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1 of 12 PAGES The PHSC Volume 9-9, Supplement E-MAIL to Photographic Canadiana, December 2009 The Photographic Historical Society of Canada Wednesday, December 16th, 2009… NOTE TO PHSC MEMBERS It is our Christmas program featur- The alliance between Black’s ing SHOW & TELL NITE when Photography and the Greater members share examples from their Toronto Council of Camera Clubs, collections offering the memories GTCCC, has been dissolved. This is through mutual agreement, but of how and when they got them. has an important ramification. That Our members are an eclectic bunch being: The offering of Camera Club so you never know what to expect Member Discounts at Black’s stores NO LONGER EXIST. at this annual event except it will be unusual and interesting. Bring something yourself! A Silent Auction will be on hand for members and visitors to partici- PHSC Monthly Meetings pate in throughout the early part of the program. Look to the tables. are held on the third Wednesday from September to June in the Gold Room, It is also our annual Christmas Party with the GIFT EXCHANGE so to of Memorial Hall in the basement of participate you must bring a wrapped gift to the value of less than $15. the North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., North York, Ontario. The public is welcome - please join us. The meeting officially begins at 8:00 p.m. but is preceded by a Buy & Sell We expect to be back in our usual location. and social gathering from 7:00 p.m. Meetings held in the Gold Room, (basement) of the North York Central onwards. For information contact the PHSC or Felix Russo, 33 Indian Rd. Library, 5120 Yonge Street. Handy TTC Subway stop at the library door. Cres., Toronto, ON, M6P 2E9, Phone Also there is plenty of underground parking (416) 532-7780. Programming Schedule: THE GTCCC 2010 INTERCLUB PHOTO COMPETITION December 16th, 2009 -This is our Christmas Party which Please note that persons who wish to enter pictures into the GTCCC 2010 Interclub also features popular Show & Tell Nite. Competition MUST have entries handed in to PHSC Rep, Ed Warner by the 20th YOU MUST BRING A WRAPPED of January. Ed will take them to the GTCCC meeting on the 28th to be entered PRESENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE for judging. You can receive official entry forms at our December meeting or by GIFT EXCHANGE. There will also be a requesting a PDF file from Ed Warner at [email protected]. Silent Auction. •At this time there is no commercial sponsorship for Interclub 2010. If you have January 20th, 2010 -Jim Trautman will give us a visual any suggestions, contact Antony George or George Webster. presentation on his excellent aerial •Note that slides have been eliminated from the competition this year. If a mem- photography. ber wished to enter an image which is on a slide, they should scan it and then enter February 17th, 2009 it either as a projected digital image or as a print. -Lorne Shields with a 3D presentation •We will be asking for print entries to be accompanied by the equivalent digital on bicycle photographic history. image wherever possible. This will give us the best quality image of the prints for Send program suggestions to inclusion on the Interclub CD and on the website. Camelford will include instruc- Felix Russo at (416) 532-7780 or tions for this procedure in his instructions to club Reps. e-mail to [email protected]. We are always interested in hearing •The entered digital image accompanying the PRINT, should be a “JPEG.” This new suggestions. is to achieve uniformity. As with the size of digital images submitted as “entries,” FOR PROGRAM UPDATES the MAXIMUM size of the longest side should be 1024 pixels. www.phsc.ca Begin now to prepare your images, and get them into the hands our E-mail address is of PHSC Rep Ed Warner. The DEADLINE is January 20, 2010. [email protected] The forms, to be used, will be available at our regular Decem- Robert A. Carter – Webmaster ber meeting. –Ed Warner, [email protected] THE PHSC E-MAIL 1 VOL. 9-9 December 2009 Our November 2009 Meeting see complete reviews on PHSC web site at WWW.PHSC.CA Toronto Notes Reported by Robert Carter – COME ENJOY OUR NEXT MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 2009 Larry Frank is a well known and of 1883. He showed how the artist popular photographer, traveller, writer, chose the hue and intensity of colours presenter, Photoshop instructor, and and added or removed picture ele- digital retouch artist. He pioneered the ments (buildings, people, trees) to Nikon School of Photography, Silver create what he felt – not necessarily to Silicon, and the School of Travel what he saw. He followed this very Photography and Travel Techniques literal painting with Van Gogh’s famous seminars in Canada. You can visit his Starry Night c1889 with its strange web site at larryfrankphoto.com. shapes and unusual sky. Larry reminded us of the com- Examples of digital images fol- plexities of the old film-based slide lowed, clearly showing the artist’s shows with the multiple projectors, power is now in the hands of the digi- slide trays, and audio tapes. The tal photographer - intensifying select- manual synchronization was a poten- LANSDALE PHOTOS BY ROBERT ed bits of colour, removing distrac- tial nightmare. Today, his shows need tions from an image, using vignetting only one digital projector and a com- and selective sharpening, adding and puter to accomplish even more elabo- removing colour, converting to Black rate multi-image effects including and White, etc. video snippets, with no need for man- Larry gave detailed instruction on ual sync during the presentation. LARRY FRANK how to vignette in Photoshop and the He opened with the slide show effect on the image. He posted the Rhythm Jazz Dance which can be seen image of the Japanese girl after he on his web site under Slide Shows. It finished tuning it. One viewer suggest- was created entirely on an Apple Mac, ed the girl’s bright shoulders detracted including the music - a fast action from the theme. Larry used a vignette piece composed by Larry. He feels that to darken the shoulders and bring the the greatest tool for a photographer viewer’s eye into the image. after the digital camera is the Mac Selective saturation. In the picture computer as it allows the photogra- of the woman walking in the rain, Larry pher incredible freedom to embellish saturated the red columns and their his images and bring them to life. reflections. He also made the original He quoted columnist Jennifer Wells Larry demonstrates the advantages of cropping dull beige umbrella a matching red. in the Toronto Star, “I have a theory that and vignetting by Photoshop software. Cereal Bus is a tongue in cheek picture digital cameras kill thinking. There’s so impossible to make with film. In the much clicking going on that I suspect spirit of the ubiquitous USB, Larry shot we don’t see what we’re seeing until we a bus named “Universal Bus Company” play back the photos on the camera. It’s and added motion blur to give it a madness.” At first Larry took exception sense of motion. Separately photo- to this view, then suggested it might be graphed boxes of cereal were carefully right. He describes pictures viewed in sized, aligned and inserted to show the camera and those left as raw files through the windows. being in digital limbo - “every digital Selective colour shows how an image needs some loving care in image can be converted to black & Photoshop” to bring out the photogra- white then an area can be selected pher’s impression. President Clint Hryhorijiw and program Director Felix Russo thank guest speaker Larry Frank. and restored to colour and saturated if During his talk, he defined unal- desired for more emphasis. As shot, a Only on rare occasions could we tered images as low bandwidth - like family scene is soft and a bit unsatu- show in the print what we felt when snap shots taken to the dollar store rated. In Photoshop, Larry was able to we snapped the button.” With digital for mass printing. Working on the sharpen and add colour saturation to photography and the Mac, photogra- images to bring them closer to the give the scene sparkle. Vignetting phers are emancipated. They can get photographer’s vision adds band- pulls the eye to the group. The dark- more information across to the viewer, width, providing more information for ening of the edges to focus the eye is and are now in league with some of the viewer and moving the raw file/ an old trick used by the oil on canvas the world’s greatest artists. raw image out of digital limbo. painters of years ago. He demonstrated this idea using He noted in the days of film, “we A complete slide lecture is at some famous paintings, beginning photographers were handicapped. www.phsc.ca/Larry-Frank.html with Vincent Van Gogh’s Bulb Fields THE PHSC E-MAIL 2 VOL. 9-9 December 2009 Interestingly, major players such as Canon and Nikon have yet to catch up to the large-sensor FROM THE ‘NET compacts fray. We contacted some brands to see whether con- Leonard Goh of CNET Asia better picture quality. However, sumers can expect similar offer- takes the podium to speculate the dSLRs tend to be bulky and heavy. ings from them soon, and here are following: Which is why a compact camera their response.

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