Glacier Camera Club

GLACIER CAMERA CLUB

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be at the Pin & Cue Bowling Alley in Whitefish, MT. at 6:30PM Thursday, March 11th, 2010.

Minutes from January by Adele Scholl.

Jeff and I were unable to attend last month's camera club, the images that I have reviewed were short but very impressive.

Looks like Dave Carlson started off the evening with some of his photographs. He showed some incredible colors images and then followed up with the same image in black and white. Just as I was saying this is an impressive shot, the black and white impressed me even more. He showed this with captivating images from Glacier Park. The images on the right are an example. I really like the black and white image of this series.

Jerry and Rhona followed up the show with their images from Yellowstone. They traveled into the park in the winter in a private winterized van with tracks on it. I really enjoyed seeing the fresh white snow and their images are top notch. Jerry showed us wildlife shots of elk, bison, coyotes, and a minx or bobcat. Truely incredible to see all these animals in a few days traveling in the park. My favorite image of Jerry's was a toss up. I really like this image looking into the sun of a geyser, I also was impressed with the shot of Yellowstone falls. It is one of the most beautiful areas in the world, I think. I have never seen it in the winter with such a large amount of ice at the bottom.

Rhona showed her views from Yellowstone. I really like her attention to detail and the up close patterns she captures with the lense. She also showed how they traveled in the tracked van and the other photographers at work. I chose two shots of Rhona's, I love this foggy shot. The fog lifted a little bit to reveal fresh snowy trees in the background. Very impressive. I also included her close up shot of Yellowstone falls.

Looks like Nick traveled to South American. He showed us why he is such a talented wildlife photgrapher, with impressive images of snakes, parrots, ant eaters and more. I really like several images of everyone's shots this month. For Nick I chose a classic sunset shot and two Macaw parrots in flight. I am assuming the parrots are a couple and are in complete unisen.

Steven and Becca, DeerLake Designs, showed camera club a movie that they produced, called Gentle Rain. They set their movie to music and included some fun effects. They showed photographs of flowers, coyote and mountain goats. They had some really fun shots of their grand daughters, I am assuming, in a field of flowers. I really enjoyed watching their movie. Along with the weather we have been having I am getting excited for springtime.

Hello,

This looks to me like a fun idea. How many of you would like to do this? Please let me know asap. It is a big area, but not real conducive to hanging prints so we need to do some work. Linda will come up with a number of prints we can hang and I will sort out how many each that will be.

Please help!!

Ed:

If your club is not doing anything I was thinking we could put together a show at the O'Shaughnessy Center this summer to celebrate the Glacier Centennial. We would do it in partnership with the Whitefish Theatre. We could split the proceeds 50/50 Artist 50%, and then WTC and Whitefish Community Foundation split the other 50%.

Photos would hang from the end of July through August. We would have an opening reception, then be open for art walk in July and August. IT would hang through events such as the Festival Amadeus. We should be able to sell some works plus it would be a nice show. I will have to count up how much work we can hang. All works would have to celebrate Glacier. We would need to come up with a name for the show.

Let me know if you are interested.

Linda Engh-Grady
Executive Director
Whitefish Community Foundation
www.whitefishcommunityfoundation.org
P.O. Box 1060
214 W 2nd Street
Whitefish, MT 59937
P 406-863-1781
C 406-253-0488
F 406-863-2628
E linda@whitefishcommunityfoundation.org

Subject: Headwaters Photo Event: The Event has been filled up. They are no longer accepting applications or images.

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the sharpening information, which is certainly excellent but does assume a level of competency in Photoshop.

I am quite familiar with Photoshop's Unsharp mask, and I often print from Photoshop using its sharpening tools. For those who want to print, post to the web, or e-mail from Photoshop I recommend that they consider a sharpening action that will automate the process described in Jim's attachment. Jim may have one available, or if not I can supply one or perhaps someone else can as well. It greatly simplifies the process and reduces the time to a matter of moments, one for screen output and one for printing. Furthermore, good sharpening requires an edge mask, and actions are the only sensible way to accomplish that as it requires time and the process is repetitive.

I know some members of the camera club have been working with Lightroom. I'm not sure how many realize that Lightroom's sharpening algorithm's are plug-in's by the late Bruce Fraser's Pixel Genius, which incorporate the techniques described in James Conner's attachment but in perhaps a more intuitive way. The attachment below [LightroomN....ing] covers Lightroom's sharpening 'action' with a good explanation as to its use and the differences in sharpening requirements for varying levels of image detail [frequency]. There may be a more current tutorial from Adobe.com, but this one covers it well. One of the advantages of Lightroom's sharpening tools is that they are readily available for various outputs such as print, web output or e-mail, and they take into account the file size and final media. I have used Lightroom's sharpening extensively, and I find it to be excellent. The final result is not better than Photoshop, but it is equal in most cases and requires much less expertise to use effectively. So for what it's worth if sharpening is on the camera club's agenda, here it is below.

Sharpening Book

I also highly recommend Jeff Schewe's book on CS4 and Lightroom Sharpening. This was co-authored with Bruce Fraser, and can be ordered from Amazon among other sources. A screen grab is below. It's very good, and it covers both Photoshop and Lightroom. So for whatever it's worth here it is.

From: E-mail James Conner
Date: February 13, 2010 10:23:53 PM MST
To: Recipient List Suppressed
Subject: Sharpening down under

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/smartersh

A very good explanation of how Photoshop's Smart Sharpen filter works and can be used. It won't be news to experts, or the members of the Glacier Camera Club, but it will be helpful to students and photographers new to advanced digital image processing.

Jeff and I were unable to attend last month's camera club, the images that I have reviewed were short but very impressive.
Looks like Dave Carlson started off the evening with some of his photographs. He showed some incredible colors images and then followed up with the same image in black and white. Just as I was saying this is an impressive shot, the black and white impressed me even more. He showed this with captivating images from Glacier Park. The images on the right are an example. I really like the black and white image of this series.
Jerry and Rhona followed up the show with their images from Yellowstone. They traveled into the park in the winter in a private winterized van with tracks on it. I really enjoyed seeing the fresh white snow and their images are top notch. Jerry showed us wildlife shots of elk, bison, coyotes, and a minx or bobcat. Truely incredible to see all these animals in a few days traveling in the park. My favorite image of Jerry's was a toss up. I really like this image looking into the sun of a geyser, I also was impressed with the shot of Yellowstone falls. It is one of the most beautiful areas in the world, I think. I have never seen it in the winter with such a large amount of ice at the bottom.
Rhona showed her views from Yellowstone. I really like her attention to detail and the up close patterns she captures with the lense. She also showed how they traveled in the tracked van and the other photographers at work. I chose two shots of Rhona's, I love this foggy shot. The fog lifted a little bit to reveal fresh snowy trees in the background. Very impressive. I also included her close up shot of Yellowstone falls.
Looks like Nick traveled to South American. He showed us why he is such a talented wildlife photgrapher, with impressive images of snakes, parrots, ant eaters and more. I really like several images of everyone's shots this month. For Nick I chose a classic sunset shot and two Macaw parrots in flight. I am assuming the parrots are a couple and are in complete unisen.
Steven and Becca, DeerLake Designs, showed camera club a movie that they produced, called Gentle Rain. They set their movie to music and included some fun effects. They showed photographs of flowers, coyote and mountain goats. They had some really fun shots of their grand daughters, I am assuming, in a field of flowers. I really enjoyed watching their movie. Along with the weather we have been having I am getting excited for springtime.