Silver Spring Camera Club of Maryland • USA

1950 - Our 60th Anniversary - 2010

FOUNDED 1950 March 2010 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 7

Worse shoveling than you had, Rockport Harbor, Mass, Dave Mullen Release Release

Quote of the Month

My picture, “ Fifth Avenue, Winter “ is the result of a three hours ’ stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

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SSCC Officers and Chairs 2009-10 Inside this Issue President Carl Brandt 3 President’s Column Vice President Craig Callan Treasurer Jerry Fath 4 Editor’s Blathering Secretary Angelique Raptakis 5 The Dead Presidents Quest Director Norm Bernache 6 Member Exhibits Director Stan Klem 9 Snowmageddon Director Bill Rau Cable Release Dave Mullen 7 Grand Opportunities Competition Michael Tran 13 Book Review Mark Ratner Programs Stan Klem SSCC Meeting Location Third Thursdays Craig Callan Membership MyPhuong Nguyen All three major monthly meetings for this Club Field Trips Bob Catlett Year will be held at the Marvin Memorial United Historian Norm Bernache Methodist Church at Four Corners in Silver Spring. PSA Rep. Michael Koren Directions: Web Site Craig Callan From downtown Silver Spring: Go north on Colesville Road (Rte. 29); take a right onto University E-mail addresses and phone numbers for officers are Blvd. East; then left into the church parking lot A. available on request. Please contact MyPhuong From College Park/Takoma Park: Take University Nguyen at [email protected]. Blvd. West. As you approach Rte. 29, move to the far left lane and turn left into church parking lot B. Or The Cable Release is published ten times each year, pass through Rte. 29 intersection and turn left at the September through May plus Summer, for members loop just past McDonalds. Proceed on University Blvd. of the Silver Spring Camera Club. All rights are East, pass through Rte. 29 intersection, and quickly get reserved but excerpts may be reprinted without in the far left lane and enter into church parking lot A. permission provided proper credit and prior From points north of Four Corners: Proceed south notification is given. Articles are written by on Rte. 29 and turn right onto University Blvd. West, members of SSCC, which is a nonprofit organization move into the far left lane and turn left at the loop just dedicated to the advancement and enjoyment of past the McDonalds. Proceed through the Rte. 29 photography. intersection, and turn left into church parking lot A. From Wheaton and points west of Four Corners: Go Visitors and prospective members are welcome. east on University Blvd. Pass through Route 29 Membership is open to all persons interested in intersection and turn left into parking lot A. photography. For more information, contact Wherever you park, walk to the southeast corner of MyPhuong Nguyen at [email protected]. the Church and enter Room 204.

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President’s Column Many people have been intrigued by the process Carl Brandt whereby a water drop falls, goes under water picking I'm thinking of an eventual up more water, rising again and forming a stalk and a circular bulb. During approximately 4 milliseconds move from my house to a smaller space in the Rider- this amazing process of rising and falling and transfor- wood retirement commu- mation from drop to stalk to drop occurs. Betty’s nity. For such a move, I'll water drop photography represents colliding two water drops and capturing the form made by the energy from obviously need to make some very hard choices as the collision. Photographing this phenomenon to what to keep - and what requires precisely timing the release of the drops, the has to go. Books by and distance between two drops, distance of the falling water, viscosity of the liquid, surface tension of the about photographers are water, and the depth of the water receptacle. high on my “keep” list. Below are some of my Capturing this action requires using shutter speeds up favorites with their year of to 1/8000 of a second. publication. I hope several . of these are in your own Competition: March 11 collection - or that you can Category: Texture find them in a library. Judge: Ruth Schilling Harwood Ruth Schilling Harwood is assistant director at the Portraits of Greatness by Yousuf Karsh (undated, but Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland. She has my copy was purchased in January of 1960). curated many exhibitions, including the 2008 exhibi- In Search of Greatness - Reflections of Yousuf Karsh tion Digital Sequences featuring photographers Chris (1962). Jordan and Gail Rebhan. She is a fine art photogra- A Life in Photography by Edward Steichen (1963). pher and taught photography for many years at Mont- Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White (1963). gomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and at Mount Yankee Nomad - a Photographic Odyssey by David Vernon College in Washington, D.C. An early Douglas Duncan (1966). adapter of Photoshop, she is interested in both tradi- Bodine - A Legend In His Time by Harold A. Williams tional and experimental approaches to the medium. (1971). Carl Mydans, Photojournalist by Carl Mydans and Philip B. Kunhardt (1985). Field Trip: March 20 Ansel Adams - An Autobiography (paperback-1996). Washington National Cathedral Bring your tripod as we head for the National I hope that you look these up and enjoy them as much Cathedral at the corner of Wisconsin and Massachu- as I do! setts Avenues in NW Washington. In keeping with tradition, we will meet at the Giant Food Parking lot Guest Speaker: March 4 (corner of Arliss Street and Flower Avenue in Silver Spring) at 9:30am to car pool. Betty A. Moore Betty has specialized in macro photography for years with a particular fascination for revealing the beauty in Third Thursday: March 18 small things. Her photography brilliantly captures the Presenting A Body of Work colors and illusions of the macro world. She uses Angelique Raptakis-Pictures At An Exhibition Nikon camera equipment, Nikon macro lenses, and high-speed photography to capture the stunning de- Angelique, who has exhibited at VisArts’ Kaplan Gal- tails from a close-up perspective. She also photo- lery, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Rockville Innova- graphs nature and architecture, especially in the glow tions Center, the Washington Gallery of Photography, of evening lights. Recently, Betty’s work “Water Drop Locust Grove Nature Center, Kentlands Mansion, Reflections” was on exhibit at the Artomatic Art Sandy Spring Museum, and the Community Art Gal- Show in Washington, D.C. from May 29 through July lery at Holy Cross Hospital. will talk about getting 5, 2009. “Water Reflections” can also be seen at your work into shows and preparing your work for ex- www.macroillusions.com. hibition.

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Editor’s Corner Books and Graves Dave Mullen The Cable Release Well, maybe Books and Projects would have been a better title, but at least Now Available in Hardcopy now I’ve got you reading! Thanks to Ted Ringger for giving up some shov- To order a copy, eling time to share his project with us in this month’s featured article. visit the Cable Release site Timely inspiration, as our Third Thursdays are steering us toward putting together a Body of Work for the end of the year. Carl Brandt has gener- at http://wehs.magcloud.com/. ously shared some of his favorites, and you’ll find a review of Annie Leibo- vitz’s latest in this issue. As you look over your work for the past year, or just the past two weeks, give some thought as to how it would be best presented. Would an exhibition of prints be most appropriate? Come hear Angelique Raptakis talk about her experiences putting together exhibits. Does a book make sense, or a slideshow? How about a website? Do you have a Flickr site? The expertise for all this and more exists in your club, and the more you share your talents the better we all become. 2009-2010 Michael Koren brings us a preview of things to come after attending the Competition Topics PMA show in California. It looks like all kinds of fun new toys will soon be coming to a Ritz Camera near you! March Texture April Open Several members have been very generous over the past year in writing for May Faces the Cable Release, but with nearly 70 members we could do better. Consider writing an article about yourself, a place you’ve shot, a workshop you’ve taken, a book or exhibit review, a summary of the Third Thursday work- shop, or an article on any other photographic topic that strikes your fancy. Ted’s article in this issue is a perfect example of what you can share if you can dedicate an hour or two every six months. Yes, I do sound like a teacher nagging (some of) you for your homework!

The green and brown theme this month are reminiscent of the greening and renewal of the earth as spring approaches (we hope). Link Notes: Adobe Acrobat does not Give some thought to renewing your creativity by writing for always translate Hyperlinks in the origi- your Cable Release next month. nal publication into Hyperlinks in the Adobe PDF file. Specifically, multi-line The deadline remains midnight on the 24th of each month. websites or websites that do not include “www” seem to be particularly affected. If you like what you see, please add your voice. If you don’t If a link does not work, you may need to like what you see, add something even better! I’m always Copy and Paste the text into your web available by email at [email protected]. browser. To get the latest version of Adobe Reader, use this Hyperlink: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Digital Entries

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The Dead Presidents Quest Ted Ringger

The second blizzard in a week rages outside. My wife is When travel for work and vacations permitted I was stranded in New able to visit some of the sites, but the Quest was not Orleans and will pursued in earnest until I retired. With the freedom of return at least NOT having to be at the desk on Monday, I was able three days later to plan road trips specific to this task. than planned. Taking Dave Fortunately, Mullen’s cue, I only five of the offer the follow- 39 deceased ing…sort of a presidents are combination of west of the member profile Andrew Jackson Mississippi and photography adventure. River. In 2005, I drove to my This is my rookie year with the Club. I joined in Sep- old home in tember and look forward to learning more and engag- Zachary Taylor New Orleans ing with folks I already see are accomplished in this and found six grave- discipline. I have sites in Tennessee and Virginia. From then until 2008, been using digital I was able to visit every one of our Chief Executives’ SLR’s for five years graves. and shot 35mm slide film for 35 years Some graves before that. are very mod- est and oth- I am retired now, ers are huge but spent 30 years and opulent. Warren G. Harding doing environmental There is cer- management and policy work for electric utilities. The tainly no work allowed me to travel around the country, and the connection work with government fueled an interest in our na- between the tion’s history. Abraham Lincoln man’s accom- plishments or historic significance and the size of his In 1998 I was tomb or grave. The Quest was a terrific learning ex- in Kansas perience. Even the presidents who rank low on the list City and of accomplishments have something to offer when one visited the visits their home environments and understand the Harry lives and times. Truman Library and Until the Museum. next one To my meets his surprise, the maker, my Gerald Ford 33rd President and his Dead wife, Margaret, are buried on the museum grounds. Presidents I couldn’t help but wonder where the others were. Quest is complete! This began a quest to find and photograph the last rest- ing places of all the American Presidents. Millard Fillmore

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Inclement Weather Policy Member Exhibits If Montgomery County schools close, Nature's Landscape: Images by Jim Auerbach, SSCC is closed. Through March 5. For up-to-the-minute information Tate Gallery, Christ Congregational Church go to www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org 9525 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901 Gallery Hours: 9am -5pm Info: 301-871-9060 or [email protected]

Points of Departure (includes work by Angelique Raptakis and MyPhuong Nguyen) Through March 27. VisArts Center 155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD 20850 Info: visartscenter.org

California Spring, Sharon Antonelli

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Grand Opportunities February Competition Results The Judge was William Yeagley Gates of the Arctic National Park Artist-in-Residence The subject was Open Program The Gates of the Arctic Artist-in-Residence program Advanced Projection, 20 Entries offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two 1st Sharon Antonelli, California Spring and three-dimensional visual artists, photographers, 2nd Beth Koller, Moonlit Arch filmmakers, and artisans of all types the opportunity to 3rd Michael Tran, High Speed pursue their art in a premier wilderness setting. HM Carl Brandt, Ducks on Ice Application Deadline: May 1 HM Michael Tran, Joy of the Evening www.nps.gov/gaar/artistinresidence.htm Novice Projection, 8 Entries The 2010 Photocrati Fund Competition 1st Scott Shoreman, Cabin in the Woods The Fund offers grants to non-professional photogra- 2nd Miguel Gallegos, Cold Deer phers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental projects. It is aimed at outstanding, up- Print Results were not available. They will appear in the and-coming photographers and will provide them the April edition of the Cable Release. resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world. Awardees Congratulations to all who participated! become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announce- ment of the following year’s award. Photocrati Fund A Reminder: Dues must be up-to-date Grants are in the amount of $5,000. The funds are in order to compete! intended to cover the costs of travel, lodging, and expenses for up to one-month of full time photography, though they may be used in other ways by Photocrati Fellows who pursue projects in their home region. Deadline: March 15 www.photocrati.com/photocrati-fund

SSCC Mentors Available Topic Name Email Nikon D80 Dave Mullen [email protected]

Nikon Flash Dave Mullen [email protected]

B&W Darkroom Dave Mullen [email protected]

Basic/Int. Photoshop Dave Mullen [email protected] Composition & Exposure Mike Lux [email protected] Rural Landscapes/General Bill Rau [email protected] Basic Digital Camera Jim Auerbach [email protected] Your expertise here Your name in lights!

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Classes and Workshops

Brenda Tharp-The Art in Photography. Meadowlark Winter Classes March 6, 8am-5pm. Goucher College. $80. Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Vienna, VA www.baltimorecameraclub.org Image Processing in Photoshop: Beyond Camera RAW, March 6 Colleen Henderson Landscape Photography, March 20 Layers and Layer Masking. March 25 & 26. 9am-5pm. Abstract Nature Photography, March 27 Develop Your Vision. April 1-May 13, 9am-Noon. Instructor: Nikhil Bahl www.nikhilbahl.com Comprehensive Lightroom. April 19 & 20. 9am-5pm. www.colleenhenderson.com/ClassSchedule.html Glen Echo Photoworks Field Trip: National Gallery of Art, East Wing, Washington School of Photography March 7 or March 21, 11am-4pm Holga Black & White Photography, begins March 4 From Film to Digital, March 28-May 2, 7-10pm Classical Fine Art Figure, March 13, 10am-4pm Photoshop Elements Only , March 6-20, 1-4:30pm Posing Models and Clients, March 20, 10am-1pm Basic Digital Camera, March 5-19, 12-3pm Food Photography, March 20, 10am-4pm Photoshop Basics, March 24-April 14, 9:30-12:30pm Pop Up Flash Primer, March 23, 7pm-10pm Contact: [email protected] or Event Photography, March 27, 10am-1pm www.glenechophotoworks.org/tag/workshops/ Metering and Exposure, March 30, 7pm-10pm www.wsp-photo.com Awake the Light Photo Tours Mollie Isaacs & Mary Lindhjem Mountain Trail Photo Great Smoky Mountains, April 18-24 Great Smoky Mountains, April 16-18, or April 23-25. Outer Banks: Photography & Lightroom, October 9-17 www.mountaintrailphoto.com/workshops.htm www.awakethelight.com

VisArts Color Management for Creatives Image Processing in Photoshop, begins March 5 March 23, Root Capture, Brooklyn, NY Beyond the Rules of Photography, begins March 11 www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=183525 Info: www.visartscenter.org School of the Visual Arts, New York Sam D’Amico Workshops Summer Residencies Intermediate Photography: Digital Photography in Shanghai, June 26-July17 Tuesdays, March 2, 9, 16. 6:30-9:30pm. Digital Photography in Florence, June 11-26 or Lighting With Portable Flash. June 11-July2 Tuesdays, April 6, 13, 20. 6:30-9:30pm. Action Surf Photography in Rincon, March 6-14 Info: http://workshops.samdamico.com/ Masters Workshop Photographic Practices: Les Rencontres d’Arles, July 4-16 Penn Camera http://www.sva.edu/artsabroad/0intro.html Lightroom and Camera Raw. March 6, 9am-5pm. Beltsville Store. Creative Lighting with Flash. March 14, 10am-5pm. Smithsonian Resident Associate Program CDIA, Georgetown, DC. Photoshop for Photographers HDR in Historic Fells Point. March 28, 8am-4pm. March 5 & 12, 6pm, March 7 & 14, 9:30am Many other workshops at various locations. Spring Landscape on the Potomac Info at http://penncamera.wildapricot.org/ Fridays, March 19-May 7, 10am Photo Trekking: Spring Woods and Water Nikhil Bahl Workshops Friday, March 19, 6:30-9:30pm Spring Flowers , May 1 Sundays, March 21-May 2, Full day hikes Chincoteague Island, May 14-16 Friday, May 7, 6:30-9:30pm Developing a Creative Vision , May 29-31 http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/ Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, July 10 search_photography.aspx?keyword=C-Photography Info: www.nikhilbahl.com

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Snowmageddon 2010 as seen through the eyes of SSCC members

Ready for a Cookout, Dave Mullen

Lower Marlboro Church, Jim Rogers

Billy Goat Trail, Tom Bancroft

Billy Goat Trail, Tom Bancroft At Last, A Drop, Dave Mullen

Fence and Shadows, Jim Rogers Twilight, Dave Mullen

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Capture, Store, Share: PMA Conference Review Michael Koren

I am on my flight home from attending the PMA ioned” storage medium introduced as well. Kodak convention in Anaheim, CA reflecting on the new announced 4x5 and 8x10 Ektar 100 sheet film. Also products and services seen. As you know photography using film, Holga had a new line of fashionable has changed a great deal in the last few years. cameras. Obviously digital is here to stay but there were still a few new products in the film realm. I saw many inno- Sharing: After going to the effort of capturing an vative products; from a new category of camera image and storing it, the best part is sharing with system, “green” technology, to great new gadgets to others. There are two ways to share these days, enhance the photography process. viewing on a screen, or printing. Sharing online via Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc. is the most PMA, or the Photo Marketing Association, is a popular method. But, many companies offer photo professional trade association of manufacturers, retail sites and online albums to share with friends and stores and photographers working together to build family all over the world. These sites usually give you the business of imaging. I noticed several themes that the option of ordering prints. 3D is again a method of revolved around image capture, storage and sharing. sharing images. Fuji introduced a 3D camera and I will review some new products seen at the show that viewer that was amazing to see. Other printing illustrates each one of these concepts. companies used technology to produce 3D prints with no need to wear those silly looking glasses. Nikon dis- Capture: New on the horizon is a new category of played their new camera that has a built in projector. camera system. Dubbed an Interchangeable Lens Camera by a market research firm, the ILC camera is a Sharing via printing is now more popular than ever hybrid between a DSLR and a point and shoot. This due to the almost unlimited ways of producing a new system is aimed at the photographer that wants physical image. There were kiosks galore offering better quality than a point and shoot can offer but eas- standard 4x6 prints and photo books. I also saw ier to use than a DSLR. This system features inter- specialty machines that could print on wood, stone, changeable lenses and full control in a very small body. plastic, paper, steel, you name it! Inkjet technology is The imaging sensor is at least 8X larger than a stan- getting better all the time and the choices of paper and dard point and shoot camera. With a nod to history materials always seem to be expanding. Olympus will be the first to market with the PEN E-PL1. More manufactures will soon have their This PMA show had a strong emphasis on moving the models out on the shelves. photography industry to become “greener”. Better, more efficient silver recovery units are available for Quickly, some other manufactures showcased minilabs. Many retailers are even going green with dry cameras with built in GPS with interactive maps, 3D labs that only use laser and inkjet systems. These dry technology, twin LCD screens, one on the back as labs use no silver based paper requiring chemicals and normal and one on the front, as well as a camera with therefore waste. Many new companies have formed a built in projector to play your images on a nearby offering recycling services for batteries, single use wall. There were also many water, crush, drop, freeze cameras, cell phones and older consumer electronics and shock proof cameras. In fact, Sony introduced including cameras. More manufactures are using their new model by chopping the camera out of a green raw materials like soy and bamboo, with no block of ice and then using it to shoot pictures of the nickel, lead or mercury to make accessories such as stunned audience. One company even calls their camera bags, chargers and batteries. Solar chargers tough series of cameras “Geronimoproof”! were also seen in many of the booths.

Storage: Memory cards are now the traditional initial Two days at PMA on the trade show floor gave a storage device. Eye-Fi now produces a 4GB SDHC glimpse of the changing face of the imaging industry. card that will wirelessly upload your images to your New technology from capture, storage and sharing computer and one of 25 sites, including some popular enable all of us to enjoy photography in more ways social networking sites. There was a new “old fash- than ever.

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Night Departure, GeorgeDeBuchanenne

Cold Deer, Miguel Gallegos Old Barn, Bob Catlett

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Exhibits and Events

Ted Schroll: Photographs Warhol: Photographs Selected from the GW University Perma- Through March 2. Glenview Mansion Art Gallery nent Collection. Through March 5, 805 21st St., NW. 202- 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20851 994-1525 Gallery Hours: M/W/F, 9am-4:30pm; T/Th, 9am-9pm www.rockvillemd.gov/arts/exhibits.htm Yinka Shonibare MBE. Through March 7. National Museum of African Art. http://africa.si.edu Images of Haiti: Works by Andy Jones. Post-earthquake im- ages taken by Washington School of Photography student Athlete: Sports Illustrated Photography of Walter Iooss. Andy Jones. March 5. Washington Gallery of Photography. Through Jan. 16, 2011, Newseum, Washington DC. http://wsp-photo.com/index.php? http://www.newseum.org/exhibits_th/athlete/ option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=9999 Drag. Photographs by Jason Horowitz of men in makeup. In The Darkroom: Photographic Processes. Through April 3 at the Arlington Arts Center; through March Through March 14. Explores the evolution of photography. 6 at the American University Museum auction exhibition; National Gallery of Art, West Building. www.nga.gov through March 27 at the Curator’s Office. www.arlingtonartscenter.org/transhuman-conditions, Polar Obsession: Photography by Paul Nicklen. http://auction.wpadc.org/, www.curatorsoffice.com Through March 10, National Geographic Museum. http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/ Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction. With photographic exhibits/2009/09/24/polar-obsession-exhibit/ portraits by Alfred Stieglitz. Phillips Collection through May 9. www.phillipscollection.org Orchestrated Misbehavior. Works by Erica Riccardelli through March 27. Framing the West: Survey Photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan. http://evolvedc.com/UrbanArtsProject/currentexhibit.html Ninteenth-century images through May 9. Smithsonian American Art Museum. www.americanart.si.edu Andy Ilachinski: Worlds Within Worlds. Through April 16. American Center for Physics. National Geographic Image Collection. Through April 12. www.acp.org/art.html National Geographic Society. http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/exhibits/2009/10/01/ Nature’s Best Photography Show. Through May 2. National image-collection/ Museum of Natural History. www.mnh.si.edu William Christenberry: Vintage Kodak Brownies. Through Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement March 13. Hemhill Gallery. www.hemphillfinearts.com/ Historical Society of Washington. www.historydc.org Roads and Paths: Photographs by Bernhard Fuchs Through Presidency IV Works by Thomas Demand. March 19. Goethe-Institute, 812 7th St. NW. National Gallery of Art, East Building. www.nga.gov www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/enindex.htm

America’s Endangered Species. Lecture by Joel Satore, Alma Mater. Jennifer Dorsey photography of interiors, through National Geographic photographer. April 20. $18. March 27. Flashpoint Gallery. www.flashpointdc.org http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/ speakers/2010/04/20/americas-endangered-species/ The Synagogue: Architecture, Art, and Appeal. Photographs of world synagogues by Jono David. JCCGW, 6125 Montrose Rd., In Plane View. Through June 11. College Park Aviation Rockville, MD. 301-348-3770. Museum. Large-scale photographs of famous aircraft emphasiz- ing sculptural forms. www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com Nature’s Bounty: Macro and Landscape Photography. Works by Victoria Porter through March 4. Orchard Gallery. Polar Exploration. Not a photography exhibit, but just the www.orchardartgallery.com ticket for putting the Snowpocalypse into perspective. Items from Robert Peary’s 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Photo-Graphics. Images by Danny Conant. National Archives. www.archives.gov Desert Dwell. Images by Min Enghauser. Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA through April 3. Spectacular Saturn. More than 60 images from the Cassini- www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/multiple_exposures.htm Huygens mission. National Air and Space Museum. www.nasm.si.edu Smithsonian Kite Festival. National Mall, DC, March 27. 10am-4pm. www.kitefestival.org

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Scenes from the February Field Trip Bob Catlett

Book Review Annie Leibovitz At Work Dave Mullen

In Annie Leibovitz At Work, photographer Annie a career encompassing photojournalism, portraiture, Leibovitz lays out the backstory of a number of her fashion, and fine art photography, Leibovitz’s discus- photographs, ranging from her sions of the emotional and early days as a staff photographer technical issues she’s encountered for Rolling Stone magazine are more than a little interesting through her formal portraits of to the advanced amateur Queen Elizabeth a couple of years photographer. ago. In this 240 page book, with over 100 photographs, the stories Leibovitz does address some of are brief and the photographs the controversy surrounding some fairly small, though well of her images, particularly the reproduced. compositing of the Queen into an outdoor setting. She does not get Events and people she’s photo- into the issues that have made graphed include Richard Nixon's the front pages recently, includ- resignation, Barack Obama's cam- ing her bankruptcy and the paign, a Rolling Stones tour, the assignment of her copyrights to portrait session with John Lennon her debtors. and Yoko Ono the day he was shot, a pregnant Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg in a Annie Leibovitz At Work lists for $40, but is available bathtub of milk, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Patti Smith, on Amazon for about $26. It’s also available at the members of the George W. Bush administration, Montgomery County Public Library (770.92 LEI). For William S. Burroughs, and Kate Moss. Many of these the Leibovitz fan this is likely a “must buy,” but even images are iconic, and for those of a certain age one is for the rest of us it is worth the time spent reading her brought back to the era in which they were shot. With stories and studying her photographs.

© 2009 Aaron Johnson, Used with permission.

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Website of the Month www.photoradar.com/techniques/technique/how-to-photograph-winter Dave Mullen

Perhaps a bit late for Snowmageddon, this website will provide you with a variety of tips for photographing snow, frost, mist and fog. Based in the United Kingdom, these tips may yet be timely with a few weeks left until the Spring Equinox.

Tim Grey’s Digital Darkroom Questions

In yesterday's DDQ you repeat the standard instruction to fill the overlay layer with 50% gray [for the "dodge and burn" technique]. Since 50% gray pixels have no effect on the image, I wonder why you do that. I've been using this method for some time with the new layer left transparent. Same effect, one less operation.

Tim's Answer: You're absolutely correct that whether or not you turn on the "Fill with Overlay-neutral color (50% gray)" checkbox when you create the new layer for dodging and burning, the effect will be exactly the same in the image. As a result, it is completely unnecessary to turn this checkbox on from the perspective of utilizing this technique. How- ever, I still strongly recommend turning it on when using the dodge and burn method I discussed in yesterday's DDQ email. The reason is that having the layer filled with 50% gray makes it much easier to review the "Dodge & Burn" layer later should that become nec- essary (or merely helpful or instructive). If you leave the checkbox turned off, the new layer you create for dodging and burning News You Can Use will appear with a gray and white checkerboard pattern (though you can change the colors for this checkerboard Full Moons pattern in Preferences if you like). When painting with black Date Moonrise Moonset or white at very low opacities for the dodge and burn tech- nique, it isn't very easy to see your paint strokes against this checkerboard pattern. However, if you fill the layer with March 29 7:24 pm 6:48 am middle gray first, your paint strokes are very easy to see. I'll admit that it isn't very often that I need to review my dodge and burn layer directly (which can be done quickly by April 28 8:37 pm 6:32 am simply turning off the "eye" icon for the Background image layer), but I do review it enough that I find it worth spend- ing that extra fraction of a second turning on the extra Sunrise and Sunset checkbox. I generally review the "Dodge and Burn" layer Date Sunrise Sunset directly when something doesn't look quite right in the im- age and I'm trying to figure out what the problem is, or when I return to an image later and want to see specifically (and March 1 6:41 am 6:01 pm more clearly) which areas were affected. Having said that, if you never need to review the "Dodge and Burn" layer there's no real advantage to turning on the March 15 7:20 am 7:15 pm checkbox in question. But I still recommend turning it on as a "just in case" measure, so you can see your paint strokes March 31 6:54 am 7:31 pm more clearly should you ever have the need.

Times are for Washington DC. www.timeanddate.com © 2009 Tim Grey, Used with Permission

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Cabin in the Woods, Scott Shoreman

PSA News Michael Koren, PSA Representative

Beginning this January members can access the Journal online from the main PSA website. Now it’s easy to get an electronic version so you can search and link to websites directly from the Journal.

PSA members receive a 30% discount on Trek-Tech products as a benefit of membership. Trek-Tech designs innovative photo gear for people that enjoy nature, travel and sports photography. Go to http://www.trek-tech.com/ for more information. Members will need to log on to the PSA site first to obtain the promo code.

Glenn Echo Curve, Bob Catlett

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Deal of the Month A Free Photography Book ! Photographic Therapy by Rolando Gomez

Hard to believe , but Rolando Gomez, a well known glamour photographer who has several titles pub- lished by Amherst Press, is giving away a free PDF book at www.freephotographybooks.com. The eBook, titled Photographic Therapy, deals with ways that the skilled portrait artist can help a subject overcome negative self images. There are glamour type examples throughout the book, so be fore- warned. The 105 page book is not intended to make a photographer into a therapist, but it is an Moonlit Arch , Beth Koller interesting take on the power of photography to help people change the way they see themselves.

Photoshop Tip of the Month Smart Filters The Smart Filter works like an adjustment layer works; it places the filter in a separate layer that you can edit, and later change, nondestructively. To use Smart Filters, you must start by turning your content into a Smart Object. Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the layer that contains the content you want to edit, and select Convert to Smart Object. You can then go to the Filter menu and apply almost any filter you would like. When the filter is applied on the Smart Object, you will see a sublayer in the Layers panel that contains the Smart Filter. By double-clicking on the Smart Filter, you can go back and make any adjustments, or just hide it by clicking on the Eye icon. A few filters can- not work as Smart Filters: Extract, Liquify, Pattern Maker, and Vanishing Point.

High Speed, Michael Tran

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Calls for Entry

Maryland Federation of Art: Juried National Artful TBM “Signs of Love” Photography Contest Photography Show. An open-juried competition of Deadline: March 19 images created in any form of photography. Works www.terabellamedia.com/contest/ selected will be on exhibit in the MFA’s Circle Gal- lery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland from May Women’s International Juried Photography Exhibi- 19 through June 13, 2010. tion 2010 Deadline: March 5 Images created via any form of photography will be www.1212galleryrva.com/1212gallery/call-for- accepted for consideration (i.e. film, digital, unaltered entries.html shots, alternative process, mixed media, digital ma- nipulations, montages, photograms, etc.), so long as The 2010 Qatar Airways Photographic Competition part of the image is photographically based. Theme: Joy of Travel Deadline: August 31 Deadline: March 12. www.mdfedart.org http://forum.australiantravel.co.uk/page/photo-competition

Center for Fine Art Photography 2010 Windland Smith Rice International Awards Current Calls for Entry Categories: Animal Antics, Art in Nature, Birds, Animalia Deadline: March 16 Camera Club, Creative Digital, Environmental Issues, Consumption Deadline: April 13 www.c4fap.org Weather, others. Grand Prize: a "Yellowstone in Win- ter" photo workshop. Deadline: April 5 MPLS Photo Center www.naturesbestphotography.com/contest2/entry_1.php? Landscapes: Unfeigned or Illusory cid=118 Deadline: March 8 www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/callforentries The Great Outdoors Photo Contest Theme: Outdoor locations from around the world Barrett Art Center Prizes: Grand Prize : $1,500 cash and publication in 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition Outdoor Photographer. Deadline: April 8 Deadline: March 1 www.outdoorphotographer.com/photo-contests/the-great- www.barrettartcenter.org/pdfs/photoworks prospectus outdoors.html 2010.pdf University of Notre Dame Photography Gallery New Images of Age and Aging Photography Contest Deadline: April 1 for exhibition in the Photography Theme: Age and Aging. Deadline: March 12 Gallery during 2010/2011 academic year. Contact: www.artae.de/popup/fotowettbewerb.html Martina Lopez, [email protected], 574-631-7652

Images 2010: Central PA Festival of the Arts 16th Annual Juried Exhibition Show: Arthur Griffin Entry Deadline: March 26 www.arts-festival.com/images Legacy Awards, Griffin Museum of Photography Deadline: March 31. www.griffinmuseum.org EPSON International Pano Awards. Contact: Frances Jakubek, [email protected] Dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. Categories: Open, Nature, The Built Environment. Worldwide Photography Gala Awards: The Robert Deadline: April 30 www.thepanoawards.com/ Cornelius Portrait Award. Categories: Portrait, People, Figure and Nude, Docu- Friends of the Earth International Photo Competition mentary, Alternative processes, Digital Manipulation, Deadline: April 1 Performing Arts, Self Portrait. www.foei.org/en/get-involved/photo/fifth-annual-photo- Deadline: April 25 www.thegalaawards.com competition Ebb & Flow: The cycle of change. 2010 Habitat World Photo Contest Must use “low-fi camera” (i.e. Holga, pinhole, etc). Images that communicate something vital about the Deadline: March 13, organization’s life-changing work. http://lightleaks.org/index.php? Deadline: April 11 opion=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=67 www.habitat.org/hw/photo_contest/2010/

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Florida Sunrise, Bob Catlett

Joy Of The Evening, Michael Tran

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Call For Articles and Photos Competition Entry Formats

For Projection ( Please see details in this issue) ♠ Have a tip to share with your fellow photographers? JPG File Format, 1024 pixels wide (MAX) by 768 pixels ♣ Know a good place to shoot? tall (MAX), sRGB color space, 500 KB max size, correct ♥ Took a nice trip? file name format. ♦ Using an interesting piece of software? ♠ Buy a new lens? File Name: Class~Maker's Name~Image Title.jpg Example: Nov~Tom Jones~Washington Landscape.jpg ♣ Know of a good deal? The tilde ~ character separates 3 fields of the file name. ♥ Have a recommended podcast? Class – Nov or Adv ♦ Attended a good workshop? Maker's Name – spaces allowed, use the same name ♠ Seen a good exhibit? throughout the year. ♣ Won a ribbon at last month’s competition? Image Title – spaces allowed, no commas. ♥ Want to be a published author? Submissions by e-mail only to: ♦ Want to make your newsletter editor’s life [email protected] just a little bit easier? Articles and photographs are always needed for Deadline: Midnight 1-week before competition the Cable Release! You enjoy reading it… how For Prints about sharing a bit of yourself with the club? The Cable Release can only be as good as you Mark the BACK of the matte help make it! SSCC members should email with photographer’s name and articles and photos to [email protected] . title of the image and an arrow Don’t worry, spelling will be checked and indicating the print’s correct edited before going to press! orientation

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March 2010 4 Speaker: Betty A. Moore Digital Entries Due by Midnight 11 Competition: Texture 18 Third Thursday: Books & Exhibitions 24 Cable Release Article/Photo Deadline

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