1pm - 4:45pm

This is the first of several 2011 SCC/DIG photo scavenger hunts/meetups/shootouts that we hope to have this year-- this Sunday afternoon at the Douglas County Library.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE FIRST SCC Fieldtrip of the year! It’s a contest . . . We are also including Digital Image Group members who don’t belong to the Sweetwater Camera Club but might enjoy participating.

Dominique Chaponot, our Sweetwater Camera Club Field Trip chairperson and Erik Peterson, our SCC Contest Committee chairman are proud to announce a wonderful photo opportunity:

It’s getting close to SPRING and we are kicking it off by having the first field trip of the year, right here in Douglasville. This is the first of several 2011 SCC/DIG photo scavenger hunts/meetups/shootouts that we hope to have this year-- this Sunday afternoon at the Douglas County Library. You need to get outside and make some pictures! This should get your party started:

Here’s the plan:

Sunday, February 27^th from 1 to 1:15 p.m. we will meet at the Douglas County Library where we have reserved their large meeting room.

The library is located not far from Douglas County High School, at 6810 Selman Drive, Douglasville,  Georgia 30134

If you have a laptop computer with a version of Photoshop on it, please bring your laptop. No later than 1:15 we will hand out a list of 5 photographic subjects.

Your job, should you decide to accept it, is to go out and photograph any and all of these 5 topics for the next hour or two—from 1:15 until around 3 p.m. Your photographs should be made inside Douglas County but NOT inside the Library. They can also be artistic digital illustrations, so long as you can meet the deadline.

When you are finished shooting, return with your camera cards to the Douglas County Library meeting room and process your images. If you do not have a laptop computer, we will help you team up with someone who does. The objective is to select your best pictures, no more than two of each topic, and  crop them, enhance them, adjust them to suit yourself, and turn them in by 4:30 p.m.

We must be out of the building no later than 4:45 p.m.

If you are new to “image processing” this will be quite an adventure. Very few digital pictures are “viewer ready” and “printer ready” straight out of the camera. They often need adjustments to color saturation, contrast, composition, and exposure in order to achieve the maximum impact.

When you arrive, you will sign in and be given a number. Submit your pictures with your assigned number rather than your name so the judging can be impartial. Judging will take place within the next week or so after the shootout and you will be informed of the results.

Any photos you make during the scavenger hunt field trip can be entered into the Sweetwater Camera Club March field trip contest, (have you paid your 2011 dues? Please see www.sweetwatercameraclub.org/membership if you have not already joined for the year and wish to . . . If you are a Digital Image Group member or want to be, you are welcome to  attend our field trips -- bring your pictures to the next DIG meeting which takes place on  Thursday, March 17^th.

We will provide more information about the judging of this contest as it becomes available. If you would like to be a judge rather than a contest participant and you feel qualified to provide appropriate feedback to the participants, please let me know. Again, judging will take place at a later date, not on Sunday. Suggestions for judging are welcomed.

Examples of contest topics: Some of the topics may be straight forward, such as “fences.” Some may be conceptual such as “atmosphere.” If clarifications of the topics are needed, they will be provided at the contest site.

If you want to participate but cannot arrive on time between 1 to 1:15, there will be someone in the group room at all times who can give you the topics and get you started. Just be aware that once 4:30 p.m. happens, all photos will be collected and the contest will be closed.

Richard