Monthly MeetingDate: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm Please Note the Time! Place: Quail Creek Kino Center, Ocotillo Room Abstracting Your Images On April 9, club member Denny Huber will present on how to turn your photos into "works of art". Future meeting topics can be found here
EducationNo meeting this month
Field TripsMarch Photography Club Field Trip – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 Time: 8:30 am (or whenever you decide to come) to 12:30 pm (or whenever you want to quit) Time-Raptor: You should arrive by 9:00 am if you plan to photograph the Raptor Free Flight experience.(It’s a 10-minute walk from the museum entrance and you should be in line for the Raptor Free Flight viewing area by 9:30 am to get a good spot when they open the chain. Time – Lunch: 11:30 am ASDM’s Ironwood Terraces (a multi-station food court) … grab your lunch and meet in the outside dining area (out the back door). Where: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ) The Photography Club of Quail Creek’s March field trip is to the highly acclaimed Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (“ASDM”). With 21-acres open to the public, ASDM has a wealth of photographic opportunities from large mammals (Mountain Lion and Mexican Gray Wolves) to smaller mammals, butterflies, botanical gardens, desert landscapes, distant vistas, sculptures, structures, reptiles, fish, award-winning playground, labyrinth, animatronic dinosaurs, and more. Because of the size of the facility and the unlimited options for photography, this is primarily a self-directed field trip to photograph whatever you want. The museum will open at 8:30am, but you can arrive later if you wish. (It is roughly a 50-minute drive from Quail Creek). If anyone wants to have Trisha and John Tubbs show you around, be a guide, and/or answer your questions at ASDM, please let them know in advance. For those interested in this “guided” experience, let them know in advance and meet inside near the entry gate at 8:30am. If you plan to go on the field trip: - Please send your name and contact information to John or Trisha (johntubbs at comcast dot net; trishatubbs at outlook dot com) -Let them know if you plan to roam on your own or would like to join them. -Let them know if you plan to have lunch at the Ironwood Terraces. -Let them know if you would like to carpool with someone. Photos from field trips can be seen on our Flickr site. March Photos of the MonthPhotos submitted by club members are shown above as well as on our Flickr web site. Send to mlqcpom AT gmail dot com
Photography Cheat SheetsAs Jeff presented in the June meeting, here are links to the two cheat sheets.
Exposure Cheat Sheet Histogram Cheat Sheet Smart Phone PhotographyHere is a list of the videos that Gary Carroll presented May 13: 1) 13 Smartphone Photography tips & tricks 17:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYGsx1i5L8&t=4s 2) How can smartphones have so many megapixels? Pixel binning explained 5:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xTxbNRvcM 3) $5,000 Pro Camera vs iPhone 15 Pro: Which is Better for YOU? 12:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx20dJU0H8&t=16s 4) 10 AMAZING iPhone Videography Tips 10:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?=VE5QM3WJAvY&t=49s 5) How To Take Incredible Macro Photos With Your iPhone 11:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE7LHuh-XE&t=23s |
2024 Photo of the Year
Shari Rodgers September Contest - Motion "I Believe I Can Fly" March Photo ContestYou can enter the March Photo Contest now! The theme is Landscapes. Any club member can submit 3 photos. A photo has to be 13 months old or less.
Please rename each file with the title of the image. Size your image to 12”x 18” and then send all (large) jpg images to pcqccontest AT gmail.com Entry Deadline is midnight - March 31, 2025. Detailed Rules and Guidelines are here. If you like to plan ahead, themes for future months can be found here. February Photo Contest Winners   First Place : Lon Richardson “Stuck in the Queue”
Second Place: Mark Cohen “Offstreet Mall” Third Place: Shari Rodgers “Denver & Rio Grande" Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to everyone who entered the February photo contest. All of the images submitted will soon be found on our Flicker photo gallery. The subject was Leading Lines. Judge's comments can be found here. You can see all Contests on the club Flickr site. You can also see contest winners back to 2017 via the CONTESTS tab above. MembershipYou can join the Photography Club of Quail Creek any time during the year. Club Dues are $20.00 per household for 2025.
Current Members can renew at any time. Print the PCQC Membership Form- fill out- bring to a meeting. Q1 2025 Photo ChallengeThe member’s Quarterly Photo Challenge runs from January 1 to March 31, 2025.
The new Q1 2025 Member's Challenge topic is Black and White. Guidelines: You can use any subject, but your submitted image needs to be black and white, or monochrome, if you prefer. Have fun, Denny Send up to 3 photos taken during the quarter to QuarterlyChallenge at gmail dot com. Remember, any post processing is allowed. If you add elements from another photo (like sky replacement) those elements must have been photographed by you within the quarter. Topics for the next challenges are also listed here. Q4 2024 Photo Challenge Winners   First Place : Mark Cohen “Tracks to Tumacacori” Second Place: Larry Hudson ”Roman Aqueduct” Third Place: Dave Hammel "Montezuma Castle" The topic was By the Hand of Man. All of the challenge photos can be seen on our Flickr site on this page. Past Challenge winners can be seen via the CONTESTS tab above. |