Welcome to Charlottesville Camera Club

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 images, bring up to three TIFFs or JPEGs ( sized to 1080 pixels on the longest side) to the meeting on a thumb drive.

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 images, bring up to three TIFFs or JPEGs ( sized to 1080 pixels on the longest side) to the meeting on a thumb drive.

The Exhibition Committee will meet at Northside Library on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm. Any Charlottesville Camera Club member interested in exhibiting or joining the Exhibition Committee is welcome to attend.

Beginning photographers, as well as many with more experience, struggle to fully understand and take advantage of their camera's exposure settings. Instead, they may simply set their cameras to "Auto" or "Program" and hope for the best.

Today's cameras are technological marvels compared with those of the past, so they're able to produce perfectly acceptable photos under many different circumstances. But all too often they can produce disappointing results: photos where not enough of the subject is in focus, where the background is too soft or too sharp, where a moving subject is blurred, or where there's way too much "noise" visible. So to avoid the inevitable disappointments, you'll want to know how to make some basic camera settings that will almost always give you the photos you expect.

This workshop is the first of a "Back to Basics" series designed to get beginning photographers off to the right start and to help more experienced photographers learn some of the fundamentals that they may have forgotten. We'll begin the evening with a short presentation on some of the problems that constantly bedevil photographers who rely on their camera's software to make decisions for them. We'll also look at the three key components of the "exposure triangle" and how you can control them to your advantage. Then we'll pull out our cameras and put those principles to work.