South Carolina Photography Guild

The 2nd issue of the SCPG monthly newsletter has been published!  If you’re a registered member, check your email!  If you didn’t get one, let us know!  If you want to get one, let us know!  If you want to register and share photos and fun, thoughts and shots, tips and tricks, etc., etc., etc. stop on over!  It’s always free to register and share images, and we’d love to see some new faces….  So where’s all the closet photogs out there?  For those that would like to read the latest news, for the time being the issues are being made available for download…just stop in the forums to grab the latest issue.  Contests, a photo of the month, and much more is available in there.  As the old saying goes, “Thars gold in them thar pages!”

The August Monthly Assignment has also ended.  The theme was Nothing but Skies.  Turnout was a little light, but the shots that are in there were neat to see.  Thanks to all who participated.  Check them out here:  August Skies  For September, the theme will be Glass.  So, get the lead out (of your glass) *insert drum / cymbal sound for bad joke here*, and join in the Monthly Assignment fun.  The forums are the preferred place to post images, but you can also post here in the comments if you like too.  Whatever, as long as it’s theme appropriate!  So..until next post:  Happy Shooting!

The Online Photographer has a couple new articles out for your coffee-time reading pleasure.  My favorite of the bunch is the “How To” for digital print tonality.  The Digital Photography Show has a new podcast out where they talk to Canon’s Rudy Winston about the allegedly forthcoming 40D.  Good stuff there…  DP Review has a posting that talks about Nikon’s new “full color RGB sensor”.  Check it out for details.   Strobist (blog about lighting) has two new articles that are both well worth the read.   Finally, thanks to Steve Stone from the SCPG forums for sharing a Canon Contest!  Great prizes and best part…entry fees are FREE!  (We like free at SCPG!)  Links to the websites are here:

The Online Photographer

The Digital Photography Show 

DP Review

The Strobist 

Canon National Parks Photo Contest 

For those interested in having the contest details, SCPG has put together a PDF download of the contest rules, as well as a listing of both Nationally and State recognized eligible parks.  This is available in the forums as a free download from the Coffee Shop.  Click here to get the abbreviated version:  SCPG Forums  Remember, entry fees are free, and you can do it online!  Have a great day and Happy Shooting!

Not a lot of thoughts this early, but here’s some useful things and interesting things I noticed this morning:

The Online Photographer’s post for today is about digital b/w conversions….good read.

Tips from the Top Floor host Chris has his latest podcast out - always fun to listen to, so stop in there if you have 15-20 minutes to listen in… (and don’t forget to vote for him in The Podcast Awards)

Photoshop User TV released their weekly video on Monday (just had a chance to watch my downloaded copy last night - very good show and an awesome prize for their weekly contest - good luck I have no idea where that is!)

And the freebie fourth!:   Photojojo’s latest shows some PS movie effects…fun stuff!

Mark Musselman, the Education Director over at the Audobon Swamp made a recent post under our About section.  While I would like to thank Mark for the post, it will likely get more visibility as a main post in our blog section, so as a courtesy to him, the Audobon Swamp, and the commuity, I am re-posting his information here:

The Audubon South Carolina photography contest runs through Aug. 15th. Photographers wishing to enter the contest shall be granted free entry to either the Francis Beilder Forest in Four Holes Swamp near Harleyville or Silver Bluff Plantation near Aiken.

Rules and entry form can be found at http://www.sc.audubon.org/beidlerforest.html

and directions to Beidler Forest can be found at http://www.sc.audubon.org/where.html

Our blog is located at http://beidlerforest.blogspot.com/

We hope to see you shooting!

Mark Musselman
education director

For those interested in the direct link to his post, that can be viewed here:

http://blog.scphotogs.com/about/#comment-2219