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Summer Assignment: Take a Photo That Works as a Postcard!

July 23, 2024July 24, 2024Matt Malwitz

We’re pleased to announce our latest photo assignment, “Take a Photo that works as a Postcard”. As you travel this summer, take an image that sells your audience on a location. Be creative! This can be taken during a vacation or in your own neighborhood. If you missed the presentation, check out the details below!

Summer Assignment: Take a Photo That Works as a Postcard!

Rules:

Image must be taken between 06/21/24 and 08/23/34
Image must be submitted by noon on 08/23/24
Submitted file should be at 2400 pixels wide at it’s longest side.
Email submissions to focus@bergencountycamera.com

The assignment review will be held in the store on Saturday, August 24th at 9:30am. We hope you can join us.

We hope you participate in this assignment. If you have any questions, please email them to matt@bergencountycamera.com. As always, be creative, think outside the box, and have fun! We can’t wait to see your images!

Focus Sessions for May 2024 – Saturday Morning Schedule

April 19, 2024April 29, 2024Carly Rahl

Focus sessions are Free and take place in our store from 9:30 am – 10:15 am. Focus Sessions are mini classes and discussions and classes about photography. All sessions will allow for questions and answers. Please bring your camera and any images along that you have questions about. Please check out our current schedule of free Saturday morning Focus Sessions for May 2024 below!

No RSVP necessary – Free for everyone – Please bring a friend!

Have suggestions for future focus sessions? We’d love your feedback – feel free to leave us a comment below.

Focus Sessions for April 2024 – Saturday Morning Schedule

March 20, 2024April 29, 2024Carly Rahl

No RSVP necessary – Free for everyone – Please bring a friend!

Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave us a comment below.

Focus Sessions for March 2024 – Saturday Morning Schedule

February 14, 2024February 19, 2024Carly Rahl

No RSVP necessary – Free for everyone – Please bring a friend!

Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave us a comment below.

Winter Photo Assignment: Looking Up & Looking Down

February 14, 2024March 3, 2024Matt Malwitz

Announcing our latest winter photo assignment, Looking Up & Looking Down! If you missed this past Saturday, check out the details below!

Watch our winter photo assignment webinar on demand.

Rules:

-The photo must be taken looking up or looking down, simple enough. We don’t want to see any horizon lines or full blown landscapes.

-Images must be taken between February 10th and March 15th of 2024.

-You may either submit one image looking up or looking down, OR one of each – one looking up and another looking down.

-Your image(s) are due Friday, March 15th by 12:00pm (noon). Please email submissions to focus@bergencountycamera.com
-Please have your images sized no smaller than 2000 pixel wide/tall in JPEG format

The review session will be held in-store on Saturday, March 16th at 9:30am. Doors open at 9:00 for coffee! As with all of our past Focus Session Assignments, this is a chance to get creative and try new things. We’re not grading you, so have have fun with it. We can’t wait to see what you capture!

Here are some example to get the creative juices flowing. Again, we want you to be creative, so don’t feel the need to replicate any of the following. Just use them as a guide!

Focus Sessions for February 2024 – Saturday Morning Schedule

January 30, 2024February 9, 2024Carly Rahl

No RSVP necessary – Free for everyone – Please bring a friend!

Free Saturday Morning Focus Sessions
Level Up Your Photography Skills

Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave us a comment below.

Free Saturday Focus Sessions – January 2024 Schedule

January 9, 2024January 15, 2024Carly Rahl

No RSVP necessary – Free for everyone – Please bring a friend!

Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave us a comment.

Focus Session: Analog Photographers in a Digital World

November 2, 2023February 20, 2024John Tworsky

The Who, What, Why and How of “slow” photography

A visit with Mel Evans, Jim Fitzgerald, Marty Frank, Phil Mc Auliffe and Rob Tucher of the Monalogue Collective and Tom Gramegna, Gallery 270 Director.

Bergen County Camera’s Focus Sessions begin Saturday mornings at 9:30 AM, doors open at 9 AM. The artists will speak in greater depth about their process and motivations for choosing to work only in B+W, only using film, and don’t employ any digital process in any aspect of their process!

Showcasing an amazing variety of vintage/traditional processes such as platinum/palladium, silver gelatin and carbon transfer prints, the artists will speak in greater depth about their process and motivations for choosing to work in “slow” photography.

The show opens tonight and the public is invited to the gala opening, we’re expecting seven of the nine artists whose work is on display in Gallery 270 to attend. It happens this Thursday 11/2/23 from 7-9PM with refreshments and snacks and the show runs through 1/31/24.

Join us for an exciting exploration of the work of some of the photographers from the Monalog Collective, a group of like-minded stalwart artists who choose to work in “slow” processes of monochrome film photography to express their vision. We’ll discuss their one of a kind works as displayed in the 2023 -2024 iteration of the show The 21st Century Handmade Print.

Watch Jim’s PBS interview here

Winter Self-Assignment

March 18, 2023March 1, 2024John Tworsky

Below you will find the images along with the photographer’s name. Below all the photos is the assignments that were chosen. Lots of great images with many pushing to learn new techniques in the process. Great assignment everyone! As always, let us know if you have any questions about anything photographic. We’ll have our new assignment ready to go in about a month — details to follow.

New Photo Assignment: Water

June 10, 2022March 1, 2024John Tworsky

Photo Assignment: Water Details of the assignment and discussion during our online webinar. We hope you join the fun.

Experience Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced.

Due Date: Images emailed to focus@bergencountycamera.com by July 15th. Be sure to include you name and brief description of image

Follow the instructions, get your shot and submit to our email. We’ll have a online Focus Session on July 23rd to review and discuss all the submissions. Sign up for the July 23 review webinar – 9:30 am

Watch the Assignment Webinar and learn about the assignment

Assignment instructions handout

As always we are here to help with any questions you have about your photography.

Special thanks to Matt Malwitz for sharing the “water” images below.