Announcing the winners:
- High Point Total Awards: An award is given to each of the four members, one at each level, who achieves the highest point total for all categories combined.
- Category Awards: Awards are given to the members who achieve the highest average score and second and third place winners in each category at each level.
- End of Year Image Competition: An award is given, as determined by the results of the End of Year Image Competition, for first, second and third place winners in each category level.
- Palmer Field Trip Award: An award is given for the first, second, and third place winners
- Al Shelton Best Image of the Year Award: An award is given for the image selected best from among all the first-place winners in each category level in the End of Year competition.
The Zoom portal will open at 6 pm and the meeting will start at 6:30.
Please respond to me (not the whole group) with
1. Yes, you are coming (no need to respond if you won’t be joining us)
2. How many in your party
2. What you would like to bring to share for dinner
There is a critique night this Sunday in preparation for the next competition. The first competition of the year! The critique night for it will be from 4 – 6 pm.
These critique sessions really work, particularly for new members and members who have just moved to a higher competition level. More than 18 members have used this service last year. Most of the time, a little tweak really can raise the impact of an image. Usually, the alteration is as simple as adjusting a crop or editing a title.
As a reminder, here is how the process works:
– Please email me that you would be interested in getting up to 3 of your images reviewed in a session. Also let me know what 10-minute time slot you would like between 4-6 pm
– I will respond relatively promptly and see if we can settle on a mutually convenient time
– No later than 1 day before the appointed evening, send me your images in the same format as you upload to competition
– Also include your phone number and the image titles
– On the appointed time slot, I will call the number you gave me and we can discuss your images
– If I am running more than 5 minutes late, I will text or email you
Tony
SRPS January 2024 Field Trip
Slow Slow Shutters
January can be a very slow month: no more holidays, weight to lose, bills to pay and lots of cloudy skies.
It seems to be a wonderful time to learn or relearn what a very slow shutter can do. There is a whole world beyond the few second exposure used for spun-candy waterscapes. Watch this video and get inspired and curious at the same time. https://www.google.com/search?q=very+long+exposure+photography&sca_esv=579945731&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS924US924&sxsrf=AM9HkKmeHI49GtEvbHdsrpw-T4Xuk37olA%3A1699310968344&ei=eG1JZfrDFMC90PEP08qWmAM&oq=very+long+exposure+photography&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHnZlcnkgbG9uZyBleHBvc3VyZSBwaG90b2dyYXBoeSoCCAAyBRAAGIAEMggQABiKBRiGAzIIEAAYigUYhgMyCBAAGIoFGIYDMggQABiKBRiGA0iHhAFQ6V9YznBwAXgBkAEAmAF4oAHvA6oBAzMuMrgBAcgBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAgoQABiKBRiwAxhDwgITEAAYDRiABBixAxiDARixAxiDAcICBxAAGA0YgATiAwQYACBBiAYBkAYK&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9073f589,vid:DUrnMRCLZ4M,st:0
It looks easy, but it is not. But it is fun and challenging.
Here is how we will learn as well as do a little socialization.
- We will meet at 10 am at Torches in Petaluma on Wednesday January 10th
- For the next 2 hours we will shoot in the downtown area
- We will then meet back at Torches for lunch
- At the end of January, we will have a zoom meeting for the November, December and January field trips.
There is a critique night this Sunday in preparation for the next competition. The second competition of the month! The critique night for it will be from 4 – 6 pm.
These critique sessions really work, particularly for new members and members who have just moved to a higher competition level. More than 18 members have used this service last year. Most of the time, a little tweak really can raise the impact of an image. Usually, the alteration is as simple as adjusting a crop or editing a title.
As a reminder, here is how the process works:
– Please email me that you would be interested in getting up to 3 of your images reviewed in a session. Also let me know what 10-minute time slot you would like between 4-6 pm
– I will respond relatively promptly and see if we can settle on a mutually convenient time
– No later than 1 day before the appointed evening, send me your images in the same format as you upload to competition
– Also include your phone number and the image titles
– On the appointed time slot, I will call the number you gave me and we can discuss your images
– If I am running more than 5 minutes late, I will text or email you
Tony
This meeting covers the most recent 3 months: November, December and January. Please submit a max of 8 images. You can find the meeting zoom address at the club site Zoom Meeting tab; details on how to upload your images are available at the club forum Field Trips tab.
There is a critique night this Sunday in preparation for the next competition. The critique night for it will be from 4 – 6 pm.
These critique sessions really work, particularly for new members and members who have just moved to a higher competition level. More than 18 members have used this service last year. Most of the time, a little tweak really can raise the impact of an image. Usually, the alteration is as simple as adjusting a crop or editing a title.
As a reminder, here is how the process works:
– Please email me that you would be interested in getting up to 3 of your images reviewed in a session. Also let me know what 10-minute time slot you would like between 4-6 pm
– I will respond relatively promptly and see if we can settle on a mutually convenient time
– No later than 1 day before the appointed evening, send me your images in the same format as you upload to competition
– Also include your phone number and the image titles
– On the appointed time slot, I will call the number you gave me and we can discuss your images
– If I am running more than 5 minutes late, I will text or email you
Tony
SRPS February 2024 Field trip
Hearts and Flowers Photography
February has at least one very important date: Valentines Day. Guys tend to forget it; gals find ways to help them remember.
For the field trip this month, you are to capture images of strangers making nice to one another. This means loving looks, holding hands, zipping up a snowsuit or even holding that bottle for the baby. This is street photography!
You have the option of sniping with a long lens or striking up a conversation with the person you want to photograph.
Here is how we will pull this thing off.
- We will meet at the Café Bellini at 10 am on February 14th
- We will spend the rest of the morning capturing lots of love in Petaluma.
- At noon, we will return to the Café for lunch.
At the end of next month, there will be a Zoom meeting to cover February and March.
SRPS March 2024 Field Trip
San Francisco by Ferry
Some of us are still emerging from Covid and continue to have our own individual sense of risk assessment. The flexibility built into this trip is to tailor it to your needs. If you are concerned, ride at off hours when the vessel is not as crowded.
Others have the fear of robbery in the city. One of our own club members experienced that. The suggested route on city arrival should mitigate some fears by staying around the ferry building and only venturing forth into the financial district which abuts the ferry slips. You can also call around and form your own posse.
The field event is scheduled for Friday March 15th. The Larkspur ferry will allow participants to leave as early as 6:35 and arrive at the Ferry Building by about 7:10. For people who feel early hours are for the birds, please arrive later in the day.
If you are an early arrival, it is suggested that you meet everyone in front of the main Golden Gate Transit Building in the rear of the ferry building, facing the street. From there, we can break into small groups and go off to explore the area. Later arrivals can check in with Tony to find out where the early birds have migrated to.
It is truly a target rich environment:
– meander the ferry building shooting the wares
– sit across the street from the building and capture some of the local fauna moving by
– walk the street and absorb the architecture
– and, when you are aboard, step to the ferry rail, and shoot the prisons,
the bridges, boat traffic and the city from the water
Around 11:30, we will all meet for lunch at Gott’s at the Ferry Building. Weather permitting, we can eat outdoors there. After lunch, people can either continue shooting or grab a ferry
back home. The return ferries run pretty much hourly.
Travel light; bring as little as possible so you walk longer and are less of a target for the occasional bad guy.
Please let me know if you plan to attend
And please remember, if the fog is heavy, you are a winner. EVERYTHING is different and more dramatic. Just wear an extra layer of clothes.
There will be a Zoom meeting at the end of the month to review February and March field trips.
Tony