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Welcome to The Woodlands Photography
Club. We are a group of people who love photography.
From amateur to professional - film to digital
- and beyond.
We
come together to learn and share from each other and to have FUN!
Pattern
Photography (a.k.a. eye gymnastics)
Congratulations
to Doug Wilson and Dot Mullinax for winning the June "patterns"
mini-contest.
.jpg) Dried
River Bed - Big Bend NP by Doug Wilson
What
makes Doug's photograph of a dried, desert riverbed different
than the hundreds of other dried riverbed shots?
"The
new doesn't wear off" as Reverend Chatham used to tell me.
Why?
The first reason is pattern. The eye flows with the
shadows from the sides and foreground, to the middle, and into
the distance. This is in spite of the faceted, often
discontinuous, shape of the cracks.
The second key is
scale. We mentally assign a scale to every image. The scale is
based on personal memory. What size are the blocks? Three inches
wide? Five inches wide? They are actually 12 inches wide and
several inches deep. The result is a photograph that is in focus
at all points and contains clear, appealing, bold details.
Thanks Doug!
 Split
Wood by Dot Mullinax
Dot
captured an image of a split tree.
Why is this photograph
more interesting than the cords of wood grain and tree bark shot
by anybody to put finger to shutter release?
The primary
reason is color.
It defines the pattern boundary. The
reddish-brown color of the split wood separates the subject grain
from the background. This is evident when the color image is
compared to the black and white.
 Split
Wood B&W by Dot Mullinax
The
flow is defined by the grain of the split wood. Grain leads the
eye from the top and upper sides, through the photograph to the
bottom.
The eye is then guided by a nearly subliminal
piece of green vegetation into a vortex and eventually to the
hole at the base of the branch.
It is simply fun eye
gymnastics.
Thanks Dot!
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Lenora
wants to know!
You’re
going on vacation and luggage space is limited. Besides your
camera body, you can only bring 3 other pieces of camera
equipment / accessories. What would you bring? Tell
Lenora!
JULY
MEETING
Attend
the next club meeting!
Professional photographer Kenny
Haner will discuss styling, texture, and presentation techniques
in food photography. This man gets paid to make you
hungry!
Monday, July
13, 6:30 – 8:00 PM South Montgomery County Community
Center 2235 Lake Robbins Road The Woodlands, Tx
July
Field Trips
Sign
up for a morning
at a private automobile museum! This automobile
collection spans early 1900's to the 80's with a strong focus on
the 50's. Club members only. July 18, 9:00 – 12:00am.
July
Workshops
Sign
up for David Meine's How to 20,30,40 and 50D
Canon camera and flash workshop on July 11!.
Thanks for
hosting all of these workshops David! It is appreciated.
June
Field Trips
Buffalo Bayou Pontoon Boat
Tour
9.jpg) Photograph
by Barry Dolton
16.jpg) WPC
Members on Tour
A few
of the members ventured out in the 100 degree heat to see Houston
from a different perspective.
It
was worth the journey. Take
the tour through their eyes!
Houston
Zoo Field Trip
 Photograph
by Dot Mullinax
Members
rose early May 30th to go behind the scenes at the
Houston Zoo.
 Photograph
by Dot Mullinax
The
trip was well attended for the 3rd year in a row. It
is easy to see why when you see the results. Dot Mullinax
provided a few photographs for us to view.
Thanks for the
sharing Dot!
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