Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club
In This Issue Who’s Who & What’s What...... 2 & 3
May 2013 President’s Postcard...... 3 Editorials...... 4 Competitions...... 5 & 6 Boston Field Trip...... 7 Expanding Visions...... 8 Otto Litzel Dinner...... 9 Club Info...... 10 & 11 Election Procedures...... 12 Field Trip Reviews...... 12, 14 & 18 Minutes...... 13 Meet the Member...... 15 Committee Reports...... 16 Year-End Competition...... 16 Portfolio Pages...... 17 & 19 Rooftop Update...... 18 Depth of Field...... 20 Gallery Watching...... 22 Inquiries...... 25 B&H Event Space...... 25 Adorama Workshops...... 26 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 27 Schedule of Activities...... 28 - 33
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs
The Park West Camera Club is an independent not-for- Archives!Myrna Harrison-Changar profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meet- !212 663 1422 [email protected] ings and activities. Competition! George Hansen! !212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter, Photo Notes, is !!Hedy Klein published every month by and for the members of the !718 793 0246 [email protected] Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are included !! Joan Slatkin! with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions are avail- !212 260 7091 [email protected] able to non-members by e-mail at no charge. Printed issues are available at PWCC meetings. Field Trip!Susan Sigrist! !212 758 0036 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of !!Paul Grebanier photographic or general interest are always accepted. !718 629 7164 [email protected] The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to edit any Gallery!Maria Fernandez submissions which are published. !908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each House!Seymour Perlowitz month. !718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the internet. !!Chuck Elster !917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership!Marlene Schonbrun !212 662 3107 [email protected] Website !! Elena Pierpont www.parkwestcameraclub.org ! 212 956 4515 [email protected]
E-Mail Address Newsletter!Chuck Pine! [email protected] !212 932 7665 [email protected] Program!Marilyn Fish-Glynn Club Mailing Address !212 685 8784 mfi[email protected] 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! Marvin Fink Photo Notes Mailing Address !718 469 5478 marvfi[email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 !!Marjorie Gurd ! 212 662 5032 [email protected]
Club Officers Telephone Tree!Dottie Mills! !212 926 4375 [email protected] President!!Paul Perkus! ! !212 929 1687 [email protected] Website!Ruth Lowell !212 362 4379 [email protected] V. President!!Ed Lee! !!Bob Wine !212 242 8714 [email protected] !212 758 5762 [email protected] Treasurer!!Myron Galef Workshop!Jerry Harawitz !212 249 1270 [email protected] !212 673 2096 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! !212 932 7665 [email protected] Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Cover Photo !212 662 6740 [email protected] Morpho Polyphemus Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! by Chuck Pine ©2013 !212 932 7665 [email protected]
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Postcard Images from the May Competition photos by George Hansen
CLUB May Merry
I don’t have much to say this month, but I’ll be back in June with a farewell letter.
Don’t forget to reserve your space at the Otto Litzel Dinner at Sal- magundi Club on June 10th. Same delicious menu as last year—with apple tart added. Our judge, Peter Kolonia, Happy shooting! from Pop Photo magazine, examining a print All the best. President Paul Perkus calling the meeting to Paul order
The hubbub prior to Photo Notes the competition Publisher: Paul Perkus Yellowstone Reunion Editor: Chuck Pine Committee: Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, Madeleine Barbara, Save the date! The reunion for Ann Broder, Ruth Formanek, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy the Club’s trip to Yellowstone Klein, Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt National Park this past January Contributors: Janna Amelkin, Bill Apple, Lee Backer, will be the subject of our June Madeleine Barbara, Ann Broder, Marilyn Fish-Glynn, 24th meeting. All trip partici- Ruth Formanek, Paul Grebanier, George Hansen, Hedy pants are invited to share their Klein, Barbara Martens, Paul Perkus, Chuck Pine, images, Club members are in- Helen Pine, Gilbert Rios, Judy Rosenblatt,, and Joan vited to join in the fun. Frozen Slatkin snacks will be served. All this will take place at the home of Photo Notes is produced on a MacBook Pro our trip leaders, Chuck and using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. Helen Pine. Reservations are All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or other- required due to limited space. wise believed to be in the public domain. Call 212-932-7665 or e-mail Credited images remain the sole property of their
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Editorial any of the other board posi- Changes at Adobe by Chuck Pine tions: president, vice president, CLUB secretary, at-large—no one! Development of Adobe Creative Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do The current president, who Suite 7, and all plans of future had already successfully creative suite software programs, As many of you know, Helen served three consecutive one- including Photoshop, have been and I belong to several camera year terms, had no choice but discontinued. The only option go- clubs down in Florida. Unlike to preside over the dismem- ing forward will be the Creative Park West, which meets every berment of the organization. Cloud (CC) subscription model. week, they all meet only twice Although we, at Park West, From now on, you will not a month. Well, not exactly. One are not in such a dire position, be able to purchase Photoshop of them will meet no more! it sure feels like we are. We are and download it onto your The last meeting of the Del- in the midst of the Club’s elec- computer. You will only be ray Camera Club was a board tion process and the Nominat- able to use Photoshop by pay- meeting of the officers and a ing Committee is still (as of ing a monthly fee and connect- few interested members (Helen this writing) unable to find ing to Adobe’s Creative Cloud and myself included). The anyone to run for president. via the Web. (Elements and main topic, actually the only It would truly be a shame if Lightroom are not affected by topic, of discussion, was how nobody steps forward to as- this change) The fees quoted to dispose of the club’s as- sume this vital Club position. are anywhere from $20 to $50 sets—a digital projector, and After serving as the PWCC per month depending on a va- about $600 in the bank ac- president for over 30 years, let riety of factors. count. After selling the projec- me assure you that being Adobe will continue to sell tor and closing all accounts, president of Park West is an CS6 for the time being, but will each of the 40 or so members honor, a joy, and not at all on- not say when it will stop sell- will receive a check for about erous. There are four other of- ing Creative Suite programs $20. ficers, all of whom are running and supporting the ones al- Finished! The end! Kaput! for re-election, who have dec- ready sold. Gone! ades of combined experience What are we to do? First, if “What happened?” Two on the ExCom, and who are you don’t have the latest ver- things, in my opinion, contrib- there to share and lighten the sion of your Adobe programs, uted to the club’s demise. First, load. Out-going president, upgrade as soon as you can. several board members pre- Paul Perkus, has stated that he Second, you can sign a peti- vented the group from going is willing to help with the tran- tion to ask Adobe not to do this digital. This caused the mem- sition. And, so am I. to their loyal customers. Here’s bership to dwindle and seems If you have any thoughts one link—there are others… to have kept new members that you might consider the
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Images of the Month by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month Yellow Still Life by Joan Slatkin
Honor PDIs Lotus by Evelyne Appel Japanese Magnolia by George Hansen Hang On For Dear Life by Hedy Klein
Slide-of-the-Month none
Honor Slides none
Print-of-the-Month Braiding in P. R. by Alice Somma
Honor Prints Mumbai Hillside by Elsa Blum Mumbai Laundry by Elsa Blum Through the Water by Sarah Corbin Print-of-the-Month Faux Albumin Print (Tom) by George Hansen Braiding in Puerto Rico Sign From Above by Barbara Martens ©2012 Alice Somma
PDI-of-the-Month Yellow Still Life ©2013 Joan slatkin
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 Cumulative Point Totals by George Hansen CLUB PDIs Prints Thanks to our May judge, Peter Madeleine Barbara 108 Barbara Martens 112 Kolonia, for an excellent job of George Hansen 96 Elsa Blum 110 critiquing and judging our Barbara Martens 96 Madeleine Barbara 86 plethora of images. Eileen Duranko 94 Natalie Manzino 78 Congratulations to all the Chuck Pine 94 George Hansen 76 winners of Image-of-the-Month Marilyn Fish-Glynn 88 Paul Grebanier 74 and Honors. Joan Slatkin 88 Hedy Klein 72 Thanks to all who entered Bill Apple 86 Bill Apple 66 the competitions. Hedy Klein 86 Sarah Corbin 48 And a special thanks to all Paul Grebanier 84 Marvin Fink 40 who made this competition Natalie Manzino 84 Alice Somma 38 happen—the Competition Rita Russo 84 Ruth Formanek 30 Committee—including its co- George Grubb 78 Chuck Pine 26 chairs, George Hansen, Hedy Rain Bengis 72 Ann Broder 14 Klein, and Joan Slatkin, and Nicole Dosso 72 Dorothy Mills 14 committee members Bill Apple, Elena Pierpont 72 Evelyne Appel 6 Eileen Duranko, Chuck Elster, Cheryl Richer 72 Fonda Charne 6 Susan Hoehn, Natalie Ann Broder 70 Michael Wakslicht 4 Manzino, and Susan Sigrist. Marjorie Gurd 66 Janna Amelkin 64 Slides Carole de Beer 64 Joan Slatkin 100 Photo Op Barbara Berg 62 Susan Sigrist 62 Jerry Harawitz 58 Marilyn Fish-Glynn 56 Every Friday night, starting on Michael Wakslicht 58 Rita Russo 38 June 28th and going through Dorothy Mills 54 Elena Pierpont 14 Sarah Davis 44 August, the Coney Island night Christine Doyle 42 sky explodes with the colors Myra Resnick 40 and sounds of fireworks. Start- Evelyne Appel 36 ing at 9:30 p.m. (or later if the Gilbert Rios 32 Brooklyn Cyclones baseball Ruth Lowell 30 game runs late), this free show Dolores Roddy 22 can be seen from the Board- Miguel Paoli 14 walk in front of the amusement Bob Wine 12 parks. A tripod and cable re- Julie Foehrenbach 8 lease is a good idea but is not Donald Donin 4 mandatory (especially if you Jay Bitkower 2 like those wiggly-lined fire- works). And, don’t forget the hotdogs at Nathan’s Famous!
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Boston 2013 We leave New York City on First come, first (re-) Friday, May 24th, traverse the served! CLUB The Park West Camera Club is 230 odd miles to the Boston An information sheet is now planning a 4-day, 3-night area, settle into our motel for a available at Club meetings. trip to Boston, Massachusetts good night’s sleep, and then For more info and/or res- and the surrounding area (if awaken to two-and-a-half days ervations, contact Chuck Pine we have enough cars) which of Boston and its environs. We via phone at 646-549-0187 or includes Lexington, Concord, depart on Monday, May 27th, e-mail at
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 Expanding Visions 19 trips and assignments will be May 16 followed by another review. Trip #2—Central Park CLUB Get out your calendars. Find a Then, the last trip and assign- Leading Lines and Repetition ment and the final review (in- bright red or blue marker. Cir- May 23 cluding the term project pres- cle each and every Thursday Review of Trips 1 & 2 from May 2nd through June entations). The basic thread running 27th. These are the dates for May 30 through the assignments in the all new version of the ever- Trip #3—Madison Square Park Expanding Visions 19 is Draw- popular Expanding Visions. Framing As usual, this nine-week ing Your Attention—all of the class will be free to Park West weekly assignments will have June 6 Camera Club members, and to do with ways to lead the Trip #4—Brooklyn Bridge Park only $75 for non-members (or viewer’s eyes to the subject Triangles and S-curves matter and keep them there. $15 per session up to the $75 June 13 The term project will also deal maximum payment). Review of Trips 3 & 4 Expanding Visions is a with drawing your attention to marriage of a field trip class the subject in your images. June 20 with a class in photographic Not too complicated, is it? Trip # 5—Riverside Park seeing. We throw in composi- Lots of fun and educational, Selective Focus but most of all it will expand tional and technical aspects as June 27 your vision in the photographs well. This nine-week class will Final Review open your mind to new ways you take, and allow you to grow as a photographer. of looking at photographs, sub- As usual, the instructor of this ject matter, equipment, and class is the creator of the Ex- Here’s the class syllabus: more. It will also allow you to panding Visions concept, and explore five of the City’s parks PWCC’s president emeritus, May 2 that you may not have visited Chuck Pine. before. Introduction—Overview of Equipment, Assignments, Des- The format of the class is Fees (for those non-PWCC tination, and Techniques simple: We start with an intro- members taking the class) are ductory session. We will dis- due at the first session (or at May 9 cuss equipment, techniques, each session if paying by the Trip #1—Battery Park and the specifics of the course; week). Cash or check only. a term project will be assigned. Rule of Thirds For the next two weeks we’ll Let us know if you’ll be attend- go on field trips to different ing by sending a message to places around town and work
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 Otto Litzel Dinner ient to public transportation. The downtown M1, M2, M3, CLUB This year’s annual PWCC Otto and M5 buses run right in front Litzel Memorial Year-End Din- of the door. The crosstown M8 ner will be held again at the and M14 (any letter) buses stop historic Salmagundi Club, at Fifth Avenue and leave you which is located at 47 Fifth a short walk to Salmagundi. Avenue, between 11th and 12th The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 trains, as well as the B, D, F, L, N, Q, R, Streets. The date is Monday, breads and spreads. This will and V lines, all have 14th Street June 10th. be followed, of course, by a se- stops that are within two lection of desserts and coffee, blocks of Fifth Avenue. decaf, and teas. (A little birdie On-street parking in the has informed us that an apple area is difficult, but not impos- tart is on the dessert menu this sible (if you’re the lucky type). year.) Parking garages are available Soft drinks are available and expensive—after all, it is from the bar at no cost. Wine at Manhattan! the tables is included as well. However you get there, Other alcoholic beverages are subway, bus, car, or cab, this is on a pay-as-you-sip basis. the Club social event of the The all-inclusive cost (com- year. plete meal, taxes, and tip) is a Don’t miss it! mere $40—a bargain these days. Photo Op For those of us who need a The Social Committee will place to hang out after work be accepting reservations and The season at the Presby Me- and before the festivities begin, collecting payments at all Club the club will open to us for meetings. You may also send a morial Iris Garden in Mont- cocktails (cash bar) at 6 p.m. check to our treasurer, Myron clair, New Jersey usually lasts Dinner will be served begin- Galef, at 345 East 73rd Street, for several weeks from mid- ning at 7 p.m. (more or less). Apt. #8L, NY, NY 10021. Please May into early June. In addi- The dinner will be served make the check out to Park tion to the hundreds of irises, buffet style. You may eat as West Camera Club (or just there are other species of flow- much as you like. PWCC, if you’re in a hurry); ering plants, a babbling brook From past experience, the and please, do not send cash (depending on recent rainfall), meal starts out with a choice of through the mail. Please note: some grand estates with in- salads and dressings. This is reservations will not be ac- credible landscaping, and followed by a selection of main cepted without full payment!!! much more to whet your pho- courses (usually there are beef, Presentations of awards tographic appetite. Admission fish, chicken, and vegetarian and other surprises will imme- is free but donations are ac- choices), side dishes (including diately follow the meal. cepted. For directions and vegetables, potatoes and/or The Salmagundi Club, in more info go to their website at other starchy dishes, etc.), and Greenwich Village, is conven-
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Competition Info Did You Know?
CLUB Here’s some information for our members re- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of garding our Club competitions. All the details Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you may be found in the PWCC By-Laws (Article III) advantages? and/or in the illustrated PWCC Competition Did you know that all of the website and e- Manual. mail addresses are hyperlinks? That means if There will be one slide, one print, and one you click on them, you will be taken to that projected digital image (PDI) competition each website (if you are connected to the internet) or month. to your e-mail program to send an e-mail. Each member may submit up to four images Did you know that the images are in color each month but no more than two in any com- and of higher quality than when printed out? petition. And, you can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. Print and slide entries must be submitted to Did you know that reading Photo Notes on- the Competition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the line saves trees, landfills, inks, toners, water, evening of the competition. PDIs must be e- and other natural resources? mailed to
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 Wanted… PWCC Flickr Group by Paul Grebanier CLUB Did you know that there is a way for PWCC members to share their pictures with other members and the world? Probably not! Seven years ago, a “Park West Camera Club” Group was set-up on the “flickr” picture sharing and social networking site, just for such a purpose. Unfortunately, the idea never really caught on at that time. The weeds of neglect and disrepair have overgrown the site. But the structure is still there—awaiting rehabilitation. What a waste!
…volunteers to write for the Park West Camera When we go on field trips and attend other Club’s Photo Notes. Could be on a continuing PWCC events and take pictures, how do we basis or as a one-shot deal. Experience not nec- easily share them? We don’t! How do we get essary. Enthusiasm is a must-have. Don’t worry feedback on these images? We can’t! The Solu- about spelling or grammar or the like—our tion? Join our flickr group with many other crack editorial staff handles all the details. members, and actively add to and comment on Some suggestions for individual articles or the images to be viewed there. monthly columns are: For those who are not flickr members al- ready, you should know that the site allows • photo magazine reviews members to store and share their pics with mil- • photo workshop reviews lions of other members throughout the world– • Club field trip reviews and also with non-members. Uploading pic- • photographic gallery reviews tures and making comments is easy. Groups of • equipment reviews images and people that share an affinity are • technical/technique articles also easily created and can be shared by any- • photographic hints and tips one. The site is free to join. But if you really be- • computer hints and tips come an active member, showing over 200 pics, • photographic poetry full membership costs $25 a year. • photography puzzles (X-word, jumbles, To view the Park West Camera Club Group, word-search, etc.) go to
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Election Procedures nominations will again be Field Trip Review accepted from the floor. by Ann Broder CLUB At the March competition The third phase of the elec- meeting we began our yearly tion process is the election it- election procedures when self. This occurs at the May President Paul Perkus ap- business meeting. If there is pointed the Nominating only one nominee for each po- Committee. This year the sition, then the presiding offi- Committee’s responsibility is cer at the meeting can ask the huge since Paul has announced secretary to cast a unanimous that he is stepping down from vote for the slate. Should there A gallery hop is one of those ur- the presidency after three very be more than one nominee for ban dances performed by feet that successful years. The Commit- any of the five positions, then a written ballot must be pre- are tucked into shoes made for tee presented a preliminary re- walking! YesterdayApril 11th’s pared and a secret vote taken port at the March business hop with Paul Perkus took us meeting. for that/those position(s). (The down the colorful and noisy corri- secretary can still cast the dor of 57th Street between Madi- unanimous vote for the unop- son and Fifth Avenues. Well pre- posed candidates.) served art deco-style buildings, Members must be present including the famous Fuller Build- to cast a vote. Ballots will be ing, grace the streets with facades that reminded us of an era long counted by the Nominating gone. Committee and announced be- As we danced along the fore the end of the business beaten path we explored the gal- meeting. leries behind the facades and were Finally, the outgoing offi- pleasantly surprised by their mod- cers will be thanked and the ern presence. A perfect back- incoming Executive Committee ground to host photo works by The Nominating Commit- Bill Brandt, Laura McPhee, Gay installed at the Otto Litzel tee presented its final report—a Block, Peter Hujar, and William slate of at least one nominee Memorial Dinner held on the Meyers, to name a few. for each position on the Execu- second Monday in June. The beauty of a gallery hop tive Committee (president, vice lies in the inspiration we walk president, treasurer, away with after the viewing. So many to see, so little time, and corresponding-membership Definitions yet, we must make time if we secretary, and recording secre- RGB—The three primary want to grow in our craft. Thank tary) to the membership at the you, Paul, for giving us the oppor- colors of red, green and blue last meeting in April (the night tunity to explore and admire. that our eyes perceive as the of the Club Auction). basis for every other color. Also at this last meeting in When added together April, nominations will be equally, they make pure opened to the floor. At each white. Most, but not all, digi- succeeding Club meeting lead- tal photography uses an RGB ing up to, but not including, color space. the May business meeting,
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 ExCom Meeting made to continue extended by Lee Backer field trips, but that CLUB Recording Secretary interested participants commit to go, and provide This is a draft copy and has a deposit, farther in not yet been approved by the advance. This would at Executive Committee. least give Chuck and Helen sufficient time to make April 30, 2013 lems with having co-presi- their personal travel plans dents were mentioned, if there is not enough Officers attending—Paul such as needing a unified interest for a trip from the Perkus, Ed Lee, Myron Galef, voice and vote at ExCom Club. Lee Backer, Helen Pine, Chuck meetings, and clearly defin- • Competitions, year-end and Pine (President Emeritus) ing roles and responsibili- monthly—Nancy Sirkis Called to Order – 6:08 p.m. ties for each person so they will be the first judge in the could effectively serve as new Club year. The three • Treasurer's Report—$13,042 one leader. Another option year-end competition in bank, includes $820 discussed was having Ex- judges have been selected. reserved for trips. Auction Com members take turns Several non-standard PDI sales were $1,573. Club on a rotating basis serving and print entries have been proceeds are estimated to as president. This would submitted. The competition be about $350. Myron reduce the number of vot- committee has the author- thanked Chuck Pine, ing members at ExCom ity to disqualify improper Chuck Elster, and Ed Lee meetings to four, which entries. Some PDI email for their help with the was deemed unacceptable. submissions are not being auction. Myron received • received. The problem may many advance requests for Future of Extended Field Trips (including weekend be with the Mail program the auction form, and he on the Macintosh. suggested that the form be trips)—Chuck Pine said it is available on the Club’s increasingly difficult to get • Calumet exhibition—last website. participants, and there are two weeks in September, fewer people with cars and opening either Wednesday • Nominations Progress—No fewer drivers. He asked if or Thursday evening one has agreed to run for we should continue to offer September 18th or 19th; president. Helen Pine these trips. After spending Helen will meet with the would serve if she were in a lot of time and effort Gallery Committee to plan NYC full time. The idea of planning a trip, he must for the show. co-presidents was discuss- cancel it for lack of interest. • Expanding Visions—From ed—allowing two people to These trips provide more 10-12 club members have share the work and make freedom than conventional enrolled, and 20-25 non- the job less onerous, and group tours. A possible members have enrolled; presumably making it more reason for decreased inter- first class session this likely that members would est is the poor economy. Thursday. accept the position. Prob- Recommendations were
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 • Otto Litzel Dinner— associated links as he Field Trip Review Marilyn and Paul will meet thinks would be best. by Ann Broder CLUB with the Salmagundi Club • Summer Meeting Schedule on Thursday, May 2nd, to We gathered below the statue —The following schedule discuss arrangements. was adopted: of Theodore Roosevelt at high Myron will find out what June 24 Yellowstone trip noon, armed with our cameras last year’s tip amount was reunion at the Pine’s and other gear that signaled since this has to be paid in apartment our intent to “shoot” those lit- cash. Awards and prizes July 8 PDI review at the tle critters, “do or die!” will be brought up for Pines' apartment Like an army of ants we discussion at the next July 22 Outdoor model marched through the great business meeting. shoot, led by Ed Lee stone halls to the butterfly • Membership Dues policies August 5 Photograph the room; a delicate environment —An interested potential NYC skyline from New supporting delicate creatures. member would like Jersey, led by Paul Perkus The heavy doors opened, invit- alternative payment August 19 Indoor model ing the invaders to an unfor- arrangements. Normally shoot, led by Ed Lee giving world. The humidity they can be considered for permeated everything causing existing members, but if a Adjourned – 7:48 p.m. hair to frizz, lenses to fog, and new member joined now, clothing to cling. The flutter of he/she would pay a This meeting was held at the wings everywhere caused reduced amount for part of Skylight Diner located on 34th heads to spin, eyes to roll…ok, the year anyway. Then as a Street just west of 9th Avenue ok, I’m being a little dramatic member, the membership —across the street from B&H. here…but you got the “pic- committee can discuss ture,” right? Well, some of us arranging an alternative The next PWCC business did and some didn’t. Me? I de- payment schedule. meeting is scheduled for stroyed those critters with Monday evening, May 13th, at every click…poor things were • Jerry Harawitz, Workshop our usual meeting spot, the wiped out with the wrong ISO, chair, requested that the Soho Photo Gallery. camera shake, and severe over- 2013-2014 Club year exposure!!! calendar be forwarded to For Sale him as soon as it is created, so that he knows what All Nikon items in excellent dates to suggest to potential outside workshop condition with front and rear caps: 35mm f-2.5 AF lens; TC- leaders. A wonderful day in the but- 14A 1.4 teleconverter; PK-13 terfly room at the American • Bob Wine, Website co-chair, extension tube; 28mm f-2.8 D Museum of Natural History, discussed the possible lens; 70-210mm f-4 AF lens; led by Marvin Fink. He specifi- locations on the website to 60mm f-2.8 D/AF macro lens. cally asked us to behave our- place Calumet's logo (in Will accept highest bid. E- selves and not harm the but- return for member mail
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Meet the Member Zealand, Australia, Italy, and by Janna Amelkin England. Every couple of years CLUB Jay visits the west coast, where Jay Bitkower discovered he has friends and family. After PWCC through the internet his wife, who also likes to pho- and joined last year. He took tograph, retires, Jay hopes to the Expanding Visions class travel more. He would like to and found it a lot of fun. Jay worked for 30 years as a go on a safari in Africa. Jay began photographing computer systems manager for About eleven years ago Jay as a teenager. His father was New York City. During this started a non-profit organiza- an amateur photographer, who time he had the opportunity to tion named “Action to Cure took slides with an Argus 35 photograph crews making re- Kidney Cancer.” The main goal mm camera during family oc- pairs on the streets, such as fix- of the organization is to raise casions and vacations. Jay ing potholes and street signs. funds for research on kidney learned to use that camera When it comes to photography, cancer. Jay, who is a kidney from his father. The first cam- Jay is most interested in pho- cancer survivor himself, works era Jay purchased himself was tographing people and doing full time for the organization. a Yashica SLR. street photography. For exam- Jay and his wife also spend In the 1960s Jay and his ple, on a recent trip to Laos much time babysitting for their wife took an extensive seven and Cambodia, he enjoyed son’s children. They also have month long road trip in photographing women on mo- a daughter. Europe. Jay purchased a Leica tor bikes who wore very color- At PWCC, Jay especially range finder camera and at- ful masks. likes the competitions and the tended a free class on the use Jay currently uses a Canon presentations by professional of the Leica. The course was G1X, which is a high-end point photographers. He also finds given in Germany by Ernst and shoot camera. He chose the members very friendly. Jay Leitz Gmbh, the camera’s this camera because he decided hopes to improve his photo- manufacturer. Jay made good he wanted a light-weight cam- graphs through participation use of his Leica during this trip era. The G1X has a large sensor in Club activities. and also of the Saab he had and produces pretty good Welcome to the Club, Jay. purchased, and which he had quality photos. Jay has experi- shipped home at the end of ence with several G-series the trip. Canon cameras. Jay really likes to travel. He remembers that about 35 years ago he and his wife took a trip lasting a couple of months, which involved driving across the U.S. and camping in na- tional parks. The many inter-
national trips Jay has taken in- ©2013 by Jay Bitkower Jay by ©2013
clude destinations such as Images from Images Vietnam Laos & Vietnam, Israel, Jordan, New
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Committee Reports & Chuck Pine on the Upper Year-End Competition West Side. CLUB Competition Committee All interested members are The Year-End Competition by George Hansen, invited to participate. We en- will be held on June 3rd. It is Hedy Klein, and Joan Slatkin courage new members to get different from our monthly involved and learn what's in- competitions: the rules of entry Please submit both your PDIs volved in planning and hang- are different; the judging is dif- in one e-mail to our competi- ing an exhibit. ferent; the rewards are, too. tion mailbox. If you want con- Please let me know of your Each Club member may firmation that your images ar- intention to join us at this Gal- submit up to four prints, four rived, send a separate e-mail to lery Committee. slides, and four PDIs. But, and
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 Portfolio Page CLUB This month we feature the photographs of new Club member, Gilbert Rios. All of these images were shot in Puerto Rico this last February. All images are ©2013 by Gilbert Rios.
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Rooftop Update to meet at 7 p.m. and wait for to the four corners, passing by Barbara Martens the sun to set. The date is May manicured flower beds and CLUB 14th and we meet in front of potted shrubs, just waiting to As many of you know, our first Marge’s building at 545 West be made into iconic photos of rooftop field trip had to be re- 111th Street. Spring. While it was still light scheduled due to the extremely Please use the sign-up sheet we took photos of blue grape cold weather in February. I at a Club meeting or call or e- flowers, bicolored tulips, and must say, however, that some mail me at 551-655-8068 or blue/green succulents, the of my best shots are from that
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 Portfolio Page CLUB This month we feature the photographs of long-time Club member, Madeleine Barbara. The Burchell's Zebra in Etosha National Park, Na- mibia, has a brown shadow stripe between bold black stripes all against a creamy white background. They travel in herds and one never knows what is going to set off an en- ergized confrontation or play- ful encounter. As a photogra- pher I was enthralled by their color, liveliness and drama. These images are ©2010 by Madeleine Barbara.
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 Depth of Field ago. I, for one, need a breather. chives cohorts are putting to- By Bill Apple I must surely be “analog” in gether; and the Photoshop this digital web. salon/workshop that Eileen The Quilting Bee Or as William Wordsworth Duranko and Natalie Manzino put it, in 1807, presented last month. Brother, can you spare a The oral history will cap-
PHOTOGRAPHY The world is too much with ture videos of older members megapixel? us; late and soon, reminiscing about PWCC as it Getting and spending, we lay was. The Club, after all, has Samsung’s Galaxy S4, a smart- waste our powers;— flourished since the late 1930s, phone, has just debuted with a Little we see in Nature that is so there’s plenty of back story. 13-megapixel camera. Not a ours; Chuck Pine, perhaps with the typo: 13 megapixels. From We have given our hearts longest memory of the Club, early reviews, this camera may away, a sordid boon! well best all other cellphones has already been recorded. I for sharpness, color, and low- He was lamenting old- was similarly tapped for tap- light performance. Plus it in- fashioned things and ranting ing about my first stint in cludes more than several gee- against modernity and the in- PWCC, from the mid-1970s till whiz features. dustrial revolution. Two centu- the early 1990s. (I rejoined in An “eraser” mode, for in- ries on, it still makes a refresh- 2008, after retiring.) stance, something like Pho- ing read when you get that The most dramatic changes, toshop’s “content aware” func- stop-the-world feeling. certainly, mirror the switch tion: Should someone blunder Two events collided re- from film to digital photogra- into your frame, his or her cently within my psyche (be- phy: no more darkrooms or the moving pixels will be tagged ware when that happens): an pungent stench of hypo. For for removal, if you choose. “oral history” of our Club that decades, Club darkrooms had (The trick is accomplished by Myrna Changar and her Ar- been the hub around which snapping and comparing sev- eral shots, to “know” which moving oaf to rub out.) You can also make other distrac- tions vanish just by touching them on the screen. There’s lots more legerde- main beyond photography too: The phone responds to head movement as you read, for example, so onscreen text scrolls along with your eyes. And the screen dims automati- cally when you look away. Spook-ee. If you didn’t know it, we’re on a high-tech express that Sew Fine You may see just a quilt being sewn, barreled out of the station long but much more is happening. Trust me on that.
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 members congregated on off- was no less than the passing on ual projects—and, of course, days. Indeed, I originally of received knowledge from gossip. joined for PWCC’s darkroom person to person, generation to I sensed a bit of that com- benefits. A darkroom of my generation. munal “process” during the own, in my vestpocket apart- Now, fast forward to last recent Eileen-Natalie work- ment, was out of the question; month’s workshop with Eileen shop, as members fired ques- PHOTOGRAPHY the Club was a good deal—I and Natalie, also about trans- tions or tossed out suggestions came to love it. ferring knowledge, albeit on to achieve creative ends like There were two enlargers the vagaries of Photoshop. It those being illustrated. That is then, each in its private cubicle, was an evening well spent, and how one should learn and grow and a common room with safe- we need more. For me, how- in photography, not by sitting lights, a mammoth stainless- ever, it highlighted something alone over a computer as if steel sink and ample room for else: an isolation that digital playing video games. drying prints and negatives— technology has forced on us, its In an ideal world we’d be and personal lockers for paper practitioners. harnessing technology in a dif- and chemicals. For the Club’s There is no more Club ferent way. We’d somehow printers, the darkroom was darkroom. These days, we do loop together individual com- always in demand. It func- our computer thing alone, vir- puters, a half-dozen members tioned both as a meeting place tually never consulting one online, perhaps, to simultane- and a photography school. another as we work. We have ously but independently de- If you chanced to be in the foregone a certain person-to- velop our images. You might darkroom alongside a more person back-and-forth. When peek over someone’s meta- experienced Club member, you we do learn from each other, as phorical “shoulder”—check had a chance to learn some- in the workshop, it has the their screen, remotely—to raise thing, often merely by watch- spark and spontaneity of those questions, offer ideas or en- ing. If you were willing to ask, “play dates” that 21st century couragement. You might help and if the other member was parents pre-arrange for kids. guide a novice who’s never forthcoming, it could be an Something’s wrong with this worked with layers, or chan- educational opportunity. picture. nels or Adobe’s magic wandl. You might learn why your You can’t turn back the It would be like working in photo did or didn’t succeed in clock, I know, but lately I have the cubicle next door to an- terms of composition or print been thinking of…quilts, of other Club member during the quality; about why it might quilting bees, and a metaphor. darkroom’s halcyon days. And pay to venture for certain Quilting bees were once if ordinary folk can enjoy daily prints beyond the plain vanilla common communal gather- video chats across the globe, combination of Dektol devel- ings, from Colonial times on, on Skype, why not? Someday oper and Kodak Polycontrast where women and girls came perhaps. paper. You might perfect dodg- together to make (what else?) ing and burning, or the art of quilts. (Men: think barn rais- applying warmed developer by ings, if you like.) Maybe they Q-Tip to a print’s surface, to also showed each other stitches bring out extra tone. and techniques; maybe they If it was anything, what pooled talents on a single went on in that Club darkroom project, or worked on individ-
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Gallery Watching “Eggleston's Guide,” the book ess, which was used solely for by Ruth Formanek accompanying his first exhibit commercial purposes, and took and Judy Rosenblatt at MOMA (1976). That exhibit it for his own. was roundly panned by critics In a fascinating video on This month we highlight two as, for instance, “perfectly ba- Eggleston in the Imagine exhibits at the Metropolitan nal, perfectly boring.” But Eg- Documentary series (which PHOTOGRAPHY Museum of Art. gleston had the last laugh, as you can get to via Google), Eg- we shall see. gleston’s wife tells how he At War With the Obvious: Photo- William Eggleston was came to photograph his iconic graphs by William Eggleston; born in Memphis, Tennessee, southern landscape: “Bill at Metropolitan Museum of Art— in 1939 and that has been his one time said to a great, highly Howard Gilman Gallery, 1000 home base, though he has respected friend, ‘Well, what Fifth Avenue; through July traveled extensively. An impor- am I going to shoot? Every- 28th tant part of his childhood was thing here is so ugly.’ And our time spent with his grandpar- friend said, ‘Photograph the Judy writes: ents at the family plantation in ugly stuff.’ Well, we were sur- Even if you don’t recognize Mississippi. From his boyhood rounded everywhere by this Eggleston’s name, you will he seems to have marched to plethora of shopping centers probably recognize some of the his own drummer. He was ar- and ugly stuff. And that is iconic images of the suburban tistically inclined—drew, really initially what he started and rural south in this exhibit, played the piano. He attended photographing.” so pervasive has his influence Vanderbilt and the University And so we have the shacks been on American photogra- of Mississippi but never got a and posters and telephone phy since the late Twentieth degree. During those years he poles and cars and signage that Century. This show celebrates became interested in photog- the above-mentioned critics the museum’s acquisition of 36 raphy, a friend having given saw as banal. Yet when pre- dye transfer prints by Eggles- him his first Leica. He was sented in luminous tones and ton, including prints from greatly inspired by Cartier- composed with strong abstract Bresson’s book, The Decisive qualities (though with a decep- Moment. It was “the first seri- tively casual look), these im- ous book I found, from many ages are far removed from the awful books.” realm of the snapshot. Many By1965 Eggleston was ex- photographic “rules” are bro- perimenting with color; the ken in the process. black-and-white art photogra- In one image a small, lone phy of such masters as Ansel figure of a woman in a sleeve- Adams held no interest for less dress stands almost in him. Although they also dead center, in a field. The worked in b&w, his real pho- horizontal scene is almost tographic compatriots were equally bisected by the horizon Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, line. A competition judge and Gary Winogrand. wouldn’t be happy with this! untitled In the early 1970s he stum- The static quality of the com- ©1971 by William Eggleston bled on the dye transfer proc- position is relieved only by the
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 diagonal thrust of the road on the line between what really is the right and the border be- mundane and what’s tran- tween dirt and grass on the scendent is a thin one. And the left. She is literally stuck in the problem is that by now this middle of nowhere. And you everyday subject matter that wonder, “Is this the story of was once considered boring PHOTOGRAPHY her life?” has been so thoroughly ex- But the edginess of Eggles- plored by photographers as to untitled ton’s work is balanced by other become clichéd—and there- ©1974 by William Eggleston everyday scenes, like a long fore, boring. Happily for Eg- abandoned swing set over- gleston, he is one of the pio- should have a chance to be grown with weeds that you’d neers who pushed photogra- seen, not merely what came probably walk right by. The phy’s envelope into color and out of the big studios. Eggles- image makes you pause and more “democratic” subject ton also extended what is to be feel a tender sadness for the matter when it was relatively photographed and seen but his loss of childhood. I happen to new territory, and so earned curmudgeonly comments are have a later book of Eggles- his place in the photographic non-political. They suggest ton’s photos (The Democratic pantheon. His contrarian slant impatience and irritation with Forest) and in his best work on life and photography is questions people asked him. there I see scenes of nothing evident in the pithy quotes on I see Eggleston’s impor- special—a turn in a country display above the images. tance as a teacher and as a road, a gas station stuck be- searcher for new photographic tween an approaching truck Ruth responds: subject matter; the history of and the back of a car—that Eggleston’s prints must have photography has been en- spark a sense of having been met with a sensational re- riched by his work. there many times and never sponse: He used ordinary sites noticed. Some of it is “ugly and people who just happened James Nares’ Street; Metropoli- stuff,” but it’s the stuff of our to be there when he arrived tan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth lives today. It suggests a ten- with his camera. No staging, Avenue; through May 27th derness he would probably no emphasis on beauty, or never admit to. drama, or meaningful social Ruth writes: I should honestly say, critique, just what later came to The people James Nares filmed though, that not all of Eggles- be called “vernacular” and on the streets of Manhattan ton’s work resonates with me; “street” pictures. Taking this look like performers on a huge new direction was a subversive stage. Those close to the cam- act and the quotations above era look like out-of-focus cut- his prints suggest that he is a outs swimming in space. curmudgeon. Nares filmed his video with A different kind of critique a high-definition Phantom Flex was used by theorist Amos Vo- camera (with an Angenieux gel (Film as a Subversive Art), a Optimo 17-80 millimeter T2.2 book based on Socialist and zoom lens). The edited footage untitled anti-censorship trends. Vogel from many, many hours of ©1970 by William Eggleston believed that anything on film shooting is shown in slow mo-
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 tion, but the video employs the horizontal another trick: the Phantom escalators at Flex is usually used in a sta- airline termi- tionary position to film fast- nals that help moving subjects, but Nares’s you to reach camera reversed this. He your gate. Why PHOTOGRAPHY placed it in the back of an SUV Nares used a driven through Manhattan. constant speed, The motion is mostly from left or the same per- still from Street to right, but some sequences spective, or the same guitar ©2011 by James Nares are reversed and people seem sound is not clear to me. to walk backwards. This is a multi-media streets of New York, found it a People wait on street cor- show and, as such, unusual for unique experience. Seeing ners, some look like they’re the Met. The museum has also something so familiar trans- hailing cabs as they are raising given two large galleries to formed into something so dif- their arms. Lovers hug, others Nares to curate an exhibit of ferent seemed magical. to me. I speak on cell phones (but no the Met’s collection of draw- disagree with Ruth that it sound), some ignore the cam- ings, old movies, and lots of deadens Manhattan: if the era and others seem to ac- wonderful photographs, all sounds of the city were part of knowledge it. A pigeon flies with some connection to urban it, it would have been more and children walk in slow mo- life. But the connection is like a documentary, less poetic. tion. And slowly falling rain sometimes loose and I couldn’t To me it represented the flow looks like snow. Occasionally, figure out why a particular of life in a beautifully dream- while watching, you will have item was included. For exam- like way. I was always waiting the feeling that you recognize ple, a painted bronze of seven for something to happen (did someone or that perhaps figures and one head by Gia- the musical chords contribute you’re in the video yourself. cometti is beautiful but, enti- to that?) even though I knew it Nares keeps the camera tled The Forest, must have got- wouldn’t. And it certainly ful- trained at the same level, that ten into this show by mistake. filled Eggleston’s notion of any is, above people’s heads and We recommend that you subject being as worthy as any below the knees. Sometimes visit this show, see the video, other, since the camera picked you can tell where people are and the photographs by all the up everything that came its in the city by the street signs. people you admire: Lewis way. He would certainly ap- The original guitar sound- Hine, Walker Evans, Robert prove! track detracts from the impact Frank, Helen Levitt, Diane Ar- of the video by lulling you to bus, James Van Der Zee, If you go to the Met to see sleep. It also prevents the ac- August Sander, Rudy Burck- these two shows, there's an- tual sounds of the city from hardt, Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, other exhibit there that makes being heard, and thus contrib- Atget, Abbott, etc., etc. But a visit worthwhile: Photography utes to its abstract quality. The hurry! It closes May 27th. and the American Civil War. It video, although dreamlike, runs for quite some time and we’ll review it in next month’s deadens Manhattan. Judy responds: column. The slow speed of the video I was entranced by this video reminded me of the speed of and, familiar as I am with the
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 Inquiries B & H Event Space Tuesday, May 28th by Chuck Pine Bronx Zoo Photo Safari B&H Photo offers free work- Speaker: David Cardinal What are the differences between shops. Here are a few of this a tele-extender and an extension month’s offerings: tube? PHOTOGRAPHY Monday, May 20th Although both tele-extenders Using Flash Outdoors (or tele-converters) and exten- Speaker: Cliff Hausner sion tubes are both tubular- shaped accessories that fit be- tween a lens and a camera body, they are constructed dif- Wednesday, May 29th ferently and have different Fine Art Digital Printing uses. Speaker: Robert Rodriguez Extension tubes are totally hollow. You can actually stick your finger through it. They Wednesday, May 22nd are used to extend a lens fur- How to Create a Website ther from a camera body than Speaker: Natalie Gourvitch is normal. This set-up is used to reduce the distance at which Wednesday, May 22nd a lens can focus. For example, Introduction to Photoshop CS6 if a lens normally focuses at 12 Speaker: Andy Graber inches from a subject, say an Wednesday, May 29th insect, using an extension tube Intro to DxO ViewPoint will allow it to get closer, thus Speaker: Hector Martinez giving you a larger, more frame-filling, image—a sort of Check out the B&H website at poor person’s macro lens.
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 Accessory Quiz Workshops @ Adorama Wednesday, June 12th Lightpainting Can you name this photog- The workshops at Adorama Speaker: Dave Black raphy accessory? No prizes, cost $25 each. Payment is due just a fun challenge! Send upon registration. No walk-ins your guesses to the website are permitted. It’s not all bad, PHOTOGRAPHY
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 Nikon School most out of them; and Monumental Sculpture • Image editing—the features Santa Claus is coming to town, The New York Botanical Gar- and techniques of Nikon den (in the Bronx) has an ex- and so is the Nikon School. It View and Capture software. hibit of monumental propor- will be in the City on the This class costs $159. tions which runs through May weekend of June 8th and 9th. Class fees include the day- 26th. Drawing inspiration from long session (from 9:30 a.m. to the Garden's natural landscape, On Saturday, the 8th, will 4:30 p.m.), resource materials, acclaimed Spanish artist Ma- be Session One. This class is for and lunch. The classes will be nolo Valdés brings seven tower- those who haven't been able to held at The Lighthouse Theater ing sculptures to five distinctive translate creativity into good in the Goldman Building, 111 sites in a captivating showcase photographs and those who’d East 59th Street (just east of of the relationship between art ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. like to make better pictures but Park Avenue). and nature. Valdés has created don’t think they're creative. Register for either course at new monumental sculptures Topics will Include: www.nikonschool.com/teach that respond directly to the • Composition: where things Space is limited to the seating Garden’s celebrated plant col- should go in the frame and capacity, so act now! how to put them there; lections. Examples include • People: candids and for- Fiore a 17-foot-high bronze and mals, people at work and at steel work inspired by oak and ease; maple trees; Butterflies, a 50- • Travel: the great scenics, foot-wide aluminum sculpture; foregrounds and back- and Ivy, a 15-foot-tall structure grounds, details; and reminiscent of palm leaves. • Life events: birthdays, cele- brations, parties, picnics, etc. This class costs $149. On Sunday, the 9th, will be Mark Your Calendars Session Two: Color, Light, Tech- nology. This class is for those The PDN PhotoPlus Interna- who have a basic understand- tional Conference + Expo is the ing of working with their cam- largest photography and imag- Admission to the Garden is eras and want to learn more ing show in North America, free all day Wednesdays and about its capabilities. Topics attended by over 24,000 pro- between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on will include: fessional photographers and Saturdays. Additional fees may • Light—how to use it, control enthusiasts. Explore over 250 apply. Check it out at the web- it, modify it; exhibits, see thousands of new site
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club * Monday, May 13 of nature and macro tutorials. meets every Monday night Business Meeting The show begins at 6:30 p.m. (with some exceptions for Tonight is our final business and is held at St. Margaret’s holidays and a curtailed sum- meeting of the year and we House, 49 Fulton Street (near mer schedule). Please join us at have a lot of business to cover. South Street Seaport). The clos- a meeting or on one of our To begin with, we will be vot- est subway is the #2 or #3 train other scheduled activities. ing for next year’s officers. We at the Fulton Street station, but All Club Monday night will also be approving the bud- others are nearby. A $2.00 do- SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES meetings take place at the Soho get for the 2013-2014 Club year. nation is requested. Photo Gallery located at 15 Lots of other items are on the * Wednesday, May 15 White Street, between West agenda to be discussed, as Field Trip—Bronx Zoo Broadway and Church Street/ well. Members will receive a Avenue of the Americas (6th copy in advance. As usual, Spring has sprung, and by now Avenue) unless indicated oth- we’ll end up with refreshments it should be warming up erwise in the listings below. and a bit of socializing. nicely, so how about a trip to Following the schedule of ac- the zoo? All your favorite ani- tivities are detailed directions * Tuesday, May 14 mals will be out in their best to each of our meeting sites. Gallery Committee Meeting outfits for you. And, best of all, Check the PWCC Website the Bronx Zoo is free on Wed- All are welcome to attend this
May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 Pay-Per-Ride MetroCard (or culture and cuisine. Experience g> The curtain raiser tonight is bring lots of coins). You can the delightful tastes of various Club member Marilyn Thypin. also take the #2 subway to the cuisines from many countries Pelham Parkway station and including Poland, Italy, Spain, Tuesday, May 21 walk 2 blocks to the Bronx Greece, Japan, Thailand, and Photo Event— River Gate (Gate B) to meet up many others. There will be Tuesday Evening Hour with Jerry at around 10:40 a.m. games and fun activities for the Tonight’s digital presentation To register, contact Jerry at 646- children. There will be live is Northeast India and Tiger Sa- 823-7223 or e-mail him at stage entertainment of interna- fari by Laurie Campbell, educa-
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES or sign up at any meeting. Street. The Fair runs from noon countries. See the listing under to 5 p.m. on both days and May 14th for more info. * Thursday, May 16 stretches from 42nd Street up Expanding Visions 19 to 57th Street. Bring your cam- Wednesday, May 22-29 era, bring your walking shoes, Tonight is the second field Photo Op—Fleet Week and bring your appetite. trip/assignment of the Ex- Starting today, and hosted panding Visions 19 class. To- nearly every year since 1984, night’s assignment has to do Fleet Week New York is the with leading lines and repeti- City’s celebration of the sea tive elements in images. This services. This annual event also session will begin at 6:30 p.m. provides an opportunity for and will take place in the the citizens of New York City south end of Central Park. We and the surrounding area to meet on the corner of Central meet Sailors, Marines and Park West and Broadway in Coast Guardsmen, as well as Louis front of the steel globe sculp- witness first hand the latest ca- © Justin Quinnell ture at Columbus Circle. pabilities of today’s Navy, Ma- rine Corps and Coast Guard. * Monday, May 20 Fleet Week includes dozens of Guest Speaker--Justin Quinnell military demonstrations and Tonight’s guest photographer displays throughout the week, is Justin Quinnell. Justin is a as well as public visitation of master at making weird and many of the participating Saturday—Sunday, wondrous pinhole photos. He ships. For details, go to < May 18 and 19 recently worked as the pinhole www.fleetweeknewyork.com> Photo Op—Food Festival consultant for the movie The This is a New York City tradi- Brothers Bloom and his cameras tion you can't miss! Every are featured in the film. Justin Spring, The Ninth Avenue In- is also one of the forces behind ternational Food Festival wel- World Pinhole Day (this year it comes guests who gather to was on April 28th). For more celebrate New York City’s information on Justin and on prosperous and diverse food pinhole photography, visit May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 * Thursday, May 23 Tuesday, May 28 ers and Expanding Visions 19 Photo Event— Tuesday Evening Hour Tonight is the first review session/critique of the all new Tonight is the annual year-end Expanding Visions 19 class. fund raiser and dinner party. Cyclamen Reservations are required—call Please follow the instructions Ippolito Denise © in preparing your digital im- 212-964-3936. The digital pres- ages for projection. This ses- entation this evening will be sion is scheduled to begin at 7 Worldwide Architecture by Car- p.m. and will take place at the los Esguerra, computer analyst SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES home of our instructor, Chuck and landscape photographer. art. The meeting, open to the Pine. [See below for direc- See the listing under May 14th general public, begins at 6:30 tions.] Please note, if there are too for more info. p.m. A $6 donation is collected many participants, we will have to upon entry. The NYC Sierra split into two groups, an early Wednesday, May 29 Club Photography Committee group at 4:30 p.m. and late group Photo Event—Sierra Photo meets at the Metropolitan Op- at 7 p.m. The New York City Sierra era Guild, on the 6th floor of Club’s Photography Commit- the Rose Building at Lincoln * Friday-Monday, May 24-27 tee is holding its meeting to- Center. The address is 70 Lin- Field Trip—Boston night. The program for this coln Center Plaza, located on See the article on page 7 of this evening is a presentation by the north side of West 65th issue of Photo Notes for com- Denise Ippolito. Denise Ippo- Street, between Broadway and plete details. lito is a professional freelance Amsterdam Avenue, closer to photographer, artist, and Amsterdam. From the street writer living in NJ. She was a level, take the stairs, elevator, moderator for an online pho- or escalator up one level and tography site where she proceed through the revolving worked in the OOTB (Out of doors into the lobby to get the the Box) Forum for four years. elevator up to the 6th floor. May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 son Square Park and begins at * Thursday, June 6 walk of a few short blocks. See 6:30 p.m. We meet on the cor- Expanding Visions 19 page 9 of this issue of Photo ner of 23rd Street and 5th Notes for all the details. Tonight is the fourth field trip/ Avenue/Broadway—right assignment of Expanding Vi- where the Flatiron Building sions 19. Tonight’s assignment Tuesday, June 11 comes to a point. is on triangles and S-curves. Photo Op—Museum Mile This session will take place in Festival * Thursday,November 15 Brooklyn Bridge Park and be- Print Workshop New York City has officially gins at 6:30 p.m. We meet in designated Fifth Avenue from All Club members are invited front of the Ice Cream Factory 82nd to 105th Streets “Museum SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES to bring a dozen or so images where Water and Old Fulton Mile” because of the vast rich- for this workshop. Bring work Streets cross. ness and cultural diversity of prints, finished prints, what- the ten museums found there. ever…for an honest, but gentle, This festival is billed as New critique of your work. This York’s longest block party. Ac- workshop has limited space so tivities of all kinds will be tak- sign up in advance. Contact ing place on the street (5th Ruth Formanek at 212-799- * Monday, June 10 3984, May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 31 group at 4:30 p.m. and late group place of the meeting are yet to at 7 p.m. be determined. This meeting is open to the membership—with Friday, June 14 voice but without vote. Photo Op—Flag Day Parade * Thursday, June 20 The 235th anniversary of the Expanding Visions 19 other with full body paints of adoption of the American Flag every color and description. by the Continental Congress in Tonight is the fifth and final You’ll also be able to shoot the 1777 will be observed in New field trip/assignment of Ex- parade of antique cars, among York City with a parade. En- panding Visions 19. Tonight’s SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES many other oddities of the thusiastic school children, assignment is on selective fo- area. The staging areas this bands, historic and patriotic cus. This session will take year are along Surf Avenue, groups will participate with place in Central Park at the west of MCU Stadium, on 20th American flags of every shape Community Garden and be- and 21st Streets. Take the ‘D’ or and size. The Parade will start gins at 6:30 p.m. We meet on ‘N’ train to the Coney Island/ at 12 noon at City Hall, Broad- the northwest corner of Broad- Stillwell Avenue station or the way and 93rd Street in front of ‘F’ or ‘Q’ train to the West 8th the green grocer, Han’s Market. Street/NY Aquarium station. If you thought the Village Hal- loween Parade was great, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet—and this is all in the daylight! way and Park Place, proceed Definitions south on Broadway, east on Saturday, June 22 Aperture—measured in f- Fulton Street, turn south on Photo Op—Mermaid Parade stop numbers, it is the open- Water Street, then north onto Outrageous! That’s the word ing in a lens that controls the Broad Street passing the Flag that comes to mind when any- amount of light that hits the Day Ceremony Stand in front one mentions the Mermaid Pa- sensor, thereby affecting ex- of Fraunces Tavern Museum at rade. This annual Coney Island posure. A small f-stop num- the corner of Broad and Pearl event is celebrating its 28th ber (i.e., f-2.8) represents a Streets. There will then be Anniversary. Although the pa- wide lens opening, which ceremonies with songs, proc- rade through the streets and on allows more light to pass lamations and recitations hon- the boardwalk begins at 1 p.m. through the lens to the sen- oring "Old Glory." You’ll find better photo ops by sor and is beneficial in low- getting there around 11 a.m., light conditions. A larger f- * Monday, June 17 purchasing a press pass for stop number (i.e., f-16) nar- Executive Committee Meeting $10, and shooting in the stag- rows the lens opening and The Club’s elected officers ing areas. You’ll be able to allows less light to hit the (plus the President Emeritus) mingle with the participants as sensor. The latter provides a will meet to discuss the future they prepare their floats, don broader depth of field, while of the Club including next their scanty and/or intricate the former decreases the year’s program. The time and costumes, and drench each depth of field. May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 32 * Monday, June 24 * Thursday, June 27 Directions to Soho Photo Yellowstone Reunion Expanding Visions 19 at 15 White Street, between Tonight’s Club meeting is Tonight is the final review ses- Avenue of the Americas/Sixth dedicated to those of us sion of Expanding Visions 19. Avenue and West Broadway. Take PWCCers who went to Yellow- Please follow the instructions the #1 train to the Franklin Street stone National Park this past in preparing your digital im- station (one stop below Canal January. Each of the partici- ages for projection. The term Street). Walk one block north on pants will be sharing their per- projects will also be reviewed West Broadway to White street, sonal experiences with images at this time. This session is make a right turn, and walk half a block to the gallery. Take the A, C, SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES and tales of the cold and the scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. snow. More info will appear in and will take place at the home or E train to the Canal Street sta- the next issue of Photo Notes. of our instructor, Chuck Pine. tion. Walk south on Sixth Ave- [See below for directions.] nue/ Church Street 3 blocks to Please note, if there are too many White Street, make a right turn, participants, we will have to split and walk half a block to the gal- into two groups, an early group at lery. Although a little bit longer 4:30 p.m. and late group at 7 p.m. walk, take any other train to Ca- nal Street, walk west to Church Definitions Street, and follow the directions Wednesday, June 26 immediately above. Evening park- Photo Event—Sierra Photo Artifacts—Digital image ing is limited, but available. anomalies caused by the im- The New York City Sierra age sensor, optics or internal Club’s Photography Commit- image processing of the tee is holding its meeting to- camera. These anomalies in- night. Come join them for clude: blooming (brightened some refreshments as they highlights usually visible celebrate the end of their year. along high-contrast edges); Sierra Club Photo Committee maze or moiré artifacts (as members may present up to the name implies, maze arti- Directions to the Pine’s eight images in either digital or facts appear in a maze-like at 680 West End Avenue at 93rd film slide format. Please arrive pattern, while moiré artifacts Street, Apartment 5D: Take the by 6:15 p.m. to load your digi- occur as wavy lines); chro- #1, 2, or 3, trains to 96th Street tal images (memory stick or matic aberrations; jaggies (exit at the south end of the sta- disc) into the computer or your (pixels visible in a stair- tion) or the M7, M11, or M104 slides into the tray. See the list- stepped pattern, usually bus to 93rd/94th Streets. From the ing under May 29th for direc- along straight or curved train or bus, walk the few steps to tions to the meeting location in lines); noise; and sharpening 93rd Street, make a right turn and the Lincoln Center neighbor- halos (a bright area similar to head west to the apartment en- hood. A $6 donation is re- blooming appears along an trance on the corner of West End quested at the door. edge when an image has Avenue and West 93rd Street. been oversharpened). May 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 33 Park West Camera Club 680 West End Avenue, #5D • NYC 10025 www.parkwestcameraclub.org [email protected] Photo Notes May 2013