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Gateway Kick Off Meeting 2010 - 2011 Tuesday September 7th 7:30 PM Boston Globe Award Winning Photographer Essdras Suarez 
“We as journalists are duty bound to tell stories with our words and pictures in the hope that others will not forget and to remind the rest of us how lucky we really are”. - Essdras Suarez Essdras, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist has been a Boston Globe photographer since 2002. As a Globe photographer, he says his job title includes “strict instructions to find a feature per shift so I'm always on the lookout for something out of the ordinary. This is what I called "listening to the light" where the light makes itself noticeable by its quality and then you start paying more close attention to what is going on. I try to always "listen" to the light around me.” Nationally Essdras Suarez has covered stories such as the Columbine shooting and space shuttle Columbia disaster. Internationally he has photographed in Sudan, Egypt, Laos, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Spain, France, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, and China.
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New Digital Competition Rules
These rules pertain to the Gateway club digital competitions, which will be held on specific meeting dates (Tuesdays) listed on the calendar. Other competitions such as NECCC,International Salons, and QUAD will require different formats andentry requirements to be provided for each competition. All club competitions are open to all members who have paid their dues for theclub year. Dues:Dues must be paid in full prior to submission of images forcompetitions. Allowances will be made for September but delinquentmembers shall not be permitted to compete in the subsequentcompetitions unless dues have been paid. Click here for more details |
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NatureRules It'simportant to note that Gateway is following PSA's "Nature"definition and NOT their "Wildlife" definition, so ignoretheir "Wildlife" paragraph at the PSA Nature link. In"Nature" you may photograph captive animals (zoo, aviary,conservation park, etc.), although it still must look natural and notinclude the hand of man (e.g. no cages, fences, etc.). In "Wildlife"you may only photograph animals in their natural wild habitat. Click here for more information |
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For 2010 - 2011 Year
| September | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 7 | | | | 2 | 14 | | | | 3 | 21 | | | | 4 | 28 | - | - |
| October | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 5 | | | | 2 | 12 | | | | 3 | 19 | | | | 4 | 26 | | |
| November | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 2 | | | | 2 | 9 | | | | 3 | 16 | | | | 4 | 23 | | | | December | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 7 | | | | 2 | 14 | | | | 3 | 21 | - | - | | 4 | 28 | - | - | | | | | | | January | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 4 | | | | 2 | 11 | | | | 3 | 18 | | | | 4 | 25 | | |
| February | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 | 8 | | | | 3 | 15 | | | | 4 | 22 | | | | March | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 | 8 | | - | | 3 | 15 | | | | 4 | 22 | | - | | April | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 5 | | | | 2 | 12 | | - | | 3 | 19 | | | | 4 | 26 | | | | May | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 3 | | | | 2 | 10 | | | | 3 | 17 | | | | 4 | 24 | | - | | June | | Week No | Day | Program | Host | | 1 | 7 | | | | 2 | 14 | | | |
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Gateway Camera Club proudly announces it's new home at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 3 Maple St., Framingham, MA. Please join us at our Open House on September 1st at 6:30 PM as Jack Reznicki presents: If it doesn't talk, don't shoot it, photographing people and kids.
Sponsored in part by W.B. Hunts Photo and Video
For Directions to the location Click Here
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Tony Sweet will be returning on Saturday, November 21st for an all day seminar. Tickets for Gateway members are $45. Gateway members may also invite 1 guest who will get the same price. Non-Gateway members will be paying $50. The price of the ticket also includes lunch. W.B. Hunt's is also helping to sponsor Tony Sweet.
Click Here for the more details
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The May 6th education night will feature Steve Pansy from Natural Color Lab. Steve will be visiting to introduce a new Kodak paper that he says rivals Cibachromes of the past. Traditionally catering to the needs of discerning professional, Natural Color Labs would like to grow its business to include serious amateurs, like us.
Following Steve’s presentation, Paul Smith will present a number of Photoshop techniques for color correcting and retouching portraits. Many of the same techniques can be applied to other forms of photography. Bring your laptop and get some hands on practice!! If time allows, Jim DeLuco and Paul will some demonstrate posing suggestions.
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The April competition results have been posted. Two images recieved a perfect score of 30 points. "Eagle Landing" by Steve Spiegel and "Zion Sunset" by Paul Smith.
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The Tuesday April 1st education night will cover several short topics that all relate to solving some problems with images as they come from your digital cameras:
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How to deal with high contrast situations – an HDR demonstration by Elyssa Conley
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How to remove reflections from eye glasses – Jim DeLuco
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How to remove noise from your high ISO images – Erik Samwel
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How to remove sensor dust specs from your images – Erik Samwel
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How to prevent dust on your images – a sensor cleaning demo – Erik Samwel
If there is time left Erik also give a short demo on the fantastic free program Irfanview and how to do file resizing and cropping of competition images (both in Irfanview and in Photoshop).
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The March Competition results have been posted. Seven images scored a perfect score of 30: "Clown Fly" by Richard Van Inwegen, "Center Stage" by Scott Foster, "Lunar Eclipse" by Sivasankar Veerbahdran, "Osprey" by Erik Samwel, "Broken Bulb" by Jeff Davis, "Boy in Window" by Michael Goodman and "Roundup" by Stephen Rostler.
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This is an electronic version of the 2008 NECCC Conference flyer.
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Gateway competed with 33 other clubs and took first place in the NECCC Winter 2008 Electronic Interclub Competition for both Pictorial and Nature. We scored 84 in Pictorial and 91 in Nature. Listed below are the ribbon winners. Paul Smith's "Nesting" was also selected to appear in the NECCC bulletin.
Pictorial Winners
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The Department of Transporation has revized the travel restrictions on batteries to make the rules more clear. Basically, you still may not place spare batteries in checked baggage. The clarification is related to carry-on baggage.
For personal use, there is generally no restriction on the number of spare batteries allowed in carry-on baggage. That includes cell phone batteries, “hearing aid” button cells, and AA/AAA batteries available in retail stores, as well as almost all standard laptop computer batteries.
The only restriction for carry-on baggage is related to extended life batteries that are not too common.
This is good news for for camera and laptop users!
See the DOT's safe travel site for details.
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IMPORTANT!!!!
For the February competition only, the competition images images need to be mailed to Paul Smith (
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) NOT JIM DELUCO. Jim is out of town and will be unable to process the images.
The images are due by midnight on Monday, February 4th.
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 This Tuesday, February 5th will be an education night on Landscape and Nature Photography presented by Paul Smith and Erik Samwel.
Last year a poll was held among the membership and How To: Landscape, Nature /Wildlife were among the most popular topics. Therefore the Education Night on February 5th will be dedicated to Nature Photography which includes Landscape and Wildlife Photography. The Landscape portion of this program will be presented by Paul Smith. The wildlife program will be presented by Erik Samwel.
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The results of the January competition have been posted. Congratulations to Erik Samwel for receiving the highest score of the night, a perfect 30 for "Snowy Plover".
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The Metrowest Daily News has a nice article regarding the club's exhibit at the Framingham Library. There are quotes from several Gateway members in the article.
Click Here for the online article
 
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By Jeff Davis
Effective January 1, 2008, the Department of Transportation is implementing new rules on traveling with Lithium-Ion batteries. These are the types of batteries that power most cameras and laptop computers.
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I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday banquet! Paul Smith graciously put together a slide show of some images from the festivities. Images in the show were taken by Paul, Harry Veron, Jim DeLuco and Jeff Davis. Click here to download an executable which will run the show on your computer.
In addition to to the planned entertainment, there was a short roast of Jim DeLuco to celebrate his retirement. Here is a shot of Jim long before thoughts of retirement entered his head.
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By Paul Smith, Club Coordinator
It’s time to get ready for the 32nd annual Greater Lynn Salon. In addition to Slide competition, there will also be a Digital competition again this year. The 32nd Annual Greater Lynn Int’l Salon is coming up in February. Deadline for entries is February 8th 2007. Three years ago, Gateway Camera Club took first place among club entries. Last year we finished 9th out of 22 clubs that entered. We had 18 participants last year. There is a “prize” for the club with the most entrants. I’d love to win that prize this year.
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