Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club May 2019
This Issue Volume 82 • Issue 7 Club News…………………..….…2 - 23 Photography News……………..24 - 37 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc…….…38 - 41 Schedule of Activities…….….….42 - 53 Complete Index………………………54
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May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Club Officers
The Park West Camera Club is an independent President Ed Lee not-for-profit corporation. Guests are always welcome. V. President Michael Schleiff The PWCC newsletter, Photo Notes, is published Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine every month by and for the members of the Park Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are Treasurer Maria Fernandez available to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine Submissions of full-length articles or smaller Committee Chairs items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. The staff of Photo Notes Archive Inactive reserves the right to edit any submissions Competition John Brengelman which are published. Hedy Klein Photo Notes is optimized for viewing digitally. Field Trip Susan Sigrist Paul Grebanier Contact Information Gallery Karen Corrigan Website www.parkwestcameraclub.org House Marty Smith
E-Mail Address Membership Marlene Schonbrun [email protected] Elena Pierpont
Club Mailing Address Newsletter Chuck Pine 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn
Photo Notes Mailing Address Social Natalie Manzino 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Website Michael Schleiff Christine Doyle
Workshop Jan Noordin
Cover Photo Dashing Dancer by Chuck Pine ©2019
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message also getting a blood thinner and several other medica- CLUB A Swan Dive or…? tions. The next day, my nausea Here is a short narrative about and general malaise disap- my current health issue. peared, and I dropped As you are probably aware, some weight, as well. I ex- Three years ago (August 2016) pect to transition to a newer I had a small heart attack that I blood thinner to prevent incorrectly assumed was any blood clots. And I will heartburn. That evening I continue receiving advice checked into the local acute and care from my doctor. care center at 12th Street and I expect to attend this Seventh Avenue—the former year’s final Business Meet- area of St Vincent’s Hospital nausea and a general malaise. ing (in May) and the Club’s (now replaced with condos). I was admitted to Mount Sinai Otto Litzel Memorial Year-End After having been stabilized Hospital, on the upper east Dinner as well, so I may give with nitroglycerin and a blood side, on May 2nd. out the President’s and Com- thinner, I was sent to Lenox A normal “water” pill, to petition Awards. Hill Hospital for observation. reduce bloating, is 20 mg. I’m Be well! It was determined that I being treated with 8X that needed immediate surgery, a amount via an intravenous triple bypass—or the replace- drip to speed things up. I’m Ed ment of clogged heart vessels by substituting one’s leg veins. The number of vessels to be Photo Notes replaced could be one or many. (One of my cardio rehab Publisher: Ed Lee colleagues had a quintuple by- Editor: Chuck Pine pass operation and he was Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Madeleine only in his late 40s.) Barbara, Elsa Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, With a change in diet and Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Elena lifestyle, I thought bad things Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Puneet Sood were behind me. In late April, this year, I Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Sarah Corbin, developed an Atrial Flutter, a Christine Doyle, Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, Ed Lee, less serious version of Atrial Natalie Manzino, Chuck Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Joan Fibrillation—an irregular heart Slatkin beat. My main symptom was Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro extreme bloating, from my using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. chest down to my feet, ankles, All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise calves, thighs, and abdomen, believed to be in the public domain. causing shortness of breath, Credited images remain the sole property of their and loss of hunger, as well as copyright holders—all rights reserved.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month May 2019 CLUB by John Brengelman
PDI-of-the-Month Hope by Ruth Yashpan
Honor PDIs Snow by John Brengelman Battery Park City Terminal by D. Cassidy Painter Window by Nicole Dosso Shasta by George Hansen Leapin’ Lizards by Chuck Pine Portrait Cuban Man by Rita Russo Flat by Jerry Vogel
PDI-of-the-Month Hope © Ruth Yashpan
Print-of-the-Month Reflections © Oggy Doytchinov Print-of-the-Month Reflections by Oggy Doytchinov
Honor Prints Maple by John Brengelman Ellis Island Sink by Sarah Corbin Vortex by George Hansen Grotto by Howard Stevens
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals PDIs through May 2019 CLUB by John Brengelman George Hansen 110 Paul Grebanier 106 Congratulations to our Chuck Pine 102 Prints winners and honorable Florence Forman 100 mentions! Nicole Dosso 94 Sarah Corbin 114 Larry Sapadin 84 Paul Grebanier 112 Thanks to all who entered Will Aimesbury 82 Elena Pierpont 98 and competed this month John Brengelman 82 Oggy Doytchinov 96 Harriet Josephs 82 and to all who helped Christine Doyle 80 George Hansen 96 make the competition run Howard Stevens 78 Florence Forman 94 so smoothly. Julie Foehrenbach 76 John Brengelman 86 Hedy Klein 74 Howard Stevens 80 And, a special thanks to Natalie Manzino 74 Paula Paterniti 74 Bill Apple 72 our judge, Kathy Bacca, for Larry Rubin 70 Paula Paterniti 72 an excellent job. Bill Apple 68 Rita Russo 72 Joan Slatkin 72 Alice Somma 34 For the rest of us, there’s Janet Susin 66 Don MacLeod 28 always next year! Dottie Mills 64 Marvin Fink 26 Elena Pierpont 64 Justine Carson 12 Punnet Sood 64 Peter Houts 8 Larry Rubin 62 Natalie Manzino 8 Marty Smith 60 Ruth Yashpan 8 Jay Bitkower 58 Joel Bernstein 56 Marty Smith 4 Michael Schleiff 56 Remy Deyglum 50 Alice Somma 50 Dzan Harba 42 Mark Kinn 38 David Cassidy 36 Susan Rauch 36 Karen Corrigan 34 Jerry Vogel 34 David Francis 30 Ruth Yashpan 30 Susan Genaro 22 Don MacLeod 22 Harriet Stein 22 Justine Carson 20 Carole de Beer 16 Virginia Lawrence 16 Indran Naidoo 14 Peter Houts 8 Gerald Reisner 6 Renée Haeper 4 Susanne Yellin 4
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Year-End Competition Year-End Judges her confirmation money to buy a camera. At 15, she looked at CLUB The Year-End Competition Here, in no particular order, taking pictures as a hobby that will be held on June 4th. It is are short introductions to our eventually would give way to different from our monthly three 2019 Year-End judges: a more realistic profession. But competitions: the rules of two weeks of law school 15 entry are different; the judg- years down the road she was ing is different; the rewards convinced to drop out and are, too. enroll in Manhattan’s Germain Each Club member may School of Photography. The submit up to four prints and rest is history! four PDIs. But, and this is a big but, all the submissions must have been entered into one of the monthly competi- tions held this year (October through May). It doesn’t matter what score the image received. But, images may not be altered from the way they were originally entered. © Marilyn Stern You can’t reprint a print; you can’t spot out a speck of For over 40 years Marilyn dust; you can’t even re-crop Stern has passionately pursued an image—it must be the photography. She has taught original, unaltered image. photography and photo- © Bill Wadman There will be 3 judges. collage at the International Each of them will score from Center of Photography and at William George "Bill" Wadman 1 to 9 points for each image. New York University. is an American portrait photo- The scores will be added grapher. He has together and the total will be been a contri- announced immediately. butor to Time, Pictures can accumulate any- BusinessWeek, where from 3 to 27 points. The Improper For each group of entries— Bostonian, Poz, prints and PDIs—there will and others. His be one winner (the Print- images have and PDI-of-the-Year) plus at been featured least four runners-up. worldwide in Entry deadlines: PDI’s— Le Monde, Der May 27th at 11:59 p.m.; © Bonnie Geller-Geld Spiegel, Times of London, USA Prints—June 4th at 6:15 p.m. Today, The New York Times, and Bonnie Geller-Geld took up Corriere della Sera. photography when she used
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Otto Litzel Dinner (please, no cash in the mail) to the Club treasurer, Maria CLUB Ta-da! Fernandez. You can hand your Park West Camera Club payment to her at any Club proudly announces the de- meeting or mail it to her at 245 tails for our Annual Otto East 19th Street #4K New York, Litzel Memorial Year-End NY 10003. Dinner. This year it will take The doors open at 6 p.m. so place in Arté Café Chelsea. Starters we can gather, socialize, and • Caesar Salad start with the drinks. If you • Pear Salad arrive early you can hang out • Tomato Buffala Mozzarella in the neighborhood and take Main Courses some photos. (We are a camera • Roasted Atlantic Salmon club, after all.) Madison Square • Chicken Piccata Park and the Flat Iron Building Side Dishes are only a few blocks away. • Penne Primavera In addition to the food and Following in the footsteps • Sautéd Vegetables drink, there will be other of Arté Café on the Upper West • Roasted Potatoes festivities as well. Award Side, and the former Arté Café Desserts certificates will be given to the in the West Village, this new • Tiramisu winners and runners-up of the location presents an upscale • Chocolate Mousse Year-End competition. The Italian cuisine with artisanal • Coffee & Tea cumulative point winners for homemade pasta, fresh meats, (Beverages are not included the year will be recognized. brick-oven pizzas, and in the price of the dinner—this Retiring PWCC president, Ed gourmet desserts. Arté Café includes both alcoholic and Lee, will give out awards to Chelsea is located on the east non-alcoholic drinks.) the Executive Committee side of 7th Avenue between If you have any questions members, committee chairs 21st and 22nd Streets. The ac- or concerns, please speak to and co-chairs, and others. tual address is 191 7th Avenue. the Social Committee chair, Finally, the members of the ACC is convenient to the Natalie Manzino, at a meeting ExCom will be installed for the ”C,” ”E”, and #1 subways’ or contact her by e-mail at 2019-2020 season. 23rd Street stations. Buses that
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Future Field Trips Summer Dates: July 5—14, 2019 CLUB Mid-Spring Trinidad and Tobago May 24th- 27th, 2019 Rhode—The Ocean State—Island We are going to paradise— specifically to Trinidad and Rhode Island is the smallest Tobago. This two-island nation state in area, the seventh least is the southern-most of all the populous, and the second most Caribbean islands lying just off densely populated. It has the the coast of Venezuela. longest official name of any We’ll be shooting land- state: the State of Rhode Island scapes, seascapes, wildlife, and and Providence Plantations. the human inhabitants, their towns, villages, etc. For the birders, there are hundreds of species, including many found only on these islands. Looking for hummingbirds? Over two dozen species of ‘em abound, and most can be found on the back porch where we’ll be staying in Trinidad. CanceledIncluded in the itinerary On Tobago, we’ll be at an will be: a cruise around Narra- exclusive beach resort with gansett Bay to visit, view, and glass-bottom boats, scuba, photograph lighthouses and snorkeling, and more. mansions; a trip to the Roger To top it off, we’ll be there Williams Park Zoo; and plenty at the height of the season of time to drive through the when the female leatherback state, do some shopping and/ sea turtles come ashore to lay or antiquing. their eggs. We might even glimpse the hatchlings as they scramble to the ocean. The price is $2,500 plus in- ternational airfare (non-stop from JFK is under $600). The For more info, e-mail single supplement is only $300
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 CLUB
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 PWCC 2018-2019 Schedule
September CLUB 2 Chuck Pine Picnic 3 No Meeting (Labor Day) 10 No Meeting (Rosh Hashanah) 17 Welcome Back March 24 Business Meeting #1 4 Competition #6 (Nir Arieli) 11 Workshop (Table Top & Lightbox) October 18 Guest Speaker (Kathy Baca) 1 Competition #1 (Bina Altera) 25 Business Meeting #3 8 Workshop (Winning Images/C&H Pine) 15 Guest Speaker (G Greenstein & P Stahly) April 19-21 Weekend Field Trip (Mystic & More) 1 Competition #7 (Jean Miele) 22 Portfolio Review 8 Comp Make-Up/Theme Night (Pick-A-#) 29 Halloween Portraits and Party 15 Guest Speaker (Bina Altera) 22 Theme Night: Celebrate Earth Day November 29 Club’s Night Out 5 Competition #2 (Sandra Carrion) 12 Theme Night (Pick-A-Letter) May 19 Guest Speaker (Meryl Meisler) 6 Competition #8 (Kathy Baca) 26 Business Meeting #2 9 Expanding Visions 25—Introduction 13 Guest Speaker (Joyce Culver) December 16 Expanding Visions 25—Trip #1 3 Competition #3 (Ron Terner) 20 Business Meeting #4 10 Guest Speaker (Ron Wyatt) 23 Expanding Visions 25—Trip #2 17 Holiday Party 24-27 Weekend Field Trip (canceled) 24 Winter Holiday 27 No Meeting (Memorial Day) 31 Winter Holiday 30 Expanding Visions 25—c1
January June 7 Competition #4 (Sara Signorelli) 3 Year-End Competition (TBA) 14 Workshop (Photoshop Ninja 2—D Atlas) 6 Expanding Visions 25—Trip #3 21 Guest Speaker (Allan Baillie) 10 Otto Litzel Dinner 28 Members’ Presentations 13 Expanding Visions 25—Trip #4 17 ExCom Planning Meeting February 20 Expanding Visions 25 Review #2 4 Competition #5 (Robert Herman) 24 Summer Meeting 11 Theme (Night: Pick-A-Color) 27 Expanding Visions 25—Trip #5 12 Print Workshop 18 Guest Speaker (Jean Bubley) Field trips, classes, additional workshops, 25 Portfolio Review and the 2019 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Expanding Visions 25 CLUB
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Expanding Visions 25 CLUB
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 Competition Rotation Committee Liaisons Photo Notes Deadlines
CLUB The members of the Club, at The Executive Committee Issue Deadline the May 2016 business meet- (ExCom) has decided to con- Summer 2019 June 3 ing, voted to change one of the tinue for this coming year rules regarding our monthly with the committee liaison The sooner articles and competition. We will go back model to spread the respon- items are submitted to Photo to alternating the order of the sibility among the entire Ex- Notes, the quicker the editing prints and PDIs in our eight ecutive Committee. and revision process can begin. monthly competitions. Begin- Here’s how it’ll work: Competition scores and cumu- ning in October 2019. Here’s Each of the ExCom mem- lative points are submitted as the remaining schedule: bers (the five elected officers soon after the competitions as plus the President Emeritus) possible, usually one to three Month First Shown will be assigned committees days following the submission as liaison. Each committee June Prints deadline. The draft copy of chair or co-chair will report Photo Notes will be sent to the to the ExCom through this editorial staff as soon as possi- liaison. In this manner, it is ble once all items are in place. felt that communication will The staff will then have two to How I Did It! flow much more smoothly, three days to edit and return in both directions, between their comments. Do you have an image on the committees. In addition, which you worked,… and it any concerns raised by the came out great?!? One you’re ExCom will be passed along really proud of? Then why to the committee chairs not share it with the Club? through the liaisons. Please send us a short Here are the committee write-up of what you did to liaison assignments for the take and/or process your im- 2018-2019 Club year: age. Of course, include the Competition Mike finished image (and a ‘before’ Field Trip Chuck shot would be nice, too). Gallery Helen Once the Photo Notes issue Send your efforts to us at House Christine is complete, it is sent to all
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 PWCC’s Yahoo Group PWCC Flickr Group by Paul Grebanier
CLUB Do you have an idea to go out shooting but don’t want to go alone? Have a question about Did you know that there is a way for PWCC Photoshop, or your camera, or some technique, members to share their pictures with other but don’t have someone to ask? Know of a members and the world? Probably not! Eight great photo op or workshop that you’d like to years ago, a “Park West Camera Club” Group share with your fellow Club members? What was set-up on the “flickr” picture sharing and are you to do? social networking site, just for such a purpose. Ta Da! The Club’s Yahoo group is the an- Unfortunately, the idea never really caught on swer to your questions. You can communicate at that time. The weeds of neglect and disrepair with other PWCC members about these and have overgrown the site. But the structure is more. All you have to do is sign up for the still there—awaiting rehabilitation. group. It’s easy and it’s free. What a waste! All you have to do is send an e-mail to the Club at
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Member Portfolio
CLUB Macro photography is more than recording the tiniest details in a bug, a postage stamp, or any other small subject. Much more! It also can be capturing the natural beauty of subjects. Long-time Park West Camera Club member, Joan Slatkin, reveals the beauty of small objects with the flair of a surrealistic painter of the 19th century. Enjoy these images!
All images © Joan Slatkin
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 PWCC Website by Christine Doyle How To Upload Images to CLUB Your Image Library: Park West Camera Club has a new website that is interac- • After you log in, click on tive and very user-friendly. the My Account tab and By creating an account select My Image Library. and signing on to the web- upper right hand corner • Scroll down and press the site, members will be able to (below the PWCC logo). “Upload Images” button create and update their own • On the login page, scroll • Scroll down and press the personal galleries and share down to the bottom you will “Select” button. This will their work. (You can create see a box marked “Member- open your hard drive library. multiple galleries if you ship Information and Mem- • Select images to be added like.) The gallery template bership Request.” Press the from your hard drive. (Mul- comes with privacy settings “Membership Information” tiple images can be added at that you control. button. the same time by pressing We encourage members to • On the next page, press the multiple files.) take advantage of this feature “Create a new User Ac- • Press “Open” in your hard and to make their galleries pub- count” button. drive window. This will be- lic so that visitors to the website • Scroll down to the box gin loading your images. can see the great work that our marked “Login Name.” We • After your images are up- members are doing, in addition recommend you use your loaded press “Save Images to the monthly competition email address as your login and Proceed to Edit Page” winners and honors images. name, but the choice is up to button. All members are encour- you. Press “Next” after en- • At the Edit Page, you can aged to join the website. tering a login name. make changes to your image While the website contains • On the next page, you will titles. When done, press links to videos on a variety be asked to create a pass- “Save any changes and of topics that will help guide word and reminder question return to the original page.” you through many of these for that password. Please do You can now go to your processes, here are some de- so. Gallery and upload your tailed instructions on how to • On the next page, you will images. get started: be asked for some personal information. You only need How To Create a Member How To Create a Member to fill in the lines where “re- Gallery: Account: quired” is indicated. • An email will be sent to the • After you log in, click on • Enter into your browser webmaster to approve your the My Account tab and the following address: request. The webmaster will select My Galleries.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 • An online form will open. right), then at the next page • After your images are up- Here you can customize press either “Display Recent loaded press "Save Images CLUB your gallery, e.g., by adding Uploads” or “Display All and Proceed to Edit Page" a Title or Description and Images” (depending on how button. adjust additional settings, recently the images were up- • At the “Edit New Images such as loaded). in Gallery” page, you can - Gallery Visibility • When you finish selecting review and edit the image (Private, Organization images for your gallery, titles. When done, press the Access, or Public) press the “Finished Marking “Save any changes and - Transition (set how the Desired Images” button. return to original page” images will move) • This will take you to your - Options on what to gallery page, where you can button. display (Image Title, change the order of the im- • This will take you to your Author, Captions, ages by clicking and drag- gallery page, where you can Thumbnails, etc.) ging. When finished, press change the order of the im- • Press the “Update Gallery the “Save updates to image ages by clicking and drag- Options” button to save your order” button. ging. When finished, press settings and preferences. the “Save updates to image • PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU CAN ALSO ADD order” button. NEW GALLERIES HAVE TO IMAGES DIRECTLY INTO BE APPROVED BY WEB AN APPROVED GALLERY: Member Show ADMINISTRATORS BE- FORE YOU CAN ADD • After your new gallery is Recent photographs by 90+ YOUR IMAGES. You will be approved, open the gallery year-old PWCC member Ruth notified once your gallery is into which you want to up- Formanek’s will be in a show approved. load images. at the Coco-Mat furniture store • The website has a section • Press the “Edit and Upload on the Upper West Side from for images taken during Images” button (on the June 2nd through the summer. PWCC field trips (“PWCC right), then at the next page The store is located at 2200 CLUB OUTINGS”). Galleries press the “Upload Images Broadway, bwtheen 78th and for field trip images are cre- Into This Gallery” button. 79th Streets. ated in the same way as Please come and view the member galleries. • Scroll down and press the “Select” button (bottom left show to support Ruth in this endeavor. How to Add Images to Your of the page). This will open Gallery: your hard drive library. • Select images to be added • After you log in or after from your hard drive. (Mul- uploading images to your tiple images can be added at Image Library, open the the same time by pressing gallery where you want to multiple files.) display them. • Press “Open” in your hard • Press the “Edit and Upload drive window. This will be- Images” button (on the gin loading your images.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Theme Night CLUB Back on April 22nd, the Club had a theme night. The theme was ”numbers.” Each PWCCer was to choose a number—any number they wanted—and then shoot a portfolio with that chosen number in mind. Seven members submit- ted some of their images to Photo Notes from this event. © Paul Grebanier If this was any indication, ”2” is a very popular num- ber. Six of the seven contrib- utors chose it. Only one member chose ”4.” Check to see if everyone counted correctly.
© Eloisa Huni
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© Marty Smith © Natalie Manzino
© Marlene Schonbrun
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 Wanna See More? Photo Cartoon
CLUB of the Month Please submit some of your images from recent PWCC field trips, workshops, or from your travels around the City. Prepare them as for a Club competition (resolution set to 72 ppi; horizontal dimension not to exceed 1,400 pixels; and vertical dimension not to exceed 1,050 pixels). Submit your images to
Your cat’s so fat I had to shoot her at f/22 to keep her whole body in focus!
Member Show
by Marvin Fink
I am proud to have a viewing of some of my pictures from my trip to Iceland last fall. It will be at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. It is part of a larger show called ”Wide Open.” It is open on weekends from May 11th —July 7th, form 1-6 p.m. The address is 499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, in the Red Hook section across from the Fairway supermarket.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 Club’s Night Out CLUB Every once in a while the Club meets at venues other than the Soho Photo Gallery. We call these meetings ”Club’s Nights Out.” We had one a few weeks ago. Our destination was Pier 25, just a short walk west from the Gallery. As the say- ing goes, ”It was a dark and dreary night…” Be that as it may, Club member Christine Doyle was present and sent these images to memorialize the event. Thanks, Christine, for a job well done. All images ©2019 Christine Doyle
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Creatures CLUB Rangefinder's ”Creatures” is a photography competition dedicated to all-things- animal, from four-legged friends to creatures and wildlife One of Park West’s very own, Sarah Corbin, has been named the first place winner in the contests ”Personal Work” category for her shot of Camargue horses.
© Sarah Corbin
You Know You’re a Photographer 4. You think the sound of a camera shutter is When… pleasurable. 5. You get annoyed at people who buy top-of- 1. You get upset when you don’t have your the-line cameras only to take selfies. camera on you. 6. Traveling is more about photography than it 2. Your camera battery runs out before any is relaxing. other gadget. 7. Your camera club goes to a summer sched- 3. Lighting > Equipment. ule with fewer activities and you’re upset.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Member Portfolio
CLUB Street markets and food bazaars are commonplace all around the world— especially in communities where modern mega marts are scarce or totally absent. The aromas can carry you to far-away lands; the colors can almost blind you; and the sounds will ring in your ears for weeks. These photos, taken by Natalie Manzino in and around Oaxaca, Mexico this past winter, surely will make your mouth water.
All images © Natalie Manzino
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Depth of Field by Bill Apple
It Takes a Hole
If you’ve ever been to a Club
PHOTOGRAPHY competition you know that judges value something unique. “I’ve seen this image before” is their tiresome reproach. Well, who hasn’t? King Solomon was spot- on nearly 3,000 years ago, and I paraphrase: there’s Holey Moley The Event Horizon Telescope, relying on international scien- nothing new under the sun tific teamwork, sensitive satellite parabolic dish antennas, and sophisticated (Ecclesiastes 1:9). computing, captured an image of a black hole from a galaxy 54 million light And so after 200 years of years away. Americans got a glimpse last month. picture-taking, photographers’ dirty little secret is that we cated signal processing. It’s just doesn’t possess sufficient repeat ourselves. Sunflowers, M87’s light. oomph to “lift off,” as one sci- street life, wild animals, the Last month, a team of 200 entist put it. Brooklyn Bridge! To capture a scientists let that sun shine in Photographing a black really sui generis shot you just in a swaggering photographic hole, then, is no more feasible gotta go out of this world. tour de force bridging space and than photographing gravity Even the moon, green cheese time. They showed us a far- itself. But just as you can cap- or not, doesn’t cut it anymore. away black hole. ture gravity’s effects—an apple, Let’s head toward M87, a Sixty research institutes in midair, dropping toward New- galaxy 54 million light years 20 countries took part, offering ton’s noggin—you can like- distant, an astronomer’s Tim- 8 telescopes with exquisitely wise photograph a black hole’s buktu. Never been there my- sensitive parabolic dishes at six massiveness, thanks to its self, but that’s impressive, its far-flung locations: Hawaii, light-sucking effects. name implying at least 86 other Arizona, Spain, Mexico, Chile, You must first amplify and galaxies in the extended family. and Antarctica. pick out patterns of radio- Light waves (and related Now, the thing about black wave data amongst a cosmic electromagnetic radiation) holes is, well, they’re black— soup of static, waves marching emanating from M87 started they can’t normally be seen, earthward. You put an image heading toward earth during always a nonstarter for pho- together by crunching the our early Eocene Period, sev- tographers. That’s because numbers. Voilà—a rim of light eral tens of millions of years black holes are all about gravi- ringing the hole’s edges. Good back. And now, in 2019, we’re ty so powerful that it sucks in software algorithms, not unlike able to “see” it. More accurate- everything nearby, including those of Photoshop for “stitch- ly, able to sense it, with heavy- light waves. Light in the vicini- ing” panoramas, are vital. duty electronics and sophisti- ty of a black hole, it turns out,
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 In the Wall Street Journal, physicist Frank Wilczek— a Nobel-laureate not on the project—described the “unim- pressive” photo: “a sort of nondescript, blurry, half-
PHOTOGRAPHY glazed doughnut, showing not the black hole itself but the surrounding illumination.” (See “Holey Moley,” previous page.) But Wilczek was more than impressed by the science and the teamwork. The telescope-dish-com- puter system, dubbed the Event Horizon Telescope, demanded perfect synchrony of readouts from all six sites, timing accurate to a trillionth of a second. After more than a decade in the making and a $40-million budget, the team landed its winning image. The hole’s diameter? Roughly 18 billion miles, 200 Katie Tweets Katie Bouman, a computer-science graduate student at times the distance from earth MIT, was key in writing algorithms to filter and crunch the radio-wave data behind the black-hole image, seen here on her computer screen. to our sun. And its light-eating mass? Equivalent to the stuff packed into two quadrillion group’s work. Her team, • • • earths, way more concentrated. however, made clear that she Interestingly, for a while was key in creating an algo- At the time the blackhole Katie Bouman, a grad-student rithm to turn data on a half-ton photo came to light so did researcher at MIT, became the of hard drives into the image. another photograph, from Irish team’s public face (see “Katie It was just social-media photographer John Moore, a Tweets”). You can read abso- mischief. One commentator Pulitzer prize winner who lute exuberance on her face as noted, “the situation highlight- shoots for Getty Images and the final image comes into fo- ed the vitriol that women con- whose work has appeared cus on her screen mid-April. tinue to face on the Internet… widely in newspapers and Bouman, soon to be a and the vulnerability of major elsewhere. professor at Caltech, took a Internet platforms to trolling In April, Moore bagged top social-media drubbing, how- campaigns.” But Bouman took prize in this year’s World Press ever. Internet “trolls” accused it in stride, and the team Photo Contest. His timely shot her of stealing credit for the backed her. is a heart-wrenching image of the U.S. immigration crisis: a
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 PHOTOGRAPHY
Winning Shot Irish photographer John Moore captured mother-and-child migrants from Honduras, as an ICE agent searches the mom (left). Time girl up, and mom and baby got magazine (right) appropriated and Photoshopped the crying toddler for its into a van together. “Welcome to America” cover last June, then added a menacing President Which should tell you that Trump (see text). you can’t believe everything you think you see in a photo. two-year-old Honduran work and the oversaturated You knew that, right? asylum-seeker, crying incon- scarlet. Among people of a cer- Children represent photog- solably as her mother is de- tain age, it seems specifically raphy’s low-hanging fruit, so tained and frisked by a latex- engineered to evoke the 1963 easily brought to tears. Virtual- gloved ICE agent near a Mexi- photo of Alabama Governor ly anyone with a camera has can border crossing. Moore George Wallace, standing in a shot bawling little faces at least titled it “Zero Tolerance.” schoolhouse door to block once (see “Cry Babies” next Moore’s picture, so com- court-ordered desegregation. page). Making a kid cry is easy pelling, had several months In Time magazine, the im- peasy, yet such photos always earlier received cover treat- plication that freights the cover punch above their weight. ment by Time magazine for its is that this tiny girl has been Never underestimate the pro- June 19th issue. Time Photo- brutally torn from her mother, paganda value of a crying shopped Moore’s work to something that never hap- child, so dishonest here. isolate the child and set her pened. The girl’s father, Denis against a lurid red backdrop. Javier Varela Hernandez, rec- Injected as well into the frame: ognized his daughter as soon Save the Date a stern-looking President as he’d seen the shot and em- Trump, who towers menacing- phatically told The Washington Photo Plus Expo will be held at ly over the toddler (see “Win- Post that his child was never Javits Center from Thursday, ning Shot”). The cover line: ever without her mom. October 24th through Saturday “Welcome to America.” Further, according to USA the 26th, 2019 Registration will The picture, in my book, Today, the photographer him- begin in less than a month— should be seen as deeply dis- self also said that when he was on June 6th. honest for Time, not- finished taking his shots he
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 PHOTOGRAPHY
Cry Babies Like Time’s cover photographer, John Moore, many photographers have shot crying kids. Left to right: Diane Arbus, Vivian Maier, and Jill Greenberg, whose 2006 show and book, End Times, took flak for making dozens of kids cry.
Nubia Red Magic 3 Nikon Mirrorless
The Chinese smartphone company Nubia has The biggest news recently from Nikon are the unveiled the Red Magic 3, a phone that two Nikon Z Mirrorless camera systems: shoots 48-megapixel photos and 8K video. The performance of the device is so intense Nikon Z7 Highlights: that it features liquid cooling via a copper • 45.7 Megapixels heat pipe and a built-in cooling fan. • FX Format The Red Magic 3 is marketed as a smart- • 9 FPS Continuous Shooting phone that excels at gaming, but it’s a beast • 64-25,600 ISO (Expandable to 102,400) on the photography and video fronts as well. • 4K UHD 3840x2160 at 30/25/24p Inside the phone are two cameras. The main one features a 48-megapixel sensor and an f/ Nikon Z6 Highlights: 1.7 lens. The front features a 16-megapixel • 24.5 Megapixels sensor and an f/2.0 lens. WOW!!! • FX Format It’s scheduled to launch in the US this • 12 FPS Continuous Shooting May. No word yet on what the official US • 100-51,200 ISO (Expandable to dollar price tag will be. 204,800) • 4K UHD 3840x2160 at 30/25/24p
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Gallery Watching by Ruth Formanek and Judy Rosenblatt
Hudson Rising; New York Historical Society, 170 Central
PHOTOGRAPHY Park West (at 77th Street); through August 4
by Judy The museum’s website states that this exhibit “explores 200 years of ecological change and © Seneca Ray Stoddard he succumbed to cancer at 53 environmental activism along in 2016, and this exhibit dis- ‘the most interesting river in the Adirondack Park. And plays his final body of work. America’ through artifacts, we’re greeted by a larger-than- These huge, vertical images media, and celebrated Hudson life image of folk singer Pete (priced at $28,000!) were River School paintings.” Seeger, a more recent cham- inspired by painter Mark Although not a photo pion of the river, which was Rothko’s color field paintings. exhibit per se, photographs still so polluted in the 1960s By pointing his camera at play an important role here in that fish were dying and you the sea’s horizon line and conveying the historical record couldn’t swim in it. taking long exposures, Hooper of the Hudson through scenes We recommend that you achieved abstract, Rothko-like and portraits of important put this exhibit high on your effects of large, often deep figures in its story. This well- list of summer activities here color areas softly interspersed designed, intriguing exhibit in the City. with narrower bands of color. encapsulates how commerce They invite long periods of and greed almost destroyed Chip Hooper: From the Edge; study and meditation, and in an area of incredible natural Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West creating them Hooper found beauty, until armies of 26th Street; through June 29 spiritual solace and meaning protesters came together to as his life was ending. preserve it. by Judy The exhibit also contains a We learn that in many ways Water-inspired images contin- room displaying some of the general environmental ued to be a current theme as Hooper’s earlier work: smaller movement was given birth we learned of photo exhibits black and white images with here. We see photographs of opening in galleries the first more detail, such as the play forests turned into graveyards week of May. Chip Hooper of water against rock. These for trees and of a huge hole must have been an extra- spoke of Hooper’s longterm blasted into the Palisades’ wall ordinary person: Not only was emotional connection to the by rock quarriers. We meet he a successful promoter of ocean, which he called “the Seneca Ray Stoddard, a pho- talented musicians, but his purest expression of creation.” tographer whose images and Pacific Ocean photographs I was moved by this exhibit’s verbal persuasion were in- also brought him widespread revelation of Hooper’s strumental in the creation of recognition and acclaim. Sadly,
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 by Ruth I was impressed with two exhibits illustrating new developments in photogra- phy—by Riepenhoff and Valenzuela. No longer shoot-
PHOTOGRAPHY ing aspects of reality, develop- ing and printing in the dark- room or the computer, the em- phasis of these photographers was on process, not on subject matter. What also seemed clear to me in viewing Valenzuela’s and also Hooper’s work (see Judy’s review) was the rela- tionship between photography and other graphic arts, espe- cially painting and lithogra- phy. Valenzuela’s work resem- bles that of painter Eduardo Chillida, and Hooper’s ocean images evoke Mark Rothko’s abstracts. In an era where many pho- tographers despair of making new and significant visual statements, the emphasis has © Chip Hooper shifted to an aspect under their control—the process. Riepen- unending spiritual commit- hoff’s work is an example: ment to his ocean photogra- Whereas 19th-century photog- phy. If only I could afford one raphers used the cyanotype of these final works to bring © Rodrigo Valenzuela method to render their images home and live with!
Rodrigo Valenzuela: American Type; Laurence Miller Gallery, 521 West 26 Street; May 2 to June 1
Meghann Riepenhoff, Ecotone; Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue (at 24th Street); May 2 to June 22
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 with the help of light, at the UCLA Meghann Riepenhoff uses her School of the Arts large-sized paper with cyan- and Architecture. otype chemicals and develops His photo- them in the ocean. graphs depict Her work is open to chance: well-balanced
PHOTOGRAPHY She stands in the surf (e.g., and sometimes Great Salt Lake, Puget Sound) stunning compo- with large pieces of light-sensi- sitions in black- tive, chemically-coated paper and-white con- to record the movement of the structed from sand and water washing over cast-off items them. At times she adds a from construc- shielding box on the paper tion sites. He which results in waterfall-like uses his own movement. At other times she images as back- pins the paper down, letting drops against water and sediment flood over which additional it. Or she removes the paper installations are from the water and buries a built and then portion of it in the sand while rephotographed. it develops. Her cyanotypes According to are unstable because her im- the gallery’s press © Meghann Riepenhoff ages continue to develop, release, the materials and labor slowly, over time, the color involved in his sculptural about the almost disastrous changing, salt crystallizing, canvases harken back to the poisoning of the river as well sediment shedding, and she construction work that he as the beginnings of grass- obviously omits a fixer. While initially performed as a recent roots environmental activism. her blue, and sometimes light- US immigrant. Thus labor The innovative curators in- brown images are fascinating, itself becomes a central theme cluded a live display—striped the exhibit and the accompa- throughout the work. It seems bass in a large tank, rented nying book (weighs at least 5 to me that abstract artists do from a Long Island fish farm pounds!) need editing—there not need to add interpretations and to be returned to it at the are too many duplicates or al- to their images, nor offer end of the exhibit. most-duplicates. biographical information. A word on the museum’s Rodrigo Valenzuela was Valenzuela worked in con- restaurant: Very friendly born in 1982 in Chile and cur- struction and is an immi- servers but lousy food. There rently resides in Los Angeles. grant—does that help us are lots of restaurants on He has degrees in photography understand his abstractions? Columbus Avenue. and art history and in philoso- Don’t miss these shows! phy. Shown widely across the I agree with Judy’s assess- United States, Valenzuela is ment of the Hudson Rising currently an assistant professor show. True to its mission of American history, we learn
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 2019 PSA Conference
The 81st Annual Conference of the Photographic Society of America is scheduled for Sep- tember 25th-28th, 2019, in
PHOTOGRAPHY Spokane, WA. This is the northern limit of the Palouse— where the Club had its 2018 summer field trip. If you missed our trip, but are amazed by the images of the members who attended, why not add this PSA event to your calendar?
Double monthly $19.99 sometime in term. But, and this is a big the near future. It's still the butt, all are Photoshop ”Double the pleasure, lowest cost option, even ”wanna-bees.” double the fun” was the after the price hike if you • Phase One Capture One advertising slogan for want to stick with Adobe Pro 12 Wrigley’s Double Mint software products—the best • Serif Affinity Photo 1.6 chewing gum. It also seems in the market according to • Alien Skin Exposure X4 applicable to Adobe’s those in the know. • Skylum Luminar 3 Photography Plan where What is one to do? Stick • ON1 Photo RAW 2019 you get Photoshop and with Adobe? Switch to • DxO PhotoLab 2 Lightroom (two versions, another software company’s It’s your call plus some other goodies) all products? If so, whose? for the price of $9.99 each Here’s a list of some of and every month. the best that’s out there. All But, double the price?!?! are Mac and Windows Adobe is about to (more compatible. All do raw than) double the cost of its conversions and image Photography Plan to a editing. All cost less than the Photo Plan over the long
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 Summer Options
Summer is just about every photographer’s time to travel and shoot. Nothing beats sun- shine and warm temperatures
PHOTOGRAPHY as you discover great new
photo destination. Putting a Fethiye, Turkey of instead Santorini, Greece damper on all that discovery, however, are the thousands of other people who have the same vacation plans as you. Here’s one suggestion, however. Save those popular summer destinations for the off-season and check out a few emerging locales that will leave you convinced that you
discovered the newest photo Island Maria Anna of instead Italy Coast, Amalfi the hotspot.
El Nido, Philippines instead of Bali, Indonesia Sun Valley, Idaho instead of Yellowstone National Park
Rincon, Puerto instead of Oahu, Hawaii
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 More from Adobe B&W Photo Tips
I just received an e-mail from Shape and Form Adobe regarding the use of an Sometimes color is needed older version of Photoshop… in an image to separate, distinguish, and add interest. image that results from poor
PHOTOGRAPHY We have recently discontinued When you shift an image to setting choices. If you are in- certain older versions of Creative black-and-white, you can no tentionally shooting to create a Cloud applications and as a result, longer rely on color to add black-and-white image, be under the terms of our agreement, interest or a focal point to very conscious of your set- you are no longer licensed to use your photograph. That’s why tings; choose them wisely. them. Our records show that you form and shape are incredibly Most of the strongest and may be using the following ver- important in black-and-white most well known black-and- sion(s) of these applications. photography. You’ll have to white images are crisp and PHOTOSHOP:16.1 look beyond colors and focus sharp. So don’t let your ISO Please be aware that should your attention on shapes and get too high. you continue to use the discon- lines, arranging them in a way tinued version(s), you may be at that emphasizes the most Contrast risk of potential claims of in- interesting aspect of the shape When converting your photo fringement by third parties. or that creates an intriguing to black-and-white, pump up Please upgrade to the latest composition of many shapes. your contrast. Whether you version(s) using the instructions use an action, levels layer, or below. By upgrading, you will Slightly Overexpose curves adjustment to do your continue to receive all the value This is more of a personal conversion, your b&w image that Creative Cloud has to offer. suggestion, but I always can handle a lot more contrast slightly overexpose when I than a color shot. Make your Did you get one too? shoot. It helps bring all the blacks a deeper black and I’m not sure what they tones up a little so you don’t your whites a brighter white. could do to you if you are us- lose any details in the dark You can always pull up the histogram in Photoshop to ing this older version of their shadows. Of course, you don’t want to over-do it and blow check your levels; you’ll want program. But is it worth trying out your whites, but a slightly a healthy looking mountain in to find out? overexposed image can be your histogram to have a My suggestion is to always tweaked more easily to suit strong image. use the latest versions to get your needs. the most for your money. Avoid Noise Sometimes grain adds to an image, but always be inten- tional about your use of it. Many people will shift a poor- ly created image to black and white to hide the noise in their
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 Using Your Camera by Chuck Pine
Shallow Depth of Field
Depth of field is a photography term that refers to the selective PHOTOGRAPHY focus of the camera lens along a certain plane. This creates a sharp focus for any objects at a specific distance from the lens, while objects further away from that specific distance become increasingly blurry. The more shallow your depth of field is, the more precise your focus becomes, thus leaving objects in front of or behind your subject blurrier. ©2019 Chuck Pine A deep depth of field is the opposite, and all objects are sharper.
There are four main factors that affect the depth of field: 2. Aperture. The lower the 4. Physical distance from F-stop number (the the lens itself. The clos- wider the aperture) the er your subject is to the more shallow your lens, the shallower your depth of field will be. depth of field will be. You will have to com- This is because the pensate for the extra depth of field is not lin- light by increasing the ear and becomes more shutter speed. shallow quicker as you 1. Format or frame size. get closer to the lens. The area of light cap- For example, if your tured by a camera (sig- subject is 10 meters nified by the type of away, objects at 15 me- sensor in digital pho- 3. Lens length (zoom). ters away will appear tography (i.e. 2/3 CCD, The longer your lens sharper than objects 5 APS-C, etc.). All other length (the closer you meters away, even things being equal, a zoom in), the shallower though they are both 5 larger sensor yields a your depth of field will meters away from your shallower depth of field. become. focal point.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 PhotoShopping Follow these steps to create an Mode is set to Normal by Chuck Pine action: • Make sure the Opacity is set to 100% Action Packed • Go to Window > Actions • Make sure the Preserve • Click on the New Action Transparency button is If you’re working on some button in the Actions unchecked
PHOTOGRAPHY images in Photoshop and find Window • Click OK yourself in a situation where • Name the Action, ”Bor- you do the same thing over der,” for example • Once you’re done making and over again, you will love • Click OK. The red Record changes to your image, click how actions can make your Button will light up. the Stop Button—it is the grey life easier. square icon. An action is basically like Here are the steps for making a VCR (sorry for the ancient the border: To use this action on any other reference) that records some- image, simply scroll down the thing for you so that you can • Select the entire image by go- list of actions in the Actions always go back, press play ing to Select > All or type Window (it will be near the whenever you want, and Command - A (on a Mac) or bottom), click on the name of watch the same show over Control - A (on a PC) the action (in this case, (”Bor- and over again. With an action • Go to Edit > Stroke. The der”), and then click on the in Photoshop, though, what Stroke Dialog Box will open Play Button (the right-facing you are replaying is a series of triangle). steps to do a task, with a single click (well, maybe more than Voila! It will do exactly the just one). same steps that you did For example, let’s say, you previously, but a lot faster. like to put a border around all of your images—a thin, one- You can create as many pixel, black border. Instead of actions as you like to do all going through the ?? steps to sorts of repetitive tasks. make it, an action allows you to do it much more quickly and without the chance of making any mistakes and • Set the having to start over. Width to 1 pixel • Set the Color to black • Set the Location to Inside • Make sure the Blend
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 Photo Shopping wires from getting tangled, by Chuck Pine and filters from getting scratched. They also prevent Travel Gear liquids, like lens cleaners, from damaging your expensive elec- Let’s face it. There’s one tronics. The giant sized bags
PHOTOGRAPHY (almost) universal truism can protect your gear from rain about photographers. We or snow and even prevent travel! Whether it’s by car. moisture from condensing on train, bus, or plane here are on hand. Most are made from a few items of travel gear a micro-fleece fabric that’s you may want to consider gentle on the skin and feature purchasing a memory foam ergonomic neck support. Some even have an adjustable hood which can cover the eyes (according to your preference and comfort).
your camera when you come in from the cold. And, best of Ever get the feeling that you’re all—they’re inexpensive—and packing more cables, chargers, you’ve probably got ‘em in the and cords than clothes? kitchen already. Phones, laptops, tablets, cam- eras, and more all need tp be Wildlife Photo Tip recharged regularly. Make Sick and tired of squeezing your life easier by getting up into a plane/train/bus seat Get close to your subject! You an electronic cord organizer for only to find that the seat see a bird in a tree, but your as little as $10 and you won’t pocket in front of you has photo turns out to be all tree waste time searching around at scant room for a magazine, and no bird. The ‘less is more’ the bottom of your bags. let alone a water bottle, approach is often best. Like to get some rest on the laptop, or even your favorite But don’t get too close! A journey? You’ll be extremely novel? A seat-back organizer good photo wants a little grateful to have a neck pillow can save the day. space around the subject, otherwise, your composition can look cramped, with the Disclaimer One of the most versatile in- ventions of all time—especially animal squashed into a space I do not, nor does anyone else to the traveling photograph- where it doesn’t quite fit. in the Club, make a profit er—is the resealable plastic By the way, this tip applies from the sales of these items. bag. They’re great for keeping to all kinds of subjects—not Chuck batteries from rolling around, just wildlife.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 Getting High
One way to find good photo ops is by starting at the top. These sky-high sites, all in the northeast, will help
PHOTOGRAPHY you get the shots.
Philadelphia City Hall Philadelphia
Cadillac Mountain Bar Harbor, ME Rockport, MA Thacher Island Thacher
Capital Wheel National Harbor, MD
Mount Washington Mount Top of the Rock
Sargent’s Purchase, NH Purchase, Sargent’s New York City, NY
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37 B & H Event Space
B&H Photo offers free work- shops. Here are a few of the upcoming offerings:
Monday, May 13 Flash Photography Speaker: Herman Rodriguez
Thursday, May 16 Macro Floral Photography Speaker: Jackie Kramer EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC.
Wednesday, May 15 Adventure Photography Speaker: Lucas Gilman
Tuesday, May 21 Waterfall Photo Walk Speaker: Tony Gale
Tuesday, May 29 Sun, Moon, Milky Way Speaker: Rafael Pons
Thursday, May 16 Matting and Mounting Speaker: Brian Buell
Check out
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 38 Street Photo Workshop
This summer, Matt Weber and James Maher will be teaching a new weekend street photog- raphy workshop in the City. The class will spend the weekend learning the art of street photography, exploring some of the most interesting and off-the-beaten-path loca- 2018 Major Amateur Winner tions in the city including Epson Pano Awards Nathaniel Merz Coney Island on Saturday EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. *weather permitting* and The 10th EPSON International SoHo and Chinatown on Sun- Pano Awards is dedicated to day. You will meet some new the craft and art of panoramic Continuous Focus photography friends and learn photography. some fascinating New York Advances in digital The Josephine Herrick Project history. There is also an op- photography and editing is holding a fundraiser—the tional Friday evening dinner software have resulted in an 2019 Spring Cocktail Party and and drinks session. ever-increasing rise in the Photography Auction. The price is $700. popularity of image stitching, The Josephine Herrick For more information and especially in the panoramic Project teaches photography to register, go to format. VR ‘immersive’ pho- programs to disadvantaged
© Matt Weber slim projector! And $12,000 in Medicine—1216 Fifth Avenue. cash! To reserve a spot, go to For all the information and
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 39 Where in the World?
These images were all taken in the same place—a US National Monument. Can you guess where they were shot? Send your responses to
EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. next month’s issue of Photo Notes.
Last month’s destination was the site of a Club field trip a All images © Chuck Pine few years back—Cuba, There was only one correct answer submitted. It was by a friend of the Club, Rachel Guinsburg. Congratulations, Rachel.
Photo Notes is looking for images for this ”Where in the World?” column. If you would like to stump and/or amaze your friends and fellow Club members, submit 4 or 5 images of your destination to
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 40
about landscape photography The program is called and to get even more enjoy- f/8 insights. It's available to ment from it. If you count you right now by going to yourself in either camp, or
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 41 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
For all the details, see the Schedule of Activities on the following pages.
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 42 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club world cuisines, cultures, and meets every Monday night art in one of the country’s most (with some exceptions for diverse neighborhoods—Hell’s holidays and a curtailed Kitchen. The Festival is New summer schedule). Please join York’s oldest and largest food us at a meeting or on one of event. It draws over one quar- our other scheduled activities. ter million visitors over the All Club Monday night course of the weekend. From meetings take place at the Soho open to close, visitors can SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Photo Gallery located at 15 browse the offerings on 15 city White Street, between West blocks of gourmet food and Broadway and Church Street/ beverages. Asian to Cajun, and Sat, May 18 Avenue of the Americas (6th Photo Op—Viking Festival Avenue) unless indicated otherwise in the listings below. This year’s Viking Fest will be Following the schedule of ac- held on Saturday, May 18th tivities are detailed directions from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m in Owl’s to each of our meeting sites. Head/Bliss Park on 68th Street Check the PWCC Website and Colonial Road in Bay
Sat—Sun, May 18—19 * Monday, May 20 Photo Op—Food Festival Business Meeting #4 The Ninth Avenue Interna- This is the fourth and final tional Food Festival blends business meeting of the Club
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 43 year. There’s always plenty of Wineberry, and Poison Ivy. If you must cancel, get in touch excitement in the air. Old busi- They will be grazing daily, for with Susan to let her know you ness will be discussed, new your photographic pleasure, won’t be showing up. business will be raised, and from May 21 thru August 30. more. Some items on the Wed—Mon, May 22—27 agenda will include the Photo Op—Fleet Week election of next year’s Club Hosted nearly every year officers and the presentation since 1984, Fleet Week of next years budget. The New York is the City’s meeting will be followed by celebration of the sea refreshments and socializing
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES services. This annual with your fellow PWCCers. event also provides an opportunity for the citizens of the Big Apple * Wednesday, May 22 and the surrounding Field Trip— Snug Harbor Snug Harbor, also known as Sailors’ Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, is a collection of architectural- ly significant 19th-century Tue—Fri, May 21—Aug 30 buildings along the north Photo Op—Goathem shore of Staten Island. It was A herd of goats is being de- once a home for aged sailors. ployed to help clear unwanted Some of the buildings and the and invasive plant life between grounds are used by arts orga- 119th and 125th streets in nizations. Snug Harbor in- area to meet Sailors, Marines, Riverside Park. Goats are kind cludes 26 Greek Revival, Beaux and Coast Guardsmen, as well of like natural lawn mowers— Arts, Italianate, and Victorian as witness first hand the latest they can eat many different, style structures. The site is con- capabilities of today’s Navy, sometimes irritating, plants sidered Staten Island's "crown Marine Corps, and Coast which eliminates using pesti- jewel" and "an incomparable Guard. Fleet Week includes cides or damaging equipment. remnant of New York’s 19th- dozens of military demonstra- Plus, the goats get to eat all century seafaring past." It is a tions and displays throughout they want all day, every day. National Historic Landmark the week, as well as public The Riverside Park Conser- District. We’ll meet on the 2nd visits onto many of the partici- vancy calls the initiative floor of the Staten Island Ferry pating ships. Plus, there are all Goathem (because they put the Terminal at South Ferry at those uniforms flooding the “goat in Gotham”). The goats 12:45 p.m. Sign up at any Club City streets. What a photo op! will mainly be used to mow meeting or contact the trip down plants that could be leader: Susan Sigrist: 212-758- harmful to the ecosystem, 0036 (this is not a cell phone) including Porcelain Berry, or
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 44 Sat—Mon, May 25—27 Photo Op—Outdoor Art The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit show- cases fine artists and crafts- people from around the metropolitan area, the nation, and the world. Attendees a three-day weekend—it is, come from all over and are a first and foremost, a time to cosmopolitan mix, including honor those citizens who’ve
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES art lovers, tourists, faculty and served the United States in * Thursday, May 23 students from the area’s many times of war. The City honors Expanding Visions 25 schools, and professionals such its fallen heroes with parades as interior designers. This is a all over the five boroughs. The Tonight, is the second field sidewalk show, not a street fair. Little Neck–Douglaston parade trip/assignment of Expanding in Queens is reputedly Visions 25. Tonight’s lesson is the largest. You can also Frame of Mind where you will follow Brooklyn’s take images of the City framed Memorial Day Parade by the girders, wires, and other (148 years old!), which structures of the Manhattan begins at 87th Street Bridge. This session will take and Third Avenue. In place on and around the Manhattan, head up- Manhattan Bridge. We’ll meet town for a smaller on the corner of Canal Street parade in Inwood, and The Bowery, at 6:30 p.m. Its venue is on University which begins at Dyckman Place, starting at East 13th Street and Broadway. Check * Fri—Mon, May 24—27 Street and continuing south
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 45 side of West 65th Street, please). See the Class Notes for between Broadway and instructions on how to prepare Amsterdam Avenue, closer and bring your images for the to Amsterdam. From the review session. street, take the stairs, the escalator, or the handi- capped elevator up one level and proceed through the revolving doors into the main lobby. Finally, pass through the security SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES checkpoint and take the elevator up to the 6th floor. A $7 donation is collected when you enter.
© Susan Magnano © Leland Bobbé Wednesday, May 29 Photo Event—Sierra Photo Thursday, May 30 The NYC Sierra Club’s Photog- Photo Event— raphy Committee is holding its Soho Photo Lecture Series * Thursday, May 30 meeting tonight. The program Lectures at Soho Photo Gallery Expanding Visions 25 for this evening is a presenta- are informal, open to the tion by Susan Magnano. The Tonight is the first review public, and free. Presentations following is from Susan’s site session of the Expanding begin at 6 p.m., typically run
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 46 queens. He has also done street presentations, and more. on conservation. The program photography in Times Square Special guest and falconer includes an assortment of and on The Bowery. For more Lauren McGough (seen on 60 impressive speakers, a trade info on Bobbé and his work, go Minutes last year) will be a part show, shooting stations, photo to
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 47 Tuesday, June 4 Photo Event— Soho Photo Opening The gallery is proud to present the third of three winning port- folios from their annual International Portfolio Competition. Accompanying the than 1/15 of a second,… much less. This session SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES * Tuesday, June 4 will take place in and Field Trip— around Grand Central The Cloisters Terminal. We will meet on The Met Cloisters is the the main level of Grand branch of The Metropolitan Central, at the information Museum of Art devoted to kiosk, the one with the the art and architecture of clock on top, in the center medieval Europe. It is located of the hall, at 6:30 p.m. in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, on a spectacular Thursday, June 6 four-acre lot overlooking the Photo Event— Hudson River. There are winning portfolio, Soho Photo PWP Monthly Meeting gardens, fountains, statues, Gallery members will also be Professional Women Photo- and hundreds of artifacts of exhibiting images. The recep- graphers is a group of women photographic interest. Ticket tion will be held today, from 6 photographers who network prices are $25/$17 (65+)—for to 8 p.m. The gallery is open and share their images and ex- New York State residents the for viewing Wednesdays thru periences. Tonight’s program is amount you pay is up to you Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m., by a Members’ Night (in which (valid ID required). The M4 bus appointment, and on Monday members will share small port- goes right to the Cloisters. The nights at our Club meetings. folios of their images) and Dyckman Street and the 191st This show will be hanging Year-End Party (festivities will Street stations on the ”A” train through June 28th. For more abound). The PWP meetings and the Dyckman Street and info on this and other exhibits, are held at the Metropolitan 191st Street stations on the #1 go to
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 48 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. This fine craft show features many perennial favorites as well as new artists never seen at this location and is held at the same site that the previous craft show was held at for over forty years. Find wearable art like clothing, Saturday, June 8 jewelry, and handbags; home SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Photo Op—Belmont Stakes decor such as functional and The 151st Belmont Stakes, the sculptural works in ceramics, third (and oldest) jewel of glass, metal, wood, and mixed thoroughbred racing’s Triple media; as well as fine art Crown, will be held today at painting, printmaking and © Otto Litzel Belmont Park in Elmont, Long photography; and more. Be Island, just over the border sure to ask for permission this celebratory dinner is $48. from Queens. Will the Triple before shooting someone else’s The doors will open at 6 p.m. Crown be up for grabs? Will it creative efforts. so we can gather, socialize, be a close race or a runaway and get started with the victory? Come on down to find cash bar. Please, do not out. There are plenty of photo arrive any earlier—you opportunities in the park be- can shop, either window fore, during, and after the big or with real money Dinner race. Take the F train to 169th will be served at 7 p.m. street or 179th street then take For complete details see the N6 or the Q2 bus to Bel- the article on page 7 of this mont or take the E train to Ja- issue of Photo Notes. maica Center (Parsons Blvd.) and then take the Q110 bus to * Monday, June 10 * Tuesday, June 11 Belmont. Tickets start at about Otto Litzel Memorial Print Workshop $20 and go up from there Year-End Dinner All Club members are invited (some of them, way up). Your The Annual Otto Litzel to bring a dozen or so prints best bet is to buy them on-line, Memorial Year-End Dinner is for this Club event. Bring as soon as possible. the grand daddy of the Club’s them for an honest, but gentle social events (the others being critique of your work. This Sat & Sun, June 8 & 9 the Chuck Pine Labor Day © workshop has limited space. Photo Op—Craft New York Otto LitzelPicnic and the Holi- You must sign up in advance Formerly the American Crafts day Party). This year we’ll be with Elsa Blum at 516-621-3215 Festival at Lincoln Center Craft dining and celebrating at Arté New York takes place this Café Chelsea.It is located at 191 weekend from 10 a.m. to 7 7th Avenue, between West 21st p.m. on Saturday and from 10 and 22nd Streets. The cost of
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 49 * Friday, June 14 Field Trip— Poughkeepsie Bridge The Poughkeepsie Bridge, actually the Walkway over the Hud- son, is a steel cantilever bridge spanning the © Nancy Sirkis Hudson River between * Thursday, June 13 Poughkeepsie, on the east bank Expanding Visions 25
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May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 50 meeting or by contacting the blocks south of Canal Street. President Emeritus) will meet leader. If you must cancel, The festivities begin at noon this evening to plan for next please let the trip leader and run through 4 p.m. Lots of year. Guests are welcome to know ASAP. fun, including klezmer, attend at the invitation of the SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Friday, June 14 Club president. The meeting Photo Op—Flag Day Parade Chinese opera, Puerto Rican place and time have not yet folk music, Hebrew and been determined and may be The Flag Day parade, celebra- Chinese scribal arts, yarmulke tion, and open house, is hosted subject to change (including making, Puerto Rican mask the date). annually by the Sons of the and lace making, mah jongg, Revolution in the State of New and other types of arts and York. The parade steps off at * Thursday, June 20 crafts. Kosher egg rolls, egg Expanding Visions 25 noon from City Hall Park and creams, and empanadas will ends at the Grandstand in be sold. Tonight is the second review front of Fraunces Tavern Mu- session of the Expanding seum. (Admission to the * Monday, June 17 Visions 25 class. We will look museum, for today only, is $1.) No Meeting Tonight at images from the third and You might want to shoot the fourth assignments/field trips. There will be no meeting participants as they prepare for We’ll meet at the home of our tonight as we begin our sum- the parade—be at City Hall instructor, Chuck Pine at 7 mer schedule of meeting every Park by 11 a.m. Be patriotic, p.m. The address is 680 West other week. shoot the parade, and have End Avenue, apartment 5D. some fun! Directions may be found at the end of the Schedule of Sunday, June 16 Events on page 53 of this Photo Op—Multicultural Fest issue of Photo Notes. You may Egg Rolls, Egg Creams and arrive at 6:30 p.m. (no earlier, Empanadas is a free multicul- please) so your images may tural fest that celebrates Jew- be loaded into the computer. ish, Chinese, and Puerto Rican * Monday, June 17 If there are too many atten- cultures. It is being held at the ExCom Meeting dees for this session, an earlier Eldridge Street Museum, locat- session will begin at 4:30 p.m. The Club’s Executive Commit- ed on Eldridge Street just two (you may arrive at 4 p.m., no tee (the elected officers and the
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 51 and/or intricate costumes, which have been donated to and drench each other with the Photo Committee. See the full body paints of every color listing under May 29th for and description. You’ll also be directions to the meeting able to shoot the parade of location. A $7 donation is col- antique cars, among many lected at the door upon entry. other oddities of the area. The stag- ing areas this year are along Surf Avenue, west of
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES earlier, please). See the Class the MCU Stadium, Notes for instructions on how on 20th and 21st to prepare and bring your im- Streets. Take the ages for the review session. D, F, N, or Q train to the Coney Island © Chuck Pine Stillwell Avenue station. If you thought that * Thursday, June 27 the Village Halloween Expanding Visions 25 Parade was great, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet—and (un- Tonight, is the fifth and final like the Halloween parade) field trip/assignment of Ex- this is all in the daylight! panding Visions 25. Tonight’s lesson is Hocus Defocus where you will shoot all your images Saturday, June 22 * Monday, June 24 out-of-focus—either slightly or Photo Op—Mermaid Parade Summer Meeting This is the first meeting of the grossly out-of-focus. This ses- Outrageous! That’s the word Club’s summer season. Details sion will take place on the that comes to mind when will be announced as soon as Staten Island Ferry. We’ll meet anyone mentions the Mermaid they become available. Stay on the second floor of the Stat- Parade. This annual Coney tuned! en Island Ferry Terminal in Island event is celebrating its Battery Park at 6:30 p.m. If the 39th Anniversary. Although Wednesday, June 26 weather is good, we’ll most the parade through the streets Photo Event—Sierra Photo likely be out on the observa- and on the boardwalk begins tion deck; if it’s inclement, you at 1 p.m., you’ll find better The New York City Sierra can find us inside on or near photo ops by getting there Club’s Photography Com- the benches. around 11 a.m., purchasing a mittee is holding its monthly press pass for $10, and shoot- meeting tonight. Tonight is a ing in the staging areas. You’ll members night where all in be able to mingle with the attendance may share up to participants as they prepare eight of their images of natural their floats, don their scanty subjects. There will also be a raffle of photographic items
May 2019 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 52 or take the M8 bus to the at Greenwich and Christopher meeting spot. Sign up at Streets, at the Stonewall Inn any Club meeting or con- (where it all started). tact the trip leader: Susan Sigrist: 212-758-0036 (this Directions to Soho Photo is not a cell phone) or at 15 White Street, between
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Club News Photography News 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 24 Depth of Field 3 President’s Message 26 Save the Date 4 Images of the Month 27 Nubia Red Magic 3 5 Point Totals 27 Nikon Mirrorless 6 Year-End Competition 28 Gallery Watching SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 6 Year-End Judges 31 PSA Conference 7 Otto Litzel Dinner 31 Double 8 Future Field Trips 32 Summer Options 9 Trinidad & Tobago FT 33 More from Adobe 10 2018-19 Schedule 33 B&W Photo Tips 11 Expanding Visions 25 34 Using Your Camera 13 Competition Rotation 35 PhotoShopping 13 Committee Liaisons 36 Photo Shopping 13 Photo Notes Deadlines 36 Wildlife Photo Tip 13 How I Did It! 37 Getting High 14 Yahoo Group 14 Flickr Group Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 14 Club Affiliations 38 B&H Event Space 15 Member Portfolio 39 Street Photo Workshop 16 PWCC Website 39 Epson Pano Awards 17 Member Show #1 39 Continuous Focus 18 Theme Night 40 Where in the World? 20 Wanna See More? 41 Landscape Photo Conf. 20 Photo Cartoon 41 f/8 insights 20 Member Show #2 41 B&H Optic 21 Club’s Night Out 22 Creatures Schedule of Activities 22 You Know You’r a… 42 Calendars 23 Member Portfolio 43 Schedule 53 Directions 54 Table of Contents 54 Panorama of the Month Sunset Panorama ©2018 Chuck Pine
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