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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Tuesday, October 16 Program

Come hear how our speaker, Alan G Montgomery, suggests 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.

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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 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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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.

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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.

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