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Portrait Workshop

Tom Briere lead a natural light portrait workshop last Saturday. Here are a few images from the great event.

© Michael Los

© Michael Los

© Michael Los

© Michael Los

© Michael Los

NVPC Holiday Party

We had a great holiday party, Yankee Gift Swap and Mini-Print Competition.

Karen Johnson took some photos during the fun event.

NECCC Annual Conference Preview

NECCC just posted their annual summer conference preview at
http://www.neccc.org/NECCC%202010%20Preview.pdf

They will distribute their conference registration forms in March.

Photographing Boston at Night Field Trip

Photographing Boston at Night with Kristin Griffin
July 11, 2010 7:45PM to 10:15PM or July 18, 2010 7:45PM to 10:15PM
Lead by Kristin Griffin

Description: Ms. Griffin has offered to lead another of her wonderful field trips photographing Boston at Night. This time we will photograph the Rose Greenway Park, the Custom House, Rowes Wharf and the Boston Harbor area. We will conclude at Quincy Market.

Fee: $20.00 per person. Please send a check to Meyer Franklin 6 Heywood Rd. Westford, MA 01866 OR give your payment to him at one of the meetings. Make your check payable to: NVPC and please write Boston at Night on the check. We request individual checks for each trip. This fee is nonrefundable.

Details: Kristin has requested a minimum of six participants and a maximum of 10 participants for each of the two field trips. If we need to postpone due to inclement weather, we will reschedule for Sunday, July 25th 7:30PM to 10:00 PM. We will meet at the New England Aquarium to begin the field trip.

Equipment Recommendations: cameras, tripods, external flashes, flashlights, cable?release cords, camera manuals, etc.

To register, please fill out our Online Registration Form.

If you have any questions about this field trip, please contact Christine Burdick.

Strawbery Banke Field Trip

NVPC members attended a holiday field trip photographing the Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH on Sunday evening.  Here are a few images from the recent field trip.

©Walter Harrington

©Donna Tessier

©Donna Tessier

©Jenn Buliszak

Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke Field Trip

Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke Field Trip

Location: Strawbery Banke Portsmouth, NH
Date: Sunday December 6, 2009
Time: 4:00PM-9:00PM
Parking: Parking Garage on Hanover Street

Stroll through one of New Hampshire’s oldest waterfront neighborhoods. Strawbery Banke’s historic homes will be decorated with historic  holiday decor and the walkways will be lighted with luminaria. This NVPC field trip will provide participants with the opportunity to practice low-light and night photography. If participants are interested, we can plan to meet earlier and photograph along the Piscataqua River Waterfront and have a quick dinner beforehand.

Tickets cost $14.00 per person and are non-refundable. If we need to cancel due to inclement weather, we will reschedule for the following weekend. Family members are more than welcome to join us on this holiday  NVPC field trip. Registration for this field trip closes on Wednesday November 25, 2009.

Equipment recommendations include: camera, tripod, wide-angle lens, telephoto lens, cable-release cord, flashlight, external flash, and your camera manual.

Please register online at : http://westford.com/nvpc/FieldTripForm.html

Harry’s Round Table: Photo Practice #1

This exercise is intended to encourage a photographic awareness of the usefulness of the compositional skill of selection of the aspect ratio of a final image.

To accomplish this exercise you are required to photograph the same subject (for example, one church, not several different churches), and produce final images representing the following aspect ratios:

• Horizontal Frame:  3:2
• Horizontal Frame:  4:3
• Horizontal Frame (panoramic):  2:1
• Vertical Frame: 2:3
• Vertical Frame: 1:2
• Square Frame: 1:1
  Note: All of the above ratios are width:height

The final images are to be attained through cropping or full frame from camera. Images should fit within the 1024×768 pixel space but represent the above ratios. For example the 3:2 ratio may be represented by a final image size of 1024×683 pixels.

Bring your set of images to the December 9th Harry’s Round Table meeting as jpg files on a CD for critique and discussion.

If you have any questions about this excerise, please contact Dick Kenyon for further details.

New Tutorial: Composition in Photography

We just posted a great new tutorial entitled “Composition in Photography” written by Walter Harrington. All the tutorials are posted on the Training webpage within the NVPC website.