Welcome to the Gateway Camera Club

Our goals are to share ideas, knowledge, and insight; to help improve the skills and abilities of our members; and to have some fun while enjoying photography. We recognize photography is changing, growing and with ever-emerging technologies, more exciting than ever!  Gateway was one of the first local camera clubs to embrace digital photography and, as a result, we have some very knowledgeable digital photographers. Many award-winning members of Gateway Camera Club honed their talents and abilities through the mentoring they found at Gateway.

Our club is very active and we meet on most Tuesdays from September to June 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Want to compete, learn and share? Check out our exciting schedule. Visitors and new members are always welcome. Just stop in and introduce yourself. We hope you'll soon find an aspect of Gateway that fits your interests. Please browse our website, learn more about what we do, and enjoy. And remember, enthusiasm is catchy. Come and catch some!  

The slideshow to the right are images from our February Competition

Interested in seeing what Gateway Camera Club is all about? You are welcome to join as a Guest Member for 30 days.  Just send us an Email and you will be added to the attendee list for the next 30 days.

Upcoming Events

Competition Night - March 11th on Zoom - Theme is Lonely Tree - Judge Arthur Vaughan

Image Study - March 18th - Zoom - commentator Don Toothaker

Program Night - March 25th - Watch Party Church - "Forests: Going Deeper Into Trees & Woodlands" presented by Mark Bowie

The conventional advice for photographing woods is to simplify the chaos.  That's valid, but there's so much more to artistically portraying trees and woodlands.  

Following in the path of his FORESTS project, which he presented to Gateway in 2021, this new presentation by Berkshires-based and longtime Gateway friend Mark Bowie shares new strategies and insights for creating meaningful, artistic forest imagery.  

Mark will examine a wide range of creative possibilities with the audience.  He’ll illustrate how to compose for visual separation, depth and dimensionality, and how to showcase tree forms, gestures, textures and color palettes while avoiding pitfalls.  Mark will also cover producing expressionistic abstracts using blurs and intentional camera movements.  He will also discuss seasonal opportunities under various weather and lighting conditions.

Mark will cover how to enhance mood, atmosphere and feel through artistic processing, illustrate how image softening techniques can reduce visual chaos.  He will discuss how selective contrast and color adjustments and dodging and burning can enhance depth and he will explain the benefits of refining white balance and of sharpening. Solving the visual puzzle of forests using Mark’s methods is challenging, but the resulting images can be incredibly fulfilling.  Learn to see trees in a new light and expand your creative vision for forests.  Mark’s presentation promises to be eye-opening, informative, inspiring and monumental.  

Bio: Mark Bowie is a professional nature photographer, writer and much sought-after public speaker.  He has done three coffee table books on his native Adirondacks, has authored two extensive e-books on night photography and published another on his photographic journey “Finding November. “ Mark has also released two instructional videos, “FORESTS: The Art of Photographing Trees & Woods” and “Multiple Exposures for Maximum Landscapes.”  

Mark is a staff instructor for the Adirondack Photography Institute and leads landscape photography workshops.  For more on his work visit his website, www.markbowie.com.

Education Night - April 1st - Watch Party Church - "Photographing Abstracts: The Techniques Behind the Best Images" presented by Lisa Langell

Excellent Abstract photography doesn’t happen by chance.  It is rarely the accidental blurred shot that works as an elite abstract image.  It is through careful photography and technique where the best images are created.  So--expand your creativity! A whole new world of photography, creativity, and fun opens up when you break the boundaries of traditional imagery and explore photographing abstracts!  I will teach you the techniques behind creating the best images.

Abstract photography is all about taking the everyday objects and transforming them into something creative and mostly unrecognizable in comparison to their original form. Through instruction, videos, audience-interaction and inspiration from your instructor and fellow participants, you will learn:

·       How to apply basic compositional guidelines while using your creativity and vision to create abstract images
·       How to use intentional camera motion (ICM) and motion blur
·       Patterning and its application to abstract photography
·       How contrast, shadows, color theory, textures, edges, and more can help you design images that are artistic, ethereal, and fun
·       How to present your abstract images for impactful, stunning wall art and more!

This session is always full of laughs, freedom, and creativity. It’s a great class for any level of photographer with any camera--even a mobile phone!

Bio: A nature photographer and birder from the age of eight, Lisa is the founder of Langell Photography, LLC.  (http://www.langellphotography.com).  She started her business in 2010 after long vibrant careers as a floral designer, educational psychologist, consultant and in helping launch and manage two startups that grew into leading companies in the Ed-Tech space.  Since then, she has earned numerous awards and has been published in Outdoor Photographer, Arizona Highways, Ranger Rick, Images Arizona, and more. She is an Image Master for Tamron Americas, an Ambassador for Fotopro Tripods, and is a judge for ViewBug.

Lisa loves creating nature photography and art that is inspired by her background in psychology and design. When Lisa isn’t having fun making photographs, she’s thriving on teaching photography—both via engaging online/webinar-based classes and in her in-the-field sessions.  She specializes in Alaska, Florida, Arizona and beyond.  Her humility and passion for teaching and photography shines through! Lisa provides photographers with memorable, fun, and caring experiences that enrich, invigorate and expand photographers’ skills and portfolios in wonderful ways.

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/lisalangell/ and https://www.facebook.com/LisaLangellPhotography/
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/langellphoto/
YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/Langellphotography
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisalangell/
Website:  http://www.langellphotography.com

Field Trip - Orchids at Tower Hill - March 10th 6PM to 9PM

I have arranged a special visit to the New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill for our members during a time when it is normally closed to the public.  Please note that this replaces the field trip previously announced for March 21. 

Tripods will be encouraged (actually, they are pretty much necessary).  Flashes, other hand-held lights, and reflectors will also be allowed.

The cost for this session will be $15.00 per person, which is a discount from the usual price of admission.  However, garden members who are admitted free during normal hours will need to pay the $15 for this reserved  time.

There is a 10-person minimum for this special session.  Therefore, please sign up as soon as possible, but no later than midnight Thursday, March 6.

If there is enough interest among people who plan to attend, I can arrange an optional “sandwich, fruit salad and chocolate brownie dinner box”  ($16 per person) which we could eat in their cafeteria at 5:30.  To do that, though, I need to have orders in to the caterer by March 1. Therefore, if you are interested in the boxed dinner, please sign up by Thursday, February 27, and notify me of your interest by emailing me through the website. 

Come join us!  Register here:  /club/Event_Registration.aspx?EventId=ef0510f1-7244-487d-b205-306ffba0610e

After you sign up, please check your email for confirmation that you are registered.

Offered by Lois Galluzzo

Field Trip - Boston Harbor Boat Tour - Saturday March, 22

We're going on a Boston Harbor cruise!  This is not the cruise of Boston Harbor that you may be familiar with where everything is far away for most of the trip. This is a unique cruise around the inner harbor passing close by all the communities and wharves.  Our tour will be a continuous stream of photo ops passing before our eyes. 

The tour will be narrated and discuss the history of the city, its harbor, and how much the waterfront neighborhoods and the harbor continue to evolve – nearly 400 years after the city’s founding. The boat has an enclosed cabin area as well as outside seating and decks. 

Times are approximate but from mid-morning until noon.  

You must register and pay for the cruise before registering for the Gateway field trip.  Register for the cruise here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/friends-of-the-harborwalk-winter-harbor-cruise-tickets-1231631907189?aff=oddtdtcreator

After you have confirmation of registering for the boat tour, register for our Gateway field trip here>>   /club/Event_Registration.aspx?EventId=d87e676e-be17-4c88-afba-b2e07b22aea9

Registration closes Thursday, March 20, at 5:59 PM. 

Need To Know and suggestions will be sent out to the registered group on Friday, March 21 

Offered by Buz Bragdon

Lighting Meeting - March 29th - 9:30 to 12:30 - McAuliffe Framingham Library

Time: 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Location:  The Community room of the McAuliffe branch of the Framingham Public Library, 746 Water St, Framingham, MA 01701

Teacher:  Terry Anderson

When you think of photographic lighting, you’re likely picturing a portrait studio.  Well, artificial lighting (meaning any light except the sun and fire) can be used in so many different genres and places.

This meeting discusses continuous lighting.  We will learn when to use continuous lighting.  We will learn its advantages and disadvantages.  We will learn how to control it.  LED continuous lighting technology is changing fast and we will explore exciting new products.

Registration is required > /club/Events_view.aspx?Eventid=d82d7432-c183-4d72-8b77-4c5f7e42eb5d

Sudbury Goodnow Library Exhibit - March 1st to Mar 31st

There will be an artists’ Reception at the Library on Saturday, March 15th from 2 to 4 PM

Photographer's Event List

Buz is creating an events of interest to photographers list.  This is intended to be an interactive list with any member sending Buz an event that they've learned about.  The event can be anything that you think would be of interest to photographers.  These could be larger regional events or small home town celebrations of some kind.   Any theme might be a good event:  specialty sports (nat'l leagues, we already know about), state and local fairs and festivals, flowers and gardens, historic, special visiting exhibits at museums, and events that defy categorization.  As you send Buz events,  he will add to the list and send out periodic updated e-mails. 

April 24 -27 - 48th Annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival  - https://daffodilfestival.com/   Contact Diane Spottswood or Lois Galluzzo for details

There is more than one definition of black and white.  For our competitions, a black and white image may consist exclusively of black and white or may include shades of gray tone (grayscale) that may range from dark (black) to light (white).  A black and white image is a monochrome image, but not all monochrome images qualify as black and white.  An image will not qualify as a black and white image if it contains tones, shades or hues of color other than black, gray or white.