Park West PHOTO NOTES Camera Club March 2013
In This Issue Who’s Who & What’s What...... 2 & 3 President’s Letter...... 3 Competitions...... 4 & 5 Boston Field Trip...... 6 Expanding Visions...... 7 Club Info...... 8 & 9 Election Procedures...... 10 Rooftop Update...... 10 Minutes...... 11 Committee Reports...... 11 Auction...... 12 Year-End Competition...... 12 Meet the Members...... 13 Depth of Field...... 16 Gallery Watching...... 18 Inquiries...... 21 B&H Event Space...... 21 Adorama Workshops...... 22 Exhibits, Workshops, Etc...... 23 Schedule of Activities...... 24 - 30 PhotoShopping...... 31
March 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] Flapping Gallinule Pres. Emeritus Chuck Pine by Chuck Pine ©2013 212 932 7665 [email protected]
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 2 President’s Letter It is rewarding to see one’s New in Photo Notes vision affirmed, to see a reluctant new committee chair grow into CLUB Starting next month in Photo mastery of the position, to see Notes there will be a portfolio September Song everything working smoothly, as it page. Each Park West member We appointed a Nominating does at competitions, and to get to will have an opportunity to Committee for next year’s officers know other members better, from share a small portfolio of his/ at the competition on March 4th, the shy to the boisterous. One is her images with the rest of the to get a jump on the search for a also the chief spokesperson for the new president. I trust the other Club to the outside world. Being Club and the world. officers will continue for another president is an opportunity to en- If you are interested, please year if asked by the committee, as gage with photography and pho- submit five or six images, I expect they will be. tographers beyond the Club. sized as for a competition, to I will ask the Nominating So, it’s a great job, working
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 3 Images of the Month by George Hansen CLUB PDI-of-the-Month Japanese Cemetery by Madeleine Barbara
Honor PDIs Rust and Dirt by Rain Bengis Best Seat by Ann Broder Snow 01 by Christine Doyle Leftovers by Eileen Duranko Snow Chair by Eileen Duranko Baskets by Marilyn Fish-Glynn PDI-of-the-Month Shadowed Dormer by Marilyn Fish-Glynn Japanese Cenetery Bald Head by Jerry Harawitz ©2010 Madeleine Barbara Crossing the Street by Jerry Harawitz Smile by Hedy Klein Around Noon by Barbara Martens Slide-of-the-Month Night Flight by Chuck Pine Neon Abstract Leaf in Water by Gilbert Rios © Joan Slatkin Roadsign by Gilbert Rios
Slide-of-the-Month Neon Abstract by Joan Slatkin
Honor Slides Obama #1 by Marilyn Fish-Glynn
Print-of-the-Month Love Story by Barbara Martens
Honor Prints Old Man India by Elsa Blum Plitvice Forest by Natalie Manzino
Print-of-the-Month Love Story ©2013 Barbara Martens
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 4 Cumulative Point Totals by George Hansen CLUB PDIs Thanks to our March judge, Eileen Duranko 78 Don Burmeister , for an excel- Madeleine Barbara 76 lent job of critiquing and judg- Barbara Martens 72 ing our images. George Hansen 70 Congratulations to the win- Marilyn Fish-Glynn 68 ners of Image-of-the-Month and Natalie Manzino 68 Honors. Thanks to all who en- Chuck Pine 66 Prints tered the competitions. Bill Apple 64 Barbara Martens 82 And a special thanks to all Hedy Klein 62 Elsa Blum 78 who made this competition Paul Grebanier 62 Madeleine Barbara 72 happen. Rita Russo 60 Paul Grebanier 58 Joan Slatkin 60 Natalie Manzino 58 Nicole Dosso 56 Hedy Klein 56 George Grubb 54 George Hansen 54 Rain Bengis 54 Bill Apple 52 Cheryl Richer 52 Marvin Fink 30 Barbara Berg 50 Chuck Pine 26 Carole de Beer 50 Ruth Formanek 20 Ann Broder 48 Ann Broder 14 Jerry Harawitz 46 Sarah Corbin 14 Elena Pierpont 46 Dorothy Mills 14 Tuscan Muse Marjorie Gurd 44 Alice Somma 8 Michael Wakslicht 44 Evelyne Appel 6 The seats for the Tuscan Muse Janna Amelkin 38 Fonda Charne 6 Fine Arts Through a Lens are fill- Dorothy Mills 38 Michael Wakslicht 4 ing! To completely fill the class Sarah Davis 32 with inspired and creative pho- Myra Resnick 32 tographers Tuscan Muse will ex- Christine Doyle 26 tend their early bird reduced Evelyne Appel 24 pricing through March 31st. Ruth Lowell 24 Fine Art Through a Lens is Dolores Roddy 22 your opportunity to create, be Gilbert Rios 20 inspired, see Tuscany, and to be Bob Wine 12 Slides wined and dined by Italy’s much Miguel Paoli 10 Joan Slatkin 70 beloved Master Chef, Enrico Ca- Susan Sigrist 48 sini. Marilyn Fish-Glynn 44 For complete details and reg- Rita Russo 30 istration, go to their website at Elena Pierpont 14
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 5 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 will now planning a 4-day, 3-night area, settle into our motel for a be 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
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 6 Expanding Visions 19 followed by another review. May 16 Then, the last trip and assign- Trip #2—Central Park CLUB Get out your calendars. Find a ment and the final review (in- Leading Lines and Framing cluding the term project pres- bright red or blue marker. Cir- May 23 entations). cle each and every Thursday Review of Trips 1 & 2 The basic thread running from May 2nd through June May 30 through the assignments in Ex- 27th. These are the dates for Trip #3—Madison Square Park panding Visions 19 is Drawing the all new version of the ever- Repetition popular Expanding Visions. Your Attention—all of the As usual, this nine-week weekly assignments will have June 6 class will be free to Park West to do with various ways to Trip #4—Brooklyn Bridge Park Camera Club members, and lead the viewer’s eyes to the Triangles and S-curves subject matter and keep them only $75 for non-members (or June 13 there. The term project will $15 per session up to the $75 Review of Trips 3 & 4 maximum payment). also deal with drawing your Expanding Visions is a mar- attention to the subject in your June 20 riage of a field trip class with a images. Trip # 5—Riverside Park class in photographic seeing. Not too complicated, is it? Selective Focus Lots of fun and educational; We throw in compositional and June 27 but most of all, it will expand technical aspects as well. This Final Review nine week class will open your your vision in the photographs you take, and allow you to mind to new ways of looking As usual, the instructor of this grow as a photographer. at photographs, subject matter, class is the creator of the Ex- equipment, and more. It will panding Visions concept, and Here’s the class syllabus: also allow you to explore five Park West Camera Club’s of the City’s parks that you president emeritus, Chuck May 2 may not have visited before. Pine. The format of the class is Introduction—Overview of Equipment, Assignments, Des- simple: We start with an intro- Fees (for those non-PWCC tination, and Techniques ductory session. We will dis- members taking the class) are cuss equipment, techniques, due at the first session (or at May 9 and the specifics of the course; each session if paying by the Trip #1—Battery Park a term project will be assigned. week). Cash or check only. For the next two weeks we’ll Leading Lines go on field trips to different Let us know if you’ll be attend- places around town and work ing by sending a message to on the assignments. The fol-
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 7 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
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 8 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
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 9 Election Procedures the May business meeting, I appointed some old mem- nominations will again be bers (or should I say long-term CLUB At the March competition accepted from the floor. members?) and some new meeting we began our yearly The third phase of the elec- members—the old/long-term election procedures when tion process is the election it- ones for their history and President Paul Perkus ap- self. This occurs at the May knowledge and the newer ones pointed the Nominating business meeting. If there is to provide a fresh perspective. Committee. This year the only one nominee for each po- Anyone interested in run- Committee’s responsibility is sition, then the presiding offi- ning for any of the Executive huge since Paul has announced cer at the meeting can ask the Committee positions, or if you that he is stepping down from secretary to cast a unanimous think another member would the presidency after three very vote for the slate. Should there make a good officer, please successful years. The Commit- be more than one nominee for speak to one of the Nom Com’s tee will present a preliminary any of the five positions, then a members. report at the March business written ballot must be pre- meeting. pared and a secret vote taken for that/those position(s). (The secretary can still cast the unanimous vote for the unop- posed candidates.) Members must be present to cast a vote. Ballots will be counted by the Nominating Committee and announced be- Rooftop Update fore the end of the business by Barbara Martens meeting. Finally, the outgoing offi- It feels like spring is in the air The Nominating Commit- cers will be thanked and the and I’m glad we finally can do tee will present its final re- incoming Executive Committee some more roof hopping. port—a slate of at least one installed at the Otto Litzel Marlene is so kind to have nominee for each position on Memorial Dinner held on the us again on Tuesday, April 9th the Executive Committee second Monday in June. at 5.00 pm. We meet in the (president, vice president, lobby of her building, 315 Riv- treasurer, corresponding- erside Drive at 104th Street. membership secretary, and re- Nominating Committee The next one is at Gladys cording secretary) to the mem- by Paul Perkus home on Wednesday, April bership at the last meeting in 24th, 180 West 20th Street at April (the night of the Club In case you haven't gotten the 7th Avenue. We’ll meet in front Auction). news, the Nominating Com- of the building. Time—TBA. Also at this last meeting in mittee has been appointed. It Use the sign up sheet at the April, nominations will be consists of Marilyn Fish-Glynn, Club meetings or contact me at opened to the floor. At each Chuck Elster, Jerry Harawitz, 551-655-8068 or by email at succeeding Club meeting lead- Janna Amelkin, Sarah Davis,
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 10 ExCom Meeting Minutes Committee Reports by Lee Backer CLUB Recording Secretary Archive Committee by Myrna Changar The Club’s Executive Commit- tee met on Monday evening, We are alive and well. Finally February 25th. All PWCC getting some supplies that members were invited to sit in seemed to disappear from the on the meeting and contribute ExCom decided to modify the marketplace for a while. We to the discussions. Here are the March 18th agenda topic to still need to finish scanning minutes from that meeting: directly suggest eliminating material from the old scrap- the slide competition after this book, and would like to video- Officers attending—Paul club year. tape members who can talk Perkus, Ed Lee, Myron Galef, about some of the archival Lee Backer Next year's officers—Paul will prints. If any of you qualify, Absent—Helen Pine appoint a nominating commit- please contact me via e-mail at tee for next year’s officers at
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 11 Going, Going, Gone Year-End Competition CLUB April 29th is the date for the The Year-End Competition annual PWCC auction. Mem- will be held on June 3rd. It is bers and guests are invited to different from our monthly bring any photography, com- competitions: the rules of entry puter, or photo-related items are different; the judging is dif- which they want to sell. ferent; the rewards are, too. Items must be brought on bid on and win. Items must be Each Club member may the night of the auction start- taken home at the conclusion submit up to four prints, four ing at 6:00 p.m. (Sorry, but of the auction. slides, and four PDIs. But, and items may not be stored earlier Items not sold will return to this is a big but, all the submis- at Soho Photo.) Each item must their original owners and must sions must have been entered be accompanied by a com- be taken home that night. Un- into one of the monthly com- pleted “Auction Inventory wanted items may be disposed petitions held this year (Octo- Sheet” which includes your of in the trash receptacles. ber through May). It doesn’t name, a description of the Those people who sell matter if the images were item, a minimum opening bid items will be paid their per- awarded honors or a ‘C’— they (optional), and what percent of centage at the Club’s business are eligible for this competi- the final selling price you wish meeting in two weeks on May tion. But, the images may not to donate to the Club (PWCC 13th. If you cannot attend, a be altered from the way they gets at least 20%, but you can check will be mailed to you. were originally entered. You give more—up to 100%). These [Note—if you’re not a PWCC can’t reprint a print; you can’t forms will be available the member please be sure to leave spot out a speck of dust; you week prior to the auction; they your mailing address with us can’t even crop a slide with a will also be available on auc- so we can send your payment piece of tape—it must be the tion night. in a timely fashion.] original, unaltered image. Good shopping! There will be three judges. Definitions Each of the three will score from one to nine points for Color Spaces—Every device each image. A Club member (one who is good at math) will that produces, measures, or add the scores and immedi- captures color has its own ately call out the totals. Pic- way of reproducing all the tures can accumulate any- colors in the visible spectrum, where from 3 to 27 points. For which is known as its color each group of entries—prints, space. The most common slides, and PDIs—there will be color spaces in digital photog- one winner (the Print-, Slide- raphy are Adobe RGB 1998 and PDI-of-the-Year) plus four As a buyer, you must have and Adobe sRGB. The former runners-up. cash on hand, (or a personal has a broader color gamut Good luck to all the en- check if you are a Club mem- (range of colors), while sRGB trants! ber) to pay for the items you has a smaller color gamut.
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 12 Meet the Member terest in photog- by Janna Amelkin raphy was fur- CLUB ther encouraged. Alice Somma grew up in After the old Brooklyn and currently lives in loaned Pentax the Bay Ridge area, near the camera, and un-
Verrazano bridge. She earned Surferboy Nauset til recently, Alice ©2012 ©2012 Somma Alice an MSW degree at Adelphi has been using point and shoot University. Alice began her ca- and her mentor joined the cameras. Now she is exploring reer as a school social worker Brooklyn Camera Club where the possibilities of her newly in Brooklyn’s Park Slope at a they attended meetings for a purchased mirrorless Sony junior high school for the tal- year. Later on she tried to re- NEX 7—with a view finder ented and gifted. She trans- join the club, but the meeting and a 24 megapixel sensor. The ferred to the Committee on place was moved to a different purchase was made with the Special Education in Manhat- location, which was less con- intention of learning more tan, where she spent the last venient. They also went on about sophisticated techniques thirteen years providing serv- photo outings together such as of photography and producing ices for special needs children. to the Coney Island Polar Bear better photographs. She is newly retired and has Club’s New Year’s Swim and After her experience with more time to devote to her in- the Feast of San Gennaro in the Brooklyn Camera Club, Al- terest in photography. Little Italy. She has enjoyed ice looked into a few other trips to Europe where she took clubs in Manhattan before dis- many photos. covering PWCC through the Some of her favorites are internet. When she came to framed and hang in her home. visit, she found that PWCC More recently, Alice has been members were very welcoming taking pictures of her grand- and helpful. She hopes to learn children, who range in age to make better pictures and from 5 months to 4 years old. improve her pictures through She volunteered to take pic- an editing program such as Alice Somma & Grandson tures at a friend’s wedding and Photoshop Elements. She also produced a wedding album, likes the fact that the Club of- Alice was introduced to which she presented to the fers a variety of field trips and photography while working at newlyweds. During a conver- looks forward to meeting new a school in Park Slope when a sation, she mentioned to a real people with similar interests. photography teacher/friend estate broker that she had an Welcome to the Club, Alice. offered to teach her how to de- interest in photography. He of- velop film in the school’s dark- fered her a part-time job pho- Meet the Member room. He lent her a school tographing properties for sale camera, a Pentax, and she real- to display in the windows of by Elena Pierpont ized how much fun this new his real estate office on Seventh New member Gilbert Rios be- hobby could be. She began to Avenue in Park Slope. Alice develop and print film, which found this exciting and her in- came interested in photogra- she found very exciting. Alice phy in 1995 when he traveled
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 13 joined, finding out about us Meet the Member through a member of the Soho by Marlene Schonbrun CLUB Photo Gallery. He is inspired by simple everyday objects Marty Smith found out about that surround us that might be PWCC through one of our long overlooked because they might standing members, Jerry not be considered beautiful, Harawitz. They were both at- such as shadows cast by blinds tending a discussion group. or the incredible geometric pat- Marty made a remark about terns found in some manhole back lighting, and Jerry to Italy for the first time. He covers throughout the city. A jumped at the opportunity to was using a low end digital quote from Beaumont Newhall tell him about the Club. After camera but really enjoyed that was in a book he read, The attending one of our meetings, taking pictures. Practice of Contemplative Photog- Marty was hooked. Since Gilbert is a graphic raphy, by Andy Karr and Mi- designer for a law firm, he chael Wood, really resonated wanted to explore and be able with Gilbert: “We are not inter- to personally become more ested in the unusual, but the creative with his newfound usual seen unusually. “ Gilbert photography hobby. His en- now uses a Canon 60D camera joyment for taking pictures and has his own photo web really took off in 2011 when he site
Lightroom. Learning all of this tures with a Kodak Brownie © Gilbert Rios Gilbert © allowed him to experiment and VenetianBlinds when he was very young. He be more creative. had a younger cousin who also had a camera and they ex- perimented together. He be- In joining PWCC, Gilbert came more serious about pho- wants to connect with a group tography in his late 20’s or of like minded people. He en- early 30’s, which overlapped joys the competition nights be- with his many other interests, cause he gets to see other for example, hiking, archeol- members’ pictures and likes to Manhole Cover ogy, astronomy, fossils, and of hear the feedback given by the © Gilbert Rios course, travel. Oh! Marty judges. added another interest a few We welcome Gilbert and years ago, he now plays the Park West is the first photo are happy to have him as a accordion, and practices regu- club that Gilbert has ever member. larly.
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 14 Meet the Member by Sonya Smith CLUB
B. Pyneyonoh Bertsche is new to Park West this year. Pyne, as she prefers to be called, has Little Girl v. Beached Whale been fascinated with photog- ©2011 Marty Smith raphy from when she was a teenager. Her father used to be Elderly Man, Washington, DC Marty is interested in tak- a photographer, and as a teen- ©2012 Pyne Bertsche ing pictures of many different ager she would accompany with us again, unless we subjects. Nature, landscape, him on outings. Pyne learned again, and capture it on film or candids (of people), animals, about the Club from Marlene on a sensor.” and going into the park in all Schonbrun—both are members Her goal, while she is here the seasons are fodder for his of another photo group which with us at PWCC, is to take lens. For a recent birthday, he is sponsored by their 1199 un- better photographs. A goal, I bought himself the Canon ion. Marlene convinced her to am sure, she will meet and SX40, which he is very happy take Chuck’s Expanding Vi- surpass. with. However, he needs to sions class last year,…and she Welcome to the Club, Pyne. learn how to put images on a was hooked. flash drive so he can begin to Pyne’s favorite subjects to share his images. Belonging to photograph are plants, build- a camera club is a whole new ings, and the subway; espe- experience and Marty feels he cially the subway—with its has already benefited from ever-changing people and the joining. He is most interested variety of subject matter for the in what subjects Club members discerning eye. are shooting, learning new Arlington National Cemetery techniques, and expanding his ©2012 Pyne Bertsche own vision. He’s glad he joined. Why?
Why isn't there mouse- flavored cat food?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
When asked why photog- Look No Hands Why don't you ever see the raphy, Pyne responded: “It ©2012 Marty Smith headline 'Psychic Wins Lot- gives me the opportunity to tery'? We welcome you, Marty. record a moment in time; a moment that will never come
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 15 Depth of Field palatable – or even mimic the live yet another day! Not By Bill Apple look of the Weegee. It’s become merely rescued: Made To Shine. Photography for Dummies. For If only bad cooking could be so Easy Peasy? Sub-Dummies. You don’t need easily salvaged. to know anything anymore. But it’s not just nifty soft- Does it ever seem that photog- These thoughts bubbled up ware. Digital cameras them- PHOTOGRAPHY raphy has become too easy? at a Club meeting recently. A selves have reached an apotheo- I’m not ancient, but have company rep was visiting, sis (look it up). Shots are big- lived through a cavalcade of pushing the latest eye-popping ger, crisper, more hi-def – and innovation, myriad develop- package of post-production cameras are more savvy. You ments that radically simplified pyrotechnics. (DxO Optics, the really have to screw up to miss, how people took pictures: In- software he was showing, even if you cast only an occa- stamatic cameras and Polar- should hire me to write their sional eye on the LCD. Ex- oids, spot-metering and multi- advertising, don’t you think?) treme low light – perhaps digi- zone autofocus, “pro- Fixing blocked-up shad- tal’s last, remaining bugaboo – grammed” exposure and ex- ows, blown highlights, teeter- has been all but vanquished by treme zooms, even face recog- ing perspective with the soft- a new generation of optical nition. Pity poor Matthew ware, all became child’s play as sensors. With the latest cam- Brady 150 years ago. He had to our guest worked his mouse to eras you may never need post- schlep and sweat for his pic- a chorus of oohs and ahs. Your production magic. tures. ill-composed, ill-exposed, ill- All that built-in excellence The biggest game-changer, begotten shots – the real stink- —and all that software wiz- digital photography, began ers – can now be rescued to ardry—it’s discouraging. It has reaching consumers in the Eighties. Suddenly, affordable and sophisticated technology flew from store shelves into the hands of, well, the great unwashed, the same exact folks who’d have opted over a century ago for Kodak’s first Brownie, the foolproof pre- loaded box camera George Eastman built to make cam- eras as “convenient as a pen- cil.” Nowadays, goofy teens wielding iPhones play at be- ing Weegee. Many don’t really care what “develops” on the Retina display. If they don’t Before and After Sophisticated cameras and software like it, there’s always Delete, or have turned photography into a no-brainer. But do non- a 99-cent app to add secret photographers know good pictures from bad? sauce and make the shot more
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 16 made things too easy. And it pable professional who has But of course it matters to raises a key question: If anyone seen it all before. us. Some of us do lose sleep so unschooled can do fantastic All these musings may well over blown highlights. And work, what really does it mean be moot, however. As I enjoyed that may be what it really to be a photographer in the the software demo last month means to be a true photogra- 21st century? In a similar vein, – the Before and After slides – I pher in this 21st century. PHOTOGRAPHY what would it mean to be a asked myself this: Do most fine chef, if anyone could ef- non-photographers really care Scanning Service fortlessly whip up a three-star how a picture looks, or do they Michelin meal at home? Who’d just take it in and move on? Do PWCC member Bill Apple need those pretentious chefs they think about photographs has an offer that you can’t with their decades of practice as we think about them? Are refuse. Bill will scan your whisking egg whites, honing they as demanding? Do they 35mm negatives or slides, the finest chiffonade chop and know what makes photos ei- color or black-and-white, and perfecting the classic béchamel? ther good or bad? Do they ever turn them into high- Every profession demands lose serious sleep over blown- resolution digital files. He rigorous training, guild mem- out highlights? uses a high-quality scanner. bership, even special jargon, The dirty little secret, I’m Bill charges only $1.50 per high walls erected to keep out afraid, is that most people are photo, or 12 photos for a laypeople. Somehow, photog- far less critical than we are. mere $15. The minimum or- raphy feels different in that They’ll accept poorly exposed, der is $15. Bill also can scan way, more lax, a tent that’s too out-of-focus, ill-conceived 120 size (2-1/4 inch) film. big. Indeed, if developments compositions without turning Please contact Bill Apple at in, say, medicine had pro- up their noses. They either
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 17 Gallery Watching Capa (1918–2008) to describe American Jewish relief organi- by Ruth Formanek those photographers whose zation, the Joint Distribution and Judy Rosenblatt work demonstrated a humani- Committee, which wanted tarian desire to educate and documentation on the life of This month we visited two change the world, not just to Jews in Poland and other east- galleries, both located in ICP. record events. ern European countries. The PHOTOGRAPHY Vishniac was born in Mos- JDC financed the efforts of Roman Vishniac Rediscovered cow in 1897, the son of an as- Jews who had lost their jobs and We Went Back: Photographs similated Jewish umbrella due to anti-Semitism by means from Europe 1933–1956 by Chim; manufacturer and a mother of free microloans (kassahs) International Center of Photog- whose family was in the dia- permitting them to buy raphy, 1133 Avenue of the mond business. His father was equipment and supplies for a Americas; through May 5th. considered a capitalist and had new business. To me, this is his to leave the country after the most affecting work, and also Ruth writes: 1917 Bolshevik revolution. his best known, especially the Roman followed a few years images of children. Vishniac Vishniac’s considerable work is later and reunited with his has been criticized for photo- displayed in the huge lower parents in Berlin, then a favor- graphing primarily poor Jews floor galleries and Chim has a ite refuge of non-Bolshevik and thus giving the impression much smaller show upstairs. I Russians. He photographed that all Jews in Eastern Europe found it most absorbing and since he was a child and be- were poor. The JDC, which spent hours there, on two came fascinated with photomi- needed donations, required separate occasions. Vishniac croscopy (photography documentation of poor Jews and Chim are among the most through a microscope) and for their relief efforts, of important photographers of time-lapse photography. course, and had sent Vishniac the 20th century, those whose In some ways, Vishniac’s there to document their lives, work is considered concerned life resembles that of Forrest so the criticism makes no photography and includes W. Gump, the fictional movie hero sense. Eugene Smith, Dorothea who found himself in the As Vishniac’s timing was Lange, Robert Capa, et al. midst of the 20th century’s always exquisite, he arrived in The term concerned photog- most important historical New York in 1941, shortly be- raphy was coined by Cornell events. Except, in the case of fore the United States would Vishniac, not by design: He es- go to war and ships stopped caped from both the Russian carrying non-military passen- revolution, and from Hitler’s gers. He tried to find work, did persecution of Jews. Briefly, some portraits and, with the history caught up with him chutzpah of the successful and he was interned in a camp immigrant, went to Princeton in Vichy France but was soon to make a portrait of Albert released and managed to es- Einstein. Einstein loved it. Pho- Jewish Schoolchildren cape to the US, arriving in tomicroscopy helped Vishniac by Roman Vishniac 1941. make a living. Then, tragedy © Mara Vishniac Kohn Between 1935 and 1938 struck: His only son, a scientist, Vishniac photographed for an died after a fall from a cliff in
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 18 A whiff of scandal arose In further sections, we see when, as she sifted through his young pioneer Zionists in work, Benton realized that training camps sponsored by what Vishniac did put out was German Jewish organizations sometimes falsely captioned in response to the Nazis’ tight- and arranged so as to heighten ening noose. Sadly, many of PHOTOGRAPHY the plight of his subjects (see A them died in concentration Closer Reading of Roman Vish- camps. Vishniac was also Cross Section of a Pine Needle niac, NY Times, 4/1/2010). But commissioned postwar (1947) by Roman Vishniac it was for a good cause, since to photograph Jewish refugees © Mara Vishniac Kohn the purpose of Vishniac’s 1935 in European displaced-persons Antarctica. Vishniac died in commission was to help raise camps awaiting resettlement. 1990. His daughter, Mara sur- funds for their relief. And, his A portrait of a bearded oldster vived him. tendency to manipulate puts sanding a rolling pin for Vishniac in good company, as matzoh-making, a wide-eyed Judy writes: witness the recent Faking It ex- toddler at his side, harks back hibit at the Met! to his prewar images. Life goes The word “Rediscovered” The exhibit is organized in on, even in limbo. Vishniac in the title of this exhibit refers sections that take us all the also visited Berlin during this to the surfacing of never-seen way from the 1920s to the post- trip and his images of the ru- work by Vishniac, from the war era. We first see Vishniac ined city, previously un- huge archive his daughter, as an up-and-coming street printed, were among his most Mara, donated to ICP. Vish- photographer in Berlin. He haunting for me—especially niac’s work is cherished as the hides in doorways with his one of a boy, seen from below, record of a vanished way of Leica or Rolleiflex so as not to standing outlined against the life. His hallmark plaintive be noticed and comes up with sky on a huge pile of rubble. children, bearded men, and Ye- some humorous takes, like the Most of Vishniac’s work shiva students are all here to be zoo photo showing people, not from 1941 on, though, is set in seen. But, what the archive re- polar bears, as caged. As the New York City, where he’d set- vealed to curator Maya Benton, Nazis take over he shoots more tled with his family. For vari- was that much of Vishniac’s ominous scenes: in one, chil- ous Jewish agencies he covered work was never printed during dren play on a street lined with the new lives begun here by his lifetime. As shown here, it swastika flags. Then we come Jewish refugees. Here we see greatly broadens the scope of to his iconic 1935-38 series on bright-eyed children in a his historical documentation Eastern European Jews. As school for the deaf or posing in and displays his versatility as a Benton points out, these depict Central Park; and Jews estab- photographer. I’m not sure I’d urban poverty as well as rural lishing themselves as doctors place Vishniac in the same life. I found the scenes of fami- and nurses. A series called The league as, say, Cartier-Bresson, lies in dismal basements espe- Face of America at War showed but he has provided unique cially affecting. Revisiting women doing “men's work” or documentation of Jewish his- these images and remembering waiting on shopping lines. I tory before, during, and after again the fate of these peo- didn't find these images as WWII. This is an important ex- ple—my people—was power- compelling as his other work, hibit and shouldn’t be missed. ful and sobering. perhaps because the subject March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 19 matter isn’t as dramatic and shoot behind-the-lines scenes the settings are more familiar. of Republicans in the Spanish But they are a strong testament Civil War. After WWII, because to human resilience. Vishniac of the empathy for children his also opened a portrait studio work revealed, he was com- and nabbed some famous Jew- missioned by UNESCO to PHOTOGRAPHY ish expats and nightclub per- document the effects of the formers. He was finally able to war on European children. return to his passion for pho- Here you can see his iconic tomicroscopy, which remained photograph of Tereska, a dis- his focus until his death. The turbed child in an orphanage, exhibit’s grand finale is a standing beneath her scribbled Tereska darkened room showing slides depiction of “home.” You can © Chim (David Seymour of this work—a photographic also see a portrait of Picasso realm worlds away from the standing beneath a segment of to deny and forget. If they ac- one outside. Here, for instance, his Guernica, and much more tually do cause change, all the you see a lovely color abstract —120 vintage prints in all. I better. that turns out to be the cross- found Chim’s work affecting I suggest leaving a lot of section of a buttercup stem. I not only because of its subject time for these exhibits. You can sat fascinated by these im- matter but because much of it get a good heads-up on Vish- ages—all 90 of them. was so strongly composed. A niac at
These two exhibits were Back in the early ‘80s, Roman Albert Einstein Albert shot at a time when photogra- by Roman Vishniac Roman by Vishniac was a guest speaker © Mara Vishniac Mara © Kohn phers passionately believed at the Club. Prior to his ap- their work might change the pearance, Arthur Fields and I Chim, the subject of ICP’s world. Yet violence still went to visit Roman at his other exhibit, was a contempo- abounds, and images of its New York apartment to discuss rary of Vishniac and one of the consequences fly at us from all what he would include in his co-founders of Magnum. directions. How much differ- presentation. He regaled us He was born David Saymin ence they really make is a with stories of his wandering in Warsaw in 1911. He was question, I think, with no easy through Poland, view camera later known as David Sey- answer. But a recent notice of a on his back, ducking into dark mour. Chim was a kind of photographer’s death in Syria alleys and doorways to avoid shorthand for his name. He suggests that, to some extent, the authorities, among others. started photographing in 1933, this idealism lives on. Perhaps I still have signed copies of covering prewar leftist move- it is important, and enough, two of his books, Polish Jews ments for the French maga- for photographers to bear wit- and Building Blocks of Life, in zine, Regards. He went on to ness to things we would prefer my library.
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 20 Inquiries B & H Event Space Tuesday, April 16th by Chuck Pine Optimizing in Lightroom B&H Photo offers free work- Speaker: Tim Greu Recently, a judge at competition shops. Here are a few of this noted a greenish color cast on one month’s offerings: Wednesday, April 17th print. It was a black-and-white Wedding Photography PHOTOGRAPHY print, from a black-and-white JPG Wednesday, March 20,th Speaker: Denis Reggie file, printed on a fancy Epson Live Wedding Shoot printer with eight ink cartridges Speaker: Andy Marcus Thursday, April 25th including three blacks. How is it 15 DSLR Hidden Features possible to have any color in a Speaker: Jeff Cable print made from a black-and-white file? Sunday, April 28th Technology is wonderful, Pinhole Photography but it ain’t perfect—especially Leaders: The B&H Mavens inkjet printing technology. Tuesday, April 30th Thursday, April 4th Preactical Travel Photography Photo Suite 7 Speaker: Ron Wyatt Speaker: Jonny Davenport
While Photoshop and other Monday, April 8th programs can digitally remove Photographer as Storyteller all traces of color from a file, Speaker: Natan Dvir and a digital camera can pro- duce beautiful in-camera Wednesdat, April 10th black-and-whites, printing is Operation I.D. Tuesday, April 30th still mostly a mechanical proc- Speaker: NYPD Portrait Photography ess and there are many ways in Speaker: Brian Smith which color can creep into a Monday, April 15th B&W print. Tax Day Photo Walk The most common way is Leaders: The B&H Mavens simply the way printers work. In order to be able to produce a full array of grays all the way from white to black, most printers employ the use of some color inks or pigments— even those printers whose ink Check out the B&H website at sets include two or three car-
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 21 Accessory Quiz Workshops @ Adorama Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Mastering Flash Can you name this photog- We have listed the workshops Speaker: Arlene Collins raphy accessory? No prizes, at B&H for many years now, just a fun challenge! Send and some members have been your guesses to the website asking why we don’t list those PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael Wakslicht (Michael wins all our praise and con- gratulations.)
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 22 Call for Entries 1 For Sale Iceland, Anyone?
The Worldwide Photography Club member Marlene Schon- PWCC recording secretary Lee Gala Awards call for entries to brun is selling a mint condi- Backer is looking for people to its first all visual arts contest is tion Sony NEX 5N camera. It share the cost of a photo tour now open and the theme is is less than a year old and has in Iceland in the last half of June Love—Images that Last. been hardly used. Included for about 4 days. The cost is Love, in the broadest sense with the camera body are two around $600 a day, divided up or meaning of the word; love batteries, two memory cards, by the number of participants. where you live, loving your and the insurance policy. This This includes the guide and his family, loving your pal, love mirrorless, interchangeable four-wheel-drive vehicle. your country, love that land- lens camera has a 16.1 mega- In late June the best light is
ExHIBITS • WORKSHOPS ETC. scape, love your neighbor, pixel CMOS sensor, a 3”touch at night so we would be noc- street photography or snap- screen, and a continuous turnal, shooting at night and shots of love scenes, and all shooting speed of 10 frames sleeping during the day. This types of single images explor- per second. This camera also means camping, not hoteling. ing emotions related to love. shoots video at full HD reso- Camping gear is supplied. Food Love of objects, people, lution (1920 x 1080). Asking is extra. If interested, contact places... $325 (originally $595). Lee at
PWCC corresponding secre- On-Line Gallery Contact Marlene via e-mail at
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 23 Schedule of Activities
The Park West Camera Club Saturday, March 16 Tuesday, March 19 meets every Monday night Photo Op—Parade Photo Event— (with some exceptions for The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Tuesday Evening Hour holidays and a curtailed sum- is the largest civilian parade in Tuesday Evening Hour is an mer schedule). Please join us at the world with more than artists non-profit slide-show a meeting or on one of our program whose mission is to other scheduled activities. expose the works of artists to All Club Monday night the public. Each Tuesday a SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES meetings take place at the Soho working photographer pre- Photo Gallery located at 15 sents a slide show/lecture. No White Street, between West reservations required—just ar- Broadway and Church Street/ rive. Tonight’s digital presenta- Avenue of the Americas (6th tion is Transformed Landscapes Avenue) unless indicated oth- by Ruth Formanek, creative erwise in the listings below. 150,000 marchers. It’s got eve- landscape photographer, re- Following the schedule of ac- rything you’d expect a parade tired Professor Emerita of Cur- tivities are detailed directions to have—and more. The march riculum and Teaching from to each of our meeting sites. goes along Fifth Avenue be- Hofstra University, and long- Check the PWCC Website tween 44th and 86th Streets. time Park West Camera Club
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to be discussed, as well. Mem- © Ruth Formanek bers will receive a copy in ad- vance. As usual, we’ll end up with refreshments and a bit of socializing.
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 24 * Wednesday, March 20 * Saturday, March 23 Field Trip—Brooklyn Distillery Field Trip—Flushing Meadows Club member Bill Apple has The site of two twentieth cen- made arrangements for our tury World’s Fairs, Flushing group to tour and photograph Meadows Corona park offers a the Kings County Distillery, great photo opportunity to ex- located in what was the Brook- plore the remnants of both lyn Navy Yard. If they’re not events. Also on the agenda are giving out free samples nor Shwedagon Pagoda the Unisphere, the Fountain of holding a ‘tasting,’ we can then Myanmar the Planets, the New York State
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES visit the Navy Yard Museum. © Jon Ortner Pavilion, the Herbert Hoover For those coming from Man- Promenade, and more. We will hattan, you may meet Bill at meet at 11am at the Willets the front of the platform of the and most sacred shrines, dis- Point station of the 7 train. Brooklyn-bound F train at the covering ancient architectural (Due to track maintenance that West 4th Street station. Please and artistic masterpieces in weekend, take the E train be there by noon. You can also legendary cities, meeting peo- heading towards Jamaica, meet our Firld Trip Committee ple whose lives are dedicated transfer at Roosevelt Ave/74th co-chair, Paul Grebanier, at the to the quest for enlightenment. Street to the 7 train heading to Sands Street Gate to the Navy The presentation will focus on Main Street/Flushing.) Our Yard (corner of Sands and Jon’s photographic expeditions field trip leader, David de la Navy Streets) at 12:45 p.m. Our throughout Nepal, Bhutan, In- Rocha, will meet the group on appointment is at 1 p.m.—so dia, Myanmar, Thailand, and the west side of the pedestrian don’t be late! Be sure to regis- Cambodia. The meeting, open overpass for the Casey Stengel ter on the sign-up sheet at any to the general public, begins at Train Yard (near the flagpoles) Club meeting. You may also 7:30 p.m. A $6 donation is col- at 11 a.m. Give yourself plenty contact Paul at 718-629-7164 or lected at the door upon entry. of travel time to arrive a few at
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 25 * Monday, March 25 tion Center on 11th Avenue be- entries must be submitted by No Meeting tween 34th and 40th Streets. midnight one week prior to There is no meeting tonight to Doors open at 10 a.m. every today—April 25th. Tonight’s celebrate the first night of the day and close at 10 p.m. (7 judge is Marilyn Stern. Marilyn Passover holiday. p.m. on Sundays). Tickets are is a New York City-based pho- $15 per person (no senior dis- tographer working in fine art counts). and editorial photography. Her work has been widely exhib- Sunday, March 31 ited and published in the U.S. * Monday, March 25 Photo Op—Easter Parade and in Europe. She has pub-
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES PDI Entry Deadline When is a parade not a pa- lished two books: Kval! Die Walfänger der Lofoten (The Whale Please note that PDI entries are rade? When it’s a fashion show! Each year on Easter Hunters of Lofoten) and Masked due tonight for next week’s Culture: The Greenwich Village competition. Sunday, the best of the bonnets are showcased along Fifth Halloween Parade. Since the mid 1990s, Marilyn has worked al- Tuesday, March 26 Avenue as New Yorkers cele- brate the holiday by roaming most exclusively in photo- Photo Event— assemblage. She developed Tuesday Evening Hour the streets in their most festive spring gear, from 10 a.m. to 4 Tonight’s slide presentation is p.m. The parade marches north Kansas City in Missouri and on Fifth Avenue, starting at Kansas by Linda Calvet, pho- 49th Street, but the best place tographer for award-winning to watch is from the area calendar and Sierra Photo around St. Patrick's Cathe- Committee member. See the dral—Fifth and 51st Street. listing under March 19th for Singing the traditional song is impromptu session more info. optional! © Marilyn Stern
* Monday, April 1 and taught the class “Beyond Monthly Competition the Single Image” at the Inter- national Center of Photogra- Will the judge pull any April phy. She is currently on the Fools jokes on us tonight? The faculty of New York University Friday-Sunday Mar 29-Apr 7 only way to find out is to come and New Jersey Center for the Photo Op—Auto Show on down and join in the agony Visual Arts. To see and learn and the ecstasy of our competi- 2013 marks the 113th anniver- more about Marilyn, visit tion. Full rules are available
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 26 voted to Street Photography. (and, of course, during our attending will gather at the This special exhibition features PWCC meetings). Manhattan Staten Island Ferry work by 10 acclaimed guest Terminal’s upstairs gate at photographers and 25 Gallery Tuesday, April 2 10:45 a.m.for an 11 o’clock members. In all, nearly 70 im- Photo Event— crossing. ages spanning the past 50 Tuesday Evening Hour years are being exhibited and Tonight’s digital presentation * Wednesday, April 3 represent a wide range of ap- is Costa Rica by Harvey Kopel, Archive Committee Meeting proaches to the genre that has video editor for NBC and Si- All Club members are invited produced some of the most erra Photo member. See the to this committee meeting at
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES iconic images in photography. listing under March 19th for which we will be discussing more info. the future of the Club’s ar- chives and what should be * Wednesday, April 3 done with the images and Field Trip—Snug Harbor other items. The meeting will Snug Harbor Cultural Center take place at the home of the and Botanical Garden is the committee chair, Myrna result of more than three dec- Harrison-Changar, 250 West Trying Their Wings ades of restoration and devel- 94th Street, apartment 10-A, at ©1984 Flo Fox opment to convert the first 10 a.m. Let us know if you will be attending at 212-663-1422 or The unpredictability, irony, home for retired sailors in the United States to a regional arts
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 27 are for all photographers. The Tuesday, April 9 cost is $7 per meeting, or $45 Photo Event— for the year/$35 for Audubon Tuesday Evening Hour members. Please pre-register at Tonight’s slide presentation is
gins at 6:30 p.m. and is held at Abstract Highline traveler, photographer. See the ©2012 Barbara Leven Barbara ©2012 the National Audubon Office, listing under March 19th for at 225 Varick Street—a block more info.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES success. You can see more of Barbara’s images and a resumé * Thursday, April 11 at
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 28 Oyste r Bar, NY Tuesday, April 16 editors, travelers to 155 coun- © 2009 Raissa Venab les Photo Event— tries. See the listing under Tuesday Evening Hour March 19th for more info. latest tech- Tonight’s slide presentation is nology, Exploring Greenwood Cemetery * Wednesday, April 24 Venables is by Louise Luger, published Rooftop Project influenced photographer, workshop in- We continue shooting for the by impor- structor, NYSCA grant recipi- rooftop project as we return to tant artistic ent. See the listing under the roof that spawned the innovations March 19th for more info. whole idea at the Club’s Chuck SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES in history. Pine Labor Day Picnic, the This in- * Monday, April 22 home of Gladys Hopkowitz. cludes the Executive Committee Meeting We meet in front of the West- usage of minster, 180 West 20th Street at perspec- Prior to tonight’s meeting, the Club’s ExCom will meet to dis- 7th Avenue (the entrance is on tives and 20th Street). The meeting time colors of cuss the future of PWCC. All members are invited to attend is yet to be disclosed. Be sure the classical to dress for the weather. Since Renais- “with voice but without vote.” The meeting begins at 6 p.m. we’ll be shooting both before sance, the and after sunset, be sure to Expression- and will be held in the meeting room at Soho Photo Gallery. bring a tripod to achieve those ist explora- rock-steady shots. Sign up at a tion of the Club meeting or contact Bar- relationship * Monday, April 22 Workshop Night bara Martens, 551-655-8068, between
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 29 Garden is $20/$15 for seniors. Tuesday, April 30 The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Photo Event— both days. There are many Tuesday Evening Hour ways to get to the Garden, Tonight’s slide presentation is which is located in Prospect Special Country—Mustang in Northern Nepal by Miriam Bal- muth, Professor of Reading Adirondack Sunset Education, world traveler. See © Carl Heilman the listing under March 19th for more info. SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES He has been working with Directions to Soho Photo Photoshop since 1997 and with at 15 White Street, between Ave- a digital SLR since 2007—and Park, but the closest subway nue of the Americas/Sixth Avenue thoroughly enjoys the freedom stop is the Eastern Parkway/ and West Broadway. Take the #1 afforded by digital photogra- Brooklyn Museum station on train to the Franklin Street station phy. Carl Heilman has led the 2 and 3 trains. Other ven- (one stop below Canal Street). photo workshops since the ues for the blossoms them- Walk one block north on West early 1990s. You may see more selves, but not the festivities, Broadway to White street, make a of Carl’s images at his website include Manhattan’s Riverside right turn, and walk half a block
March 2013 www.ParkWestCameraClub.org 30 PhotoShopping top of the panel are buttons for image but it can be useful used by Chuck Pine all 10 of ACR’s panels. (There successfully when creating may be more or less depending portraits of people’s faces, etc. How many times have you on the version you have.) In heard a judge at a competition this case, the 7th button from say that you need to do what the left is the Effects panel—it we used to do in the darkroom is marked with the letters “fx.” to keep your viewer’s eyes from wandering away from the Drag the Amount slider to picture—darken the corners of the left (negative numbers) to SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES your image? Sometimes they create a gray/black vignette. use the term “burn in” the cor- ners. (Sometimes, they don’t say anything and just give your image a low score.) Well, there’s a cure for what When you click on the Ef- You must be careful not to ails your images. And, as fects button, the Effects panel overdo the Post Crop Vignet- usual, there are a plethora of pops open. It has two sections: ting. If you move the slider too ways to accomplish this in Grain (on the top) and Post much, the effect looks just ter- Photoshop (and other image- Crop Vignetting. We’ll be us- rible. (Too little movement has editing software). Here is an ing the bottom section for this no ill effects, but it doesn’t cre- easy way, and one that is very purpose. effective, all at the same time. ate the device to hold your Start by opening the image viewer’s eye, either.) in Adobe Camera RAW or, if you are an Adobe Lightroom user, bring the image into the Develop Module. (This can be done with any image—JPGs, TIFs, etc.—not just RAW files.) Just the right amount, how- Here’s an image that needs ever, can work wonders with some help to contain the your images. viewer’s eye…
Drag the Amount slider to I find that most images the right (positive numbers) to work well between -8 and -20. create a white vignette.
When the image opens up in Camera RAW (or Light- room, etc.) , it opens to the Ba- sic panel. However, across the This doesn’t work for this
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