Tonight’s meeting will be held at Photo World, at 3115 N Roemer Rd in Appleton. Call 731-5463 for directions. Bring your own beverages (no matter what type) and pictures to pass!

Here are some photos of our library show at the Appleton Public Library.  The show is on until December 30. 2011.

Sold at auction for 4.3 million, this image by photographer Andreas Gursky is now the world’s most expensive photograph.

Underwhelmed? Many are. It is 12 feet wide (and face mounted to plexiglass), so it is quite possible that a small image online cannot do it justice.

Personally, I like the picture. I have been digging the “supremely clean and simple” photographs lately, and this image fits in that category. Yes, the horizon is sliced thru the middle, but it balances well (for a reason I cannot supply words for, perhaps this is why it is so valued?). Even though I like the image, I can’t say its something I would seek out after winning the lottery.

What are your thoughts?

Jim

Visit the Appleton Public Library from now until December 30, 2011 to see a diverse collections of photos from the talented members of the Fox Valley Camera Club.  They are on display in the main foyer of the library directly across from the entrance.

Studio Lighting Workshop

Does studio lighting mystify you? Have you ever wondered about what all those dodads are used for in a studio? Wondered if you can start working on a creating studio without having to second mortgage your house? Jackie Boyd, Jim Jagodzinski and Joel Stensberg are hosting their popular Introduction to Studio Lighting workshop at 9:00 on  October 29th at Photoworld in Appleton that will give you the answers to the above questions and give you a basic understanding of studio lighting.

They will cover the following topics:
• Basic theory of studio lighting
• The importance of your light meter and what it is telling you
• How to create a basic lighting setup and add to it as your skills and technique grows
• Basic posing and camera position
• Use of strobes, florescents, reflectors, screens, softboxes, grids, octodomes and other basic lighting equipment
• Basic setups of lights and how to get consistent results with them

Three setups will be covered:
• Florescent Triangle
• Basic one, two, three and more light sets
• White background/high key

We will be using a professional models to assist in our presentation and there will be time for students to try some of the setups and practice the material shown, however we must emphasize this is NOT a model shoot and time shooting will be limited so everybody gets a chance to practice.

The program starts at 9:00 and is done at approximately 3:00 pm, coffee, snacks and lunch is included.

Price – $45 ($35 for paid club members)  if registration is received on or before October 22nd, 2011, $55 ($45 for paid club members)  if received thereafter.

Your staff:

Jackie Boyd is an award-winning portrait photographer and the owner of Jackie Boyd Photography, Little Chute, WI. She brings a wealth of lighting experience, especially in the realms of adjusting for different face and body types, and the intricacies of lighting them. Jackie brings her experience in consistent lighting/color balancing for digital media.

Jim Jagodzinski is a MATC graduate in Photography and has spent a lot of his career in institution, team and school photography. His experience in shooting large numbers of people in a short time help you create lighting setups that work consistently. He is also an award-winning photographer in a number of categories.

Joel Stensberg is a UW-Eau Claire graduate in Photojournalism and an award winning model/commercial photographer. His experience in shooting models, working with agencies and commercial publications will help you with the right lighting setup for your purpose and how to photography models looking to get into agencies and modeling in general.

Photo sharing site aims to build a ‘timeline for the world’

From Springwise (www.springwise.com)

6 May 2011 Published on 6 May 2011 in Lifestyle & Leisure

Photo sharing sites serve many functions, from hunting for a specific image for an exact purpose, to casually browsing images of a favorite subject or landscape. Despite options to arrange photos by the “date taken” on many of these sites, we’ve never seen a sharing platform so dedicated to offering a sense of history as Vineme.

Photos uploaded to Vineme can be tagged with content descriptions, locations, people’s names, and, importantly, a time specifying when the photo was taken. It is necessary to sign up in order to upload photos to the site, but this is free, and uploaded photos can then be viewed by members and non-members alike. With an ever increasing number of images already uploaded to the site, visitors can search the site by dates or keywords. For example, a search with the keyword “beach”, brings up photos of military operations in the 1940s, with the option to then scroll into the “future” and view more recent photos — of Newport Beach in 2003, for example. Alternatively it is possible to search for photos taken on a specific day, in a specific location.

Vieneme, in the site’s own words “aspires to be the timeline for the world […] Through this experience we hope Vineme users can discover new connections between tags, time, places and people all over the world.” It’s certainly an engaging way to make history both local, relevant, and contextualized. (Related: User-generated site adds historical layer to Google Maps.)

Website: www.vineme.com
Contact: www.vineme.com/?Page=ContactUs

Spotted by: Tom Flynn