Jamestown Audubon Nature Photography Club

“WORKFLOW” IS TOPIC OF AUDUBON PHOTO CLUB MEETING November 8, 2011

This Thursday, November 10, Dave Hecei will talk on “Workflow for the Digital Photographer.” Beginning with getting your images off the camera card and making backups so you don’t ever lose them, he will continue with some basic processing to quickly improve a lot of images in the shortest amount of time.

“Square crop,” where the final image is shown as a square, is the subject for the image critique that begins at 6:30 at the Audubon Center and Sanctuary at 1600 Riverside Road, off Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. This crop format presents the subject differently from a rectangular crop where the long dimension usually is how an image is “read.”

The camera lesson that opens the 7-9 pm program will be on “Dodging and Burning,” a method to lighten and darken local areas of your image to bring more interest to the subject.

Dave Hecei has been taking pictures since he was a small child, shooting nature photos since 1978. He started out shooting black and white and developed the film and prints himself. He soon switched to color slide film, which he used for more than 20 years, making the switch to digital in 2006 with the Canon EOS system.

After taking photography courses in high school, Hecei studied computers and electronics in college. He spent 20 years working at The Camera Infirmary, a camera shop/photo lab in Jamestown. He was active with the Jamestown Audubon Photography Club, where he was president for several years.

Hecei’s nature photographs have been featured in several local gallery shows and published in advertising, cards, and calendars. He has also presented workshops on photography, digital photography, computers, and Photoshop.

Visitors are asked to pay $5 that can be applied toward the annual membership of $25 if application is made by the next meeting. Among the benefits of membership are discounts on photography classes, special gifts and giveaways from sponsors, the right to show photos at Club exhibits, and 10% discount at several local businesses.

The Jamestown Audubon Photography Club blog is at http://jasphotoclub.wordpress.com.

For more information, visit jamestownaudubon.org or contact Suzette Paduano at (716) 763-9492 or Suzette_Paduano@yahoo.com.