Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club
In This Issue Club News...... 2 - 20 Photography News...... 21 - 29 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 30 - 33 October 2014 Schedule of Activities...... 34 - 40 Complete Index...... 41
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs
The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archives Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- 212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition George Hansen The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is 212 595 7869 [email protected] Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the 718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- Field Trip Susan Sigrist able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed 212 758 0036 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Paul Grebanier 718 629 7164 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. Gallery vacancy The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any House vacancy submissions which are published. Membership Marlene Schonbrun Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each 212 662 3107 [email protected] month. Elena Pierpont Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. 212 956 4515 [email protected] Newsletter Chuck Pine Contact Information 212 932 7665 [email protected] Website Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn www.parkwestcameraclub.org 212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] Social Marvin Fink E-Mail Address 718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] [email protected] Website Bob Wine Club Mailing Address 212 758 5762 [email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Workshop Jerry Harawitz 212 673 2096 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025
Club Officers
President Ed Lee 212 255 9678 [email protected] V. President Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine Cover Photo 212 932 7665 [email protected] Lookin’ Up Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle by Chuck Pine ©2014 212 595 4920 [email protected] Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected]
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message Thank you for your Editorial Comment thoughtful consideration. There’s a potentially danger- There are currently two com- CLUB ous disease going around these mittee chair positions that re- days. No, not that one! The one Ed main unfilled. The Gallery I’m talking about is called Committee and the House “Don’t Get Involved-itis”and Committee are in need of Club in many organizations and members as leaders. Are you clubs such as ours it could the person for the job? prove fatal. All of our committees play Park West currently has important roles in the function- several Committee Chair open- ing of the Club. As a commit- ings that need to be filled and tee chair, you do not have to do I’m calling upon you to step up all the work, rather it would be to the plate. Pyne Bertsche your responsibility to see that volunteered at Monday’s busi- the work gets done. ness meeting to co-chair the As someone once said, the Social Committee with Marvin leader is not the person who does Fink. Sorin Capota, Bill Apple, the work of ten people, but rather and Sonya Smith expressed in- is the person who gets ten people terest in assisting with the to do the work. Sort of reminds Club’s website update. Your me of something Tom Sawyer help is also needed to fulfill might have said. other Club projects. None of the chairmanship positions require heavy lifting. Photo Notes Helen Pine briefed the Club Publisher: Ed Lee about the duties of the chairs. The trick, she said, is to dele- Editor: Chuck Pine gate the tasks. “Many hands Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, make light work!” Give it a try. Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy If it doesn't work out, no hard Klein, Paul Perkus, Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt feelings. Any member of the Contributors: Bill Apple, Christine Doyle, Marvin Fink, Executive Committee will be Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, George Hansen, Ed happy to help you if you need Lee, Elena Pierpont, Chuck Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, answers, meet roadblocks or Sonya Smith and Alice Somma life gets in the way. We’ve been down that path. Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro Benefits include closer con- using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. tact with other members, learn- ing organizational skills, and a All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- sense of accomplishment. Plus, wise believed to be in the public domain. you’ll be inoculated against Credited images remain the sole property of their “Don’t Get Involved-itis!” copyright holders—all rights reserved.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month by George Hansen CLUB
PDI-of-the-Month Basket, Barrel, Bucket, Bird by Marilyn Fish- Glynn
Honor PDIs Building Reflects Riverside by Bill Apple Maasai Woman by David Francis Bird Abstraction 1 by Peter Houts Mesmerized at Aquarium by Elena Pierpont Contemplating by Elena Pierpont Ready for Takeoff by Chuck Pine Nude by Rita Russo Dedicated Patriot by Janet Susin
Basket, Barrel, Bucket Bird ©2013 Marilyn Fish-Glynn
Print-of-the-Month Miss Moo (Marie) by George Hansen
Honor Print Autumn Sunset Veil by Hedy Klein
Miss Moo (Marie) ©1968 George Hansen
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals through October 2014 CLUB by George Hansen This was the first monthly competition of the year. Congratulations to the PDIs winners, honorees, and to all Prints who entered! Elena Pierpont 20 Thanks to our October Peter Houts 18 Hedy Klein 18 judge, Sandra Carrion, for Chuck Pine 18 Sarah Corbin 16 an excellent job. Rita Russo 18 George Hansen 16 And, as always, thanks Karen Corrigan 16 Oggy Doytchinov 12 to all those members who Jerry Vogel 16 Paula Paterniti 10 collected images, set up and Bill Apple 14 Madeleine Barbara 8 ran equipment, passed Sal Maci 8 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 14 prints, kept scores, and all David Francis 14 Bill Apple 6 the other tasks which help George Hansen 12 Paul Grebanier 6 to make our competitions Janet Susin 12 Natalie Manzino 6 run so smoothly—George, Ann Broder 10 Elena Pierpont 6 Hedy, Marlene, Bill, Rita, Dinorah Capota 10 Jerry Vogel 4 Michael, and Natalie. Paul Grebanier 10 Marjorie Gurd 10 Hedy Klein 10 Joan Slatkin 10 Marilyn Thypin 10 Christine Doyle 8 Sal Maci 8 Paula Paterniti 8 Madeleine Barbara 6 Sorin Capota 6 Sarah Davis 6 Jerry Harawitz 6 Natalie Manzino 6 Dottie Mills 6 Sonya Smith 6 Ruth Lowell 4 Jay Bitkower 3
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 2014-2015 Schedule-at-a-Glance
CLUB This schedule is tentative and may be changed based on the decisions of the Executive Committee and the Club membership. August February 31 Chuck Pine Picnic 2 Competition - Helayne Seidman 9 Portfolio Review #2 September 16 Guest Speaker - TBA 1 Labor Day - No Meeting 23 Tech Workshop - TBA 8 Welcome Back - Show & Tell 15 Guest Speaker - Mariette Pathy Allen March 22 Workshop - Resizing/Archiving 2 Competition - TBA 29 Business Meeting #1 9 Theme Night - Portraits 16 Guest Speaker - TBA October 23 Book Publishing Workshop 6 Competition - Sandra Carrion 30 Business Meeting #3 11-21 Field Trip—Las Vegas & Death Valley 13 Columbus Day - No Meeting April 20 Guest Speaker - Marie Triller 6 Competition - TBA 27 Theme Night - Orange is the New Black 13 Portfolio Review #3 20 Guest Speaker - TBA November 27 Auction 3 Competition - Nancy Sirkis 10 Portfolio Review #1 May 17 Guest Speaker - Harvey Stein 4 Competition - TBA 24 Business Meeting #2 11 Guest Speaker - TBA 18 Business Meeting #4 December 25 Memorial Day - No Meeting 1 Competition - Doug Schwab 8 Guest Speaker - Meryl Meisler June 15 Holiday Party 1 Year End Competition - TBA 22 No Meeting 8 Otto Litzel Memorial Dinner 29 No Meeting 15 Exec Com Planning Meeting January 22 No Meeting 5 Competition - Nir Arieli 29 Meeting - TBA 12 Before & After with Creative Filters 19 Guest Speaker - TBA 26 Tech Workshop - TBA Specific details of Club activities, photo ops, and photography events around Field Trips, Expanding Visions classes, the City for the next few months may summer meetings, and other activities be found in the Schedule of Activities will be announced when the informa- beginning on page 33 of this issue of tion becomes available. Photo Notes.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Welcome Back
CLUB At Park West, our first meeting every September is “Welcome Back: Summer Photos.” Twenty members shared im- ages with us. Here’s a small sampling of what we saw on September 8th. Untitled ©2014 Paula Paterniti
Untitled ©2014 Marlene Schonbrun
Tree of Life ©2014 Marvin Fink
Untitled ©2014 Ruth Lowell
Governors Island Bow Bridge ©2014 Christine Doyle ©2014 Jerry Harawitz
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Competition Info Did You Know?
CLUB Here is some information for our members re- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of garding our Club competitions. All the details Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you may be found in the PWCC By-Laws (Article III) advantages? and/or in the illustrated Competition Manual. Did you know that all of the website and e- There will be one print and one projected mail addresses are hyperlinks? That means if digital image (PDI) competition each month. you click on them, you will be taken to that Each member may submit up to four images website or to your e-mail program to send an e- each month but no more than two in either mail (if you are connected to the internet). competition (prints and PDIs). Did you know that the images are in color Print entries must be submitted to the Com- and of higher quality than when printed out? petition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the evening And, you can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. of the competition. PDIs must be e-mailed to Did you know that reading Photo Notes on-
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Wanted… PWCC Flickr Group by Paul Grebanier CLUB Did you know that there is a way for PWCC members to share their pictures with other members and the world? Probably not! Seven years ago, a “Park West Camera Club” Group was set-up on the “flickr” picture sharing and social networking site, just for such a purpose. Unfortunately, the idea never really caught on at that time. The weeds of neglect and disrepair have overgrown the site. But the structure is still there—awaiting rehabilitation. What a waste!
…volunteers to write for the Park West Camera When we go on field trips and attend other Club’s Photo Notes. Could be on a continuing PWCC events and take pictures, how do we basis or as a one-shot deal. Experience not nec- easily share them? We don’t! How do we get essary. Enthusiasm is a must-have. Don’t worry feedback on these images? We can’t! The Solu- about spelling or grammar or the like—our tion? Join our flickr group with many other crack editorial staff handles all the details. members, and actively add to and comment on Some suggestions for individual articles or the images to be viewed there. monthly columns are: For those who are not flickr members al- ready, you should know that the site allows • photo magazine reviews members to store and share their pics with mil- • photo workshop reviews lions of other members throughout the world– • Club field trip reviews and also with non-members. Uploading pic- • photographic gallery reviews tures and making comments is easy. Groups of • equipment reviews images and people that share an affinity are • technical/technique articles also easily created and can be shared by any- • photographic hints and tips one. The site is free to join. But if you really be- • computer hints and tips come an active member, showing over 200 pics, • photographic poetry full membership costs $25 a year. • photography puzzles (X-word, jumbles, To view the Park West Camera Club Group, word-search, etc.) go to
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 ExCom Meeting III. Competition Discussion: by Christine Doyle New Image Sizing for Projec- CLUB Recording Secretary tion or Not
These Executive Committee Following up on the dis- meeting minutes have been cussion at the previous Execu- reviewed and approved by the a House Committee chair tive Committee meeting, a ExCom. could alternate these tasks workshop on resizing images with other members of the for competitions will be led by September 18, 2014 committee. Helen at the Club meeting on September 22nd. Chuck will Officers attending—Ed Lee, II. Website Discussion: PSA first recalibrate the projector in Michael Schleiff, Helen Pine, Critique, Makeover, Adding Christine Doyle, Maria the members’ attendance; next (Income Generating) Links Fernandez, and Chuck Pine will be information on the best (President Emeritus) sizes and resolution for pro- The Executive Committee jected images for competitions; Non-ExCom members in agreed that the Club website, next will be the showing of attendance—George Hansen which a recent survey rated as Elena Pierpont’s curtain raiser and Jerry Harawitz barely average, should be up- from the September 15th Club dated, either by revisions to meeting; and, last, instructions I. Committee Chair Resigna- the existing site or using a new on resizing images. Helen will tions & Possible Replacements template. put together a program on sav- Michael Schleiff, who is Ex- ing and filing images in Pho- A number of Club commit- ecutive Committee liaison to toshop and Lightroom for a tees, such as the Gallery, House the Website Committee, will later workshop. and Social committees, are contact Bob Wine, Website In addition, the ExCom lacking chairs and members. Committee chair, about setting agreed to allow George Han- Helen Pine will lead a discus- up a meeting of Website Com- sen to take the Club computer sion of the responsibilities of mittee members and any inter- home to review/audit to see committee chairs and how to ested Club members to discuss what programs are there and organize a committee’s work this project. whether any need updating, as at the September 29th Business Helen would like to see well as how to score competi- Meeting. She cited the Mem- more members post their im- tions using Adobe Bridge. bership Committee as an ex- ages on the Members Galleries George will alert Hedy Klein, ample of how a Club commit- page and will put together a who runs the computer during tee should operate. It is espe- workshop on how members monthly competitions, if any cially important to chair and can upload their images. changes are made. George and staff the House Committee, Chuck Pine suggested that Hedy will get together to do a to make sure that the meeting members who participate in run through before the next space is set up properly and portfolio reviews should add Club meeting. in time for the arrival of guest their images to the Members speakers. Helen suggested that Galleries page. [continued]
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 IV. Possible Exhibition Venues will not be able to attend the Photo Notes Deadlines Club meeting on October 20th. CLUB Several possible venues for Christine and Maria Fernandez Issue Deadline upcoming Club exhibits were will preside over the meeting Nov 2014 Nov 3rd mentioned: and will ask other Club mem- - Soho Digital Gallery, 138 Sul- bers to assist with operating Dec 2014 Dec 1st livan Street, NYC the computer and getting Jan 2015 Jan 5th - Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White things set up. Feb 2015 Feb 2nd Street, NYC Mar 2015 Mar 2nd - Atlantic Gallery, 548 West VI. Other 28th Street, NYC Apr 2015 Apr 6th - Site 109 Gallery, 109 Norfolk The Executive Committee dis- May 2015 May 4th Street, NYC cussed protocol for Club mem- Summer 2015 Jun 1st - West Side Arts Coalition - bers’ announcements about Broadway Mall, Broadway & non-Club activities. It was Articles and items should 96th Street, NYC agreed the activities must re- be submitted to Photo Notes, no - Jewish Community Center, late to photography or oppor- later than the deadlines so the 334 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC tunities to take photographs. A editing process can take place. - NYPL Riverside Branch, 127 Club member complained that (Competition scores and cumu- Amsterdam Avenue, NY an announcement that was lative points are submitted as soon after the competitions as - Manhattan Borough Presi- made at the September 15th possible). The draft copy of dent’s Office (MBPO), 1 Centre meeting was overly political in Photo Notes will be sent to the Street, NYC nature and offensive. editorial staff as Ed Lee will follow up with soon as possible the Soho Digital Gallery and once all items are Christine Doyle will follow up in place. The staff with the West Side Arts Coali- will then have two tion and MBPO. At the next to three days to Club business meeting on Sep- edit and return tember 29th, the Club will ask their comments. for volunteers to help contact, Once the Photo visit, and follow up the re- Notes issue is maining locations. complete it is sent to the Website V. Las Vegas/Death Valley Untitled Committee to be Field Trip: Need an ExCom ©2014 Michael Schleiff posted online. As soon as this Member to Preside, Oct. 20th is accomplished, an e-mail is sent to all Club members and other Photo Notes recipients in- Ed, Michael, Helen, and forming them that the PWCC Chuck are participating in the newsletter is now available for Club’s Las Vegas/Death Valley downloading. field trip in October and hence October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Portfolio Page
CLUB This portfolio was shot by Park West Camera Club member, chair of the Social Committee, Marvin Fink. These images were shot during Marv’s travels around the world including Mongolia, Namibia, Guatemala, and other exotic destinations.
Race to the Finish ©2013 Marvin Fink
Reaching for the Stars
©2014 Marvin Fink
Procession ©2009 Marvin Fink Marvin ©2009
Girls with Baskets ©2011 Marvin Fink
Lighthouse with Vapors ©2014 Marvin Fink
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 Friends of the Club come to us, including Roman mission was to offer opportu- by Chuck Pine Vishniac and Ernst Haas. nities to photographers to CLUB share their work with others. Two friends of Park West Marjorie passed away on passed away recently. One was August 27th from complica- a friend some four decades tions following gall bladder ago; the other was a much surgery. She was a former pro- more recent friend. fessor of art history at the New Lida Moser, a photographer School. When she retired, she who trained her camera on faces felt a need to continue, some- and scenes that reflected life as it how, in the field she loved so was experienced in New York and much. She developed the con- elsewhere during the second half cept of sharing travel-related of the 20th century, died Aug. photographs with others in the 11th at a nursing facility in Rock- community—and Tuesday The cover of Fun in Pho- ville, MD. She was 93. The cause Evening Hour was born. tography, published in of her death was congestive heart Each Tuesday a working 1974 by Amphoto Books. failure and related ailments. artist would showcase their But more than that, Lida work by preparing and pre- After several years, Lida was a good friend of Park West senting a slide (film) show and the Club parted ways as Camera Club. I first met Lida (later digital images) to an she began to travel more and when I was Club president audience at St. Margaret’s expand her photography. back in the mid 1970s. We were House on Fulton Street, near I, on the other hand, used both wandering around Cen- the South Street Seaport. her book to guide me as I ex- tral Park photographing. We Over the decades, dozens plored special effects tech- struck up a conversation about, of PWCC members offered niques and expanded my pho- what else, photography. I told scores of presentations to ap- tographic vision. her about the Club, which was preciative audiences. located across the street from And, all of us appreciated The second, more recent, the park in the West side Y. She the opportunity to do so. friend of Park West was not a told me about a book she was photographer. She was not writing about special effects, even an artist, per se. But, in Fun in Photography. her own way, Marjorie Grimm A friendship was kindled. was responsible for many of us We would get together occa- being able to share our work sionally to discuss our pas- with audiences outside of our sions. Lida showed me an camera clubs. early draft of her book and I Marjorie was the founder, would make comments. She president, chairman of the came to some Club meetings, board, chief cook and bottle Marjorie Grimm first as a guest, then as a guest washer of Tuesday Evening speaker and a judge. Lida was Hour, an artists’ non-profit Thank you, Marjorie, for all the influential in the Club getting slide-show program whose memories, and for TEH. several noted photographers to
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 PDI Workshop
CLUB These images were among those shared with members in attendance at the September 30th Projected Digital Image workshop and review. Com-
Untitled ments were made by those present. Lots of learning was
©2014 Sorin Capota experienced by all.
Untitled Untitled ©2014 Sarah Davis ©2013 Janet Susin
Wedding Party
©2014 Dinorah Capota
Dancer in the Dark ©2014 Don Raney
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Business Meeting Also, additional old photo- Field Trip: Co-Chair Susan Si- by Christine Doyle graphs by members have been grist reported that several field CLUB Recording Secretary located, and will be identified, trips are planned for the com- scanned, and added to the ar- ing months and the sign-up (This is a draft copy and has chive on the Club website. sheets were being passed not yet been approved by the around. Members can add new membership.) Competition: Co-Chair George field trips to the list; members Hansen reported on PDI sub- need to notify trip leaders if September 29, 2014 missions on behalf of Co-Chair they cannot attend a trip they Hedy Klein: members were have signed up for. I. Call To Order: President Ed reminded to submit images Lee called the meeting to order with the new size (1400/1050) Gallery: No report (no chair). at 7 p.m. Other Executive agreed at last week’s meeting; Committee Members intro- when members send images by House: No report (no chair). duced themselves: Vice Presi- MAC mail, “Actual Size” Membership: Chair Marlene dent Michael Schleiff, Corre- should be selected on the im- Schonbrun reported that, to sponding Secretary Helen Pine, age size drop-down menu in date, 55 members have paid Recording Secretary Christine order to maintain the appro- their annual dues and asked Doyle, Treasurer Maria Fer- priate competition size; some that members who have not nandez, and President Emeri- members are still not naming yet done so to make their tus Chuck Pine. their images properly (Last payments as soon as possible. Name First Initial_MonthYear_ II. Minutes of Previous Meet- New Club members are being Title); members should send ing: The minutes of the May interviewed and these profiles both PDI images in one e-mail, 19, 2014 business meeting were will appear in future issues of not two; and that members are approved. Photo Notes. limited to two PDI images per III. Treasurer’s Report: Maria month. Members should e-mail Newsletter: Chair Chuck Pine reported that revenue was Hedy at her personal address reported that the deadline for $33,583.43 and expenditures for confirmation of receipt and articles for the next newsletter were $28,928.85, leaving a posi- proper image sizing. George is next Monday, October 6th. tive balance of $4,654.58 for the repeated the new image sizes Program: Chair Marilyn Fish- 2013/2014 fiscal year. Ed noted that were being tried out at the Glynn reported that the follow- that although the Club’s rental October competition: 72 ppi ing will serve as judges for up- cost has increased, the Execu- resolution, 1400 pixels for hori- coming competitions: Sandy tive Committee has decided zontal images, and 1050 pixels Carrion (October), Nancy not to raise the dues. for vertical images. Adjust- ments to the new size will be Sirkis (November), Doug IV. Committee Reports made if necessary. Schwab (December), Nir Arieli January), Helayne Seidman Archive: Chair Myrna Harri- Regarding the print competi- (February). Marie Tiller will son Changar reported that the tion, George reported that new be the guest speaker for the Archive Committee will be removable labels will be avail- month of October, Harvey meeting on October 8th at her able to members on the next Stein for November, and Meryl apartment and invited all in- competition night. Meisler for December. terested members to attend.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Social: Chair Marvin Fink re- quired to do all the work, just where the needs are greatest ported that a co-chair is organize and see to completion and will liaise with the Execu- CLUB needed to cover for him when the committee’s work. (For ex- tive Committee to achieve he is traveling. Responsibilities ample, the House Committee these ends. Sorin Capota, Bill include refreshments for busi- chair should only have to make Apple, and Sonya Smith ex- ness meetings and coordinat- a schedule and enlist volun- pressed interest in assisting ing the Club holiday party and teers to get the space set up for with this project. Helen will year-end dinner. Pyne Bertsche meetings.) Jerry Harawitz sug- send the PSA critique to any agreed to serve as Co-Chair. gested that Ed Lee send an members who are interested in email to all members detailing reviewing it. Website: Co-Chair Bob Wine the responsibilities of these reported that there have been committee chairs and ask for Helen suggested that members some delays in getting infor- volunteers. Ed agreed and will upload their their images to mation to the Website Commit- send a draft to Helen for e- the Members’ Galleries on the tee and posted in a timely mailing to the membership. website. manner. Besides him, there are only two other members of the B. Website Discussion: Chuck C. New Image Sizing for Committee, George Grubb and Pine reported that the Club’s Competition: This topic was Ruth Lowell, but it is unknown website did not score as highly covered by George Hansen in if George Grubb is returning to as the newsletter in a critique his report as Competition the Club. Any members who by the PSA and suggested that Committee Co-Chair (above). are interested in helping out it should be updated. A discus- VI. New Business should contact Bob. sion followed as to how to go about this, including: whether A. Jerry Harawitz made a mo- Workshop: Chair Jerry the current site should be up- tion to place on the next busi- Harawitz reported that Bob graded or re-built from scratch; ness meeting agenda: “The Wine will lead a technical whether an external website Club should consider reducing workshop on Lightroom on builder, such as Wix, should be the number of business meet- January 26th. He is looking for used; seeking sponsors and/or ings from four to a lower num- a speaker on another topic for income-generating links; and ber.” The motion was sec- the February 23rd workshop. creating a PWCC icon that will onded. V. Old Business show up in the toolbar. Bob Wine, Website Committee B. Possible Future Venues for A. Committee Chair Vacan- Chair, noted that more help Club Exhibits: Ed Lee and cies: Helen noted that the Gal- was needed to keep the web- Christine Doyle reported on lery and House Committees site current. Michael Schleiff, possible venues for future Club are still in need of chairs. Since Executive Committee liaison to exhibits: the requirement that all Club the Website Committee, said • The Soho Digital Gallery (138 members join a committee was that the basic premise of the Sullivan St., NYC) is now dropped when the PWCC website is to disseminate in- closed. • The Atlantic Gallery Constitution was last revised, formation to members, show- (548 W28th St., NYC) charges a some committees are no longer case members’ work, and at- fee of $1,500/week. As the functional. She added that tract public interest. He will PWP is having a show at this committee chairs are not re- work with Bob to identify location in December, Christine
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 will follow up with a PWP tions and forward the informa- B. From the Floor: member to learn more details. tion to Christine. CLUB • Site 109 Gallery (109 Norfolk Ed notified the Club that he St., NYC) charges a fee of Marilyn Fish-Glynn said the received a flyer from Silos and $1,500/day. Christine will fol- Soho Photo Gallery might con- Smoketacks about a “Capture low up to confirm the cost, but sider a show for the PWCC but the Heart of America” contest it was agreed that, if con- that their schedule of exhibits
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 New Member Biography During this last year David by Elena Pierpont was looking to use photogra- CLUB phy as a medium to be of serv- David Francis has been a ice to others. He was recently member of the Sierra Club in Tanzania with “The Giving Photo Committee for about a Lens” organization. There they year and a half and it was there took portraits of children in that someone told him about orphanages and families Park West Camera Club. He struggling with HIV/AIDS. first checked out our website They also taught basic photog- and then attended a couple of raphy skills to 14 schoolgirls, our meetings before recently most of whom had never held joining us. a camera in their hands. The group also visited a Maasai vil- Water Lily lage to document the vanish- ©2014 David Francis ing traditions and culture of the Maasai people. Among many others, David David hopes for the oppor- admires and is inspired by the tunity to enhance his knowl- photography of Jack Dykinga edge, go on the Clubs field and Art Wolfe. In his quest to trips when he can, and plans to learn more, he attended semi- enter his pictures in our nars. At one seminar the monthly competitions. speaker said “if you want to be David, you are a welcome the best, learn from the best” addition to our Club. and this sentence resonated with him and started his jour- ney of workshops. He took a Photo Tip seminar on “The Art of Com- Growing up, David’s father position” with Art Wolfe and a Simplify, simplify, simplify!!! always had Time, Life, and Na- workshop in Death Valley with Do not include anything that tional Geographic magazines Jack Dykinga. does not help the image around the house and David loved looking at all the won- derful pictures in them. This got him to start taking pic- tures around the age of 10. In 2009 he started to get serious about photography and was using a point and shoot cam- era, but now uses a Nikon D800. Photoshop, Lightroom, TributeLight in Topaz, and NIK are among Francis David ©2014 the different software pro- grams which David uses. October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 New Member Biography using his Nikon by Alice Somma D90, but has re- CLUB cently upgraded to Niv Gidron became interested a full frame Nikon in joining Park West Camera D610. Niv is very Club when he participated in happy with his new both Expanding Visions and purchase and Meet-Up Groups. After speak- would like to learn ing with Ed Lee, our Club’s how to use its more president, who gave him in- sophisticated pro- formation about PWCC, he de- Eggs in a Nest fessional features. cided to attend two PWCC ©2010 Niv Gidron Currently, Niv enjoys pho- summer events. Niv is now tographing people and scenery. looking forward to attending evenings. His friend, an ama- He also likes to be creative. the weekly meetings when teur photographer, would Niv has a few of his photo- they resume in the fall. speak enthusiastically to Niv graphs on display in his offi- about his photos and show ce and his mother chose her him his work. Eventually, favorite, Eggs in a Nest, to hang Niv’s friend sparked an inter- on the wall in her home. For est and he became “hooked on Niv, photography is a form of photography.” relaxation and enjoyment. He When Niv decided to take a would like to shoot more fre- trip to the West Coast (of the quently, but his work keeps U.S.A.), he bought a point and him very busy. Niv feels that shoot camera and began taking joining PWCC will give him pictures. Upon his return, he the motivation to get more in- showed his photos to family volved in photography and and friends. They loved his that he will meet new people photos and said he had an “eye and learn from them. Self Portrait for taking pictures.” Welcome, Niv, to the Park ©2010 Niv Gidron So, Niv decided to take a West family! basic photography course to Niv, an accountant, was learn more about the operation Untitled born in Israel and lived there and functions of the camera. ©2009 Niv Gidron until December 2010, when he Once he completed accepted a job offer and moved the course, he gave to New York City. Until re- his point and shoot cently, Niv had no interest in camera to his brother photography and never owned and bought a Nikon a camera. He was adamant D90. He then took a about not using a camera. For more advanced over twenty years, while living course to learn about in Israel, Niv would meet with how to work with a good friend on Friday lighting. Niv enjoyed
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 New Member Biography we would not remember with- by Sonya Smith out photographs. It’s amazing CLUB how looking at one photo can Janice Williams, who is new to elicit not just the memory but our Club this year, found out the emotions that accompany about the Park West through that memory.” Expanding Visions when it Well said, Janice! Welcome was advertised through the NY to PWCC. Photo & Safari Meet-Up group. She loved the class and, with a little encouragement, decided From Aperture to … ? to give the Club a try. On the heels of Apple’s an- nouncement that they’ve dis- continued both Aperture and iPhoto (they will be replaced Lines by the new “Photos” applica- ©2014 Janice Williams tion in the next version of the Mac operating system, Yosem- phy and does so every chance ite, to be released next year), she gets: in the evenings after what is one to do? work, personal days from If you are a loyal Aperture work, and weekends. Janice’s user, and are now looking for a favorite photographer is the program to replace it, you have landscape artist, Ansel Adams. several options. First and fore- Less than a year ago Janice most, you can switch to Adobe upgraded to a Canon T3i and It all started five years ago Lightroom. uses PhotoShop CS5 to process when Janice began taking pho- Are the two programs ex- her images. Her favorite lens is tos through the airplane win- actly the same? No! Are they the 28-70mm zoom. This is the dow on her travels. She prefers similar? In some ways! Will first camera club she ever shooting landscape photogra- Lightroom do for me what Ap- joined and she sees it as erture did? Absolutely! a way to network and And to help you along, learn more about pho- KelbyOne (formerly the Na- tography on her way to tional Association for Photo- becoming a pro shooter. shop Users) has put together a When asked, “Why presentation just for those who photography?”, she want/have to make the switch. responded, “The short It can be found on their answer: Photography website
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 Depth of Field Two, all else equal, tradi- megapixels, the same physical By Bill Apple tional camera manufactur- size. That 7R, by the way, ers—not the big electronics packs more than 120 times the True Confessions names—probably make a bet- resolution of Sony’s aforemen- ter product; after all, they’d tioned floppy-disk camera. I am a megapixel whore. There, been turning out film cameras I opted for the 24-MP Sony,
PHOTOGRAPHY I said it. for decades (Kodak, almost a but megapixel lust soon got the I wasn’t always so loose. century). Electronics firms better of me—it took just six There was a time I couldn’t might make great TVs, stereos, months—and I traded up to care less about pixels. or computers, but not necessar- the 36-MP 7R, which I should At Consumer Reports— ily cameras. Go for Kodak, have bought in the first place. I where I covered products for Nikon or Olympus over HP, figure trading up cost me 20 years, coffeemakers to com- Samsung or Sony. about $100 a month for the use puters to cameras—I bore wit- That was then. Now 12, 24 of the 24-MP Sony I returned to ness to photography’s digital or 36 megapixels are possibile, Adorama. But I did get 50 per- age, and an arms race among and solid-state memory—on cent more megapixels in the brands for megapixel suprem- wafer-thin, stamp-sized cards end! You can never be too rich acy. It started in the early —is tallied in dozens of giga- or too thin, said the Duchess of 1990s, every company trying to bytes, close-to-film resolution. Windsor. Or possess enough top everyone else cramming In the spring I splurged on megapixels. pixels into new-fangled film- Sony’s first full-frame inter- If the devil is in the details, less cameras. changeable-lens camera. There then the more megapixels the The gold standard was film, were two choices: Sony’s 7, merrier. Without enough reso- of course. A 35mm frame packs with a 24.3 megapixel CMOS lution, you may lose detail in roughly 25 megapixels of reso- sensor; and the 7R at 36.4 your shot, and your photos can lution. Early digital cameras couldn’t come close. It took nearly two decades. I recall one early Sony Mavica, boxy but flat, with a 3.5-inch floppy-disk drive built-in, for storage. (Floppies!) The disk could hold 30-40 low- res JPGs. Clunky and junky. From those days on—as sensors and storage capacities grew like Topsy—at Consumer Reports we stuck to two pieces of basic advice: One, don’t be swayed by State of Art, c. 1997 The Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 ever-higher megapixel counts. sported a 10X optical zoom and stored images of 640 The optics—lens, light tight- x 480 pixels—0.3 MP—on 3.5-inch diskettes. The lat- ness, zoom quality, build—can est Sony 7R captures 36.4 MP on solid-state flash make or break a camera,. media, 120 times the resolution.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 look, well, pixelated, if enlarged Count Leo’s masterpiece what most detailed, finely textured, beyond a certain size: jagged we do to prepare PDIs, you’d captivating image possible? It’s edges, blotchy mosaic color. cut the book to a slim 140 more than enough incentive to My 36 megapixels also pages. Just take out your pen print your work. Or should be. come in handy in place of a and cross out 9 out of every 10 tele lens. You can carve out the words. Which might start an- A postscript:
PHOTOGRAPHY middle third of your frame, other Russian Revolution, and Sandra Carrion, a seasoned say, and still have 12 megapix- only gibberish would remain. photographer and photogra- els left—a “close-up”!—with So what are we losing in the phy professor, judged this sufficient detail. A downside, translation to a PDI? year’s first competition. She however: more megapixels can A respectable inkjet printer gave a lot of helpful advice and magnify camera shake. Steady. spits out at least 600 dots per many incisive comments, in- All this recently got me inch, thus an 8 x 10 print packs cluding an anecdote on a thinking about the Club’s new- 4,800 by 6,000 droplets, or 28 young photographer about to and-improved PDI competition million dots—28 “megapixels.” show his portfolio, perhaps for the digital projections. We’ve If you had shot the photo with gallery consideration. The re- graduated from projecting 1024 a 24-MP camera, say, each of viewer agreed to look at the x 768-pixel images up one the sensor’s pixels would just work, whereupon the student notch, to 1400 x 1050 pixels. about merit its own ink dot, moved to take out his iPad. But do the math: We’re going one-to-one. No megapixels The reviewer must have from about three-quarters of a from the sensor would be recoiled and said something megapixel splashed across the tossed in making this print. like, “No, I want to see your big screen to this year’s scant So which would look richer, prints! They are photographs, 1.5 megapixel PDIs. Double, more detailed, more like life: not what’s on your iPad.” yes, but nowhere near what the 1.5-MP projection, or the 8 The young man, who’d cameras are now “seeing.” x 10 inkjet print whose dots, grown up around digital im- How does projecting an after all, register individual ages and LEDs, had thought image of 1.5 megapixels com- pixels from the camera’s sen- otherwise, but the bottom line pare with 12 megapixels from sor? I’d take the print anytime. is that the print is the thing. If even low-end digital cameras? As today’s video-display you call yourself a photogra- Not very well, and worse if technology leapfrogs yester- pher, you should be able to your comparison is a 16-MP day’s—from VHS to DVDs to make prints of your images. If camera. By converting the Blu-ray, and HDTVs of 720p to you can’t do that, something is original image into a 1080p resolution, to 4K video— terribly wrong. My words. competition-grade PDI you our eyes constantly crave Going by the first competi- are, in effect, throwing away more. Give them a treat. Print tion, it’s dispiriting so far: the over 90 percent of its photo- your work. number of digital slides sub- graphic data. Think about it. There’s a moral. A PDI is mitted continues, as it long It’s a miracle that such low-res like a cartoon compared to the has, to overwhelm the number PDIs still look decent. digital image it’s drawn from, of prints. This time there were Imagine, if you will, “War what the camera’s sensor cap- 60 PDIs to just 24 prints. Club and Peace,” Tolstoy’s sprawl- tured. Why jettison 90 percent members should do better. No ing novel, 1,400 pages in pa- of your photo if you needn’t? excuses not to print work. perback. If you could do to Why settle for less than the
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Gallery Watching I suppose the intent here is to French factory where signifi- by Ruth Formanek cause you to pay close atten- cant revolutionary activity and Judy Rosenblatt tion to the images, but I’m not took place in 1968, hence it is sure it really works that way. tipped up like a barricade.” So Christopher Williams: The Pro- Williams, hardly a house- you always have to dig beyond duction Line of Happiness; at the hold name, was born in 1956 in the exhibit for the back story.
PHOTOGRAPHY Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles and was trained at A little more obvious, per- through November 2nd the California Institute of the haps, is the close-up of a Arts in the late 1970s and early model’s hand reaching for by Judy ‘80s, during the first heyday of soap in the bath. Williams Here is another much conceptual art. He now lives in doesn’t Photoshop out the age vaunted retrospective, as dif- Germany and teaches photog- marks on her hand as would a ferent from Gary Winogrand’s raphy in Dusseldorf. slick magazine ad. Another pot (see last month’s Photo Notes) shot at our rampant consumer- as can be, except for the fact ism? Well, you get the idea. It that Williams, although very all seems to me to be a big, much alive, also works with pretentious effort to make film. If you can say that with some obvious points. Concep- Winogrand, what you see is tual art to the “nth” degree. what you get, you can also say The cutout shots that reveal that with Williams, what you the inner workings of cameras see is puzzling and obscure, and lenses are interesting to although the subject matter is 1964 Renault Dauphine see, though, but is it art? often everyday objects, like © Christopher Williams cameras and toasters. by Ruth Conceptual images like This exhibit comes with a My reaction to this show Williams’ often require wall printed “program” and floor was most negative. It is preten- text to help explain the context map, and you’d think there tious and puzzling to the of the work: this show is ut- might be enlightenment here, viewer. The catalogue adds to terly devoid of this, obviously but for that you may have to the pretentiousness by drop- on purpose. Almost a hundred buy the accompanying book. ping the names of artists, writ- not very large photographs are As an example, take the pho- ers, filmmakers, European in- hung quite low in a very gen- tograph of a 1964 French Ren- tellectuals, etc., which really erous space, sometimes only ault tipped on its side. The have no connection to Wil- one image to a bare white wall. program just lists a whole lot liams’ photos. The title of the of its specs, as if you were con- show (The Production Line of sidering buying it. This of Happiness) is taken from an in- course points to the theme of terview with a factory worker criticism of our consumer soci- who photographed in his spare ety. But why is it tipped? I time—an interview without a found an explanation in a connection to Williams’ work. Wikipedia article that quotes Do not go to see this show! NY Times critic Ken Johnson as MoMA should be boycotted for saying that “it was made in a putting it up.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 so far escaped the long reach of socially concerned photogra- today’s world.” pher. He was born in a small Living here in New York, town in Brazil in February of it’s so easy to forget the vast 1944, the son of a cattle areas of the earth that are wild rancher. He earned a master’s and untouched, inhabited only degree in economics at the
PHOTOGRAPHY by native wildlife and indige- University of Sao Paulo. Feel- nous tribes. It is Salgado’s fer- ing endangered by his radical vent hope that these photo- politics, he and his wife fled to graphs will strengthen our re- Paris, where they still live. His solve to reverse the destruction discovery of photography was we have visited on our planet. life-changing. He abandoned Dishwasher Cut-away © Christopher Williams He’s not out to document this his economics career for pho- destruction, but rather to im- tography in 1973. press on us what we stand to I kept thinking about what lose if it continues. So, from There followed a number of I had written and began to our comfortable perches, we projects and books dealing doubt myself: Was I too criti- are flown over vast mountain with struggling people of vari- cal? Could the curators of ranges and forests (this exhibit ous cultures. His two longest MoMA not know what seemed has been likened to a obvious to me? Am I too nega- “God’s-eye view of the tive in my responses to some “earth”), and are photographers’ work? And so brought face to face on. So I returned to MoMA and with creatures and want to report to you that, on a people we’ll never meet second visit, I think the show is out on the street. worse than I first reported: The work and travel pointless, banal, and preten- for this exhibit, begun tious. Emperor’s new clothes? in 2004, took Salgado eight years. Curated Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis; at and designed by his © Sebastiao Salgado the International Center of wife, Lelia, it is divided into Photography, 1133 Avenue of five regions: Northern Spaces projects were a study of man- the Americas at 43rd Street; (including some familiar areas ual laborers working under thru January 11th like Grand and Bryce Can- harsh conditions in 23 coun- yons), Sanctuaries, Africa, tries (1993), and his “Migra- by Judy Amazonia, Pantanal, and tions” series of people forced This exhibit of over 200 Planet South (including to uproot their homes and lives black and white photographs, Patagonia and Antarctica). The (2000). At this point, Salgado encompassing two entire floors prints vary in size, the largest became both discouraged of exhibit space, is described at being around 4’ x 5’, but most about the future of humanity the entrance as “a journey to are smaller. and sickened by an auto- the landscapes, seascapes, Salgado, now seventy years immune disease. animals and peoples that have old, has long been known as a
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 He and Lelia returned to Salgado had with Brian Ap- (3) This portfolio includes Brazil and the cattle ranch of pleyard; he didn’t say if the images of birds in huge num- his childhood, which he now cameras he now uses are bers, nesting on rocks sur- has inherited. The land, once 35mm. I’m amazed they’re rounded by oceans. Or, sand forested, had been denuded by not large format!) dunes, reminiscent of Ansel grazing; it was Lelia’s idea to Adams. Or hippos that Sal-
PHOTOGRAPHY restore the forest. This project by Ruth gado photographed from a has met with great success and I’ve always admired Sal- hot-air balloon to avoid dis- resulted in the founding of the gado and have seen many of turbing them. Instituto Terra, which produces his shows and books—but the We see what Salgado wants tree seedlings for Brazil’s re- title ‘Genesis’, meaning begin- us to see and share his excite- forestation. It was the new nings, isn’t clear to me. Does ment. The black-and-white hope emerging from this pro- Salgado refer to the creation presentation adds to his clarity ject that spawned the idea for myth in the Bible? To the origin in documentation—he’s a first- Genesis. You can see “before” of all life? A wish to return to a rate journalist. His angles are and “after” photos of the ranch more pristine, non-industrial frequently unusual but never at the exhibit. and non-technological planet? artsy, and his compositions in- Salgado switched to digital The ambiguity of his title clude nothing extraneous. He Canon cameras from Leicas stands in contrast to the sharp- is unpretentious and doesn’t and medium format Pentaxes ness and clarity of his images. call attention to his consider- There is such a wealth of able skills as a photographer. photographs in this show that I I was sometimes unhappy tried my best to group them with Salgado’s print quality: into several portfolios: Some of the dodging and burn- (1) The landscape photos ing might have been more shot in Brazil. They seem to be carefully done. I also didn’t the most recent ones, wide- like the graininess of a few of angled, very contrasty, with his images, but I shouldn’t nit- dramatic skies, rivers, roads, pick: it’s like criticizing God vegetation, etc. Most photos for creating mosquitoes. © Sebastiao Salgado are so rich in content that one You might want to buy the eventually becomes exhausted book Genesis, $70 at the ICP when he saw that his films by their complexity and store, but under $50 at Amazon were getting ruined when beauty. or Barnes and Noble. passing through airport inspec- (2) Another portfolio con- I’m unable to do justice to tion. He works solely in black- sists of exotic places, mostly of this great exhibit although I and-white, seeing color as a indigenous people of Africa, saw it twice and spent about distraction. He loved the grain Indonesia, New Zealand, and three hours there. It’s over- of Kodak’s Tri-X film and actu- other places. These photos dif- whelming! Make sure you take ally has the grain effect re- fer from the Brazilian ones in several hours to see it. It’s also stored digitally in his prints! that they are less complex, tend the last show of ICP Midtown. Also, surprisingly, Salgado to focus on individuals or They’ve lost their space and never uses filters. (This techni- small groups, and document will move to lower Manhattan. cal info is from an interview the variety of life on earth.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 by Judy Name that Profile! Photo Tip I agree with Ruth that this exhibit is a great accomplish- Draw attention to the main If you shoot with a digital ment and any caveats are nit- subject. This can be done by camera, and who amongst us picks. I also needed two visits simply getting closer to it, doesn’t, it probably has a dial to take it all in, and am left using selective focus, using or menu with which you can
PHOTOGRAPHY with the feeling that it enlarged color to draw in the viewer, select from a bunch of settings my world, even though I’ve lighting just the subject, to shoot in a particular setting. seen a good deal of nature pho- framing the subject in a Each of these will set the ISO, tography in my time. I was as doorway or window, using aperture, shutter speed, white awed by the close-up of a leading lines, and a myriad balance, etc. and turn your ex- whale’s tail swishing up out of of other techniques (such as pensive DSLR or P&S into a the water as I was by the many those explored in last year’s PhD box (that stands for push vast scenes with dramatic skies Expanding Visions 19 class). here, dummy). But what is that that could have illustrated the setting called? biblical “Let there be light “ Sometimes I felt that his Well, every camera manu- moment. I was not as bothered dark palette makes scenes facturer has their own name as Ruth by some of the print- taken in daylight look like the for these presets, and they’re ing: though very high in con- night and tends to over- all different. Here’s the list: trast, I reveled in the range of romanticize his subjects, like Canon picture style tones in many of the images. the two Waura fishermen pol- Fujifilm film simulation ing a tiny boat—dark silhou- Nikon picture controls ettes against a misty sea. A lit- Olympus picture mode tle too perfect, perhaps? Some Panasonic photo style of Salgado’s landscapes are Pentax custom image incredible layerings of land Samsung picture wizard and skies, like the local thun- Sigma color mode derstorm at the Grand Canyon: Sony image style only the top rim is visible run- Confused? You should be. © Sebastiao Salgado ning along the bottom, then Patents being what they are, comes the mesa across the can- and litigation in the photo/ Salgado has been criticized yon, finally two distinct layers electronics world being what it in the past for making beauti- of sky. is, no one dares call something ful images of scenes of suffer- It should be noted that ICP by a standardized name. ing. Here there is no such is hosting a series of lectures Oh, by the way, on most (if tension, because the subject by climate scientists and other not all cameras) when you use matter is different. I wonder if experts in conjunction with one of these presets, your cam- Salgado’s message would have this exhibit
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 PhotoShopping smaller than what we can see. Will this make your print by Chuck Pine Colors that cannot be printed look better? Not necessarily! are said to be out of gamut. [See But it will point out to you the Out of Bounds the diagram below left.] areas that will not print cor- You’ve worked on an image for What can you do? rectly. This will give you an hours. Getting it just right. The opportunity to re-edit
PHOTOGRAPHY colors are bright and saturated. the image and get the Everything is perfect. And then colors as close to being you go to print it. in gamut as you are The colors are off. You willing to accept. recalibrate your monitor. No help! You go out and buy an Here is another view of expensive print calibration the image without the device. Still no help! What’s over-saturation. This going on here? one is still a good image To say it simply, the colors Here’s an image I shot early —in fact it is my original image of your image are out of one morning at Blue Cypress bounds. In technical terms, the Lake on the way to shoot the image is out of gamut. ospreys. For this purpose I The phrase out of gamut re- have over-saturated the image fers to colors that cannot be (but I still like it!). printed by your inkjet printer. In the Photoshop menu bar, It uses the CMYK color space go to View > Gamut Warning (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). or type Shift + Command + Y Your software and monitor, (Mac) or Shift + Control + Y however, work with images (on a Windows computer). —and it will print exactly in the RGB color space (red, as it is now seen. It is green, blue). The RGB color within the gamut of both space has a wider/different color spaces. range of colors than CMYK If you print, you must because the gamut that can be know and use this little- reproduced with ink is much known Photoshop tool. It can and will save you from lots of headaches!
Parts of the image will be covered by a gray mask. Which parts? Those that are out of gamut.
Thanks to Helen Pine for recently reminding me of this neat trick.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Inquiries Looking at the diagram be- Lucky 13 by Chuck Pine low, you can see the amount that each color space covers Adobe announces the release Thanks, Chuck, for explaining (the triangles) out of all the of Photoshop Elements 13. Like color calibration with our projec- possible (visible) colors. These its predecessor, the new pro- tor last month. While I under- are what your camera can re- gram maintains the right num- stand that each dot of color in a ber of robust organizational PHOTOGRAPHY cord and what your monitor photo has unique RGB figures can display. The shape of all and editing tools that have (red, green, and blue, each be- the colors is referred to as the made it extremely popular. The tween 0 and 255 in Photoshop), CIE color space (it stands for new version further builds on where do the color space models Uniform Chromaticity Scale— Adobe’s efforts to make their —like the Adobe RGB 1998, don’t ask!) products relevant to the ever- sRGB, CIE, YUV, CMYK and The YUV color space dates growing number of photogra- others—come into all this? Isn’t back to early color television phers whose work is destined the red of Heinz ketchup always and is not used in photography to be published online, particu- the red of Heinz ketchup? at all. larly on social media. When it comes to color CMYK refers to the color Photoshop Elements 13 spaces, you’ve got to think of inks used in most color print- provides the capability to cre- Crayola brand crayons back ing processes including inkjet, ate blended Facebook profile when you were in elementary laser, and most other non- and cover photos for a more school. In kindergarten, you photographic endeavors. These unique, more personalized, or used a box with eight different four colors (cyan, magenta, simply more visually appeal- colors; in third grade you yellow, and black) combine to ing profile page. For those who moved up to a box with 16 or create the millions of possible love the process of trying fil- 32 crayons; and in junior high, colors (just like your yellow ters on their photos, the Quick you probably had a box with and blue crayons made green). Edit preview has been updated over a hundred shades (and As for your Heinz ketchup, to show five different varia- the sharpener). just leave the bottle in the tions on a selected theme. This The sRGB color space is the fridge for a few months and variety helps make sure that eight-crayon box, Adobe RGB you’ll see that red color change the look which best suits an 1998 is the 32-crayon box, and from a bright red to a brick red. image is more likely to be ap- ProPhoto RGB is the envy of The more colors you cap- plied without the need for ad- all your classmates with too ture, the more you have to ditional adjustments before up- many colors to count. work with in Photoshop, etc. loading to an Instagram or Twitter feed. The program sells for $99 or for only $79 (if you have proof of being a student). The pro- gram is available as a down- load from Adobe or in a boxed version with a disc by the time you read this.
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 B & H Event Space Gelaskin?
B&H Photo offers free work- What is a Gelaskin?, I hear you shops. Here are a few of this ask. In simple terms it is a pro- month’s offerings: tective, decorative cover for Wednesday, October 29th your mobile phone (iPhone, Wednesday, October 22nd Tabletop Photography Android phone, etc.), tablet Photographic Composition Speakers: David Saffir and (such as the iPad), and laptop Speaker: David Brommer John Walrath computers. The Gelaskin ad- heres to the metal finish of Thursday, October 23rd your device. It is made specifi- Wonderland: A Small World cally for a particular device so Speaker: Nadav Bagim it has all the cut-outs in the ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. right places for camera lenses, illuminated logos, and the like. As for the decorative part of the equation, Gelaskins come in a huge array of de- signs, colors, textures, and im- ages. But what’s even better, Monday, October 27th you can have one (or more) of The Magic of Light Painting Thursday, October 30th your photographs made into a Speaker: Tim Cooper Looking Into the Light Gelaskin. (Have you ever seen Speaker: Sean Kernan Chuck Pine’s laptop computer? Monday, October 27th It sports his Year-End winning Portfolio Development Check out the B&H website at shot of three cuckoo chicks.) Speakers: David Brommer,
Wednesday, October 29th Long Exposure Creativity Speaker: Deborah Sandidge
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 Workshops @ Adorama Monday, October 27th Accessory Quiz Landscape Photography The workshops at Adorama Speaker: Tony Gale Can you name this photo are free except as indicated. accessory? No prizes, just a fun challenge! Send your Tuesday, October 21st guesses to the Club’s ad- Photography as Meditation dress
Answer next month in Photo Notes.
Last Month’s Answer Sunday, October 26th Studio Lighting Workshop Leader: Joe McNally The live learning workshop $179.99 events are held in the multi- media learning space at the Sunday, October 26th Adorama Building at 42 West Composition Secrets 18th Street, unless otherwise This is a loupe, or a hand Speaker: Ron Jautz indicated. Sign up for any lens. It works like a magni- workshops you want to join at fying glass but instead of a
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 Share the View New England Happy Birthday Hubble Workshops How often can you turn $10 Opening on October 23rd at the into $1,000 with just one beau- New England Photo Work- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Mu- tiful image? Enter Share the shops is the leading workshop seum’s Space Shuttle Pavilion, View, the Audubon Society of experience dedicated to explor- Hubble@25 commemorates the Greater Denver’s international ing the unique beauty of New anniversary of the launch of the nature photography contest for England. Each workshop is a chance to do so. $1,000 is the designed to give photogra- Horsehead Nebula top cash prize among ten that phers of every skill level the © NASA will be awarded. opportunity to learn and cre- You may enter as many im- ate in an energetic, hands-on ages as you’d like for an entry environment. With a combina-
ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. fee of $10 per image, or 6 for tion of field instruction and $50. Not only is there a chance classroom discussion, photog- to win some big bucks, but im- raphers are inspired to expand Hubble Space Telescope on ages placing in the top 250 will their photographic knowledge board the space shuttle Discov- appear on the contest website and vision. Join instructors Bob ery in 1990. The exhibition will during 2015 and receive a Cer- Ring and Don Toothaker as be the centerpiece of a tificate of Merit. One of the top museum-wide initiative 250 will be featured per day on that includes a series of the home page and all will be public and educational pro- accompanied by the photogra- grams centered on the pher’s name, contact informa- Hubble story and addresses tion, and website link. the history and science of For all the information, go space exploration. Through to Denver Audubon’s website original artifacts, stellar
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Join National Geographic ex- A new photography seminar, Meetup is the world’s largest plorers at NYU’s Skirball Cen- Storytelling Photography, is be- network of local groups. Meet- ter for four spectacular eve- ing premiered by National up makes it easy for anyone to nings of breathtaking images Geographic Traveler here in find one of the thousands of and behind-the-scenes stories, the Big Apple. groups meeting up face to face. straight from the front lines of More than 9,000 groups get to- Nat Geo exploration. gether in local communities All events conclude with a each day, each one with the lively Q&A session, as well as goal of improving themselves an opportunity to meet the or their communities. speaker! A four-event subscrip- In fact, earlier this October, ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. tions starts at $216. Reserve New York City reached its one- your seats before it’s a sellout millionth member. Wow! The at <.www.nyuskirball.org> Untitled City and its surrounding areas Individual show tickets, if any © Ami Vitale offer over 100 different meetup are available, go on sale No- groups dedicated solely to our Learn how to take your vember 11th. favorite hobby, photography. skills to the next level and All four presentations are Some of these groups have a create memorable, powerful, on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 few dozen members, others and visual narratives. Join pho- p.m. Here’s a rundown of the number in the thousands. tographers Melissa Farlow and four programs: Here’s a glimpse at some of Ami Vitale and they will show • February 4th; Spirit of the what’s out there: you how to build a photo essay Wild; Paul Nicklen, wildlife • NY Photo & Safari (this one that reflects people, places, and photojournalist; is led by Ed Lee, our PWCC moments in an authentic, • March 4th; Extreme Planet; president, with Jerry Harawitz meaningful way while show- Carsten Peter, photographer; and Chuck Pine as two of its casing your own unique assistant organizers; style. View amazing images • NYC Photowalkers; and see your skills improve in • NYC Shutterbugs; just one day! • NYC Lightroom; When? October 19th, from 9 • Photographer and Model a.m. to 4 p.m. Where? Light- Collaboration in New York; house International Conference • Glamour Nude/Implied Center at 111 East 59th Street. Volcano Photography Workshop; How much? $195 per person, © Carsten Peter • and, by the time you read lunch included. Space is lim- this, over a hundred others. ited, register right away at • April 8th; Stranger in a To find one (or more) to
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The Park West Camera Club * Sat-Tue, October 11-21 through the set-up area (5th meets every Monday night Field Trip— Avenue below 47th Street) be- (with some exceptions for Las Vegas & Death Valley fore the parade begins. holidays and a curtailed sum- Our bags are packed, well al- mer schedule). Please join us at most, and we’ll be leaving on a meeting or on one of our a jet plane to shoot the glitz other scheduled activities. and lights of Las Vegas and All Club Monday night the dunes, hills, and dales of meetings take place at the Soho
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Death Valley National Park. Photo Gallery located at 15 White Street, between West Broadway and Church Street/ * Monday, October 13 Avenue of the Americas (6th No Meeting—Columbus Day Avenue) unless indicated oth- There will be no meeting to- erwise in the listings below. night due to the Columbus Following the schedule of ac- Day holiday and many of the tivities are detailed directions Club’s officers on the Las Ve- to each of our meeting sites. gas and Death Valley field trip. Check the PWCC Website Monday, October 13 Enjoy the parade and other fes-
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 ropolitan Opera Guild, on the
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 Sunday, November 2 small town drug store, and the Photo Op—NYC Marathon foods and baubles found in the souks and bazaars of Tangiers This is one of the biggest run- and Marrakech.” Nancy has ning events in the world, and it taught photography at, among takes place in all five New York other places, the International City boroughs, starting off at Center of Photography. She has the Staten Island end of the from the Five Boroughs series published over a half dozen Verrazano Bridge, and then © Nancy Sirkis books of photographs. Nancy proceeding through Brooklyn, also leads Park West’s monthly Queens, Manhattan, The ship Committees at any meet- Print Critiques. Bronx, and winding up back in
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES ing and on the PWCC website. Manhattan’s Central Park. We Remember, print entries must Tuesday, November 4 have found that finding a spot be submitted by 6:45 p.m. so Photo Event— along the marathon’s route in that we may get under way Soho Photo Opening with the competition promptly Soho Photo Gallery’s Novem- at 7 p.m. PDI entries must be ber show will feature the win- submitted by midnight one ning entries in the 10th Annual week prior to today—October National Alternative Processes 27th. Just a reminder, you may Competition, as well as new enter up to four images in to- alternative processes work by night’s competition, but no the gallery’s photographers. more than two in any one cate- Nearly 650 images from across gory. Tonight’s judge is Nancy the United States were submit- Brooklyn offers the best van- Sirkis. From Nancy’s website: ted to the competition. Geof- tage points for photography “My visual aesthetic was frey Berliner, Executive Direc- with close access to the runners formed by the urban images of tor and co-developer of the Pe- and fewer onlookers to get in my childhood. I was born and numbra Foundation, was the your way. For additional de- grew up in New York City. The tails on times and routes, go to upper West Side of my child-
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 num/palladium, photogra- Please contact the leader if you vure, salt print, tintype, and need to cancel. wet-plate collodion. The gal- lery is open for viewing * Monday, November 10 Wednesdays through Sundays Field Trip Committee Meeting from 1 to 6 p.m., by appoint- The Field Trip Committee will ment, and on Monday eve- meet this evening prior to the nings at our Club meetings. scheduled Club meeting to For more info on this and other plan the field trips for the next exhibits at Soho Photo, go to several months. If you would
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37 Center of Photography. He has also been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New School University, Drew University, and the Rochester Institute of Tech- nology. Stein is a frequent lec- turer on photography both in Pink Anemonefish take place at the base of the the United States and abroad. Roosevelt Island tram station He is the Director of Photogra- © Keith Ellenbogen on Second Avenue at 59th phy at Umbrella Arts Gallery, SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Street at 1 p.m. You can also located in the East Village. * Monday, November 24 meet us on Roosevelt Island at Harvey’s sixth, and latest, Business Meeting #2 1:30 p.m. by taking the F train book, Harlem Street Portraits, This is the second business to the Roosevelt Island station. was published in the fall of meeting of the Club year. We We’ll meet up outside the 2013. Tonight’s curtain raiser is will start off with reports from tram/train station and walk long-time PWCC member, and the previous business meeting south for about 15 minutes. the creator of Humanoids and minutes, the treasurer’s, and Sign up at any Club meeting or Kimonos, Ruth Formanek. all the Club committees. We by contacting the leader: Susan have some old business left Sigrist—(212) 758-0036 or Wednesday, November 19 over from the last business
October 2014 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 38 person to shoot the 86th Directions to Soho Photo annual Macy*s Thanksgiv- at 15 White Street, between ing Day Parade as it Avenue of the Americas/Sixth marches from the Museum Avenue and West Broadway. Take of Natural History down the #1 train to the Franklin Street Central Park West and station (one stop below Canal then 6th Avenue to Herald Street). Walk one block north on Square. The parade will West Broadway to White street, feature performances by possibilities? Then head up to make a right turn, and walk half a the Rockettes, Broadway stars, the American Museum of block to the gallery. Take the A, C, and high school marching SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Natural History via the B or C or E train to the Canal Street sta- bands, as well as dozens of train, or take the #1 train to tion. Walk south on Sixth Ave- colorful floats and gigantic he- 79th Street and walk to the nue/ Church Street 3 blocks to lium balloons. Santa Claus Museum. On both 77th Street White Street, make a right turn, brings up the rear of the pa- and 81st Street, from Central and walk half a block to the gal- rade, kicking off the 2014 holi- Park West to Columbus Ave- lery. Although a little bit longer day (shopping) season. For nue, all of the balloons in Ma- walk, take any other train to Ca- additional information go to cy*s annual Thanksgiving Day nal Street, walk west to Church
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Table of Contents Photography News 21 Depth of Field Club News 23 Gallery Watching 3 Presidential Message 26 Name that Profile End Page 3 Editorial !27 PhotoShopping 4 Winning Images 28 Inquiries 5 Point Totals 28 Lucky 13 6 2014-2015 Schedule 7 Welcome Back Photos Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 8 Competition Info 29 B&H Event Space 8 Did You Know? 29 Gelaskins 8 Yahoo Group 30 Accessory Quiz 9 Wanted 30 Workshops @ Adorama 9 Flickr Group 31 Share the View 10 ExCom Meeting Minutes 31 New England Workshops 11 Photo Notes Deadlines 31 Happy Birthday Hubble 12 Portfolio Page 32 Nat Geo Live! 13 Friends in Passing 32 Storytelling 14 PDI Workshop Images 32 Meet Up New York 15 Business Meeting Minutes 18 New Member Bios Schedule of Activities 20 From aperture to… 33 October/November Schedule
Colorful Photo Ops
Looking for something to do this autumn? How about some leaf-peeping? The east coast of the US offers some of the best fall colors in the world. Use the map below to find a direction to head. Be sure to check the Web before you go. These dates are the Fall Foliage average times for the best color, but local conditions can create changes.
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