Founded in 1933, The Harrisburg Camera Club welcomes all photographers from the newest beginner to the most experienced.
Our members have had photographs published in local and regional publications as well as regional and national magazines. Members have also taken top awards in local, regional and national photographic contests. All bring with them their knowledge of, and unique approach to, photography. Our members are always ready to share their knowledge.
Membership Benefits
• Fellowship and fun in learning to take better pictures.
• Constructive evaluations of every member’s prints and images by experienced photographers/artists.
• Recognition for quality and merit achievement in photography.
• Field Trips and Education
• Discount on purchases at local camera shops and picture framing shops
Come join us and see what all the buzz is about!
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Print Critique Night: Feb 21st t Each member may bring two color prints and two B&W prints. Mike Donovan will be our guest that night. Full Guidelines are in the…
For those of you that were not able to attend the meeting this past Tuesday you missed more than you expected to. Because the one judge that was scheduled to…
Harry Callahan at 100, Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage andJeff Milstein's Aircraft: The Jet as ArtSaturday February 25th leaving at 12:00 NooRevised 1-23-12The Harrisburg Camera Club will be traveling to Washington…
Arnold Newman Exhibition Fieldtripat Lebanon Valley College's(Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture)Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
1:00 Saturday February 4, 2012
Hosted by Curator and Gallery Director Barbara…
TUESDAY NIGHT JANUARY 24TH AT 7:15pmQuestions & Answers: Adobe Photoshop Elementswith Bryson LeidichOn Tuesday night January 24th at 7:15 members long time friend of the camera club and professional photographer…
Print Critique Night: Feb 21st t Each member may bring two color prints and two B&W prints. Mike Donovan will be our guest that night. Full Guidelines are in the ‘Member’s Section’. Remember you must be logged on to see the members section. If you are not a member but want to see how things work, this would be a good night to check us out. The meeting doors should be open at 7:15. We would like to start at 7:30.
Using your Speedlight Off Camera: Feb 28th HCC educational meeting presented by Randal Lathrop
The Magic of Light and Seeing in Black & White Workshop: March 24th
“Night Photos” has been chosen as the theme for the 4th and Final Competition due Feb 28th. The guidelines are simple and as follows:
The photo must be taken on or after 11/01/2011
The photo must be taken outdoors
The photo must be taken no earlier than 1 hour after sunset and no later than 1 hour before sunrise.
Did You Know? There is a Facebook group for the Harrisburg Camera Club? Join us: members and non-members can join the Facebook group.
For those of you that were not able to attend the meeting this past Tuesday you missed more than you expected to. Because the one judge that was scheduled to be there was late and because we had the time, Joe Ferrell was kind enough to share with the group many of his pictures taken while on a recent trip to Cuba.
Besides sharing his photos he generously provided the narration to go with his pictures. Click on the photo Joe has provided for this post and you will be taken to his Cuba pictures.
Harry Callahan at 100, Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage andJeff Milstein’s Aircraft: The Jet as ArtSaturday February 25th leaving at 12:00 NooRevised 1-23-12
The Harrisburg Camera Club will be traveling to Washington D.C. to the National Gallery of Art to view their current exhibition on photography; “Harry Callahan at 100″ and “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We should arrive in D.C. about 2:30. There is also small photographic exhibition by contemporary photographer Jeffery Milstein, “Aircraft: The Jet as Art”at the National Air and Space Museum. There should be enough time to see all three exhibitions and all are free.
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. Celebrating the centenary of his birth, the exhibition of some 100 photographs explores all facets of Callahan’s art, from its genesis in Detroit in the early 1940s and its flowering in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s to its maturation in Providence and Atlanta from the 1960s through the 1990s. Throughout his long career, he repeatedly found new ways of looking at and presenting the world in photographs that are elegant, visually daring, and highly experimental.Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage charts a new direction for one of America’s best-known living photographers. Unlike her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients, the photographs in this exhibition were taken simply because Leibovitz was moved by the subject. The images speak in a commonplace language to the photographer’s curiosity about the world she inherited, spanning landscapes both dramatic and quiet, interiors of living rooms and bedrooms, and objects that are talismans of past lives.
The exhibition includes 64 photographs taken between April 2009 and May 2011. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is acquiring the works on display in the exhibition for its permanent collection.
The pictures, although there are no people in them, are in a certain sense portraits of subjects that have shaped Leibovitz’s distinctly American view of her cultural inheritance. Visiting the homes of iconic figures including Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pete Seeger, and Elvis Presley, as well as places such as Niagara Falls, Walden Pond, Old Faithful, and the Yosemite Valley, she let her instincts and intuitions guide her to related subjects—hence the title “Pilgrimage.” Some of the pictures focus on the remaining traces of photographers and artists she admires, such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Ansel Adams, and Robert Smithson.
Pilgrimage is an evocative and deeply personal statement by a photographer whose career now spans more than forty years, encompassing a broad range of subject matter, history, and stylistic influences. Together the pictures show Leibovitz at the height of her powers, unfettered by the demands of her career and pondering how photographs, including her own, shape a narrative of history that informs the present.
The Callahan exhibition closes at 5:00 and the Leibovitz exhibition closes at 7:00 so leaving at noon will give us time to see both.
AS A BONUS:
If you are interested in staying later to do night photography in the Mall that evening please let Vice-President Randal Lathrop or President Andrew Hoff know so we can arrange proper carpooling. Sunset will fall around 6:00, which means competition photography will be allowed at around 7:00. We would leave for Harrisburg at 8:30.
We will be leaving from the Arby’s side of the Giant grocery store parking lot in Camp Hill at 12 Noon Saturday February 25th. We anticipate returning to Camp Hill around 8:00. If you are staying to photograph, around 10:30. The exhibition is free and we will carpool down. We strongly encourage riders to share the cost of gasoline with the driver.
Arnold Newman Exhibition Fieldtripat Lebanon Valley College’s(Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture)Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery
1:00 Saturday February 4, 2012
Hosted by Curator and Gallery Director Barbara McNulty
(Revised 01-23-12)
On Saturday February 4th we will meet at Lebanon Valley College’s Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery in Annville for the Arnold Newman exhibition hosted and lead by Gallery Director Barbara McNulty. Barbara has agreed to give the Harrisburg Camera Club an exclusive walk through of the exhibition. This will give us the opportunity to discuss Arnold Newman’s work with her. The Gallery is in a church one block North of the light at the intersection of Rt.422 and 934 on the left hand side. Parking is on the street or in a lot one block west of the Gallery. The street address is listed as 101 N. College Avenue, Annville.
The Newman Exhibition has many of the iconic Newman images. Newman’s work and how he posed his subjects was influential in the “environmental portraiture” style of work. He uses the setting of the portrait to help capture the persona of the subject. These images have great balance, tonal range and depth. This is an exhibition the should not be missed and is a rare opportunity to see classic and stunning photography without leaving the area. The exhibition is large with over 45 images and some of them are in color.
For those of you that live on the East Shore we will meet you there. For those members that live on the west side of the river we will car pool from the our usual location next to Arby’s at the Giant grocery store in Camp Hill at 12:00 Noon or you can go on your own. If you have any questions contact Andrew Hoff at president@harrisburgcameraclub.org or call 592-9304.
TUESDAY NIGHT JANUARY 24TH AT 7:15pmQuestions & Answers: Adobe Photoshop Elements
with Bryson Leidich
On Tuesday night January 24th at 7:15 members long time friend of the camera club and professional photographer Bryson Leidich will lead a question and answer session on Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Since the members of the club have such varied abilities in Photoshop we thought it would be appropriate to have an open discussion with questions coming from the members about Photoshop instead of concentrating on one subject. Think about the problems you have encountered with Adobe Photoshop and bring your questions to Bryson. No question is wrong, as we all can benefit from the answer. Bryson will answer your questions on the computer using the Photoshop software.
Come to the class and learn. See you Tuesday the 24th.
Entries due by midnight, Wednesday, Jan. 18th for the 3rd Digital Competition
What you need to know!
The entry date for the digital competition is Wednesday, January 18th. The entries are due by Midnight. The computer program shuts down at Midnight so don’t wait until 11:55 to log on. The date for the critiques of the competition is scheduled for Tuesday, January 31st.
Do you have a photo that tells a story of the Susquehanna, or celebrates the river and her towns?
Share your photography of the Susquehanna Greenway, a corridor of trails, parks, river access points and vistas that follows the North Branch, West Branch, and main stem of the Susquehanna River. Your own original digital images of these lands, waters, towns, plants, animals, and people are all eligible for the competition.
Prizes in each category: First ($150), Second ($100), Third ($50). From the First Place winners, one Grand Prize winner will receive an additional $50!
The Lancaster Camera Club has requested we let you know about some of their happenings in and around the area, we have happily agreed to share this information. Please take a few moments to visit the blog on their website where you can see the a list of upcoming events that will be of interest to all photographers. Click on their banner image to see the information they are sharing with us.
On Tuesday night January 10th at 7:15 members Andrew Hoff and Randal Lathrop will discuss the relationship of f-stops, ISO and Shutter Speed and how they all interrelate to effect your photographs.
We will talk about how f-stops are important to your images. Why and where you need to set your camera’s ISO and the proper shutter speed for certain situations.
I know that there are many members that are unfamiliar or are uncomfortable dealing and finding the right combination. The f-stop, ISO and shutter speed are the basis of good photography. They are the ABC’s of photography. They need to be an intrinsic part of your photographic vocabulary. Come to the class and learn.
Starting Tuesday January 3rd through Thursday January 26th an exhibition of photographs made for the 2011 Friends of Wildwood Photography Competition and the best images taken by the students at the Harrisburg Camera Club sponsored Harrisburg Kids Photography Camp and the Wildwood Kids Photography Camp will be displayed. The images will be on display in the Olewine Nature Center.
Guest jurors Madelaine Gray, fine art photographer, from Mt. Gretna; Denny Bingaman, wildlife photographer and printer and Raymond Gehman, National Geographic photographer both from Waynesboro will be judging the images. Awards will be given in the Friends of Wildwood Photography Contest for First place, Second place and Third place in each category of Advanced, Intermediate, Beginners and Youth (12+under). The Photography For Kids Camp will also be judged and award winners will be picked for Best Of Show, First place, Second place and Third place. The awards will be announced at 1:00 on Sunday January 8th with a reception to follow from 1 PM – 4PM.
I strongly suggest that members of the HCC come out to the awards ceremony Sunday the 8th and see the work that the students in the HCC Kids Camp are doing and to support the program. If you can not make the reception, please make a concerted effort to see the work while it is on display. The Olewine Nature Center is open from 10 AM to 4 PM from Tuesday through Sunday.
I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new. In this way I am a photographer with the problems of a painter; the desire is to find the limitations of a camera so I can overcome them. ~ Ernst Haas
