In May 2013, VPS member Tom Schwab went on an incredible 6 day Glacier Bay National Park mini-cruise aboard the Sea Wolf. The Sea Wolf is a World War II minesweeper that has been converted to support 12 guests in 6 cabins. Tom will cover two of his greatest challenges, dealing with the weather and
In Camera Abstracts Jeff’s Presentation www.dewpix.com/JohnNaman/Presentation/Setups-for-Abstract-Workshop – John’s presentations With the snow on Dec 10, this workshop will be cancelled or postponed. Enjoy the above links. Tonight’s Education and Training will feature presentations by NVPS members Jeff Hancock and John Naman accompanied by renowned abstract artist Joe Miller. The NVPS Abstracts Workshop is intended
Our Education & Training opening night of 2013 will feature a long time friend of NVPS, Chuck Veatch. One of our region’s top photographers, Chuck was a former member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society, and he has frequently spoken at NVPS and judged competitions for us. Chuck has attended workshops with Freeman Patterson and
May 14 will feature the final critique of this year’s Portfolio Project. Critiques are always a good learning experience so be sure to come. You will be able to view the work of over 19 club members and hear the commentary of professional photographer Roy Sewell. Coming to us from Bethesda, MD, Roy is the author of two photography books “Our Potomac” and
On April 30, 2013, Co-Vice President of Competition, Mike Kane, will present an overview of basic printing techniques for color and black & white printing. Ansel Adams was has been quoted as saying: “The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” Mike firmly
Our second Anonymous Critique session will be on April 9, 2013. Our critiquing judge will be Matthew Schmidt. Please send no more than two (2) images to nvpsimagegallery@nvps.org by Friday, April 5th. We are seeking between 25-30 images, so if more are sent we will try to have one image represented from each submitter and
Please find the education and training presentation from March 12th, Photography Fundamentals by Scott Musson in the attachment. photography fundimentals Capture for web
On March 12th we’ll have an educational session on basic photography presented by Scott Musson. Scott is well known for his presentations on digital workflow, color management, Photoshop, Lightroom, Architecture Photography and Black Light Photography. This presentation will focus on photography fundamentals, particularly on capture basics. Scott will discuss basic equipment choices and basic capture
On February 12 we will be having an Education and Training session on Portrait Lighting with Jim Jenkins, a professional lighting instructor who also presented last year. In this session we will be working through single and two light portraits with minimal lighting equipment. The focus will be controlling light with reflectors and found surfaces
The January 22nd Education and Training Session will be used for a club swap meet. Members are encouraged to bring unneeded and unwanted camera equipment and/or supplies to the meeting for sale, trade or give away. If any non-members are interested in attending the swap meet are welcome to attend, but we are not allowing