NEWSLETTER OF THE GREATER BRIDGEPORT CAMERA CLUB

The Viewfinder 2016 - 2017 Season

Welcome to the Presidents’ Corner!!! Please visit Stratford Library to see GBCC’s Photography

exhibit. It shows the high quality of our images by our

photographers. The library is open Monday through Thursday from 10am to 8pm,

Friday and Saturday 10am to 5pm.

For those of you who are new to our club, we just wanted to explain about three

groups that we are involved with. They are PSA, NECCC and CAP. PSA is the

Photographic Society of America. Their website is: http://psa-photo.org/ it is a

worldwide organization for anyone interested in photography. NECCC is the New

England Camera Club Council. It represents all the camera clubs in New England

and holds quarterly competitions for all the clubs. They also sponsor an extensive 3

day conference in July. Their website is www.neccc.org. Finally, CAP is the

Connecticut Association of Photographers. This is a group that promotes seminars

and field trips for its members. Their website is www.capinct. The cost is $8 per

year. If you would like to join please speak to Antoinette. They are sponsoring a

field trip to Vermont on October 15th. All three groups are very helpful in

promoting and learning about photography. Feel free to check out their websites.

Art Vaughn is in charge of NECCC’s Print Competition and will be presenting a

program on the Best of NECCC at our next meeting on October 5th. Please join us

to be inspired by some great images!

Finally, if anyone is interested in joining our field trip committee we are meeting

this Friday at 6pm. Please contact us for more information.

Pat and Richard

September 2016

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Editor’s Page: Note in reading this newsletter: For the most part, “underlined” text is usually a

link to an email or a website, click it and discover a world of information.

This newsletter is good to the last line. Do not miss a single one.

Our regular pages are:

Presidents’ Comments

Editor’s Notes

Club Schedule

Officers

Mike’s corner

Photo and Software tips

Other pages:

NECC CONFERENCE PAGE 3 ….. Must read

Field Trips

Mini Education Topics Series

Interclub competition with Milford Club

Special competitions

Past Events/Misc. and Advertising (Last Page)

The winners of this past competition report, is sent as a separate report, also in PDF

format.

The images report is now produced from the Club Program.

Quote of the month:

“The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.” –

Ansel Adams

Simple note: This newsletter is purely digital and yesterday was the deadline for

complaints.

VIEWFINDER NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED If you have information, suggestions, seminars, field trips, comments,

articles or corrections to the VIEWFINDER Newsletter, please forward the

information to Nancy Gurtner by email to nancy@mike2000.com

It would be greatly appreciated.

Special Page for the NECC Conference:

72ND ANNUAL NECCC PHOTOGRAPHY CONFERENCE

JULY 14, 15, 16 2017

Conference is at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus.

Please note, that the enrollment covers only the registration fee.

The three day registration fee will be announced shortly.

There is an option to go to the conference for the first time for free.

Please check with us. Ask for application.

The recipient will be responsible for his or her own room, meals and

transportation.

To all attending, Make hotel reservations early.

For more details visit: The NECC CONFERENCE

This year is going to be the best one!!!!!!! Attend.

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See the last page for past events….. Oct, 5, Art Vaughn Best Of NECCC. Great presentation.

Oct, 19,Competition

Nov, 2,Chris Nicholson National Parks. It is going to be very informative.

Nov, 16,Competition / Assigned subject (to be announced)

Dec, 7,Holiday Program- dinner grab bag food bank donations and fun. 3 minute slide shows

by members.

Dec, 21, No meeting

Jan, 4,Hazel Meredith and Richard Kunsch; Presentation about Filters. A must!!!!

Jan, 18,Competition

Feb, 1,Hands On; Bring all your camera stuff. Lots of educational opportunities.

Feb, 15,Competition

March, 1,Peter Christroph BIRDS OF THE NEW ENGLAND SWAMP

March, 15,Competition and Assigned subject (to be announced).

March, 29,Mfd/GBCC Challenge.. We have to regain the trophy that we had for 3 years.

Apr, 5,Hosting the NECCC Digital Competition.

Apr, 19,Competition

May, 3,Tony Tylutki Air Show Photography and Night Photography by Richard Kunsch

May, 17,End of year Competition

June, 7,End of Year dinner

Mini Topics Series Page (See last page for prior series) To Be announced..

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GBCC Program Schedule for the 2016-2017 Season

Apr 20 TBA

Please check the following links as they are very good. Just click the underlined.

5 Tips for Developing an Eye for Details in Your Photography

The Best Ways to Convert Your Photos Black & White, [And 2 Ways to Avoid at

All Costs]

How to Shoot Vertical Panoramas (Vertoramas) Yes Vectorama, a new word.

7 Ideas to Inspire Your Creativity

Tips for Shooting the Milky Way April and September, best time.

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Articles &Tips:

I am hoping that everyone is using our new website, not just uploading images, but for tons of info and links. Messages, events plus a lot more are all there. Please visit it. GBCC Photography When submitting images, please make the titles names interesting but Short. Under 20 Characters is the best. The file name should also be short. The system hates long files names. Make sure of the extension to be .JPG not .JPEG The website has 2 pages dedicated to prepare images and how to submit. Please read it. Questions just send an email to: Datagroup@optonline.net

Our Meetup is here: http://www.meetup.com/GBCCgroup/

Over 100 members…

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Mike’s Corner Page:

The Challenge to Milford Competition:

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2016 – 2017 Officers and Committee Chairs

Co-President – Pat Benham: 917-428-4120

Co-President : Richard Kunch

Treasurer: Hazel Meredith, APSA HonNEC 203-375-1039

Secretary & Publicity:

Membership: Margi Montanara

PSA Representative: Hazel Meredith, APSA HonNEC 203-375-1039

NECCC Representative: Terri Smith

Software Maintenance : Mike Fernandez

Digital Image Chair:

Print Competition Chair: Richard Kunsch and Michael Donahue

Judges Chair: Antoinette Gombeda, APSA HonNEC 203-377-4914

Score Keeper Chair: Antoinette Gombeda, APSA HonNEC

Awards & Ribbons: Lucille Pollani

Print/Digital Chair (Outside Competitions): Terri Smith & Margi Montanaro 203-243-1931

Newsletter: Nancy Gurtner 203-659-4809

Field Trip and Workshop Planning: Rich Kunsch 203- 508-4241

Refreshment Chair:

Set Up Committee: Eph Tobin, Jon Aspinwall, Dave Meredith, Ron Ward

Webmaster: Mike Fernandez

Competition Organization: Margi Montanaro & Nancy Gurtner

Raffle: Albert Pollani (1 for $1, 3 for $2, 10 for $5)

Any suggestions please write to us.

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field trips’ page / On the Road…

None this period.

one more page……

Last Page, Miscellaneous, Prior activities and Advertising….

Hunts Photo equipment is a great supporter of our club, please visit them at: http://www.huntsphotoandvideo.com/ To improve your photography please visit: Hazel Meredith Images Website: Prior Activities: Sept, 7,Explanation of what GBCC is. Intro to club. list of officers. How to submit images for

competition. Explanation of nature photography. Review of members images. Need 2

images to be received by Sept 5th.

Sept, 21,Competition and Assigned subject Nature (digital only).

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