(Please Note that this meeting has been moved to the 2nd Wednesday of the month)

Date: Wednesday, October 9th @ 7PM

Location: Merry Room at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St.

Presenter: Gary Friedman

Title: How our Smartphones are Beating the Big Cameras

Description: 

We are entering a new era in photography, one in which “lowly” smartphones are taking pictures that look as good as if you had shot in RAW and post-processed. Sure, nothing beats a big camera for image quality, resolution, and control, but for everyday use normal people are getting great results without any photographic knowledge and without spending time at the computer. 

What tricks are the smartphone manufacturers using that the big camera companies aren’t? How do they get great results in Night View mode without needing a tripod? Why do they create a 3D map of the image in the phone? And how quickly might your traditional big camera become obsolete?  

In this talk, Gary explains the clever secrets being employed behind the scenes, and offers impressive examples demonstrating that the quality gap between smartphones and traditional cameras continues to shrink.  (This talk was originally commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society in London.)

Biography:

Gary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who has traveled the world with his cameras and runs the stock image website FriedmanArchives.com.  He has also written several highly-acclaimed e-books on digital imaging, all aimed at demystifying the complexities of digital cameras.  His photography and writing has been published in magazines, newspapers, and books worldwide, and he is associate editor of CameraCraft magazine in the UK.)  He was also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the world’s smallest telephone way back in 1980 (before cell phones or cordless phones were around).

Before graduating to photography he was a rocket scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he patented the image authentication system now used in high-end digital cameras from Canon and Nikon.

Gary’s best-known works are the 1988 “Peace Child in Latvia”, a photojournalistic documentary about a historic exchange between Soviet and American high-school student back in the days of the cold war, his 2003 China Blog about his adventures teaching English in China, and his 2018 tour in Vietnam where he documented the humanitarian work of Hearts for Hue, helping the poorest neglected citizens of this former capital care for themselves.

Gary keeps busy now with photo assignments, image licensing, writing books, and acting as a distributor for a most unique musical instrument called a Xaphoon.  In his spare time (Ha!) he is traveling the world offering highly-acclaimed photography seminars to any photo club that wants it.

Links:

www.FriedmanArchives.com

https://www.instagram.com/sony_alpha_ebooks/

Date: Wednesday,November 6th @ 7PM

Location: Merry Room at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St.

Presenter: Bob Wheaton

Title: Fine Art Black & White Post-Processing

Description: 

Bob will explain the post-processing techniques that he uses for creating his fine art black and white images...from RAW to print.

Biography:

Bob Wheaton is a Master Artist and educator at the Cape Cod Art

Center, as well as an active member of the Cape Cod Camera Club.

Combining his love for the natural world with his creative vision, Bob

uses both visible light and infrared cameras along with postprocessing

techniques to create his photographic art. He has honed

his skills in crafting compelling black and white fine art images under

the mentorship of renowned photographers Vincent Versace, Tony

Sweet and Lee Varis.

Links:

www.wheatonimages.com

Bob is also on instagram and Facebook

Date: Wednesday, December 4th @ 7PM

Location: On Zoom (Link will be emailed to members)

Presenter: Shawn Carey

Title: Tanzania: A Photographer's Journey

Description: 

East Africa evokes images of vast grasslands teeming with exotic animals. Enormous herds of wildebeests, zebras, antelopes, and gazelles graze under the watchful eyes of Africa’s great predators. It is nature at its most wild. In a region abundant with wildlife, perhaps no country is as celebrated as Tanzania. Home to the world famous Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park, Tanzania is a nature enthusiast’s paradise.

For this special presentation, join wildlife photographer Shawn Carey on an adventure into the heart of Tanzania. We’ll take a safari vehicle into the country’s spectacular national parks and see the “Big Five”—African Elephant, Black Rhino, Cape Buffalo, Lion, and Leopard—in all their glory. Along the way, we’ll search for and photograph Cheetahs, Giraffes, Black-backed Jackals, and Hippos. And we’ll encounter a panoply of Tanzania’s wonderful and amazing birds, including the Greater Flamingo, Lilac-breasted Roller, Little Bee-eater, Giant Kingfisher, and Grey-crowned Crane—the country’s national bird. If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting East Africa and its incredible wildlife, this is a journey you’ll never forget. And it may just have you planning your own African adventure.

Biography:

Shawn Carey (Migration Productions) produces bird/wildlife related Multi-media presentations, videos and photo workshops that have been presented all over the United States. Shawn moved from his home in Pennsylvania in 1986 to Massachusetts and started watching birds in 1988. 

His avid interest in photography was joined with a newfound passion for birding and he began to combine the two in 1991. By 1994 he and good friend Jim Grady started Migration Productions as a way to present their multi-image slide presentations to a live audience. 

Migration Productions offers the finest quality bird/wildlife programs with stunning photographs, video and soundtracks. They feature interviews with many people involved with bird watching and natural history topics. Since 1994, Migration Productions has presented its programs to camera clubs, natural history organizations, birding organizations including Mass Audubon, Eastern Mass Hawk Watch, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, and many others. 

Shawn's photos have been published in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Mass Audubon Sanctuary magazine, Science magazine, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary magazine and many more over the last 30 years. In 1997 he started teaching bird photography workshops (Fundamentals of Bird Photography) for the Massachusetts Audubon and was an instructor for Summer Field Schools on Cape Cod for Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary for over 10 years.

Shawn also serves as Vice President of the Eastern Mass Hawk Watch. He is on the Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and is on the Board of Directors for the Bird Observer Magazine and the Brookline Bird Club.

Links:

https://migrationproductions.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/ShawnCarey01

Date: Wednesday, January 8th @ 7PM

Location: On Zoom (Link will be emailed to members)

Presenter: Mike Moats

Title: The World of Macrophotography: The Properly Equipped Macro Photographer 

Description: 

Being a properly equipped macro photographer is not just about the equipment, but also equipping yourself with the how-to knowledge of macro photography. Mike will cover the most important equipment for macro photography, how to control depth of field, composition, and finding character in your subjects. 

Biography:

Mike Moats is an international award-winning full time pro macro photographer from Michigan.  Tamron Image Master, Vanguard Pro, and his articles and images have been published in many photo magazines for over 18 years.  He has a Macro Photo Club online with over 2,800 members, from 29 countries.  Mike teaches workshops and speaks at photo conference throughout the US.

Links:

http://www.tinylandscapes.com

https://www.instagram.com/mikemoatsphotography/

Date: Wednesday, February 5th @ 7PM

Location: On Zoom (Link will be emailed to members) 

Presenter: Suzanne Revy

Title: Critique Night

Description: 

Critique Night is a chance to get an award winning, highly skilled, photographer's feedback on one (or two) of your photos. Whether you are thinking about entering  a photo into a competition (or exhibition), or you just want to get some feedback on "What's Wrong or What's Right?" with your image. This is a great learning experience that we encourage all Members to participate in.

Before December 1st, an entry gallery will be opened so that you can upload your image(s) that will be critiqued. The deadline for entries will be January 12th.

Biography:

Suzanne Révy is a photographer, writer and educator. She earned a BFA in photography from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After art school, she worked as a photography editor in magazine publishing at  U.S.News & World Report and later at Yankee Magazine. With the arrival of two sons, she left publishing and began photographing her children to create a visual diary of their lives. More recently, she earned her MFA in photography from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and has been exploring the landscape in her current work. 

She has exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, The Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA, the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, NE and the Camera Club of NY in New York City among others. Révy teaches Clark University in Worcester, MA. She is the associate editor of the online photography magazine, What Will You Remember? and serves on the board of the Photographic Resource Center in Cambridge, MA. 

Her forthcoming book A Murmur in the Trees will be published by Workshop Arts and will accompany a solo exhibition at the Danforth Art Museum that opens in the fall of 2024.  

Links:

https://www.suzannerevy.com/

Date: Wednesday, March 5th @ 7PM

Location: On Zoom (Link will be emailed to members) 

Presenter: Jim Zuckerman

Title: AI -- Beyond Your Imagination 

Description: 

A detailed look into the creative possibilities with artificial intelligence 

Biography:

Jim Zuckerman left his medical studies in 1970 to pursue his love of photography and turn it into a career. Jim specializes in wildlife, nature, and travel photography, macro work, and digital effects.  His diversity in technique and style is unique in the professional arena.  Jim was a contributing editor to Petersen's Photographic Magazine and Shutterbug Magazine for decades, and he is the author of 26 books on photography.  

His images, articles, and photo features have been published in scores of books and magazines including Time-Life books, publications of the National Geographic Society, the Economist, Omni Magazine, and Life Magazine.  Jim leads photography tours to exotic destinations such as Indonesia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Patagonia, Iceland and Brazil, plus he conducts workshops to photograph frogs and reptiles, snowy owls, carnival in Venice, and more. 

Links:

https://www.jimzuckerman.com/

Date: Wednesday, April 2nd @ 7PM

Location: Merry Room at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St.

Presenter: Elisif Brandon

Title: Architectural Photography

Description: 

TBA

Biography:

Elisif is a member and past president of the Newton Camera Club and has been judging since 2005 for camera clubs such as Merrimack Valley Camera Club, Nashoba Valley Photo Club, and Boston Camera Club. She started her own business as a professional architectural photographer in 2007, after discovering her passion for photographing buildings. Her clients include CUBE 3 Architects, Tishman Speyer, Margulies Perruzzi, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield. 

At the architectural biennial in Venice, Italy, Elisif reached a global audience for the first time when she was invited to be part of the exhibition and exhibited 11 of her works.

Locally, she has had images published in Boston Magazine, the Boston Globe, on Chronicle, in the New England Real Estate Journal, and has exhibited photos in juried exhibitions at Panopticon, the Boston Society of Architects, the Bromfield Gallery, Plymouth Center for the Arts, the Galatea Gallery in SOWA.

She has served for several years as a teaching assistant for Sue Anne Hodges at New England School of Photography for the evening printing workshops.  She also prints photos for some Newton Camera Club members and other local photographers.

Links:

https://www.elisif.com

https://www.instagram.com/elisifphotography/

https://www.facebook.com/elisifphotography

Date: Wednesday, May 7th @ 7PM

Location: Merry Room at the Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St.

Presenter: David Mullen

Title: Experimental Photography

Description: 

In-camera cell phone apps, Photoshop, AI, all offer photographers creative outlets of which our predecessors could only have dreamed. In this presentation Dave will demonstrate several apps that allow creative expression with cell phone cameras and with Artificial Intelligence. Combining traditional photography and AI offers the digital artist not only new tools, but serendipitous results to spark our imaginations.

Biography:

As an educator for over 45 years, Dave began his photographic career in the darkroom days while living in the Washington DC area. In retirement, Dave moved to Cape Cod where he has continued photographing, teaching, and exhibiting.  His work has been published in CameraArts Magazine and in the "Our Magnificant Planet" Books from Lenswork Magazine. He has also had his photos exhibited in many Galleries, including: the Cape Cod Art Center, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and the Washington Gallery

Dave currently teaches classes and workshops at the Cape Cod Art Center and offers portrait sessions, one-on-one mentoring, and camera club talks on a variety of topics.

Links:

www.davidmullenphoto.com

https://www.facebook.com/davidmullenphotography

https://www.instagram.com/davidmullenphoto/