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                                                                  Image of the Year
                                        "Thankful"  by  Stephen  Payne
"This is a sunrise shot I took of myself on top of The Watchman, a peak on the rim of Crater Lake. I skied up the night before to photograph the full moon rising over the lake, and the next morning I crawled out of my sleeping bag at 5:00 a.m. to capture the sunrise. The signal on my wireless shutter release wouldn't reach far enough to allow me to take the self-portrait remotely, so I had to use the self-timer, which gave me 8 seconds to run down the ridge and get in position. The extreme wide angle lens (12mm) makes the ridge appear rather flat, but it was actually quite steep and icy with drop-offs on both sides. It took a number of tries to get it just right. I titled the photograph "Thankful" because I believe God is the one who creates such beauty, and I'm just grateful to be able to see it, capture it in a photograph, and praise Him for it."

"For those interested in technical details," Payne adds, "the photograph was made using a new technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR), in which a series of three photographs are bracketed using different exposures and then combined through a software program. The technique results in a photograph with detail in the areas that would typically be all dark or all light if just a single shot were taken." Payne said he also used a 2-stop graduated neutral density filter on his lens to darken the sky and accentuate the colors in the sunrise.

   

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"There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment." 

"Photography is not like painting.  There is a creative fraction of a second       when you are taking a picture .  Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.  That is the moment the photographer is creative."

                                                                                           Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The Caveman Camera Club was founded in 1961 for the purpose of sharing the art and science of Photography. You are invited to join and participate in the Caveman Camera Club to learn, experience and enjoy photography.

Meetings are held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7:00 PM.  No meetings during July and August.  Meetings are held at The Business Center,  109 NW  "C"  St.  Grants Pass, Oregon. 
For more information contact Margaret at  541.479.1909
  


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