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November 13 Program: Photographic Composition

Ken Frederick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest Speaker Ken Frederick will present “Photographic Composition”.

He will discuss compositional guidelines to enhance the visual appeal of photographs.

Topics include:
• Importance of foreground, mid-ground, and background
• Keeping the horizon level
• Use of lines, diagonals, and curves
• Impact of cropping
• Unique angles and perspectives
• Subject framing
• Reducing background clutter
• Use of repetition
• Use of geometric shapes
• Complementary 2nd subject
• Rule of motion
• Simplicity
• Learnings from fine art paintings
• “Breaking the Rules” for artistic effect

Ken grew-up in a Kodak family in Rochester, New York. He is currently a member Board of Trustees of George Eastman Museum in Rochester & a member of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). His photographs have been published in numerous print and online media. He has exhibited and sold his photographs, as well as donated his time & photos to non-profits, nursing homes & Alzheimer facility patients.

We hope you will join us as Ken covers one of the key elements of photography.   Once you learn these rules and strategies you will be more prepared to find great photography spots and opportunities.  

 

 

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October 16 Program: What Are You Doing with Your Photography?

Our speaker will be Alan G Montgomery. Alan will share his experience as a commercial photographer, show some of his commercial work and share some of the volunteer work he has have done utilizing his photography. He will speak about getting images out of our computers and into sight. And how volunteering with your photographic skills to improve the world around you will improve your photography.

Alan Montgomery

 

Alan is a fourth-generation professional photographer and was the owner of Woodallen Photography, a seventy-two-year-old company, in Houston until his retirement in 2017. Alan’s career at Woodallen began in 1967 and he purchased Woodallen Photography in 1973, a year after his grandfather’s death. Alan’s love of photography began with his grandfather, but grew through his love for learning and his desire to help his clients grow their business through his creative photography. He has traveled the world creating images towards this end. Most of what you see in his collection is what Alan has captured through his lens when he has been on a “photographer’s holiday”. His goal is always the same when he creates a photograph. That goal is to keep the viewer in mind. What is the message? Does it denote the right degree of quality, action, background and mood?

Alan and his wife, Jane, are native Houstonians and are lucky enough to have all three of their grown children and families living in the Houston area. Alan leads photography workshops for those wanting to grow their knowledge of photography.

 

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September 18 Program: Large Format Nature Photography / My Inner Peace

Laszlo Perlaky
September 18, 2018

Laszlo Perlaky is a Baylor faculty member at Texas Children’s Cancer Center during the week and a photographic artist on the weekends. He was born and raised in Hungary and came with his family to Houston, TX in 1990. After 20+ years of black and white photography, he has transitioned to the chrome medium, and then the new technology helped him to rediscover the monochrome, combining large format film photography with fine art photographic printing. He has won several prestigious awards, published and exhibited his work on art festivals, group and solo exhibitions. He is member of the New England Large Format Photography Collective (NELFPC), several national and international photographic organizations, past Print competition Vice President of the Houston Photographic Society, photography instructor at Houston Center for Photography and Houston Photography Study Group and leads his Naturalperl workshops. Website: http://www.naturalperlart.com

At our meeting Mr. Perlaky will talk about his ten year love of large format photography, combining large format film photography with fine art photographic printing.  He will have several of his prints & camera to show and will talk about his portfolios.

“Nature”
copyright Laszlo Perlaky

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August 21 Program: Baker Project

Darrell Hancock

“Baker Project” presented by Darrell Hancock, a fellow member of the Photo Club.   He will speak about his work the last couple of years in curating a small collection of photographs shot in 1953 by a prominent Houstonian — James A. Baker, III. 

Darrell will talk about his involvement in selecting several photos for inclusion in Mr.  Baker’s memoirs.  He will tell us more about how Mr. Baker — then a 23-year-old Marine
Corps second lieutenant — came to be traveling through Europe that year with a 35mm camera and several rolls of Kodachrome.

Last October, acting on behalf of Mr. Baker, Darrell and his wife, Diana, delivered 27 prints from the collection to The Public Historical Library of Zakynthos, an island off the west coast of Greece.

Please join us for what will surely be a very special evening.

Greek Refuge Girl
copyright @ James A. Baker III

 

 

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JULY 17 PROGRAM REMINDER

From a Pilot’s Viewpoint

Travel with Lou Vest, an avid photographer as he shares photos and stories from his years as a ship’s captain and pilot on the Houston ship channel. Lou will describe the port, what pilots do, and entertain you with amusing anecdotes about ships and sailors.

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May 15 Program: Interesting Stuff in West Texas

TJ Avery
http://www.thomasjavery.com
https://www.instagram.com/thomasjavery/ or follow on Instagram: @thomasjavery

Our speaker this month is TJ Avery with Thomas J Avery Photography.  TJ spoke to our club in 2016 about night photo, including the Milky Way and landscape. (See photos)

This meeting, TJ will bring his expertise and will share basic information on scenic locations in the western side of Texas that offer photographic opportunities, including his recommendations about travel and lodging. The emphasis will be on parks, public lands, and the great
outdoors.

TJ Avery
Milky Way

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April 17 Program: Standing in Front of Interesting Stuff

Rescheduled from January

We all strive to become better photographers.  We attend workshops, read articles, watch instructional videos, and possibly attempt to copy the best work of others we admire. Some even enter contests and seek out critical comments from other expert photographers. Over time all that hard work can begin to wear thin and your interest in photography wane unless you find and recognize interesting subjects for your art.

This month’s program is about the need to find and stand in front of interesting stuff, if you want to take interesting photos. We will talk about what our club has offered and plans to offer to help you in this area. Bring your popcorn, because the talk is capped off with a 20 minute video on the club’s trip to Yellowstone last January. Brrrr…. A fitting look at cold weather photography during this time of the year.

Chuck Dugand: Standing In Front Of Interesting Stuff

 

Our speaker is well known to us, Chuck Dugand is our Webmaster and is our most recent past club president.  He’s been an avid amateur photographer for many years and travels extensively with his wife, Helen, looking for “Interesting Stuff”.

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March 20 Program: “Astrophotography – Photographing the Heavens”

Our guest speaker, Father Joseph Barbieri, originally hails from Toronto, Canada and is a Catholic priest belonging to the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists). He has been a priest for 29 years and is currently serving his fourth year as Director of Retreats at Holy Name Retreat Center in Houston. He likes to say he is “Canadian by birth and Texan by adoption.”

Father Joe has had an on-going interest in astronomy and photography and has recently combined the two hobbies, making small steps into the realm of astrophotography.

The viewing and photography of deep sky objects such as nebulae, galaxies and star clusters nourish his on-going search for the God “who calls each star by name.”

He enjoys sharing his photos with others and participating in the amazement they experience when faced with the beauty of the cosmos.

We hope you will join us for the astronomical opportunity to learn about this unique photography field and enjoy his beautiful photos.

Andromeda Galaxy

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Program: Broncos, Brahmas, Boots & More

Dave Clements

Many of us have spent hours at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo enjoying the food, activities and people watching.  But how many of you have taken your cameras to capture your fun-filled experiences.

This month we welcome Dave Clements back who will be sharing his decade-plus experience as one of two Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo photographers.  He will talk about each event that occurs during the course of the rodeo and share how he takes his photos of each and how we might as well, should we want to have a similar experience.  He will also try to answer any questions we might have.  Time permitting maybe we can get Dave to spend a couple of minutes talking about his experience photographing a Super Bowl.

In May 2017 Dave spoke to the club about his project with Country Artist Kevin Black and his brother Clint Black to raise awareness and funds for the International Rett Syndrome Foundation.  He reviewed & discussed some of his photos and the process for his book project, “Raising A Hand”.  Dave is a freelance photographer.  He is also a staff writer/photographer for the Houston Music Review and house photographer for Dosey Doe in The Woodlands and the Red Brick Tavern in Conroe.

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