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President Howard Penn 410-544-1742 howwardpennphoto@ comcast.net
1st VP(s) Programs Chuck Gallegos 410-571-0562 gallegoscl@gmail.com
Betty Harris 410-729-0255 ef.harris@verizon.net
2nd VP Contests Chip Bulgin 410-518-6876 chip.bulgin@comcast.net
Secretary/Treasurer Sunny Frank 301-261-6181 sunnyfrank@covad.net
Delegates Dick Chomitz 410-721-5573
Webmaster David Joyner wdjoyner@gmail.com
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The Official Newsletter of the Anne Arundel Camera Club http://arundelcameraclub.org/ http://flickr.com/groups/arundelcamera/
Field Trip December 6th - Conowingo Dam
Programs Planned
December 3 Contest Digital and Mono, Abstract December 10 Contest Slide and Color Prints, Abstract December 17 Christmas Party December 24 No Meeting - Christmas break December 31 No Meeting - News Year’s Break
October Contests - People
November Contests
Novice Digital November 5, 2008
Wednesday December 17 2008 7:30 pm
Fellow club member, Mike Thomas and his wife Dawn, have kindly opened their doors and are sharing their home for the ACC Christmas Party. Bring something yummy to eat to share with your fellow clubbers. Sodas will be provided by the club, but if you want something stronger it's BYOB. Don't forget to bring a gift if you want to participate in the gift exchange game - watch out for the infamous make-up case gift. So please join us for some holiday merriment!
905 Wagner Farm Ct Millersville, MD 21108
410-299-0433 ROBINSON RD becomes BENFIELD RD BENFIELD RD becomes BENFIELD BLVD Turn RIGHT onto VETERANS HWY Turn LEFT onto BRIGHTVIEW DR Turn RIGHT onto GROVER RD Turn LEFT onto DANIELS PURCHASE WAY Turn RIGHT onto WAGNER FARM RD Turn LEFT onto WAGNER FARM CT. End at 905 Wagner Farm Ct Millersville, MD 21108
Donations Wanted
The Art Department of AACC is seeking ways to
increase the number of digital cameras we can provide students with to
complete art assignments.
Thank you for your support!
Try Something New With all the Christmas lights being put up now, I thought I would include a tutorial on how to create a bokeh. Bokeh is an adaptation from a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in the picture which are not in focus. When referring to Bokeh, we can distinguish some of it characteristics: - Is the light/dark gradient smooth or sharp? - What shape will a small dot of light take what it is in the Bokeh area? (mirror lenses for example, create a bagel like Bokeh) We can play with those two variants to create a special Bokeh.
You will need :
1. Cut and shape the sheet to make a fake lens hood. The Diameter is made so that it snugly fits on the lens.
2. In the middle of the filter the wanted bokeh shape is cut out - one example is a heart. I’m not sure how big a hole the shape can be. But you can check it right away by just looking through the viewfinder. On the 50mm lens @ F1.8 a 15mm heart gives a metering value equal to F3.2, so it can probably be a little bigger (you can use a puncher or cut it by hand).
3. Set your camera to its lowest aperture value (completely open).
Around Town
Fri 28 November 2008 - Tue 30 December 2008
ZooLights at the National Zoo in Washington, DC is a winter holiday event that is sure to be fun for the whole family. The National Zoo presents a display of thousands of sparkling lights featuring sculptures of many of the Zoo's most popular animals, including giant pandas, Asian elephants, gibbons, a sea lion, an octopus, and a Komodo dragon. Visitors at ZooLights will enjoy winter-themed crafts, ice sculpting demonstrations, choral groups, and storytellers.
Tickets on sale as of November 3, 2008. Dates and Times Wednesdays-Sundays November 28-December 30, 2008 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Closest Metro Station to the National Zoo Woodley Park/ Zoo /Adams
Morgan stop and the Cleveland Park stop.
Sun 30 November 2008 - Tue 30 December 2008
The Washington, DC Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Temple, is open to all during the Christmas season. This impressive church and its surrounding grounds shine brightly with more than 450,000 sparkling Christmas lights. Each night, a different local musical group performs a live concert in a state-of-the-art theater. All events are free! Visitors are welcome to explore the Washington, DC Mormon Temple grounds and the Visitors' Center and see a live outdoor nativity scene, an indoor exhibit of international nativity scenes and a selection of Christmas films.
Dusk to 10 p.m. nightly. Nativity scene is open each evening from 6 to 9
p.m. Live musical performances begin at 7 and 8 p.m.
Do you have and Idea for an Article for your Newsletter? Please e-mail your contributing article to the Newsletter Editor at kidwell1292 @cablespeed.com by the 4th Wednesday of Any Month.
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