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Photography Club

This is a club for OLLI members who are curious about or have a genuine love for photography – the best of all possible hobbies!

Please see the Photography Club Overview page to learn more.

OLLI Photo Club – Overview

March 11, 2017 by Ernestine Meyer

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Photography Club Overview

— By Dave Talaber

This is a club for OLLI members who are curious about or have a genuine love for photography – the best of all possible hobbies!

Throughout the month you will have the opportunity to meet with others who share your curiosity and passion. Together we not only share information but participate in varied activities to help us be better photographers. The Photography Club is not just for photo geeks – we welcome all members, whether you are a newbie or have years of experience. Anyone can join!

Photography (and by extension, our club) is accessible in ways that most hobbies simply aren’t. It doesn’t matter if you’re talented. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or not-so-rich, where you live, where you come from, who your parents were. If you’re a very serious enthusiast with a massive disposable income, by all means use a fancy DSLR – but don’t be surprised if many of your fellow members take great photos with their smart phones! There are no rules dictating that you must shoot, how you must shoot, where, or when, or for whom. You can shoot whatever subject you want with whatever camera you’ve got. And all that matters is you’re having fun.

Our meetings are held at Tallwood. On the second Friday of the month we meet at 9:30 am for a varied program which includes selecting a Photo of the Month (published in the OLLI e-News!) from entries submitted by club members. We also host a guest speaker from the wider photographic community who will present varied and informative topics for your enjoyment and education. After the meeting we reassemble at a local restaurant for an optional lunch where conversation usually revolves around, what else? Photography!

On the third Friday of the month we meet up early in the morning and head out for a field trip to an event or attraction in the local area. Make sure to wear comfortable walking shoes and be prepared for a fun day out and about!

On the fourth Friday of the month we meet at noon and have a varied agenda consisting of a peer review and critique of member photos, question and answer sessions, member presentations, and any other photo related topic of interest to the members.

Also, throughout the year members of the Photography Club exhibit their images not only at Tallwood, but at other venues in the area.

We sincerely hope that you will consider joining us so we may inform, and hopefully, inspire each other.

Coordinators: John Olsen and Ed Marion

 


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OLLI Photo Club – Galleries

March 11, 2016 by Ernestine Meyer

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By George Bradshaw / Revised June 11, 2020

This article provides an overview of the online OLLI Photo Club (OPC) Galleries, including a) a description of the main OPC Galleries, b) a reference for viewing, commenting upon, and uploading photos to specific galleries, and c) guidelines for the monthly competitions.

1. Overview

On April 1, 2016 the OPC transitioned photo sharing operations from the PBase photo repository service to the SmugMug service.  All photos from PBase have been moved to SmugMug, and the gallery structure of PBase has been replicated on SmugMug.  PBase is still available for viewing photos as of 2018.01.08.  Following are the links to each system:

OPC Galleries

SmugMug    https://olliphotoclubgmu.smugmug.com/

PBase          http://www.pbase.com/olligmuphoto

The “OPC Photo Repository, Member’s Guide, 20180108” for the new OPC Galleries is available at the OPC Photo Repository Website under the “Site Notes” menu.  The Guide discusses the transition plan and provides detailed instructions for uploading and commenting upon photos.

2. Galleries

As of June 11, 2020, the types of OPC galleries is under revision.

OPC members currently use the following galleries on a “routine” basis:

  • Competition galleries (3): Critique, non-Critique, and Slideshow.
  • Field Trip galleries,
  • “Other Recent Photo” galleries, and
  • “One Photo per Week” gallery (formerly the WIP).

The Competition galleries are shown on the second Friday of each month to select the best photo which will be published in the OLLI newsletter.  The Field Trip gallery is shown on the fourth Friday as a basis for discussing photos taken during the club’s Field Trips on the third Friday.  The Other Recent Photo galleries are viewed and discussed on 1st Friday meeting, and the One Photo per Week gallery might be viewed on the 1st or 4th Fridays.

Other “occasional” or non-routine galleries include special projects, “Occasional Short Presentations” (formerly the WHIM), and the OLLI Catalog Covers.

3. Viewing Photos

One may view photos in the galleries of the public OPC website:

https://olliphotoclubgmu.smugmug.com/

The OPC website has a menu- and icon-driven interface. To select a gallery for viewing, one need only start clicking on the menu item “Galleries” to see the various galleries available.

The Competition and Field Trip galleries are organized chronologically: under the “Galleries” menu, first select the year, then the month. For the Competition galleries, three icon photos (feature images) will be displayed for the month (see image 1), annotated as Critique, non-Critique and Slideshow. The title of the monthly gallery contains the date as yyyy.mm and the theme of the month; the title in Image 1 is “2016.01 Open” (“Open” means that no specific theme has been specified for the month). Click on one of the feature images to view the gallery. The Slideshow gallery contains all the photos of the Critique and non-Critique galleries.

Image 1: Selecting a Competition Gallery

Image 1, Selecting a Competition Gallery

The Field Trip and “Other Recent Photos” galleries are selected directly from the corresponding “monthly” icon. The title of a gallery contains the date and the field trip destination or theme.

 

4. Commenting upon Photos

OPC members upload photos to the monthly competition’s Critique gallery to solicit comments regarding artistic interpretations, technical or artistic improvements, or, let’s face it, just for the joy of socializing with fellow members.

The methods for commenting upon photos is under revision as of June 11, 2020.  Commenting may take the form of posting text beneath the photo in the repository, or discussing the photo during a meeting.

 

5. Uploading Photos

OPC members routinely upload photos to three galleries: the competition’s Critique and non-Critique galleries and the Field Trip galleries. No automated procedure has been established for uploading to other galleries; we will establish such procedures as the need arises.

The general procedures for uploading to the routine galleries follow a three-step process.

  1. Assign the standard filename to the selected jpg photo. The standard filename format is

         Title [spaces between multiple title words] <space> <hyphen> <space>
         LastnameFirstnameinitial.jpg

For example, Double Daisy – SmithJ.jpg

  1. Point your browser to the appropriate OPC upload gallery using a link that will be emailed to you.
  1. Drag and drop your photo into the upload gallery. You may also select the photo from within the “upload gallery” page by clicking “Browse Computer.”
  2. To ensure security of the uploading process, some galleries are private, “staging” galleries not visible to the public.  Within 24 hours, the web administrator will move images uploaded to staging galleries to their corresponding public galleries.

6. Guidelines for Monthly Competitions

A maximum of two photos may be uploaded to the competition galleries.  Guidelines for use of the “Critique” gallery are undergoing revision as of June 11, 2020.

Specific themes are established for most months.  Some months are considered OPEN with the only requirement being the photo was taken in the past two years.  We generally do not meet for a Competition in August.

The current year’s themes are listed in the OPC Information Portal’s “OLLI Photo Club – Monthly Themes” page (https://olli.gmu.edu/bi-monthly-photo-themes/).  The link for that page can also be found at the “OLLI Photo Club – Overview” page (https://olli.gmu.edu/photography-club-overview/).

 


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OLLI Photo Club – Catalog Covers

October 29, 2014 by Ernestine Meyer

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OLLI Catalog cover images are usually selected from photos taken and proposed by club members. It is important to think well ahead in planning to submit seasonal images for catalog covers since selection is made prior to the start of the season depicted on the cover.  For example, the photograph for the winter 2015 Catalog cover had to be selected by early October 2014. Consequently that photo was taken on a snowy day the previous winter.

Requirements.

  • Photo must be in portrait orientation.
  • Sizing must be 300ppi at 8 inches by 10 inches.
  • Note from the examples that text may be placed within the image at the top, bottom and right.  Key subject elements should not intrude upon these areas.

 

    

 

 

 

 


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OLLI Photo Club – Projects

To all members, and potential members, of the OPC —

In 2016 the GMU School of Theater (ranked 8th in the nation) asked OLLI if we could provide photographers for head-shots, publicity photos, final dress rehearsals and photo calls.  Several members of the OLLI Photography Club volunteered for eight of these events in 2016 and 13 in 2017.  Four shoots are scheduled in 2018 to complete the 2017-18 academic year (see schedule below).

The School has been very appreciative of our work and impressed by the quality of our images.  The School’s production staff and students have used our work for evaluation of the productions and for publicity brochures.  As you wander the halls of the GMU Arts buildings you may even see our work displaying in slideshows on the monitors and hanging on walls in print form.

Those photographers who have participated have been treated as professionals, valued for their work and have received complimentary tickets to their productions.  In addition to having the opportunity to observe productions in ways no theater subscriber would, each of us has learned a great deal about photography, technically and artistically, as we coped with challenging lighting conditions and unfamiliar subject matter.

I appreciate the dedication of those who have participated and encourage others in our club to join us in the remaining shoots.

Tom Simpson

 

Shooting Schedule

Play Type of Shoot Date / Time Location
Imaginary Invalid Publicity Shoot Feb 14 / TBD TBD
Final Dress and Photo Call Feb 27 / 7:00 to 10:30 TheaterSpace
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Publicity Shoot Mar 3 / TBD TBD
Final Dress and Photo Call TBD / 7:00 to 10:30 Harris Theater

 

Second Fridays

9:30–11:30

Fourth Fridays

12:00–2:00

Tallwood

Coordinator: Dan Feighery 

Meet with others interested in photography and develop skills by participating in the monthly theme photo submissions. Be informed, and perhaps inspired, by expert speakers. The Photography Club welcomes all members, whether they use a basic camera or specialized equipment, and whether they are new to photography or have had years of experience. We discuss technical aspects of photography as well as the artistic aspects of visual design. On the fourth Friday of the month, workshops will cover specific topics in more detail. Contact Dan Feighery at Dandj_ffx_va@cox.net for further information.

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Themes for the Months

Several people asked what the Sept theme is. Answer: It is open (you can send anything. There are themes for alternate months. They are:

October: Street life
December: Nature Photography
Feb: Still Life
April: Reflections
June: Sports and Action
August: Patterns

For new folks, We have a web location where we post club member photos sent to this email address (olliphotoclub@gmail,com). You can send 2 images per month resized to 1024 pxls wide if Landscape format or 768 pxls high if Portrait format. In the subject of the email specify if you just want them in the gallery or if you would like comments on them. they will be posted at http://www.pbase.com/olligmuphoto. At the meeting on the 2nd Friday of the month we select a photo to be printed in the E-news as the “Photo of the month.”

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Presentation – Friday, October 10, at 9:30 am.

The speaker for this month is Cam Miller.

Cam Miller is a retired educator turned professional fine art photographer who lives in New Market, Maryland.  After living and teaching on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, she moved five years ago to Central Maryland, where she is fully engaged in the arts community.  She is a member of several museums, arts councils, and photography clubs, as well as one of the co-chairs for Easels in Frederick.  Cam has won numerous awards for her photographs, which include light paintings, landscapes, birds, butterflies, and architecture.  She teaches photography classes at Frederick Community College as well as does private tutoring.  Recently, Cam completed an ambitious yearlong personal project of doing a daily photo walk, after which she wrote about where she had walked and posted the photos on her blog.  To see the postings of her daily photo walk, visit camscamerashots.blogspot.com.  Her photo website is www.camscamerashots.com.

Presentation:
Taking a walk every day is good for one’s well-being;  but taking walk every day for an entire year, snapping between 30-40 photos on that walk, and then writing about the walk via a blog is a full-blown personal photography project.  And that is just what Cam Miller, of New Market, MD, did.  Between Monday, September 3, 2012 and Monday, September 2, 2013, she walked, photographed, and recorded her experiences via an online blog, shared with hundreds who read it online each day.  Cam will share the lessons she learned during her daily photo walks, including great places to walk, tips for seasonal changes, photo workflow, and more.  She will also share how others may adapt her ambitious project to suit their own needs. Hopefully her presentation will inspire to you get out and take a photo walk, too!

 

 

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Online OPC Galleries——–Taking a walk every day is good for one’s well-being; but taking walk every day for an entire year, snapping between 30-40 photos on that walk, and then writing about the walk via a blog is a full-blown personal photography project. And that is just what Cam Miller, of New Market, MD, did. Between Monday, September 3, 2012 and Monday, September 2, 2013, she walked, photographed, and recorded her experiences via an online blog, shared with hundreds who read it online each day.

 

January             Vintage Items.  Do you have an object at home that you want to photograph to save the memory before you downsize? Ever been to an outdoor antique market and wish you could buy that antique thingamajig – photograph it instead to preserve the memory.

February           Toys: Show Us Your Inner Child.  You’re looking for some fun photography ideas and your toys are just looking for some fun. Give your toys the life they deserve. Put them in the scenes they were meant to be in. Tractors and gorillas don’t belong on a shelf. Dolls should have a tea party. Look at your stuff and determine where each item is supposed to be. Then, go to that place and give your stuff what is wants: a life far removed from the humdrum life of shelfdom.

March               Vintage Signs.  Do some research and see how many old signs from decades past remain. Try capturing unique or interesting signs of any age.

April                  Curves.  Curves make an image easy to look at by leading the viewer’s eye through the frame. It is almost as if the photographer takes the viewer by the hand, draws them into the landscape, and points the way. The viewer’s eyes are compelled to follow the line.
Curves are graceful, rhythmic, and dynamic and add energy to an image. They can separate or connect elements or simply offer a balance.

C curves, or semi-circles, are probably the easiest curves to find since almost any curves qualify. They can be anything from the gentle curve of a seashore, lakeshore, a rounded rock, or grasses blowing in the wind.

May                   Man-altered Landscapes.  Rather than making an image of a traditional landscape, look for a shot that shows how man has altered his surroundings. Is it a canyon of skyscrapers, footprints in the sand, a fence?

June                  Animals.  If you have gone on a safari great – you probably have some fantastic wild animal images. Please don’t feel like you have to go on safari to capture a great animal image. Your pet might prove the perfect subject. Small animals or birds in the park are equally great. Focus on the eyes, get the fur sharp. Another great macro opportunity.

July                    I Love a Parade.  Get physically close to the people you are photographing. Let them see that you are taking their photo which allows interaction with them if only by eye contact. They know they’re on display in the parade and expect to have their photo taken many times. If you are otherwise hesitant or tentative photographing people this is a perfect opportunity because you have a whole stream of willing subjects literally parading in front of you (sorry – pun intended). Sometimes you’ll get a great reaction when they see your camera. Parades can be visually stimulating, and overly busy so getting in closer will help solve those problems. Pick one person, or one part of a float and get closer.

August               No Meeting Scheduled.

September        Weather.  Capture an identifiable facet of weather (storm clouds, rain, snow, use your imagination.)

October             Fall Colors.  Fall is a photographer’s dream season. It’s the time when nature explodes with color and misty mornings are whispering “Hey look at me, wouldn’t I make just the most amazing photograph?” Go our early enough to catch dew on a colored leaf or a misty reflection.ind of weather there is, and where the sun positioned in the frame.

November         Have Fun with It.  When you are photographing a mundane object, you don’t need to worry about it growing tired of posing, so have fun with this project and take as much time as you need. Try different angles, lie on the ground, climb up on something, do whatever it takes to snap pictures that transform ordinary into extraordinary. For more inspiration, pay attention to other photographers when you are out at a popular attraction and observe their positions. Try mimicking their positions to see what they are seeing because even if you look odd, the great photographs you take are worth it.

December         Open.

 

 

 

 

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