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Vol. 48, No. 6 November 2017 President: ` Hal Geren - 745-7588 Secretary/Treasurer: ` Sean Duan V. President: Gregory Smith N4C Reps: Doug Stinson & Hal Geren Judging: Hal Geren Newsletter: Doug Stinson Print Chairperson: Hal Geren Digital Chairperson: Hal Geren

Meetings are held at the Fremont Cultural Activities they took the photo—a good photograph does all that Center, 3375 Country Drive, Fremont, at 7:30 pm. The and more. Development meeting is on the 2nd Wednesday and the !" th Competition meeting is on the 4 Wednesday of each Meetings begin at 7:30 and those who are entering prints month, excluding holidays. The Fremont Photographic should be there between 7:00 and 7:15 to complete the Society website is: http://fremont.photoclubservices.com/ entry process prior to 7:25. Courtesy to the evening’s

judge and fellow club members indicate that members DEVELOPMENT MEETING be seated before 7:30. The next development meeting will be held Wednesday, November 8th at 7:30 PM. Quote of the Month Subject and presenter TBD. Stay tuned! “ The question is not what you look at, but what you COMPETITION MEETING see.” The next competition meeting will be held Wednesday, − Henry David Thoreau November 29th. NOTE: the meeting is on the 5th Wednesday instead of the 4th this month only. Competition MEMBER NEWS closes: Tuesday the 28th at 7:00pm. Doug Stinson has an image from his series Scattering Categories Theory in an exhibit titled “Photography + Science” at the Print: Pictorial Mono Creative Nature Yixian International Photography Festival, China. The Projected: Pictorial Mono Travel Photojournalism festival runs from November 8 to 12, 2017. Laura Moya, Special Category: Collages executive director of Photolucida curated the exhibit. Judge: Melanie Lewert What have you been up to in photography? Let me know BIOGRAPHY: Taking pictures since she received her first at [email protected]! camera in 1969, a Kodak Brownie Holiday, she became enamored with capturing the world on film. In college she PHOTO COMMUNITY NEWS purchased her first 35mm camera—Minolta 370—and SPECIAL “SOLAR ECLIPSE” MEETING DECEMBER 13TH found that she had a great eye for black and white. Until she moved onto a digital camera, years later, all of her We are pleased to have FPS member Bill Preston present work was in black and white—enjoying the use of contrast his total solar eclipse photographs at the December and shadows to tell her story. Since going to digital she Development Meeting on Wednesday, December 13, has found a photographic voice that is unique unto her. 2017 starting at 7:30 PM at our normal meeting location, She has won a number of ribbons and has shown her work 3375 Country Drive, Fremont. Bill may also share some of in several shows, outside of her club’s annual exposition. his adventures going to and from the eclipse location. Photography is more than a hobby for her, it’s a passion— As a special treat, we are asking ALL members who have the way she can capture and celebrate life. Melanie is a photographs of, or related to, the solar eclipse to submit member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA), them for display through our usual projected image Milpitas Camera Club (MCC), Fremont Art Association competition system. Simply log on to your account at Digital Photographic Group (FAADPG), and Fremont https://fremont.photoclubservices.com, hover over Photographic Society (FPS). “Competitions” and click on “Submit images to a PHILOSOPHY: When I look at a photograph I wonder why competition”. Scroll down to “Wednesday December 13, the photographer took the picture and what they wanted 2017” and click “Select”. You can upload your images to say—what’s the “story” behind the picture? There are a anytime between now and the meeting. There is no limit lot of photographs out there, but most don’t make you on the number of images you can upload. see or feel what the photographer saw and felt when

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Note that, while this is called a “competition”, no judging This has been a great shoot in the past and now the old or critique will take place. We will simply display the bay bridge has been completely removed and the submitted photographs for all to enjoy. lighting has been finished on the new structure. DATE CHANGE FOR DECEMBER FPS COMPETITION The S-3 Photowalk group sponsors a free field trip on the 3rd Saturday of each month. The trips are led by Ralph The December FPS competition meeting will be on Cooksey-Talbott, a well-known local photographer and Tuesday, December 19th. Please adjust your calendars! former student of Ansel Adams. FOTOCLAVE: MAXED OUT! For more information check out: We have reached our limit of 330 attendees for FotoClave http://s3-photowalk.com/ or call Ralph Cooksey-Talbott 2017. There will be no at-door/walk-in registrations. at 510-742-0548. We are constrained by the size of the hotel. When we first OTHER INTERESTING THINGS TO PHOTOGRAPH engaged them, we had no idea that the response would • Iā ʻOe E Ka Lā Hula Competition & Festival, Nov 3-5, be so great. Alameda County Fairgrounds, 4501 Pleasanton Avenue, Pleasanton, CA 94566: If you missed out this year, we plan on organizing another https://www.kumuhulaassociation.com FotoClave in 2019 and hope to see you then. • Great Train Show, Nov 25 &26 10AM-4PM. Alameda ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION County Fairgrounds, 4501 Pleasanton Avenue, Congratulations to Scott Nichols, whose gallery is Pleasanton, CA 94566: celebrating 25 years in business. His 25th Anniversary Show http://trainshow.com/pleasanton/ opens November 7; with a reception from 2 to 7:30 pm. • Dicken’s Fair, Weekends Nov 18 – Dec 17. Cow Palace Nichols opened the gallery to the public at 2pm on Exhibition Halls, 2600 Geneva Avenue, Daly City: November 7th, 1992. It was a Saturday and the first show https://dickensfair.com was 85 photographs of whatever he had that he could • Holiday on Union Street, San Francisco: frame. He double hung every inch of the gallery with all http://www.unionstreetshop.com/Holiday_Events_Unio vintage silver prints. Lange. The Westons. Tice. n_Street.html Cunningham. Bullock. Garnett. Kertesz. Penn. Bernhard. Caponigro. W. Eugene Smith. Abbott. Cartier-Bresson. It all • SF Lighted Boat Parade, Dec 15, 6:00PM-8:00PM: started with an impulsive purchase of 16 Brett Weston http://www.visitfishermanswharf.com/events/lighted- prints during a UC Berkeley class trip to Brett’s studio where boat-parade Brett was offering $50 prints to the students. Images by • Santa / Skivvies Run, Dec 10, 11:00 AM, The Castro: some of those same photographers will be on view in this http://santaskivviesrun.org anniversary show, at his longtime gallery at 49 Geary • SF New Year’s Eve Fireworks, 11:59PM Dec 31st, Street in San Francisco. Embarcadero: https://www.sftourismtips.com/new- years-eve-fireworks-in-san-francisco.html PHOTOGRAPHIC OPPORTUNITIES • Sonoma County Roller Derby events: S-3 PHOTO WALK http://sonomacountyrollderby.org/events/ Nov. 18th, 3:00PM, FAA Gallery, 37697 Niles Blvd, Fremont. TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, SHOWS AND This month we will head on over to Treasure Island to do a night shoot of the SF skyline, the new Bay Bridge and some WORKSHOPS light painting of the surrounding public sculptures and The website bayareaphotoscene.com contains the most areas. TI is a nice safe place for night shooting due to its complete listing of San Francisco Bay Area photography- somewhat limited access. related events. Become a registered user to receive customized content and sign up to be notified of newly The shoot will go on until everyone has had their fill. listed events. This is a good shoot for limited mobility folks as it is drive and click. We drive up, park, get out and click...very little Know about an event related to photography? Send the walking, no hiking or hills. info to [email protected] and it will be added to the website. Note: currently the plan is to list only free Bring light painting implements, flashlights, LED strips, events and those sponsored by non-profit / educational Speedlights (small flash units) and any other interesting organizations. things that light up. A tripod is necessary for night photography also helpful is a remote release. If you don’t have one and want to come let me know as I have some extras.

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CONTESTS AND CALLS FOR ENTRY ARTICLES OF INTEREST HOME SHOW AT SFO MUSEUM • Photography in the age of Artificial Intelligence: PhotoAlliance invites entries for a photographic https://www.lensculture.com/articles/trevor-paglen-an- competition juried by distinguished professionals with urgent-look-at-how-artificial-intelligence-will-see-the- winning entries exhibiting work at the SFO Museum world located at the San Francisco International Airport and online @ photoalliance.org • Royal Photographic Society published the first infrared photographs in October, 1910: This unique venue provides unparalleled exposure for your http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201710/physi work as more than 50 MILLION passengers per year pass cshistory.cfm through SFO. For more information go to: http://www.photoalliance.org/2017-exhibition-sfo- museum SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS The Sony World Photography Awards celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2017, a decade-long partnership between Sony and the World Photography Organization, bringing you one of the world’s leading photography competitions. The competition is free to enter and is open now. There are several categories; the earliest deadline is Dec 4, 2017. More info at: https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography- awards CALLFORENTRY.ORG

The website CaFé provides a list of many Calls for Entry and contests. • People may pay more attention to areas in a Other Contests photograph that “have meaning” rather than those https://www.all-about-photo.com/contests-for- that “stick out”: https://petapixel.com/2017/09/27/eyes- amateurs.php drawn-meaning-photos-things-stick/ https://www.all-about-photo.com/contests-open-to- • DxO acquires Nik Collection from Google and will all.php continue to offer it for free... for now: https://www.dpreview.com/news/1675836798/dxo- acquires-nik-collection-from-google-and-will-continue- to-offer-it-for-free-for-now • In memoriam: Tom Petty in the Bay Area; 5 decades of concerts in photos: http://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Tom-Petty- in-the-Bay-Area-5-decades-of-concerts-12248130.php • Photographing California with a camera the size of an elephant: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/california- today-an-analog-view-of-california.html • Real Street Photographers on Instagram: https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/19/the-unsung- street-photographers-of-bay-area-instagram/

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PHOTOGRAPHY RESOURCES • Test data for lenses and cameras: https://www.dxomark.com/ • Adobe Stock has a good explanation of what images can be used for commercial purposes and when a • Reducing blur from camera shake: http://bit.ly/2mn3n3u release is required. Note that different rules apply to • Lots of info on inkjet printing from Red River Paper: images created for personal use, journalistic or Fine Art http://bit.ly/2fMNpxi purposes. https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/legal.html • Information on color spaces, device profiles, and conversions: http://www.dpbestflow.org/color/color- Do’s and Don’ts of memory card use: • space-and-color-profiles http://blog.jeffcable.com/2016/12/why-you-should-not- delete-images-on.html • Map of interesting photo locations within a 4 hour drive of San Francisco: Searchable listing of local exhibits, talks, artists • https://www.davidcolemanphotography.com/resource receptions, workshops, conferences, etc. related to s photography: https://bayareaphotoscene.com • Do your own resolution testing (free software image The Fremont Photographic Society Website includes • analysis software, too!): back-issues of The ShutterBug and tutorials for http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/MTF5.html download: https://fremont.photoclubservices.com/ • Information on cleaning sensors: The N4C website for information about competition • http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com rules, programs, resources, etc.: http://n4c.org/ and here: http://blog.jeffcable.com/2017/06/dust-spots- • The N4C website for competition results: on-sensor-of-your-digital.html https://n4c.photoclubservices.com/ Can you recommended good sources of information • Lighting tutorials. Click on the image to learn how it was about photography, or better sources than the ones listed made: http://bit.ly/2oxVoVD here? Let me know at [email protected].

November 2017 Vol. 48, No. 6 ` Competition Results

COMPETITION LEVELS N4C supports multiple competition levels in each division. The Fremont Photographic Society has elected to stay with two levels only: Basic and Advanced. Any member can compete in either of the two levels. For example, a member can compete in Pictorial at the Advanced level and in Monochrome at the Basic level. A member is free to change from one level to the other at any time.

OCTOBER COMPETITION RESULTS Judge: Jeff Dunn 13 prints & 52 projected; 65 Total

Monochrome Prints - Advanced

2nd Rugged Pacific Coast near Point Arena Greg Geren

3rd High Sierra Paul Kessinger Monochrome Prints - Basic

1st A Young Native American dancer strikes a deer pose in a Traditional Ohlone dance and the Gathering of the Ohlone Peoples, Coyote Hills Paul Kessinger

1st Wall of Frame, Metopera, New York Joy Wang

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Photojournalism Prints - Advanced Photojournalism Prints - Basic

st 1st Sequence Photo: A demonstration of the skills of 1 Blue Angles in Blue Sky; Fleet Week, Oct 2017 Australian Philip Soltystak at the 2017 US National Joy Wang Windsurfing Festival, Berkeley, CA Paul Kessinger Pictorial Prints - Advanced

1st Evening View of Pigeon Pt. Lighthouse from the 2nd The dam at Intake Lake shows integrity issues beach below Paul Kessinger Greg Geren

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Travel Prints — Advanced

1st An Ebullient Sales Girl Happily Models a Traditional Japanese Kimono at Celeo Dept. Store, Kofu, Japan Paul Kessinger

2nd The US Navy Blue Angels demonstrate American air Travel Prints — Basic power at Fleet Week, San Francisco Paul Kessinger

st 1 Bruges at Half Staff; After March 22, 2016 Brussels 3rd Morning at Lundy Lake Greg Geren Terrorist Attack Joy Wang

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Creative Projected Images - Advanced

3rd Timeless city by the sea Marina Grabovskaya HM Wonders of the virtual reality world Marina Grabovskaya HM A fall cruise under a Starry Night Rajeev Shankar Monochrome Projected Images — Advanced

1st Love Object Exposures at the Autumn Lights Festival Paul Kessinger

1st A Never to be Read Letter Waits at an Abandoned House, Iide Machi, Japan Paul Kessinger

2nd Studying the Night Sky with Lasers Gregory Smith

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2nd Stairs to the moon Marina Grabovskaya

2nd Feeding time Sree Alavattam

3rd Inspires Awe Gregory Smith HM Weeds in Water Arthur Widener HM Fire Dancer Jason Cheng 3rd Snowy Egret returns to the Nest with Nesting Nature Projected Images – Advanced Material Greg Geren HM Baglafecht weaver weaving nest Sree Alavattam HM An Egret (Egreta thula) Appears to Take Off Vertically From a Rocky Ledge Wayne Angeloty

1st A Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) Extracts a Sandcrab From the Surf During Low Tide Wayne Angeloty 9

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Pictorial Projected Imaged– Advanced

1st The Dome Turns (Best in Show) Gregory Smith

nd 2 Cathedral of Christ the Light Jason Cheng 3rd An Overflow of Gold on Mines Road Charlie Day HM Lost Lake in Snow Arthur Widener HM Fallen, but not forgotten - Memorial to fallen firefighters Marina Grabovskaya

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Special Category Projected – “Strong Emotion”

1st Dubious Greg Geren

1st Wow, I am Stunned! Marina Grabovskaya

Notes on FPS Scoring Points are assigned as follows: 1st Place 20 2nd Place 18 3rd Place 16 Honorable Mention 14 Non-placing (Did not receive HM or higher) submission 8 Image/Print of Month, add 5

One Honorable Mention is allowed for every ten images submitted to a competition. For example, if 23 shots are submitted to the Pictorial Print competition, there will be two honorable mentions available. However, the number of awards issued is at the discretion of the judge.

Up to 6 printed images and 5 projected images may be presented each month. Each sub-category (i.e. printed pictorial) is limited to 2 entries per member per month.

Any picture that places 3rd or higher automatically will be collected and submitted to the monthly N4C competition, unless otherwise requested. An exception is for the Special Category, which does not have a corresponding N4C category. N4C participation is optional.

Vol. 48, No. 6 November 2017 N4C Winners

N4C MONTHLY COMPETITIONS Monochrome Projected – Advanced (37 Entries) All winning images (3rd and above) from the club’s monthly competitions are automatically entered into the next month’s N4C competition, unless requested otherwise. The Northern California Council of Camera Clubs (N4C) is an organization of camera clubs in the bay area and surrounding region that sponsors a monthly competition of the winners from18 member clubs. The monthly N4C meeting is held the second Monday of each month from 7:30 to 9:30pm (no competition in December). Each club’s representative or alternate attends the meeting. The meeting takes place at: United Methodist Church 1600 Bancroft Avenue San Leandro, CA 94577 Fremont Winners in the N4C October

Competition HM White Rhino with Calf in Kenya Sree Alavattam

Pictorial Projected – Advanced (40 Entries) Travel Projected – Advanced (37 Entries)

3rd Miroir d’eau (Water Mirror) – the world’d largest reflective pool in Bordeaux, France Marina Grabovskaya

4th African Sunset Sree Alavattam

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Color Prints – Advanced (26 Entries) Journalism Prints – Advanced (21 Entries)

5th View from Abandoned Graffiti Covered Powerhouse, Ferry Point, Richmond Paul Kessinger HM Puppeteer performing on the streets of Salamanca, Spain Marina Grabovskaya

HM Into the Storm Marina Grabovskaya

Vol. 48, No. 6 November 2017 Points Earned Total Points To-Date for the 2017-2018 Year Raul Lopez Wayne Angeloty Creative Prints Doug Stinson 8 Special Category Prints Greg Geren 18 Greg Geren 20 Marina Grabovskaya 62 Joy Wang Paul Kessinger 41 Marina Grabovskaya 112 Raul Lopez Paul Kessinger Raul Lopez Monochrome Prints Travel Prints Arthur Widener Douglas Stinson Douglas Stinson 8 Fred Hom Fred Horn Greg Geren Greg Geren 106 Joy Wang 58 Jason Cheng Marina Grabovskaya 74 Joy Wang 20 Paul Kessinger 54 Marina Grabovskaya Raul Lopez Paul Kessinger 132 Raul Lopez Creative Projected Images Wayne Angeloty Charlie Day Doug Stinson 8 Nature Prints Ed Kneler Doug Stinson Fred Hom 16 Greg Geren 56 Greg Geren 16 Marina Grabovskaya 20 Gregory Smith 46 Joy Wang Jason Cheng Paul Kessinger 16 Joy Wang Raul Lopez Marina Grabovskaya 95 Paul Kessinger 52 Photojournalism Prints Rajeev Shankar 52 Fred Hom Raul Lopez Greg Geren 18 Ravi Masand Jason Cheng Sean Duan Joy Wang 20 Sreedhara Alavattam 34 Marina Grabovakaya 72 Wayne Angeloty 24 Paul Kessinger 40 Rajeev Shankar 16 Monochrome Projected Images Raul Lopez Arthur Widener 22 Wayne Angeloty Bill Preston 8 Charlie Day 8 Pictorial Prints Doug Stinson 32 Arthur Widener Fred Hom 16 Douglas Stinson 25 Greg Geren 50 Fred Hom Gregory Smith 16 Greg Geren 102 Jason Cheng 42 Hugh Nelson Joy Wang 42 Jason Cheng Marina Grabovskaya 26 Joy Wang Paul Kessinger 106 Marina Grabovskaya 77 Rajeev Shankar 38 Paul Kessinger 124 Raul Lopez Rajeev Shankar 16 Ravi Masand

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Sean Duan 76 Wayne Angeloty 56 Sreedhara Alavattam 58 Wayne Angeloty 24 Special Category Projected Images Bill Preston Nature Projected Images Charlie Day Charlie Day 16 Doug Stinson 38 Ed Kneler Ed Kneler Greg Geren 54 Fred Hom 18 Gregory Smith Greg Geren 40 Jason Cheng 30 Jason Cheng Joy Wang 8 Joy Wang 8 Paul Kessinger 8 Marina Grabovskaya 74 Rajeev Shankar 34 Paul Kessinger Raul Lopez Rajeev Shankar Ravi Masand Raul Lopez Robert Bynum 24 Robert Bynum 34 Sean Duan 16 Ravi Masand Sreedhara Alavattam 70 Sean Duan 8 Wayne Angeloty 89 Sreedhara Alavattam 46 Photojournalism Projected Images Bill Preston Travel Projected Images Charlie Day Bill Preston Doug Stinson 24 Charlie Day Ed Kneler Doug Stinson Fred Hom Ed Kneler Greg Geren 16 Fred Hom Jason Cheng 16 Greg Geren 8 Joy Wang 14 Jason Cheng 8 Marina Grabovskaya 59 Joy Wang 8 Paul Kessinger 22 Marina Grabovskaya 69 Rajeev Shankar 20 Paul Kessinger 16 Raul Lopez Rajeev Shankar 34 Ravi Masand Raul Lopez Robert Bynum 8 Ravi Masand Sean Duan 8 Robert Bynum 26 Sreedhara Alavattam Sean Duan Wayne Angeloty 22 Sreedhara Alavattam 36 Wayne Angeloty Pictorial Projected Images Arthur Widener 22 Total Points All Categories Bill Preston 16 Arthur Widener 44 Charlie Day 24 Bill Preston 24 Doug Stinson 88 Charlie Day 48 Ed Kneler Douglas Stinson 231 Fred Hom Ed Kneler Greg Geren 72 Fred Horn 50 Gregory Smith 61 Greg Geren 576 Jason Cheng 68 Gregory Smith 123 Joy Wang 32 Hugh Nelson Marina Grabovskaya 66 Jason Cheng 164 Paul Kessinger 78 Joy Wang 210 Rajeev Shankar 56 Marina Grabovskaya 806 Raul Lopez Paul Kessinger 689 Ravi Masand Rajeev Shankar 266 Robert Bynum 8 Raul Lopez Sean Duan 76 Ravi Masand Sreedhara Alavattam 74 Rick Brandt 15

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Robert Bynum 100 Sean Duan 184 Sreedhara Alavattam 336 Wayne Angeloty 215