WELCOME TO THE DALLAS CAMERA CLUB

  We Hold Twice a Month Meetings For Members and Guests

    Second Tuesdays - Contest Results Videos Live at 7:30 PM

Training Before Each Meeting at 6:15PM

New and Prospective Members are invited to a Dallas Camera Club Orientation with Master Photographer and Past President, Jerry Martin.
Meet with Jerry in the back of the room at 6:15 before the Second Tuesday Meeting to hear about the rich history of the club
and learn how to best leverage the resources of the club to improve your photography.

We meet at Congregation Shearith Israel at 9401 Douglas Ave, Dallas, TX 75225

The objective of the Dallas Camera Club is the mutual entertainment and education of its members in all forms of amateur photographic art. The DCC hosts contests and events including monthly competitions, field trips, training classes for all skill levels, workshops, programs of general interest, an Annual Awards Banquet and an annual competition with the Fort Worth Camera Club. The DCC emphasizes club competition as a learning process. Importance is placed on helping the beginner, or new member, feel at ease, ask questions, learn and participate.

Members Only: Check the RESOURCE LIST if you have specific questions and want to find help from a fellow member.

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Programs

Details and Future Programs HERE

June 27, 2023
Ian McVea

Elevating Your Art: How to bring more depth, form, and emotion to your images.

Description

We know how to compose an image, but how do we raise our photography above producing well-arranged, 2-dimensional representations? How do we express our vision?  It doesn’t matter if you’re a landscape photographer, a portraitist, a bird photographer, an architectural photographer, or you live for bugs on flowers, this conversation is designed to discuss elements we can bring to any of those disciplines to elevate our photos and communicate our vision.

Biography: (the I-really-love-me version)

Ian McVea is a British/Irish-born photojournalist and photography educator. His passion for photography started as a 9-year-old with his mum’s Olympus Pen F half-frame camera, and in 9th grade, at boarding school in Ethiopia, he discovered a life-long love for the darkroom.  While attending college in San Diego and Arlington Texas, he worked as a custom black-and-white printer. On graduating from UT Arlington with a degree in Management, Ian joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a staff photographer, later becoming a photo editor and then Director of Photography. During his 23+ years at the Star-Telegram, Ian covered news, features, and sports. Sports photography was not his forte, but he covered the Stars, the Cowboys, and shot a dizzying number of Friday night football games. He covered the OKC bombing, the Shuttle Columbia disaster, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for international wire services. 

While on staff at the Star-Telegram, Ian taught photojournalism classes as an adjunct professor at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism, and on leaving the paper in 2012 he began teaching Commercial Photography full time in the Arlington ISD. He also teaches summer workshop for photography instructors.

Ian’s images have been published by Getty Images, the AP, Reuters, New York Times, LIFE, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and then there’s a National Examiner cover he’d rather not discuss. His work has been part of recent exhibits at a number of Texas galleries and art museums, and have received honours from the Dallas Press Club, National Headliners, Houston Press Club, The Texas APME, and the Texas Photographic Society, among others. 

He is an active member of the Royal Photographic Society, the Texas Photographic Society, the National Press Photographers Association, American Society of Media Photographers, and the Association of Texas Photography Instructors.    

He shoots mostly analogue medium-format and 4x5 cameras. Digitally, Ian is a Nikon Z mirrorless user, but firmly believes that Canon and Sony cameras can lead very productive lives. 

Ian has two married daughters who share his passion for analogue photography. 

To see more of Ian’s photos, go to:
www.ianmcveaphotography.com
Instagram: @cloakndaguerre

                        CONTESTS                                                          February Contest Images

May Contest Entry Deadline - June 11 2023
Projected -Still Life
Color Prints -Still Life
Monochrome Prints - Open

February Winners Gallery HERE
2022 - 2023 Competition Score Sheet HERE 
February Projected    VIDEO        February 2023 Prints Color and Monochrome VIDEO

EOY Results
 Dallas Camera Club - 2022-2023 End of Year Awards  List of Winners
Banquet Presentation PDF 
History of all recorded winners. Download PDF

Field Trips 
 See All Field Trip VIDEOS HERE

May 20, 2023 - Clymer Meadows Preserve Field Trip 

Send Frank Richards an email at f-richards@sbcglobal.netwith upto six images from the field trip plus people pictures.

June 3, 2023
Rough Riders Baseball

WHEN: SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd
WHAT: FRISCO ROUGHRIDERS BASEBALL GAME     Frisco RoughRiders | MiLB.com
WHERE: RIDERS FIELD, 7300 ROUGHRIDERS TRAIL, FRISCO, TX      Parking | RoughRiders (milb.com)

For anyone that has not experienced minor league baseball, you are in for a treat. Minor league ballparks are smaller than those used for major league teams like the Texas Rangers and honestly, way more fun! The Dallas Camera Club has a block of seats along the 3^rd base line giving members an excellent opportunity to capture the action up close and personal. The game with the San Antonio Missions begins at 7:05 pm but I suggest getting there at least an hour earlier to be able to scout other shooting locations and photograph the players warming up. Tickets are $25, that gets you a seat and a $10 voucher for the concession stands. Please contact me, lpetterborg@gmail.com, if you would like to participate. Your longest lens will probably give you your the best images of the action, but short focal lengths work well for crowd shots.

Start Planning Now for FALL COLOR IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS 
 WHERE: EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
WHEN: NOVEMBER 1-5, 2023
WHAT: FALL COLOR IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS
DETAILS Dallas Camera Club - Field Trips

Online Training Is Available to Members of
Dallas Camera Club and Plano Photography Club

  Details and Schedules For All DCC Classes HERE      
Training held via Zoom. Find access code      DCC MEMBERS      

Dallas Camera Club - 2023 Class Material
Dallas Camera Club - 2022 Class Material

May 2023 Newsletter - HERE

Outward Bound - Photographic Contest Opportunities Outside the Club
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Frame Destination Offers a 10% Discount to Members. Details HERE.         

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