It's time to renew your club membership for 2022. The dues will stay at the same level of $40 for returning members.  Those wishing to pay by check or money order  can send it to the club treasurer at:  Nancy Pierson, 26 Memminger Dr., Flat Rock, NC   28731.  We're now offering renewal by  PayPal on the CCoH website. On the website main page select "Current Member Resources". On that page, scroll down to the Pay Pal button. Directly above the button, be sure to select "Returning CCoH Member". 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nancy at CCoH.treasurer@gmail.com.

Unlike Photoshop, LR was designed for photographers by photographers, so it is much more intuitive and faster to process large numbers of images. I put that to a test shortly after purchasing LR when it was first introduced in 2007. I shot a wedding with over a thousand images to edit and optimize ASAP and found that LR was much more efficient.  I did the initial processing in LR and then switched easily over to PS whenever any cloning and layer work were needed. The two programs worked well in tandem. When asked which app I preferred, I replied that I needed both of them.
 
Over the years LR has been greatly improved to the point that I rarely need to use PS, except when tedious cloning is needed. Its new masking feature enables quick and accurate selections of the sky that can be inverted to mask everything below. Then a long menu of slider adjustments is available that can be applied cumulatively onto one mask. This is the equivalent of a layer in PS, and it is much quicker, easier…and more fun…to use.
 
I took the train-the-trainer course taught by Adobe’s Principal Evangelist, Julianne Kost, in preparation for presenting a PSA sponsored LR tutorial to the Delaware Photographic Society in 2010 and later at CCoH plus private lessons. It is fun to teach, and one can get off to a good start in an afternoon session, which is much faster than PS.
 
With many thousands of images, it is essential to retrieve targeted images quickly and LR uses a relational database to locate images via keywording that PS cannot match. There are many other features and benefits, but this brief overview is a good start.

Now when I am asked which of the two programs I would choose if I could only have one, it would be LR. Fortunately, I do not have to make that choice since Adobe’s Photography subscription plan includes both for $9.99 per month and this includes all upgrades and technical support.

Submitted by Bob Coffey

Our featured program at our next monthly meeting on April 26 will be a critique of member images based on the theme of ‘Joints’.  You can submit up to TWO (2) images with no restriction on when the image was taken.   We do ask you not to submit images that have been shown in previous sessions.  This should be a fun one - get out there and make those ‘joint’ images which need to be submitted to CCoH.Images@gmail.com by midnight Saturday April 23.

While our guest critiquer for the April meeting really needs no introduction, here’s a little of his background:  Ken Weaver was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest before moving to western North Carolina.   Like many of us, Ken never took photography seriously until he retired in 2008 which gave him the time to focus on photography as an avocation. As he honed his skill with the technical aspects of photography, he began to see the artistic attributes of a fine photograph.  He was introduced to serious photography when he joined the Photography Artist Network (PAN) in Riverside, California in 2008. Later he began to hone his skills through education and training with the Boise Camera Club in Idaho. Ken later became members of the Robson Ranch Photo Club, the Denton Camera Club, and the Heard Nature Photographers Club, all in Texas. Most recently he was a member of the Camera Club of Hendersonville, NC where he served in numerous roles including Chairman for several years.
 

You can see some of Ken’s amazing images at kenzlenz.com.