April 19th Meeting

Hi all!!

Well the weather missed us and I can't say that I was sorry; just wish it would given us some notice so we could have had the weinie roast instead!!! Oh well Judd is checking out the moon & sun calendar to see when we will have no moon so that we can reschedule the weinie roast and include some star trail pics to take that evening.

Judd opened the meeting with 5 members present; a small meeting but effective just the same; we missed all who couldn't make it tonight.

Judd handed out the May calendars with our new challenges on them. It's good to see some spring projects. I'm so tired of winter!

We did Show & Tell with John, Rosalie & Marcia all sharing pictures they had taken.

Next we did the Challenge pictures. The first was 'Excitement' with Judd & Marcia sharing pics.

The next one was 'Work' with Rosalie, John, Marcia & Judd all having pics.

The next challenge was 'Water' and Rosalie, John, Marcia & Judd all had a picture or two to share. GOOD JOB to all!

The next meeting will be at the Marshfield Library on May 3rd. The challenge subjects will be 'GROWTH', 'TREES' & 'FLOWERS'. Hoping to see some really pretty pics with these subjects.

Judd had a handout for us this evening about how to get the full circle on star trails. (I wish we had had this information when we were in Arizona) We were thinking you got the full circle by the amount of time you set on the camera, well nooooo, it goes by the North star! Imagine that! Of course you still need your tri-pod and remote trigger. I can't wait to try another picture of this. I think that makes for a really cool pic!

Judd reminded us to be sure to take our 'Spring' picture for our seasons project.

Next we discussed setting up a Facebook account for the club that we might share our pics on there. Also maybe putting some of our challenge pics there too. I am going to check on that and get back to you at the next meeting.

We talked about having our challenge pics voted on also. We decided to do just that and also to talk about why we decided on that particular shot, how we took it, what settings we used, discuss our technique, etc. Rosalie gave me a sheet that she uses to record the info and I am going to have some made up to give to everyone.

We also discussed having Jerry talk to us in depth about how he prints his photos using Power Point. This seems to be something a lot of us want to learn and maybe? Jerry will share his expertise with us. Hint, hint Jerry.

Tom had a question tonight about scanning slides. He said that when he does this he doesn't have trouble printing when he has a jpeg but he does have trouble printing when his picture is tiff. The answer that we came up with was that the tiff file is too big and maybe his computer needs to be updated also. Thanks Tom!!!

Well that is about all I have for now but remember to bring your challenge pics for the next meeting with the info (metadata) from your camera about the picture. (setting, lens, focal length, exposure mode, shutter speed, f-stop, did you use flash, white balance, did you use a tri-pod, etc.

Til we meet again,

Marcia