names, nicknames or ini-tials only, for identification. Also, the size of the title is limited to 35 characters when naming images. It is important that the guidelines for naming files be followed when submitting images for the monthly competitions otherwise you run the risk of not being credited with your entries.

Images that are not easily identi-fied will be discarded.

Assignment Categories 2018-2019 The Assignment list is:

May 2018 Symmetry

The quality of being made up of exactly

similar parts facing each other or around

and axis; correct or pleasing proportion of

the parts of a thing: similarity or exact cor-

respondence between different things.

Synonyms: regularity, evenness. Uniformi-

ty. Consistency , correspondence, equality,

balance, proportion.

June 2018 Music to my Eyes ( Musical

Instruments or Performer / Band)

July 2018 Patriotism

August 2018 Winged Creatures

September 2018 ABC’s (Images with an ob-

ject shaped like a letter of the alphabet )

October 2018 Beautiful Bokeh

November 2018 What’s Cooking? (Images

of prepared meals)

December 2018 Autumn Colors

Remember that assignment images must

have been shot within 12 months, prior to

competition meeting for that assignment .

Because of this restriction, we will now choose the categories a year in advance of the category date ,for your convenience. NOTE: Images may not be submitted more than once regardless of the category. Color images may not be submitted as mono-chrome if they have been used in another category and vice versa.

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Houston Photochrome Club is a mem-ber of the Photographic Society of America and the Gulf States Camera Club Council