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Welcome to Northeast Ohio's Greatest Camera Club. Whether you're a novice, professional, or just enjoy the beauty of photography, this club is for you! Techniques, demonstrations, and presentations offer new perspecitives to the world around us. Competitions are designed for member participation, and the public is invited to watch.We meet on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month (except July, August and December) at 7:00 p.m. in the Penitentiary Glen Nature Center in Kirtland, Ohio. No registration required.Join Us! Our current membership consists of over 100 photographers from Northeast Ohio! We're young and old, novice to professionals, and we all love to share our passion for photography. Come see what we're all about! If you're interested in joining us, see our membership page or visit our facebook page!The Western Reserve Photographic Society (WRPS) is a proud member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA).

MEMBERSHIP

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Membership Are you ready to become a member of Northeast Ohio's greatest camera club? This page will tell you all you need to know!Application & DuesNew memberships are welcome at any time of the year! Download a membership application today!Individual: $20Family: $25Student (under 23): $5Membership renewals are due by June 1st, and cover membership until May 31st.Checks should be made payable to Western Reserve Photographic Society, and mailed to WRPS, P.O. Box 714, Willoughby, OH 44096. You may also make payment in person to at the next club meeting!New Member OrientationThese orientations take place at the last meeting every month, immediately following the regular program of the evening. These mini meetings help explain things from the new member packets. Anyone who has recently joined, but not attended one of these, is encouraged to do so.Getting to the Meeting!We meet at Penitentiary Glen Nature Center the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month except July, August, and December. Our meetings start at 7:00 p.m. Free parking!Penitentiary Glen Nature Center8668 Kirtland-Chardon Rd.Kirtland OH 44094

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COMPETITIONS

TOYS

BLACK AND WHITE

NEON

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Children's Toys - Any image taken of a child's toy, game, or playground equipment that would be played with by a child under the age of (approximately) twelve years old.Accepted: a board game, doll, or matchbox car.Rejected: Video game systems or "big boy toys".Beginning title should be - CO...(Children's Toys Open)CC...(Children's Toys Creative) CC...(Children's Toys
Black and White - The official definition is any black and white image. It may be converted from a color image. NO toned images. No sepia images. Infrared is allowed. All other standard rules apply.Beginning title should be - BO...(B&W Open)BC...(B&W Creative)
Neon - Any image taken using/showing neon color lights, paint, signs, or black light paint.Accepted: Certain carnival rides and business signs that are lit using neon lights.Rejected: Carnival rides and business signs that are lit by another light source.Beginning title should be -NO...(Neon Open)NC...(Neon Creative)

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

NATURE

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Outings - Any image taken during an official WRPS outing, social gathering, meeting, or function during the current WRPS year.Accepted: Any image taken during any of the functions that are on Bonnie's official outings list. Must be taken at the actual function.Rejected: Any image taken on the way TO or FROM an official outing or meeting. An image taken at the same location, but not during the scheduled outing day or time.Beginning title should be - OO...(Outings Open) OC...(Outings Creative)
Architectural Detail - A specific building detail that focuses on a smaller scope of the building.Accepted: an archway, window, or brick pattern.Rejected: Images showing the whole building. Bridges.Beginning title should be - AO...(Architectural Detail Open)AC...(Architectural Detail Creative)
Nature Division Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed person will be able to identify the subject material and to certify as to its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements enhance the nature story. The presence of scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals is permissible. Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement. No techniques that add to, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content are permitted. All adjustments must appear natural. The removal, or manipulation, of colors contained within the original image to enable the production of monochrome images is permitted. Authentic Wildlife is defined as one or more organisms, living free and unrestrained in a natural or adopted habitat. Therefore landscapes, photographs of zoo animals, game farm animals, or any living subject taken under controlled conditions are not eligible for entry in Wildlife competitions

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CREATIVE

TRAVEL

COLOR

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Creative Interclub CompetitionDefined- This CPID activity is exclusively for Creative Photography. The PSA definition of Creative is "Altered Reality." More specifically, the image must obviously display a change in natural color, form, shape, or any combination of three. High Dynamic Range (HDR) images without further changes are not considered "altered reality." The original image must be made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or captured digitally. All images must be original and may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else. Original images must be altered by the maker; artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be incorporated, if the original photographic content predominates. Images may not be constructed entirely within a computer. It is necessary that the image's core content be identifiable. Non-creative images are not eligible for this competition. Any subject matter is acceptable as long as the Altered Reality guidelines are apparent. The PSA definition of Creative is "Altered Reality." More specifically, the image must obviously display a change in natural color, form, shape, or any combination of three. High Dynamic Range (HDR) images without further changes are not considered "altered reality." The original image must be made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or captured digitally. All images must be original and may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else. Original images must be altered by the maker; artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be incorporated, if the original photographic content predominates. Images may not be constructed entirely within a computer. It is necessary that the image's core content be identifiable. Non-creative images are not eligible for this competition. Any subject matter is acceptable as long as the Altered Reality guidelines are apparent.Using brushes, plug-ins, filters and the like, found in/used by Photoshop (or other image editing programs) are fine, but anything photographic must be the work of a club member. No clipart, no portions of photos taken from the web and no stock photography (photography purchased from places like iStock, Getty, Fotolio, etc) can be used.
Photo Travel- A Photo Travel color image must represent the feeling of a time and a place, portraya land, its people or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographic limitation.Ultra close-ups, which lose their identity, studio-type model shots, or photographicmanipulations that misrepresent the true situation or alter the content of the image,are unacceptable in Photo Travel competition.
Color Projected Image Division Entries are not limited as to subject matter or treatment, but they must be the work of a bona fide resident WRPS club member.

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CITYSCAPES

COMPETITION RULES

JUDGING AND AWARDS
Cityscapes- A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape, or a configuration of built forms in a city or urban area. More than one building must be present to fit the definition of a cityscape (for the purposes of our competition). You may frame a small section of a city or town from a higher building looking down, low angle or street view, or looking up, but you must have more than one building showing in the image. Single buildings and architectural details will not be accepted. Manipulation is permitted on these images, but will be judged with the non-manipulated images. Each club may have 30 entries in total, no more than two from any individual. Images that have won in previous WRPS or ESPC competitions are NOT eligible for this competition. Images may be print or digital files. Submit digital files that are no wider than 1024 pixels and no taller than 768 pixels _ 300 dpi. WRPS images are due to Michelle by 3/27/11. Erie Shores images are due to Michelle by 4/19/11. Competition is hosted by WRPS on 4/24/11. Please use e-mail address mdrackett_juno.com for this competition ONLY!
WRPS COMPETITION RULES 2011-2012 Western Reserve Photographic Society (WRPS) conducts competitions each year; Nature and Travel will conform to the procedures of the Photographic Society of America (PSA), of which WRPS is a member.Each season, competition categories may include but not be limited to Nature, Pictorial and Outings. The WRPS board, while planning the annual calendar of events, will determine all competition categories.The board will appoint a Competition Chairperson who may form a committee to serve for one year and be responsible for:•Receiving entries•Obtaining qualified judges•Conducting competitions•Provide necessary equipment•Recording scores•Determining winners•Awarding ribbons•Overseeing outside competitionsRULES FOR COMPETITION ENTRY1.Any current WRPS member may submit entries.2.All images must be titled or they will be disqualified. Untitled does not constitute a title. Titles must be neat and legible and are limited to 17 characters.3.All images that have previously won a WRPS competition are ineligible for any future WRPS competitions (except current year-end club choice).4.All WRPS members may submit a MAXIMUM of 4 images. You may submit in any of the 4 categories, black & white print, color print, projected open, and projected creative, but your total entries may not exceed 4 images with no more than 2 images per category.5.All images and post processing must be the original work of the entrant. Printing need not be the work of the entrant.6.Entries that do not meet the rules of the particular competition will be disqualified. Entrant will have one week to resubmit a corrected or alternate entry in place of the disqualified entry.7.Any category where there is just one entrant, that person will receive a single award for the entry with highest points from the judges. If the highest scoring entry receives 21 points or higher the entry will first place award. If the entry receives 20 points or lower it will receive an Honorable Mention. 8.All entries both printed and projected images must be submitted to the Competition Chair no later than the club meeting before the competition night9.All projected entries must be submitted via e-mail to the Competition Chairperson no later than 9:00 PM on the preceding club meeting before the competition. A confirmation e-mail will be sent within 48 hours. Please note earlier submissions are allowed. If you do not have email, you can submit your entries by CD at the meeting prior to the competition meeting. WRPS competition entry email address is jamiespix_yahoo.com.RULES FOR SUBMITTING PRINT IMAGES1.Minimum image size is 5x7. All images must be mounted on 8x10 minimum to 16x20 maximum mount.2.Framed prints are not eligible3.Titles and entrants name must not appear on the front of the image or mat.4.All entries must be properly affixed with the WRPS label (available on club website and new member CD) on the back of the image in the upper left corner with the title, makers name and address.5.All print rules are the same as the projected open category.6.If using an outside wrapper the entrant should also have the lable on the outside wrapper, box or envelope so that the images can be returned in the same manner as received.RULES FOR SUBMITTING PROJECTED OPEN AND PROJECTED CREATIVE IMAGES1.Entry name and email subject line must be the same2.A digital entry must be properly named as follows:1st letter is competition name, example:•N nature•P pictorial•O outings2nd letter is category•O open•C creative3rd letter•First initial of your first name (DO NOT USE A MIDDLE INITIAL)4th letter•First initial of your last name (DO NOT USE A MIDDLE INITIAL)5th-8th number•Last four digits of your home phone number9th-25th characters•Title of your image, 17 characters maximum. No spaces or characters such as /?., and jpg extension is a must.EXAMPLE: Mr. Wood E. Duck entered a creative lighthouse image in the pictorial competition. The title, file name, and email subject would be PCWD5008RoundIslandLight.jpg3.Image size •Maximum 1024 pixels x 768 pixels _ 300 dpi•Height of image cannot exceed 768 pixels•Width of image cannot exceed 1024 pixels•Maximum file size is about 1 MB•Projected images view better with sRGB4.Send each image under a separate e-mail. One image per email.RULES FOR PROJECTED OPEN & ALL PRINTSThis category is an open category meaning to make the image the best it can be. Allowed image corrections and adjustments for projected open category are•White balance•Color (temperature and tint)•Exposure/brightness•Contrast•Saturation (vibrance)•Sharpening (clarity)•Dodge and burn•Cropping and resizing•Rotation of the entire image•Conversion to black and white or sepia•Transform and freeform*•Blurring distracting elements*•Cloning, spot healing, healing brush, or patch tools*•Use of electronic filters*•Stitching of multiple images to form a panorama**Items with an asterisk may be used only if they do not alter the main subject or a significant part of the subject. For example:•You may use the clone tool to remove a distracting element, not as a major component of the main subject.As a general rule, you may remove those items that you would have removed but could not remove or avoid at the time of capture. You would have removed or avoided if you had noticed them at the time of capture.All of the asterisk items are not allowed in the nature competition Items cannot be added to the image in this category.Combined images are not allowed in this category.You may use electronic filters and other tools that do not result in what a judge would consider to be an artistic interpretation of the subject. For example, you may use a blur filter to soften distracting elements but may not use a blur filter to create an ethereal mood or special effect that wasnt part of the original subject. Over use images will be disqualifiedRULES FOR PROJECTED CREATIVEThis category is for any image that creates an artistic interpretation by significantly altering the original look and feel of the subject. The image must start as your photograph. Any manipulations that would disqualify it from the open category should be entered in the creative category. If the image fits the open category it does not belong in creative.Youre only limited by your own artistic imagination.There is now a creative category for Nature competitions, however these images do not qualify for PSA..PSA COMPETITION RULESA Photographer may enter PSA interclub competitions from only one club.NEW THIS YEAR: Only one image per person, per competition deadline (you may enter all the competitions, but only one image in each division per night). All images should be sent to Michelle Drackett by 9pm the Friday before the WRPS meeting they will be judged at. A new e-mail address was created for JUST PSA competitions. Please send images to psawrps_gmail.com. Do not send images for other competitions to this address as they may not be discovered in time for them to be resent to Jamie.The PSA definition of Creative is "Altered Reality." More specifically, the image must obviously display a change in natural color, form, shape, or any combination of three. High Dynamic Range (HDR) images without further changes are not considered "altered reality." The original image must be made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or captured digitally. All images must be original and may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else. Original images must be altered by the maker; artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be incorporated, if the original photographic content predominates. Images may not be constructed entirely within a computer. It is necessary that the image's core content be identifiable. Non-creative images are not eligible for this competition. Any subject matter is acceptable as long as the Altered Reality guidelines are apparent.Using brushes, plug-ins, filters and the like, found in/used by Photoshop (or other image editing programs) are fine, but anything photographic must be the work of a club member. No clipart, no portions of photos taken from the web and no stock photography (photography purchased from places like iStock, Getty, Fotolio, etc) can be used.
ANNUAL COMPETITION AND AWARDS At the Annual Awards Dinner, held on the fourth Tuesday in May, the year-end awards for all competitions are presented. The current years winners of first, second, third places, and honorable mention from all four categories (black & white print, color print, projected open, and projected creative) will be honored. A year-end club choice award will be voted on and awarded from the entire current years first place and invitational winners.

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PCZE6077Inspiration.jpg

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PC RR Delicate Beauty.jpg

PTZE.jpg

NOJR6733MorningMist.jpg

nojc3618Froggy.jpg

NOJS8327MoonRisingOverTheBog.jpg

NCMK8262whoRU.jpg

NOBB4084FishDinner.jpg

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NCJR6733Islands.jpg

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INFORMATION

COOL STUFF

COOL STUFF
The WRPS LibraryThe Western Reserve Photographic Society is proud to offer to its members a vast array of information on DVD. These videos cover a wide spectrum of photographic interests, including everything from food photography to sports and action, and from dark room technique to the digital revolution.In order to have these DVDs available to as many of our members as possible, we have established the following borrowing guidelines:One DVD per person each time.Each DVD should be returned at the next club meeting.If, after two weeks, you are unable to attend the meeting, contact the librarian to make drop off arrangements.All DVDs must be signed out with your name and telephone number.If a DVD is lost, a replacement fee will be charged.

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Nov 2011.pdf

Dec 2011 Newsletter.pdf

step_by_step_resizing_horz.pdf

print_competition_label_2008.pdf

Dec. 2011

Nov 2011.pdf

dragging_the_shutter.pdf

wrps_membership__application_2010.pdf

0ct 2011 Newsletter-1.pdf

step_by_step_resizing_vert.pdf

WRPSCompetition Rules.pdf

Sept 2011 NewsletterW.doc

Sept 2011 NewsletterW.doc

Sept 2011 NewsletterW.doc

WRPS_Newsletter_May-Jun 2011.pdf

Feb 2012 Newsletter.pdf

Jan 2012 Newsletter.pdf

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BOARD MEMBERS
President/Newsletter Stewart Helberg 1st Vice President Lori Diemer Secretary Michelle Drackett Treasurer Louise Wiles Past President Dee Hudson Hospitality Chair Mike Gunn Competition Chair Jamie Vanek PSA Chair Michelle Drackett Outings Chair Bonnie Charvat Equipment Chair Mark Toth Events & Exhibitions Lori Diemer Video Library Marty Kreger Archives Ed Hodina Web master Jim Perry Bulletin Boards Deb Wiles Mentoring chair/Newsletter Chris Bradlee Marketing coordinator Tammy Mellert

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