november 2013 - camera club of hendersonville · an “early adopter” of the digital world with...

Steering Committee: Rich DeSimone, Chair Mike Raney, Treasurer John Ayre, At Large Paul Doebler, Secretary Bob Coffey, Program Chairman

Newsletter by Ron Anderson

November 2013

October Meeting

Thank you Jeff Miller for your usual great job ofcritiquing images, so I've been told. We were 600miles away in Michigan on the meeting day so wedidn't get to attend. WOW, I just received theimages from Peter. It is going to be VERY hard tochoose some for this newsletter.

Critique Group

Meets at Unitarian Universalist Church TuesdayNov. 12 at 1 PM. Head South on Kanuga. Justbefore next traffic signal after Erkwood on the rightyou will see the church. Entrance facing the churchfrom Kanuga is on the left side down a path. Bringprints or some images on a thumb drive fordiscussion.

November Meeting

NOTE: Meeting will be on November 19 to avoid the Thanksgiving week.

There will be a presentation by Bill Elder on portrait photography and possibly some discussion of Sports Photography.

We will also show the Sartore video on photographing people.

If you have some portrait prints please bring them

for display. They will not be critiqued, simply put on display for our members and guest to view.

Bill Elder's Bio Information

Bill Elder grew up on photography, beginning in hisgrandfather’s darkroom at age 8. At 11, he wasgifted with his own serious camera, a Kodak RetinaB 35 mm gem.

As a young man he switched to 35mm SLR camerasof various types, and later in life worked withmedium format systems and view cameras. He wasan “early adopter” of the digital world with the firstCanon DSLR with a whopping 3.2 megapixels.Through those many changes in image capture heoperated his own darkroom, printing all his ownBlack and White images until about 2003 when thechemical darkroom was mothballed. Digital imageswere printed on wide carriage Epson professionalprinters.

While his passion for image making evolved, it wasa sideline to his corporate career until 1999 when heleft the corporate world to start several photographybusinesses. His first commercial ventures were in theworld of youth sports and school photography. For aperiod of 10 years, his company (The SportsSection) photographed up to 15,000 children a yearin their sports and school programs. Concurrently,starting in 2001 he founded a portrait and weddingstudio, originally SilverImage Photography, and later

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re-branded as Expressions! Photography located inFlat Rock.

In 2010, Elder sold his sports and school businessesto new owners in Asheville and Charlotte. In 2011,he closed his storefront studio location in Flat Rockto pursue retirement, travel, and personal projects.He still works for many of his existing former clientsin portrait and wedding photography helping them todocument their lives.

Since 2011, all of his image production has gone toprofessional labs and his re-touching is done byhimself or sent to a professional image enhancer(depending on complexity). Elder still lives inHendersonville with his wife Catherine Lynch.

Christmas Party

Date, December 14 details to be announced via anEmail.

Tip of the Month by Bob Coffey

In my recent quest for information about AdobeLightroom 5.0, I wandered through the labyrinth ofpages on the Adobe.com website. I was pleased todiscover a series of 14 tutorials on Getting Started inAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 by Julieanne Kost.They range from 7 to 20 minutes each and all areexcellent. I had attended one of her sessions years ago at theannual New England Council of Camera ClubsConference (NECCC) at UMass in Amherst, MAand she was most impressive as an instructor. Therewas standing room only at her presentation onPhotoshop and she received a standing ovation. Shewas easily the best of the many speakers at thatweekend conference that was attended by over 1300photographers. Her title, Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist, seemeda bit curious, but it is very fitting for her zeal insharing her considerable knowledge and expertise soclearly and effectively. Her enthusiasm in

contagious. Three years ago I followed her comprehensive train-the-trainer tutorial in my preparation for apromotional project sponsored by the PhotographicSociety of America (PSA) in which member clubschose one of their own to make a presentation onLightroom 3.0 to their membership. The wellplanned program included a live demonstration ofscripted material with special hand out materials andcopies of Lightroom as door prizes. The goal was toeducate more photographers about the manyadvantages of Lightroom. Not only did I learn a lotby virtue of extensive training and preparation, theparticipant survey indicated that a high percentage ofthem were considering the purchase of Lightroom asa result of the presentation. What surprised me was that these tutorials are free.As a long time member of the National Associationof Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) I am familiarwith the wealth of on-line tutorials, books,workshops, seminars and world conferences, that areoffered by that organization as part of theirmembership fee, but it costs $99 per year. You can go to Adobe.com and browse through themyriad other product support info, including manyother tutorials on Lightroom, Photoshop andElements, or you can go directly to Julieanne Kost'sseries at http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/. I highlyrecommend them. Let me know what you think. Photos This Month

As has been my practice, photos in the newsletterthis month are from the October Forum. We wereaway so the images are new to me. I don't see anythat are not worthy of inclusion in the newsletter.

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