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Member Bio

Member 7 - Biography Rick Cloran I started in photography back in the very early 70’s. My experiments with printing didn’t last long as I was quickly lured over to “the dark side” of slides. In ‘75 I joined the Greater Lynn Camera Club (now Greater Lynn Photographic Association). I had the good or bad luck of joining on a competition night and sat there with the sinking feeling that rather than being ready for National Geographic, I couldn’t even make Class B. Hopefully thing have improved since then. I joined PSA in ‘76. While I have been a member of a number of other organizations over the years, GLPA and PSA have been my constants. I’m a past President and the current Treasurer for GLPA and the Past Chair of the Nature division in PSA. Currently I am one of the Trustees for PSA’s Endowment Funds and Chair the Investment Committee as well as sitting on the Honors Committee and on one of the Strategic Planning Task Force committees. From a photography stand point, I’ll shoot pretty much anything that won’t shoot back. I started in sports and PJ, migrated to landscapes and found my passion in nature photography. My wife Marilyn and I met at GLPA and so we have a shared hobby on trips and outings. She too loves nature photography so that is what drives the planning on most of our vacations. I started using Photoshop back at Photoshop 5 and now teach most of the workshops we have at GLPA for Elements and Photoshop. I’m always looking for new ways to do things or to improve on the way I have done things and have become fascinated with the potential of HDR. I have both Photomatix and Nik’s HDRPro but still prefer Photomatix for most images. I have started doing a lot of single image HDR processing / experimenting and am working on a preset in Photomatix to allow me to do single frame HDR on nature images to open up the shadow detail with more natural looking results than using Shadow Highlight. I am looking forward to sharing with and learning from the group in our mutual exploration of HDR. (I’m also a devoted reader of Fred’s Digital Diary column every month.)