Photography Association of Wenatchee

Promoting, enjoying and learning photography in the Wenatchee Valley

Members

2012 Board of Directors

Al Piecka
Bill Epoch
Lori Wacker
Cory Feil
Colette Shrader
Gary Schimelfenig
John Porter

2012 Appointed Roles:
Training Coordinator - Landon Michaelson, Past President

Competition Coordinator - Guy Crilly

Assignment Themes

Theme for May/April is:

"Side Lighting"

Light coming from the left or the right across the subject.

Events

Blog Posts

How to Interpret/Understand and Use Histograms Effectively from Eduardo Angel

To see the original article and source, click here

 

Histograms display a graphic representation of the exposure on a captured image. They provide highly accurate information, but their use is often misunderstood, or, worse yet, ignored.

How do they work?

Histograms are a graph showing brightness…

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Posted by Cory Feil on April 11, 2012 at 9:36am

2012 NPPNW Spring Meeting

AN ENCORE FROM GEORGE!

 

Our springmeeting will be April 7 at Lewis & Clark Collegein the Portlandarea. We will open the doors at 8:30 AM. The program will begin at 10 AM. Theinvited speaker is George Lepp, under the generous sponsorship of CANON. George is Mr. Nature Photographer and needs nofurther introduction. His morning presentation is entitled “George Lepp’sInnovative Approaches to Photographing Birds” and his afternoon presentationwill be “From Snowflakes to…

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Posted by Cory Feil on March 21, 2012 at 9:52pm — 1 Comment

JVH DIGITAL FESTIVAL -- Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 21, 2012 for the FREE annual large-format digital printing JVH DIGITAL FESTIVAL at the Embassy Suites in Bellevue, WA. We have some great educational speakers lined up. All the details are at …

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Posted by Cory Feil on February 15, 2012 at 12:14pm — 1 Comment

Adobe Lightroom 3 or Adobe Elements with Premier at B&H for $69.95 with free shipping

B&H in New York is having a special.  You can get Lightroom 3 or Elements bundled with Premier for $69.95 each with free shipping.  I don't know how long this is going on but its a good deal!

Posted by Cory Feil on February 15, 2012 at 8:00am

 

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Welcome to PAW! Membership is only $24 per year! Paid membership gives you access to each and every meeting as well as all the information contained in this site. If you are new here and a beginner looking to expand your knowledge of photography, you are encouraged to start in the Blogs section for some good tips from beginner to advanced!

Who: The Photography Association of Wenatchee (PAW), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization (by way of the museum umbrella) serving north central Washington State, including Chelan and Douglas counties, as well as world-wide with this web site
What: Promoting, enjoying and learning photography where we live and travel
When: General meeting is the second Monday of each month from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Where: We are meeting at the Douglas County Transportation and Land Services Building at the bottom of 19th St in East Wenatchee
Why: To support, train, inspire and guide members of ALL SKILL LEVELS to have more fun and be better photographers tomorrow than we are today
How: By asking members what they want from their club, by using our experience to answer those needs, by bringing in guest speakers to extend our resources, leading by example and learning by doing

Photography is a journey, not a destination. We don't just express ourselves once and we are done. Enjoy the trip!


 

June at Ohme Gardens - more info to come

Current News

Upcoming Meetings:

June - Outdoor class, Ohme Garden get together, to be determined

July - Outdoor class, fireworks, to be determined

August - Outdoor class, wildflowers along the Iron Goat Trail (Stevens Pass) to be determined

September - back in the classroom

CLUB SURVEY DOWNLOAD:

ClubSurvey.pdf

We are meeting at Douglas County Land & Transportation building. 140 19th Street East Wenatchee. See you there!

See Blog Posts section for additional news and events happening!

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"In case anyone wants to read up on Native Orchids of Washington State..  http://www.wanativeorchids.com/nativeorchids.html"
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"Packing Light, is that a new American beer? Helium! What an excellent idea! I wonder if NOAA has any spare weather ballons? OK I have inquired as to the availablilty of a balloon with a lift capacity of 30 pounds. Maybe we could do this this …"
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"Hmmm. Heard of packing light? 2 lenses (no role for telephoto), 1 body, one tripod, perhaps a flash, and a reflector...add 400 helium balloons, should be perfect."
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"I am in training! Lets see, a two hour hike with fourty # of gear, yeah another year and I'll be ready. Can we get there by helilcopter?"
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"I'm guessing you are thinking of Spring Beauties which are quite small. These bitterroots are only found in one location in the Wenatchee area. A year from now, when you are fit for a two hour hike (round trip) I'll take you there.…"
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"OK. I have some slides of some blossoms that I thought might be similar. I'll have to dig out the sides and have a look, some day.   Where are those boxes of slides?"
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"Thanks, hard to say anything new about flowers."
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"No, probably an inch and a half when fully open like this."
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"There is something about the odors in old aricraft I like. Nice image Landon I, too, like the post treatment. Appropriate for this old gal."
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"Is that a relatively small blossom, Peter? A half-inch or smaller?"
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"Bugs in natures software. Nice selective focusing."
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"Interesting perspective of lupine, very nice."
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