Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club Summer 2018
This Issue Volume 81 • Issue 10 Club News...... 2 - 23 Photography News...... 24 - 39 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc………40 - 41 Schedule of Activities...... 42 - 55 Complete Index...... 56 detailed listings on last page
Summer 2018 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] Wading Willet Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle ©2018 Chuck Pine 212 595 4920 [email protected] Treasurer Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine 212 932 7665 [email protected]
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message The good include the in- Michael Schleif, our VP, had creased interest shown to help spent much time troubleshoot-
CLUB To borrow the title of an old improve Competition Nights ing the equipment and we spaghetti western, this Club spearheaded by Larry Rubin. were sure it was good to go,… season has had its share of The The good include member but it was not to be. Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! Portfolio Nights, outside Print Oh, one thing I forgot, that The good include having and PDI wokshops, and vari- should be considered good, many guest speakers such as ous social events such as the actually very good, is our an- Meryl Meisler, Harvey Stein, upcoming Chuck Pine Labor nual Otto Litzel Memorial Jill Waterman, Charles Chesler, Day Picnic and the Holiday Dinner, which has attracted a Robert Herman, Ron Wyatt, Party in December. greater number of members and Jill Enfield. They spoke The bad might include the than the recent past and I about a myriad of subjects lack of participation with our thank you all. from legacy alternative print- Theme Nights. Have a great summer and ing methods to spending a The ugly include the non- check out the many activities month photographing daily functioning of our final compe- we have scheduled for your with a top Russian ballet com- tition equipment and we had photographic pleasure. pany. Kudos to Marilyn Fish- to revert to pencils and paper. Glynn for doing a great job We all felt bad as we thought and keeping them coming! the equipment would speed up The good include great our final competition with the workshops from: Photoshop additional entries and judges. Ed Master David Atlas, who we will invite again in the upcom- Photo Notes ing club year; Joe Edelman, who spoke about getting the Publisher: Ed Lee best results from Social Media; Editor: Chuck Pine and our own Mini-Workshops presented this last January by Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Madeleine Barbara, Workshop Committee mem- Elsa Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, bers Tom Quackenbush, Jan Paul Perkus, Elena Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Noordin and myself. Puneet Sood The good include the many Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Christine Doyle, and varied field trips set up by Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, George Hansen, Ed Lee, Natalie the Field Trip Committee, and Manzino, Chuck Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt Chuck Pine, who organizes the longer events: this year's Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro Memorial Weekend trip Across using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. the Garden State; this sum- mer's The Palouse, and this All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise believed to be in the public domain. Autumn's Mystic, Connecticut. There has been an appreciative Credited images remain the sole property of their increase in participation. copyright holders—all rights reserved.
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Year CLUB
PDI-of-the-Year Walking By © Marty Smith
Print-of-the-Year Bear in Panama © Larry Rubin
A special thank you to our three year-end judges: Robert Herman, Andy Kropa, and Bill Travis
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 PDI Runners-Up CLUB
PDI Runner-Up PDI Runner-Up Window Installation Staten Island Ferry © Will Aimesbury © Christine Doyle
PDI Runner-Up PDI Runner-Up Ring of Fire Wrathful Sky © David Francis © George Hansen
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Print Runners-Up CLUB
Print Runner-Up Road Trip © Barbara Martens
Print Runner-Up The Hummer © Barbara Martens
Print Runner-Up Old Flatiron ca. 2017 © George Hansen
Print Runner-Up Beggar’s Opera © Paul Grebanier
Print Runner-Up Sicilian Fishmonger © Paula Paterniti
Print Runner-Up Contemplating Blue Print Runner-Up © George Hansen Gypsy © Marvin Fink
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Final Cumulative Point Totals CLUB through June 2018 by John Brengelman
Prints PDIs Rita Russo 62 Barbara Martens 140 George Hansen 126 Larry Sapadin 60
Sarah Corbin 114 Elena Pierpont 120 Alice Somma 58 Bill Apple 98 Barbara Martens 118 Will Aimesbury 56 Oggy Doytchinov 98 Natalie Manzino 106 Mark Kinn 52 George Hansen 98 Chuck Pine 100 Donna Faialla 50 Elena Pierpont 90 Paul Grebanier 98 Paula Paterniti 48 Justine Carson 86 Bill Apple 94 Susan Genaro 28 John Brengelman 76 Nicole Dosso 92 Gene Daly 26 Natalie Manzino 76 David Francis 92 Virginia Lawrence 24 Paul Grebanier 74 Sal Maci 88 Karen Corrigan 22 Paula Paterniti 70 Larry Rubin 88 Renée Harper 22 Larry Rubin 70 Michael Schleiff 88 Susan Rauch 18 Ruth Yashpan 18 Dinorah CapotaType 68 to enterJanet text Susin 88 Florence Forman 68 John Brengelman 86 Peter Houts 16 Allan Fishkind 48 Joan Slatkin 86 Sorin Capota 14 Sal Maci 46 Punnet Sood 86 Ed Lewit 14 Marvin Fink 34 Joe Nawy 84 Tony Monaco 12 Alice Somma 30 Justine Carson 82 Barbara Wilson 12 Madeleine Barbara 22 Marty Smith 82 Eileen McNamee 10 Eileen McNamee 20 Carole de Beer 78 Madeleine Barbara 8 Howard Stevens 18 Julie Wosk 76 Allan Fishkind 8 Aquiles Perez 16 Christine Doyle 74 Indran Nadoo 8 Pat Garbarini 10 Florence Forman 74 Jerry Vogel 8 Renée Harper 8 Julie Foehrenbach 72 Hedy Klein 6 Ruth Yashpan 6 Jay Bitkower 68 Marilyn Thypin 6 Merry Frons 4 Dottie Mills 64 Harriet Josephs 62
Congratulations to our winners and honorable mentions.
Thanks to all who entered and competed this month and to all who helped make the competition run so smoothly.
And, special thanks to all our judges over the last year for jobs well done.
For the rest of us, there’s always next year!
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Future Field Trips • Mid-Autumn The next day, Sunday, we’ll October 19th- 21st, 2018 spend our time photographing Park West Camera Club will be Mystic & More and riding on the Essex Steam CLUB going on several extended field On this trip we’ll be spend- Train (aka the Valley Railroad), trips during the coming year. ing the penultimate weekend which includes a Riverboat They are as follows… in October in Connecticut— ride up the Connecticut River. mostly in the Mystic area. Details, including pricing, • Early Summer may be found on page 7 of June 27th-July 3rd, 2018 this issue of Photo Notes. The Palouse [Please note, this is not On this week-long field scheduled on our usual trip, we’ll be traveling to The Columbus weekend.] Palouse, often called the ”breadbasket of the US” because of its huge production of wheat and legumes. • Mid-Spring The Palouse is located in We’ll spend a half-day at May 24th- 27th, 2019 southeastern Washington State. the world-famous Mystic To Be Decided It is noted for its rolling hills, Aquarium and another half- We are in the process of waving fields of wheat, and day at the similarly famous planning our Memorial prairies as far as the eye can Mystic Seaport. Wow! What a weekend trip for May, 2019. see—all of America the Beautiful Saturday! Where would you like to go? rolled into one destination. All suggestions are welcome If you’re interested in this and will be explored. trip let me know and I’ll give Here’s what we’re look- you all the info. We need to act ing for in a place to go: quickly on this one because as • a location with a vari- soon as the airlines release ety of photographic oppor- seats for sale and the hotels tunities; open up their reservation sys- • a destination not more tem for these dates, they get than 5 hours away by car; gobbled up quickly. • the presence of rea- See the page eight for all of sonable lodging and afford- the details. able dining choices. It you’ve got any sug- gestions, submit them using the Club’s e-mail address
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Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 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
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 equipment, etc.) and passen- gers comfortably. Four to a car
CLUB would be ideal. A medium- sized SUV or passenger van will be fine. The price can be split among all the people in the car. I also suggest having at least two drivers in each vehi- Free in Manhattan Vacation Alternatives cle. If you do not have your own car insurance and/or a Looking for something photo- Most of us like to travel and credit card that includes rental graphic to do in the City? But photograph new and exciting car insurance, it is recom- don’t want to spend too much destinations. We also like to mended to get the insurance green stuff to do it? Here are a travel to places off the beaten through the rental company. few free things to do in Man- path—fewer tourists to get in By the way, the Club has an hattan that you may not have our way, less expensive on our account with Avis Car Rental. previously considered (al- budgets, and less popular with If you decide to use this com- though some of you, I am sure, other photographers. Here’s a pany, contact me for the dis- have thought about or done). list of a few spots that meet count number. these requirements: If you’re interested in this Governors Island trip, please let me know ASAP: Go to Montreal, not Paris; The Conservatory Garden Chuck Pine Go to Warsaw, not London;
The Morgan Library and Mu- Go to the Cinque Terre, not the seum French Riviera;
The New York Earth Room Go to Budapest, not Prague;
To learn more, simply google Go to Big Sky, not Aspen; these destinations for times, locations, directions, and days. Go to the Albanian Coast, not If you decide to go, why the Dalmation Coast; not use the Club’s Yahoo group Go to Perth, not Sydney; mail system to find a compan- ion or two? Go to Montenegro, not Greece; It’ll surely be fun when you Go to Zambia, not Zanzibar shoot together!
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 PWCC 2018 Summer Schedule
CLUB June
11 Otto Litzel Memorial Dinner 14 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #4 15 Field Trip—Cold Spring 20 Field Trip—Dead Horse Bay River to River 21 Expanding Visions 24 Review #2 22 ExCom Planning Meeting The 16th annual River to River Festival, pre- 23 Field Trip—Chelsea Gallery Hop sented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural 25 PDI Workshop & Light Dinner Council, is June 14th-25th, and it most cer- 27- Weeklong Field Trip—The Palouse tainly has something you’ll enjoy. Festivities will include more than 100 performances July such as dance, music, theater, and the visual arts at more than 30 venues across Lower -3 Weeklong Field Trip—The Palouse Manhattan and Governor’s Island. Night at 5 Expanding Visions 24 Trip #5 the Museums, from 4 to 8 p.m., on June 20th, 9 Club’s Night Out—Jersey City is one example. Several museums including 12 Expanding Visions 24 Final Review the National September 11 Memorial Muse- 19 Field Trip—High Line in Summer um (with advance ticket reservations) will all 23 Outdoor Model Shoot be free.
August Photo Cartoon of the Month 6 Dinner and a Show—Club Field Trips 9 Club’s Night Out—Jersey City 17 Field Trip—Coney Island Fireworks 20 Indoor Model Shoot
September
2 Chuck Pine Picnic & BBQ 17 Welcome Back! (summer photos) 24 Business Meeting #1
Full details and many non-Club events may be found in the Schedule of Activities begin- ning on page 44 in this issue of Photo Notes. ”It’s a camera. I’m wearing it so the world will know I talk to girls”
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 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
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 ExCom Minutes Natalie Manzino will give an by Christine Doyle update on the Otto Litzel CLUB Recording Secretary Memorial Year-End dinner.
May 14, 2018 Chuck will report on upcom- ing extended field trips: to cen- Present: Executive Committee tral New Jersey over the Memorial Day weekend and to members President Ed Lee, cussed, including limiting the Palouse area of Washington Vice President Michael Schleiff, print competitions to members State at the end of June. Chuck Corresponding Secretary who do their own printing; ex- will also report on Expanding Helen Pine, Recording Secre- panding member feedback by Visions 24, which had its in- tary Christine Doyle, Treasurer again hiring professional pho- troductory session last week Maria Fernandez, and Presi- tographers for member portfo- on Thursday. dent Emeritus Chuck Pine. lio reviews and limiting the Members George Hansen, number of images to 5-6 per Rita Russo will report for the Marilyn Fish-Glynn, and Rita member (it was noted that Nominating Committee for the Russo also attended. members can already get feed- Executive Committee for the back at the print and PDI re- 2018-19 Club year. Nomina- Copies of the Business Meeting views); changing the By-Laws tions are now closed; all cur- agenda, which had been previ- to allow members to re-submit rent board members have ously circulated by e-mail, and images that score lower than agreed to return in their cur- the Treasurer’s monthly report ‘A’ up to two times without rent positions and no new were passed out for review losing points, which would nominees have emerged. prior to the Business Meeting. eliminate the need for ringers; and setting parameters on Rita will be scheduling another Helen asked if there was any what the ad hoc study group Gallery Hop to the midtown update on the transfer of Club can/can’t do. [N.B.: Some of (57th Street) area on Saturday, archives to the New-York His- the proposed changes, if June 23rd. Harriet Joseph torical Society (NYHS). George adopted, could entail revising joined the discussion about reported that Judy Rosenblatt the Club By-Laws.] said that she received a certifi- rescheduling the field trip to Gowanus on Tuesday, June 5th. cate from NYHS documenting Michael will update on the the receipt of the materials. It is House audio-visual squad. Us- Chuck will report on the Labor believed the materials are now ing a large-screen TV for Club Day picnic. He will ask Gladys in NYHS’s archive storage and competitions was raised, as if her building’s rooftop space retrievable for research pur- was getting a larger monitor is available again. poses. for judges to view PDIs. It was agreed that print competitors Ed will remind members that Ed reported that Larry Rubin should submit jpgs of their im- they need to sign up for field will lead the discussion on ages ahead of time so that they trips or notify trip leaders if possible changes to improve can be displayed through the they plan to attend. Club competitions. Additional projector. possible changes were dis-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 The following summer meet- Business Mtg. Minutes Gallery ($175/month) is un- ing schedule was agreed upon: by Christine Doyle changed. CLUB Recording Secretary June 18th—Executive Planning IV. Committee Reports Meeting May 14, 2018 Competition: No report (Co- June 25th—PDI critique and Chairs John Brengelman and supper at the Pines’ (This is a draft copy and has not Hedy Klein were not July 9th—Evening Shoot - Jer- yet been approved by the member- present). Chuck Pine noted sey City ship.) the rules for the final year- July 23rd—Outdoor Model end competition on June Shoot I. Call To Order: President Ed 4th: members may submit August 6th—‘Dinner & Show’ Lee called the meeting to up to four of the PDIs and/ of images from Club field trips order at 7:02 p.m. and intro- or four prints that they August 20th—Indoor Model duced the members of the submitted in competition Shoot Executive Committee: Vice since September 2017. No Chuck and President Michael Schleiff, changes can have been Helen are Corresponding Secretary made to the images since also plan- Helen Pine, Recording Sec- submission. Three judges ning a Friday retary Christine Doyle, Trea- assign a score of 1-9 for each evening surer Maria Fernandez, and image, which is then totaled shoot at President Emeritus Chuck for a final score. The Club Coney island Pine. With 33 members will use auto-scoring but have not present, a quorum was met. equipment again this year, yet decided which has been tested to on a date. II. Minutes of Previous Busi- avoid a repeat of last year’s ness Meeting: A motion to glitches. waive the reading of, and Field Trip: Co-Chair Paul accept the minutes of the Grebanier reported that the March 26, 2018 business Field Trip Committee will meeting was made, second- meet next Monday at 6:00 ed, and passed by vote. p.m. The Gowanus field trip has been rescheduled to III. Treasurer’s Report: Maria June 5th. Larry Rubin will Fernandez reported that the lead a field trip to Central Park’s Hallett Sanctuary in In the Good and Welfare sec- Club now has 97 members; membership income totals Central Park on May 16th tion, Ed will recap the NY- and to the High Line (Gan- MACC digital image critique $13,415 since September 2017. The Club has a bank sevoort St. entrance) on May and competition (deadline to 23rd. Rita Russo will lead a submit is May 16th) and the balance of $6,376, which in- cludes payments for the field trip to Dumbo on June next “unofficial” PWCC 2nd and a midtown (East Munch at Arte Cafe on the Otto Litzel Dinner. The rent charged by Soho Photo 57th Street) gallery hop on Upper West Side on Friday, June 23rd. Interested mem- May 18th. bers should consult the sign-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 up sheet after the meeting. year-end competition will be sions, and Larry would like Gallery: Chair Karen judged by Robert Herman, to move ahead with distrib- CLUB Corrigan reported no new Andy Kropa, and Bill Travis. uting the questionnaire. developments. Social: Chair Natalie Manzi- no reported that refresh- Larry reported that he had ments are available now timed the May 7th competi- and for after the meeting. tion and gave a detailed (For her update on the breakdown of the amount of Otto Litzel Dinner, see be- time the judge took to score low under Old Business.) both Website: Chair and Ex- prints House: Chair Marty Smith ecutive Committee liaison and PDIs reported that his committee Michael Schleiff asked over the has lots of help and is doing members to send links to course of well. Members were re- web resources to him or the night. minded to put away their Christine Doyle for upload- There chairs at the end of the ing to the Club website. was a no- meeting. Workshop: Chair Tom table Membership: Chair Marlene Quackenbush reported that drop-off in the amount of Schonbrun reported that the the Club had four highly time the judge spent on the Club now has 97 paid-up successful workshops last third of the images, members. Bios of new throughout the Club’s which leads Larry to con- members are being prepared calendar year and thanked clude that judge fatigue is for publication in future is- the members of the Work- an issue. sues of Photo Notes. shop Committee for their A discussion among mem- Newsletter: Chair Chuck assistance. bers ensued. Several noted Pine noted that the May that the judge at the May 7th 2018 issue of Photo Notes V. Old Business competition scored PDIs as was posted yesterday on the 1 Club Competition Im- ‘fine art photography,’ a cri- Club website. He will be provement Discussion and terion that is not in the in- submitting either the April Review (Larry Rubin and structions given to judges or May issue to the news- others): Larry Rubin report- ahead of time. Puneet Sood, letter competition run by the ed that an ad hoc study who helped Larry prepare Photographic Society of group had met twice since the questionnaires, noted America (PSA). The dead- the March Business Meeting that the competitions need line for submitting articles to identify issues to help to start on time and the for the next issue is June make the monthly competi- break between prints/PDIs 2nd. tions more successful. On- (and vice versa) needs to be Program: Chair Marilyn line questionnaires for enforced. Chuck Pine dis- Fish-Glynn reported that Jill members and judges have cussed the history of the Enfield, an expert in hand been drafted as a means to length of Club competitions colored, infrared, and alter- gather and develop useful and noted that in prior native processes, will be the information when making years, announcements were speaker on May 21st. The recommendations and deci-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 made earlier so that the Helen then proposed the competition could start following motion: Members CLUB promptly at 7 p.m. He are allowed to re-submit im- added that competitions in- ages that receive less than variably take time; also, ‘A’ scores up to two times there is no way to control without loss of points. The the judges’ actions before- motion was seconded and hand, so issues should be passed by a show of hands. addressed as they arise. The The motion will be pub- process of exploring changes lished and submitted for to streamline competitions for judges to look at when vote at the next Business should go forward. judging PDIs, and requiring Meeting (in September). members competing in print Larry noted that he would competitions to submit jpgs Paul Grebanier then asked like to send out the ques- of their work beforehand so that the Club consider tionnaires before the Otto they can be loaded onto the changing the scoring system Litzel dinner on June 11th. computer and projected for as he believes a C score is Chuck noted that some of the audience (judges will too low. Chuck Pine said the changes envisioned may look at prints for scoring). that all other camera clubs require changes to the Chuck Pine noted that any that he’s aware of assign Club’s By-Laws. new equipment will have to number scores, but the be calibrated on a regular scores balance out. A discus- B. NY Historical Society and basis. A discussion ensued sion ensued but no action PWCC Archives Update: Ed but no action was taken. was taken. Lee reported that Judy Rosenblatt had received Helen also suggested that D. Otto Litzel Dinner: Social acknowledgement from the members be allowed to re- Committee Chair Natalie New-York Historical Society submit images that receive Manzino reported that the of receipt of the Club’s ar- ‘B’ or ‘C’ scores, without Otto Litzel Dinner will be at chive materials. It will be penalty or loss of points, in Le Midi restaurant on E13th posted on the Club’s web- the same Club year, and St. this year on June 11th. site. dispense with ringer images. She asked members who are A discussion of advantages planning to attend to sign C. House Audio-Visual Squad and disadvantages ensued, up and send her their entree Update: Michael Schleiff re- including whether this choices no later than June ported that Christine Doyle would decrease the number 4th so she can advise the has been helping set up of unique competition im- restaurant. The cost is $50/ equipment for meetings. If ages and who would keep person, which includes pre- anyone else would like to track and how. In response dinner hors d’oeuvres. In assist (computer, projector, to the latter, Helen said it addition, a DVD of mem- sound system), please con- would operate on the honor bers’ 2017-18 competition tact Michael. system. images will be shown at the dinner. Non-competing Helen Pine raised two is- members are welcome to sues: getting a new monitor
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 submit up to five images for nomination period is closed, B. From the Floor: showing. and that no nominations 1. Marlene Schonbrun noted CLUB from the floor were offered. that at the previous competi- E. Memorial Weekend Club The current Club officers tion, the camera projecting Field Trip Update: Chuck will serve in their positions print images onto the screen Pine reported that this in the next Club year. A for viewing by the audience year’s Memorial Weekend motion to confirm the slate was not working properly, extended field trip to Cen- of officers was made, sec- and the Club should do tral New Jersey, which will onded, and approved. better.
2. Chuck Pine Labor Day VII. Good and Welfare Picnic: Chuck Pine reported A From the Chair that the Club’s annual Labor 1. NYMACC Update: Ed Lee Day picnic will be held on reported that the New York Sunday, September 2nd. The Metro Area Camera Council cost is about $10-12/person; (NYMACC), an umbrella food choices run from BBQ group created to publicize to vegan. Chuck asked metro area camera club ac- include visits to the Gladys Hopkowitz if the tivities that the Club joined Grounds for Sculpture and rooftop space at her apart- last year, is holding its first other local historic sites, is ment building was again annual image critique in all booked up. Interested available as a venue for the Ossining, NY this May. The members who have not event. Gladys said that she entry fee is $5 (one image signed up should contact already inquired about re- only). The deadline for Chuck, who will see if he serving both the rooftop submission has been ex- can book additional rooms. space and party room, in tended to May 16th. For case of rain, however the additional details and to F. Expanding Visions 24 Up- building will not take reser- submit images, go to the date: Chuck Pine reported vations more than three NYMACC website, that the first field trip, to months in advance; she will
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 3. Meetup.com/NYPhotoSa- fari Group: In addition to CLUB serving as Club President, Ed Lee also runs the NY Photo Safari Group, which organizes photo safaris (aka field trips) often in conjunc- tion with Club field trips.
4. “Unofficial” PWCC PWCC Munch: The PWCC Munch group will be meeting for lunch at Arte Cafe on West PSA Photo Tip 73rd Street this Friday, May 18th. Any members who Not all portraiture is accomplished in a controlled studio would like to be included in setting. In an informal setting, people move around a lot, this “unofficial” group blink, and change their facial expressions. To avoid these should contact Ed. problems, and to prevent motion blur, use a fast shutter speed. This will also help to ensure sharp shots and avoid B. From the Floor: possible camera-shake. 1. Marlene Schonbrun report- ed that B&H’s Optic 2018 conference will be held on June 3rd through June 6th. By-Laws Change Venue and other details are not yet known; members A motion was made at the last Competitions, Section 5, Reen- should check the B&H business meeting that would try, Subsections (a) and (b). website. make a slight change to our The By-Laws change would competition rules. Currently, if eliminate the 50% of the points 2. Adorama also offers educa- you wish to resubmit an image rule. It would also limit the tional events. Please check to a competition, it must have number of resubmissions of their website for details. received a score of B or C. In any image to two (2) times (for addition, the score of any re- a total of three (3) entries per VIII. Adjournment: The meet- submitted image will receive image—unless it scores an A in ing was adjourned at ap- 50% of the points it is awarded its first resubmission.) proximately 8:24 p/m. by the judge. In other words a This proposed By-Laws resubmitted image that gets an change will be discussed and IX. Refreshments and Socializ- A will receive 4 point (not 8), a voted upon at the Club’s Sep- ing: Were enjoyed by all B will receive 2 points (not 4), tember business meeting, on who remained. etc. All of this is found in the the evening of September 24th. current By-Laws, Article III,
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 Garden State Crossing
CLUB On the Memorial Day week- end, a bunch of PWCCers, their spouses, and friends of the Club crossed Central New Jersey is search of interesting and exciting photographs. Here are some images from this extended field trip.
from Grounds for Sculpture ©2018 Paul Perkus
from Grounds for Sculpture ©2018 David Francis
from Forsythe NWR ©2018 Chuck Pine
from Black River & Western RR ©2018 Valerie DiBiase
Howell Iron Works Allaire State Park ©2018 Helen Pine More images from our Garden State Crossing on the next page.
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Howell Iron Works Allaire State Park from Sayen House and Gardens ©2018 Helen Pine ©2018 David Francis
Renault Winery Grounds ©2018 Paul Perkus
from Sayen House and Gardens ©2018 Chuck Pine
from Renault Winery ©2018 Chuck Pine
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 PWCC Website 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
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 • 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. ✦ Options on what to B&W Tips Here is an alternative way to display (Image Title, add images to your gallery: Author, Captions, Many cameras have the op- Thumbnails, etc.) ● After you log in, open the tion to shoot in black-and- ● Press the Update Gallery gallery you want to up- white. Don’t! Even if you Options button to save load images to. know you’re going to convert your settings and prefer- ● Press the Edit and Upload your images to B&W, always ences. You can now add Images button (on the shoot them in color first!! images to your gallery. right), at the next page, When your camera con- ● The website has a section press the Upload Images verts your color images to for images taken during Into This Gallery button. B&W, all kinds of detail and PWCC field trips (PWCC ● Scroll down and press information are lost in the Club Outings). Galleries the Select button (bottom conversion. Rather than risk a for field trip images are left). Your hard drive li- sub-par image, shoot your created in the same way brary will open. image in color and convert it as member galleries. ● Select images to be added to black-and-white on your from your hard drive. computer, where you will To Add Images to Your (Multiple images can be have much more control of Gallery: added by selecting mul- the finished product. ● After you log in or after tiple files.) A strong composition is uploading images to ● Press Open in your hard more important in black-and- your Image Library, open drive window. This will white photography than in the gallery where you begin loading the images. color. Remember composition want to display them. ● After your images are elements such as the golden ● Press the Edit and Upload uploaded press the Save ratio and leading lines when Images button (on the Images and Proceed to Edit composing your image. These right), then at the next Page button. elements help pull viewers in page press either Display ● At the Edit New Images in and keep their interest in the Recent Uploads or Display Gallery page, you can re- absence of color. All Images (depending on view and edit the image Patterns go unnoticed in how recently the images titles. When done, press color images because color were uploaded). the Save any changes and draws all the attention. B&W ● When you end selecting return to original page but- photos give you a much bet- images for your gallery, ton. ter chance of capturing inter- press the Finished Mark- ● This will take you to your esting patterns—without the ing Desired Images button. gallery page where you distraction of the color.
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Depth of Field by Bill Apple
The Day Photography Died
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
PHOTOGRAPHY fashioned a boxy camera in 1826, loaded a pewter plate smeared in chemicals, then set his apparatus at the window, looking onto his native Bur- Photo 1.0 World’s first photo (c. 1826), restored and en- gundy, France. hanced, “View from the Window at Le Gras,” by photography’s Eight hours later—patience! inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (right). Photo: Harry Ransom —Niépce was rewarded: the Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Portrait: Musée Nicéphore world’s first photo, a blocky Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France. rendering of the outside. [See “Photo 1.0,” this page.] shunted to rolling tape as if Where are we now, apart A century and a half later, recording music. from drowning in megapixels? photography’s epitaph could The first exposure demand- Today’s super-duper digital already be writ: victim of too- ed 23 seconds, far faster than models—auto-everything perfect technology, the human- Niépce’s all-day wait. But cameras—have conquered all, ity, artistry and soul excised. compared with the day’s film which is both their blessing When, exactly? December cameras—shutters of 1/125th and curse. 26, 1978, when a Rochester sec. or faster—the wait must For minimal “effort,” any- letter-carrier handed over a have been unbearable. one who can press a button late Christmas present—Patent Kodak wasn’t rushing to receives, most times, a proper- No. 4,131,919—to two engi- perfect or market digital any ly exposed, focused, blur-free neers, Steve Sasson and Gareth time soon, however. The bulk, digital photo, even with shaky Lloyd. Their patent covered an speed, and primitive 0.01 hands or moving targets, even “electronic camera,” the first megapixel sensor couldn’t on dark and stormy nights. digital camera. Then and there compete against film (a 35mm Colors are spot-on, images vir- film was put on notice; so was negative packs 24 megapixels). tually grain-free. All this for photography, as practiced till Something else too. $100 or $200. then. [See “Patently Digital,” Kodak shelved digital for These cameras were built next page.] 25 years primarily because no not only to do everything, but The men worked for sane executive would forgo the to eliminate human judgment, Kodak, of course. Their box fortune the company was experience, a photographic weighed eight pounds and raking in, reliably, from film, eye, talent. Not on their chips! sported a 100 x 100 pixel semi- chemicals, paper, processing Oddly, I’m thinking van conductor array instead of and more. Gogh, born a quarter-century plates or film. For storing im- following Niépce’s camera. ages, a cassette recorder was *** Thought experiment: Sup- pressed into service, bytes pose van Gogh had ditched his
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 they rarely print pictures). There’d be plenty of empty walls lining museums. More- over, future painters would be deprived of seeing—or benefit- ting from—van Gogh’s hues,
PHOTOGRAPHY textured brushstrokes, careful- ly crafted images erected on canvas, as the artist intended.
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One undercurrent ran through the May competition, judged by photographer Ellen Denuto: Today’s auto-every- thing camera has, she said, made shooting pictures too easy. As for appraising mem- bers’ work, the technology was forcing Denuto to look harder for images that went beyond the pleasing eye-candy that digital cameras typically serve up (my words). She wanted something special. She drew a contrast between “real photography,” as she called it, and “what’s happening today.” She meant, Patently Digital Patent Office issued Patent 4,131,919 for I believe, the thoughtful use “electronic camera” to Kodak engineers Gareth Lloyd and of cameras held in experienced Steven Sasson, December, 26, 1978. Document covers their hands by photographers self-contained digital still camera incorporating circuitry to whose eyes have been sea- convert analog to digital images, store captured pictures on magnetic audio tape, and display them later on a television- soned with more than a like screen. measure of visual know-how. These are abilities—sensibili- brushes for a new technology, Worse, suppose van Gogh ties—that don’t come from a a MacBook, say, and the crisp never transferred those imagi- camera or sophisticated elec- lines, precisely rendered nary, onscreen masterpieces to tronic circuitry. curves and the 16,777,216 hard copy, content instead to Denuto reviewed one shot, vivid 8-bit RGB colors of leave them as electronic im- a darkish outdoor scene with Adobe Illustrator, quite an ages (that’s what nearly all tricky lighting from a patch of ample palette. photographers do these days; bright sky that had apparently
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 hijacked the exposure meter- ing. The result: a dingy, under- exposed image, the camera too dumb to avoid, or fix, it. “If you’ve ever shot film,” Denuto mused, “you’d know how to
PHOTOGRAPHY make this work.” I was reminded of the self- driving Tesla that killed a pedestrian crossing the street between two parked cars in March. Call it a tricky, fatal overexposure.
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Last month, Tom Wolfe Digital Dad Steven J. Sasson, co-inventor of the digital cam- era, shown with his camera in an undated photo. From Brooklyn died at 88, American man of originally, Sasson, then a young Kodak engineer, still works at letters; satirical, cutting, per- company. His camera weighed just under eight pounds and de- spicacious novelist, father of manded a 23-second exposure. An audio cassette recorder, the New Journalism. (Check tethered to camera, stored image data for later display. “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” if you haven’t read it, Wolfe’s the resulting pieces fabricated How can we recover what’s panoramic send-up of 1980s in distant factories. Here’s been lost? I’m not certain, but New York excesses. Rollicking Wolfe, illustrating No Hands to that’s probably one reason good. Avoid the movie.) an interviewer: why film cameras—like those A more recent novel, “Back “Jeff Koons… briefly mar- Lomography sells—are staging to Blood” (2012), explores Mi- ried a famous Italian porn star. a most tentative comeback. ami and its claustrophobic He had pictures taken by a A few suggestions to rebel ethnic factions (Anglos, photographer of them having against the microchips: Cubans, Haitians, Russians, at it in every possible way. I’m ● For one, switch off auto- Jewish old-timers). Among sure he didn’t even put them mation. Actually focus subjects skewered: No Hands in the envelope, but the pho- manually. Art, a Wolfe-ism derived from tographs were sent to the elves ● Set your f-stop and the novelist’s treks through in Switzerland, who returned shutter by hand: your Miami’s Art Basel, an annual them in the form of three-di- hand. art fair that beckons billion- mensional glass sculptures, ● Determine exactly aires worldwide, trawling for like pornographic Lalique, and where in the frame you art as “investment.” these have brought tremen- must meter for good No Hands Art, Wolfe says, dous prices.” exposure. is largely conceptual: a big- Have digital cameras ● Know your depth of name artist comes up with a turned photography into “No field, and whether to concept, but never dirties his Hands Art”? You bet; Mindless milk shutter speed or hands. No need. Grunt work is Art, too. aperture. left to assistants (“elves”), and
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 In other words, start think- Nature Photography Day Summer at Soho ing for yourself; stop your camera’s taking over. Did you know that June 15th Summer at the Soho Photo Even more important, is Nature Photography Day? Gallery can get pretty hot, commit to printing work. NANPA (North American and due to the fact that there Putting a pleasing photograph Nature Photographers Asso- is no air conditioning,
PHOTOGRAPHY on paper—looking as you ciation) registered this date in PWCC does not meet there. want it to look—demands a 2006 in Chase’s Calendar of But the Gallery continues to very different set of skills than Events. NANPA encourages operate, on a reduced basis shooting does. But that is part people everywhere to enjoy Here’s the summer schedule of the job. Such skills are guar- the day by using a camera to as we now know it: anteed to improve your pho- explore the natural world. A tography overall, make it less backyard, park, or other place June 6th—30th robotic, with a less “No close by can be just right. Individual shows by SPG Hands” feel. Walking, hiking, and riding a members No excuses! bike to take photos are activi- Reception{ June 5th ties that don’t lead to a carbon Long Exposures: footprint. And fresh air can do July 5th—21st What to Shoot wonders for the spirit! 2018 SPG National Competi- Are you ready, willing, and tion (ground floor) Every photographer, at one time able to do your part? Group Show of SPG mem- or another, shoots using a slow bers (upstairs) shutter speed to explore what Reception July 5th can be achieved with this cre- ative technique. This series of July 21st—28th articles explores subject matter Sandy Carrion and Lois appropriate for this endeavor. Youmans Present Going to the beach this No reception scheduled weekend? The motion of the waves can be quite pleasing in a July 29th—August 31st photograph, even though you SPG will be closed for don’t see it as often as in water- painting and maintenance. fall images. Sometimes you will find that Best Foot Forward soft movement effects are just as ©2018 Chuck Pine satisfying as freezing everything with a fast shutter speed. Use a tripod and remote shutter re- lease and be sure to experiment with a variety of slow shutter speeds—anywhere from 1/15 of a second down to a minute or more.
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Gallery Watching “decisive moment” by Ruth Formanek label distorts and and Judy Rosenblatt even leads to a misunderstanding Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Deci- of Cartier-Bres- sive Moment and Elliott Erwitt: son’s work. How- Pittsburgh 1950; ICP Museum, ever, the master
PHOTOGRAPHY 250 Bowery; until September 2 himself said, “To me, photography By Judy is the simultaneous An excellent way to spend a recognition, in a © Henri Cartier-Bresson hot summer afternoon would fraction of a second, of the sig- be to visit these two exhibits on nificance of an event as well as David Seymour (Chim). But I the top floor of the ICP Muse- of a precise organization of was particularly struck by the um. The larger Cartier-Bresson forms which give that event its seamless way the figures in the proper expression.” Perhaps an exhibit commemorates the images are woven into their book of his work entitled The event can have more than one environments. This was true, Decisive Moment, published in decisive moment, or its poetry too, of his portraits of well 1952 by Simon and Schuster. can be captured in different known French artists and writ- Text and artifacts illuminate ways, or it can be memory ers. The talk given by Sire at the making of the book; its rather than reality. I’m not the exhibit opening is accessi- photographs comprise the quite sure what Sire is getting ble on the ICP website and, if exhibit. at here, but I don’t see that as you can bear with her heavy We learn that the book first negating what results from the French accent, you can hear came out in France, published “joint operation of brain, eye, some good personal Cartier- by Teriade with the title, Images and heart,” as Cartier-Bresson Bresson anecdotes. a la Souvette, which refers to also put it. unlicensed street venders who With these musings in must flee at a moment’s notice mind, here we can revisit the when they fear being discov- Cartier-Bresson images that are ered. It conjures up visions of familiar to us, like old friends: images being made sponta- the Mexican prostitutes framed neously, “on the run.” Simon, by holes in their doors, the the American publisher, had bundled up Englishwoman difficulty translating this into atilt in a Hyde Park chair. English; hence The Decisive There are also less familiar im- Moment, which became the ages (at least, to me) like the label Cartier-Bresson was seated figure hemmed in by a tagged with all his life, appar- narrow alley, perhaps in dia- ently much to his regret. logue with a cat. The vintage In a long text by Agnes Sire, prints looked a bit grayish to Artistic Director of the Fonda- me; according to Agnes Sire tion Henri Cartier-Bresson, in they were made by Cartier- Paris, she suggests that the Bresson’s Magnum colleague © Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Elliott Erwitt, in a smaller © Elliott Erwitt Henryk Ross, a Jewish photog- room next door, seems to in- rapher hired by the Nazis to teract more with his subjects, take ID photos for passports, and so gives us some delight- screened images of Bobby ration cards, driver’s licenses, ful portraits of kids, like the Kennedy’s funeral train with etc., hid his camera under his girl trying to look very tough bystanders’ reminiscences. coat and shot images of Jews in with a “cigarette” dangling We were pleased to learn the Ghetto. He buried his neg- from her mouth that may be a that ICP will be moving to a atives and found them again piece of chalk. His Pittsburgh larger downtown space, several years later, when the scenes come from negatives though not in the immediate Red Army had liberated Lodz. recently uncovered in the future. The sooner the better, By that time, January 1945, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. as far as we’re concerned. vast majority of Jews in the They were shot when Erwitt Ghetto had been sent by cattle was twenty-two, assigned by Memory Unearthed: The Lodz cars to Auschwitz and other Roy Stryker, who had commis- Ghetto Photographs of Henryk death camps. That Ross and sioned the great documentary Ross; Museum of Jewish Her- his negatives survived is a work of the depression era. itage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, miracle, as fewer than 900 of When Erwitt was drafted, 36 Battery Place; to August 19 the hundreds of thousands of the negatives were put aside,… Jews confined to the Ghetto unprinted. Some scenes show by Ruth lived to tell about it his ironic humor, like that of If you want to the black woman looking know about the © Henryk Ross askance at a sea of white man- Lodz Ghetto,in nequin heads with hats, and Poland, estab- the influence of Cartier-Bres- lished by the son can be felt in his street Nazis after their photography. invasion in 1939, If you want to be transport- go to see the ex- ed back into the 21st Century hibit of black- digital world, you can go and-white pho- downstairs and see a group tographs docu- show of feminist artists and menting that horrible time.
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 PHOTOGRAPHY
© Henryk Ross
I can’t write a review of the Coloring Book show. It’s too close: I lost rela- tives and friends in the Holo- Want to make a coloring caust and Ross’s images are book for a grandchild? Or just nightmarish to me. The soci- play around and have some ologist Theodor Adorno wrote fun with ultra high-contrast that you can’t write poetry images? Try this technique (as about the Holocaust and it’s found in the PSA Journal). obvious to me that you also Start by selecting a photo, can’t evaluate photos of it in any photo; color or B&W; JPG, regard to their quality, techni- RAW, TIFF, whatever; and cal know-how, or composition. open it in of Photoshop. [see All I want to say is: if you image top right] have an interest in history, and Make a duplicate layer by if you worry about human be- typing Command/Control+J. ings and their propensity for Be sure the Color Picker is evil, see this show! set to white and black with As an example of an evil the white square on top. person, you might want to In the Menu Bar, click on google ‘Chaim Rumkowski’, a Filter, scroll down to Sketch, Jew who worked for the Nazis, and then across to Photocopy. and whose job was to make A Dialog Box will open. lists of people to be murdered. Play with the two Sliders The show is in a paradoxi- (Detail and Darkness) until cally beautiful building, at Bat- you like what you see. tery Place, near the Hudson Click OK. River, with lovely views from a In the Menu Bar, click on terrace. I fled to the terrace Adjustments, scroll down to after I couldn’t take in any Invert, and release (or type more photos. Command/Control+I) Voila!
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 How To Shoot Fireworks to fadeout takes a few seconds. by Chuck Pine Your exposure, therefore, should be long enough to cap- Fireworks abound in the New ture all, or part, of this pro- York City metropolitan area gression. How long should every summer. See the article your exposures be? At least
PHOTOGRAPHY on page 33 for some photo ops one second long, sometimes in town—many others are two seconds, and some expo- available around the area. sures even longer. posure. Since pressing the Getting good pictures of There’s another reason for a shutter button can cause the fireworks is pretty easy—if you time exposure. As bright as camera to shake, you avoid know what you’re doing. fireworks look to us against a this by using a remote release. There are only two basic re- dark sky, they are not so bright The release enables you to quirements: that most cameras can record press the shutter button with- them in a blink of an eye. If 1) a time exposure; and out touching the camera. 2) a solid platform for you were to set your shutter (If you don’t have a tripod, the camera. speed for, say, 1/60th of a sec- don’t give up. Try placing your ond, not only will the lens be camera on a makeshift solid open for only a moment of the platform, such as a fence post, firework’s life, but the expo- a railing, or a wall. None of sure may also be too brief to them is as steady or convenient record any image at all! With as a tripod, but they’re much ISO 100 or faster settings, try a better than hand-holding.) one-second exposure. (If you don’t have a remote 2. Solid Platform. Regardless of release, again, don’t give up your camera, the second re- and go home quite yet. Al- quirement is a solid platform though using a remote release to hold the camera motionless is better than shooting without during the time-exposure. This one, shooting without a release is pretty much a need for all is better than not taking the time-exposure photography. shot at all. Just be gentle while The best platform is a tripod. It tripping the shutter.) 1. Time Exposure. A fireworks provides a solid, easy-to-carry Now to a few specifics: projectile (sometimes called a base on which to hold the Which way should you hold skyrocket) takes time from the camera still for an extended the camera? If you’re going to moment it streaks up from its exposure. capture the rocket’s upward launch tube, to the peak of its All SLRs and most point- trail and the blast, a vertical explosion, until the last traces and-shoots have a threaded orientation is called for. If of its color fade. As the rocket opening on their baseplate that you’re zooming in for the burst sails skyward, the crowd has permits you to attach the cam- of color, horizontal may work time to exclaim “Ooh!” Then as era to a tripod. A tripod is just better. In other words, use it explodes in a burst of trails the beginning. You also want both, depending on your par- of color, the crowd has time to the camera to be as vibration- ticular situation and goals. exclaim, “Ahh!” From launch free as possible during the ex-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 What focal-length should open aperture during your tion, exposure, etc., and make you use? If you have a choice, time-exposure, you would corrections as needed. go for a “normal” or slightly probably overexpose the col- How many frames should wide-angle lens. Since your ors. Result: They would “burn you shoot? Expect to shoot position relative to the rocket out” and fade. To intensify the plenty! Every burst is beautiful bursts will determine the exact color, therefore, use a smaller and you can’t predict which
PHOTOGRAPHY focal length, use this as your aperture like f-8, or f-11, or one will be the best. Be pre- guide: You want the frame of even f-16. Which you use de- pared to change media cards your image to extend so that it pends on your ISO setting and and batteries quickly and in includes a good bit of the fore- the intensity of the color the dark. Practice! My advice, ground in the bottom shoot, shoot, and shoot (more on this in a some more. moment) and “head- How do you set your room” above the camera for a long shutter topmost firework speed and small aperture trails. Chances are at the same time? On you’ll need at least most cameras, switch to your normal and the manual exposure possibly a wide-an- mode. Set the aperture to gle setting for this. A the f-stop you want (or wide-angle to short bracket around the one telephoto zoom is you’ve chosen). Set the ideal. shutter speed to the ‘B’ Where should setting—that stands for you set focus? Set ‘bulb.’ your lens for infinity. There’s an additional Turn off the autofo- step to consider that can cus and use manual take your pictures out of focus. Autofocus will All photographs this article the ordinary and make work, maybe, but not © Chuck Pine them extra-special. The as fast as you’d like burst of a skyrocket, by and certainly not as itself, is pretty. But it’s not bursts. I suggest you check fast as a lens set at infinity in particularly interesting. What your histogram or bracket manual mode. can you do to add interest? your shots, using different f- What aperture should you Consider including a statue in stops. use? You might think that be- the foreground, with the fire- Here are some suggested cause the sky is so dark you works framing it. Or silhou- starting points for ISO setting need a wide aperture. Just the ettes of the onlookers to give a and aperture combinations: opposite is true. Remember, sense of location to your pic- ISO 100 f -8 your objective is not to record ture. Or a tree. Whatever. The ISO 200 f -11 the dark sky except as back- important thing is that your ISO 400 f -16 ground. You want to record the image include some interesting Remember, use your LCD intensely bright streaks of col- foreground objects. screen to check for composi- or. Were you to use a wide
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 One trick you may want to Big Apple Fireworks try is to use flash, built-in or accessory, to light the fore- The following is a list of legal ground object. Let’s say you fireworks displays around the want to capture the crowds of City that have been issued people in the foreground, but permits by the FDNY:
PHOTOGRAPHY they are in the dark. How can you add light to the heads dur- • Tuesday, July 4, 9:15 p.m., ing your exposure? Your flash Macy’s Independence Day can do the trick. Keep the cam- show in the East River, from era on manual exposure con- 24th to 42nd Streets—this is the trol. Set up on the tripod as al- big one! ready explained. But in this case, focus on the people. With • Tuesday, July 4th—there are a wide-angle lens the fireworks also big holiday shows on the will be within your depth of Coney Island boardwalk in field. If not, the fireworks may Brooklyn and at Alice Austen not be sharply in focus, but periment with longer expo- House in Staten Island, as well this lack of sharpness is ac- sures—10 seconds, 20 seconds, as in most towns and villages ceptable because the fireworks and even longer. You can get around the metropolitan area. are streaks of light and color, some dazzling results! Just not detailed objects. hold your hat, or some other • All summer long, every Fri- opaque object, in front of the day night, 9:30 p.m. (or when lens between the bursts. the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball The bottom line(s) at this kind game ends) over the Atlantic of shoot: have fun, shoot lots of Ocean at Coney Island (on the exposures, and experiment boardwalk in front of the Won- with all sorts of different tech- der Wheel). niques. you never know what you’ll get; and isn’t that one of • Fireworks after the New York the joys of photography? Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks: June 12th, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx; June 13th, Great Lawn Central Park, Manhattan; June 14th, Cunningham Park, Queens; June 15th, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. There’s one more “trick” • Additional fireworks displays for you to consider. Why limit follow New York Mets, Staten yourself to just one explosion? Island Yankees and Brooklyn Try keeping your shutter open Cyclones games. long enough to capture the glow of a few fireworks, one after the other. To do this, ex-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 Fine, Bright Day:… Alice grew up at her par- The Photography of Alice Austin. ents’ home, Clear Comfort, by Georgie A. Hansen where she would become the & Rain Bengis center of attention in a household that would even- An OUT-rageous Photo- tually contain six adults and
PHOTOGRAPHY grapher before her time. no other children. Alice was introducedSave to photography Pardon the cliché, “On one by her uncle, a Danish sea dark and stormy night…” captain, who brought home a literally, and while a ferocious camera when she was ten squall ripped through our city, years old. Although a child, Club member Rain Bengis and she was patient and intelli- I made our way through hori- gent, and strong enough to zontally pitched rain and hold the big boxy wooden strong winds to a photo Alice Austin, age 22 camera steady on its exhibit, called, Fine, Bright ©1888 Captain Oswald Muller tripod. Another uncle, a Day: The Photography of Alice young professor of chem- Austen. Austin was an artist istry, realized that in her Just in time for New York’s with whose work I was unfa- hands the camera would be- Pride Week 2018, June 15th to miliar. Hosting the exhibit was come something more than a 24th, comes a small smart ex- The Center, an old converted toy. On his frequent visits hibit of Staten Island born and city public school, located at home from Rutgers University bred photographer, Alice 208 West 13th Street, which has he showed his enthusiastic Austen (1866 - 1952). Our been spectacularly renovated niece how to use chemicals to intrepid historian ”of all things and is the heart and home of develop the glass plates she Park West,” and other bits of NYC’s LGBT community, exposed, and how to make flotsam, Chuck Pine, informed providing programs for health, prints from them. Fortunately, me that in the past the Club wellness, and community Alice's family was sufficiently has visited the photographer’s connection. cozy Staten Island home, Clear Comfort. The home Alice Austin House now also serves as a aka Clear Comfort gallery for Al- ice’s work and also has a separate gallery for the work of con- temporary artists.
Alice Austin and friends in drag photographer unknown
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 moneyed to provide her with glass the best equipment she plates as required, and indulgent big as enough to humor her enthu- eight by siasm for her unusual, if not ten inches. unladylike, hobby. In a horse-
PHOTOGRAPHY By the time she was drawn eighteen years old, Alice was buggy in an experienced photographer the 1880s with exacting professional and 90s, standards. In her old age she she carried could joke about it, but she her admitted that in her youth equipment nothing but absolute perfec- around the The Trash Man tion—in lighting, composition unpaved and even the facial expressions roads of Staten Island. Park © Alice Austen of her long-suffering subjects— Westers take note: stop kvetch- would suffice before she would ing about how much your fort. The couple remained in a release the shutter. Alice and equipment weighs when you loving relationship until the her friend would play “dress- need to schlep it on the road. end of their years. up” in costumes, and even Bitch! Bitch! Bitch! (or Kvetch! Having lived such a privi- dressed in male drag complete Kvetch! Kvetch!) leged life, Alice was ill-pre- with mustaches. Popular and extraordinari- pared for the fate awaiting her ly athletic, Alice enjoyed many in her final years. The once of the new sports of the time. substantial income from the The game of lawn tennis was capital left by her grandfather the sport she enjoyed the most had dwindled to a modest sum and her camera was as much a by the 1920s. Then, when the companion as her racquet. stock market crashed in 1929 On one summer excursion Alice, at sixty-three years of in 1899, visiting a Catskill hotel age, lost everything. From then known as "Twilight Rest," Alice on life was a desperate strug- met Gertrude Tate, who was gle to survive. The Darned Club recuperating there from a bad Alice and Gertrude opened © Alice Austen case of typhoid fever. a Tea Room on the lawn for a Gertrude began to visit the few years but it never yielded enough profit to support the Everywhere she went she Austen House regularly, then household. As it became hard- took her photographic equip- to spend long summer holi- er and harder to meet the ex- ment with her. Weighing as days in Europe with Alice. But penses of daily living, Alice much as fifty pounds and not until 1917, did Gertrude, began to sell the silver, art sometimes filling a steamer overriding her family’s ap- works, and furniture that filled trunk, it included cameras of palled objections over her Clear Comfort and finally lost different sizes, a tripod, mag- "wrong devotion" to Alice, fi- it all in 1945. In a final desper- nesium flash attachment, and nally moved into Clear Com-
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 ate act, Alice sold the remain- her sleep on ing contents of her home for June 9, 1952. A $600 to a dealer from New simple funeral Jersey. However, before he service was arrived, Alice called a friend conducted be- from the Staten Island Histor- side the Austen
PHOTOGRAPHY ical Society, and asked him to family plot. take her glass plate negatives Alice and for safekeeping. Gertrude Alice and Gertrude moved wished to be to a small apartment at first, buried together, but soon they could not afford but their fami- the rent. Gertrude’s family of- lies denied the fered to provide housing, but The Bike Messenger wish. only for Gertrude. Thus, on © Alice Austen This Pride Week, we pause June 24, 1950, Alice took an to remember on June 9th, the oath declaring herself a pauper to meet the three hundred 67th anniversary of the passing and was admitted to the local guests who had been invited to of Alice Austen, a formidable poor house, the Staten Island celebrate Alice Austen Day. artist and feminist whose work Farm Colony, then later moved She is quoted as having said, "I was a beautiful visual window to a nursing home. am happy that what was once into late 19th and early 20th so much pleasure for me, turns century America. out now to be a pleasure for other people.”
PWCC member Rain Bengis Alice Austin And Gertrude Tate examining an Alice Austen print Fine, Bright Day: The in their later years ©2018 George Hansen Photography of Alice Austen, is open now and On October 9, 1951 Alice Alice lived the next eight will run through August 31st Austen was driven to see an months at the nursing home, at The Center; 212-620-7310 exhibition of her pictures and where she died peacefully in
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 Archipelagos
The word ”archipelago” comes from the Greek ‘arkhi’ (chief) and ‘pelagos’ (sea). Originally, it was a name only for the
PHOTOGRAPHY Aegean Sea, that island-speck- led spur of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey. Now, the word describes any chain of islands—but just Orkney Islands as it did when Odysseus sup- Scotland posedly set sail from Troy to Ogasawara Archipelago explore the original, the Japan thought of hopping from one island to another still stokes a sense of wanderlust. Here are some modern-day archipelagos for you to explore and photograph.
Svalbard Comoros Islands Norway Indian Ocean
The Azores Galápagos Islands Portugal Ecuador
Haida Gwaii Canada
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Vignettes
In the old days, around the
PHOTOGRAPHY turn of the 20th century for example, white vignettes were added around portraits to hide any distracting background Here’s an image that cer- elements in the photograph. In tainly can use some help in this the digital age, we don’t have way. Let’s see how it’s done… to worry about hiding stuff Open an image in Photo- with vignettes—we just clone shop and follow your usual it out (or use some other kind workflow to optimize the pic- of Photoshop trick). So why are ture. When you’re done with vignettes still an important everything, except for doing part of our workflow? your final sharpening, this is Compositionally, we try to when to add the vignette. do two things to improve our In the middle of the images. First, and foremost, we Lens Correction Dialog Box’s try to direct the viewer’s atten- Custom window is the tion to the main subject in our Vignette section. Drag the images. The rule of thirds, Amount Slider to the left to power points, leading lines, create a dark vignette. If you etc., etc., etc. are some of the drag it to the right, you will tools we use to do this. create a white vignette. The second thing we try do Click OK and you’re done. do is to keep the viewer’s eye from wandering away from the focal point of the image and even off the picture entirely. In the darkroom, ages ago for many of us, we accom- In the Menu Bar, click on plished this second priority by Filter and then scroll down burning in the edges and cor- to Lens Correction or simply ners of our prints. In other type Shift + Command + R words, we darkened the out- on a Mac (or Shift + Control The vignette you create sides to keep the eye concen- + R in Windows). Either way, should be barely visible. Any- trating on the inside. This, in the Lens Correction Window thing more would be too much effect, is creating a vignette will open. and too distracting to improve around the image. Next to the highlighted your image. Auto Correction, click on the word Custom.
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 38 Photo Shopping shape and how they attach to by Chuck Pine the front of your lens.
Neutral Density Filters
A neutral-density, or ND, filter,
PHOTOGRAPHY is one that reduces the amount of light entering the camera, Round ND filters screw A graduated ND filter is without changing any colors.. directly into the front of your similar, except that the density The use of an ND filter allows lens. You should buy a filter of the coating covering the the photographer to select that has the same screw diame- glass or plastic varies across combinations of aperture, shut- ter as your lens’ filter threads. the surface of the filter. This is ter speed, and ISO that would used when you want to dark- otherwise produce overex- en one part of an image more posed pictures. This is done to than another—a bright sky, achieve effects such as a shal- say, as opposed to the dark lower depth of field, or motion side of a valley. The transition blur of a subject, or others. area, or edge, between light For example, you might and dark also can vary—from want to photograph a waterfall Square/rectangular ND a hard edge (as above) to a at a slow shutter speed to cre- filters require a filter holder to gently changing edge (below). ate a deliberate motion-blur be screwed onto the front of effect. You might determine the lens and then the filter that to obtain the desired ef- slides into the holder. fect, a shutter speed of ten sec- Both types/shapes of ND onds is needed. On a very filters come in different bright day, there might be so strengths. For example, a one- much light that even at mini- stop neutral density reduces A Variable ND filter has mal ISO settings and a mini- your exposure by one-stop, two sheets of light-reducing mal aperture, the ten-second cutting out half the light that material, one of which rotates. shutter speed would let in too enters the lens. A two-stop ND This enables the filter to give much light, and the photo filter allows 1/4 of the light to you anywhere from 2- to 10- would be overexposed. In this enter. And so on. stops of light reductions. situation, applying an appro- Neutral density filters can priate neutral-density filter is be divided other ways, as well, the equivalent of stopping Solid ND fil- down one or more additional ters have the stops, allowing the slower same density shutter speed and the de- throughout the Disclaimer sired motion-blur effect. filter. In other I do not, nor does anyone else words, the light Whew! in the Club, make a profit is reduced ND filters come in two from the sales of these items. basic types based on their equally across the image (sensor or film). Chuck
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 39 73rd NECCC Conference PhotoPlus Expo Skyline at Night
The New England Camera Save the dates, October 24th Tamron, in conjunction with Club Council (NECCC) will through the 27th, for PDN’s Bergen County Camera (a New hold its 73rd Annual Confer- PhotoPlus International Con- Jersey camera store) is having ence on the weekend of July ference + Expo to be held at a meet-up focusing on night 13, 14 and 15, 2018—Friday the Jacob Javits Convention skyline photography, from 6 to through Sunday. The confer- Center in midtown west. 7:30 p.m., meet Tamron Tech ence is held on the University Photo+, as we like to call Rep Erica Robinson and Sales of Massachusetts campus in it, was founded in 1983 and is Rep Patty Gregitis. They will Amherst, MA. the largest photography and demo the full line of Tamron For those of you not famil- imaging event in North iar with this event, there are America. The show features EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. tons of things to do. There are over 100 educational semi- competitions, model shoots, nars, Photo Walks, Master lectures and demonstrations, Classes, special Filmmaking studio set-ups, presentations, and Drone sessions, the Palm and even a mini-expo with Springs Photo Festival Portfo- photo gear for sale. lio Reviews, and over 200 ex- The keynote speaker will hibitors and brands display- be Canon Explorer of Light, ing thousands of the latest Darell Gulin who will present equipment, products, and ”VISION: Capturing Moments services for you to touch, try, lenses and will be on hand to on all 7 Continents.” and compare. answer questions on night On-campus housing, meal Mark your calendars now photography and choosing the plans, and more can be includ- so you don’t miss out on all correct lens for the evening’s ed, if you so desire. There is the excitement, education, shoot. Free Tamron Lens loan- scheduled transportation from and entertainment. ers for attendees. Enjoy appe- the Port Authority Bus Termi- tizers and conversation with nal to the campus. The Club other photographers and staff usually has a couple of hand- from Bergen County Camera. fuls of people going—consider Then, from 7:30 to 9:30, it an unofficial field trip, if you walk over to the Hudson River will. A group rate is available. for hand’s on shooting to cap- This is an event that every ture some great night skyline camera club member should images. experience at least once in their The meeting takes place on lifetime June 19th, at Biggie’s, 36-42 All the details and registra- Newark Street, in Hoboken. To tion information can be found get there, take the PATH train on-line at the NECCC website to Hoboken (about 11 minutes)
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 40 B & H Event Space
B&H Photo offers free work- shops. Here are a few of this month’s offerings:
Tuesday, June 19 Thursday, June 28 Close-Up and Macro Lightroom Speaker: Lester Lefkowitz Speaker: Tim Grey
EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. Check out the website Monday, June 11
Thursday, June 21 Monday, June 18 Skies Above New York Better Portraits Speaker: Jennifer Khordi Speaker: Jeff Rojas
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For all the details, see the Schedule of Activities on the following pages.
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For all the details, see the Schedule of Activities on the following pages.
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The Park West Camera Club served at 7 p.m. For complete meets every Monday night details see the article on page (with some exceptions for hol- 15 of this issue of Photo Notes. idays and a curtailed summer schedule). Please join us at a Tuesday, June 12 meeting or on one of our other Photo Op—Museum Mile Fest scheduled activities. Seven of the city’s museums All Club Monday night along Fifth Avenue, from 82nd meetings take place at the
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES to 105th Streets, will open their Soho Photo Gallery located at doors for three hours (6 p.m. to 15 White Street, between West * Monday, June 11 9 p.m.) for New Yorkers to get Broadway and Church Street/ Otto Litzel Memorial cultured without spending a Avenue of the Americas (6th Year-End Dinner dime. There also will be plenty Avenue) unless indicated oth- The Annual Otto Litzel Memo- to shoot along motor traffic- erwise in the listings below. rial Year-End Dinner is the free 5th Avenue. Following the schedule of ac- grand daddy of the Club’s so- tivities are detailed directions cial events (the others being Tuesday, June 12 to each of our meeting sites. the Chuck Pine Labor Day Pic- Photo Event—Lecture Series Check the PWCC Website nic and the Holiday Party).
Summer 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 44 * Thursday, June 14 area of the village is on the Expanding Visions 24 National Register of Historic Places due to its many well- Tonight is the fourth assign- preserved 19th-century build- ment/field trip of Expanding ings, constructed to accommo- Visions 24. Tonight’s assign- date workers at the nearby ment is Meter Me in St. Louis West Point Foundry (itself a where you will learn about Registered Historic Place) We’ll and practice using the differ- © Amani Willett meet at 10 a.m. at the clock in Grand Central Terminal to talks about his work at institu- purchase our tickets ($29/$19 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES tions including the Interna- seniors) and then take the tional Center of Photography. 10:43 train to our destination. This event takes place from 7 Trip leader: Marty Smith; to 8:30 p.m. in the auditorium
May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 45 held at the Eldridge Street Museum, located on Eldridge Street just two blocks south of Canal Street. The festivities begin at noon and run through 4 p.m. Lots of fun, including klezmer, cantorial, Chinese opera, Puerto Rican folk music, Hebrew and Chi- National Monument, 290 nese scribal arts, yarmulke Broadway, Manhattan; Fort as they prepare their floats, making, Puerto Rican mask Greene Brooklyn Juneteenth
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES don their scanty and/or intri- and lace making, mah jongg, Arts Festival, Cuyler Gore cate costumes, and drench and other types of arts and Park, Brooklyn; Juneteenth each other with full body crafts. Kosher egg rolls, egg NYC, Gershwin Park, Brook- paints of every color and de- creams, and empanadas will lyn. There are other photo ops scription. You’ll also be able to be sold. around town—check ‘em out. shoot the parade of antique cars, among many other oddi- * Monday, June 18 * Wednesday, June 20 ties of the area. The staging ar- No Meeting Tonight Field Trip—Dead Horse Bay eas this year are along Surf Av- enue, west of MCU Stadium, There will be no meeting Like most of New York City, on 20th and 21st Streets. Take tonight as we begin our sum- Dead Horse Bay has a long his- the D, F, N, or Q train to the mer schedule of meeting every tory of changes. Over the Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue other week. years, much of old New York station. If you thought the Vil- has been torn down, replaced, lage Halloween Parade was Tuesday, June 19 torn down again, and replaced great, you ain’t seen nothin’ Photo Op—Juneteenth again by new buildings and yet—and this is all in the day- On June 19, 1865, Union sol- people, and the layers of histo- light! diers rode into Galveston, ry are all but forgotten. Not Texas, declaring the end of true at Dead Horse Bay, where slavery, some two-and-a-half remnants of the past still litter years after the Emancipation the beach. First a horse render- Proclamation and a few ing plant, then a 19th century months after General Robert landfill, this beach is full of E. Lee surrendered at Appo- glass from thousands upon mattox, thereby ending the thousands of broken bottles. Civil War. ”Junteenth,” as the We’ll meet at 1 p.m. at the en- day became known, commem- trance of the parking lot at Sunday, June 17 orates the end of slavery in he Floyd Bennett Field (at the Photo Op—Egg Rolls, Egg United States. Celebrations southern end of Brooklyn’s Creams and Empanadas may be found around the City. Flatbush Avenue, just north of This free multicultural fest that Here are a few to check out: the Gil Hodges Memorial Ma- celebrates Jewish, Chinese, and the Juneteenth Celebration at rine Parkway Bridge. We will Puerto Rican cultures is being the African Burial Ground also have a group coming by public transportation—meet at
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© Chris Nicholson Visions 24 class. We will take place at the home of will look at images Chuck & Helen Pine at 6 p.m. from the third and fourth assignments/ * Saturday, June 23 field trips. We’ll meet Field Trip—Gallery Hop at the home of our in- Chelsea is one of the centers of structor, Chuck Pine at the city’s art world with over 7 p.m. The address is 200 galleries in the neighbor- 680 West End Avenue, the front of the downtown/ apartment 5D. Direc- Brooklyn bound #5 subway at tions may be found at the end SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES the Union Square station at of the Schedule of Events on 11:30 a.m. We’ll take the #5 page 49 of this issue of Photo train to the last stop, Flatbush Notes. You may arrive at 6:30 Avenue/Brooklyn College. p.m. (no earlier, please) so Come upstairs and transfer to the Q35 Bus, which stops right in front of the Payless Shoe hood, many of which are ex- Store. (Note that other buses clusively photography gal- also stop there!) Tell the driver leries. Join us as we hop from that you will be getting off at gallery to gallery to see what’s the last stop before the bridge. hot in the world of imaging. (If you’re coming from the your images may be loaded Also. be sure to bring along westside, and don’t mind trav- into the computer. If there are your camera to shoot the eling alone, substitute the #2 too many attendees for this Chelsea Historic District which train, above.) There are no ad- session, an earlier session will includes significant examples mission fees. Trip leaders: Paul begin at 4:30 p.m. (you may of period architecture. We’ll Grebanier, 718-629-7164 arrive at 4 p.m., no earlier, meet at 1 p.m. at the northwest
May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 47 admission fees. Trip leader: Avenue and 36th Street. The Rita Russo; 917-697-9664
May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 48 will also be a raffle of photo- parade begins at 12:30 graphic items which have been p.m., but all access roads to donated to the Photo Commit- the area close at 11:30 a.m. tee. The meeting, which is To get there, from the Staten open to the general public, be- Island Ferry Terminal (in gins at 6:30 p.m. and is held at Staten Island), take the S62 the Metropolitan Opera Guild, or S92 bus to the Wild Av- on the 6th floor of the Rose enue stop (for the viewing Building at Lincoln Center. The stand), or better yet, get off address is 70 Lincoln Center * Tuesday, July 3 at the next stop, Glen Street, Plaza. It located on the north Print Workshop for the formation area at the SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES side of West 65th Street, be- All Club members are invited Showplace Center. Be sure to tween Broadway and Amster- to bring a dozen or so prints get there early so you can dam Avenue, closer to Ams- for this Club event. Bring them shoot the marchers and floats terdam. From the street, take for an honest, but gentle, cri- getting prepared. Other big the stairs, the escalator, or the tique of your work. This work- events are scheduled in both handicapped elevator up one shop has limited space. You Chinatown (Columbus Park, level and proceed through the must sign up in advance with Canal Street, Mott Street, etc.) revolving doors into the main Elsa Blum at 516-621-3215 or and most towns on Long Is- lobby. Finally, take the elevator
May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 49 Tonight’s destination is the nors Island you must take a Community Garden in River- ferry from either the Battery side Park. We will meet on the Maritime Building (10 South west side of Riverside Drive at Street, in Manhattan, just east the corner with West 91st of the Staten Island Ferry Street, at 6:30 p.m. The closest Terminal—the ferries run subway station is the 96th every 30 minutes, on the hour show starts at 9 p.m.), and Street station on the #1, #2, and half-hour, from 10 a.m. to bring food and drink. For more and #3 trains (exit at the 3 p.m.) or from Pier 6 in Brook- info, visit SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES social/fireworks> Many of the City’s ferry and boat compa- right in front of our corner. The and the Brooklyn Bridge Park nies will take you up close and M104 bus stops at Broadway Greenway—these ferries run at personal with the explosions— and West 91st Street, just a few 11 a.m. and then every hour on be prepared to get a second short blocks away. there half-hour until 3:30 p.m). mortgage. (:-o) If you can’t The ferries before noon make it into the City, or don’t are free; after noon there like the crowds, there are fire- is a $3 charge. The last works displays across the met- ferries to both Manhattan ropolitan area in most small and Brooklyn depart towns and municipalities. Governors Island at 7 p.m. [Photo tip—bring the longest lens you have for the birds, for anything else, your mid-range zoom should Sunday, July 8 work just fine.] Photo Op—It’s Your Tern! Come celebrate one of Gover- nors Island’s treasures: Com- mon terns! They are a threat- ened species in New York State. However, they have been * Thursday, July 5 nesting for several years now Expanding Visions 24 on decommissioned piers on the Governors Island water- Tonight is the fifth and final front. The colony has benefited assignment/field trip of Ex- Sunday, July 8 recently from the introduction panding Visions 24. Tonight’s Photo Op—VW Traffic Jam of oyster shells as a nesting assignment is Recording Studio material and are flourishing on While you’re on Governors Is- where you will learn about. Tango Pier. Free activities at land, check out The NYC Volk- and practice using. the popular this year’s festival will include swagen Traffic Jam—a specta- recording modes that your bird walks and talks, displays, tor-judged vintage Volkswagen camera presents to you, and and hands-on activities for the car show and picnic. With which are best for your shoot- whole family. To get to Gover- views of New York Harbor and ing and processing style. the Statue of Liberty behind a May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 50 vibrant line-up of nearly 100 about 8 or 9 minutes of shoot- may be loaded into the com- Beetles, buses, dune buggies, ing the City from the middle of puter. If there are too many at- things, and other original VWs the Hudson. Once on the main- tendees for this session, an ear- circa 1950s-1970s, this car show land, we can explore the area lier session will begin at 4:30 is a one-of-a-kind event for ca- around the dock (including the p.m. (you may arrive at 4 p.m., sual viewers, classic VW en- Colgate Clock) and then stroll no earlier, please). See the Class thusiasts, and (of course) pho- north along the Hudson River Notes for instructions on how tographers. See the listing Waterfront Walkway towards to prepare and bring your im- above for info about the venue Exchange Place. Our best van- ages for the review session. and how to get there. This tage point for shooting the City event is free. Check it out at will be from J. Owen Grundy SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 51 daylight. You will see the en- largest teach-ins in the country trip leader for the series is: Lar- tire ball of the sun on the hori- with scores (if not hundreds) of ry Rubin; 917-596- 8500 or zon. For best effect, position workshops, shooting sessions, May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 52 * Monday, August 6 or SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES attended one of our trips, you Field Trip—Coney Island Join PWCC and president Ed can participate. If you will be Fireworks Lee for this summer’s indoor showing images from our figure study shoot. A maternity week-long trip to The Palouse, What is summer in the Big model is being sought for this you will have up to 8 minutes Apple without fireworks? shoot but if one is unavailable to share your images. If you Dull? Boring? Well, now’s your then a regular figure model went on either of our week- chance to brighten things up! will pose for us. There will be end trips (Brandywine Valley, The 20-minute extravaganza at two shooting sessions, each in October, and Garden State the south end of Brooklyn is lasting an hour and 15 min- Crossing, in May) you will always a sight to see. But, utes. Each will be limited to no have up to 5 minutes to share that’s not all. The amusement more than twelve Club mem- your images of each trip. If you parks are there for your shoot- bers. (This event is only open attended any of the Club’s day ing pleasure. Or, ride the Won- to PWCC members.) The first trips, you may show images der Wheel for unique views of session will begin at 6:15 p.m. for up to 3 minutes from each the world below. And don’t and the second at 7:45 p.m. Try trip. A light dinner will be forget the culinary experience to arrive 15 minutes early, be served to all in attendance. Of of a Nathan’s Famous hot dog prompt, as the sessions will course, you may bring your (and those fries), oh my! We’ll begin on time. No tripods, spouses, significant others, etc. meet at Nathan’s Famous, on please, but monopods are Since there is limited space at the southwest corner of Still- okay. Bring a strobe unit for the Pine residence, you must well and Surf Avenues at 7:30 additional light or special ef- sign up in advance for this p.m. To get there, take the D, F, fects. Your best bet is to shoot event. Contact Chuck or Helen N, or Q train to the end of the to reserve your spot(s) at line in Brooklyn, the Coney Is- 212-932-7665 or May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 53 with a wide-angle to short American history. This event is telephoto zoom lens. Our to a photographer what Disney model will pose nude for us World is to a kid. The fun starts with continuous lighting and a at 11 a.m. and goes on til about plain backdrop. RSVP to Ed 5 p.m. Tickets range from free Lee at May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 54 tripods, etc.). There’s plenty to Directions to Soho Photo eat on the sidewalks and in the at 15 White Street, between restaurants. (All parade activi- Avenue of the Americas and ties end at 6:00 p.m. due to West Broadway. Take the #1 City ordinance, whether or not train to the Franklin Street sta- they reach the final viewing tion (one stop below Canal area.) Enjoy! Street). Walk one block north * Monday, September 24 on West Broadway to White * Monday, September 10 Business Meeting #1 street, make a right turn, and No Meeting This is the first business meet- walk half a block to the gallery. SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES The Club will not be meeting ing of the new Club year. Take the A, C, or E train to the tonight in recognition of the There’s always plenty of ex- Canal Street station. Walk Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh citement in the air. The Execu- south on Church Street/Sixth Hashanah. tive Committee and all of the Avenue three blocks to White committee chairs will be in- Street, make a right turn, and troduced. We’ve got an walk half a block to the gallery. amendment to the By-Laws to Although a longer walk, take be decided regarding our any other train to Canal Street, monthly competitions. We’ll walk west to Church Street, cap it all off with refreshments and follow the directions im- and socializing. [Don’t forget, mediately above. Street park- your dues for the year are due ing is available, but limited. tonight!] * Monday, September 17 Show & Tell—Summer Photos This is the first meeting of the new Club season. It is also your chance to show us what you did over the summer— Club activities, shots around the City, your personal vaca- * Monday, September 24 tion, etc. PDIs or prints are Competition Entry Deadline Directions to the Pine’s fine. Competition rules are not at 680 West End Avenue at in effect (although PDIs should Please note that PDI entries are 93rd Street, Apartment 5D. be sized correctly). Please limit due by midnight tonight for Take the #1, 2, or 3, trains to your presentation to no more next week’s initial competition 96th Street (exit at the south than five (5) minutes per per- of the 2018-2019 Club year. end of the station) or the M7, son. Don’t miss this opportuni- M11, or M104 bus to 93rd/94th ty to share and catch up with Streets. From the train or bus, the rest of us at PWCC. walk the few steps to 93rd Street, make a right turn and head west to the apartment entrance on the corner of West End Avenue and 93rd Street. May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 55 Table of Contents Club News Photography News 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 24 Depth of Field 3 President’s Message 27 Long Exposures 4 Images of the Year 27 Nature Photo Day 5 PDI Runners-UP 27 Summer at Soho 6 Print Runners-Up 28 Gallery Watching 7 Cumulative Point Totals 28 PSA Conference 8 Future Field Trips 28 PSA Conference Tours SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 9 Mystic & More Field Trip 30 Coloring Book 10 The Palouse Field Trip 31 How to Shoot Fireworks 11 Free in Manhattan 33 Big Apple Fireworks 11 Vacation alternatives 34 Fine, Bright Day… 12 2018 Summer Schedule 37 Archipelagos 12 River to River 38 PhotoShopping 12 Photo Cartoon 39 Photo Shopping 13 Yahoo Group 13 Flickr Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 13 Club Affiliations 40 NECCC Conference 14 ExCom Minutes 40 PhotoPlus Expo 15 Business Mtg. Minutes 40 Skyline at Night 19 PSA Conference 41 B&H Event Space 19 PSA Photo Tip 19 By-Laws Change Schedule of Activities 20 Garden State Images 42 Calendars 22 Website Info 44 Schedule of Activities 23 B&W Tips 55 Directions 56 Table of Contents May 2018 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 56