Event Recaps

36 people in attendance.

Started off with some socializing and making sure everyone was set up properly for the meeting.

Meeting started at 6:40 PM

Fundamentals program by Dave on F/stop, shutter speed, and ISO basics

Business meeting

• Brian: Oktoberfest results are up. Thanks to Sue for stepping in when the judging chair had to isolate due to covid.
• Danette: Membership update. Not a lot of new members.
• Michelle: Website is being updated on a regular basis. Keep an eye on the news section for updates.
• Dave: No new field trips. Rotary lights coming up after Thanksgiving.
• No park & rec updates.
• Jerry W: Judging went very well with being able to stay safe.
• John M. N4C: Entries went out to their digital pictorial (our open), nature, digital altered competitions. Our entries came from the May competition. Next month our October will be submitted. New newsletter is available but some difficulties getting it out to the club.
• Kathy: Working on ways to make mentoring work during the pandemic. Feel free to reach out to the mentors via their contact forms if you have questions.
• Next meeting: Jerry will demonstrate his wizardry. Workshop in the works to try out these tricks. Austin Miller on HDR. 
• John: Treasurer report. Payments for judging and to the church for judging location and for N4C/PSA dues.

PSE tip skipped due to technical difficulties.

Main program 

• Discussion on how to handle voting acceptance. It was decided to use the "raise hand" option.
• Presentation of the images with commenting by the judges.
  
   

Fundamentals

Sue took us on a trip through our camera manuals to be sure we all knew how to use important features of our cameras such as the histogram.

Business meeting

• The Oktoberfest judging delayed until next Tuesday and the results will be posted soon after.
• EOY awards / prints still need to be picked up. Give John back his garage space!
• Discussed dues being due and delays on updating the member status due to the list needing to be mailed from John to Danette.
• Talked about the updates to the website. We have a news section! Read all about it!
• Field trips - Norskedalen's Civil War Immersion Weekend is October 10/11.  Looking into an evening shoot at the refuge. Stay tuned!
• Workshop - Viroqua. Sat Oct 3 9am. Meet at the park. Go to Driftless bookstore.
• Judges - Have Oct/nov. Need December onward.

Main program

Sue led the way once again, this time going over the three judging criteria: Impact, Technique, and Composition and then showed examples of various images while we discussed what made them so good.

The first club meeting of the 2020-2021 was a walk in the park -- literally! We all gathered at the International Gardens to photograph the flowers, architecture, and more. We had a good turnout and a good time was had until the mosquitoes descended for their buffet.

There was no fundamentals or business meeting so nothing to report for those.

Fundamentals:

Paul Schoenfeld presented on photographing Park & Rec. He gave tips on photographing the events, explained how photographing these events is important to both the Park & Rec and us as it enables us to use the meeting space for free, and listed upcoming events.

Business meeting:

• John Z. - Gave the treasurer's report. Payment to Sue for gift certs for judging.
• Michelle - Talked about scanning and asked for volunteers to type up old documents
• Dave - Field trip report. Rotary lights. Next after that will be the Galena trip in the spring.
• Sue - Put out a request for judges for January and May.
• John M. - Will start sending out the N4C newsletter. We are starting back up with entering the N4C competitions. Discussed the Ugly Sweater race photography.
• Cyndy - Talked about judging N4C and asked for volunteers for the judging.
• Kathy - No updates on the mentor program. It is working fine.

Main program:

• Photoshop Elements Tip by Sue - Fixing color cast.
• Competition results