Somerset County Photography Club
http://somersetcountyphotoclub.org/
Our meeting location is the Bound Brook Memorial Library meeting on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday evenings. We will be starting our meetings at 7:30PM because we have to vacate the building by 9PM. [Street Map] [Bound Brook area]
Assigned Topics for 2008-2009
People at Work/Play, 2008-10-14Boats/Fishing/Beaches, 2008-12-09Autumn, 2009-01-13Motion show/freeze motion, 2009-03-10Sunrise/Sunset, 2009-04-14Nature (PSA rules), 2009-05-12We are now able to project digital images for competitions and presentations. Members will still able to submit prints for competitions as follows: Four digital images per maker per contest submitted up to and including the Sunday before our meeting. Prints will compete separately with a limit of 4 prints per maker per contest.
Because of more emphasis on digital medial, we will have two presentations relating to digital photography.
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Our meeting place was changed last yearWe will continue meeting at the Bound Brook Memorial Library and our meetings start at 7:30PM on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday evenings. Please come earlier for informal discussions, but we must start at 7:30PM because we have to vacate the building by 9PM. [Street Map] [Bound Brook area]
No program changes are currently anticipated, but this HTML document will be more up to date than our flyer (but not before the flyer has been printed), and will include names of judges as they become know.
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The Somerset County Photography Club is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the appreciation and enjoyment of photography. Competitions and critiques include projected digital images, as well as prints. Presentations include instructional meetings, travelogues and other shows by club and out-side speakers. We are affiliated with the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs. Annual dues are $30.
Our club is affiliated with the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs (NJFCC), which maintains a list of member clubs in New Jersey and a few clubs close to NJ in Staten Island and PA.
Most of our membership is in Somerset and Hunterdon Counties and nearby areas of Middlesex County.
The club meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, September through June, at the Bound Brook Memorial Library in Bound Brook, NJ. -- Guests and visitors are welcome:
Presentations and Competitions are open to the public, only members may submit prints or projected images for competition. Guests are encouraged to come in around 7:00 P.M. to discuss photography with members – bringing in some of your pictures adds interest.Meetings begin promptly at 7:30 P.M. -- (Digital projected media must be submitted online on or before the Sunday prior to the competition. We must leave by 9:00 PM.
Not getting your club email: Try emailing yourself to see if it gets through, maybe your mailbox is full, maybe you changed your ISP, maybe you gave us your old email address (or meant .net instead of .com). If you change your email, or other contact information don't forget to tell us.
President: David McRitchie First Vice President: Muriel Rothstein (Presentations) Second Vice President: John Considine (Judges) Treasurer: George Hall (also NJFCC Delegate)
First meeting of the 2008-2009 year: (Show & Tell)
Tue Sept 09 Open House: Bring samples of your Summer vacation images or anything you want to display. This is not a competition so you can bring in 8 to 20 images for projection of pictures plus additional prints which can be in albums.The first meeting Tue Sept 11th, 2008 will be . Bring your Summer vacation images or anything you want to have shown.
At the September 09 meeting returning members, guests, and visitors are welcome to participate in a "show and tell" of what they've been doing. About 8-18 projected images (digital) from each person should be fine. Tables will be set up to help with display of prints, which can be any number, and can be in albums.Competition nights: During the 2008-2009 club year:
There will be Six competition nights which will each have an Assigned Topic and an Open competition for digital projected images and for prints.Preparation of digital images for contests. Images will be projected at 768 pixels on the long side as described at http://www.geocities.com/somersetcountyphotoclub/contests.htm, and it would be best to do your own resizing even though the software will do some limited resizing. Directions on that web page tell you how to resize and submit your digital images for projection.
Deadline for projected images: Try to aim for the Sunday before the contest, images will be accepted the day before the contest but not later. The limit is 4 images per contest. Show and Tell and critiques will allow additional images.
Prints: and separate print competitions (4 prints total per contest per maker), Prints must be 8"x10" up to 16"x20", digital prints are eligible.
Judge(s) may be an outside judge or a club member, and will be announced before each competition. TBA competition topics will be from a random drawing 2 months before contest.
2008 - 2009 Program Calendar — Somerset County Photography Club2nd & 4th Tues 7:30 PM at the Bound Brook Memorial LibrarySeptember, 2008
09: Show and Tell: Members should bring 8-12 samples of their recent work [Press Release]
23: Presentation: “Professional Studio Photography”, Randy Alpizar [Press Release]October, 2008
14: Competitions: People at Work/Play & Open -- Judge: Doug Slobodien
28: Presentation: “Composing in Camera vs. Photoshop”, Ed Barry [Press Release]November, 2008
11: [no meeting -- Library Closed]
25: Presentation: “Photo Art in the Digital Age – Ideas, Tools, Techniques”, Arik Gorban [Press Release]DECEMBER, 2008
09: Competitions: Boats/Fishing/Beaches & Open -- Judge: Chuck Moore
25 No Meeting - Happy Holidays!January, 2009
13: Competitions: Autumn & Open -- Judge: Vinnie Kempf
27: Presentation: “Pictures You Love to Hate – Issues in Contemporary Color Photography”, Joel Morgovsky [Press Release]February, 2009
10: Members Critique (no judges), suggestions for improving your images, composition and their presentation
24: Presentation: “My Favorite Shots – How To and Why”, Bill Maxwell [Press Release]March, 2009
10: Competitions: Show/Freeze Motion & Open, judge: Dave DesRochers
24: Presentation: “Shoot the Best Image Possible”, Brien Szabo [Press Release]April, 2009
14: Competitions: Sunrise/Sunset & Open, judge: Nancy Ori
28: Presentation: “Being More Creative”, Roz Rosenblum [Press Release]May, 2009
12: Competitions: Nature (PSA rules) & Open, judge: Roman Kurywczak
26: Member Critique Night (no judges)June, 2009
09: 7:00 PM -- End-of-the-Year Competition, judges: Ben Venezio, and Joe Thomas -- This Meeting starts at 7:00 PM.
23: Planning Meeting for the 2009-2010 Season; all members welcomeClub Members as Presenters:
Ed Barry, began teaching photography courses locally in 1976, workshops in 1989, and is a past president of SCPC (1982-1985), will give a presentation entitled “Composing in Camera vs. Photoshop”.
Arik Gorban has been judging competitions and giving presentations throughout NJ for clubs with the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs, is very active in photopoints.com, is a past president of SCPC, and will be giving the presentation “Photo Art in te Digtal Age -- Ideas, Tools, Techniques” presentation
Leo Koach has opened up a photographic studio in Raritan -- Studio Focus Point, is active at dpchallenge.com as well as dailyawards.com, and will be giving the presentation "Professional Studio Photography". Leo moved to Arizona
Other Speakers and Judges: Many of our speakers have web sites, click on the links in the program and on our links page.
If a presenter or judge has their own photography website please use contact email so it can be added to our site somewhere on links page.
Open Competition: Pictorial no restrictions.
Nature Competition (PSA rules): must not show the hand of man, no man made trails, roads, structures, power lines, cultivated plants. No people, no domesticated animals.
Assigned Topic Competition: subject must fit the assigned topic, please don't make the club or the judge disqualify your entries.
Entered as Critique only (not for points): some members prefer to have their work critiqued only without assignment of points, so for each contest there will be an alternative critique only topic. Essentially dropped for lack of use, can be easily reactivated upon member request, but including it had been confusing new members.
Member Nights: Even less formal than our other informal meetings, as always members, guests, and walk-ins welcome. No restrictions on print sizes, can be shown in albums. We will try to have an extra table or two. To make viewing easier by members.
Submissions:
Projected image total per contest topic per maker limit is four, and prints total per contest topic per maker is also four. In order to separate critique only images they will be entered as if they are a separate "contest" for their topic, because that is how they would be treated so as not to confuse the judge, and certainly that is how it must be done for software.Year End Competition: Entries that placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, HM, and with 8 points and above are all eligible for year end competition.
Somerset County Photography Club
c/o David McRitchie
410 West Maple Avenue
Bound Brook, NJ 08805-1209website: http://www.geocities.com/somersetcountyphotoclub
Phone: (732) 469-8481 email: send email
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The Bound Brook Memorial Library may close due to weather conditions. Such decisions are usually made before 3 PM, compatible with businesses in the area. Although the library will try to notify a member of the club this may not always be successful. If in doubt call the main number at the library, if the library is closing early the recorded announcement would be changed.
From the North on Route 287: (Exit #13, Bound Brook)
Left turn at end of ramp onto Union Avenue (Route 28).
The fifth light is Mountain Ave, continue past.
Turn right onto East Street at the very next light.
Take the second right onto High Street. Library is on left-side
Parking is in the street.From the South on Route 287 (Exit #13B, Bound Brook)
Enter Union Ave (Route 28) heading East
The fourth light is Mountain Ave, continue past.
Turn right onto East Street at the very next light.
Take the second right onto High Street. Library is on left-side
Parking is in the street.From the East on Route 22 West
Take the exit for "Bound Brook, U.S. Veterans Hospital, Mountain Avenue",
Turn right toward Bound Brook at end of ramp.
You will be on Mountain Ave heading South.
Continue past the traffic light at Union Ave (Route 28).
Pass Somerset Street on the left.
Turn left onto High Street.
The library is on the next full intersection.
Parking is in the street.From the West on Route 22 East
Take the exit for Bound Brook you will be on
You will be on Mountain Ave.
Continue past the traffic light at Union Ave (Route 28).
Pass Somerset Street on the left.
Turn left onto High Street.
The library is on the next full intersection. Parking is in the street.NEW Parking Restrictions
There are new 2 hour parking regulations near the library, so watch where and when you park. The purpose is to ease the parking situation for the library but will impact anyone parking on both sides of E. High in the block in front of the library before 7PM on both sides. Parking on Hamilton and on the other side of Hamilton for E. High is okay after 6 PM. The entrance we use is on E. High. There are signs posted.The meeting room is at the top of the stairways to left of the check-out counter.
Small restroom facility is immediately to the left of the check-out counter.
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We also have our club 2008-2009 Program in PDF format. The PDF file matches our printed brouchure and will not be updated during the year. For updates please refer to program on this page and your email.
The following directions may be useful in viewing the file online, as well as other PDF format file such as from the New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs, "Cable Release", newsletters.
Best viewing of PDF files is directly through the Adobe Acrobat Reader, use Ctrl+L to toggle to/from full screen viewing, use Ctrl+2 for full width, Esc will return to normal view. Suggest setting options on View menu to Single Page, and fit width (Ctrl+2).
For those that prefer to use browser plug-ins: Use F11 for full screen viewing, use F11 once more to return to normal view within your browser.
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