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Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model for both in-person and virtual options. Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Non-members may attend one monthly to check us out and see what the club is all about. Please contact webmaster@poconophotoclub.com for a link to the meeting. 


 

Monthly Meeting Details!

Location: Keller Williams Real Estate | Stroudsburg, PA

Doors open at 6:30 pm (virtually and in-person)

Meeting begins at 7:00 pm



Tuesday, February 18

Essentials of Time-Lapse

 

Program Details

Digital photography has become a daily part of our lives. We consume and create photography almost constantly in our daily travels. A natural stepping stone to still photography is time-lapse, the art of capturing change over time.

Only since the advent of modern digital cameras has time-lapse photography become so accessible. Time-lapse photography produces stunning images that give viewers a glimpse of the world as they rarely see it. It is a technique that compresses timed capture over an interval of time into a concise creative rhythm. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how anyone could leverage this functionality with gear they already own.

Silvana Della Bio

A software engineer by trade, Silvana began her fascination with photography as a very small child. The early fascination turned into a lifelong obsession. Decades later her passion never faltered, but her view of the world evolved. Photographing what the eye can't perceive is what she loves best to capture. Past President of the Stony Brook Camera Club, she is the recipient of many photography awards. Her images have appeared in Lighthouse Digest, Yankee Magazine, and the Boston Globe, and were featured in Nikon’s 100th birthday celebration. She has presented and judged at camera club councils, camera clubs, and art associations throughout North America.

Silvana helps others expand their own photographic vision through her photography workshops, photo walks, photo tours, private instruction, and club presentations on various photography topics including infrared, Milky Way, black & white, nightscapes, deep space photography, and time-lapse. She challenges photographers to consider that there is much more in a scene than what is visible to the human eye and to tap into the power of their cameras to discover it.

Master Member of the New England Camera Club Council (MNEC). Member of Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

Author of “Breakers of Darkness – The Majesty of Lighthouses”, “Sights Beyond the Spectrum – Digital Infrared Photography”, and a new book coming in December 2024, “Night Shades – A Guide to Photography After Dark”.

To her, life is best summarized by the quote “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” – from the 1958 film “Auntie Mame”.

Learn More About Silvana Della


UPCOMING MEETINGS

 

Tuesday, March 18

Nancy Ori Photo Critique


Last September, photographer Nancy Ori shared invaluable insights on elevating garden and landscape photography with our club. Her presentation encouraged us to recognize the beauty around us and capture it in our unique personal style while carefully considering composition, lighting, and key details. She emphasized the importance of controlling as many elements in the frame as possible to create stronger images.

At the end of the session, Nancy challenged us to put her tips into practice and even offered to critique our results. Now, it's time to take on that challenge! Whether by capturing new photos or revisiting past floral images with fresh eyes, apply Nancy’s techniques to refine your work. Select your best shots, experiment with new edits, and see how your improved skills bring your images to life.


Submit Your Images to Nancy

Some instructions from Nancy:
Unless you are going to buy some flowers and set them up to shoot, I imagine that most of you will be going into your libraries/archives to find some good floral images to submit.

Here is what I would recommend: Make selections from your files of all the possibilities so you can cull out the best. See what additional manipulations can be done now that you have some more experience from when you saw this image last.

Look carefully at:

1. Composition. Are there details or distracting elements that can be eliminated to make a simpler and more powerful statement? Are there things that need to be cropped or cloned out?

2. Lighting. Was it used well?

3. Focal Point. Did you use the rule of thirds to get the focal point out of the middle? Would a square crop be best if you have a single flower?

4. Contrast. It will draw the eye to it. Did that work or is it taking the viewer away from the focal point?

5. Depth of Field. Did you use this wisely?

6. What did you learn from looking at the images you submitted?

7. Do you need more post production skills to get what you want next time?

8. Do you need more equipment to shoot in the garden next time?

9. Do you need to practice with fill flash or use a diffuser for better results?

Please submit your original images before post production and your final THREE images to the dropbox link above so we can see the before and after story of your pictures.

Label your images as follows: your name.Ori-#jpg. (ex. ann lefevre.Ori-1a for the original and ann.lefevre.Ori-1b for the post-processing version).

Submissions should be received by March 11, 2025 so that Nancy can review them beforehand.

Submit Your Images to Nancy



Tuesday, April 15

Ray Schneider - Create Compelling People Pictures

 

Program Details

Whether a formal portrait, a casual family snapshot, or a street scene in a foreign country, taking good people pictures doesn’t have to be an accident.

For photographers and painters, this presentation will explore how to compose people pictures that draw the viewer in, that evoke emotion, that tell a story.  

Posed portraits, environmental portraits, street portraiture, photojournalistic pictures, and travel photographs will all be included in the discussion. We will review many of the core tenets of composition as well as how to capture the right gestures, background, expressions, lighting, perspective, camera settings, and more. 

Ray will share ideas which come from the world of art and composition — plus Gestalt, evolutionary, and photographic psychology — for creating more impactful and memorable pictures. For each picture we’ll share thoughts on how and why they resonate.  

Ray Schneider Bio
Ray Schneider is a freelance photographer whose images span numerous genres including portrait, street, landscape, garden, animals, and events. An avid traveler, his images come from over 30 countries. He has published a book entitled What the Photographer Sees, available on Amazon and recently received a Portfolio Merit Award from Black and White Magazine. He teaches photography workshops and is also a speaker at camera clubs across the country. 

Learn More About Ray Schneider 

Tuesday, May 20

Cheryl Kaiser - Photos that Leave a Mark


Program Details

Info coming soon.

Cheryl Kaiser Bio

Info coming soon.

Learn More About Cheryl Kaiser

Tuesday, June 17

Scavenger Hunt Results

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 

Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, July 15

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 

Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, August 19

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 

Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, September 16

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 

Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, October 21

What Would You Do?

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 
Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, November 18

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 

Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

Tuesday, December 16

You're the Star!

Monthly meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month and operate on a hybrid model with both in-person and virtual options. 
Members will receive a link to the online meeting on the Friday before the meeting. 

PAST MEETINGS


Tuesday, January 21

Working with Textures & Overlays - Turn Ho-Hum into a Work of Art


Program Details

Don’t delete that digital image! Do you sometimes have a shot that you really like….a subject that is hard to capture….a place you may not get to again….but it’s not perfect? Turn that “almost” good shot into a work of art by utilizing textures and overlays.

Maybe it’s a bird in flight – the bird looks great, but the sky is blah. Use another sky image as an overlay, or add a texture – or both! Maybe it’s a nice flower shot – good color and composition, but it’s not quite tack sharp. Use textures to turn it into a fine art image! Of course, you can also add textures to your best images and make them spectacular!

Textures are everywhere – there are many free and for-purchase ones online. You can create your own textures within Photoshop or from photos of everyday objects. Working with layers and blending modes, there are many things you can do to create a beautiful work of art – I’ll show you how!

Hazel Meredith Bio

Hazel Meredith is an award-winning photographer and a sought-after teacher, speaker, and competition judge. She began teaching in 2007, and now does seminars at camera clubs and conferences across the U.S. – both in-person and virtual. She offers her own workshops and webinars, and has done webinars for several software companies.

She has written two eBooks on working with textures, and released two creative courses. She
and her husband, Dave, produce the “Virtual Creative Photography Conference” with attendees from around the world. Hazel loves the creative aspect of photography and postprocessing, especially the use of textures and software to create unique images.

She is actively involved with the photographic community, and has held leadership roles and received honorary distinctions from several organizations. In the Fall of 2020 she was the recipient of the Ashbrook Award for Digital Imaging Instruction from the Photographic Society of America.

Learn More About Hazel Meredith

The Pocono Photo Club would like to thank the Stroudsburg Foto Shop and
the Pocono Heritage Land Trust for their continued support and
participation in club events and programs.