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About Photography By Steve daPonte

Florida Native with a love for the sights and sounds around us that are often overlooked. Welcome to Photography By Steve daPonte The world around us is full of images that are dynamic and ever changing with time. Photography captures these little slices of time, moments that pass mostly unoticed and taken for granted in our daily lives. Every photograph a visual story of life and being alive in a glorious world of line, space, color and motion.

Track A – History of Street Photography, Part 1

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Great site about the history of street photography.

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As indicated in the Introduction, this is Track A (History of Street Photography). Track B (Art of Composition and the Composition of Art) will start in the near future. You can find a link to the posts already written to date on The Art of Street Photography page in the header above.

Part 1 – The Evolution of Street

When María and I sat out to begin documenting the history of street photography, after some discussion, we realized that given the great variation in the art form, it was best to begin a discussion of what street photography is by looking at its pioneers and the work they created. In this chapter, we’ll touch on some of the acclaimed masters and tell you a bit about them and their work. We won’t do much analysis of their work here; that’s probably best served by looking at one photographer at…

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Doug Carson Has Camera Gear For Sale

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FOR SALE.  Complete camera package consisting of the following:

 

  1. PENTAX K-7 14.5 megapixel camera body.  This camera has only 3800 total shutter 300px-PentaxK7_1cycles and is in excellent condition with no visible wear.
  2. PENTAX 18-250mm f3.5-6.3 zoom lens.  This lens was purchased with the camera body and is also in excellent condition.
  3. LENSBABY Composer Pro 35mm f2.8 lens.  Like new.
  4. KENKO 420-800mm telephoto zoom lens.  Manual focus.  Like new.
  5. VANGUARD Alta 255CP carbon fiber tripod.  Basically new.  Purchased for travel, but never used.  Includes carrying case.

 

As stated above, all equipment is in excellent to new condition.  The equipment includes all original accessories, manuals, software, etc. in the original boxes.  In addition, there are two extra LI90 lithium ion rechargeable batteries and a Magic Lantern PENTAX K-7 guide which is superior to the factory manual for ease of use.  The original total price for everything was over $2400.  I will sell the complete package for $750.

 

Doug Carson

772-463-8068

luannecarson@comcast.net

 

Barley Barber Field Trip Send Me Your Images

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Hi LCC Members,

If you attended the Barley Barber Outing on April 25 please send 3-4 images sized 1200 on  the long side with a resolution of 72ppi (dpi) to

lighthousecameraclub@gmail.com

Thanks,

Steve

 

So far Louis, Brad, Walter, Mary Beth, Mary Kirby and Jeff Ornstein have sent me images here they are.

Yesterday 4/11/15 at Wacodahatchee

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Hi LCC members,

Yesterday several of our members attended the Wacodahatchee Wetlands  outing and had a great time!

If you attend the outing please send 2-4 photos sized 1200 on the long side and 72ppi (dpi)  to lighthousecameraclub@gmail.com

and I will post them to a gallery here on our website. 

Here are a few already received.

The January 20 Meeting – With Special Guest Speaker Jason D. Page

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Hello LCC Members,

The camera club was honored to have Light Painting Artist Jason D. Page and his inspiring and educational presentation. After the meeting he even conducted a workshop which many of our members attended. Thank you Jason!

If you attended the workshop please send your images to lighthousecameraclub@gmail.com with Light Painting in the subject line. The images will be posted to a gallery here on our site.

If any of you are interested in purchasing the Light Painting tools Jason makes here is the link to his website.

LINK:Light Painting Brushes

Light Painting Artist Jason D. Page

 

Where were you today?

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Hi LCC Members,

Where were you today?

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I know where I was, at the Palm Beach Zoo with over 40 other club members.

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We all had a great time at the zoo photographing the beautiful animals and zoo grounds.

For those members that attended,  please send me 3-photos and I will be posted on the gallery page on our site with your images.

email them to lighthousecameraclub@gmail.com

Thanks,

~Steve