Take this opportunity to get feedback on your images without needing to enter a competition. Unbiased feedback is essential to our growthas photographers and artists. Face it,we all spend so much time working on our photographs that sometimes we needhelp separating the forest from the trees. Send in images you arethinking of entering into competition,
Please join us for our January competition with our judge, Karen Messick. President of Karen L Messick Photography 8/2007 – present Past President of the Baltimore Camera Club 6/06-8/2010 Karen is an award-winning photographer. She has been capturing images for the last 18 years. Her sense for design, color, composition and placement of subject elements
Join us for our December competition with our judge Josh Taylor. Josh has presented photography workshops at the Smithsonian National Orchid Show, U.S. National Arboretum, U.S. Botanic Garden, Brookside Gardens, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, American Horticultural Society Garden School, Adkins Arboretum, and Longwood Gardens. In addition to being a Canon Camera instructor, Josh speaks at
What are you trying to say with your photography? Since photography is a form of visual communication, all photographers should strive for simplicity in their photographs. With a complicated image, the message may not be obvious to the viewer. Simplicity and clarity in thought, process, and technique can lead to expressive images that evoke emotion.
Baltimore’s picturesque Inner Harbor, located in the heart of Baltimore’s Downtown District, has served Maryland as a sea port since the sixteen hundreds. Just a few of the photographic opportunities are: the harbor with its boats and ships of all types, including the sailing warship USS Constellation and the submarine USS Torsk and two other
Susan Phillips has been an active member of NVPS since 2009. She served as Co-vp of Competitions 2013-14 and also Forum Co-ordinator 2014-15. Susan has won many ribbons for her work exhibiting in the Claude Moore Photo Expo, Joe Miller Center for Photographic Arts, Vienna Art Society Photo Exhibition and Washington Gardner Magazine. Her work
Digital – Class 1 1st – Melannie Egan – Smoke Break 2nd – Wendy Xu – Girl with Balloon 3rd – Kirk Andrew Johnson – Pretty Lady and Flowers H – Andrew Savino – Brown Pelican H – Jerri McDermott – Williamsburg Patriot H – Wendy Xu – Girl with Umbrella H – Colena Turner
For the next Education and Training try the NVPS version of speed-dating. We will have work stations setup around the room where you can see demonstrations and ask questions on several types of software. Come visit one or visit all and learn about Photoshop Layers, HDR with Photomatrix Pro, Lightroom Split Toning, Nik Silver Efex
As usual, Novembers Members Gallery will proceed Novembers “Photographers Forum” on the same evening. This month we have Granger Benson with prints and Dennis Govoni with digital. Granger Benson – Biography Granger is a retired physician and current small business owner who joined NVPS in 2013, soon after obtaining his first DSLR camera. Throughout his life he
Recently the featured photographer in the Who’s Who in the Kelbyone Community article in the July/August 2015 Photoshop User Magazine! As a founding contributor to the Flickr Marketplace, over 250 of my images have been curated for their gallery and for use and sale in the Marketplace and Getty Images. For me, photography is an