Educational Materials

ALL MEMBER EVENT. Maximum 10 Attendees.
ADMISSION FEE MUST BE RECEIVED BY SEPTEMBER 6TH!

Visit the Raptor, Inc. complex, where their educational birds will be displayed for your photographic pleasure. Birds are perched and hand held by the handlers. Photographers are as close as 10-15 feet from the birds and have lots of time to shoot. Tripods and telephoto lenses of 200-400mm are recommended, however, not necessary. NO FLASH.

RAPTOR INC. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of local birds of prey via rehabilitation, education and research. Location: 961 Barg Salt Run Rd., Milford, Ohio.

SUNDAY, MAY 15TH 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

ATTENDANCE: MAXIMUM 10

TO REGISTER: MAIL YOUR PAYMENT OF $22 PER ATTENDEE. As a private event we must meet their minimum attendees before they can bring in their staff from afar. Only Receipt of Payment Reserves Your Attending. Pay by check made out to Ohio Valley Camera Club, mailed to 6691 Fox Hunt Ct. West Chester, Ohio 45069. Specify Date and Provide Email for possible contact. Does your name on your check match your name with OVCC – if not change in your Profile (thumbnail photo in upper right of landing page.)

All non-photographer guests are required to pay, simply because of the space limitations and Raptor, Inc. policy.

All monies are for the benefit of Raptor, Inc. to help them continue their great efforts.

Refunds: full refund available up to SEPTEMBER 7TH. Afterwards you will be issued a credit for a future date.

Additional Dates in 2024: September 15th.

Our Introductory EVENING COLLEGE program on Adobe Lightroom will be presented over two evenings, September 10th and 17th. Both presentations are estimated to run 2 hours.

FOLKS ARE NOT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CORRECTLY AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECEIVE OUR LINKS.

As mentioned above send your request to attend to: [email protected]. Registering below will not get you the link.

Additionally, OVCC has expanded its noted CRITIQUE program to include Competition.

Also of interest, our TRAVEL GROUP is now in its second year.

Questions on rejoining the Ohio Valley Camera club reach out to Rich at: [email protected]

YOU ARE ENTITLED TO ATTEND AS A LOCAL EVENT MEMBER CURRENT ON DUES, OR AN AWAY MEMBER, OR A NEW TRIAL MEMBER.

IMPORTANT:
“Due to continuing issues in communicating through Meetup write Rich directly for him to reply with Zoom meeting link. Also Meetup is garbling certain internet links. If you do not know Rich’s email his domain is at gmail. The balance is “ovccrs”. Also we are creating a backup system to store contact information. Rich also requests everyone send along their phone number.”
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SHOOT AND DEBRIEF MEETING – August 29 , 6:30 – 7:30 PM ONLINE

Theme: OPEN : Can be anything: color, black & white , monochrome or sepia.

HOST: Joel Belsky

The meeting will be an open-mic group discussion about the photos captured with the goal of encouraging and helping improve our work.

RESIZE YOUR PHOTOS in order to fill the screen during the Zoom session else your image may appear small. If using Lightroom use Export / Imaging Sizing / Resize to Fit and enter 2800 pixels for landscape images or 1800 pixels for portrait images. Enter a resolution of 72 pixels per inch to get the recommended number of pixels.

• Rename your image files: first and last name, #1 for first priority, #2 for second priority and #3 for third priority and Image Title, as in this example John Smith 1 Downtown Cincinnati.jpg

Upload up to three images for discussion by Tuesday, August 27 , at the OVCC SmugMug Web-Site (NOT HERE ON this MEETUP SITE!! )

Copy & paste the following URL into your browser to upload:

https://ovcc.smugmug.com/upload/w9BhT7/Debrief

Be prepared to discuss the camera setting information

• Lens used (e.g. 70-200mm) AND focal length of shot (e.g. 90mm)
• ISO, aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, filters, if used
• Post processing techniques of note
• NOTE: most of the above will already be in the meta-data if you check Lightroom to include it during your export.

**MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION: write Rich at [email protected]

BRING A GUEST – WE ARE ROLLING OUR OUR NEW COMPETITION FORMAT AS WELL AS OUR PREMIERE OF OVCC EVENING COLLEGE

TO ATTEND IN PERSON AT EVENDALE VILLAGE ARTS PAVILLION CLICK ATTEND BELOW. IF YOU LIVE MORE THAN 30 MINUTES AWAY YOU MAY CHOOSE TO VIEW ONLINE. WRITE ME BEFORE 3:00 PM ON MEETING DATE AT [email protected]. INDICATION OF ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT SITE WILL NOT GET YOU THE LINK.

Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 3PM ON OUR MEETING DATE.

NOTE: CRITIQUE IMAGE SIZE REQUIREMENTS HAVE CHANGED

PRESENTER: ERIC HATCH

PRESENTATION: REAL WORLD COMPOSITION. A Course for Practicing Photographers.

All photographs consist of objects (stuff) and spaces. Composition is how you organize the “stuff” in your pictures to tell the story you want to tell and exclude unwanted “stuff.” The Composition Course gives you a lightning tour of some basic art principles, then demonstrates how to apply those to organizing the “stuff” in your frame. For example perspective, cropping to include, cropping to exclude, use of leading lines, avoiding bullseye composition, relying on diagonals, curves, repetition, foreshortening, perspective, use of negative space — you can do all these in camera, no Lightroom needed (though it can help after the fact). You will see how basic compositional techniques add power, story-telling, excitement and zing to your photographs. We will cover a lot of ground very quickly, so fasten your seat-belts.

BREAK

COMPETITION-CRITIQUE: – COMPOSITION – apply your knowledge of composition guidelines.

DEADLINE : SATURDAY, AUG 17, MIDNIGHT: SEE DIRECTIONS BELOW!!!

EVENDALE BELL TOWER ARTS PAVILION -LOWER LEVEL. Located at 3270 Glendale Milford Rd (TURN ONTO KINGSPORT DRIVE} near Reading Rd (US 42)

BIO: Eric Hatch has been a writer, teacher, business consultant, and for the past 22 years a fine art photographer. [email protected]

SUBMIT UP TO THREE IMAGES – LANDSCAPE: 2800 X 1800p/ PORTRAIT 1800 X 1200p IN JPEG FORMAT TO: https://ovcc.smugmug.com/upload/Hmcnv6/12345

FINE PRINT: RENAME FILE: LIKE; #1 (2, or 3)Tom Brown Landscape Grandeur.