Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club
2017 This Issue Volume 80 • Issue 2 Club News...... 2 - 22 Photography News...... 23 - 31 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 32 - 34 Schedule of Activities...... 35 - 42
November Late Entries…………………………..43 Complete Index...... 44 complete listings on last page
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs
The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archive Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- 212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition John Brengelman The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is 917-543-7957 [email protected] published every month by and for the members of the Hedy Klein 718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- Field Trip Susan Sigrist able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed 212 758 0036 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Paul Grebanier 718 629 7164 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. Gallery Karen Corrigan The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any 212 674 2201 [email protected] submissions which are published. House Marty Smith Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each 347 703 3905 [email protected] month. Membership Marlene Schonbrun Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. 212 662 3107 [email protected] Elena Pierpont Contact Information 212 956 4515 [email protected] Website Newsletter Chuck Pine www.parkwestcameraclub.org 212 932 7665 [email protected] Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn E-Mail Address 212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] [email protected] Social Natalie Manzino 917-757-7086 [email protected] Club Mailing Address 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Website Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Workshop Tom Quackenbush 917 608 1923 [email protected] Club Officers
President Ed Lee 212 255 9678 [email protected] V. President Michael Schleiff 917 359 6823 [email protected] Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine Cover Photo 212 932 7665 [email protected] Red Stop Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle by Chuck Pine ©2017 212 595 4920 [email protected] Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected]
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message by the consensus of the panel workshops. For many years, of judges. Nancy Sirkis, an instructor at
CLUB As a new member of Park West These two winners, and the the International Center of Camera Club, I congratulate leaders of each of the cumula- Photography, has facilitated you for a wise decision to take tive print and PDI point totals, this activity and provides cri- your photography to the next are awarded certificates and tique and suggestions to im- level and above. And as a re- prizes presented at the Otto prove your printing. She can newing member I also thank Litzel dinner. As a new mem- answer any question you may you for your continuing sup- ber you can start entering im- have regarding hardware and port and believing in our orga- ages in the next competition software. Bring up to a dozen nization. You are the backbone and potentially walk away prints for evaluation. of the Club and the PWCC of- with bragging rights and The Pines, Chuck and He- ficers and I are always open to awards at the final year-end len, are longtime members of your suggestions and com- competition. PWCC and are prolific photog- ments to improve our Club. Periodic print and PDI raphers and world travelers. Our most popular event is workshops are held on differ- Chuck, who was the Club pres- the monthly competition, held ent days from our regular ident for 31 years and is the on the first Monday of each meeting and at other locations. President Emeritus and Helen, month. Over half the members I have observed that the print our Corresponding Secretary, participate in most of the eight and PDI quality of the monthly are snowbirds who belong to a monthly events, entering either entries have drastically im- prints, or projected digital im- proved as a result of these [continued on page 19] ages, or both, up to 2 in each format. Photo Notes The competitions culminate in June’s extravaganza event Publisher: Ed Lee where the Club hires not one Editor: Chuck Pine but three professional or fine art photographers to judge the Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, entries. At this event, any print Ann Broder, Meg Darnell, Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, or projected digital image, up Hedy Klein, Paul Perkus, Elena Pierpont, Helen Pine, and to 4 of each, previously entered Judy Rosenblatt during the Club season, re- Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Christine Doyle, gardless of its earlier score Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, Ed Lee, Paula Paterniti, Chuck (even a “C”), can be submitted Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Marlene Schonbrun again, provided they have not been altered in any way. This Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro final competition is an eye using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. opener as sometimes even low- All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise be- ly “Bs” become “King of the lieved to be in the public domain. Hill” taking home Print- or PDI-of-the- Year” honors while Credited images remain the sole property of their previous monthly winners are copyright holders—all rights reserved. relegated to second class status
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month Print-of-the-Month November 2017 Old Flatiron, Circa 2017 by George Hansen CLUB by John Brengelman Honor Prints PDI-of-the-Month Fish Lady by John Brengelman Cistern by Carole de Beer Flamingo by Justine Carson Road Trip by Barbara Martens Honor PDIs Legs by Nicole Dosso Moonscape by David Francis Ring of Fire by David Francis Inside-Outside by Paul Grebanier Fez Worker by Natalie Manzino In the Circle by Elena Pierpont Church and Mountain by Chuck Pine To the Sky by Puneet Sood
Print-of-the-Month Old Flatiron, Circa 2017 PDI-of-the-Month © George Hansen Cistern © Carole de Beer
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals PDIs through November 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman Nicole Dosso 32 Paul Grebanier 32 Congratulations to our Larry Rubin 32 Prints winners and honorable Punnet Sood 32 mentions. Carole de Beer 30 Barbara Martens 38 Natalie Manzino 30 George Hansen 32 Thanks to all who entered Joe Nawy 30 Paula Paterniti 32 and competed this month Elena Pierpont 28 Sal Maci 26 Bill Apple 26 Bill Apple 26 and to all who helped George Hansen 26 Justine Carson 26 make the competition run Sal Maci 26 Sarah Corbin 26 so smoothly. Barbara Martens 26 Oggy Doytchinov 26 John Brengelman 24 Paul Grebanier 24 And, a special thank-you Christine Doyle 24 Dinorah Capota 24 Justine Carson 22 John Brengelman 22 to our judge, Jill Waterman, Harriet Josephs 22 Florence Forman 20 for a job well done. Dottie Mills 22 Eileen McNamee 20 Michael Schleiff 22 Madeleine Barbara 16 For the rest of us, there’s Donna Faialla 20 Natalie Manzino 16 always next month! David Francis 20 Elena Pierpont 14 Virginia Lawrence 20 Larry Rubin 14 Chuck Pine 20 Alice Somma 12 Janet Susin 20 Marvin Fink 8 Julie Wosk 20 Allan Fishpond 8 Julie Foehrenbach 18 Paula Paterniti 18 Susan Rauch 18 Larry Sapadin 10 Joan Slatkin 18 Marty Smith 16 Jay Bitkower 14 Sorin Capota 14 Ed Lewit 14 Alice Somma 14 Tony Monaco 12 Rita Russo 12 Eileen McNamee 10 Will Aimesbury 8 Jerry Vogel 8 Florence Forman 6 Hedy Klein 6 Marilyn Thypin 6 Peter Houts 4
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 You’re Invited to a may mail your Holiday Party checks (no cash in CLUB the mail, please) It’s that time of the year! please) to Helen Time to mark your calendar Pine at 680 West and make your plans to at- End Avenue, NY, tend Park West Camera NY 10025. Be sure Club’s annual holiday party. you send it in time to arrive well before the holiday party. hosts will be roasting a holiday We’ll start serving dinner turkey and preparing all the around 7 p.m. (Please do not trimmings to go with it. arrive prior to 6:30 p.m.) We’ll be keeping a list (and Members are expected to checking it twice) to make sure pitch in and help—you will be who’s coming to our party asked to sign up with the So- (both naughty and nice). Send cial Committee for either set- an e-mail if you’d like to at- up of the buffet tables, KP- tend (or if you can’t come—so This event is scheduled duty during the party, and/or we know you got the message) for Monday night, December clean-up after the festivities to < [email protected]> 18th. This year’s Holiday have concluded. Bring your Party again will take place in family. Bring your friends. the home of the Pines (Chuck Bring your appetite. We’ll pro- and Helen)—680 West End vide the holiday cheer. Avenue, corner of 93rd Street, apartment 5D. Directions may be found at the end of the Schedule of Activities on page 41. This year, our party will be catered with Italian food from Carmine’s (or possibly Buca di Beppo) including All in all, this is one of the salad, pasta, and a couple of yearly Club events that no main courses. In addition, There will be a charge of PWCCer should miss! we’ll be providing hors $15-$20 per person to cover the d’oeuvres (both hot and costs of the food, paper and cold), desserts (both finger- plastic goods, beverages, and and fork-food), and bever- other essentials. Your payment ages (both alcoholic and soft may be given to Helen at a drinks) fit for royalty. Club meeting (she will be ac- As a special surprise cepting your cash or check— (well, not any more!), our made out to PWCC) or you
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Future Field Trips • Early Summer, June 27th- Travel Photo Tips July 3rd, 2018 CLUB The Park West Camera Club The Palouse Tell a story will be going on three extend- By shooting a series of ed field trips during the shots at a location you will 2017-18 Club season. They are be able to tell a story of the as follows… life of the local people. How they dress, work, have fun, and where they live and re- • Memorial Day Weekend, lax. Select a theme or shoot at May 25th-28th, 2018 a market and try to think Garden State Crossing about the end result. How you will tell your audience about your travels using just your pictures.
Take lots of photos On this week-long field trip Work out how many im- ages you think you should we’ll be traveling to The On this trip we’ll be blazing shoot and then double it. Palouse, often called the a trail across (mostly) Central And then double it again. New Jersey, from Wall Town- ”breadbasket of the US” be- You can never take too many ship to Trenton and from Rin- cause of its huge production of images. This may be the only goes to Egg Harbor City. wheat and legumes. opportunity for you to see We’ll make stops at the The Palouse is located in this area. It’s better to edit Grounds for Sculpture and southeastern Washington State. later than miss out on all the action by shooting too little. Batsto Village. We’ll explore It is noted for its rolling hills, Not every picture will be Barnegat Light and Allaire waving fields of wheat, and prairies as far as the eye can perfect but it will be a mem- State Parks. We’ll visit a grand ory. You are not just looking see—all of America the Beautiful old country home and gardens, to create perfect photos but rolled into one destination. a winery, and a steam train. also great memories. Digital All aboard! If you’re interested in this is inexpensive (compare to We’ll spend plenty of time trip let me know and I’ll give film in the old days) so take photographing at these half you all the info. We need to act lots of memory cards or a dozen distinct locations over quickly on this one because as device on which to down- our 4 days and 3 nights. soon as the airlines release load your daily shoots. seats for sale and the hotels open up their reservation sys- Travel is often a once in a tem for these dates, they get lifetime opportunity, so go well prepared and come back gobbled up quickly. with memories that will last See the next page for all of a lifetime. Happy shooting! the details
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 CLUB
The Palouse etc. It will be up to you to flights to Spokane from the make your airline reservations, New York City area. Unfortu- Park West Camera Club an- book your hotel rooms, and nately, there are no non-stop nounces a one-week field trip rent a car for the week. (It will flights. You will have to change to the Palouse in southeastern be best if you have your room- planes in Salt Lake City, Min- Washington State. The Palouse mates and car mates chosen neapolis St Paul, or Seattle air- is often called the ”breadbasket before you make the necessary ports. [The other airports are: of the United States” due to its reservations.) the Lewiston-Nez Perce Coun- huge production of wheat and We’ll be staying at the Fair- ty Airport (LWS)—fewer legumes. The Palouse is noted field Inn and Suites located in flights (only Delta) and more for its rolling hills, waving Moscow, Idaho. The address is expensive; the Seattle–Tacoma fields of wheat, and prairies as 1000 West Pullman Road, Mos- International Airport (SEA)— far as the eye can see—all of cow, ID. Their phone number many flights, some non-stop, America the Beautiful rolled into is (208) 882-4600. Reservations less expensive, BUT a 5-plus one destination! may be made on the website at hour drive to the hotel.] The dates for this field trip
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 equipment, etc.) and passen- Club Participation Nites gers comfortably. Four to a car CLUB would be ideal. A medium- This coming year there will be sized SUV or passenger van four programs which require will be fine. The price can be member participation. Here’s a split among all the people in quick rundown on these fun the car. I also suggest having at and educational activities: least two drivers in each vehi- cle. If you do not have your • January 22nd—Theme Night Tonight’s theme is Weather. As own car insurance and/or a Broadway musical, Anything we sit in our seats, shivering credit card that includes rental Goes. [If we have to make up a from the cold and snow (well, car insurance, it is recom- canceled competition, this pro- maybe not in the gallery, but mended to get the insurance gram will be postponed.] through the rental company. outside) let our thoughts turn to weather of all kinds—rain, By the way, the Club has an * Also for your sharing plea- clouds, sun, you name it. For account with Avis Car Rental. sure, PWCC will have two this assignment, search If you decide to use this com- members Portfolio Review through your files for images pany, contact me for the dis- nights this year. The scheduled which instill the feeling of count number. dates are November 13th and weather. Or, if you’re up for it, If you’re interested in this February 12th. trip, please let me know ASA: why not take a journey out- Chuck Pine doors and see what you can
• April 23—Theme Night Tonight is the night when you can share with the rest of the Club any images your little heart desires. The theme is Pot Luck—your choice! Pots And pans? Sure! Lucky horseshoes? Of course! As in that old
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 PWCC 2017-2018 Schedule
CLUB September 3 Chuck Pine Picnic 4 Labor Day 11 Welcome Back March 18 Guest Speaker (Anne Arden McDonald) 5 Competition #6 ( ) 25 Business Meeting #1 12 Workshop—Table Top Photography 19 Guest Speaker ( ) October 26 Business Meeting #3 2 Competition #1 (Susan May Tell) 9 Columbus Day/Weekend Trip April Amish Adventure 2 Competition #7 ( ) 16 How to: Winning Images (C & H Pine) 9 Workshop—Photo. & Social Media 23 Guest Speaker (Meryl Meisler) 16 Guest Speaker ( ) 30 Halloween Scavenger Hunt & Party 23 Make-Up Night/Theme Nite—Pot Luck 30 Workshop—After NIK November 6 Competition #2 (Jill Waterman) May 13 Portfolio Review 7 Competition #8 ( ) 20 Guest Speaker (Harvey Stein) 10 Expanding Visions 24 Introduction 27 Business Meeting #2 14 Guest Speaker ( ) 17 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #1 December 21 Business Meeting #4 4 Competition #3 (Marilyn Stern) 24 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #2 11 Guest Speaker (Jill Waterman) 25-28 Weekend Field Trip 18 Holiday Party Garden State Crossing 25 Winter Holiday 28 Memorial Day (No Meeting) 31 Expanding Visions 24 Review #1 January 1 Winter Holiday June 8 Competition #4 ( ) 4 Year-End Competition ( ) 15 MLKing Day/Guest Speaker ( ) 7 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #3 22 Theme Night—Weather 11 Otto Litzel Dinner 29 Workshop Night TBA 14 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #4 18 ExCom Planning Meeting February 21 Expanding Visions 24 Review #2 5 Competition #5 ( ) 25 Summer Meeting 12 Portfolio Night 27 Weeklong Field Trip—The Palouse 19 President’s Day Guest Speaker ( ) 26 Before & After Day field trips, classes, additional workshops, and the 2018 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Competition Rotation Committee Liaisons Photo Notes Deadlines
CLUB The members of the Club, at The Executive Committee Issue Deadline the May business meeting, (ExCom) has decided to con- December 2017 December 4 voted to change one of the tinue for this coming year rules regarding our monthly with the committee liaison January 2018 January 8 competition. We will go back model to spread the respon- February 2018 February 5 to alternating the order of the sibility among the entire Ex- March 2018 March 5 prints and PDIs in our eight ecutive Committee. monthly competitions begin- Here’s how it’ll work: April 2018 April 2 ning in October 2016. Here’s Each of the ExCom mem- May 2018 May 7 the schedule: bers (the five elected officers Summer 2018 June 4 plus the President Emeritus) Month First Shown will be assigned committees The sooner articles and December PDIs as liaison. Each committee items are submitted to Photo January Prints chair or co-chair will report Notes, the quicker the editing February PDIs to the ExCom through this and revision process can begin. March Prints liaison. In this manner, it is Competition scores and cumu- April PDIs felt that communication will lative points are submitted as May Prints flow much more smoothly, soon after the competitions as June PDIs in both directions, between possible, usually one to three the committees. In addition, days following the submission any concerns raised by the deadline. The draft copy of ExCom will be passed along Photo Notes will be sent to the Photo Cartoon of to the committee chairs editorial staff as soon as possi- the Month through the liaisons. ble once all items are in place. Here are the committee The staff will then have two to liaison assignments for the three days to edit and return 2015-2016 Club year: their comments. Archives Maria Fernandez Once the Photo Notes issue Competition Mike Schleiff is complete, it is sent to the Field Trip Chuck Pine Website Committee to be post- Gallery Helen Pine ed online. As soon as this is ac- House Christine Doyle complished, an e-mail is sent Membership Helen Pine to all Club members and other Newsletter Chuck Pine Photo Notes recipients inform- Program Christine Doyle ing them that the PWCC news- Social Ed Lee letter is now available for Website Mike Schleiff downloading. Workshop Ed Lee The original selfie!
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Scavenger Hunt
CLUB On Monday, October 30th, All Hallows Eve was a day away. ’Twas be the night before…” fun and scares; the night before Halloween! And, Park West held its second annual Halloween Scav- enger Hunt. © Donna Faiella Here are some of the im- ages from that scary evening.
© Paula Paterniti President Trumpkin © Marlene Schonbrun
© Will Aimesbury
More scary images on the next page. © Maria Fernandez © Julie Wosk
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 © Donna Faiella
© Julie Wosk © Natalie Manzino
© Paula Paterniti
© Marlene Schonbrun
Thanks to all who parti- cipated. Hope you had a © Natalie Manzino ghoulishly good time. © Maria Fernandez
November 2017 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
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Portfolio Page
CLUB This month’s portfolio is by PWCCer Paula Paterniti. This is new work, shot in Staten Is- land, on a Meet-up photo shoot. You can follow Paula on Instagram @paolapsp666
All images ©2017 Paula Paterniti
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 PWCC Website-Update upper right hand corner To Upload Images to Your by Christine Doyle (below the PWCC logo). Image Library: CLUB ● On the login page, scroll ● After you log in, click on Park West Camera Club has down to the bottom. You the My Account tab and a website that is interactive will see a box marked select My Image Library. and very user-friendly. Membership Information ● Scroll down and press the By creating an account and Membership Request. Upload Images button. and signing on to the web- Press the Membership In- ● Scroll down and press the site, members will be able to formation button. Select button. This will create and update their own ● On the next page, press open your hard drive. personal galleries and share the Create a new User Ac- ● Select images to be added their work. (BTW, you can count and Request Mem- from your hard drive. create multiple galleries if bership button. (Multiple images can be you like.) ● Scroll down to the box added at the same time The gallery template marked Login Name. En- by pressing multiple comes with privacy settings ter your email address as files.) that you control. your login name. Press ● Press Open in your hard We encourage members to Next. drive window. This will take advantage of this fea- ● On the next page you begin loading your im- ture and to make their gal- will be asked to create a ages. leries Public so that visi- password and reminder ● After your images are up- tors to the website can see question for that pass- loaded press Save Images the great work that our word. Please do so. and Proceed to Edit Page members are doing, in ad- ● On the next page you button. dition to the monthly com- will be asked for some ● At the Edit Page you can petition winners and hon- personal information. make changes to your ors images. You only need to fill in image titles. When done, All members are encour- the lines where required is press Save any changes and aged to join the website. The indicated. return to the original page. website contains links to ● A request will be sent to You can now go to your videos on a variety of topics the webmaster to ap- Gallery and upload your that will help guide you prove your request. The images. through many of these pro- webmaster will approve To Create a Member Gallery: cesses. Here are some de- the request and a mes- ● After you log in, click on tailed instructions on how to sage will be sent back to the My Account tab and get started: you that you can access select My Galleries. the website as a member. To Create Your Account: ● Scroll down to Member’s ● Enter into your browser Galleries and press the the following address: Add New Gallery button
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 • adding a Title or Descrip- ● This will take you to your can change the order of tion, or adjusting addi- gallery page, where you the images by clicking CLUB tional settings, such as— can change the order of and dragging. When ✦ Gallery Visibility the images by clicking done, press Save updates (Private, Organization and dragging. When fin- to image order button. Access or Public) ished reordering, press ✦ Transition (set how the Save updates to image the images will move) order button. American Road Trips #2 ✦ Options on what to Here is an alternative way to display (Image Title, The United States is a big, add images to your gallery: Author, Captions, beautiful country. And, one Thumbnails, etc.) ● After you log in, open the of the best ways to see it is on ● Press the Update Gallery gallery you want to up- a road trip. Whether you start Options button to save load images to. from home or fly to the desti- your settings and prefer- ● Press the Edit and Upload nation and rent a car, it’s all ences. You can now add Images button (on the out there for you to see. images to your gallery. right), at the next page, This series of articles will ● The website has a section press the Upload Images offer some suggestions of for images taken during Into This Gallery button. where to go. How long it PWCC field trips (PWCC ● Scroll down and press takes, where you stop and Club Outings). Galleries the Select button (bottom shoot, etc. is up to you. for field trip images are left). Your hard drive li- The Pacific Coast High- created in the same way brary will open. way (aka US Route 101) hugs as member galleries. ● Select images to be added the ocean all the way from from your hard drive. San Francisco to Los Angeles, To Add Images to Your (Multiple images can be a distance of about 450 miles. Gallery: added by selecting mul- A good photo-oriented drive ● After you log in or after tiple files.) should take about a week. uploading images to ● Press Open in your hard Be sure to take side trips your Image Library, open drive window. This will off the highway. Also, spend the gallery where you begin loading the images. time in places like Monterey, want to display them. ● After your images are Big Sur, San Luis Obispo, and ● Press the Edit and Upload uploaded press the Save Santa Barbara, among others, Images button (on the Images and Proceed to Edit along the way. right), then at the next Page button. page press either Display ● At the Edit New Images in Recent Uploads or Display Gallery page, you can re- All Images (depending on view and edit the image how recently the images titles. When done, press were uploaded). the Save any changes and ● When you end selecting return to original page but- images for your gallery, ton. press the Finished Mark- ● This will take you to your ing Desired Images button. gallery page where you
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Exhibit Reception
CLUB The Club’s 80th anniversary exhibit at the Ryan Chelsea- Clinton Community Health Center, Midtown, had its opening reception Wednes- day evening, November 1st. Over 25 PWCC members showed more than 50 images depicting the Splendor of the Seasons. These images will be on display through January 24, 2018 and will be seen by hundreds of staff, clients, and visitors at the health From top to bottom… center. An overview of the reception This was not the first time the Club has exhibited Gallery chair, Karen Corrigan, at Ryan, and we’re looking and Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Com- for more collaborative efforts munity Health Center executive with them in the future. director, Daniel Pinchinson Our thanks go to the Center’s staff and to all the Elated participants, from left to many PWCC members who right: Club treasurer, Maria participated in the exhibit by Fernandez; PWCC president, Ed contributing their images Lee; member Joe Nawy; Club and by contributing their recording secretary, Christine time and energy in the orga- Doyle; and member Alice Somma nization and hanging of the All images ©2017 Michael Schleiff show. We would especially like to thank the Gallery Committee and its chairper- son, Karen Corrigan, for all their hard work. If you missed seeing the exhibit at the reception, please try to get to the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center, Midtown, lo- cated at 645 Tenth Avenue (between 45th and 46th Streets) sometime in the next few months.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 Club Contest
CLUB Thursday, November 2nd, was National Deviled Egg Day! They are also known as eggs mimosa, stuffed eggs, salad eggs, and dressed eggs. Deviled eggs are hard boiled eggs which have been shelled, cut in half, and filled with the hard-boiled egg’s yolk mixed with other in- gredients such as mayon- naise or mustard. To celebrate this event, PWCCs newsletter, Photo ©2017 Elena Pierpont Notes, held a contest: shoot a deviled egg or two and send Congratulations to the in your images. Simple? winner, Elena Pierpont, for Sunset Photo Tip Here is the winner of the her creativity and ingenuity! Deviled Egg Contest… If you’re near water, use it to enhance the effect. People often see a sunset at the President’s Message evant tool. A most helpful and recommended workshop. beach or by a river and stand [continued from page 3] These workshops and oth- a long way back to get their number of other clubs. Their er activities are always an- shot. This approach fails to experience shows when they nounced at the beginning of a take advantage of the reflec- hold our PDI workshops at Club meeting. They are tions on the water, so instead their Upper Westside apart- planned by the Executive of a rich foreground there ment. Members are encour- Committee to increase your will be too much empty aged to bring their work for enjoyment of photography. If black space. review by other Club mem- it’s not fun then why do it! I bers where suggestions are will talk about other Club ac- Get right down to the made which could improve tivities in future “President’s edge of the water or to the the images. Perhaps a bit of Messages.” wet sand on the beach. By cropping, an increase or a de- Best wishes and have a capturing the reflections, crease of color saturation, con- Happy Thanksgiving, your foreground will echo trast, density, or some other the color of the sky. Not only minor tweak can help put you will your photo be more col- in the “Winner’s Circle!” orful, but you will start to Chuck and Helen, with the Ed see opportunities for much use of Photoshop, then show more interesting photo- the improvement with the rel- graphic compositions.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 Member Bios While Mark has been though feels he sticks out photographing for over 30 like a sore thumb. He’s no- CLUB Mark Kinn years, he considered himself ticed when other photogra- by Marlene Schonbrun a vacation snapshot shooter. phers are shooting street But last year, on a trip to the scenes, they seem to blend in Amazon, he made a decision with the crowd. I think that’s to become more serious a skill that takes a long time about his photography, and to acquire. Mark also enjoys as luck would have it, he met converting bis images into someone on the trip who black-and-white. Eventually, worked for National Geo- after mastering Lightroom, graphic and who was willing he’d like to learn Photoshop. to show him some tech- Mark’s favorite photog- niques. By the end of the raphers are Walker Evans, trip, Mark had learned to Berenice Abbott, and Ansel shoot in manual mode. Adams. He also visits gal- One of the first things I leries to get inspira- learned about new member, tion from other pho- Mark Kinn, was that he was tographers. having a book launching this Mark uses a Fuji mir- weekend. This is Mark’s first rorless camera, the publishing attempt. The XE-2, with several book is about how he was lenses. He appreciates affected by his parents who that the camera is fair- lived through the Holocaust ly light, but thinks the and were resisters. The book lenses are too heavy, is titled, interestingly Hallway especially the 200-400 enough, Under the Same Roof: © Mark Kinn mm. Mark appreciates that My Life as the Son of Holocaust when making changes to any Resisters. He wrote this book When he returned home of the settings, he can see eight years ago after retiring these changes on the LCD as a doctor of Internal Medi- he hired someone to teach him Lightroom, and he’s screen and electronic cine. Always good to have a viewfinder. doctor in the house. been working with this per- son for about six months This is the first time Mark So, how did Mark find has joined a camera club, the Club? While photograph- now. She encouraged him to shoot in RAW, which he and what he hopes to gain is ing one day recently in to become a better photog- Riverside Park, he took a does. Hearing about Mark’s journey reminded me of my rapher and to share with photo of a dog. It turned out other people his new pas- to be PWCC member Bill own—one step at a time when it seems right. sion. Soon after joining the Apple’s dog. They began to club, he heard about the talk and one thing led to an- When asked about what kind of photography he en- PWCC trip to the Amish other, and he decided to see country, and decided to join if the Club was a good fit. joys, Mark says he likes do- ing street photography, al- the other participants. He
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 Donna Faiella by Paula Paterniti CLUB Donna Faiella is one of Park West’s newer members, hav- ing joined the Club in the spring of 2017. She became interested in the Club after Mennonite Girls meeting Gladys Hopkowitz © Mark Kinn at a course in jewelry mak- ing at The Creative Arts Cen- The Thrift Shop said he had a very nice time ter. Donna came to one of © Donna Faiella and was glad to have gone. our weekly meetings and When asked what he’d like joined soon after. She re- the Queens' Chronicle’s sum- to do with his photographs, ceived an A and honors in mer contest. Both images Mark said he’d like to get the May, 2017 PWCC compe- were taken from her neigh- some of them printed and tition with her image, En- borhood in Howard Beach. hang them on his wall and to chanted Forest. In addition she has been participate in the Club’s published in Lily Oncology competitions. on Canvas which chronicles Mark has embarked on a ”Expressions of A Cancer wonderful journey by em- Journey.” This was on ex- bracing this new hobby and hibit at the Vanderbilt I am confident that he will Gallery in Grand Central benefit from his membership Station in 2015. More to her in Park West. credit, Donna worked on Welcome, Mark. producing a photographic book titled Coney Island by Enchanted Forest Peggy Sendars. It was de- Night Photo Tip © Donna Faiella signed entirely in IPhoto on Donna’s Apple computer. Try starting with the lowest Donna shoots with an Donna was born and ISO setting to which your iPhone 5s and a hybrid raised in a traditional Italian camera can be set (the cam- Canon HD Vixia. Her photo- American family in Ozone era’s native ISO/usually 100). graphic interests are in doc- Park Queens. She was one of This will give you the least umentary and nature pho- four children. Currently she noisy image possible. Raise tography. In our October lives in Howard Beach, the ISO setting if you need competition another one of Queens. Her mother and more speed or a smaller aper- Donna’s photographs, The father took family photos ture than you can obtain with Thrift Shop, received an A and her older sister had an the lowest setting. with honors, so we have an- early interest in photogra- Of course, use a tripod other talented member. phy. Her own interest devel- and remote release to keep Two of Donna’s photos of oped through her career in your camera steady (if that’s sunsets over Jamaica Bay the film industry. After what the shot call for). were recently published in graduating from high school
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Crop Factor lens is curved (convex) the by Chuck Pine light is refracted (bent); and CLUB travels on to the sensor (red). With the coming of digital Because the lens is round, photography came many new the image it casts is also circu- terms. One of the most con- lar, like this… fusing is crop factor (AKA mul- tiplication factor). Donna’s first job was at a The concept itself is quite commercial post production simple—understanding it, special effects company though, gives many people where she grew from recep- headaches. The reason we tionist to online finishing ed- have this dilemma is due to itor. Some of the work she the fact that digital cameras was involved in includes have different-sized sensors. post production work on A full-frame sensor—the commercials for AT&T, Her- same size as a frame of 35mm This is what a full frame shey’s, and American Ex- film—is 36mm wide by 24mm sensor captures… press. Some of Donna’s fa- high. vorite work was in docu- This mentary film making where is the she collaborated on docu- actual mentaries titled Dominos a size… Rock-N-Roll Journey of the 60's, The Drug Wars of Queens and this image is the actual with Bill Moyers (awarded size of most the Robert F. Kennedy Jour- APS-C sen- nalism Award), and Chimps sors (23.6mm Like Us about the work of X 15.7mm)… But this is what a smaller Jane Goodall. Currently APS-C sensor captures… Donna is working as a per- Do you see the difference sonal organizer and personal in the sizes? Okay. assistant to elderly clients. Let’s move on to a differ- Most of Donna’s travel- ent concept,… the lens. ing has been around New York. Her interest in nature photography takes her to the City parks and beaches. We are excited to have her as a member and look forward to seeing more of her work. Here’s how a lens works: The smaller sensor crops Welcome to Park West light enters the front element out more of the image—it Camera Club, Donna. of the lens (blue); because the multiplies the image. Got it?
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Depth of Field by Bill Apple
Old Pictures
Weeks ago, fire—ten fires, ac-
PHOTOGRAPHY tually—tore through Califor- nia’s Wine Country. They snuffed out 42 lives (not the final count), displaced about 100,000 residents, and de- voured 8,400 structures, mostly people’s homes. These numbers are unfath- Dodge, Burn Wildfires ravaging California’s Wine Country omable! Yet, if you’ve watched often left nothing but chalky ash, outlining a home’s “footprint.” Among the greatest regrets of returning evacuees: losing family any coverage, one sameness, a photos. Pictured: several homes leveled in a Santa Rosa common denominator, neighborhood. AP Photo. emerges: A family returns to its down on allocating money for not, eight decades of Club his- home, now reduced to a two- off-site storage. tory will be erased. Like resi- dimensional oblong, outlined The money denied is tan- dents of Napa and Sonoma, we in chalky ash on the ground. A tamount to liquidating 80 too won’t get the pictures back. reporter, fishing for human in- years of our collective memo- What exactly are old pic- terest, thrusts his or her micro- rabilia: pictures, scrapbooks, tures worth anyway? Hint: ap- phone into a most stunned awards, newsletters, ephemera, parently less than the cost of face. It is, after all, the first time even one or two of my own renting off-site storage, around this face is taking in what’s left. photos from the 1970s or 1980s, $1,000 a year. Why do we even What’s not left. printed in Club darkrooms at print photos anymore—many “My pictures,” they all say. the West Side YMCA. of us—let alone look for “I’ll never get the pictures (Our archive, till now, has archival inks and paper that back.” been housed at the home of will last as close to “forever” as And miss those pictures Myrna Changar, no longer humans can conceive? they will: photographs, old possible. If you attended and irreplaceable and bearing PWCC’s 80th anniversary * * * witness to lifetimes. See show last June, at the Soho “Dodge, Burn,” this page. Like me, you may have Gallery, you saw merely a sliv- been a fan of Mad Men, the * * * er of all the material she’s been seven-season cable hit about a keeping for us.) fictitious Madison Avenue ad- At September’s business The old pictures may be vertising agency, set in the meeting the Club voted to shut auctioned off to members, or 1960s (the series’ run ended in down PWCC’s archive. Not in maybe some other organiza- 2015). The show’s swan song: so many words, but that was tion or institution can be talked an award-winning Coke com- the outcome of the thumbs- into rescuing our collection. If mercial, a real one, dug up
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 from 1971 and, in context, a fitting send-off to cap 92 episodes, a self-contained time capsule marking the end of a decade of turbulent transfor- mation for American society.
PHOTOGRAPHY The commercial, bringing together hippies and other young people of many nations on one hillside to salute Coke, had slept some 44 years, pre- served not in amber, but in the climate-controlled archives of Coca-Cola’s long-time adver- Archival Footage A frame from a 1971 Coca-Cola commercial, tising agency, McCann Erick- for the finale of cable TV’s Mad Men, easily tracked down. The video had “slept” undisturbed for 44 years in the archives of Coke’s son (now McCann). Part of a long-term advertising agency (see text). McCann Advertising. company archive. See “Archival Footage,” this page. View the commercial here, kill shelter, and a really impor- America what it is. At this
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 More important, let’s see if Film Toaster of which are now long discon- we can preserve what is im- tinued), or anything else you portant, really important, can rig up to make digital files about the Park West Camera from film. Whatsmore, the Club’s past. It will be found, to quality equals that of a ”drum be sure, in the Club archive. scanner” but costs thousands
PHOTOGRAPHY less—the Hasselblad Flextight Scanners start at over $16,000 and go up from there, way up. Sunset Photo Tip
Sunset photos are all about No, we’re not cooking color the color. In order to get the slides and film negatives in a best colors you must follow pop-up toaster like Eggo waf- the old adage—”arrive early, fles. The FilmToaster is a de- leave late.” vice that enables you to create digital image files from any size film or transparency, from 35mm up to 4x5.” You supply the DSLR or a mirrorless camera and macro lens. The lens must have a front filter thread anywhere from 52mm to 72mm. As for the Film Toaster, it’ll cost you just under $1,500. You must be patient to get This includes the toaster, the the best colors. The few min- lens adapter, and a film holder utes as the sun is crossing the (there are many from which to horizon can be spectacular, choose)—but my bet is that For more information on but that’s not the whole story most of us will go for the the Film Toaster, check out the of a sunset. As the sinking 35mm slide holder. articles in Shutterbug and PDN sun lights the clouds from Of course, you can spend magazines. Or, go to the Film below, often the richest colors more—if you so desire—buy- Toaster Photography website appear up to half an hour af- ing additional holders, a
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 Gallery Watching reflections, tend to place a per- In the 1970s, Singh moved by Ruth Formanek son (like ‘Moslim Girl’) in the to Paris, and during three and Judy Rosenblatt foreground, or a mannequin in decades of rigorous training the center of his composition, and exposure, he carved a se- Raghubir Singh: Bombay; surrounded by people in the ries of portfolios of color pho- William Gedney: In India; Ken- street. The influence of Cartier- tography on India. His style ro Izu: Eternal Light; Howard Bresson’s ‘critical moment’ is was deeply influenced by Indi-
PHOTOGRAPHY Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th obvious in most of Singh’s an painting and miniatures. Street; through December 9th photos, as is that of his travel The Bombay series is especially companion, Lee Friedlander’s, appealing due to its vibrant by Ruth spontaneity. One gets the feel- depictions of big-city street life Raghubir Singh, born in 1942 ing of being among both un- in the decades after Partition. in India, died too early at age known but appealing people in On a personal note: I had 56. He was a master color pho- a strange new city, that has started to read Vikram Seth’s A tographer, the best India has now been renamed ‘Mumbai.’ Suitable Boy, a fascinating 1,474 produced. He was influenced Singh’s grandfather was page story about family life in by Henri Cartier-Bresson and commander-in-chief of the India in the 1950s, and a won- William Gedney, and the film- Jaipur Armed Forces; his fa- derful accompaniment to maker Satyiyat Ray who be- ther, a feudal landowner. After Singh’s photographs. Go see came a close friend. Like for independence, his family be- the show and read the book! Ray, ”...beauty, nature, human- came impoverished. Singh ism, and spirituality were the dropped out of college, went to by Judy cornerstones of Indian cul- live in Calcutta, where he In a small alcove just off the ture,” for Singh and character- worked unsuccessfully in the main gallery, William Ged- ize his work. tea industry, left it and became ney’s photographs of India Singh’s work in this exhibit a serious photographer. He seem, at first glance, to pale shows the intersection between met artists who deeply influ- compared to Singh’s colorful, Indian perspectives and the enced his later work, especially seductive images next-door. color photography of western the filmmaker Satyajit Ray, the But I found a few gems among photographers. His lively writers V. S. Naipaul and R. K. these smaller, older, black and street photographs often use Narayan. white images—like the figures Widely published (e.g., straining to push what must be Life Magazine, National a cart, whose outstretched Geographic, New York arms echo a wall painting of a Times), Singh respond- many-handed goddess, or de- ed to the vivid colors serted pedicabs on a rainy city of India. His inside street. Gedney was born in view of India made his 1932 and died of AIDS in 1989; images stand out reclusive and underappreciat- amongst those by oth- ed during his lifetime, he was er photographers who posthumously championed by had shot in India, al- his friend, Lee Friedlander. though he is not now © Raghubir Singh well known in the West.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 cred places and still life gles from inside and outside, projects, it displays Izu’s but without the people it was powerful study of the plas- just a shell.” In 1995 Izu wit- ter cast bodies of Vesuvius’ nessed the death of a Cambo- victims in Pompeii, bring- dian child due to lack of med- ing that ancient tragedy to ical care. This led him to found
PHOTOGRAPHY startling new life. an organization which has Izu was born in Osaka, built two hospitals for chil- Japan, in 1949, and studied dren, funded in large part by © William Gedney photography in Japan, but set- worldwide auctions of his pho- tled in New York City in 1970. tographs—projects as inspiring It is always a delight to dis- On a visit to Egypt in 1979 he as his work itself. cover a photographer who re- was impressed by its sacred Like Ruth, I was impressed ally inspires you, and this was sites and set out to photograph by Singh. This trio of photog- my experience on viewing the sacred places all over the raphers’ work on India was work of Kenro Izu in Green- well worth the visit. berg’s second gallery. Izu’s photography is a spiritual pil- End note (by Ruth and grimage, and this aspect of Judy): As a bonus, we discov- India is explored in his show. ered that the Keith De Lellis His work, in black and white, Gallery, once off the beaten focuses on the holy cities of track, relocated downstairs Varanasi and Allahabad—also from the Greenberg Gallery. It Vrindavan, where widows live reopened with Paul J. Woolf’s communally. The content of his poetic architectural photos of large pieces is sometimes min- New York in the 1930s (until imal: In one image a closeup of © Kenro Izu November 25th). And next- a draped arm, with hand grip- door, the Naylia Alexander ping an oar, makes a strong, world. In 1983, impressed by Gallery has a show (through dark shape against a back- the platinum/palladium November 30) of Russian Pho- ground of glistening water. process used by Paul Strand, tography After the Revolution. Izu aims to show everyday he adopted it for his own The early 1920s post-revolu- people involved in religious work. He also obtained a cus- tion artists believed that a new rites, especially cremation after tom Deardorff view camera social system mandated a new death. There is one wall of that produced 14 x 20” nega- look in the arts. As a result, in- vivid, beautifully lit portraits. tives, bringing him closer to novations abounded. Unfortu- But it was when looking the spiritual depth he sought nately, as Stalin seized power through Izu’s book of still life to convey. in the late l920s, photography projects that I really got blown Izu’s trajectory has moved became cliche-ridden and bor- away by their beauty and de- from an emphasis on buildings ing. This show documents that termined to explore his web- and places to one that increas- transition, the emphasis now site
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Where in the World? Night Photo Tip
You are invited to guess Where Set your camera to use the in the World this photograph daylight white balance set- was taken. ting. This might not sound It was shot by PWCC right, but it will result in the
PHOTOGRAPHY Competition Committee co- best possible colors for the chair John Brengelman on a different light sources which recent trip. might be in your picture. Do you know where it was Be sure to have your shot? Can you guess? camera set to record the im- Send your answer to Photo ages in RAW or RAW+JPG Notes at
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November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 Underground
Because the United States is such a vast country, it has a great variety of geological land surfaces. Among these is one known as Karst Topography.
PHOTOGRAPHY This is perfect for the creation of underground openings— also called caves and caverns. These structures, at least Jewel Cave National Ruby Falls, TN the ones developed somewhat Monument, SD for tourists, are perfect for pho- tography. You just have to have the right equipment, set it properly, and be ready to act quickly as you move through the darkness. Here are some places to ex- plore across the country: Antelope Canyon, AZ Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Luray Caverns, VA Onondaga Cave State Park, MO Wai’anapanapa State Park, HI
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM Howe Caverns, NY
Ape Caves, WA
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 PhotoShopping An even better way to adjust My preferred way to adjust by Chuck Pine Hue/Saturation is with a Hue/ Hue/Saturation is through Saturation Adjustment Layer. Camera RAW or Lightroom Basic Tools—Hue/Saturation using the HSL/Grayscale Panel (the 4th panel from the One of the basic tools in Photo- left)
PHOTOGRAPHY shop that we all tend to use is called Hue/Saturation. This tool may be accessed directly in Photoshop, in Lightroom, The HSL/Grayscale Dialog and in Camera RAW—the Box that opens up is a bit dif- choice is yours. They all do ba- ferent from the previous ones. sically the same thing—they This HSL/Grayscale Dialog affect the colors of your image. Box offers 8 color channels whereas all the others had only In Photoshop, there are 3 ways 6 colors with which to work. to work on Hue/Saturation. This gives you more control You can go to the Menu Bar over adjusting the colors in and click on Image > Adjust- your image—in my opinion, a ments > Hue/Saturation. great advantage!
In the Layers Palette, click on the Adjustment Layer Button (it’s a half-black/half-white circle) and then slide down to Hue/Saturation…. A different- looking Hue/Saturation Dia- log Box will appear. You can type Command + U (on a Mac) or Control + U (on a Windows computer).
Either way, a Hue/Saturation Dialog Box will appear.
In the next few columns I will review how to use the Hue/ Saturation tools. In the mean- time, access these various tools and experiment (play) with them. It’s the best way to learn.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 Photo Shopping A combination blower-brush or so. One caveat, though, is to by Chuck Pine can replace both of the above. make sure the solvent you buy They cost about $5. The prob- is safe for lenses (not just eye- Lens Cleaning lem with them, however, is the glasses). You don’t want to rub brush usually doesn’t have a off the lens coating which One of the most important cover to keep it clean. helps reduce glare and other
PHOTOGRAPHY items of all your photography shooting problems. As for the gear is your lens. It is probably tissues, make sure they are one of the most expensive lintless and non-abrasive. Try pieces of equipment you own. not to use your clothing, hand- And, you probably own sever- kerchief, or even Kleenex. al of ‘em too. Don’t you think Next on the hit parade of lens it’s prudent to spend a few ex- cleaning gear is the microfiber tra bucks to keep your lenses cloth (sometimes spelled in the in tip-top condition? Here’s British style ending in ‘re’). what you need to do so… They can be bought as a plain piece of cloth that you Your first line of defense put in your pocket or handbag should be an air blower like like a hankie. Or, you can buy Finally, and probably the best the Giotto Rocket Blaster. You one that comes with its own tool (if you only want one) is a squeeze it and a blast of dry air soft case and clips onto your lenspen. Basically, it has a soft, blows away dust and other camera strap (or whatever). retractable brush on one end substances from the front of They usually cost under $5 but and a rubber ‘eraser’ coated the lens and/or its barrel. Oth- you can probably pick one up with a solid lubricant on the er brands are available. The for free as a promotional piece. other end. It is great for remov- cost is usually under $12. ing loose substances (with the brush) and smudges, finger- prints, etc. with the other end. They come in different sizes (from viewfinder cleaning size to LCD screen size. The prices begin under $10 and go up Hand in hand with from there. the air blower should be a soft brush—camel or Next in line are actually two goat hair is the old old-school products: a lens- favorite. Use it to cleaning liquid solvent and a Disclaimer pack of lens tissue. Simply wet wipe away loose I do not, nor does anyone else stuff that the blower the tissue with the liquid and in the Club, make a profit doesn’t remove. The gently rub the lens elements from the sales of these items. cost is around $5. (front and back). The prices vary from under $5 up to $20 Chuck
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 NIK is Back! One Life Photo Contest
DxO, one of the most innova- They say that a picture is tive companies in consumer worth a thousand words! imaging, announced the acqui- The One Life annual photogra- sition of the Nik Collection phy awards are back with cat- Join the Big Apple Circus for from Google. egories for People, Places, their 40th Anniversary celebra- DxO plans to continue de- Things, and Ideas. tion! This iconic New York tra- velopment of the Nik Collec- What stories do your pho- dition returns this Holiday tion. The current version will tos tell? One Life is an in- season—now through January remain available for free on ternational photography con- 7th—under the Big Top in DxO’s dedicated website, test with a focus on storytelling Damrosch Park at Lincoln Cen- while a new “Nik Collection and concepts, One Life wants to EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. ter. Each performance promis- 2018 Edition” is planned for see your best photographic es an action-packed show, mid-next year. tale. Share your story before filled with thrills, laughs, a life- “The Nik Collection gives time runs out! Head over to time of memories, and great photographers tools to create
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 B & H Event Space Philly Flower Show
B&H Photo offers free work- Experience a sea of color as shops. Here are a few of this America’s premier flower month’s offerings: show explores the exraordi- nary, essential, and life-giving beauty of water at the 2018 Thursday, November 16 Philadelphia Flower Show, DIY Matting and Mounting ”Wonders of Water.” The dates Speaker: Brian Buell are March 3rd to the 11th. The place is the Pennsylvania Monday, November 27 Convention Center right in Successfully Sell Pictures downtown Philadelphia.
EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. Speaker: Deborah Gilbert Delight in colorful water- Tuesday, November 14 loving blooms, view an artful Color Management hydroponic wall, and marvel Speaker: Vincent Versace at fanciful fluid fountains. You will experience and photo- graph from more than ten acres of imaginative land- scapes, garden vignettes, and floral displays. Thousands of plants competing for blue rib- Thursday, November 30 bons will be on display, as well Studio Lighting as floral arrangements, con- Speaker: Cliff Hausner tainer gardens, and patio plantings. Check out the B&H website at Wednesday, November 15
Store, at 420 9th Avenue. bought at the box office are $32 weekdays/$35 weekends. Wednesday, November 15 Groups of 25 or more pay only Wacom Tablets $28 per person. Speaker: Arturo Garza All the info may be found at
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 FOTOfusion 2018
The 23rd Annual International Festival of Photography and Digital Imaging, known as FOTOfusion 2018, is now open for registration. This yearly event is produced and run by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre located in West Palm Beach, Florida. FOTOfusion is a five day- Schatz © Howard long photographic event which EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. includes workshops, field trips, lectures, portfolio re- views, contests, and a lot more. Some of the instructors from last year included Jack Davis, Tim Rasmussen, Andrea Photo Workshops Check these out: Modica, Howard Schatz, Joyce • Van Os Photo Safaris Tenneson, Vincent Versace, There are literally dozens of George Schaub, and many
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
For all the details, see the Schedule of Activities on the following pages.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club * Saturday, November 11 meets every Monday night Field Trip—Gallery Hop (with some exceptions for hol- Chelsea is the best place in idays and a curtailed summer town to see lots of art, es- schedule). Please join us at a pecially photography, in meeting or on one of our other not a lot of time. And, we’ll scheduled activities. be hopping from gallery to All Club Monday night gallery to see photos from meetings take place at the Soho SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Saturday, November 11 the traditional to the latest Photo Gallery located at 15 Photo Op— avant grade images. Don’t for- White Street, between West America’s Parade get to bring your camera, too, Broadway and Church Street/ so you can capture all the ac- Avenue of the Americas (6th The sole purpose of America’s tion in the galleries and on the Avenue) unless indicated oth- Parade is to honor the service streets below. We’ll meet at 1 erwise in the listings below. of our veterans and to salute p.m. on the northwest corner Following the schedule of ac- our currently serving military of 8th Avenue and West 23rd tivities are detailed directions on Veteran’s Day. This year’s Street—right in front of Dallas to each of our meeting sites. Parade will commemorate the BBQ. There are no admission Check the PWCC Website centennial of the U.S. entry fees. Trip leader: Rita Russo;
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 Two Civil War-era structures, Empire Stores and the To- bacco Warehouse, are also part of the park. Construction of the park uses to critique individual images soil reclaimed from the new (although some comments of World Trade Center site. We’ll © Harvey Stein this nature will sneak into the meet at 1 p.m. at the Brooklyn discussion from time to time). Ice Cream Factory located at Tonight’s participants include: * Monday, November 20 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES the foot of Old Fulton Street at Guest Speaker— Chuck Pine (birds in flight); Sal 1 Water Street, on Pier 1. To get Harvey Stein Maci (New York City); Peter there, take the #2 or #3 subway Houts (photos of paintings to the Clark Street station in Tonight’s guest photographer from photos); and Oggy Brooklyn. You can then walk is Harvey Stein. Harvey is a Doytchinov (motorcycles and 1/2 mile to the pier or take the professional photographer, graffiti on doors). The modera- B25 bus to the foot of the pier. teacher, lecturer, author, and tor for this portfolio review There are no admission fees. curator based in New York will be Club vice president, Trip leader: Rita Russo; City. He currently teaches at Michael Schleiff.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37 diversity of his model photog- Thursday, November 23 business will be discussed, raphy, both in-studio and in Photo Op— new business will be raised, the great outdoors. Thanksgiving Day Parade and maybe a few surprises. The meeting will be followed Before you settle down for a Wednesday, November 22 by refreshments and socializ- Thanksgiving feast, come in Photo Op—Balloons Galore ing with your fellow Park West person to shoot the 89th annu- members. Do you remember the opening al Macy*s Thanksgiving Day scene of the movie Miracle on Parade as it marches from the * Monday, November 27 34th Street (the original one) Museum of Natural History Competition Entry Deadline where Natalie Wood is enjoy- down Central Park West and ing the pre-parade excitement then 6th Avenue to Herald Please note that PDI entries are SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES of the Macy*s extravaganza? Square. The parade will feature due by midnight tonight for Would you like to experience performances by the Rockettes, next week’s competition the same joy and wonderment, Broadway stars, and high as well as the photographic school marching bands, as well possibilities? Then head up to as dozens of colorful floats and the American Museum of Nat- gigantic helium balloons. Santa ural History via the B or C Claus brings up the rear of the train, or take the #1 train to parade, kicking off the 2017 79th Street and walk to the holiday (shopping) season. For Museum. On both 77th Street additional information go to and 81st Street, from Central
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© Chris Nicholson I begged for years for a cam- 6:45 p.m. so that we may get era, and knew the smells and under way with the competi- tools of my mother’s dark- tion promptly at 7 p.m. PDI room. My Yashica went al- entries must be submitted by most everywhere, including midnight one week prior to the local graveyard at night. today—November 27th. Just a I had a crazy idea about a reminder, you may enter up to tripod, a cable release and four images in tonight’s com- my Vivtar 283. The resulting Monday, November 29 petition, but no more than two photo was ghosted but sharp Photo Op— in any one category. Tonight’s and sparked my imagination, Christmas Tree Lighting judge will be Marilyn Stern. SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES especially when considering The Rockefeller Center Christ- how to play with time dilation mas Tree is a world-wide sym- in a single exposure. 20-some bol of the holidays in New years later I am still working York City. The 2017 Rockefeller on this concept, and enjoying Center Christmas Tree will be every night out;” ”I teach night lit for the first time tonight, photography workshops with with live performances from 7– my teaching partner, Gabriel 9 p.m., at Rockefeller Plaza, Biderman,…And in late 2015, between West 48th and West we launched National Parks at 51st Streets and Fifth and Sixth Night—a night photography © Marilyn Stern Avenues. Thousands crowded workshop series taught exclu- the sidewalks for the event and sively in national parks, and Marilyn is a New York City- millions watched it live across only once per location.” The based photographer working the globe last year. The tree meeting, open to the general in fine art and editorial pho- will stay lit and can be viewed public, begins at 6:30 p.m. A $7 tography. Her work has been until 9 p.m. on January 7, 2018. donation is collected upon en- widely exhibited and pub- try. The NYC Sierra Club Pho- lished in the U.S. and in Eu- * Monday, December 4 tography Committee meets at rope. She has published two Monthly Competition the Metropolitan Opera Guild, books: Kval! Die Walfänger der on the 6th floor of the Rose Tonight is the third competi- Lofoten (The Whale Hunters of Building at Lincoln Center. The tion of this Club season. Who Lofoten) and Masked Culture: address is 70 Lincoln Center will win the top honors? What The Greenwich Village Halloween Plaza, located on the north side will the judge say about your Parade, a long-term group of West 65th Street, between images? Will you agree? The project. Since the mid 1990s, Broadway and Amsterdam only way to find out the an- Marilyn has worked almost Avenue, closer to Amsterdam. swers to these probing ques- exclusively in photo-assem- From the street, take the stairs, tions is to come on down and blage. She developed and elevator, or escalator up one enter. Full rules are available taught the class ”Beyond the level and proceed through the from the Competition or the Single Image” at the In- revolving doors into the lobby Membership Committees at ternational Center of Photog- and then take the elevator up any meeting. Remember, print raphy in 2001. Marilyn is cur- to the 6th floor. entries must be submitted by rently on the faculty of New
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 39 York University and New Jer- bers’ night. PWP meets at the sey Center for the Visual Arts. Metropolitan Opera Guild, on She is compiling an anthology the 6th floor of the Rose Build- of composite photography. To ing at Lincoln Center. The ad- see and learn more, visit dress is 70 Lincoln Center
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 40 day’s at 8 p.m., bookending the whatever. We start at 7 p.m. Sabbath. Across the East River, The doors open at 6:30 p.m. so go to the top of Prospect Park you may enter your images. to see its similarly sized rival (Please don’t arrive earlier.) All illuminated; lightings are at 6 this will take place at the home p.m. most evenings, with Fri- of Chuck and Helen Pine. See day’s at 3:30 p.m. and Satur- page 42 for the address and * Monday, December 18 day’s at 7 p.m.. The Brooklyn directions. PWCC Holiday Party organizers typically host a Time to check your calen- kickoff concert prior to the dar and make your plans lighting on Hanukkah’s first
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES to attend Park West’s an- night, at which they serve nual holiday party. Come potato pancakes. celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, et al. Details may be found in this issue of Photo Notes on page 6. The party will take place at the home of * Saturday, December 16 Chuck and Helen Pine. See the Field Trip—Xmas Windows end of this Schedule of Activi- Join us on this field trip as we ties for the address and direc- stroll down 5th Avenue pho- tions to the Pine’s. tographing all the famous hol- iday windows along the way. Tuesday, December 19 Also, be sure to keep your Photo Event—NY Photo Salon * Thursday, December 14 camera ready for all the shop- The New York Photo Salon is a Projected Image Workshop pers, tourists, and others on forum offering the finest pho- the street. Be sure to dress for tography. Their mission is to All Club members are invited the weather—probably cold, build and maintain a commu- to bring up to a half dozen PDI maybe wet and windy. We’ll nity of photographers in the images (on a flash drive) for an meet in front of the Apple City. Each monthly meeting honest, but gentle, critique of Store on 5th Avenue between presents short portfolios from your work. These may be fin- 58th and 59th Streets (inside if three or four photographers. ished images, work in the weather forces us to) at 5 The meetings are held at the progress, shots you’re thinking p.m. Trip leader: Ed Lee; School of Visual Arts theater at of entering into competitions,
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 41 Wednesday, December 20 bundle up (if you’re venturing Directions to Soho Photo Photo Event—Sierra Photo outdoors), and take lots of at 15 White Street, between wonderful photos. The New York City Sierra Avenue of the Americas and Club’s Photography Commit- West Broadway. Take the #1 * Monday, January 1 tee is holding its meeting train to the Franklin Street sta- No Meeting—Winter Holiday tonight. Tonight is a members’ tion (one stop below Canal night where all members are There will be no meeting Street). Walk one block north invited to share up to eight tonight due to the winter holi- on West Broadway to White projected digital images with day break. Have a very happy street, make a right turn, and the themes of nature, wildlife, and safe new year. walk half a block to the gallery.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES and/or the outdoors. The holi- Take the A, C, or E train to the day season will also be cele- * Monday, January 1 Canal Street station. Walk brated with appropriate re- Competition Entry Deadline south on Church Street/Sixth freshments and snacks. The Please note that PDI entries are Avenue three blocks to White meeting, open to the general due by midnight tonight for Street, make a right turn, and public, begins at 6:30 p.m. A $7 next week’s competition. walk half a block to the gallery. donation is collected upon Although a longer walk, take entry. See the listing under any other train to Canal Street, November 29th for the meet- walk west to Church Street, ing site and directions. and follow the directions im- mediately above. Street park- * Monday, December 25 ing is limited. No Meeting—Winter Holiday There will be no meeting this evening for the winter break. Have a very merry Christmas PWCC members to (and a happy new year). volunteer for all Club committees.
This Club operates by committee. It is only as strong and Directions to the Pine’s as exciting as the members make it. at 680 West End Avenue at 93rd Street, Apartment 5D. We have 11 active Take the #1, 2, or 3, trains to committees which 96th Street (exit at the south do everything from end of the station) or the M7, setting up chairs to Sunday, December 31 M11, or M104 bus to 93rd/94th passing the prints, Photo Op—New Year’s Eve to greeting guests. Streets. From the train or bus, Whether you’re going to Times walk the few steps to 93rd Square, Central Park, a fancy It’s your Club—join Street, make a right turn and in and do your part! restaurant, or just staying head west to the apartment home to celebrate, be safe, entrance on the corner of West End Avenue and 93rd Street.
November 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 42 The Power of Tones
The Professional Women Photographers (PWP) December 2017 exhibition of their members work is entitled The Power of Tones. All of the work in this show are LATE ENTRIES LATE monotone images (including black-and- white images, sepia-toned photos, cyan- otypes, etc.). At least two Park West Camera Club members were accepted into this 12-day show—Rain Bengis and Helen Pine. The exhibit takes place at the Jadite Galleries, 413 West 50th Street, just west of 9th Avenue. The gallery is open Tues- days through Saturdays, from 12 noon to 6 p.m. The opening reception will be held on Thursday evening, December 7th, from 6 p.m. till whenever. Rain’s photo has been chosen as the cover image for this PWP exhibit’s book.
India: Outside of Time
The Umbrella Arts Gallery, located at 317 East 9th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues is hosting an exhibit entitled India: Outside of Time. Two Park West Camera Club members are in this show—Karen Corrigan and Marjorie Gurd. This exhibit was curat- ed by Harvey Stein The show opens with the artists’ reception on Wednesday, December 6th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit runs through January 20th. The regu- lar gallery hours are Thursdays Family Outing through Saturdays, from 1 p.m. to 6 ©2017 Marjorie Gurd p.m., and by appointment.
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Club News Photography News 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 23 Depth of Field 3 President’s Message 25 Film Toaster 4 Images of the Month 25 Sunset Photo Tip 5 Cumulative Point Totals 26 Gallery Watching 6 Holiday Party 28 Where in the World? 7 Future Field Trips 28 Night Photo Tip 7 Travel Photo Tips 28 New! Luminar 2018 8 The Palouse SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 28 PSA Conference 9 Club Participation Nites 29 Underground 10 2017-2018 Schedule 30 PhotoShopping 11 Competition Rotation 31 Photo Shopping 11 Photo Cartoon 11 Committee Liaisons Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 11 Photo Notes Deadlines 32 Big Apple Circus 12 Scavenger Hunt Images 32 NIK is Back 14 Yahoo Group 32 One Life Photo Contest 14 Flickr 33 B&H Event Space 14 Club Affiliations 33 Philly Flower Show 15 PortfolioPpage 34 FOTOfusion 2018 16 Website Info 34 Photo Workshops 17 American Road Trips 18 Exhibit Reception Schedule of Activities 19 Club Contest 35 Calendars 19 Sunset Photo Tip 36 Schedule of Activities 20 Member Bios 42 Directions 21 Night Photo Tip 42 Wanted! 22 Crop Factor 43 Late Entries 44 Table of Contents
Parting Panorama
Plowing ©2017 Chuck Pine
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