Another meeting has come and gone as the year draws to a close. We find ourselves at the start of a month break from official club business, but there are plenty of things to keep us busy this time of year– both in celebrating with loved ones and in our photographic endeavors. The Man, the …
Out of the frying pan and into the fire! That is, of course, if the frying pan is a camera and the fire is a BMCC competition. A Thank You On November 20th, the club met to hand in prints for Shadows and to get feedback from Thaddeus Kubis on images being judged in Out-of-Camera. …
A slow post. A short post. But a post nonetheless. November 6th meeting. Prints and digitals for Out-of-Camera were submitted. Howie Levitz spoke on the topic of Shadows. In an interesting twist, this talk was done without the use of the projector or other traditional visual aids. Howie spoke of light and shadows in depth. …
Our first contest of the season has been judged and people are already looking ahead to the next. There’s a lot to say in this post, so I’ll try not to ramble too much. General Competition Eric Korenman judged our General digitals and prints. He provided good feedback, offering thoughts on how to improve images. …
“What can you capture in-camera? No Photoshop. No post-processing. Just you and your camera. Exposure, white balance, cropping, etc… Let’s try to get it right in-the-camera.” The above is a quote from the over-the-summer description for Out-of-Camera. In the following post, I’ll go into more detail on the rules/restrictions of this theme, hopefully clearing up …
On Tuesday, October 2nd, we had our Show and Tell night of the club– essentially a more casual Member’s Showcase. Five members brought things in for us to enjoy and several of us were left wishing the meetings could have been just a little bit longer. Starting out the evening, we remembered Michael Bufis as …
Another season with the Berkshire Museum Camera Club has begun. We just had our first meeting this past Tuesday, have an updated website, and have a handful of announcements and events coming up. As I write this, my brain is a bit mushy, so I’ll try to keep things relatively to-the-point to avoid rambling too …
I would not normally be so bold as to do an entire blog about how one of my images was made, but at the EOY banquet I was asked by a couple people directly and also by Lynne saying, “You have to tell us how you did this.” Well, the time never came to do …
The EOY banquet is over and people are preparing their upcoming summer travel plans. If you missed the banquet, this post will fill you in on what you missed. But there is so much to be said at the end of the year that this will is only the first of a mini-series of posts …
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The Member’s Showcase was beautiful, just beautiful. I mean that big league, I really do. It was huge. No covfefe in that showcase. None. And do you know why that is? It’s because we are determined, you and me, we are determined to make photography great again. Our May 1st meeting started in an unfamiliar …