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May 2021
CHAGRIN VALLEY CAMERA CLUB Bull e t i n
Photo by Jennifer Bellon
Processed by Errol Bellon
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President’s Message
President’s Message
Dear Members,
CVCC September/June 2020/2021 season is about to end.
During this difficult year CVCC was able to meet weekly for
Monday morning PS sessions and twice a month for our
regular meetings on Tuesday evening. We also welcomed
several new members, talented and enthusiastic photographers.
On-line meetings unexpectedly brought new opportunities to
invite speakers from all over the country and all over the world.
CVCC had a People’s Choice Competition and took many awards
at the recent Tri-Club Competition with Western Reserve
Photography Club and Erie Shores Photographic Society.
Congratulations to all CVCC members for their participation,
enthusiasm and dedication to the art of photography!
The CVCC planning meeting for our 2021/2022 season is coming
up, so please think about your future involvement and roles you
are ready to assume in order for our club to move forward.
Almost all current Club officers: President and Vice President,
Treasurer and Competition Chair are retiring after 2 years of ser-
vice. The CVCC Bulletin is a great resource for everyone thanks to
our Editor Teresa G. I hope someone else will step forward and
take over this role, so CVCC members will continue getting the
monthly newsletter.
Marina Neyman
CVCC President
2019-2020 Program Year
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President’s Message
President’s Message
This year created a need for a new role – Zoom administra-
tor, which was performed admirably by Les Greenberg. He also
had the job of managing and displaying files submitted by our
members for evening meetings, so that we could all see them.
Program planner or planning committee is usually
responsible for inviting and scheduling guest speakers.
These speakers, photographers and educators, inspire us to
learn, experiment and create. Unfortunately, this year CVCC
did not have an officer for this role. As I was reaching out for
advice, many of you helped by giving me names of potential
speakers, however it was still my responsibility to make
all the arrangements.
On behalf of all members I thank everyone who stepped for-
ward to make a presentation, recommend an activity, helped
to select images for tri-club competition and contributed to
CVCC functioning!
I am looking forward to 2021/2022 season
under new management!!!
Marina Neyman
Marina Neyman
Marina Neyman
CVCC President
CVCC President
2019-20202020-2021 Program Year
Program Year
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President’s Message
What’s Inside
President’s message .………..…........................…..….2. 3
Calendar, Spring 2021……… ….......................…..…. 5
Tri-C Competition Results………………………..…….. 6
04/20 Tue, 7pm (ZOOM) Len Metcalf,
Naked Landscapes.…….…... 7-9
May 04, Tues, 08:00 PM(ZOOM) Matt Kloskowski, .10
Making Great Bird Photos
Need help with ZOOM ? …………….........………........ 11
Links to Learning……………….....................................12-14
CVCC Officers and Board….…................................... .15
Sign-up page for new members/new attendees.......16
Information about Photoshop Critique group
Mondays, 9:15am, ZOOM virtual meetings with members
presenting 2 of their own images from their computers.
Send an email to Les Greenberg, bikerles@yahoo.com, to join.
Marina Neyman
Les will invite you to a scheduled Zoom meeting by sending
CVCC President
2019-2020
you an email invitation Program
before theYear
meeting.
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CVCC Calendar, Spring 2021
President’s Message
Apr 19, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
Apr 20, Tues, 07:00 PM(ZOOM) Len Metcalf, Naked Landscapes
See page 7 for more information.
Apr 26, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
May 03, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
May 04, Tues, 08:00PM (ZOOM) Matt Kloskowski
Making Great Bird Photos
Note starting time. Individual sign up is required to attend.
To sign up go to this link:
https://alphauniverse.com/alpha-workshops/bird7/
Then scroll to bottom of page and click on “Join alpha-Universe”
Fill out the form. There is no cost..
May 10, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
Look for email with new codes for joining Monday am ZOOM mtgs
May 17, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
May 18, Tues, 07:00 PM(ZOOM) Sunset Shoot, weather permitting
May 24, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
May 31, Mon, 09:15 AM (ZOOM) Photoshop Critique Group**
June 01, Tues 07:00PM (ZOOM) “My favorite shot for the year! “
Each member invited
Marina Neymanto submit 2 images to share.
CVCC President
2019-2020
June 15, Tues, 07:00PM (ZOOM) Program
YearlyYear
planning meeting. We will decide
on officers and board members for 2021/2022. Very Important. We
depend on your participation to continue programs and activities.
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Tri-C Competition Results
On Tuesday, April 13th the Western Reserve Photography Club
held a Zoom meeting to share the results of this year’s competition
between WRPS, Erie Shores Photographic Society and CVCC.
Congratulations to Marina Neyman whose dragon-fly image was
awarded the Best in Show award. Ctrl-click on Marina’s picture to go to
the competition website with all the photo entries. See all of the other
award winning images submitted by our talented CVCC members .
Marina Neyman, Dragonfly ~ Best in Show Award!
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April 20, 2021, 7 PM
Len Metcalf - Naked Landscapes
Our CVCC evening meeting on
Tuesday, April 20th will be a
presentation by well-known
photographer, Len Metcalf.
His topic is Naked Landscapes
and sees Len placing nudes
in the natural environment.
Len talks about his love for
Selfie © Leonard Metcalf 2014
figure and landscape photography.
Whilst exploring what his photography has taught him, he shares valuable
insights into how he sees and creates his beautiful art. Len takes us on a
journey where he mixes landscape and nudes into meaningful bodies of
work. Len Metcalf is an Australian photographer well known for his
ability to teach and mentor photographers. His distinctive work is unique,
and challenges the traditional notions of photography. Len has been
photographing for over forty years, with large format film and now has
embraced modern digital techniques. He runs a photography school in
Sydney, and has just launched his own magazine, Len's Journal.
Go to http://lensjournal.com to see it.
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April 20, 2021, 7 PM
Len Metcalf - Naked Landscapes
Len Metcalf
Len’s journey towards photographic education began long ago, with the
gift of his first camera as a young boy in the Blue Mountains, (New
South Wales, Australia) and his first teaching experience in a local Scout
troupe at fifteen years old. After graduating from High School, Len took
a job as an outdoor educator in Kangaroo Valley to support himself
through a Visual Arts degree, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, NSW University.
majoring in Photography. This was the beginning of a lifelong quest to
combine his passions for adventure, education and photography.
While studying Fine Art, at Len had the opportunity to learn from fine
teachers such as George Schwartz, Eardly Lancaster Julie Brown-Rrap and
Lynn Roberts Goodwin at the City Art Institute (now Faculty of Fine Arts
at NSW University). He graduated with straight distinctions and re-
ceived the coveted award for ‘Most Outstanding Advanced Colour Pho-
tographer’.
During his 30 year career in the education sector Len worked with nu-
merous schools and businesses as an experiential educator, facilitating
learning outcomes through experiences in the outdoors.
See you there on ZOOM, Tuesday, April 20th, 7:00 pm
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Photographic Images & Tours
by Len Metcalf
“Photography needs to be so engrossing that the rest of the world disappears”
The first image is the link to a 3 minute video sharing the experience of
attending one of Len’s photography workshops or tours. Ctrl-click to see it.
Scene from the Blue Montains
Kangaroo Island Photography escape Tarkine Photography tour
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Matt Kloskowski
President’s Message
Join Matt for a 75 minute live webcast on improving your bird
photography for photographers of all levels. You’ll even get a free
PDF “ Bird Photography Field” guide, that you can keep on your
phone, for a quick reference while out shoot-
ing. In this webcast, we’ll talk about how bird
photography can be one of the hardest types
of photography, but also incredibly rewarding
to have a fun look in to one of natures most
interesting animals. During this session we'll
dive in to the various gear, tips, tricks and
settings to help make your bird photos stand
out from the crowd. You'll even learn some
photo editing tips to help with light, noise and Matt Kloskowski
distractions, so that you endMarina Neyman
up with beautiful
CVCC President
and razor sharp bird 2019-2020
photos toProgram
share. Year
May 4 : 8pm EDT | Social hour starts at 7:30pm. Click this link to
sign up: https://alphauniverse.com/alpha-workshops/bird7/
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Need help with ZOOM?
Our meetings for the foreseeable future with be virtual meetings.
We will be using the ZOOM meeting app, so please download it onto
your computer if you would like to “attend”.
If you need help with this, get in touch with one of the members listed
below to learn how to join a meeting with Zoom. Please make the effort.
We will enjoy having you with us in the virtual meeting and but you must
know a bit about using the Zoom app in order to participate. Les will send
out the meeting numbers and password you will need to join the virtual
meeting the evening before every scheduled meeting.
Those of you wanting to participate in the ZOOM Sessions and who
haven't done so previously must contact any of the listed members to
learn how to get into the session and practice doing so. Here are the
members who can help you learn how to use ZOOM.
Leslie Greenberg
Erwin Bruder
Wayne Roth
Marina Neyman
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LINKS TO LEARNING
MAY 2021
PHOTOGRAPHY
Videos recommended by Skip Kremer
Secrets of color-grading in Photography
with Joanna Kustra (1 hr 18 min) SK
Joanna Kustra is a photographer and color grader based in Spain. Following is a
link to her Masterclass in Color Grading. In it she covers Color Theory, Compo-
sition, Processing in Photoshop and much more. This is a professional quality
learning tool that is a must watch for all interested in portrait photography. But
the Color Theory principles extend to many other genres as well.
(1 hour 18 min)
Ted Forbes discusses Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers
of color photography.
Leiter worked in fashion photography in NYC during the 50s and 60s, but he is
best known for his personal work as a street photographer. His style includes
an intricate level of layering and abstraction, often with muted but complemen-
tary colors. (21 min)
Danie Bester speaks in detail of the work of Ernst Haas, a photojournalist and
color photographer whose work spanned 1940 to 1986. Like Saul Leiter, Haas
liked to work with layering and reflections. He mastered a technique of ab-
stracting and blurring his subject by using slow shutter speeds. (1 hour 20min).
Alternatively the 2nd link is a short video on Ernst Haas running 10 minutes
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LINKS TO LEARNING
MAY 2021
PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE
&
Adobe Camera Raw: Enhance your Raw files easily in Photoshop or
Lightroom Develop Module
Digital Camera World (10 min)
How often do you open up a freshly captured photo with great antic-
ipation, only to be lightly underwhelmed by the image on-screen?
Colors can look dull, highlights washed out, or shadows too deep.
However, it’s easy enough to enhance these details, add punch and
create an image that looks more like the actual scene, as you remem-
bered it when you took the photo.
Take Camera Raw and Lightroom offer all the tools you need to carry
out these enhancements. But while the interface is intuitive and sim-
ple, the tools aren’t all immediately obvious. So in this tutorial we’ll
explain how to make a series of powerful tonal adjustments that you
can use to boost any image – whether it be one that you’ve just cap-
tured, or a shot with uncapped potential that’s languishing in your
image library.
We’ve used the Adobe Camera Raw plugin in Photoshop CC to edit
our image here, but you’ll find near-identical tools in Lightroom’s
Develop Module, if you prefer. The skills here can be used to coax all
kinds of images into life.
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LINKS TO LEARNING
MAY 2021
DxO
DxO PhotoLab 4 New Feature Review by Robin Whalley
Today DxO release PhotoLab 4. In this video I look at the new
features in
this latest release including:
Interface improvements
Workflow Improvements -
Watermarking -
Deep Prime Processing I
In the video I mention the two different versions of PhotoLab 4
(Essential and Elite). Here’s the link to the features in the
different versions: https://tidd.ly/3lS2df7
If you want to see the list of supported cameras and lenses
use this link: https://tidd.ly/344PnV6
And to download the trial version of PhotoLab 4 use:
https://tidd.ly/2H8ROgm
DXO V4 vs Luminar 4 Creative and Artistic Test (13 min)/KW
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2020—2021 Officers and Board Members
President: Field Trips:
Marina Neyman Skip Kremer – Assisted by Jim Carey
Vice President: Webmaster:
Judith Khaner David Alan, also sunset shoot coordinator
cvccweb@gmail.com
Immediate Past President:
Ken Weiss Bulletin Editor
Teresa Gutierrez,
Treasurer:
Bud Rich Annual Dinner Arrangements
Program Planning: Al Magid
PLEASE Publicity
VOLUNTEER TO HELP Marina Neyman and Chad Barr
Competition: Monday Critiques and computer/projector
Irv Kaplan Les Greenberg/Errol Bellon
We are the
Chagrin Valley Camera Club
Visit us at
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1595867520665401/
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