Welcome to Charlottesville Camera Club

Meet & Greet - 6:45-7:00

Rachel Wilson will be returning to judge our competition this month.  After graduation from Ohio University, Rachel worked for several years as a newspaper photojournalist.  Since 2006 she has taught photography to students at Charlottesville High School.  Working in her own studio, she focuses on capturing peoples’ personalities and documenting special events through wedding photography and portraiture.

Alan Sislen, a photographer based in the Washington D.C. area, will present a workshop on focus stacking. Alan specializes in landscapes and cityscapes but photographs a wide variety of subjects. He provides individual instruction, classes, workshops and presentations on a wide variety of topics, and regularly appears on the program of the Nature Visions Photo Expo. Alan's program will include the application of focus stacking to landscapes as well as macro photography.

Here’s your opportunity to get friendly feedback on your images from your peers. Want some suggestions on how you might improve an image before entering it in a competition? Having some difficulty getting the “look” you want with lighting, composition, or editing? Want to understand more about why a judge may have scored an image as he or she did? Then you’ll find this casual and supportive meeting helpful. And, if you choose to join in evaluating the work of others and contributing your thoughts, you will likely strengthen your own picture-taking skills. Members of all skill levels are welcome, and of course you’re welcome to just attend the meeting and observe.

If you’d like feedback on your photos, bring up to three TIFFs (sized to about 1500 pixels on the longest side) to the meeting on a thumb drive. (JPEGs are OK as well, but any editing we demonstrate on your photos will be more accurate in the TIFF format.)

Meet & Greet - 6:00-6:30