THE April 2019 May 16th‐ End of Year Compeon Building G Sung Harbor 8 PM th May 4 ‐ Model Shoot ‐ Mayr Studio ‐ Staten Island Camera Club Meet‐Up reserve a seat @: hps://www.meetup.com/ Staten‐Island‐camera‐club/events/259170884/ spaces are limited. May 16th‐ End of Year Compeon ‐ Harbor Room 8:00PM Image of the Year Selecon ‐ Judge Al Brown. June 6th - Annual Awards Dinner - Real Madrid Restaurant - All are welcome - Bring a Friend - Paid Reservation is a must! June 8th Saturday Governors House Meet‐Up reserve a seat @: reserve a seat @: hps://www.meetup.com/Staten‐Island‐camera‐ club/events/ spaces are limited. Well, the End of Year Compeon is almost here. On that For those who aended in the past the menu is the same. night we will decide the Images of the Year. So come on down on May 16th.. Color and Mono Digital Images and You can secure your reservaon with a $45.00 per person pay‐ Prints will compete for the coveted awards in each of their ment on May 16that this month’s End of the Year Compe‐ respecve categories. You can enter any 4 Color or Mono on. Please bring a check payable to Staten Island Camera Club. Digital and or Print that you competed with this season. If you are not aending the End of Year Compeon, but would Here is the low down on the Awards Dinner being held on like to aend the dinner please mail your check to: Thursday June 6th, 2019. Barbara M. Hoffman at 323 Stobe Avenue, SI, NY 10306. Place: Real Madrid ‐ 2075 Forest Avenue, SI, NY 10303 Time: 7:00 to :10:00 PM The deadline to reserve your seat(s) is May 27th. Bring a friend. Cost: $45.00 per person. Guests are welcome. We are looking forward to seeing all of our members aend. The Blue Hour‐ By Dennis Arculeo In capturing outdoor scenes the time of day is the Try taking pictures before and after this time to see how your most important factor in controlling Photographic Style, images differ. You will generally find that when capturing cities Mood and Color. When photographing in the Blue Hour after the blue hour, the natural light will have faded away and time is most crucial. The Blue Hour is not just limited to your images will appear darker in the sky. This usually proves the period after sunset. Similar light can be found in the to still be a good time to take interesting but different kinds of early morning (usually before sunrise) and in the evening pictures. (just after sunset). Consider your subject and viewpoint. When preparing to During the Blue Hour the buildings in our cityscapes in our take pictures during the blue hour it is important to remember a urban scenes are usually lit, and streetlights come up, few considerations. Mainly your concern should be about what making this an ideal time for urban and city photography. are you going to photograph and how will you frame your im- This results in a perfect blend of natural and artificial light. age? Usually the sky takes on a deep blue hue with cold tones and warmer colors from the illuminated buildings. A gradi- My first thought is always to decide on your subject and consid- ent of colors from blue to orange tinges the sky and cre- er what you want to include in your image. You may want to ates special color in places near the fleeting light of the frame your subject with an attractive background or foreground sunrise and sunset. to make the image look more visually pleasing. In the evening, the Blue Hour coincides with the end of There is a mental process we need to employ, in which we twilight which happens just after the golden hour. In the should ask ourselves a very basic question. Which goes some- morning, it coincides with the initial part of the twilight, that thing like this “if I chose to photograph this scene as my main occurs just before the golden hour. Connued on page 17 THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 2 NJFCC Spring Print Compeon April 16th, 2019 How we fared at the NJFCC Spring Print Compeon ‐ by Dennis Arculeo It is becoming quite usual that the Staten island Camera Club has come to rack up awards at the NJFCC Print Compeons. Our very own Barbara Maera Hoffman hit the high mark for a second me this past season by taking in another Medal Award in April, which is the compeons top prize. Barbara, Len and I rounded out the winnings with two more HM’s each which makes for some prey excing news. In April there were 98 entries in the Color Category and 77 in the Mono‐ chrome and we grabbed overall 7 of the coveted Awards. All in all, in the three contests this past season we took home three Medals, one in each of the three contests. NJFCC Spring Print Compeon April 16th, 2019 Host Club: Teaneck Judges: 1. Dave Mills, 2. Bob Thomas, 3. Ellen Bedrosian Total Title Category Maker Club Score Award In Darkness there's Light Mono Barbara M Hoffman SICC 26 Medal Watching and Waing Color Dennis Arculeo SICC 25 HM Lady with Snake Mono Len Rachlin SICC 25 HM Hitching a Ride Color Dennis Arculeo SICC 24 HM Sun Star Guggenheim Color Barbara M Hoffman SICC 24 HM Guggenheim Oculus Mono Barbara M Hoffman SICC 24 HM Tracey Mono Len Rachlin SICC 24 HM I got my first Medal in the Fall in the Color category, Barbara got the other two, one in the Winter and One in the Spring Compeons. Len and I each got Merit awards. And we three rounded out the awards with the HM’s. Total tally for the seasons is as follows: Medals : 3 (1‐Fall , 1‐Winter , 1‐Spring Compeon) Merit Awards: 2 ( Winter) Honorable Menons: 3 earned in the Fall Print Compeon. 6 earned in Winter Compeon. 6 earned in Spring Compeon 15 in total. Medal In Darkness There's Light ‐ Barbara Maera Hoffman See the following page for other winning images. THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 3 Sun Star Guggenheim HM HM HM Sun Star Guggenheim ‐ Barbara Maera Hoffman Guggenheim Oculus ‐Barbara Maera Hoffman HM Watching and Waing ‐ Dennis Arculeo HM Hitching a Ride– Dennis Arculeo HM HM HM Tracy—Len Rachlin Lady‐with‐Snake ‐ Len‐Rachlin THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 4 Award Award Fall Colors ‐ Sco Allen Spring Dawn ‐ Barbara Maera Hoffman Award Award Springme ‐ Bob Green Infrared Autumn at Clove Lakes ‐ Dennis Arculeo HM HM First Signs of Spring ‐ Len Rachlin Cimeere Saint Louis de la Nouvelle Orleans ‐ Joanne Meure Award ‐ First Place (9) HM ‐ Honorable Menon (8) THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 5 Award Award April Morning ‐ Barbara Maera Hoffman Definitely A Wintry Mix ‐ Dennis Arculeo Award Award ‐ First Place (9) Vermont ‐ Bob Green HM ‐ Honorable Menon (8) 2018-2019 SICC Competition Top Score Winners Color Digital Mono Digital First Place: Dennis Arculeo 98 Points First Place: Barbara M. Hoffman 101 Points Second Place: Barbara M. Hoffman 94 Points Second Place: Len Rachlin 93 Points Third Place: Bob Green 87 Points Third Place: Dennis Arculeo 88 Points Len Rachlin 87 Points Bob Green 88 Points Joe Sorge 87 Points Color Print Mono Print First Place: Len Rachlin 100 Points First Place: Len Rachlin 103 Prints Second Place: Barbara M. Hoffman 94 Points Second Place: Barbara M. Hoffman 96 Points Third Place: Dennis Arculeo 91 Points Third Place: Dennis Arculeo 88 Points Top Score For Assigned Subject Digital: Dennis Arculeo 52 Points Top Score For Assigned Subject Print: Barbara M. Hoffman 52 Points THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 6 No. of Assigned Subject Digital Total As of Last Compeon ( ) Entries Member Points Award Honorable Menon 6 Dennis Arculeo 52 Infrared Autumn At Cloves Lakes 6 Bob Green 48 Springme 6 Barbara M. Hoffman 48 Spring Dawn 6 Len Rachlin 43 First Signs of Spring 6 Lauren Arculeo 39 6 Joe Sorge 39 4 Sco Allen 34 Fall Colors 4 Shelley Levine 33 5 Michael Miglino 33 5 Nurul Amin 32 4 Joanne Meurer 30 Cimee'Re Saint‐Louis de la Nouvelle 3 Lora Livshits 20 2 Kirsn Bernhardt 16 2 Denise Canlon 14 1 Henriea Robinson 6 Award ‐ First Place (9) 1 Mona Wexler 6 HM ‐ Honorable Menon (8) No. of Assigned Subject Digital Total As of Last Compeon ( ) Entries Member Points Award Honorable Menon 6 Barbara Maera Hoffman 52 April Morning 6 Dennis Arculeo 48 Definitely A Wintry Mix 6 Bob Green 44 Seasonal ‐ Vermont 6 Joe Sorge 39 Staten Island Camera Club Website: hps://www.sicc‐photography‐club.com/ Image Crique Meetup website hps://www.meetup.com/Image‐Crique‐Meetup/ Staten Island Camera Club Meetup/FSM hps://www.meetup.com/Staten‐Island‐camera‐club/ September 2018 Architecture The Monthly Assigned Subject compeons are in addion to our regular monthly compeons. You have the opon to com‐ October 2018 Reflection (s) pete in any Assigned Subject in both Prints and or Digital for‐ mats. November 2018 Landscape or Seascape The Assigned Subject can be entered as a Mono or a Color im‐ February 2019 Shadows and Highlights age. The season winner will be the member who has the highest number of points at the conclusion of the compeon year. March 2019 Story Telling For the End of Year Compeon, you can enter one of your pri‐ or Assigned Subject entries as one of your four final images, April 2019 Seasonal Scene either in Digital Mono or Color and or in Print THE CLIX - “STATEN ISLAND’S FRIENDLY CAMERA CLUB!” Page 7 The Importance of Shadows in Portrait Photography by John McIntire When you’re starting out with learning how to light your photography, the most impact.