Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club February 2013
In This Issue Who’s Who & What’s What...... 2 & 3 President’s Letter...... 3 Competitions...... 4 & 5 Boston Field Trip...... 6 Club Info...... 7 & 8 From the Judge...... 9 Rooftop Project...... 9 Platinum Style...... 10 Depth of Field...... 11 Gallery Watching...... 13 Inquiries...... 16 B&H Event Space...... 16 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 17 Schedule of Activities...... 18 - 23
February 2013 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! !212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is !!Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the !718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included !! Joan Slatkin! with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- !212 260 7091 [email protected] able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Field Trip!Susan Sigrist! !212 758 0036 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of !!Paul Grebanier photographic or general interest are always accepted. !718 629 7164 [email protected] The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any Gallery!Maria Fernandez submissions which are published. !908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each House!Seymour Perlowitz month. !718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. !!Chuck Elster !917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership!Marlene Schonbrun !212 662 3107 [email protected] Website !! Elena Pierpont www.parkwestcameraclub.org ! 212 956 4515 [email protected]
E-Mail Address Newsletter!Chuck Pine! [email protected] !212 932 7665 [email protected] Program!Marilyn Fish-Glynn Club Mailing Address !212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! Marvin Fink Photo Notes Mailing Address !718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 !!Marjorie Gurd ! 212 662 5032 [email protected]
Club Officers Telephone Tree!Dottie Mills! !212 926 4375 [email protected] President!!Paul Perkus! ! !212 929 1687 [email protected] Website!Ruth Lowell !212 362 4379 [email protected] V. President!!Ed Lee! !!Bob Wine !212 242 8714 [email protected] !212 758 5762 [email protected] Treasurer!!Myron Galef Workshop!Jerry Harawitz !212 249 1270 [email protected] !212 673 2096 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! !212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Cover Photo !212 662 6740 [email protected] Snowface Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! by Chuck Pine ©2013 !212 932 7665 [email protected]
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Letter tic tundra, the highest moun- Definitions tains to the darkest caves (with
CLUB For All Seasons supplemental lighting). Every Chromatic Aberration— activity is also subject for pho- A fringe or outline of any “Greetings from sunny and tography from the intimate to color generated when the warm Delray Beach,” began the glorious public event. lens does not focus all the e-missive received here in So grab your camera, grab a light waves at the same chilly and snow-expecting friend, your overcoat or bikini, focal point (some are fo- Manhattan. I thought: weren’t and join the fun! Check the list- cused in front of or behind these the folks who were re- ings in this issue of Photo Notes the sensor). Special lenses, cently enjoying themselves for field trips and photo-ops. APO or apochromatic among the moose and bison in Cook up a photo project and lenses, reduce/eliminate follow it through all its twists this problem. While a and turns until it and you are chromatic aberration can exhausted but exhilarated by be purple, the term "pur- the journey. ple fringing"-a purple/ Don’t be afraid to join the blue fringe along high- dance. contrast edges-refers to a separate problem that is Have fun! generally caused by char- acteristics of the sensor. Yellowstone’s frigid winter Paul splendor? And haven’t I and spouse just returned from hot and humid Ho Chi Minh City Photo Notes (formerly Saigon)? Publisher: Paul Perkus Editor: Chuck Pine Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy Klein, Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt Contributors: Bill Apple, Sue Davis, Carol de Beer, Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, George Hansen, Barbara Martens, Paul Perkus, Chuck Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, It’s a truly remarkable world and Bob Wine we inhabit where in hours or less than a day we can visit Photo Notes is produced on a MacBookPro almost any climate. It took using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. Marco Polo much longer to All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- travel to and from China—but wise believed to be in the public domain. at least he didn’t suffer from jet-lag. Credited images remain the sole property of their All is photographable, from copyright holders—all rights reserved. the jungles of Africa to the Arc-
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month On the Street by Eileen Duranko
Honor PDIs St. Patrick’s Day by Ann Broder Assemblage #4a by George Hansen Dragonfly by Elena Pierpont
Slide-of-the-Month Anna’s Facial by Joan Slatkin
Honor Slides none
Print-of-the-Month PDI-of-the-Month Lone Coyote by Barbara Martens On the Street ©2012 Eileen Duranko Honor Prints Leaves on Stairs by Bill Apple Slide-of-the-Month Anna’s Facial © Joan Slatkin
Print-of-the-Month Lone Coyote ©2013 Barbara Martens
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals by George Hansen CLUB
PDIs Thanks to our February judge, Madeleine Barbara 60 Jean Miele , for an excellent job Eileen Duranko 58 of critiquing and judging our George Hansen 58 images. Bill Apple 56 Congratulations to the win- Barbara Martens 54 ners of Images-of-the-Month Chuck Pine 54 Prints and Honors. Thanks to all who Natalie Manzino 52 Barbara Martens 66 entered the competitions. Rita Russo 52 Madeleine Barbara 64 And a special thanks to all Joan Slatkin 50 Elsa Blum 64 who made this competition Marilyn Fish-Glynn 48 Paul Grebanier 50 happen. Hedy Klein 48 George Hansen 46 Paul Grebanier 46 Hedy Klein 44 Nicole Dosso 44 Bill Apple 44 Cheryl Richer 44 Natalie Manzino 40 George Grubb 42 Chuck Pine 26 Rain Bengis 40 Marvin Fink 22 Barbara Berg 38 Ruth Formanek 20 NANPA Summit Carole de Beer 38 Ann Broder 14 Elena Pierpont 38 Sarah Corbin 14 NANPA, the North American Nature Marjorie Gurd 32 Dorothy Mills 14 Photography Association, is the first Michael Wakslicht 32 Alice Somma 8 and premiere association in North Ann Broder 30 Evelyne Appel 6 America committed solely to Dorothy Mills 30 Fonda Charne 6 serving the field of nature pho- Janna Amelkin 26 Michael Wakslicht 4 tography. Their 18th Nature Pho- Jerry Harawitz 26 tography Summit will be held Evelyne Appel 24 this coming year from February Dolores Roddy 22 28th to March 3rd in Jacksonville, Sarah Davis 20 Florida. Myra Resnick 20 The lineup of guest speakers Fonda Charne 16 features Clyde Butcher, George Ruth Lowell 16 Lepp, Lewis Kemper, Robert Christine Doyle 12 Slides Glenn Ketchum, Mary Virginia Bob Wine 12 Joan Slatkin 54 Swanson, Tony Sweet, and many Miguel Paoli 10 Susan Sigrist 36 more. Go to their special website Marilyn Fish-Glynn 32 for more details and to register… Rita Russo 26
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Boston 2013 We leave New York City on Friday, May 24th, traverse the CLUB The Park West Camera Club is 230 odd miles to the Boston now planning a 4-day, 3-night area, settle into our motel for a trip to Boston, Massachusetts good night’s sleep, and then and the surrounding area (if awaken to two-and-a-half days we have enough cars) which of Boston and its environs. We includes Lexington, Concord, depart on Monday, May 27th, Walden Pond, Plymouth, and a time depending upon what lot more. we’ve already accomplished and what else we’d like to but no guarantees.) A $100 de- do, arriving back in the Big posit holds your place—full Apple in the late afternoon payments gladly accepted. or early evening. First come, first (re-) The estimated cost is $350. served! This includes a three-night An information sheet will stay at the Best Western Ad- be available at Club meetings. Just think of it… historic ams Inn (over this holiday For more info and/or res- Boston… home of the Freedom weekend), breakfast each ervations, contact Chuck Pine Trail, the tea party, Paul Re- morning, a CharlieCard (un- via phone at 646-549-0187 or vere, Faneuil Hall, the USS limited rides of MBTA sub- e-mail at
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Competition Info Did You Know?
CLUB Here’s 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 PWCC Competition Did you know that all of the website and e- Manual. mail addresses are hyperlinks? That means if There will be one slide, one print, and one you click on them, you will be taken to that projected digital image (PDI) competition each website (if you are connected to the internet) or month. to your e-mail program to send an e-mail. Each member may submit up to four images Did you know that the images are in color each month but no more than two in any com- and of higher quality than when printed out? petition. And, you can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. Print and slide entries must be submitted to Did you know that reading Photo Notes on- the Competition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the line saves trees, landfills, inks, toners, water, evening of the competition. PDIs must be e- and other natural resources? mailed to
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 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
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Not Getting Out Enough? Rooftop Update by Bill Apple by Barbara Martens CLUB Jean Miele, the photographer who spoke to us in January and On January 23rd we had our judged in February, tossed out a number of suggestions in re- first Rooftop-trip at Riverside sponse to members’ work during the competition. When he Drive and 104th Street. Al- would name a photographer, however, he sometimes got puz- though fourteen people signed zled looks in return. So he began a refrain, repeated over the up (which made me very course of the evening: You guys don’t get out much, do you? happy!), due to extreme cold Well, if you’d like to “get out” more, photographically weather conditions most of speaking, here’s a recap that Jean sent of suggestions and some them canceled at the last min- names that he dropped that night: ute. The five remaining die- Chuck Kimmerle—Landscape Photographer: hards went up to the roof and
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Platinum Style Tell us how your passion must be combined in a photo- arose. As a child, I had an inter- graph. If either is missing, the CLUB Platinum Style Magazine is a est in art, and I eventually picture is not successful. quarterly print and digital found that I could be an artist How long does it take you to publication focused on the through the medium of pho- complete your work and at what tography. Initially, my subjects point do you know that it is fin- New York lifestyle. It show- were family and friends, and ished? The amount of time that cases fashion, night life, art, then I began to document my I spend outside of taking the culture, music, and more. travels. As my passion grew, I actual photograph depends on PSM’s winter edition features entered club competitions the setup and an article on Park West mem- where I was able to improve post- proces- ber Bob Wine, co-chair of the my technique. Eventually, I ing that Club’s Website Committee. an im- What follows are some ex- age cerpts from this article: re- Who is Bob Wine? I am a quires. I nerd by profession with an in- prefer to shoot carefully and terest in music and art. I am avoid as much computer mod- fortunate to be able to use both ifications as possible. However, sides of my brain. Whether it is if I am preparing an image for work, photography, or music, I a competition, the work can always strive for virtuosity and take many hours. Even then I excellence. I also have a good am a perfectionist, so my job is sense of humor, and I enjoy never finished. life. I try to take advantage of opportunities that will let me get the best out of the journey began participating in exhibits that is life. in and around the New York Name some of your influences. area. I continue learning and As a student of Henri Cartier- refining every day. To date, my Bresson’s work, I realized the favorite photograph is Night importance of capturing the Baseball Game. [see below] moment. It was from studying What is your preferred subject Ansel Adams’ photographs matter? Rather than concen- You may see the entire article that I learned to analyze light- trate on a single subject, I pre- about Bob on their website at ing and dynamic range. David fer to look for new and differ-
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Depth of Field ing to reunite the images with not laundry, are hanging by By Bill Apple neighbors. Ironically, the first plastic clothespins. photo she spotted, as she This month, I found Van The ‘Sandy’ Effect walked among dunes, is a pic- Houten’s e-mail address and ture of another cousin. It was tracked her down for a pro- Hurricane Sandy did quite a normally held by magnets on a gress report. She estimated she PHOTOGRAPHY job on the East Coast four relative’s refrigerator in a has dried over 10,000 pictures months ago. When skies home a few blocks away. But till now and will have rescued calmed and reporters put the house was now gone. more than twice that when all down pens—and microphones Van Houten has scanned is done. Inexplicably, some —the devastation was all too and posted many of the photos snapshots have emerged un- clear, beyond heartbreak. on Facebook, hoping families scathed; but most are torn or Insurance adjusters tallied will check and come forward. I pockmarked from the whirl- over $70 billion in property first read an early report about wind of saltwater and sand. losses. Medical examiners tal- her efforts in November. People often contact her on lied 132 souls. There’s also a brief video on social media, and she has Few places dodged Sandy’s her project on YouTube: worked out a routine of put- bullet, but the Jersey Shore got
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 browse, and retrieve salvaged Cloud,” beyond human reach. Years ago, Alfred Stieglitz pictures. But rarely do they make it to remarked that owning a cam- “It is a very private, emo- paper. era but not printing your pic- tional moment when families It’s reassuring that a future tures is like owning a leash but find their photos,” Van Houten Sandy-type catastrophe won’t not a dog. He meant to shame wrote me. “Seeing in person get a new chance to scatter so those lazy photographers who PHOTOGRAPHY and touching something you many photos in a single town. leave to others the heavy lift- thought you would never see And barring waterlogged ing of making beautiful prints. is overwhelming at times. computers, many digital im- Printing these days is so Among the moving tales ages will survive. much easier than when she recounted is one about a More worrisome, however, Stieglitz labored over his nega- photo of a grandmother hold- is the long-term fate of online tives in the darkroom; it’s prac- ing twin granddaughters, photos, storm or no storm. In tically painless. How can those taken just months before the this sea change that digital who never print consider woman died. The family had photography has wrought, on- themselves photographers? never expected that picture to line pictures may well die Stunning images on paper resurface. By chance, however, when their photographer dies have always been photogra- it did turn up, on the very day —and such pictures would be phy’s precious currency, but of their grandmother’s birth- lost forever to relatives. apparently not among many day. I’ve used this soapbox be- 21st century photographers I What makes these photo- fore to bemoan the many Club know. Let’s call that the de- graphs potent, of course, is the members who’ve stopped structive“Sandy Effect” of digi- unique back story each tells making prints. If digital pho- tal photography and then do along with strong ties to the tography has done anything, something to reclaim our still- loved ones pictured. The im- it’s been to undermine the craft latent images from the bits and ages document the minutiae of of making fine prints. bytes of computer files. everyday life and life’s big, Too many members seem important rites of passage: content— or lazy—just to Scanning Service graduations, weddings, new show their work as digital babies. slides They seldom shepherd PWCC member Bill Apple In recent years digital pho- an image to the end of that has an offer that you can’t re- tography has all but snuffed journey from viewfinder to fuse. Bill will scan your 35mm out prints of the sort Van matted print. I don’t get it. negatives or slides, color or Houten has been rescuing, We’re photographers. black-and-white, and turn snapshots on paper. While It cannot be money. Mem- them into high-resolution digital cameras let us take bers still spend lots on cam- digital files. He uses a high- more shots and share them eras, lenses and software. Yet quality scanner. electronically, fewer and fewer they’re loath to sink even a Bill charges only $1.50 per are actually getting printed. fraction of that into a decent photo, or 12 photos for a mere Today’s photos, of course, inkjet printer, let alone expend $15. The minimum order is largely reside on smartphones, effort learning what it takes to $15. Bill also can scan 120 size computer drives, and photo- translate digital images into (2-1/4 inch) film. sharing websites like Flickr, prints that sing. Please contact Bill Apple at perhaps also tucked into “The
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 Gallery Watching Freeberg shoots in 35mm to me, the contrast between the by Ruth Formanek format and enlarges his images rich paintings in important and Judy Rosenblatt to several feet which makes museums and their guardians you feel you’re inside the mu- is comical at times, but at other This month we visited five gal- seum admiring the paintings. times more than that: The pho- leries, all in the Chelsea area. He didn’t pose or direct the tographer showed a deroga- PHOTOGRAPHY guardians, thus lending a tory attitude toward the By Ruth: spontaneous feeling to his im- guardians. ages. Sometimes the women’s The prints are exceptionally Andy Freeberg, Guardians; at clothing is in accord with the well done and you should go Andrea Meislin Gallery; 534 clothing of the painted figures, view them. West 24 Street; January 24th to sometimes there is a contrast. March 2nd. He found out, in inter- Judy comments: Young Andy Freeberg (born views, that the women loved in 1958) visited museums in their jobs and felt proud to be I don’t agree with Ruth’s feel- Russia and photographed the guardians although their facial ing that these photographs de- guardians of their art works. expressions don’t express negrate the guardians because Freeberg is a keen observer of pride. Rather, it seemed to me, they seem to be poor. To me it’s the interaction between art some of the women appeared just the difference between art works and people. Shooting in to be bored and unhappy. and life! In fact, Freeberg finds the Hermitage and the Russian I am hypersensitive to signs uncanny connections between State Museum in St. Petersburg of social class and it seemed to the clothes and positions of the and the Pushkin and Tretyakov me that social-class contrasts women and the subjects of the Gallery in Moscow. He focuses attracted Freeberg. The paint- artworks. I found them much on their ‘guardians’: women of ers of the exhibited state treas- more interesting than our uni- retirement age whose job is to ures, most likely, were poor formed museum guards here, sit in front of national treas- and painted what their rich pa- who become neutral, almost ures, presumably guarding trons wanted to hang on the police-like figures. What do them from theft and vandal- walls of their palaces. The can- you think? ism. vases are now elaborately framed and housed Paulette Tavormina, Natura in spotless and Morta; at Robert Mann Gallery; well-maintained 525 West 26 Street; January museums. The 17th to March 9th. guardians, centu- This is a series of luscious ries later, like the still life photographs, imitating painters, seem to be old masters’ oil paintings. poor, perhaps from They are very competently rural areas; cer- done, especially the lighting tainly their frumpy and arrangement of objects. clothing suggests Tavormina adds a personal Kugach’s Before the Dance non-middle class membership. touch: perfectly imperfect bugs State Tretyakov Gallery Freeberg may not be com- or butterflies appear among © Andy Freeberg pletely aware of it himself but, her fruit and vegetables, as
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 Dumas portrays another Dutch photographer. I animals; nothing left with a renewed sense of remarkable about intimacy and comradeship that, you're proba- with horses. Dumas had done bly thinking. But, her job well. she wants us to PHOTOGRAPHY deepen our appre- Ezra Stoller, Beyond Architec- ciation of the ani- ture; at Yossi Milo Gallery; 245 mals we have put Tenth Avenue; through March to work for our 2nd Cherries, Natura Morta own purposes, to Ezra Stoller (1915-2004) has © Paulette Tavormina see them and the bonds be- often been considered the tween us in new ways. For ex- foremost photographer of well as wilted leaves, and ample, in 2011, Dumas sought Twentieth Century modernist overripe and bruised peaches. out fifteen of the surviving architecture. The list of archi- If you want to learn how to do dogs who had done rescue tects whose work he has pho- fruit and vegetable still life work on the site of 9/11. Now tographed includes Frank photographs, go to Robert they are scattered throughout Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Mann Gallery and study Ta- the U.S. She has honored them Louis Kahn, and many more vormina’s choice of fruit, her by bringing them together famous names. This exhibit of arrangements, and lighting. again as they face old age. 16x20” mostly black-and-white In this exhibit, we are also By Judy: introduced to the horses who pull the funeral caissons at Ar- Charlotte Dumas, Anima; lington Cemetery. Dumas Julie Saul Gallery at 535 West shows them in repose after a 22 Street; through March 9th. hard day’s work. Their white I envy Charlotte Dumas be- bodies gleam in the darkness cause she has found an over- in prints about 3x4 feet in size. arching theme that she is pas- An accompanying video is a sionate about and is carefully kind of meditation: we watch building a body of photo- the horses breathing, their graphs to explore it. It's some- amazing ears turning in re- thing I wish I'd been able to do. sponse to any sound; finally they lie down to sleep, legs outstretched. Dumas, a young United Nations Dutch photographer, works ©1950 Ezra Stoller with a medium format camera only in available light. Her images features magazine as- work is as far as you can get signments that portray, for in- from the “cutesy” way animals stance, workers putting to- are often portrayed. It reminds gether television sets and cal- from Anima me of the solemn portraits of culators. Stoller showed spaces © Charlotte Dumas teenagers by Rineke Djykstra, being used, as well as the
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 spaces and buildings them- Accessory Quiz selves. I thought these impec- cably composed and printed Can you name this photog- photographs showed their sub- raphy accessory? No prizes, jects to best advantage. But, as just a fun challenge! Send commissioned works, there your guesses to the website PHOTOGRAPHY seemed to be a commercial feel
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tory, even though most of my © Anne Finkelstein life was spent during that time! The prints seemed small after viewing much bigger images in other galleries. Ruth and I have wondered whether pho- tographs simply get blown up too much these days. Or are we viewer a more dynamic expe- Answer next month in Photo just being old fashioned? rience than can be gotten from Notes. only one vantage point. In her Anne Finkelstein and Cora work the eye can wander up Last Month’s Answer Jane Glasser; Archi | Texture: and down, in and out of a New Work; at F X Fowle Gal- building’s various inner lery; 22 West 19 Street, 11th spaces, with fleeting elements Floor; through April 12th such as light and shadow In contrast to Stoller, these woven in. Yet it all comes to- two artists use photography as gether as a unified work of art. a tool, a starting point from Anne ends up largely with which to transform architec- digital prints, but has also re- tural spaces into artworks that turned to painting with acrylic; This is a Lensbaby selective are very personal expressions. her largest work here, 5x5’, focus lens. This is not the They end up in different "Shadows and Reflections," is original but rather is a places, but their work pairs to- an example. Cora’s paintings newer model called the gether superbly in this, their emphasize surface patterns at Spark. second show together. [Disclo- construction sites. She cele- sure: Anne Finkelstein is my brates the way vibrant colors Last Month’s Correct cousin and I've met Cora, so I leap out from situations largely Answerers… find it impossible not to use dominated by blacks, whites first names here!)] and grays. Appropriately, this Michael Wakslicht (Michael Anne takes photographs of show is housed in an architec- wins all our praise and con- a place from many different tural firm, so its hours are gratulations.) perspectives and then, through business hours, Monday- the alchemy of Photoshop, Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., or by ap- melds the images to give the pointment.
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Inquiries B & H Event Space by Chuck Pine B&H Photo offers free work- I first came across histograms in shops. Here are a few of this an undergraduate statistics course month’s offerings: in the late 1960s, to tabulate and PHOTOGRAPHY display data in bar charts. When Monday, February 11 did they first get used in photog- Craig Semetko: Unposed Wednesday, February 20 raphy? Were they ever used when Speaker: Craig Semetko Looking at Ansel Adams: people shot film? Speaker: Andrea Stillman The term histogram was first Monday, February 11 introduced in the mid-1890s by Introduction to Photoshop CS6 Thursday, February 21 Karl Pearson—it had nothing Speaker: Andy Graber Lauren Greenfield to do with photography nor Speaker: Lauren Greenfield statistics, but was used in sci- entific analysis. Histograms are Tuesday, February 12 Thursday, February 21 similar in appearance to bar All About Memory Cards Scoping Out the Perfect Shot graphs but the data they show Speaker: Alan Parry Speaker: Ross Grasse us are a bit different.
[a simple histogram] Tuesday, February 26 The Copyright Zone Guys Wednesday, February 13 Speakers: Ed Greenberg, Jack Photography 101 Reznicki Speaker: Jeff Cable Wednesday, February 27 As far as I can tell, histo- Wednesday, February 13 Intermediate Portrait Lighting grams were not used in the Top 15 Photoshop Features Speaker: Joey Quintero days of film photography, but Speaker: Jeff Cable some other types of graphs Wednesday, February 27 were used to visually interpret Thursday, February 19 Wacom Pens and Tablets numerical information. Film Optimum Printing Color Speaker: Dan Johannessen curves were the most prevalent of these. Speakers: Todd Schneider Today’s photographic his- Thursday, February 28 tograms were not possible un- Getting Known/Being Shown til computer-driven digital Speaker: Ariel Shanberg cameras hit the scene. Check out the B&H website at
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 Abundance & Scarcity Calumet Expo NECCC Photo Conference
Two Park West members, Calumet Photographic, located The New England Camera Carol de Beer and Marilyn at 22 West 22nd Street, right in Club Council (NECCC) holds Thypin are in an exhibit enti- the heart of the Flatiron/Pho- one of the country’s largest and tled Abundance & Scarcity. tography District, presents its most informative photography This is a photography exhi- New York Customer Apprecia- conferences each and every bition by members of Profes- tion Sales Event on Friday, year. In addition, it takes place sional Women Photographers February 22nd and Saturday, in a beautiful area in the middle (PWP). The venue is the February 23rd. of the rolling hills of central second-floor gallery of Calu- Massachusetts on the UMass met Photographic, located at campus at Amherst.
ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. 22 West 22nd Street, right in Scheduled in July, from Fri- the heart of the Flatiron/Pho- day the 12th through Sunday tography District. The gallery You will be able to meet the 14th, this conference is is open from 8:30 a.m. (9 a.m. with manufacturer representa- chock full of workshops, lec- on Saturdays) until 5:30 p.m. tives from: Benro, Bowens, tures, demonstrations, presenta- from Monday through Satur- Canon, Chimera, Cinevate, tions, and more, which cover day. The last day of this show Dynalite, Epson, Fujifilm, the spectrum of photography is February 21st—so you’ll Gitzo, Gossen Hahnemühle, from the earliest 19th century have to hurry! Ilford, Induro, Kata, LaCie, processes to the latest modern Lastolite, Leaf, Mamiya, Man- electronic inventions. frotto, MeFOTO, Metz, Moab, Each year a bunch of On-Line Gallery Nikon, Pocket Wizard, Profoto, PWCCers head up north to par- Sekonic, Tamron, Tenba, X-rite, ticipate and enjoy. Some rent Park West Camera Club’s Zeiss, and more. cars; others take the bus. Some corresponding secretary, Free seminars will be held stay on campus; others venture Helen Pine, is the guest on both days. The classes will off the grounds to find lodging. photographer-of-the-month take place in the store’s semi- Some take the university’s meal at the on-line Kris McKinley nar room. Seats are available plan; others dine à la carte. The Photo Gallery. Through the on a first come, first seated ba- choices are yours. end of February, Helen’s sis. The seminar titles include, portfolio of silhouettes will but are not limited to, Obtain- Punny Business be on display. You can find ing Optimum Color on Your these wonderful images at Printer, Capturing Video with I used to be a banker, but
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club * Sunday, February 10 meets every Monday night Field Trip—EagleFest (with some exceptions for Join us as we go up to Croton holidays and a curtailed sum- Point Park in Croton-on- mer schedule). Please join us at Hudson, New York to view a meeting or on one of our birds of prey from the Teatown other scheduled activities. Lake Reservation, as well as, a All Club Monday night SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES chance to see and photograph meetings take place at the Soho some of the 150 wild bald ea- Photo Gallery located at 15 gles that winter along the White Street, between West Hudson Valley. Guided walks Spread Eagle Broadway and Church Street/ around the Park are given ©2013 Chuck Pine Avenue of the Americas (6th every hour. There also will be Avenue) unless indicated oth- educational raptor shows in a Sunday, February 10 erwise in the listings below. heated tent where hot choco- Photo Op—Lunar New Year Following the schedule of ac- late will be served. Admission The celebration of the Chinese tivities are detailed directions is free, but donations are ap- Lunar New Year begins today to each of our meeting sites. preciated. There is a Metro with the Firecracker Ceremony Check the PWCC Website North Hudson Line train that in Sara Roosevelt Park. The
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 Dog Show takes place over Street station, but others are * Monday, February 18 these two days from 8:30 a.m. nearby…check your map. A Field Trip Committee Meeting to 6 p.m. at Piers 92/94. (West $2.00 donation is requested. Prior to tonight’s meeting, the 55th Street and the West Side Club’s Field Trip Committee Highway) and at Madison * Thursday, February 14 will meet to discuss future Square Garden on these eve- Field Trip—Gallery Hop PWCC outings. All members nings. The daytime tickets are Come join us on the frigid are invited to attend and par- $25 per day and the evening (most likely) winter day as we ticipate. The meeting begins at tickets are $40 each. Here’s a visit several Chelsea galleries 6 p.m. and will be held at Soho tip you might find helpful. which feature photography. Photo Gallery.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Many dog owners stay at the Let’s see what’s on display, Hotel Pennsylvania across what’s hot, and what’s not. * Monday, February 18 from the Garden, and if you We’ll meet at the Moonstruck Workshop Night hang out in the lobby, you Diner on the corner of 9th could get some good shots. DxO is a software company Avenue and 23rd Street at 11 noted for its photography pro- a.m. Leader: Paul Perkus, 212- grams including DxO Optics Tuesday, February 12 929-1687. Dress warmly! Photo Event— Pro, DxO Tuesday Evening Hour FilmPack, Sunday, February 17 and DxO Tuesday Evening Hour is an Photo Op—Lunar New Year Analyzer. artists non-profit slide-show The celebration of the Chinese Their USA program whose mission is to Lunar New Year continues represen- expose the works of artists to today with the Dragon Parade tative will the public. Each Tuesday a discuss working photographer pre- and dem- sents a slide show/lecture. No onstrate reservations required—just ar- their product line at tonight’s rive. Tonight’s presentation is meeting. [Tonight’s originally The Transit of Venus with NASA scheduled program, a presentation Clips by Tom Wysmuller, me- by photographer Allen Rokach, teorologist, lecturer, and Sierra has been cancelled because he is on Photo member. The show an extended assignment in India.] and cultural festival in Little The curtain raiser tonight is Italy and Chinatown. The pa- PWCC vice president, Ed Lee. rade kicks off at 1 p.m. from the corner of Hester and Mott Tuesday, February 19 Streets, wanders south through Photo Event— Chinatown along Mott, and Tuesday Evening Hour then loops around East Broad- Tonight’s presentation is Ma- begins at 6:30 p.m. and is held way and heads north to Sara at St. Margaret’s House, 49 Ful- chu Picchu and the Sacred Valley Roosevelt Park on Eldridge of Peru by Lee Backer, member ton Street (near South Street and Forsyth Streets. There are Seaport). The closest subway is of Soho Photo Gallery, member literally dozens of subway of the New York City Sierra the #2 or 3 train at the Fulton stops in the area.
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 * Monday, February 25 PDI Entry Deadline Please note that PDI entries are due tonight for next week’s competition.
Tuesday, February 26 Branches Over the Water from Machu Pichu Photo Event— © Eileen Duranko ©2012 Lee Backer Tuesday Evening Hour floor of the Rose Building at Tonight’s digital presentation
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Club Photo Committee, and Lincoln Center. The address is is Ocean Rocks by Stephanie PWCC’s very own Recording 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, lo- Schmidt, information technol- Secretary. See the listing under cated on the north side of West ogy consultant, landscape pho- February 12th for more info 65th Street, between Broadway tographer, and Sierra Photo about the time and place. and Amsterdam Avenue, closer Committee member. See the to Amsterdam. From the street listing under February 12th for * Monday, February 25 level, take the stairs, elevator, more info. Executive Committee Meeting or escalator up one level and Prior to tonight’s meeting, the proceed through the revolving Wednesday, February 27 Club’s ExCom will meet to dis- doors into the lobby to get the Photo Event—Sierra Photo cuss the future of PWCC. All elevator up to the 6th floor. members are invited to attend The New York City Sierra “with voice but without vote.” Club’s Photography Commit- * Monday, March 4 The meeting begins at 6 p.m. tee is holding its meeting to- Monthly Competition night. The program for this and will be held in the meeting Tonight’s competition asks evening is a Three-in-One. room at Soho Photo Gallery. these important questions: What’s that, I hear you ask? Who will win the top honors? Three members of the group * Monday, February 25 What will the judge say about will present short portfolios of Workshop Night your images? Will you agree? their work on a subject relating Tonight’s previously scheduled The only way to find out the to the natural world (wildlife, program, a workshop night answers to these probing ques- landscapes, whatever). The featuring a presentation by tions is to come on down and three presenters are Anton de DxO software, has been moved enter. Full rules are available Flon, Ann Littlejohn, and up one week to February 18th. from the Competition or the PWCC’s very own Eileen A replacement program for Membership Committees at Duranko. (Come out and sup- this evening is in the works any meeting. Remember, print port our fellow member.) The and will be announced at a and slide entries must be sub- meeting, open to the general prior meeting. We apologize mitted by 6:45 p.m. so that we public, begins at 6:30 p.m. A $6 for any confusion this switch may get under way with the donation is collected at the may have caused in your life. competition promptly at 7 p.m. door upon entry. The NYC Si- PDI entries must be submitted erra Club Photography Com- by midnight one week prior to mittee meets at the Metropoli- today—January 28th. Tonight’s tan Opera Guild, on the 6th ? ? ? judge is Don Burmeister. Don
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 This exhibit features images stop is the Houston Street sta- made with inexpensive plastic tion on the #1 train. cameras, cardboard-box pin- hole cameras, lensless cameras, * Monday, March 11 and the like. The reception will Guest Speaker—Nir Arieli run from 6 to 8 p.m. The show Tonight’s guest photographer will run through early April. is Nir Arieli. Nir launched his The gallery hours are Wednes- career as a military photogra- Conus days to Sundays, 1 to 6 p.m., pher for the Israeli magazine © Don Burmeister and by appointment (and, of Bamachane, before receiving a
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES is a photographer and the course, during our PWCC scholarship to pursue a BFA at owner/director of the Safe-T- meetings). New York’s School of Visual Gallery in Brooklyn. Don is Arts. He graduated with hon- also the owner/editor of the ors. Nir's photographic passion New York Photo Review—an is within the portraiture and on-line review of photo exhibi- dance fields. He is an admirer tions in the Big Apple. As a of beauty and gentleness. photographer, his most famous These qualities are the heart of images are of the Indian burial his work. The curtain raiser mounds in the mid-western tonight is former PWCC corre- states. To see more of Don’s sponding secretary, Natalie images, go to his website at Manzino.
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Wednesday, March 13 member. See the listing under Photo Event— February 12th for more info. PWP Monthly Meeting * Wednesday, March 20 Professional Women Photog- Print Workshop raphers is a group of women photographers who network All Club members are invited and share their images and ex- to bring a dozen or so images periences. The program for this for this every-other-month evening is a presentation by 150,000 marchers. It’s got eve- event. This workshop has lim- Thomas Werner on the role of rything you’d expect a parade ited space so please sign up in SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES the artist/photographer in to- to have—and more. The march advance with Ruth Formanek day’s rapidly evolving world. goes along Fifth Avenue be- at
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The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade lum and Teaching from © Ruth Formanek is the largest civilian parade in Hofstra University, and long- the world with more than time Park West Camera Club
February 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 highest peaks and most sacred Kansas by Linda Calvet, pho- Directions to Soho Photo tographer for award-winning at 15 White Street, between Ave- calendar and Sierra Photo nue of the Americas/Sixth Avenue Committee member. See the and West Broadway. Take the #1 listing under February 12th for train to the Franklin Street station more info. (one stop below Canal Street). Walk one block north on West Sunday, March 31 Broadway to White street, make a Shwedagon Pagoda Photo Op—Easter Parade right turn, and walk half a block Myanmar When is a parade not a pa- to the gallery. Take the A, C, or E SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES © Jon Ortner rade? When it’s a fashion train to the Canal Street station. show! Each year on Easter Walk south on Sixth Avenue/ shrines, discovering ancient Sunday, the best of the bonnets Church Street 3 blocks to White architectural and artistic mas- are showcased along Fifth Street, make a right turn, and terpieces in legendary citi- Avenue as New Yorkers cele- walk half a block to the gallery. es, meeting people whose lives brate the holiday by roaming Although a little bit longer walk, are dedicated to the quest for the streets in their most festive take any other train to Canal enlightenment. The presenta- spring gear from 10 a.m. to 4 Street, walk west to Church tion will focus on Jon’s photo- p.m. The parade marches north Street, and follow the directions graphic expeditions through- on Fifth Avenue, starting at immediately above. Evening park- out Nepal, Bhutan, India, My- 49th Street, but the best place ing is limited, but available. anmar, Thailand, and Cambo- to watch is from the area dia. See the listing under Feb- around St. Patrick's Cathe- ruary 27th for information on dral—Fifth and 51st Street. the meeting place and time. Singing the traditional song is optional! * Monday, March 25 No Meeting There is no meeting tonight to celebrate the first night of the Passover holiday.
* Monday, March 25 PDI Entry Deadline Please note that PDI entries are due tonight for next week’s competition.
Tuesday, March 26 Photo Event— Tuesday Evening Hour Tonight’s slide presentation is Kansas City in Missouri and
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