Beyond Capture: Making a Winning Image
Presented by: Sharon Prislipsky, APSA, EPSA, AFIA

A winning image is not always one that wins a competition. It may be one that has appeal to consumers or one that is worthy of being displayed in your home. Regardless of the definition we choose, all winning images have impact. This program will define impact and discuss how to create images that make a connection with the viewer, evoke an emotion, illustrate a concept or new idea, or perhaps show something new to the viewer. From composing our images to enhancing them in post processing, we can share our vision and communicate with our audience. Finally, we will explore the stages we experience in our photographic journey and how we can take our photography to the next level.

Housatonic Camera Club Zoom meeting
February 20th at 7PM


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Announcements

HELP WANTED

2023-2024 season is here.

Support you club and your newsletter with active participation because we cannot survive without that.

There are several committee positions open such as Secretary, Public Events Coordinator (have one, can use another), Salon Show Coordinator (have one, can use another). If interested in any of these positions, please let Dawn or Lazlo know


Next HCC Show

We are planning to move the pictures from the Noble Show to the new show at 11 Railroad street in Canaan. Please Pick up your pictures at Noble after the show is closing if you do not want to participate in the new show. Otherwise we are going to move all the pictures. Send an email with your listings to Gail Goldberg if you want to add one or two more pictures to the ones you had in the Noble show or if you weren't part of it but you want to be in the Canaan show .
HCC labels on each picture…one on the front and one in the back. This is the standard form we use which includes your name, title, size and price. This will be matched up to the labels when they hang the photos.


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the videos of our previous meetings


The Housatonic Camera Club Landscape Book

is finished. Thank you Jeff Breitman for your hard work on the project, selecting the pictures, putting it altogether, arranging the printing, etc.





Get in touch with Jeff if you want a copy of the book.


Some changes for next year’s interclub competitions.


The coming season we will compete in NECCC interclub competitions in the Nature and Pictorial categories. These competitions stay the same as last year. We enter 4 images from 4 different members in the Nature and Pictorial competition. More info here: http://neccc14.neccc.org/Interclub/Projected-Image-Interclub-Competition-Rules-and-Regulations.pdf.
We also compete in the PSA interclub competitions. For 2023-24 PSA Interclub, the standard file size will be 1920 x1080 with clubs still able to enter their images using the 1400 x1050 size until they are ready to switch to today’s standard size of 1920 x 1080. We will compete in the Pictorial and Black and White categories this year once more again. In the PSA competitions we enter 6 images from 6 different members. I will start asking for NECCC’s Nature and Pictorial images in September, and for PSA’s Pictorial and Black and White images in October. Get ready and start collecting your images now.
Bert


Assigned Topic ( up to 3 pictures/members )

"Things that fly"




HCC Representatives



President: Dawn Dingee
d1295@aol.com

Vice-President: Steve Goldberg
steven.goldberg512@gmail.com

Treasurer: Heidi Hoeller
heidi.m.hoeller@gmail.com
Membership/Dues: Heidi Hoeller
heidi.m.hoeller@gmail.com

Publicity:Open position
Program Director: Open position

Webmaster: Lazlo Gyorsok
lazlo1@optonline.net

Newsletter: Lazlo Gyorsok
lazlo1@optonline.net

Hospitality:Gail Goldberg
gadgoldberg@gmail.com

Secretary:Open Position

Competitions: Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net

Salon Committee:
Brian Wilcox
ctphoto@comcast.net
Gail Goldberg
gadgoldberg@gmail.com
Lazlo Gyorsok
lazlo1@optonline.net

Projector Coordinator: Brian Wilcox
ctphoto@comcast.net


Liaison Representatives: PSA - Jane Rossman
jrossman222@gmail.com -NECCC Bert Schmitz
bschmitz@att.net

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Tips and tutorials














Pictures sent in by our members



Since there were zero pictures sent in for this section this month, I am posting one by one of our honorary members, Arty Fischial

President's Message by Dawn Dingee


We had a highly successful Noble Show opening last month. The show runs through February 18th so if you missed the opening, you still have time to see it. As usual, members have submitted a wide variety of photos and Noble Horizons did a fantastic job hanging them. Thank you to all who participated and to those who worked hard to make this show happen. We’ve recorded at least one sale so far! For those participating in the show, do not forget to provide Lazlo with a digital copy of your photos.
February’s meeting will be Tuesday, February 20 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. The presentation “Capture and Beyond: The Making of a Winning Image” will be presented by Sharon Prislipsky. She is a professional photographer who lives in Arkansas, specializing in nature, landscape and outdoor portraits of individuals and families. Don’t miss it! Her experience and expertise can help you take your photography to the next level.
Do not forget to submit your photos for the PSA Color and Black and White categories. You may submit up to two (2) photos in each category.
Happy Shooting!
Dawn
Dawn

The Old Timers

A few pictures I took years back at a junkyard in Waterbury, CT with the exemption of the first and last one. The first one is from Kent and the last one is from Canaan .
























Pictures sent in for the NECCC Pictorial competition




Lone tree at dawn by Ian Peters



St.Thomas sunrise by Brian Wilcox



Sunday morning view by Paul Serbaniewicz



Twillight by Lazlo Gyorsok



Pictures sent in for the NECCC Nature competition




Clover buzz by Heidi Hoeller



Elk playing by Bert Schmitz



Eye of a fly by Paul Serbaniewicz



Hanging out by Lazlo Gyorsok



Monthly Challenge: Buldings

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The Nubble by Jane Rossman
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Riyad #1 by Pamela Peeters
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Riyad #3 by Pamela Peeters
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The Wessel by Mary Jean Winkler
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Idea Factory by Dawn Dingee
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Sagrada Familia #2, Barcelona, Spain by Maria Ghi
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This took a lots of straightening by Ian Peters
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Mt.Tom by Brian Wilcox
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Manhattan by Steven Goldbeg
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Country buildings by Mary Jean Winkler
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Dubai Airport by Verne Henshall
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Buildings #2 by Nancy Zannini
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Flat Iron Building by Lazlo Gyorsok
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Buildings #5 by Nancy Zannini
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Times Square by Lazlo Gyorsok
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Sagrada Familia #3, Barcelona, Spain by Maria Ghi
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Cambridge Hotel by G.A.Mudge
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Cape Porpoise fish shack by Jane Rossman
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Haarlem , Netherlands by Bert Schmitz
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Sagrada Familia #1, Barcelona, Spain by Maria Ghi
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Portugal seaside town by Verne Henshall
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Housatonic Valley Regional High School by G.A.Mudge
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Buildings #1 by Karen McMahon
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Rt44 by Brian Wilcox
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New hope by Dawn Dingee
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Down on the bayou by Dawn Dingee
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Buldings #1 by Nancy Zannini
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Meadow by Brian Wilcox
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Alkmaar, Netherlands by Bert Schmitz
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Building reflections by Dawn Dingee
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Millerton by Steven Goldbeg
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South shore by Brian Wilcox
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Dublin by Steven Goldbeg
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Roof pyramids by G.A.Mudge
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Buildings #4 by Nancy Zannini
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Windows by Mary Jean Winkler
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Hoederloo , Netherlands by Bert Schmitz
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Riyad #2 by Pamela Peeters
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Duell road by Brian Wilcox
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Buildings #3 by Nancy Zannini
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Buildings #2 by Karen McMahon
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Buildings #3 by Karen McMahon
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Greystone Lane by Brian Wilcox
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Main cottages by Jane Rossman
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Town hall, Auroville, South India by Verne Henshall
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Skyscraper, New York by Lazlo Gyorsok
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Durham Cathedral after JMW Turner changed it's perspective by Ian Peters
 

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