Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club 2017 January
This Issue Volume 80 • Issue 5 Club News...... 2 - 17 Photography News...... 18 - 26 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 27 - 30 Schedule of Activities...... 30 - 36 Complete Index...... 37 complete listings on last page
January 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] Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the 718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- Field Trip Susan Sigrist able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed 212 758 0036 [email protected] issues are available at PWCC meetings. Paul Grebanier 718 629 7164 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always accepted. Gallery 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 212 662 3107 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. Elena Pierpont 212 956 4515 [email protected] Contact Information Newsletter Chuck Pine Website 212 932 7665 [email protected] www.parkwestcameraclub.org 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] Cover Photo Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine Roses at the End 212 932 7665 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2016 Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle 212 595 4920 [email protected] from the Club field trip Treasurer Maria Fernandez to Saratoga Springs 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected]
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President's Message of us, we need to look at diate response. Photogs are a “Products and Support.” Here helpful bunch! I also follow the
CLUB Happy New Year! I hope you we can find and download Fujifilm Finepix at
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month January 2017 CLUB by John Brengelman
PDI-of-the-Month Glories that were Greece by Larry Rubin
Honor PDIs Seven Train by John Brengelman Fog Hill by Julie Foehrenbach Red Room by George Hansen Uninvited Guest by Hedy Klein At the Newsstand by Virginia Lawrence Quiet Moment by Virginia Lawrence Attitude by Ed Lewit The Model by Paula Paterniti Bunny Glow by Elena Pierpont © Larry Rubin Bloody Good by Chuck Pine Yolanda’s Pots by Susan Rauch
© Sarah Corbin Print-of-the-Month Rock & Roll by Sarah Corbin
Honor Prints Graffiti Italian Style by Madeleine Barbara A Sod Home by Dinorah Capota Rose Hips by George Hansen Her Eyes are Watching God by Paula Paterniti
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals through January 2017 PDIs CLUB by John Brengelman Congratulations to our Chuck Pine 58 Prints winners and honorable Harriet Josephs 52 mentions! Natalie Manzino 52 Dinorah Capota 66 Larry Rubin 52 Natalie Manzino 48 Thanks to all who entered Ed Lewit 50 Paula Paterniti 48 and competed this month George Hansen 46 Paul Grebanier 46 and to all who helped John Brengelman 44 Sarah Corbin 46 make the competition run Hedy Klein 42 Joan Slatkin 42 John Brengelman 42 so smoothly. Hedy Klein 42 Madeleine Barbara 40 Alice Somma 42 And, a special thank-you Paula Paterniti 40 George Hansen 40 to our fabulous judge, Elena Pierpont 40 Madeleine Barbara 36 Larry Sapadin 40 Sandra Carrion, for her Oggy Doytchinov 36 Carole de Beer 38 critique of our images. Sal Maci 34 Christine Doyle 38 Bill Apple 36 Elena Pierpont 34 For the rest of us, there’s Bill Apple 30 Julie Foehrenbach 36 always next month! Marvin Fink 20 Virginia Lawrence 34 Ann Broder 8 Marty Smith 34 Anna Cortez 8 Alice Somma 34 Ed Lewit 8 Ann Broder 32 Larry Rubin 8 Paul Grebanier 32 Jerry Vogel 8 Rita Russo 32 Ruth Yashpan 8 Janet Susin 32 Jerry Vogel 28 Dinorah Capota 26 Jay Bitkower 22 Michael Schleiff 22 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 20 Sal Maci 18 Dottie Mills 18 Anna Cortez 14 Susan Rauch 14 Rain Bengis 8 Peter Houts 8 Brenda Popowitz 8 Ruth Yashpan 8 Niv Gidron 6 Karen Corrigan 4
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Workshop Nights Club Participation Nites be sure to keep your presenta- tion to under five minutes. CLUB Every Month, more or less, This coming year there will be Park West has workshop four programs which require • February 27th—Theme Night nights—one for prints, and member participation. Here’s a Tonight’s theme is Think Warm. another for PDIs (projected quick rundown on these fun As we sit in our seats, shiver- digital images). All Club mem- and educational activities: ing from the cold of the mid- bers are welcome to attend. winter season (well, maybe not • October 31st—Scary Things in the gallery, but outside) let The next print workshop is Scavenger Hunt At the Sep- our thoughts turn to the slated for Wednesday evening, tember business meeting, each warmth of summer. For this March 15th at the Soho studio Club member in attendance assignment, search through of Nancy Sirkus. Register for will be given a sheet of subjects your files for images which in- this workshop with the coor- and objects to photograph. still the feeling of warmth. Or, dinator, Elsa Blum, at 516-621- [Want to get started early? See if you’re up for it, why not take 3215 or at
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 PWCC 2016-2017 Schedule
CLUB September March 4 Chuck Pine Picnic 6 Before & After 5 Labor Day 13 Competition #6 (Jean Miele) 12 Welcome Back 20 Guest Speaker (Tequila Minsky) 19 Guest Speaker (Bill Wadman) 27 Business Meeting #3 26 Business Meeting #1 April October 3 Competition #7 3 Rosh Hashanah (no meeting) 10 Passover (no meeting) 10 Columbus Day/Weekend Trip 17 Guest Speaker 17 Competition #1 (Erica McDonald) 24 Portfolio Night (or 24 Guest Speaker (John Milisenda) Competition Make-up) 27 PDI Workshop 31 Scary Things Scavenger Hunt May & Halloween Party 1 Competition #8 8 Gallery Reception November 15 Guest Speaker 7 Competition #2 (Jim Cummins) 22 Business Meeting #4 14 Portfolio Night 29 Memorial Day 15 Print Workshop 21 Guest Speaker (Rivka & Moshe Katvan) June 28 Business Meeting #2 5 Year-End Competition December 12 Otto Litzel Dinner 5 Competition #3 (Bill Wadman) 21 ExCom Planning Meeting 12 Guest Speaker (Lois Youmans) 15 PDI Workshop 19 Holiday Party Field trips, classes, additional workshops, 26 Winter Holiday and the 2017 summer schedule will be pub- lished as the information becomes available. January 2 Winter Holiday 9 Competition #4 (Sandra Carrion) 11 Print Workshop 16 MLKing Day/(Ron Haviv) 23 Workshop (Katrin Eismann?) 30 Members Free-4-All
February 6 Competition #5 (Ellen Denuto) 13 Portfolio Night 20 Guest Speaker (Erica McDonald) 27 Theme Night—Think Warm
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 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- February 2017 February 6 voted to change one of the tinue for this coming year rules regarding our monthly with the committee liaison March 2017 March 6 competition. We will go back model to spread the respon- April 2017 April 3 to alternating the order of the sibility among the entire Ex- May 2017 May 1 prints and PDIs in our eight ecutive Committee. monthly competitions begin- Here’s how it’ll work: Summer 2017 June 5 ning in October 2016. Here’s Each of the ExCom mem- the schedule: bers (the five elected officers The sooner articles and plus the President Emeritus) items are submitted to Photo Month First Shown will be assigned committees Notes, the quicker the editing and revision process can begin. February PDIs as liaison. Each committee Competition scores and cumu- March Prints chair or co-chair will report lative points are submitted as April PDIs to the ExCom through this soon after the competitions as May Prints liaison. In this manner, it is possible, usually one to three Year-End PDIs felt that communication will flow much more smoothly, days following the submission in both directions, between deadline. The draft copy of Creative Tip the committees. In addition, Photo Notes will be sent to the any concerns raised by the editorial staff as soon as possi- There are many rules in ExCom will be passed along ble once all items are in place. photography which you to the committee chairs The staff will then have two to should consider following. through the liaisons. three days to edit and return One of the most important, Here are the committee their comments. and least obeyed, is to liaison assignments for the Once the Photo Notes issue ”know your subject!” 2015-2016 Club year: is complete, it is sent to the en- This rule applies no mat- tire membership and the guest ter what your subject matter Archives Maria Fernandez mailing list. The Website —whether it’s architecture Competition Mike Schleiff Committee also receives a copy or zoology (A to Z, get it?). Field Trip Chuck Pine to be posted online. One way to accomplish this Gallery Helen Pine is to shoot the same thing House Christine Doyle repeatedly. This may sound Membership Helen Pine boring, but shooting what Newsletter Chuck Pine you know and love will re- Program Christine Doyle sult in images that are more Social Ed Lee than just snapshots. Website Mike Schleiff Be creative. Work the Workshop Ed Lee scene. Keep going, even when you think you’ve got it. You’ll be glad you did!
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 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
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 CLUB
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 PWCC Holiday Party
CLUB The Club’s annual party was again held at the home of our president emeritus and former first lady, Chuck and Helen Pine. Their Upper West Side apartment was chock full of members, spouses, and friends—62 in all. Can anyone say ‘sardine can,’ or ‘rush-hour subway?’ In spite of the crowded The king on his throne conditions, everyone had a Brooklynites good time. There was plenty to eat—courtesy of Helen and Chuck and Carmine’s Italian eatery. There was plenty of good cheer—both alcoholic and celebratory. And there was enough ca- maraderie to go around for several more parties. Male bonding Male Here are some photos of the goings-on—all taken by PWCCer Alice Somma on her trusty iPhone.
Female bonding
Deep in discussion
All photos © Alice Somma
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 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
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 • 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 ISO Basics the images will move) order button. ✦ Options on what to In very basic terms, ISO is the Here is an alternative way to display (Image Title, level of sensitivity of your add images to your gallery: Author, Captions, camera’s sensor to light. The Thumbnails, etc.) ● After you log in, open the lower the ISO number, the ● Press the Update Gallery gallery you want to up- less sensitive it is to light; Options button to save load images to. higher ISOs increase the sen- your settings and prefer- ● Press the Edit and Upload sitivity of your camera. ences. You can now add Images button (on the As you raise the ISO from images to your gallery. right), at the next page, the camera’s native ISO (also ● The website has a section press the Upload Images called base ISO) you get more for images taken during Into This Gallery button. digital noise in the image. [You PWCC field trips (PWCC ● Scroll down and press can think of this noise as snow Club Outings). Galleries the Select button (bottom on a TV screen or as grain on for field trip images are left). Your hard drive li- a film negative.] created in the same way brary will open. Why would you raise the as member galleries. ● Select images to be added ISO at which you shoot? If from your hard drive. the level of light is low, you To Add Images to Your (Multiple images can be would want your sensor to be Gallery: added by selecting mul- more sensitive, to be able to ● After you log in or after tiple files.) capture an image with the uploading images to ● Press Open in your hard light that is available. Some your Image Library, open drive window. This will cameras (usually the most the gallery where you begin loading the images. expensive ones) are able to want to display them. ● After your images are shoot at quite high ISOs ● Press the Edit and Upload uploaded press the Save without much noise. Others, Images button (on the Images and Proceed to Edit not so much. right), then at the next Page button. It is always best to shoot page press either Display ● At the Edit New Images in at your camera’s native ISO Recent Uploads or Display Gallery page, you can re- to get the best image quality. All Images (depending on view and edit the image If you must, though, it’s bet- how recently the images titles. When done, press ter to increase the ISO and get were uploaded). the Save any changes and the image, and worry about ● When you end selecting return to original page but- the digital noise when you’re images for your gallery, ton. processing the image. [Noise press the Finished Mark- ● This will take you to your reduction software works ing Desired Images button. gallery page where you wonders these days.]
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 PDI Workshop
CLUB The last Club PDI (projected digital image) workshop was held on December 15th. Eight PWCCers attended had a critique of images and to got tips on how they may be approved. Here are some before-and-afters from the workshop along with what This image of windows in a church needed some was done to the images. cropping on the left and the removal of the last window on the right. A piece of the wall on the left was selected, placed on a new layer and moved to the right side of the image to cover that window. Since this new section’s color didn’t match what was next to it, it was selected and the color changed to match © Susan Rauch
The group felt that this image of fallen This image of a leaves was too tightly cropped on the hawk was brought top and left. The canvas was expanded to the workshop al- by .25” on those two sides, the white ready altered. The space selected, and then content-aware maker explained the fill was used to complete the image. painstaking task of © Virginia Lawrence removing the branches on the right and cloning in the sky on the upper left. The only change made at the workshop was to darken some of the branches on the lower left. © Marlene Schonbrun
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Member Bio (50mm & 100mm), and zoom lenses (16- CLUB Ana Luiza Cortez 35mm, 80-200mm, by Marlene Schonbrun 28-300mm). Quite a collection! In terms of software, Ana Ana found the Club in a uses Lightroom and most unusual way. She met Nik plug-in filters. Barbara Martens, a former While Ana was PWCC member, through a working for the UN, photography group in Face- she was part of a book. Getting acquainted photography group, with Ana’s work, Barbara and exhibited a col- liked it, and invited her to be she is drawn to photograph- lection of 16 black-and- one of her Guest Photogra- ing people, she finds it a whites that she printed her- phers of the Month on her challenge. Especially candid self. They were of various website. This was in Sep- images because one never NYC parades which she tember, 2013. Barbara also knows how someone will photographed over a period invited Ana to attend one of react. A challenge many of us of one year. our meetings, which she did. face and understand. Ana shared an interesting The rest is history. There have been many anecdote about one of these photographers that inspire images of a policeman at the Ana: Henri Cartier-Bresson, St. Patrick’s Day parade. She Sebastiao Salgado, Paul noticed him flirting with one Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, and of the bystanders. She took a Robert Mapplethorpe, to few shots of him and name a few. thought one of them was a When asked what she nice portrait. Since the po- hopes to gain from her liceman had a badge num- membership in the Club, ber, she decided to send it to Ana responded “cross fertil- a police precinct with a letter ization.” She then added that asking that it be forwarded. Ana has been taking pho- many people respond favor- She gave only her last name, tos for years, but said she ably to her images, but and first initial. She got a let- became serious about it in they’re not photographers. ter back, saying the photo 2004, when she started tak- She wants to develop her had been forwarded and ing courses at NYU and ICP. skills and enjoys the techni- thanked her for her interest At that point, she was using cal talks and critiques during in the NYPD. In telling this film and photographed our competitions. She also story, I, of course, wondered mostly in black-and-white. feels the Club has been very how this policeman received Now, Ana uses digital cam- welcoming. the image and what he read eras, her current one is the So glad that you feel that into it. We’ll never know. full-frame Nikon D810. She way, Ana. Ana still prefers to work shoots both with prime in black-and-white. Though
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Member Bio it back from the verge of disaster, his specialty. He CLUB Joe Nawy returned to New York by Jay Bitkower City 13 years ago as a financial consultant and three years ago, retired Joseph Nawy lives on the with lots of free time. He Upper East Side of Manhat- spends this time at the tan now, but grew up on the gym, visiting museums, Upper West Side, in the same a Club member. One course and traveling. And, of building as Eli Zabar, at 81st that may interest members is course, taking photographs. Street and Broadway. He was an online service called Joe was introduced to the introduced to photography
One of my photos was ac- cepted into a national juried show at the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, NY (in Westchester County). The show which ran from De- cember 10, 2016 through January 8, 2017, included both 2- and 3-dimensional works of art. The invitation is shown Feet on the Street below. That’s my name cir- © Helen Pine cled/boxed in red, below. Dark Room Rental
The following announce- ment was passed on to the Club from Barbara Nitke by our Workshop Committee chair, Tom Quackenbush.
Black-and-white darkroom share available in conve- nient Soho loft. $110.00 per month. Three current mem- bers, you would be the Seal/Bienfang 550 dry fourth. Printing time avail- mount press, and more. able 7 days a week from 10 You’ll need to supply your a.m. to 10 p.m. own lenses, negative hold- My accepted image, Feet Equipment includes ers, and other small acces- on the Street, is shown in the Omega D2 condenser en- sories. Experienced b/w top right corner of this page.. larger, various sized easels, printers only since we don’t I know some of you huge sink to accommodate have teaching capabilities. managed to get up to see the 20x24” print trays, 20x24” For more info, contact Cachet archival washer,
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Depth of Field By Bill Apple
Photos from a Riven Year
I could not kiss 2016 goodbye fast enough, and I don’t think
PHOTOGRAPHY I’m alone. Disgusting, divisive, politically riven year (cf. “rift,” or “rive”: to split or tear apart violently). Full disclosure: I voted Trump and feel optimistic. Yes, his against-the-odds win ad- ministered a seismic shock to the system, shaking so many to the core. Too much bad feeling, too much misinformation (and plainly biased reporting), too much nastiness. I can only hope, sincerely, that in time many Americans will move on, maybe even see what nearly 63 million of us saw. That’s out of the way, great. The campaign also provid- ed photo-ops galore. So I now tip my hat to Peggy Noonan, whose final column of 2016, in the Wall Street Journal, high- lights a photographer I’d never heard of: one Chris Arnade. Yes, there is a political slant, which makes Arnade’s work all the more compelling. But it’s not what you think. Arnade dubs his own poli- tics “progressive.” Which is perhaps why he angered so many friends and associates just before the election, by pre- dicting Trump’s victory.
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 He wasn’t exactly reading who died of AIDS, and her own They were not solid Trump tea leaves. Instead, he’d based tendency to get caught shoplift- supporters that Arnade en- his prognostications on his ing. countered, especially the year-long 58,000-mile road In dribs and drabs—by lis- African Americans, but all felt trip, crisscrossing America, tening—Arnade and his cam- they’d been forgotten, short- camera in hand. era had taken America’s pulse. changed, betrayed even, by He mostly shot small-town He saw people and trends mis- those running the country. All PHOTOGRAPHY folks and actually bothered sed by the biggest newspapers, these people are struggling talking to them. His stops: Mc- brainiest pundits, and most daily. They’re the Americans Donald’s, strip malls, tattered sophisticated pollsters. This is that Washington and the bi- motels, vest-pocket Evangelical why he was so certain Trump coastal élites never see, hidden or Pentecostal churches, often had bagged the election. in plain sight, living in “fly- down-at-heels but always wel- Born in Madrid, Arnade over country.” coming. But McDonald’s most earned a Ph.D. in physics at Arnade, as Noonan relates, of all. Johns Hopkins in 1993, then “sees the [economic] divide as Interestingly, he sees the stayed in New York, working between the front-row kids at fast-food chain as a glue that as a Wall Street bond trader 20 school waving their hands to holds many Americans togeth- years. Only more recently has be called on, and the back-row er in those little places. You can he turned to photography, first kids, quiet and less advan- sit for hours, enjoy easy cama- within New York City (he now taged.” Those in the front need raderie with other customers, lives upstate). He’d roam city to learn that the rest of the even with staff, while nursing streets in ever-widening cir- country is hurting. “They have coffee all day long. A kind of cles, talking to people and pho- been excluded from participat- poor man’s Starbucks minus tographing them, a dry-run for ing in the great wealth of this latte and WiFi. his 2016 national “tour.” country economically, socially, Arnade, writing in the Last year, his old Honda and culturally.” (U.K.) Guardian, alongside one minivan took him to places “The front-row kids need of his photo spreads: like Ms. Ryder’s Natchitoches; humility,” Arnade continues Betty Ryder arrives at the to Saluda, SC, Montezuma, the classroom metaphor. “They McDonald’s [in Natchitoches, GA, and Selma, AL.; into Ap- need to look in the mirror, ‘We La.] every day around 9 a.m., with palachia; to the Rust Belt, the messed this up, we’ve been in her book and packs of cigarettes, Midwest, and Northeast, too. charge 30 years and haven’t and smelling of perfume. She buys delivered much.’” “They need a cup of coffee, puts in exactly six Along the way the photogra- to take stock of what has hap- sugar paxkets, and sits at her fa- pher saw, and shot, a whole lot pened.” vorite table. of poverty and many, many You sense, through his pic- “I have had a very rough life. decent people—both black and tures and writings, that the Been through a lot. My present white, working, underem- state of the union in the run-up situation leaves me without a ployed, or jobless. As Peggy to the election truly offended home between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., Noonan writes, his “photos Arnade’s sense of social justice and McDonald’s is kind enough to reveal an America that is bat- and fair play, a personal af- allow me to sit here.” She is mat- tered but standing, atomized front. ter-of-fact about what that rough but holding on. Besides this great Continen- life includes, mentioning a child tal divide, Arnade’s lens has
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 also focused on other social Silhouettes issues: care of the mentally ill by Chuck Pine and a burgeoning epidemic of addiction, especially opioid ”Detail, detail, detail.” That’s abuse, to name two. Too many what our competition judges parents burying adult children are always crying for. Details who overdose. in the highlights (no blown out PHOTOGRAPHY His environmental portraits whites); details in the shadows have been likened to those of (no blocked up shadows); and the Depression-era photogra- details in the midtones, too. pher Walker Evans, a compari- But, what happens when son Arnade shakes off, telling we intentionally create a pic- Noonan simply, “I try to take ture without detail in one of conventional pictures of un- those areas? conventional people. I try not The first answer that comes to get too artsy because it’s un- to mind, when you eliminate fair to people.” all the detail in the shadow In this example, the woman Besides the Guardian, Ar- area, is you get a silhouette! is only partially silhouetted. nade has contributed to the At- A silhouette can be total or You can see some detail in her lantic magazine and Scientific partial. In a total silhouette, the arms and face. American, and he is active on shadows are totally black— How do you achieve this Twitter, Flickr, and other social with absolutely no detail. In a effect? There are many ways to media. His photos are, plainly partial silhouette, the shadows skin this cat. One of the sim- put, nothing short of arresting. are mostly black, with some plest is to take a meter reading Arnade says he hopes this lighter-toned detail present. In of the bright background—this recent work will shine a light both cases, the background has is best accomplished with your to help America better under- all the detail it needs. camera in its spot-metering stand itself: “Everybody is exposure mode. kind of working in the same Lock in the set- direction, trying to get by, get a tings, re-compose life that provides them with the image, and dignity.” Which unites us take the picture. Americans more than it di- (If you don’t vides us. know how to lock Let’s hope for a better year, in the settings, a fresh start, that moves us all check your cam- forward. era manual— every camera has their own way of In the example, above, the achieving this. bird is silhouetted against the Don’t stop after just one at- yellow sun. There is no detail tempt at making a silhouette. in the bird. There’s plenty of The more you practice, the bet- detail in the sky, however. ter your results will be.
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 Gallery Watching Kenna was born in 1953 in to study photography at the by Ruth Formanek Widnes, England, to a poor London College of Printing. and Judy Rosenblatt Irish-Catholic family. One clue He worked commercially, but to his vision is that he was was artistically inspired by the Michael Kenna; Robert Mann drawn to religious rituals 1975 exhibit, “The Land,” at Gallery, 525 West 26th Street; when he was young, and spent the Victoria and Albert Muse- through February 4th seven years at a boarding sem- um, and by its director, pho- PHOTOGRAPHY inary studying for the priest- tographer Bill Brandt. This ex- by Judy hood. In a 2016 interview with hibit featured many great 20th The world may be coming David Roberts for Looking Glass Century British and American apart, but knowing that there’s magazine (the source of much photographers. It must have a photographer named material here), Kenna says, been an eye-opener for Kenna. Michael Kenna wandering “Fundamental to Catholicism His art studies also left an im- around it, creating black-and- is the belief in a god, hidden, pact. Unsurprisingly, he cites white landscape images of unseen but always present—I the painter Turner and Ja- great elegance and beauty, re- think that, no matter what is panese printmakers among his stores all my hope. This show, visible in front of the camera, I inspirations. his most recent of many at the am really trying to hint at what Robert Mann Gallery, made me is unseen.” Again, “I am not so All images want to dig deeper than ever interested in the visually spe- © Michael Kenna into Kenna’s background to cific. I prefer the vague and understand how he arrived at veiled, what is unseen but In 1977 Kenna moved to his special vision: eight inch suggested.” San Francisco in search of square visual poems in which No wonder that sky, water venues for his work. There he the landscape is simply a start- and fog play a large role in his met photographer Ruth Bern- ing point to something more images, playing against the hard. He became her printing profound. In fact, he likens his dark shapes of trees, rocks, or assistant for ten years—yet an- work to “haikus rather than piers leading the eye into un- other source of inspiration. Al- full length novels.” known watery realms. And no though many of Bernhard’s wonder the infinite gra- subjects were nude studies, dations of light are often you can see the seeds of Ken- rendered to produce an na’s lighting effects in her uncanny ethereal quality work. And she was known to that has earned him be a stickler for quality in the world acclaim. darkroom. Young Kenna’s pas- Kenna has remained devot- sion for art apparently ed to film and the silver print, trumped his religious and considers time in his dark- calling (I wonder if he’s room an integral part of creat- still a practicing ing his prints. His digital ex- Catholic!) and he began periments have never satisfied to study painting. But him. Digital printing is too im- feeling he’d never make personal and mechanical. Yet a living at it, he went on for all his attention to the craft,
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 he hopes to leave room for his “entered into the frame” viewers’ participation. “My and it took me to another photographs are interpreta- world. tions. They are products of the Kenna became inter- conversations I have with my ested in night photogra- subject matter. Viewers are in- phy early on, and this led vited to enter into the frame to to a fascination with long PHOTOGRAPHY complete the triangle.” exposures (sometimes as Kenna’s projects—all long long as ten hours!), term—take him and his medi- which greatly contribute um-format Hasselblad equip- to the special quality of ment to all corners of the his work. “…the accu- world, and he returns to the mulation of light, time, same places to be sure nothing and movement, impossi- has been overlooked. This ex- ble for the eye to see, can themselves easily to Kenna’s hibit features recent work from be recorded on film. Real be- special magic. And New York Laos, Japan, New York City, comes surreal…” he says. Con- at night has been so over-pho- and Abruzzo, Italy. One of my trary to many photographers tographed. favorite images from Abruzzo who urge us to “pre-visualize” You can feast your eyes by is “Castle and Sky.” The shape our images, Kenna doesn’t do visiting Kenna’s website of an old castle in the lower left this. He’d rather be surprised. I
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 - PhotoWordJumble by Sal Maci
Unscramble these four scrambled words, one letter to each square, to form words pertaining to photography. PHOTOGRA
Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer suggested by the clue.
Last month’s answers: (vivian) maiER; (william) KleyerowItzeIn; (mark) Cohen; (joel) MeyerowItz
Surprise answer: Eric Kim
Space-filling panorama
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Altered Reality, Part 5 Photo Cartoon-of-the-Month
According to the dictionary, the word ”composite” means ”to combine” or ”something made of two or more parts.” A composite image, or composit- PHOTOGRAPHY ing, means just that—an image in which two or more images are combined. Composite images are not new to digital photography. In fact, they date back to the early years when artists like Man Ray (in the early 20th century) and Jerry Uelsmann (in the 1950s and 60s) created them in the darkroom. Working with toxic chemi- cals, in the dark (well, almost), and trying to handle different negatives projected onto an easel—it wasn’t a walk in the A Few Composite Images park. It took time, patience, to whet your appetite. and a lot of failed efforts. Today, however, combining several images, or parts of im- ages is a rather easy task. Pho- toshop, or other editing soft- ware, make it a snap. Choose your images; put them in lay- ers; and then play around with blend modes and opacity; and voilá, you’ve got a composite. Any composite can be done realistically. But the fun is to create your own reality, in oth- © Jerry Uelsmann er words, an altered reality. Sure, there might be plenty of cloning, erasing, nudging, and the like. The end results, however, can know your socks off. Why don’t you give it a shot (but not in the dark)?
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 PhotoShopping To begin, open an image, by Chuck Pine any image file you have. This is where it gets a bit tricky. Go through the exact Lights,… Camera,… Actions process of doing the operation step-by-step—just as if you Using Photoshop ™ is quite an were working on the image. experience! There is so much When you’re done creating PHOTOGRAPHY you can do with it to and/or your action, click on the Stop for your images. You can study Button, the square, left-most the program for several hours button. every day for over a year and still not learn everything there is to know about editing your photographs. It is truly an Open the Actions Panel by amazing program! clicking on Window > Actions On the other hand, there in the Menu Bar.At the bottom are many things you do over of the Actions Panel, click on Open a new image. Go to and over on your pictures. the Create New Action button, the Actions Panel. Be sure that These could include resizing the second from the right/the the action you just created is your images, sharpening your one that looks like a dog-eared highlighted (as above). If it files for projection, or even cre- sheet of paper. isn’t, click on its name. ating a border around your To run the action, click on prized photos. These are called the Play Selection Button, the repetitive operations—and triangular-shaped button at the they usually take several min- A New Action Dialog Box utes to perform and a number will appear. Where it says of keystrokes. Name, enter a name for the What would you say if you action you are about to create. bottom of the Actions Panel. could do any or all of these op- In the blink of an eye erations with a single key- your entire action will stroke? What is that I hear be completed. If it from the peanut gallery (am I doesn’t work as ex- dating myself, Howdy Doody pected, drag the newly fans?)—a lot of ”wows” and a created action to the few more ”hows”? Trash Icon, all the way When you have done this, on the right. I’m referring to what are click the Record Button. called ”macros,” or ”automat- If at first you don’t succeed, You should now see a Red try try again! ed instructions,” or (in Photo- Button at the bottom of the Ac- shop) simply ”actions.” Go back to the beginning tions Panel—this means and create the action all over In short, you create an ac- you’re in business! tion to perform some of those again. It might take a few tries repetitive tasks you’re always until you get it right. But coming up against while mak- think of all the time you’ll be ing changes to your images. saving in the end.
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 Photo Shopping by Chuck Pine
How many of you remember AgfaPhoto CTprecisa 100 Color shooting film? Wow! That’s a Transparency Film (35mm, 36 ex- lot of hands being raised. Let’s posures) Daylight-Balance
PHOTOGRAPHY get a little more specific. How ISO 100/21° process in E-6/AP 44 many of you used to shoot col- $13.99/roll (at B&H) or slide/transparency film? I still see a lot of hand . Back in the day, the 1990s say, if you wanted to shoot slides you had a choice of over 40 films from five major manu- Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100F facturers (Kodak, Fuji, Scotch, Professional RDP-III Color Agfa, and Konica) plus an as- Transparency Film (35mm, 36 ex- sortment of smaller companies, posures) Daylight-Balance and dozens of store-branded ISO 100/21° process in E-6/CR56 emulsions. $10.19/roll (at B&H) Today, there are only three brands out there. Agfa and Rollei make only one film each. Fuji still makes two films, Provia and Velvia (Velvia, Rollei Digibase CR 200 PRO though, comes in two different Color Transparency Film speeds). That’s it! (35mm, 36 exposures) Here’s a breakdown of Daylight-Balance what’s available—if you’ve ISO 200/24° process in E-6 still got a working film camera lying around somewhere. $9.99/roll (at B&H)
Disclaimer Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia 50 Pro- I do not, nor does anyone else fessional RVP 50 Color Transpar- in the Club, make a profit ency Film (35mm, 36 Exposures) from the sales of these items. Daylight-Balance ISO 50/18° in process E-6/CR-56 Chuck $11.50/roll (at B&H) (also available in ISO 100 @ $10.59
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 Image Factory session you will be able to in- tegrate different apps and ex- The Image Factory Experimen- port images to your computer tal Photography Workshops’ for printing. goal is to explore the photo- The instructors are Sandra graphic image through new Carrion and Lois Youmans. eyes.They offer several work- Both have been recent guests at shops in two locations—one of Park West. Both were founding which is the Soho Photo members of fotofoto Gallery in Gallery, PWCC’s home base. Long Island. And, both are in- The first workshop is Image structors in the B&H Portfolio © Lois Youmans Transfers. Here you create Development class. Sandra (image transfer) painterly images reminiscent served as director of Soho Pho- EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. of the original Polaroid image to Gallery and is the creator of transfer process made popular the popular International in the 80’s and 90’s. Using digi- Krappy Kamera Competition tal files, you will learn how to and Exhibition held annually effectively prepare images, at the gallery. Lois’ photogra- print to a specialty film and phy is rooted in the explor- transfer to a new surface. Dur- ation of the human condition, ing the workshops you will be using damaged, antique dolls introduced to a variety of sub- to metaphorically illustrate her strates including, wood, fabric, concepts. Lois uses a variety of and art papers. This hands-on alternative techniques in her workshop is for photographers photographic work. seeking more creative options The Image Transfer work- © Sandra Carrion for their imagery. shop will be held on Sunday, (iPhone image) The second is titled iPhone January 29th from 9 a.m. to 1 Photography. If you own an p.m. The class costs $150 plus a iPhone, you and 146 million $20 materials fee. The class is people have chosen the phone limited to eight students. that has revolutionized mod- The iPhone Photography ern photography. Some of the workshop will be held on world’s greatest photographers Thursday, March 23rd from 6 use their iPhone cameras for to 9 p.m. The class costs $75. their professional and personal The Image Factory also of- work.This workshop will focus fers other workshops (Encaus- on the iPhone’s camera and a tics and Faux Frescos) in Long variety of very cool apps. You Island and Rockland County. will learn how to edit your im- The website for more in- ages, add special effects and formation is
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 B & H Event Space Tuesday, January 24 Selections and Smart Objects OPTIC 2017 B&H Photo offers free work- Speaker: Jason Friedman shops. Here are a few of this Save the dates! OPTIC 2017 is month’s offerings: Wednesday, January 25 coming to New York City from Travel Photography June 4th thru the 7th. Monday, January 9 Speaker: Ralph Velasco OPTIC 2017 will again be Finding Photographic Style brought to you by B&H and Speaker: David Brommer Lindblad Expeditions. It will feature an overflowing trade Wednesday, January 11 show and engaging presenta- National Parks at Night tions by the world’s top out- Speakers: Chris Nicholson & door photographers. Over four EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. Lance Keimig days in New York City, presen- ters will share their experience and insight, and premier man- Monday, January 30, 2017 ufacturers will showcase their Making Your Photo Book gear in outdoor, photography, Speaker: Meryl Meisler and videography equipment. If you did not attend last year, don’t miss out on this years excitement. It’s all free—you just have Wednesday, January 11 to register via the B&H Event Howl at the Moon Photo Walk Space page on the website Speakers: Chris Nicholson, Check out the B&H website at
Monday, January 23 Travel Photography Speaker: Jack Reznicki
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 U.S. Natural Wonders Great Sand Dunes, CO Yosemite Valley, CA
The United States is not the largest country in the world, nor the most populous. It has neither the highest altitude nor the lowest. But, and this is a very BIG but, it has some of the world’s most incredible natural wonders. Here’s a list of just a few of them… Mammoth Cave, KY
Bryce Canyon, UT EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC.
How many of these have you visited and/or pho- tographed?
Anyone interested in a Niagara Falls, NY future Club trip to any of these Denali, AK wonder-filled destinations?
Yellowstone Caldera, WY/MT
Everglades, FL
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 EcoCruises Photo Contest membership about our contest. ”Thank you for your con- The New York Water Taxi I received this message from sideration.” company, in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Photogra- the New York City Audubon phy Network. You may be in- For more information, the con- Society, is offering EcoCruises terested—Chuck tact person is Bruce Putinas at this winter. ”I am a retired Navy veter-
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club * Friday, January 13 bring your MetroCard and meets every Monday night Field Trip—Queens Museum some cash for lunch or dinner. (with some exceptions for hol- Sign up at any Club meeting or Join us as we head out to idays and a curtailed summer by contacting the trip’s leader: Flushing Meadow Park to the schedule). Please join us at a Harriet Josephs, 347-453-4501 Queens Museum. It is dedi- meeting or on one of our other or [email protected] cated to presenting the highest scheduled activities. quality visual arts for people in All Club Monday night * Monday, January 16 the New York metropolitan meetings take place at the Soho Guest Speaker— SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES area. The Museum fulfills its Photo Gallery located at 15 Ron Haviv mission by designing and pro- White Street, between West viding art exhibitions, public Tonight’s guest photographer Broadway and Church Street/ programs and educational ex- is Ron Haviv. Ron is a photo- Avenue of the Americas (6th periences that promote the ap- journalist who covers in- Avenue) unless indicated oth- preciation and enjoyment of ternational conflict. He is the erwise in the listings below. art, support the creative efforts author of several photographic Following the schedule of ac- of artists, and enhance the publications, is a co-founder of tivities are detailed directions quality of life through inter- VII Photo Agency, lectures at to each of our meeting sites. preting, collecting, and exhibit- universities, and conducts Check the PWCC Website ing art, architecture, and de- workshops. He is known for
January 2017 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 Afghanistan: On the Road to evening is a presentation by Kabul; and Haiti: 12 January Gabriel Biederman. Gabe is a 2010. Learn more about Ron travel and self-taught fine art and his photography at photographer. He states
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES as THE place to see the latest spend some quality time in my and greatest in boating. You darkroom every week, though name it you’ll see it here first— the digital darkroom is piquing everything from yachts and my interest in pixels!” Gabe’s cruisers to bass and pontoon work has been featured in pho- boats, from canoes and kayaks tography exhibits in San Fran- to fishing boats and personal cisco, New York, London, and watercraft, from marine elec- Hawaii as well as being pub- * Monday, January 23 tronics and engines to fishing lished in print and on the in- Workshop Night gear,… and don’t forget those ternet. Currently, Gabriel can Tonight’s workshop, a presen- scantily clad models adorning be found on the road at photo tation by Katrin Eismann, aka the merchandise. The show is trade shows and industry the Photoshop Diva, is titled held at the Javits Convention events marketing for B&H ”Any Camera—Anytime!” It Center (11th Avenue and 34th Photo Video and Pro-Audio. addresses that there is a best Street). The hours are: camera, no matter the size, for Wednesday through Friday, every photographic situation. noon to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 Katrin will also explain her a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 wireless workflow which a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $16 shows how she shoots with for everyone 16 years of age high quality Sony cameras and and older. There is a $2 ad- then transfers the images to vance purchase discount if you © Gabriel Biederman her phone for processing and buy your ticket(s) on-line by sharing. A Sony representative 11:59 p.m. on January 24th. He also teaches workshops on will be present with cameras Your ticket will be valid for night photography across the for us to try out and to answer any one of the show days. country. The meeting, open to our questions. the general public, begins at Wednesday, January 25 6:30 p.m. A $7 donation is col- Wed, Jan 25—Sun, Jan 29 Photo Event—Sierra Photo lected upon entry. The NYC Photo Op— The New York City Sierra Sierra Club Photography New York Boat Show Club’s Photography Commit- Committee meets at the Met- Tens of thousands of boating tee is holding its meeting ropolitan Opera Guild, on the and fishing enthusiasts start tonight. The program for this 6th floor of the Rose Building
January 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 at Lincoln Center. The address Viewpoint Youth Photography is 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, lo- Initiative on the Cheyenne cated on the north side of West River Reservation in South 65th Street, between Broadway Dakota, where she continues and Amsterdam Avenue, closer to teach and shoot. In 2011 she to Amsterdam. From the street, co-created See Potential, a take the stairs, elevator, or es- community engagement/pub- calator up one level and pro- lic art project that installs doc- ceed through the revolving big) heart desires. Theme or no umentary images on aban- doors into the lobby to get the theme? Your choice! Clip art doned buildings to illustrate elevator to the 6th floor. included or competition rules? economic development initia- You decide! Color or tives of community leaders on SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES black-and-white? It’s up the South Side of Chicago. In to you! Prints or PDIs? 2014 she co-created Danube Re- Music or silent? Which- visited: The Inge Morath Truck ever you think is the Project, a photographic road most appropriate for trip and traveling exhibition in your images! Just be sure which a two ton truck was to keep your presentation converted into a mobile gallery to under five minutes. Saturday, January 28 This should be a fun evening Photo Op—Lunar New Year in the Gallery—no matter what the weather outside. Today is the Lunar New Year, also called the Chinese New * Monday, January 30 Year. In New York City the cel- Competition Entry Deadline ebrations takes place at Sara Roosevelt Park in Manhattan’s Please note that PDI entries are Chinatown. This 8-acre park is due by midnight tonight for located between Chrystie and next week’s competition. Forsyth Streets, from Houston © Emily Schiffer to Canal Streets. Today’s Wednesday, February 1 events include the New Year’s Photo Event— and driven along the length of Day Firecracker Ceremony and PWP Monthly Meeting the Danube River through the Cultural Festival. The Professional Women Photog- Central and Eastern Europe. Grand Street station on the ‘B’ raphers is a group of women You can find out more about and ‘D’ trains will get you photographers who network Emily and her images at closest to the festivities—but and share their images and ex-
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© Chris Nicholson meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. egory. Tonight’s judge is There is a $10 fee for non- Ellen Denuto. Ellen’s uni- members of the organization. que imagery begins with the beauty of available Thursday, Feb 2 light. Shooting on location Photo Op—Groundhog Day is her specialty, using ele- No! We’re not suggesting you ments of the unknown to take a trip out to Pennsylvania guide her creative process. at 1 p.m. from Canal and Mott to visit Punxsutawney Phil. Ellen uses black-and-white Streets. It then heads down New York City has its own photography, alternative ap- Mott, continues onto East groundhog, Charles G. Hogg plications, and the latest digital
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Broadway, and curves up (Chuck, to his friends) and he technology to capture that through Sara Roosevelt Park lives at the Staten Island Zoo. via Forsythe and Eldridge The gates will open at 6:30 a.m Streets to Broome Street. You … and Chuck will do his thing may want to arrive early to at 7 a.m. By the way, Chuck’s stake out your spot to view prediction success rate of 80% and shoot the parade. is tops among groundhogs. To get to the zoo from the Staten * Monday, February 6 Island Ferry, take the S-48 bus Monthly Competition © Ellen Denuto at the Ferry Terminal. Exit at the intersection of Forest Av- Tonight is the fifth competition magic moment in time to cre- enue and Broadway, turn left of the season. What will the ate the final image. Known for 1 on Broadway, and walk 3 /2 judge say about your images? her intimate portraits and still blocks to the Zoo entrance. Will you agree? Which photos life images, she has also creat- Admission is $8 for adults and will be chosen as Images-of- ed visual signatures for clients $6 for seniors (60 and over). the-Month? The only way to around the globe. These in- find out the answers to these clude BP Castrol, Target Stores, probing questions is to come Starbucks, Apple, Penguin on down and enter. Full rules Books, among many others. are available from the Compe- You can learn more about Ellen tition or the Membership and her beautiful photography Committees at any meeting. at
January 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 * Saturday, February 18 Field Trip—Gallery Hop This afternoon, we’ll be hop- ping from gallery to gallery in midtown Manhattan. Be sure to bundle up and dress for the occasion (it’s bound to be cold and windy, so be prepared). We’ll meet in front of the Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, at Madison Avenue, at 1 p.m. © Erica McDonald © Robert Kalman SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES Some of the galleries we might hop into include: Bonni Ben- ternationally and has been ex- viewing Wednesdays through rubi Gallery; Howard Green- hibited worldwide. Erica holds Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m., by berg Gallery; Pace/MacGill; a BA in Linguistics from New appointment, and on Monday and many others. Sign up at York University with studies in nights at our Club meetings. any Club meeting or by con- Anthropology and Art History. The show will run through tacting the trip’s leader: Rita After studying printmaking at March 4th. For more info on Russo, at 917-697-9664 or the Massachusetts College of this and other exhibits, go to
January 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 scheduled Directions to Soho Photo Club meeting at 15 White Street, between to plan the Avenue of the Americas and field trips for West Broadway. Take the #1 the next sev- train to the Franklin Street sta- eral months. tion (one stop below Canal Please join us Street). Walk one block north to suggest on West Broadway to White possible des- street, make a right turn, and tinations or walk half a block to the gallery. © Mike Corrado events we Take the A, C, or E train to the
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES should shoot. All members are Canal Street station. Walk tonight. The program for this welcome to attend and con- south on Church Street/Sixth evening is a presentation by tribute. The meeting will begin Avenue three blocks to White Mike Corrado. Mike Corrado at 6 p.m. Street, make a right turn, and has been a photographer and * Monday, February 27 walk half a block to the gallery. visual artist for over 36 years Theme Night—Think Warm Although a longer walk, take and has recently celebrated his Tonight’s theme is Think Warm. any other train to Canal Street, 30th anniversary with Nikon As we sit in our seats, shiver- walk west to Church Street, USA. As the Manager of Nikon ing from the cold of the mid- and follow the directions im- Professional Services- Pro Rela- winter season (well, maybe not mediately above. Street park- tions and Product Marketing, at home, but outside, surely) ing is available, but limited. Mike’s extensive career has in- let our thoughts turn to the cluded time as a Nikon School warmth of summer. For this instructor, Pro Markets Techni- assignment, search through cal Representative and Sr. your files for images which Product Manager for digital instill the feeling of warmth. SLR cameras. Mike has spent Or, if you’re up for it, why not the last several years working take a journey southward to on several personal projects the lands of eternal summer? including “The Birds of Stony Please limit your presentation Landscape Tip Brook” and his rock and roll to less than five minutes. portfolio “Rock Works.” The For landscape photographs, meeting is open to the general make sure the horizon line public. It begins at 6:30 p.m. A sits on the upper or lower $7 donation is collected upon Rule-of- Thirds line. A hori- entry. See the listing under zon line in the middle of the January 25th for directions to image produces boring land- the meeting location. scapes that will do nothing * Monday, February 27 for the viewer—most of the * Monday, February 27 Competition Entry Deadline time. Field Trip Committee Meeting Please note that PDI entries are All rules are made to be The Field Trip Committee will due by midnight tonight for broken, but only when there meet this evening prior to the next week’s competition. is a good reason to do so.
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Table of Contents Photography News 18 Depth of Field Club News 20 Silhouettes 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 21 Gallery Watching 3 President’s Message 22 Ink for Sale 4 Images-of-the-Month 23 PhotoWordJumble 5 Point Totals 24 Altered Reality, Pt 5 6 Workshop Nights 24 Photo Cartoon 6 Club Participation Nites 25 PhotoShopping 7 2016-17 Schedule 26 Photo Shopping 8 Competition Rotation Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 8 Creative Tip 27 Image Factory 8 Committee Liaisons 28 B & H Event Space 8 Photo Notes Deadlines 28 OPTIC 2017 9 Yahoo Group 29 U.S. Natural Wonders 9 Flickr Group 30 EcoCruises 10 Archives Matter 30 Photo Contest 11 PWCC Holiday Party 12 Website—Update Schedule of Activities 13 ISO Basics 31 Schedule of Activities 14 PDI Workshop 36 Directions 15 Member Bios 36 Landscape Tip 17 Small Works 37 Table of Contents 17 Darkroom Rental 37 Before and After
Silver Efex Pro
These images were further processed using some of the filters in the plug-in software, Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
This is the color file after being processed in Camera Raw and [all images © Chuck Pine] Photoshop. January 2016 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37