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Annual Exhibit April 18-25

Our annual exhibit will again be held at the Wells Fargo Advisors office 6 Skidaway Village Walk 1st Floor Suite D on April 18-25. Members can drop off their pictures April 17 3-4:30pm at the venue. There will be an opening reception on April 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Review your emails for a little more detail on submitting your photo.

A great thank you to our past president Amy for arranging all of this again for our photo club!

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February Meeting

Happy Lunar New Year to all! Our next meeting is coming up! Tuesday, February 20th at the Skidaway Methodist church at 345pm.

Assignments were not given but I am more than willing to post any pictures you want to submit.

A talk by Tim Pitts is scheduled about his vast experience in photography and his travels all over the world. 

See you then.

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Bird Photos for our next assignment

After that very informative talk by Diana Churchill, our next assignment will be bird photography. She gave several points like light and background that may bring out some features of the subject. Using 3-5 photo burst might help with fast moving model.

Our island provides multiple areas where one can take bird photographs but don’t hesitate to submit those taken somewhere else.

Deadline will be a week prior to our January meeting, January 9, 2024.

Don” forget our holiday get together on the 11th December at Marilyn Brady’s residence.

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Comments on Portraits

Below are comments by Heinz on the submitted assignments for last week.

#1 Guatemala Lady: Lighting is excellent.  Use a free photo manipulation program to lighten the eyes just a bit, otherwise perfect.

#2 Halloween #1: Tighter cropping, otherwise very good. An interesting portrait.

#3 Jackie: Lighting is very good. The photo has been over sharpened either in the camera or in post production.

#4 Dog: An excellent pet photo, very sharp and well lit. Crop the picture to remove some of the distracting background and lighten the eyes just a bit. 

#5 Walter: A very nice picture. The lighting is good but too dark overall. Try to lighten the cheeks and nose, if possible.

#6 Painting: The painting seems to be out of focus, with flat contrast

#7 Portrait: Heinz would like to see this picture larger. Overall, the lighting is good, with a great expression but he feels the right side is too dark and the hair is too bright. He would also like to crop up from the bottom just a bit.

#8 Child: An excellent portrait with great lighting but the top background is a bit distracting. A little cropping at the top would fix that nicely.

#9 Gentleman: Perfect lighting, but needs a little cropping, especially at the top.

#10 Heinz says this is a very good picture! He thinks the lighting is perfect but the background is a bit distracting. This could be fixed by cropping down a bit from the top. The biggest issue is that the hands are cut off at the bottom.

#11 Halloween #2: The lighting is perfect but the image could be lighter overall.

#12 The lighting is excellent but could be a touch lighter overall. The background is very distracting.

#13 Dog: This is a very good picture. The left eye could be lighter but the sharpness is excellent. The background is distracting and could benefit from cropping.

Most improvements can be done by photo software like lightroom, photoshop or just photos in your iphone or macs. Just use the edit button.

Heinz is willing to discuss your shots more if anyone is intersted.

heinzLechner@hotmail.com

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Bird Photgraphy by Diana Churchill for our November Meeting

Diana has served several terms as President of Ogeechee Audubon Society, and acted as a naturalist guide for Wilderness Southeast, Georgia Ornithological Society and Ogeechee Audubon. She is sought after as a speaker by area bird clubs, garden clubs and other organizations and is our guest speaker at the November meeting of the Landlovers Photo Club. 

You can visit her website at https://dianachurchillbirds.com to learn about her and sample some of her photography.

We will also meet at the Thorne room of the church. Please enter through the back of building instead of the usual Bailey Hall entrance.

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Members had a Taste of Being Celebrities

Heinz Lechner demonstrated first hand on how to take head portrait photos using some equipment loaned by Carl during our first meeting. Lighting is key in avoiding harsh shadows. Reflectors of any kind can be used according to Heinz like white boards, nearby plants, walls, and even plates. Medium f stops were recommended to keep the focus on the subject. Posture was also important and Heinz recommends not shooting from below nose level. If it does not turn out right, it is always the photographer’s fault.

As a bonus, everyone in attendance had his/her portrait taken by Heinz. Carl will process and tweak these shots and hand them out to our models. We might not make it to the cover of the AARP magazine but we can show it to others saying the same guy took pictures of famous celebrities.

Next meeting’s assignment is doing head portrait photos of your favorite subject. You can use whatever setting you wish, indoors, outdoors, or studio (if you have one) color or black and white. As I mentioned previously , iphone users can use the portrait mode and adjust the lighting and depth of field for the desired effect. Submit the pictures by email to the landloverphotoclub@gmail.com with settings or whatever effect used for the portrait. Due date is 15 November , a week before our next meeting. We might not have enough time to critique each and every shot, but maybe Heinz can put a comment on them once I put them on the web site.

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Talk on Portrait Photography by Heinz Lechner

Heinz Lechner will return to talk about primarily lighting in portrait photography on October 17.

Born in Schwaz, Austria, Heinz Lechner began his career as a professional photographer in 1975. In 1981 he began creating a series of photographs on the theme of reality and illusion through reflections in windows. His work has been in numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries in Vienna, Stuttgart, San Francisco and New York, and has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and on album covers for Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado.

Lechner’s “Men at Work” series included portraits of Federico Fellini, Muammar el Gaddafi, Bruno Kreisky and John Paul II among others.

His “Portrait Überarbeitungen” series included portraits of Richard Serra, Miles Davis, John Mayall, Simon Wiesenthal, Federico Fellini, Michael Jackson, Bob Geldof, Queen Elizabeth, the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, Allen Ginsberg and many others.