October 2020 Photo Notes

Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club October 2020

This Issue Volume 86 • Issue 2 Club News…………………..……2 - 23 Photography News……………..24 - 33 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc…….…34 - 37 Schedule of Activities…….….….38 - 44 Complete Index………………….……45

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October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Club Oﬃcers The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for-proﬁt corporation. Guests are always President Ed Lee welcome. V. President Michael Schleiff The PWCC newsletter, Photo Notes, is published Corres. Sec. Helen Bohmart Pine every month by and for the members of the Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included Rec. Sec. Christine Doyle with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are available to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Treasurer Maria Fernandez Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are Committee Chairs always accepted. The staff of Photo Notes Archive Inactive reserves the right to edit any submissions which are published. Competition John Brengelman Photo Notes is optimized for viewing digitally. Hedy Klein Field Trip Susan Sigrist Contact Information Paul Grebanier

Website Gallery Vacancy www.parkwestcameraclub.org House Marty Smith E-Mail Address [email protected] Membership Marlene Schonbrun Elena Pierpont Club Mailing Address Newsletter Chuck Pine 319 West 16 Street, #1 NY, NY 10011 Program Marilyn Fish-Glynn Photo Notes Mailing Address 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Social Natalie Manzino

Website Michael Schleiff Christine Doyle

Workshop Vacancy

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Message Updating to the latest operating system, Windows 10, CLUB As the Covid-19 lockdown allows an older computer to continues here in NYC and use the latest software and elsewhere, what activities are utilities. By exchanging older you and our other PWCC mechanical hard drives with members up to? I hope you are the latest solid state drives doing well and exercising your (SSD) boot-up times and minds and bodies! As for me, to this day that I prefer to use. programs are accessed almost I've been learning and teaching I used the program for 1,000s immediately. In mere seconds, myself various photo editing of restoration and retouching large amounts of data can be software packages other than projects when I had my custom accessed and saved. Additional Photoshop and Photoshop photo lab business and I still RAM will allow faster web Elements. use it now for my model and browsing and streaming in There’s been a number portrait work. higher resolutions without of new and/or updated I've also learned, via You- buffering. You can extend the packages, free as open source Tube and other online tutorials useful life to your ﬁve to ten software, such as Darktable, and blogs, how to update and year old device! Raw Therapee, GIMP, and speed up older laptop and it's new “politically correct” desktop computers by using Continued on page 4 version called Glimpse, and the latest technologies. others as well as new packages such. Photo Notes as Paint Shop Pro, Luminar 4, Publisher: Ed Lee On1, Zoner, etc. which might be preferred for their non- Editor: Chuck Pine subscription cost as opposed Committee: Will Aimesbury, Bill Apple, Madeleine to Photoshop’s monthly plan Barbara, Elsa Blum, Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Pierpont, Helen Pine, Judy Rosenblatt, and Puneet Sood However, my favorite Contributors: Bill Apple, John Brengelman, Christine photo editor is still Picture Doyle, Maria Fernandez, Ed Lee, Chuck Pine, Helen Publisher 10 which was Pine, Larry Rubin, and Marlene Schonbrun orphaned ten years ago when Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro Corel bought the company and using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. retired the software. I started using it back in the day when All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or otherwise Photoshop only existed for believed to be in the public domain. Apple computers and PP Credited images remain the sole property of their was the leading PC editing copyright holders—all rights reserved. software for Windows. It still has some of the best features

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Last Issue??? sheet of plain paper, seal it in President’s Message an envelope, and mail it to our continued CLUB Have you renewed your Membership Co-Chair… membership in Park West By the time you read this, Camera Club for the 2020-2021 Marlene Schonbrun we will have had our first season?. Your membership 315 Riverside Drive, # 5E online Zoom competition brings with it a full range of New York, NY 10025 with Thomas Mintz as our rights and privileges, such as judge. After a number of participation in monthly Club Please be sure to mail your photo share and ExecCom/ competitions and admittance membership dues early Business meetings using the to all our Zoom meetings. enough to arrive by the 30th of Zoom software, we should be We normally charge $150 September, 2020. ably “proficient” to carry out for the Club year, October our weekly schedule of guest through September. This As soon as it is deemed safe speakers, competitions, and amount is divided equally to to hold our meetings and other workshops. pay for Club activities (aka activities at the Soho Photo Be well! dues) and the rental of our Gallery, in the field, or else- space at the SoHo Photo where we will endeavor Gallery. to do so. At that time the Ed Due to the circumstances Club’s Executive Committee caused by the COVID-19 will determine how much to pandemic, all of our meetings charge the membership for —for the foreseeable future— additional dues (if any) and for will be held virtually using the rental of space. Zoom software. We, therefore, are foregoing Sept 2020 the $75 usually collected for room rental. PWCC 50.00 We have also reduced the $75 charged for Club activities Fifty and to only $50 per member—this includes the Club’s honorary 2020-21 Dues life members. As usual, the Executive Committee will consider requests for reduced PHOTOPLUS PHOTOPLUS 2020 will dues payments on a case-by- take place November 1, online case basis. on the new PHOTOPLUS+ Please pay your $50 Club PHOTOPLUS, founded in 1983, is the largest imaging platform. dues by the end of September, To register (and you must) 2020, by mailing your check or and photography event in North America. It is the ulti- go to their website located at money order (no cash in the mail, please) payable to mate experience for photographers to get up-to-date with and click on the Register box. PWCC. Cover your check/ Info will be sent to you. money order with a folded the latest industry trends.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 We got this email from a group called CLUB Girls Who Click. If you are interested in making a donation to them, all the details are found below… PWCC 2020 Fall Schedule Hello, We are a non-proﬁt called Girls Who Click. Our September mission is to empower teen girls to enter the 7 No Meeting (Labor Day) male-dominated ﬁeld of nature photography and 14 You Be the Judge use their work to further conservation efforts 21 ExCom & Business Meetings #1 around the world. We run free photography 28 No Meeting (Yom Kippur) workshops throughout the year, led by professional female photographers who donate their October time to help us. 5 Competition #1 (Thomas Mintz) We are looking for digital cameras and other 12 Guest Speaker (Charles Chessler) photography gear to support our free online 19 Workshop (Chuck Pine) workshops and new online resources. 25 Theme Night—Halloween If you or any of your members have a camera or camera gear at home that you're not using, November please consider donating it to Girls Who Click. 2 Competition #2 (Nir Arieli) Donating your gear is easy and tax deductible. 9 Expanding Visions 26—Intro You can donate your used gear to us at: 23 George Hansen Memorial Thank you so much for your generosity and 30 ExCom & Business Meetings #2 we appreciate your help in spreading the word about our camera donation program. December 7 Competition #3 (Antonio Rosario) With gratitude, 14 Expanding Visions 26—Review Lindsey Bogachus 21 Theme Night—The Holidays Community Outreach Coordinator 28 Winter Holiday

All the above activities will be conducted virtually using the Zoom software program. This software may be downloaded and used at no charge to our members. As soon as it is deemed safe to hold our meetings and other activities at the Soho Photo Gallery, in the ﬁeld, or elsewhere, we will endeavor to do so.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Images of the Month October 2020 CLUB by John Brengelman

PDI-of-the-Month Corona Bird by Julie Wosk

Honor PDIs Mannequin by John Brengelman Yellow-crowned Night Heron by Justine Carson Provincetown by Remy Deyglun She Fill My Mind by Nicole Dosso Workman’s Shadow by Julie Foehrenbach Sacred Heart by Paul Grebanier Graphic Design by Harriet Josephs Mules Anyone by Doris King Emerge From Shadows by Hedy Klein Down the Raquette River by Paula Pillone Great Blue Heron With Catﬁsh by Helen Pine Selﬁe by Joan Slatkin Solar Print Autumn by Julie Wosk

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October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Cumulative Point Totals 2019-2020 through October 2020 Cumulative Point Totals CLUB by John Brengelman

Julie Wosk 22 Last year’s competitions were Justine Carson 18 cut short by the coronavirus Karen Corrigan 18 pandemic. We actually had Nicole Dosso 18 only six of the eight scheduled Julie Foehrenbach 18 monthly contests. Based on this Paul Grebanier 18 shortened season, here are the Doris King 18 top winners in each of the two Hedy Klein 18 competitions. Paula Pillone 18 Helen Pine 18 Bill Apple 16 PDIs Jay Bitkower 16 Chuck Pine 70 David Cassidy 16 David Cassidy 68 Sarah Corbin 16 Elena Pierpont 62 Christine Doyle 16 Christine Doyle 62 Florence Forman 16 Michael Schleiff 16 Marty Smith 16 Prints Howard Stevens 16 Paul Grebanier 80 John Brengelman 14 Madeleine Barbara 70 Remy Deyglun 14 John Brengelman 68 Harriet Josephs 14 Elena Pierpont 68 Joan Slatkin 14 Will Aimesbury 12 Congratulations to the winners Rain Bengis 12 and the runners-up! Jack Lindenman 12 Natalie Manzino 12 Elena Pierpont 12 Chuck Pine 12 Larry Rubin 12 Marilyn Thypin 12 Barry Fahrer 8 Renée Harper 8 Eloise Huni 8 Lawrence Kreger 8 Dorothy Mills 8 Larry Sapadin 8 Alice Somma 8 Janet Susin 8 Laura Toledo 8

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Competition Rotation Committee Liaisons Photo Notes Deadlines

If and w CLUB hen the Club is able The Executive Committee Issue Deadline to resume with non-virtual, (ExCom) has decided to con- November 2020 November 2 in-person meetings, we will tinue for this coming year continue to alternate the order with the committee liaison December 2020 December 7 of the prints and PDIs in our model to spread the respon- January 2021 January 4 monthly competitions. Here’s sibility among the entire Ex- February 2021 February 1 the schedule: ecutive Committee. Here’s how it’ll work: March 2021 March 1 Month Judged First Each of the ExCom mem- April 2021 April 5 November Prints bers (the five elected officers May 2021 May 3 December PDIs plus the President Emeritus) Summer 2021 August 16 January Prints will be assigned committees February PDIs as liaison. Each committee The sooner articles and March Prints chair or co-chair will report items are submitted to Photo April PDIs to the ExCom through this Notes, the quicker the editing May Prints liaison. In this manner, it is and revision process can begin. June PDIs felt that communication will Competition scores and cumu- flow much more smoothly, lative points are submitted as in both directions, between soon after the competitions as the committees. In addition, possible, usually one to three any concerns raised by the days following the submission Photo Cartoon ExCom will be passed along deadline. The draft copy of of the Month to the committee chairs Photo Notes will be sent to the through the liaisons. editorial staff as soon as possi- Here are the committee ble once all items are in place. liaison assignments for the The staff will then have two to 2020-2021 Club year: three days to edit and return Competition Mike Schleiff their comments. Field Trip Chuck Pine Once the Photo Notes issue Gallery Helen Pine is complete, it is sent to the House Christine Doyle Website Committee to be post- Membership Helen Pine ed online. As soon as this is ac- Newsletter Chuck Pine complished, an e-mail is sent Program Christine Doyle to all Club members and other Social Ed Lee Photo Notes recipients inform- Website Mike Schleiff ing them that the PWCC news- Workshop Ed Lee letter is now available for download.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 In Passing Zooming Anonymously CLUB Judy, wife of Club member Zoom is a web-based video An anonymous Park West Larry Rubin, passed away conferencing software tool member renewed his (or her) on Friday morning the 11th that allows users to meet on- Club dues recently with a of September. Larry wrote line. Zoom is compatible with check for $150—not the and sent these words, When I both Mac and Windows com- reduced/requested amount looked over to her shortly after puters, smartphones, and of $50. When asked why, five this morning, there was a tablets. Zoom software is free to the answer was (and this is gentle smile on her face. That download to your device. paraphrased) “the Club can slight smile told me she had use it more than I can.” peacefully attained what she This was a nice gesture had desired since the rapid of support for the Club. decline in her health had begun Will you do the same? some weeks ago.… Even in the Or will your money sit face of this new emptiness, I’m aimlessly in the bank since consoled by Wordsworth’s you can’t go out to do much words about intimations of with it, anyway? immortality: “Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower / We will grieve not, An email will be sent to all rather find strength in what Club members prior to Club remains behind.” virtual meetings. This email If you wish to send Larry will contain the link to join the belated condolences, email meeting. All you have to do is click on the link and the Zoom or contact him on Facebook software will take you to the Judy Non-members who would was committed to The like to join our meetings may Mamas the core of a group request the link by emailing of Tanzanian women who work together to achieve To download the Zoom personal independence and software program just go to strengthen their ability to support their families. Con- and click on the “Download” tributions in memory of Judy button. It’s that simple! Rubin may be made to the Excel Education Foundation

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October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 Minutes Marlene Schonbrun ExCom/Business Mtg welcomed new member CLUB Gordon Pellegrini. There by Christine Doyle being 24 members in Recording Secretary attendance, a quorum was met. September 21, 2020 II. Minutes of Previous Ex- October 5th, and will be Com/Business Meeting: limited to PDIs only. The Participating: Executive Com- Members present agreed deadline for submitting mittee members President Ed to waive the reading of images (2 per member) is Lee, Vice President Michael and accept the minutes of, Tuesday, September 29th. Schleiff, Corresponding Secre- the August 6th meeting. Hedy Klein will be re- tary Helen Pine, Recording III. Treasurer’s Report: Maria sponsible for collecting Secretary Christine Doyle, Fernandez reported that and organizing images, Treasurer Maria Fernandez, the Club has $7,000 in its and creating a ‘contact and President Emeritus Chuck account, of which $1,275 is sheet’ for scoring (Rita Pine. Club members John from dues for membership Russo, Christine Doyle, Brengelman, Karen Corrignan, renewals for the 2020-21 and Natalie Manzino will Oggy Doytchinov, Marilyn Club year. Due to the on- keep score for the compe- Fish-Glynn, Pat Gabarini, Paul going pandemic restric- titions). She will then Grebanier, Hedy Klein, Natalie tions, it was previously email the collected ﬁles Manzino, Gordon Pellegrini, decided that all members, to Michael and Helen by Elena Pierpont, Rita Russo, including lifetime mem- the Friday before compe- Marlene Schonbrun, Marty bers, would pay $50 in tition night, so they can Smith, Alice Somma, Howard dues, with an additional prepare the images for Stevens, Marilyn Thypin, and amount to cover meetings judging. Consistent with Laura Toledo also participated. if and when our meetings previous competitions, resume. Checks for judges will not view the [As a result of the Coronavirus 2020-21 dues should be images prior to competi- pandemic and the continuing mailed to Membership tion night. The sizing for restrictions issued by the State Committee co-chair submitted images will be of New York, the Club has not Marlene Schonbrun the same as for previous held any in-person meetings IV. Committee Reports competitions (members since March 2nd. This meeting • Competition: Co-Chair can check the latest ver- was held via Zoom.] John Brengelman sion of the Competition thanked Helen Pine and Manual, on the Club’s I. Call To Order: Ed Lee Michael Schleiff for do- website, for additional called the meeting to order ing a good job with col- details). Michael will at approximately 6:30 p.m. lecting, organizing and review the images and He welcomed all partici- displaying the images at make adjustments to pants and hoped everyone the several Zoom photo- size/ppi if necessary. was doing well and keep- shares over the summer. Completed score sheets ing busy. Membership Club competitions will will be emailed to John Committee Co-chair resume, via Zoom, on Brengelman for tallying.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 • Field Trip: No report due • Social: No report due to to continuing pandemic continuing pandemic CLUB restrictions. restrictions. • Gallery: No report due to • Website: Chair Michael continuing pandemic Schleiff has reached out restrictions. to Visual Pursuits about • House: No report due to making some changes to continuing pandemic the website’s home page a score sheet in Adobe restrictions. to keep it fresh-looking. Acrobat that members can • Membership: Co-Chair Chrisitne Doyle will send ﬁll out online, which will Marlene Schonbrun instructions on how to make it easier to download reported that the Club join the website to Hedy the comments for the has 32 paid-up members Klein and new member Zoom review. to date. Gordon Pellegrini. V. New Business • Newsletter: Chair Chuck • Workshop: A mini- A. George Hansen Pine reported that the Expanding Visions class Memorial, November 23rd: deadline for submitting is planned for November The Club is planning a articles for the October -December (see the memorial for George issue of Photo Notes is discussion below). Hansen, who very sadly Monday, October 5th. V. Old Business passed away in February Hedy Klein asked to be A. Membership Dues: See 2020. A small group is added back to the list of above under Treasurer’s selecting from his compe- proofreaders. Report and Membership tition PDIs and prints to • Program: Chair Marilyn Committee report. show to members, and is Fish-Glynn reported that B. Competition Protocol: looking for images of judges have been lined See above under Compe- George that were taken at up through January 2021 tition Committee report. Club events, as well as and speakers through C. ‘You Be The Judge’ written commemorations. November 2020 (there Recap: It was agreed that Members of George’s will be no guest speaker the September 14th ‘You family, his friends, and in December). They are: Be The Judge’ meeting was members of other camera - October judge - Thomas a success, and that the clubs to which George MIntz Club should make plans belonged will be invited. - October speaker - Charles for another one in 2021. Ed Helen will reach out to the Chessler Lee noted the comments NY Sierra Photo Club to - November judge - Nir and suggestions that Bill see if they would like to Arieli Apple had sent to the participate. - November speaker - Executive Committee that B. Call For Possible Ismail Ferdous morning. It was agreed Speakers: If you have - December judge - that the same format will suggestions for guest Antonio Rosario be used for future sessions, speakers, please forward - January judge - Kathy perhaps with some tweaks. them to Marilyn Fish- Baca Michael Schleiff will set up Glynn. She is reaching out

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 to Gus Bennett, a New Photoville Orlreans-based photo- CLUB grapher, to see if he is The Photoville festival will be interested in speaking to slightly different this year! the Club. Like so many trying to navi- C. Expanding Visions 26: gate their way during these Chuck Pine has planned a extraordinary times, in the mini-Expanding Visions 26 midst of fighting a global workshop.It will be limited VII. Good And Welfare pandemic, a long overdue to Club members only. The A. From The Chair: Ed reckoning of social injustice, introductory session will Lee went over Club meet- and financial insecurity, they be at the November 9th ings planned through the took a long look at what was meeting. There will be end of October: possible,… and adjusted, three assignments: flowers; - September 28th: No shifted, tweaked, reinvented, food; and found objects. Meeting - Yom Kippur punted, and found a way for Members can photograph - October 5th: Member the festival to still take place, on their own, outside or at Competition, judged by while staying true to its spirit. home. Members’ work will Thomas Mintz With social distancing in be presented for review at - October 12th: Guest mind, we’ve had to let go of the December 14th Club Speaker, Charles Chessler the shipping containers, the meeting. - October 19th: Workshop beer garden, and in-person D. Other: Michael Schleiff by Chuck Pine (topic Cold sessions. Instead, they’re asked when the Club will Weather Photography) spreading their wings and decide on continuing with - October 26th: Member spacing out the photo village virtual meetings or resume Theme Night - Hal- throughout Brooklyn Bridge live meetings. Following a loween Park and even beyond—in discussion, it was agreed B. From The Floor: fact, into 16 site across New to re-visit this issue at the - Marlene Schonbrun York City’s five boroughs. November 30th Executive announced that she has Get all the information you Committee/Business been asked to photograph need by going to their website Meeting. If any new devel- the winner(s) of a raffle Be opments arise between event held by her block sure to bring your mask, your now and then the ExCom association (104th Street hand sanitizer, gloves, and will meet to discuss them. Block Association), as well whatever else you’ll need to Marilyn Fish-Glynn sug- as other people who come stay safe and healthy. gested that the Club poll to the event. The money members to determine the raised goes to a security interest in resuming live guard and beautifying the meetings. It was also block. agreed that the Executive VIII There being no further Committee will meet prior business, the meeting was to the November 30th adjourned at 8:30 p.m. meeting to fill out the Club (approximately). calendar for 2021.

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CLUB As a part of Park West’s continuing series on what our members have been doing while the Club is on ‘hiatus’ during the Covid pandemic, member Larry Rubin has been focusing on face masks that people on the Upper West Side and in Riverside Park are wearing during the pandemic and “what these captures might reveal about the adjustments, both large and small, that people are All images making to stay safe and © 2020 Larry Rubin strong at this time.”

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CLUB As a part of Park West’s continuing series on what our members have been doing while the Club is on ‘hiatus’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, PWCC member, and the Club Recording Secretary. Christine Doyle has been documenting life on the streets of her Upper West Side neighborhood. All images © 2020 Christine Doyle

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 Coronavirus and Me would save my sanity for the by Maria Fernandez next few weeks. CLUB PWCC Treasurer I didn’t expect much for $12.99. I was in for a big When it became apparent surprise. The following that COVID-19 was staying morning I made a cup of a lot longer than expected coffee and went back to bed and life was not going to be to start my new project. what I was used to, I decided What would I do without that I had to slow down. projects? Otherwise I was not going to Microsoft delivered as I be a happy camper for long knew they would. Easy to do and the days ahead would and all I had to do was select prove to be endless. one of my photos. It didn’t take long before Here is the surprise! As I I ran out of busy work. With said before, I didn’t expect too much time on my hands, much. I took these photos— after I cleaned my closet I know them so it won’t take several times and organized long to complete the puzzle. thousands of photographs in It seems that when the photo my computers, that I knew streets. Happy again!… but is in pieces more details are that the time had come to not for long. Then PWCC apparent. The color and seriously think about this came to the rescue once clarity of every piece was situation. again. Continue reading we awesome and the details that So, I decided to prolong are getting somewhere. I didn’t see before. the time that I lingered in The Club posted Club New images dance in bed before I started my day. I members’ images on the front of my eyes. What a gift still had my workouts but a website. Nice! That kept me of discovery. I can’t wait for few weeks later, that too was occupied for a while. I had tomorrow morning to see taken from me when the become obsessed with a more of what I shot,… and building closed down the construction project across didn’t see. gym. The days were getting the from my building and I Really happy now! longer and longer and followed the progress from longer. my window. You guessed it A brilliant idea occurred —the images landed on the to me: I purchased a digital Club website. jigsaw puzzle software from All done! Now what? Microsoft and downloaded it Back to jigsaw puzzles? to my Surfaces Pro. But I No new puzzles were avail- solved so many puzzles that able but for a mere $12.99 I I ran out. No, no, no! could create my own puzzles As the weather started to using my own photographs. get better, I dusted off my What a bargain! And it both images camera and took to the ©2020 Maria Fernandez

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CLUB Club members were encour- aged to submit one image to share with other members for their comments and a score. Each photograph was scored from 1 to 9, nine being the highest possible score—just like at our Year- End competition (at which three judges score each picture and winners are declared). That’s exactly what we did for this ﬁrst meeting of the new Club year. First Place—Tie [The scores from this A Great Fight © Marilyn Thypin evening’s event do not count towards the cumulative point totals of our monthly Club competitions.] Here are the winning images (there was a tie for ﬁrst place) and the highest First Place—Tie scoring runners-up. Umbrellas © Marlene Schonbrun

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First Runner-Up—Tie Into the Dust © Chuck Pine

First Runner-Up—Tie Vasta #2 © Helen Pine

First Runner-Up—Tie Flock of Flying Gulls © Peter Houts

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Member Bio photography has been a CLUB Doris King new passion for me, but I Photography has been a am also inter- passion of new PWCC ested in the member Doris King for abstract and many years. She enjoyed the the creative creative process of ﬁlm and side of pho- the darkroom experience. tography.”

Doris uses of her goals is to develop Nikon gear—a (please pardon the pun) D850 SLR and a more Photoshop skills. mirrorless Z6. Doris also hopes to gain a She prefers new fresh perspective from prime lenses the Club. (single focal “The pandemic has lengths) over enabled me to view so many zooms mainly wonderful art forms via because of the YouTube and Zoom from the weight factor, comfort of my own home. Lightroom is her I’m making a concentrated go-to software effort this year to push Doris said in her written and she avoids Photoshop as myself a little harder in my interview, “What has always much as possible, In fact, one photography efforts.” excited me about photography, is it’s spontaneity. I especially love to shoot events capturing candid shots showing the natural expressions of people. I have always been a seeker of natural light. It evokes such a tranquil atmosphere for me.” Doris has been an active member of the Southeast Queens Camera Club for over three years. “Not traveling around the world as in the past, my photography has taken on a all images © Doris King new direction. Still life [the self-portrait was originally shot in a mirror and reversed for use in Photo Notes] October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Best Pandemic Pix Don’t forget to tell us You can see more work where you saw it, the name by this Long Island-based CLUB Until the foreseeable, we’d of the photographer, if it’s photographer, Al Bello, at his like to see some of the best not you, and what exactly website shots taken during the you found so special about We’ll continue to run this COVID-19 pandemic. They the picture. column as long as this pan- could be your own work or To start off, here’s one demic is in effect and/or someone else’s photo that photo Bill Apple spotted in members no longer submit jumped off the page of a the Wall Street Journal in images. print publication or stood early September. It ticks all out on a website. the right boxes, he says: Email a photo you want composition, emotional to nominate for this space to impact, and documentation Use the of what exactly this virus has phrase “Pandemic Pix” in done to us and how it has the email’s subject line. forced Americans to live.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Depth of Field by Bill Apple

What’s Black, White, Red (All Over)?

PHOTOGRAPHY Ah, a riddle. Ans.: A newspaper, silly, printed in black and white, read all over! Get it!??!? Monochrome newspapers, like dinosaurs, once ruled the earth—until 1982 when USA Today broke the color barrier, its news photos rendered in cartoony hues. Photography, ‘God & Man’ Leopold Godowsky Jr. (left) and Leopold Mannes, concert of course, had broken its color musicians both (and tinkerers)—known as “God and Man” inside Kodak— barrier long before: Bright invented Kodachrome, with funding from the company. Each had been well- colors, Greens of summer. enough connected to get Kodak’s ear: Godowsky had married the sister of George and Ira Gershwin, Frances, a sculptor and painter. Mannes’s Makes you think all the parents had founded the Mannes School of Music, a conservatory now part world’s a sunny day! And of the New School. (His mother’s maiden name was Damrosch, which everything looks worse in you’ve seen around Lincoln Center.) Credit: Forward.com. black-and-white, you know. Kodachrome™—subject The negatives looked sort of with appropriate dyes on one of Paul Simon’s 1973 ode— normal, but lined up, assem- sheet: Voilà! Color! became the first color film bled, and printed separately with mass appeal, debuting Continued on next page in 1935 and created by a pair of musicians with time on their hands (see “God & Man,” this page, top). Far earlier, a Scottish physicist, one James Clerk Maxwell, beat everyone with his three-color system and made the first color pho- to in 1861 (see “Maxwell’s Clamor,” right). Maxwell shot three black- and-white photos—regular emulsion-coated plates—but placed color filters keyed to Maxwell’s Clamor Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell devised a specific wavelengths in front three-plate system to create the world’s first color photograph, a tartan of his lens: the plates uniquely ribbon, in 1861. He used different color filters over the lens for each plate, captured just reds, just exposing plates separately, then assembled conventional-looking nega- blues ,or just greens, I believe. tives, printing with dyes to reconstitute original colors (see text).

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 Kodachrome, of course, merely to docu- built on that, engineering the ment the surface. ﬁlters and layers into a single Clearly, there ﬁlm stock, with developing are subjects that and printing in Kodak labs. beg for color. Today’s digital cameras are Sometimes, the

PHOTOGRAPHY also beneficiaries of Maxwell’s color is the three-color method: internal subject, period color filters on the sensor (see “Hue and assign pixels individually to Cry,” below). cover reds, greens, or blues. Color is likewise A nagging question: Did great for exotic anyone ever ask whether we travel, flora and need color? fauna, advertising The answer seems a no- and marketing. brainer—of course, we do. But But it’s mono- do we? After all, black-and- chrome that has white photography had been the edge, I believe. spreading nicely across the I often think of globe more than a century Green Envy? Edward Weston called this. color as a case of “Pepper No. 30,” from his still-life series, shot in before Kodachrome, doing too much informa- 1930. Did you know it was green? Do you need to quite well. Like that mountain see the green, or does this monochrome print rise tion: When you climber who first scaled Mt above color? It’s completely about shape, tone, want to peel away Everest, are we shooting color contour, geometry, and so much more. Color exteriors, come only “because it’s there,” or is seems beside the point. face to face with there more to it? the essence of True, we live in a world tography’s core work, which what you’re trying of color, often beautiful in is—literally—“writing with Continued on next page nature. Can black, white, and light.” We use our creativity, shades of gray ever do that technique, equipment, and world justice? hard-won knowledge to Hue and Cry Some subjects beg Actually, it can. It does. represent the world in a to be shot in color—they’re all about the color, but little else. Here’s one of Think of Edward Weston’s compelling way. Our art, like the author’s rare (and early) dips into “Peppers” (see “Green Envy?” art of other varieties, seeks color photography, this one in Coney this page). You won’t be to capture deeper truth, not Island. Sideshows, by Bill Apple missing the verdant hues, ©2001. trust me. Or see anything by Ansel Adams. Still, the question of color’s place in photography is a fair one. What, if anything, does color bring to the table? Color, for me, has mostly been a distraction from pho-

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 PHOTOGRAPHY

to capture, I’d say go for consider other famous photo- Cartier-Bresson railed black and white. In the graphers: Cartier-Bresson, say, strongly against color photo- same way that a good still Richard Avedon, Paul Strand, graphy—after he’d flirted with often beats a quick video, even Weegee. Would they be it briefly. His color work and a black-and-white image half as great if their work had that of other big-name photo- often beats a similar image been in color? (See “Ansel shot in color. Less is more. Does Color,” below.) Continued on next page Really. (See “Monochrome Magic,” above.) Color so often detracts from our work, I have found. Moreover, while I don’t have figures, I am thinking that museums and collectors routinely pay a premium for black-and-white work, perhaps a sign of relative worth. Black and white reduces all subjects to shape, tone, and geometry. As paradoxical as it sounds, some photos actually come alive when drained of color. No wonder so many color images get post- processed into monochrome: Ansel Does Color Beginning in the 1930s Ansel Adams started to bring out their soul, so to experimenting in color, shooting about 3,500 photographs some of speak. which appeared in the first (1993) edition of this coffee-table book. In 2009 the book was revised and expanded, and it used new A thought experiment. scans and printing technology to improve the pictures. Can his Beyond Weston and Adams, color photos match Adams’s black-and-white work?

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 graphers was shown at MoMA (New York City’s Museum of Modern Art) in 1950—its ﬁrst- ever color photo exhibit— curated by Edward Steichen (see ).

PHOTOGRAPHY Some photographers stuck with color. Many did not. When colleagues switched from shooting black-and-white to color, in the 1970s, Paul Strand dubbed it a “disastrous career move.” Even sharper, Cartier-Bresson was quoted as saying, “Color is bullshit.” Tricolor Trike William Eggleston, whose work was the first color photo- Sacré bleu! graphy acquired for the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of On the other hand, photo- Modern Art (MoMA), photographed this suburban scene in Memphis, 1969. grapher William Eggleston— It’s a superlative photograph despite its color (see text). MoMA acquired his pictures early on, the ﬁrst color in its color but not about color. Their critical. And that’s why some permanent collection of pho- composition, geometry, use of pictures naturally stand head tography—is quoted saying, space (positive and negative and shoulders over others. “The world is in color. And space) and viewpoint all con- Any photo that depends so there’s nothing we can do spire to add up to something much on color to carry the day about it.” greater than the sum of parts. is probably not a very good What’s the moral of all In Eggleston, color is just photo otherwise. this? Just as one should pick one factor, and not the most ﬁghts carefully, photographers should pick subjects carefully. Dance Photo Tip taking photographs in a And just as some black-and- studio, or anywhere else, white photographers have giv- Take your photos from a the venue will often have, en color a second look, color low angle. This in itself will distractions in the back- photographers might try re- produce an exciting photo ground—look for them and thinking life in black-and- that will stand out. If you’re work around them. white. A monochrome treat- ment might actually work better in some shots. Color needn’t be the go-to default. Interestingly, some of Eggleston’s most compelling pictures—see “Tricolor Trike,” Behind the Sheet

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Fall Colors with COVID

Fall is a gorgeous time of year across much of the country. Popular destinations draw crowds of tourists looking to feast their eyes on colorful

PHOTOGRAPHY displays and enjoy crisp autumn weather. But there Black Mountain, are also plenty of less-visited North Carolina areas where you can keep your distance during the COVID-19 pandemic while reveling in the The New York City seasonal show. Here are ﬁve to Sierra Club Photo consider… Committee will be holding its monthly meetings virtually using Zoom software for the foreseeable Middleburg, Virginia future. These meetings Caps for You are usually held on the last Wednesday night of the month at 7 p.m. I have several of these brand The October 28th New Paltz, New York new/unopened packages. meeting will be a show Each contains both a body cap by professional shooter and a rear lens cap for Sony E- Mike Moats on Macro mount cameras/lenses. I’m Photography at the giving them away to anyone special time of 2 p.m. who wants to pick them up For all the latest from my doorman. information, go to the Sierra Club Photo Contact Marlene at Committee’s website at Sevierville, Tennessee © Mike Moats

Marquette, Michigan

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These images were all taken in the same area during a long weekend Club ﬁeld trip ﬁve years ago. Can you guess

PHOTOGRAPHY where they were shot? Send your responses to Please use ”Where in the World?” in the subject line of your e-mail. Those who submit correct answers will be announced in next month’s issue of Photo Notes.

Last month’s destination was close by and quite easy—Coney Island. The only correct answer was submitted by PWCCer Joan Slatkin Congrats to Joan!

Photo Notes is looking for images for this ”Where in the World?” column. If you would like to stump and/or amaze your friends and fellow Club members, submit 4 or 5 images of your destination to Please size your images as for competition: 72 ppi; maximum width of 1,400 pixels; and maximum height of 1,050 pixels. Thank you for your participation

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 COVID-19 Humor Misty Morning Tips

Do you wake up early enough in the morning to go outside to shoot some photos? Are you in an area where fog and mist hover over the ground

PHOTOGRAPHY just after sunrise? If you can answer yes to both of these questions, here are some tips for shooting this a.m. phenomenon.

Try getting up high—the tops of hills, mountains, or tall buildings are perfect, as they give you great views over low-lying areas which may hold morning mist and fog like a bowl. Fog and mist can be a diffuser and lower the contrast of your shot. This means using a longer (slower) shutter speed to capture the image. Be sure to use a tripod for these long exposures. Your camera may also have a few exposure problems in this kind of lighting. As a result, you will have to use exposure compensation to rectify this problem. Just remember, they were eventually rescued If your skies appear a bit washed from the island. out, try using either a graduated neutral density ﬁlter on your lens. A polarizing ﬁlter can also help here.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 Using Your Camera Now that we’ve got that by Chuck Pine straight (pardon the pun), it’s time to ﬁgure out where to Broaden Your Horizons place the horizon in the image. For this, the Rule of Thirds Not all images have a horizon comes in handy.

PHOTOGRAPHY line—but many do! And the Most cameras these days ﬁrst thing that most judges will have a level indicator built make a negative comment right into the viewﬁnder. [See about is the horizon not being, above.] well, horizontal. Which one looks better?

Divide the image into thirds. The horizon line usually looks best when placed on (or If your camera close to) one of these two lines. doesn’t have a built in level you can always buy one that slips into the camera’s hot shoe.

If more interesting subject matter is above the horizon,

Obviously, the judge would Sometimes, though, prefer the bottom image. Its tilting the camera can give you horizon is horizontal. results that are worth breaking the rule of having a horizontal It’s better to get the horizon horizon. level when you’re shooting, rather than straightening it in place the horizon low,…or vice the software. versa.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 PhotoShopping Another way to straighten by Chuck Pine a tilted horizon is to use the Ruler Tool and Image Rota- Broaden Your Horizons (Again) tion in Adobe Photoshop.

In this month’s Using Your Using the tool palette

PHOTOGRAPHY Camera column, I wrote about (usually on the left side of getting a horizontal horizon the Photoshop screen), scroll line in the process of shooting down to the 7th tool (usually an image. But, I know that’s the eyedropper). Click on and not always possible when hold down the eyedropper you’re in a hurry, on the move, tool. A menu will appear. or are in the wrong position at Scroll down and select the the time you’ve got to shoot. ruler tool. This column goes through several methods to straighten Next to the word Upright Using the the horizon using software. I clicked on the box farthest to ruler tool, the right (Guided). draw a line along the horizon in the image.

Go up to the menu bar at the top of the Photoshop screen, click on Image and When I moved the cursor then on Image Rotation. When over the image window, the the sub-menu opens, click on arrowhead turned into a big Arbitrary… and then click OK. plus sign (+). Voila, your image is now straightened. Here’s an image where the horizon is off- kilter due to the rocking of the boat and having to shoot quickly to capture the I positioned the + on the breaching humpback whale. As the kids would say, my bad! horizon line and moved the mouse until the guide- I opened the RAW ﬁle line ran along the straight from the camera in horizon—the line I Adobe Camera RAW (this is wanted to be horizon- exactly he same as the Develop tal. I repeated this Module in Adobe Lightroom). process with a vertical I scrolled down the list of line in the image (one panels, clicked on Geometry, of the ship’s masts). and the Geometry Panel Voila! opened. (see column 2, above)

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 Photo Shopping The underwater camera by Chuck Pine is practically a trip down memory lane. While there Getting It Wet used to be dozens on the market, there are only two Underwater shooting has long models in the biggest photo

PHOTOGRAPHY been a favorite hobby of many stores now. photographers, especially those in warmer climates. It’s a lot of fun and it offers you This is an example of a opportunities to take out-of- rigid underwater housing. this-world images like you’ve They are usually made of hard never captured before. plastic or metal. They are made There are basically two to go to the deepest parts of an ways to take underwater ocean. They are rugged. And, photographs. One is to use they are expensive. But they These days UW cameras your current camera in some are the top-of-the-line gear are all pretty basic—no bells kind of underwater housing. once you get hooked on UW and whistles, very little control The other is to purchase a new shooting. over exposure, no interchange- camera that is made to be used able lenses. The price for one under the water’s surface. is $300, the other $600. Your Here’s a brief look at both choice based on the features of these methods… each offers.

Using a zip-top bag is definitely not the way to go! It might in a swimming pool, with a cheap point-and-shoot camera, and just barely break- This is a flexible under- One last thing to mention. ing the water’s surface—not water housing. It’s like a thick This is an underwater LED submerging the whole bag in plastic bag into which you flashlight with a built-in digital the water. insert your camera and seal camera. It takes only 4MP it up to prevent water from still images (and 1080p getting in. It’s easy to use, Disclaimer video) but costs only $300. moderately inexpensive, I do not, nor does anyone else and works in depths up to in the Club, make a profit Oh, how I wish for the days 100 feet or so. If you’re just from the sales of these items. of the Nikonos UW cameras! starting out in UW shooting, Chuck Maybe there are some in a this is the way to go. used condition, somewhere.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 B & H Event Space Wed Oct 28 Garden Portraits B&H Photo offers free work- Speaker: Larry shops. Here are a few of the Lederman upcoming offerings: EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC.

Mon Oct 12 Mon Nov 9 Lightroom Part 2 Lightroom Part 3 Speaker: Rob Sylvan Speaker: Rob Sylvan

Check out the B&H website at for all the details as well as a complete list of additional Thu Oct 15 presentations, and to register Travel Photography for the course(s) of your All photos Speaker: Esteban Toro choice. © the speakers Please note, all of these classes are presented virtually using the Zoom software.

Wed Oct 21 Flower Photography Speaker: Kathleen Clemons

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 34 Photo Contests Wildlife, Portraiture, Still Life, Object, Street Photography, In this time of the COVID and Travel. Get more info at (sounds like a great title for a to have lots of time on our hands. Sure, you can go back and work on some old images The International Color that we never got to, or you Awards Annual Photography can shoot tabletops in your Masters Cup promotes the home (see Expanding Visions 26 finest contemporary shooters in this issue of Photo Notes), or to the world’s leading art you can explore the world of directors, agencies, editors, EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. photo contests. galleries, curators, publishers, Here are some you can The Sony World Photography and dealers of photographic check out (or is it check into)… Awards is made up of four art. The program provides separate competitions: they an international stage for are the professional competi- established professional pho- tion, the open competition, tographers to show their best the youth competition, and work to important industry the student competition. tastemakers who can take their PWCC members are able to profile and reputation to the enter the open competition next level of success. For the which celebrates outstanding non-professional photographer standalone images from it’s an opportunity for their across the world. work to be endorsed by the Photographers of all abilities captains of the industry and can enter multiple single help give them confidence to shots to the following cate- start soliciting for assignments gories: Architecture, Culture, and become pro shooters. Go The Nikon Small World Creative, Motion, Landscape, to Competition first began in Lifestyle, Natural World and for more detailed information/ 1975 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with shooting through an optical microscope. Since then, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographers from the widest variety of scientific disciplines. For more info go to

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 35 More Photo Contests Tamron Webinars Latest Sony Camera

The 2020 AdventurePix Fall Tamron USA, a division of the Sony has just announced the Photo Contest is now open for Japanese lens manufacturer, compact and capable Alpha your entries—but the closing has been sponsoring photo a7C. It combines the quality date of October 31st is almost workshops for many years. and advantages of a full-frame upon us. Most of these have been given sensor with a portable and All images must have the at photo dealers around the sleek body design. It features a theme of Fall/Autumn. All country. Now, because of the 24.2MP CMOS sensor and the images must be submitted to COVID-19 crisis, many of ability to suit both photo and www.adventurepix.com < > these classes are being shown video recording needs along All images must be tagged on-line. Here is a preview of with a form factor for all-day, “2020fallcontest. ” The limit some of these webinars… everyday carrying. EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. of entries is three entries per • October 10th—The Beauty of photographer. Landscape Photography Each image will be judged • October 13th—Simple on quality, originality, compo- Macro and Close-Up Projects sition, and overall look and • October 20th—The Art of feel. The likes and comments Travel Photography each image receives will be • November 10th—Beyond taken into consideration. Macro Cash prizes include: First • November 17th—The World Place-$100; Second Place-$50; In Wide Angle and Third Place-$25. Winners will be announced November 7th. Winnings will be promptly mailed out or sent via PayPal.

All the usual Sony features are included: high resolution OLED electronic viewﬁnder; 5-axis/5-stop in-body image stabilization; 15 stop dynamic range; top continuous shooting To get more information and rate of 10 fps; ISO settings from to join any of these upcoming 50 - 204800; built-in Wi-Fi and events, simply visit Tamron at Bluetooth connectivity; and so much more. Red Tree scroll down to and click on Coming soon to a dealer ©2013 Chuck Pine “Local and National Events” near you—around $1,800 (for the body only).

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 36 EXHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC.

The Club received this email composition, to the use of from from Dr. Kah-Wai Lin, ﬁlters for balancing a scene, the former chair of the PSA’s bringing out those brilliant Cosmopolitan Chapter. evening desert colors, as well as astrophotography. Join Siggi William and Dr. Grab your spot now. For Kah-Wai Lin for this adventure more information, please visit to Death Valley this coming This photography adven- Email me to sign up at ture allows you to visit and photograph Death Valley during the best winter light. Whether you’re a beginner or a skilled photographer, you will leave this workshop with many new skills and fantastic images as keepsakes! We will provide you with countless opportunities to learn the techniques and tricks

professional photographers Both Images

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 37 Monthly Calendars

September October November December 2020 2020 2020 2020 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

For all the details, see the Schedule of Activities on the following pages.

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 38 Schedule of Activities

The Park West Camera Club meets every Monday night (with some exceptions for holidays and a curtailed summer schedule). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all Club activities will be virtual using Zoom software. Members will be given all the SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES information necessary to log into the website and participate. Guests may request log- in details by writing to the Club’s email address and requesting the log-in information Monday, September 7 member will be invited to at No Meeting (Labor Day) submit one image. All the Check the PWCC Website We don’t know if there will be submissions will be put into a any parades this Labor Day. If slide show and distributed to for late-breaking details on all there are, please stay as safe as the membership along with a meetings and other Park West you can by following all the score sheet. Members will have Camera Club activities. safety rules in effect (wearing several days to look at the All meetings begin at 6:30 masks, social distancing, using images, give them a score, p.m. sharp unless otherwise hand sanitizer often, etc.). The write a short comment or so, indicated below. West Indian Labor Day Parade and return the score sheet to For the time being we in Brooklyn has been canceled! be tallied. Tonight we will will list only PWCC activities. Many local communities that show all the images, read the Other listings, including Photo usually have parades today members’ comments, and Events (which may be of may or may not be holding reveal the score. [Note—these interest to photographers) and them—do Google searches or scores will not count towards Photo Ops (which offer contact local police. the year’s cumulative point opportunities to take photos) totals.] are not included below. Monday, September 14 See page 7 of this issue of You Be the Judge Photo Notes for all the details. Good luck! This is an activity that we haven’t done at Park West in the recent past. It is replacing our usual “Welcome Back” image sharing. It’s a cross between a competition and a members’ sharing activity. Prior to this evening, each

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 39 Monday, September 21 ExCom & Bus. Mtg. #1 This is the first Executive Committee and business meeting of the new Club year. All members are invited to join this virtual meeting using Zoom software. There’s always plenty of excitement in the air —especially this year of so many unknowns. The ExCom Thomas Mintz © SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES and the committee chairs will be introduced. You’re invited to provide your own beer, wine, cookies, chips and dip, or whatever. refreshments. [Don’t forget, your Monday, October 5 He teaches multiple sections dues Monthly Competition for of digital photography and is the Tonight is the first competition the faculty advisor to the KCC year are due of the new year. It is also the Photography Club. To learn by tonight! See page Club’s first competition that more about Tommy, go to 4 of this issue of Photo Notes for will be done virtually using the the details.] Zoom software program. Who will win the top honors? What Monday, October 12 will the judge say about your Guest Speaker images? Will you agree? The Tonight’s guest photographer only way to find out the an- is Charles Chessler. Charles is swers to these questions is to a New York City-based pho- Monday, September 27 enter your images and then log tographer. His work includes No Meeting (Yom Kippur) in to Zoom tonight. Full rules portraits and headshots, We will not be meeting tonight will be emailed to all members. cityscapes and city life, images in observance of the Jewish This competition is limited to of wildlife, birds, and flora, holiday of Yom Kippur—the PDI entries only. You may en- and an ongoing project, holiest day in the Jewish ter up to two images in “Agreeable Strangers,” which calendar. For those who tonight’s competition. The celebrates the beautiful diversi- celebrate, have a happy, judge for tonight is Thomas ty of the people and faces he healthy, and sweet new year. Mintz. He is a professional comes across. He began his life For the rest of us, enjoy the photographer, and a college in photography when he evening off. professor in NYC. Tommy is walked across Central Park an Assistant Professor at every day to visit his father at CUNY’s Kingsborough Mount Sinai Hospital. “When I Community College, Brooklyn. crossed the Park I carried my

theme of Halloween. These new camera with me. I had to. Weather Photography. You will could include pumpkins, I’d started noticing things I’d learn about equipment (both costumes, witches, and what never noticed before. Photog- photographic and clothing), ever else reminds you of All raphy took hold of me with a preparing your equipment for Hallows Eve. The images can sense of passion and purpose. the weather (low temperatures, be old or new, but they must I read books, scoured internet snow, rain, whatever), and be yours. Images should be sites, and took classes at the techniques for shooting out in sized as for Club competitions International Center of Pho- the elements. [We do so hope (72 ppi, 1400 px maximum tography. I also began taking that by the time winter arrives width, 1050 px maximum free seminars at the B&H we’ll be able to actually go height). Images must be titled Photo Event Space.” To learn outdoors to shoot without the with your name and a number more about Charles and his fear of getting sick.] representing the order in images, visit his website at As an extra added bonus, which you want them shown. tation were shot on the Club JonesA_02, etc. And most of all, ﬁeld trip, Yellowstone in Winter, they must be fun! Monday, October 19 a few years back. Workshop Cold Weather Photography Monday, October 25 Theme Night—Halloween Tonight’s virtual workshop is a presentation by PWCC’s very Tonight is all about the fun of own President Emeritus, Halloween. Members may Chuck Pine. The topic is Cold submit up to 10 images on the

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 41 to pursue a BFA at New York’s School of Visual Arts. See more about Nir’s life and images atwww.nirarieli.com>

Monday, November 9 Expanding Visions 26 Introduction The all new Expanding Vi- sions class for this year is dif-

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES ferent from previous classes. It is much shorter—only three assignments and running for only ﬁve weeks. It has been © Ismail Ferdous redesigned for the COVID-19 pandemic to keep you as safe Monday, November 16 © Nir Arieli Guest Speaker

Monday, November 2 Tonight’s guest photographer Monthly Competition is Ismail Ferdous. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Ismail Tonight is the second competi- Ferdous has always been tion of the new Club year. It is fascinated by people’s stories scheduled to be done virtually in unreachable communities. using Zoom software. Who As a documentary shooter, he will win the top honors? What covers social humanitarian will the judge say about your issues around the world. To images? Will you agree? The learn more about Ismail and ©2016 Chuck Pine only way to ﬁnd out is to enter see much more of his work, go your images and then log in to to Zoom tonight. Full rules will as possible—all assignments be emailed to all members. may be done in the safety of This competition is limited your own home and the two Monday, November 23 to PDI entries only. You may class sessions (tonight’s intro- George Hansen enter up to two images in duction and the ﬁnal review) Memorial Celebration tonight’s competition. The will be done virtually using George Hansen was a long- judge for tonight is scheduled Zoom. Check out pages 8 and time member of Park West,… to be Nir Arieli. Nir, who has 9 of this issue of Photo Notes for and an excellent photographer previously judged at PWCC, all the details. Start thinking and mentor to many of our was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, about the assignments. And, if members. We lost George a and launched his career as a you wish, get a head start with while back and tonight we’re military photographer for the your shooting. going to remember him, his Israeli magazine Bamachane, before receiving a scholarship

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 42 Monday, November 30 tonight’s competition. The ExCom & Bus. Mtg. #2 judge for tonight is Antonio This is the second Executive Rosario. Tony is a pro photog- Committee and business rapher based in Brooklyn. His meeting of the Club year. All work includes both commer- PWCC members are invited cial and fine art photography. to join this virtual meeting He’s also a film maker and using Zoom software and video editor. Along with being participate in running the a commercial shooter, Antonio Club. There’s always plenty is also a digital imaging and workflow consultant. He trains

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES of excitement in the air— especially this year of so photographers, both advanced ©2016 George Hansen many uncertainties. amateurs and pros, in the use of Adobe Lightroom, Aperture, images, and what people recall and Photoshop as well as in about him, too. We will be various Mac-related software putting together a show of and hardware. To contact him, George’s images to share with go to his blog/website located the Club. We ask members to at submit any photos they have of George from Club activities and/or other events. We are also requesting members to write a few sentences about George, what he meant to you, and how he helped you to be a better photographer. Requests for pictures and words will be emailed to Park Monday, December 7 West members with details Monthly Competition regarding submissions. Tonight is the third monthly competition of the year. It is scheduled to be done virtually using Zoom software. Who will win the top honors? What will the judge say about your © Antonio Rosario images? Will you agree? The only way to ﬁnd out is to enter Monday, December 14 your images and then log in to Expanding Visions 26 Zoom tonight. Full rules will Final Review

©2014 George Hansen be emailed to all members. This competition is limited The Expanding Visions 26 class to PDI entries only. You may ends tonight with participants enter up to two images in sharing their images from each

October 2020 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 43 Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, Kwanzaa, whatever. Interpret the theme any way you like. Members may submit up to 10 images of their choice. The images can be old or new, but they must be yours. They should be NANPA Summit sized the sameas for Club ©2014 Chuck Pine competitions (72 ppi, 1400 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES The North American Nature px maximum width, 1050 px Photographers Association each of the three assignments. maximum height). Images will be holding its annual Each Club member may sub- must be titled with your name nature photography summit mit up to ﬁve images from and a number representing the this comping spring in Tucson, Flower, Food, and Found order in which you want them Arizona. Objects Photography. We will shown. As an example: Jones- Many of you have come to review the images and A_01, JonesA_02, etc. And depend on this biennial event comment on how well they ﬁt most of all, they should be well for inspiration, learning, and the criteria of the assignments. composed, well exposed, and —perhaps most importantly— Please join us on Zoom for this lots of wholesome fun! educational and entertaining connecting with other nature evening. photographers. They are committed to continuing to meet these needs, but they can’t yet say for sure what that might look like this time. NANPA is actively consid- ering all their options for the Summit, with your safety as Monday, December 28 the top priority. At this time, No Meeting (Winter Break) they’re lining up a stellar in- Enjoy the holiday season! Stay person Summit full of the safe and healthy by following activities that you love most, all the safety rules in effect but they're juggling lots of (social distancing, wearing contingency plans, too. masks, using hand sanitizer For all the details go to often, etc.).

Monday, December 21 Theme Night—Holidays Tonight is about the holidays. Your choice—Thanksgiving,

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Club News Photography News 2 Who’s Who at PWCC 24 Depth of Field 3 President’s Message 27 Dance Photography Tip 4 Last Issue??? 28 Fall Colors with COVID 4 PhotoPlus 28 Sierra Club 5 2020 Fall Schedule 28 Caps for You 5 Girls Who Click 29 Where in the World 6 Images of the Month 30 COVOD-19 Humor

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES 9 Point Totals 30 Misty Morning Tips 9 Last Year’s Winners 31 Using Your Camera 10 Competition Rotation 32 PhotoShopping 10 Committee Liaisons 33 Photo Shopping 10 Photo Notes Deadlines 10 Photo Cartoon Exhibits, Workshops, Etc. 11 In Passing 34 B&H Event Space 11 Zooming 35 Photo Contests 11 Anonymously 36 More Photo Contests 12 Expanding Visions 36 Tamron Webinars 14 Minutes 37 Latest Sony Camera 16 Photoville 37 Death Valley Workshop 17 Member Portfolio 18 Member Portfolio Schedule of Activities 19 Coronavirus and Me 38 Calendars 20 You Be the Judge 39 Schedule 22 Member Bio 45 Table of Contents 23 Best Pandemic Pix 45 Panorama of the Month

Panorama of the Month

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