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Volume 13, Number 8 www.lpaphotography.org Editor: Terri L. Garner August 2014

AV Fair “Blue Ribbon” Volunteers By: Sue Craft

LPA members Dale Ware and Pat Ware were recognized at

the 2014 AV Fair Kickoff Dinner as recipients of the “Blue

Ribbon Award.” Dale and Pat both have volunteered at the

exhibit for over 25 years! The LPA has been a sponsor of the

photography exhibit since the early 1970’s.

Over the years, the Wares have participated in: decorating

and hanging photos in the exhibit, assisting on take-in and pick-

up days, monitoring the exhibit, clerking, and photographing the

event. Back in the “old days,” they helped arrange dinner for

the judges for many years, until the AVF took over providing

lunch.

The photography exhibit has grown and transitioned from

the early days where prints were made from film and clunky

projectors were used for slide shows; to now, where images can

be created from digital cameras and even cell phones! Dale and

Pat have been a part of that progression, and are still always

among the first to sign up each year to participate, and

volunteer.

Thank you Dale and Pat for being dedicated to promoting

the art of photography in the community, both at the AV Fair

and for the Lancaster Photography Association.

AV Fair Photography Exhibit News By: Douglas Wade & Sue Craft

The pace is picking up as we get ready for the 2014 AV

Fair. Opening day is August 15th. This year’s theme is “Poultry

in Motion”. Did you know that the LPA first started organizing

the AV Fair Photography Exhibit back in the 1970’s? That’s

over 40 years ago! It’s a great feeling to keep up the

philanthropic efforts started by some of the early founders of the

LPA. Our print entries have grown and remained strong for over

40 years. This year we have 2002 entries (1626 print and 376

digital), which is an increase over last year.

Our 2nd Annual AV Fair Photo

Mounting Workshop was offered to the

community on July 22nd and was well

attended with over 40 people, most of which

were newcomers wanting to know how to

mount their photos for entry in the fair. The

AV 4-H photography leader brought students

who needed help in mounting their

photographs for the exhibit. Participants

were asked to bring their photos and foam

core. The LPA provided the spray adhesive,

and members assisted by providing matte

cutters, box cutters, straight edges and hands

on assistance. If you missed the workshop,

check out the AV Fair Photo Mounting

Workshop video created by Matt Rondel

with his 5D Mark II camera, Adobe Premiere

and Photoshop CS5. (Photos by Lee Garner)

Decoration Day for the photography

building was Wednesday July

23rd. It’s amazing to see how the

“barn” transforms into a

Photography Exhibit. The

decorations have been kicked up

a notch again, thanks to Denis

Lust and his helpers. (Group

Photo by Sue Craft)

The Annual AVF Kickoff

Dinner was Friday July 25th.

The LPA group was well represented with 24

members in attendance. A good time was

had by all. All who volunteered the previous

year were invited to attend. LPA members

Dale and Pat Ware were recognized as Blue

Ribbon Award recipients for volunteering for

over twenty years at the AV Fair

Photography Exhibit. Kurtiss Humphrey was

a lucky raffle basket winner. The Home Arts

Department (which includes Photography)

won the Committee of the Year Award.

(Continued on page 2)

Photo by Paul Craft

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S4C Report By: Bonnie J. Matthews

I have not been notified of any

upcoming changes that have been

made at that this time.

Even though we are on a break

until October, please keep those

pictures coming to me. Let’s start the 2014-2015 year with a lot

of fresh, new images to be considered for Interclub

competitions. For S4C Interclub and to participate as an

Individual, you MUST have a UEN to enter. If you do not have

one, please go to the S4C website and request yours today! The

first competition is October 11, 2014 with the entry portal

opening on September 13, 2014 and submission deadline is

October 4, 2014.

For those entering in the AV Fair, if you have winners and

for those that feel they have excellent images, please send me

your images with your UEN so I can begin the process of

entering the LPA in the Inter-club competitions. If you have any

questions about S4C, or wish to send my images, please email

Bonnie Matthews at bonniejmatthews@hotmail.com

Ice Cream Sundaes,

Good people

and

Great Photographs…

Doesn’t get any better

than that !!!

Join us on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at

6PM at the Senior Center for an fun evening

sharing your favorite images and enjoying an

ice cream sundae. It’s free to our LPA

members and their guests.

Here’s how it works:

Upload 10 of your favorite images in JPEG format (PG13

please) through the LPA website. The deadline for the

upload to the website is August 22, 2014.

On August 26, 2014, enjoy an ice cream sundae with your

fellow members and watch the slide show of our members

photos.

Members can comment on their images, talking about

where they were taken or how they were shot. If you don’t

want to comment, that’s OK. We’ll just show the images

for everyone to enjoy.

We all look forward to seeing and hearing about your

images. Don’t be bashful; even if you’re a novice, we’d

love to see what you created. It’s not intended to be a

critique event…just a fun evening amongst us

photographers.

Thank you to all the wonderful, hardworking dedicated

volunteers who help in Photography!

Important Dates:

August 5th – Volunteer/Clerk Training at home of Douglas

Wade at 6PM

August 6th – Take In Day for Prints 9AM - 8PM (8:30AM

for volunteers)

August 7th – Print Hanging Day 9AM – 5PM

August 15th – AV Fair Opens at 4PM

August 24th – AV Fair Closes at 11PM

August 25th – Print Pick Up Day 1PM – 7PM (The fair is

not responsible for unclaimed photographs beyond the pick-up

deadline. If you cannot make it in, send a friend to pick up and

give them your claim tags, so they know where to find your

photos.) Walk-in help is always welcome on Take in Day

(Wednesday, August 6th) and Print Hanging (Thursday, August

7th). For Judging Days, August 9th - 10th, only those who

attended volunteer/clerk training or have been pre-approved to

be there are allowed in the building.

For liability reasons, the AVF Fair asks that all volunteers

attend Volunteer Training. To be a clerk, or a backup, you must

have attended Volunteer/Clerk Training in 2012, 2013, or 2014.

We have filled our volunteer clerk roster for 2014. New

volunteers are encouraged to attend the Volunteer/Clerk training

at the home of Douglas Wade on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at

6PM. Clerks MUST attend, as it will be specifically

photography related. It’s easy and it’s fun!

ALL volunteers need to fill out an AVF Volunteer

Application once. Either mail in, or return to AVF Chairperson,

Douglas Wade or Sue Craft. Thank you for volunteering!

AVF Volunteers who put in over 20 hours of volunteer time

in 2013 will be getting a “Credential Pass” for 2014. All other

volunteers will earn free entry/parking passes, based upon

volunteer hours. For every 4 hours of volunteer time, you can

earn 2 entry passes, and 1 parking pass, to Lot F (near gate 3)

which is nice and close. When volunteering for the Fair, don’t

forget to sign in every time you volunteer. If you volunteer this

year, you’ll be invited to next year’s Kick-Off Dinner!

AV Fair Photography Exhibit News (Continued from page 1)

General Meeting Program - Photo Critique

August 19, 2014 at 6PM By: Rock Myers

Our LPA masters will be critiquing your photos on August

19, 2014. You can submit 5 photos for an anonymous critique

on our website link. The deadline for submitting your photos is

August 15, 2014 at 11:59PM.

Three of our master level LPA photographers will be

critiquing our images with the goal of helping us improve our

photography. They will consider composition, exposure,

sharpness, visual impact, etc. The critiques will be anonymous

so only you will know when your image is being discussed.

This program is a way to measure the level of interest of

our members for photo critiques. If participation is good, we’ll

continue the program.

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July 2014 LPA “Scapes” Competition Results Judege: Noella Ballenger

Digital Results:

Novice:

First - Thomas Van Langenhoven - Mountain Train

Second - Leslie Sutton - Two Trees At Grand Canyon

Third - Thomas Van Langenhoven - Yellowstone Formations

HM - Dale Taft - Are The Fish Biting

HM - Matt Mahowald - Piute_morning

HM - Dale Taft - Heckman Lake

Amateur:

First - Denis Lust - Wave Good By

Second - Denis Lust - Pacific Waters

Advanced:

First - Rock Myers - Yosemite Falls

Second - Maryann Ryan - Park In The Snow

Third - Douglas Wade - Sunset on the Way Home_4581

HM - Bruce Cable - Elizabeth Lake

HM - Douglas Wade - El Matador Beach

HM - Douglas Wade - Milky Way

HM - Scott A. Shackelford - April in Prague

HM - Scott A. Shackelford -

Late Afternoon Glow-Garden of the Gods

HM - Bill Sutton - Valley View_201

Master:

First - Pam Vick - Sunrise On The Ponds_4609

Second - Sue Liberto - Virginia Fall Colors_4560

Third - Kurtiss Humphrey - Edwards Desert_4578

HM - Holly Peskin - Horseshoe Bend _4607

HM - Sue Craft - Resurrection Bay, Alaska

HM - Pam Vick - City Moonrise_4608

HM - Anita Kratofil - Mt. Rushmore 1_4595

HM - Sue Liberto - Piute Sunrise_4563

HM - Pat Ware - Wheat On The Palouse WA 4571

HM - Holly Peskin - Carlsbad Sunset_4602

Print Results:

Intermediate:

A - Diane Cable - Salton Sea Sunset

A - Diane Cable - Pelican Wave

A - Darren Cole - Desert Lake

HM - Matt Mahowald - one_tree

Master:

A - Dwight Franke - Scottys Castle Woods

HM - Dwight Franke - Ubehebe Crater -- Aftermath

HM - Bonnie J. Matthews - Valley Of Fire_7558

HM - Bonnie J. Matthews - San Francisco at Night_3174

A=Excellence Award

Competition Co-Chair, Bonnie J. Matthews and Noella Ballenger

Photo by Lee Garner

First - Novice Digital: Mountain Train by Thomas Van Langenhoven

Second - Novice Digital: Two Trees at Grand Canyon by Leslie Sutton

Photos continued on Page 4

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Third - Novice Digital: Yellowstone Formations

by Thomas Van Langenhoven

HM - Novice Digital: Are the fish biting by Dale Taft

HM - Novice Digital: Piute_morning by Matt Mahowald

July Competition Results (cont’d)

HM - Novice Digital: Heckman Lake by Dale Taft

First - Amateur Digital: Wave Good by by Denis Lust

Second - Amateur Digital:

Pacific Waters

by Denis Lust

Photos continued on Page 5

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July Competition Results (cont’d)

First - Advanced Digital: Yosemite Falls by Rock Myers

Second - Advanced Digital: Park in the Snow by Maryann Ryan

Third - Advanced Digital: Sunset on the way home

by Douglas P. Wade

HM –Advanced Digital: Elizabeth Lake by Bruce Cable

HM - Advanced Digital: El Matador Beach

by Douglas P. Wade

HM - Advanced Digital: Milky Way by Douglas P. Wade

Photos continued on Page 6

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HM - Advanced Digital:

April in Prague

by Scott A. Shackelford

HM - Advanced Digital: Late Afternoon Glow—Garden of the Gods

by Scott A. Shackelford

HM - Advanced Digital: Valley View 201 by Bill Sutton

July Competition Results (cont’d)

HM - Advanced Digital: Valley View 201 by Bill Sutton

First - Master Digital: Sunrise on the Ponds 4609 by Pam Vick

Second - Master Digital: Virginia Fall Colors

by Sue Liberto

Third - Master Digital: Edwards Desert 4578

by Kurtiss Humphrey

HM - Master Digital: Horseshoe Bend 4607 by Holly Peskin

Photos continued on Page 7

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July Competition Results (cont’d)

HM - Master Digital: Resurrection Bay, Alaska by Sue Craft

HM - Master Digital: City Moonrise 4608 by Pam Vick

HM - Master Digital: Mt. Rushmore I 4595 by Anita Kratofil

HM - Master Digital: Piute Sunrise by Sue Liberto

HM - Master Digital: Wheat on the Palouse WA 4571

by Pat Ware

HM - Master Digital: Carlsbad Sunset 4602 by Holly Peskin

Photos continued on Page 8

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July Competition Results (cont’d)

Award - Intermediate Print: Pelican Wave by Diane Cable

Award - Intermediate Print: Desert Lake by Darren Cole

HM - Intermediate Print: one_tree by Matt Mahowald

Award - Intermediate Print: Salton Sea Sunset by Diane Cable

Award - Master Print: Scotty’s Castle Woods by Dwight Franke

HM - Master Print: Ubehebe Crater - Aftermath by Dwight Franke

HM - Master Print: Valley of Fire 7558 by Bonnie J. Matthews

HM - Master Print: San Francisco at Night by Bonnie J. Matthews

August 2014 www.lpaphotography.org Page 9

PSA REPORT

August 2014 By: Nan Carder, EPSA, DFS4C

PSA Representative

PSA Annual Conference,

Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Photographic

Society of America’s Annual Conference for 2014 will be in

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Some of the Lancaster Photography

Association members that should be attending are the following:

Tina Crowe, Anita Kratofil, Fran Marroquin, Bill Sutton, Leslie

Sutton, Chris Wilkins, David Wilkins, and Nan Carder.

PSA Newsletter Contest: Entries are closed and results are

pending

PSA Projected Image Division Interclub (First Round): Competitions begin November 1st

PSA Nature Interclub (First Round): Competitions begin

October 15th

PSA Photojournalism Division Interclub (Fourth Round): The results have been announced for the PSA Photojournalism

(PJ) Interclub for the 2013-2014 competition season.

LPA won the PJ Interclub fourth round with the highest

score of 72.

After the third round, LPA was tied for third place. Their

results were high enough to earn first place in the Group A year-

end results with 255 points.

First Place in PJ Human Interest:

“Flower Girl” by Sue Liberto

Second Place in PJ Open:

“Bad Bulls 3824” by Nan Carder, EPSA

Honorable Mention in PJ Human Interest:

“Fire Control” by Maryann Ryan

Honorable Mention in PJ Open:

“Summer Fun” by Rock Myers

Other members competing in this round were Tina Crowe

and David Wilkins.

LPA Members competing in this year’s four competitions

were the following: Tina Crowe, Arliss Dawson, Eugene Duley,

Helen Henry, Sharna Lee, Bill Liberto, Sue Liberto, Rock

Myers, Maryann Ryan, Scott Shackelford, Pam Vick, Wayne

Staley, Dale Ware, Chris Wilkins, David Wilkins, and Nan

Carder, EPSA.

The first Photojournalism Division Interclub competition

begins November 15, 2014

PSA Photo Travel Division Interclub: Competitions begin

November 15, 2014.

PSA Projected Image Division (PID) Creative Interclub

(Third Round): Results are pending. No dates have been

announced.

S4C International Exhibition: Nan Carder, Arliss Dawson,

Diana Edgel, Helen Henry, Rock Myers, Scott Shackelford, Bill

Sutton, Dale Ware, Pat Ware, David Wilkins, Chris Wilkins

Club Service Award: Thank you Sue Craft for working hard

to submit the proposal for the Lancaster Photography

Association for the PSA Club Service Award. LPA earned the

award in 2011 and can apply every three years. Endorsing LPA

are Holly Peskin and David Wilkins. Many LPA members

donate their time for many services in our community. PSA

recognizes and rewards clubs who help their communities.

If anyone would like information about the Photographic

Society of America, please contact Nan Carder, EPSA at

nancarder310@msn.com.

Member

First Place - PJ Human Interest

Flower Girl by Sue Liberto

Second Place -

PJ Open

Bad Bulls 3824

by Nan Carder, EPSA

Honorable Mention - PJ Human Interest:

Fire Control by Maryann Ryan

Honorable Mention - PJ Open:

Summer Fun by Rock Myers

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August Monthly Assignment

Fair Use your imagination...

Upload your interpretation to the gallery and be sure to check out last month’s uploads.

Click on the link to see the Monthly Assignment Albums

Breakfast Discussion Group Third Sunday of each month.

7:30AM at Carrows Restaurant 1650 W. Avenue K, Lancaster

August’s Date is: Sunday, August 17, 2014

Friday Night Discussion Group

2nd & 4th Fridays

August 8th & 22nd @ 6:30PM at Carrow’s

corner of 17th Street West and Avenue K

Article submissions for the September 2014 issue are due to the newsletter editor by

Friday, August 22, 2014 E-mail your submission to

newsletter@lpaphotography.org

HOW DID YOU DO THAT? By: Bonnie J. Matthews, Competition Co-Chair

“Yosemite Falls” by Rock Myers:

The image was taken in mid-morning in early May 2014. The

weather was not good but that can help with photography as you

know. Here's what I used, my settings and my process:

Canon 70D; Lens - 24-105mm f/4L; Lens set at 24 mm; ISO

100; Shutter speed - 4 sec.- 2 sec delay on shutter; Image

stabilization turned off; Aperture f/14; Neutral density filter-

10 stop; Tripod used and Processed in Adobe Camera Raw and

Photoshop.

“Sunrise On The Ponds” by Pam Vick:

"Sunrise On The Ponds" was taken September 19, 2013 6:42AM

at Piute Ponds, Rosamond, California.

Here's what I used, my settings and my process:

Shot on a Canon 7D; Lens EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS UM;

Exposure 1/400 sec at f /14; Focal Length 100mm; ISO 200;

Processed in Lightroom 4.4; and made minor adjustments to

Blacks, Contrast, Highlights and Clarity only.

(Continued on page 12)

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Member Photos WHAT PSA HAS TO OFFER PSA Study Groups for PSA Individual Members

The Photographic Society of America (PSA) offers

educational courses, mentors, and consultants to all PSA

members. One of the fun activities that PSA encourages is the

PSA Study Groups. There are study groups in each of the

divisions.

This is a list of all of the division: Projected Image

Division, Nature Division, Photojournalism Division, Travel

Division, 3D Division, and the Print Division.

To see what study groups look like, please take a look at

the Digital Dialogue Study Group. In this group alone, there

are 66 study groups offered on multiple topics. New groups are

started when the groups are filled. There are seven PSA

members in each group. The groups are listed below. The

images are open to the public, and anyone can view what the

makers have done to their images. Take a look. http://

psadigital.org/all-groups/

General

Assigned Subject

Compositing/Advanced Photoshop

Creative

HDR

iPhoneography

Macro

Monochrome

Nature Plus

Painting Time-Lapsed Video

Sports

Digital Study Group Program with Les Milligan as the

director has 51 Groups. This group is password protected. Only

those in the group can view the images. David Wilkins has

been a commentator for one of the groups for the past few years.

http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?divisions-study-groups

General

Animals

Creative

Fine Art

Flowers

Monochrome

Panorama

Portraits

There are two General Nature Study Groups. The groups

are password protected. http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?

divisions-nature-study-groups

There are eight Photojournalism Study Groups. Seven

groups are general and one is human interest. The groups are

password protected. http://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?

divisions-photojournalism-study-groups

There are ten study groups in the Travel Division Study

Groups, and the groups are password protected. http://www.psa

-photo.org/index.php?divisions-photo-travel-study-groups

There are multiple study groups in the Print Division.

There also is a personal Print Analysis program. http://www.psa

-photo.org/index.php?divisions-pictorial-print

PSA Members… join a PSA Study Group.

AV Fair Midway Fun

Taken August 2012 at the AV Fairgrounds

by Scott A. Shackelford

I viewed this scene repeatedly while driving the agriculture

shuttle that started at the parking lot behind the Turf Club. Each

time I turned around at the far turn next to the midway, this was

my view. So at the end of my shuttle-driving time slot, I got my

camera and returned to photograph it.

Steps of Eternal Grace

Taken May 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel

by Scott A. Shackelford

A favorite documentary shot, these steps are one of very few

places left where Christ certainly must have actually walked.

After his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was taken to

the house of the Chief Priest, Caiaphas, partially visible at the

top left. These steps, more than 2000 years old, and were, then,

the only direct path to this destination from Gethsemane. In

2000, these steps were fully accessible, but now are fenced for

preservation purposes.

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“Scotty’s Castle” by Dwight Franke:

I took the picture at Scotty's Castle which is just north of Death

Valley. I liked the changing leaf colors against the stark hills in

the background and the relatively barren ground. The photo was

taken with a Nikon D800 and a 24-70MM lens at f11 so I could

have reasonable depth-of-field. It is a full frame shot except I

cropped down to eliminate some of the cloudless sky. I

processed it in NIK HDR Efex Pro 2 software as a single photo

to bring out the colors, separate the leaves from the background,

darken the sky and added a slightly dark vignette at the corners.

How Did You Do That? (Continued from page 10)

“Edwards Lake” by Darren Cole:

I took this picture at Edwards Lake, Edwards AFB, about 3

miles north of the South Gate Entrance on April 2014, around

6PM.

This was an interesting circumstance for me, my first try at

high dynamic range! I saw this amazing sunset after a rain storm

over the desert. I drove on looking for some standing water to

reflect it. When I found it, I stopped the car and looked at my

camera and back at the scene. I wanted detail in the sky, the

water and the sand formation.

I mounted my Pentax K-30 with 18-135mm kit lens to my

travel tripod. I focused around the midpoint of the peninsula

using the back focus button (to ensure the focus would not

change when I hit the shutter release). I used a small f-stop

(probably f16) to help make the water soft and dreamy and

make sure everything was in focus. In manual exposure mode I

set a correct exposure on the sky (at about 60-90 degrees away

from the sun) and then bracketed from -4 to +4 EV in 1 stop

increments around that.

TIP 1: Be aware of your camera’s built in bracket mode.

Mine will bracket aperture instead of shutter speed even in

manual. I always bracket manually.

TIP 2: Use a wireless cable release or your camera’s built

in timer to trigger the shutter to minimize movement.

TIP 3: Turn off image stabilization when using a tripod. If

the processor can’t sense movement, it tends to add it, causing

the slightest blur.

Post Process: So now I had 9 images, none of which were

much use on their own. I imported everything to Lightroom. I

found the best image with sky detail; then corrected white

balance, adjusted temp and tint, pulled down the highlights,

opened up the shadows, performed lens correction, did some

noise reduction, and added some sharpness. Then I selected all

9 images and synced the exact adjustments I made to the first

one to the other 8. This way, all the images had the same color

balance and corrections so all the pixels of all the images were

in the same place.

From Lightroom I selected the best 2 images with sand and

water detail and exported them to Photoshop using the HDR

option to combine them as a single 32 bit image. Then I went

back to Lightroom and selected my perfect sky image and

opened that as another layer in the same project. I used inverted

(black) mask on one layer so that the perfect sky was visible

(which excluded the underexposed ground) and the ground was

visible (which excluded the blown out sky). The ground still

did not have enough detail. However, because it was a 32bit

image, I could dodge and burn (set brush to overlay, use a very

small flow and opacity ~ 10%) the details that were hiding in

the pixel data.

TIP 4: For each change you make, create a new layer in

case you want to remove or change certain elements.

Now that I painted in the details that I wanted, it was time

to do some cleanup! The sky had small irritating bits of clouds

which were also reflected in the water. The water had several

reeds in it taking away from the smooth finish I wanted. I also

had several black dots due to the small f-stop. Using the clone

stamp tool and healing brush in Photoshop I was able to remove

it all. I did some additional dodge and burning on the clouds to

create a little more dramatic contrast, and to the peninsula to

create some interesting light.

The vignette was accomplished by creating a new layer

with all my adjustments and putting it into multiply. I used the

selection tool to create a rectangle around the majority of the

image leaving a border outside the selection. I modified the

rectangle into a circle and added lots of feathering and hit delete

which removed the “multiplied” shading from within the

selected area leaving a darker vignette in the boarder.

I performed additional noise reduction. Then I created a

new layer with all my adjustments and another inverted mask

and sharpened that layer (using unsharp mask – this term still

doesn’t make sense to me). I removed the mask (painting with

a white brush at around 10% flow) at the nearest area of the

peninsula to increase the sharpness at that area only.

Finally, I moved it back to Lightroom and was pretty happy

with it…then I added just a little more contrast.

So, when did I decide on Black and white? I developed

this 4 different ways (3 were color) during 4 different

Photoshop sessions (each time learning a little more about

Photoshop). Each one mimicked the mood I happened to be in

that day. The first one was heavy on magenta, the second one

more natural looking, the third one heavy on reds. Finally, I

tried B+W. The B+W portrayed the drama and texture I was

after at the cost of the beautiful colors I saw. Oh well, as the

Rolling Stones say, “You can’t always get what you want!”

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August 2014 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

3 4 5 6PM AVF Clerk Training at Doug Wade’s home

6 9AM - 8PM AVF Print Take-In Day

7 9AM - 5PM AVF Print Hanging

8 6:30PM Friday Night Discussion Group - Carrow’s Restaurant

9

10 FULL MOON 11 12 6PM Board Meeting

13 14 15 AV Fair Opens

16

17 7:30AM Breakfast Discussion Group - Carrow’s Restaurant

18 19 6PM General Meeting; Photo Critiques

20 21 22 6:30PM Friday Night Discussion Group - Carrow’s Restaurant; Newsletter

Deadline

23

24 AV Fair Closes

25 AVF Print Pick-Up Day

26 6PM AVF Workshop - Member Photo Sharing

27 28 29 30

31

Membership dues were due on July 1, 2014. Make payment

online or see the treasurer at the General Meeting on August 19,

2014 or Workshop on August 26, 2014.

Upcoming Events:

September 1 - Labor Day

September 8 - FULL MOON

September 9 - Board Meeting

September 12 - Friday Night Discussion Group

September 16 - General Meeting

September 19-21 - Owens Valley/Alabama Hills Field Trip

September 21 - Breakfast Discussion Group

September 23 - Newsletter Deadline

September 23 - Workshop - Time Lapse Photography

September 26 - Friday Night Discussion Group

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Member

Lancaster Photography Association

PO Box 498

Lancaster, CA 93584-0498

www.lpaphotography.org

Board of Directors: President: Douglas Wade president@lpaphotography.org

Vice President: Rock Myers vp@lpaphotography.org

Secretary: Sue Craft secretary@lpaphotography.org

Treasurer: Bill Liberto treasurer@lpaphotography.org

Immediate Past President: David Wilkins Voting Member: Tina Crowe tina.Crowe@lpaphotography.org Voting Member: Diane Cable diane.cable@lpaphotography.org Committee Chairpersons: AV Fair Chairpersons: Doug Wade / Sue Craft Competition Co-Chairpersons: Bonnie Matthews Kurtiss Humphrey competition@lpaphotography.org Equipment: Paul Craft / Alex Venz Exhibits: vacant Field Trips: Christine Wilkins Night Discussion Group: Terri Garner Gallery Shows: vacant Historian: Sue Craft Hospitality Chair: Carol Moss Librarian: vacant Membership: Bill Liberto Newsletter Editor: Doug Wade newsletter@lpaphotography.org Assoc. Editor vacant Poppy Festival: vacant Publicity: Terri Garner Refreshments Chair Pam Vick Webmaster: Lee Garner Workshops: Rock Myers workshops@lpaphotography.org PSA Representative: Nan Carder PSA Inter Club Competitions: Nan Carder S4C Delegate: Bonnie Matthews S4C Club Competitions: Bonnie Matthews

Meeting Information

All meetings are held at the AV Senior Center, 777 W. Jackman, Lancaster, CA

Beginning at 6 PM unless otherwise noted.

2nd Tuesday Board Meeting (RM 101) All LPA Members are invited to attend.

3rd Tuesday General Meeting & Program Open to the general public

4th Tuesday Workshop—Open to LPA Members

August Calendar of Events:

8/1/14 to 8/31/14 - Monthly Assignment: “Fair”

8/5/2014 - AV Fair Clerk Training - D. Wade’s Home

8/6/2014 - AV Fair Print Take-In Day

8/7/2014 - AV Fair Print Hanging Day

8/8/2014 - 6:30PM Friday Night Discussion Group

8/10/2014 - Full Moon

8/12/2014 - 6PM Board Meeting

8/15/2014 - AV Fair Opening Day

8/17/2014 - 7:30AM Breakfast Discussion Group

8/19/2014 - 6PM General Meeting - Photo Critiques

8/22/2014 - 6:30PM Friday Night Discussion Group

8/24/2014 - AV Fair Closing Day

8/25/2014 - AV Fair Print Pick-Up Day

8/26/2014 - 6PM Workshop - Member Photo Sharing

Lancaster Photography Association

Newsletter Advertising Rates and Policy

The Desert Exposure is the newsletter of The Lancaster

Photography Association (LPA) and is published once a month

as a downloadable PDF.

Advertising Rates: Per Month for up to 12 months:

Acceptance: The newsletter editor reserves the right to

decide whether or not any advertisement is to be accepted or

continued. Placement of advertising is at the discretion of the

editor.

Liability: The LPA liability for any errors or omissions

shall not exceed the cost of the space occupied by the ad.

Advertiser agrees to hold the LPA harmless for losses, claims,

liabilities or damages of any kind arising from any advertising

submitted to the newsletter.

Length of contract: Contracts may be accepted for up to 12

months.

All advertising must be submitted in a form ready to be

inserted into the newsletter. This includes word documents,

JPEGs, and TIFFs.

Closing Date is the 20th of the month preceding the next

issue. All submissions should be sent to

newsletter@lpaphotography.org.

1 X 3 X 6 X 12 X

1 page $20 $19 $18 $17

½ Page $15 $14 $13 $12

¼ Page $10 $9 $8 $7

Per Inch $5 $4.50 $4 $3.50