The Newsletter of the Park West Camera Club Photo Notes Our 75th Year March/April 2012 Presidentʼs Letter Flower Power! Spring is in the air. It has actually been in the air for much of this past winter with temperatures in the 40s and 50s many days and abundant sun- shine, but for PWCC it means a time to speak anew of many things such as more field trips, the Club auction on April 9th, return of the Florida contingent, annual election of officers, planning the Otto Litzel Dinner and awards, short pants, sleeveless dresses, sandals, sun block, longer days for shooting pictures, Chuck’s Expanding Visions class, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office In This Issue show and whatever I’ve left out, such as shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages and kings1. President’s Letter.................................1 Who’s Who & What’s What........2 & 3 So instead of winding down, the Club is heating Club Info..................................3, 5 & 10 up, invigorated by the warmer weather and an- Rules of Photography..........................4 ticipation of all our upcoming events and activi- B&H Space............................................5 ties, photographic and otherwise. Competition...................................6 & 7 Sitzfleisch..............................................8 I’m particularly looking forward to the Otto Litzel Election Procedures.............................9 Dinner this year. It’s dedicated to the Club’s 75th Inquiries..............................................10 Anniversary and we’re still looking for sugges- Business Meeting Minutes................11 tions for a restaurant roomy enough to display Call for Entries...................................14 Club memorabilia or at least to project a slide- Expanding Visions 18........................15 show. Please give your suggestions to Sid Geor- Auction................................................16 giou. We will be reviewing the club archives for Memorial Weekend Trip...................16 appropriate material, but if you have memorabilia Gallery Watching...............................17 Meet the Members.............................21 (continued on page 4) Pigeon Forge Formula.......................24 Schedule of Activities...................25-31 and so much more! March/April 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 1 Park West Camera Club Committee Chairs Archives!!Myrna Harrison-Changar The Park West Camera Club is an independent not- 212 663 1422 [email protected] for-profit corporation. Guests are always welcome at meetings and activities. Competition! George Hansen! 212 595 7869 [email protected] The Park West Camera Club newsletter , Photo Notes, Hedy Klein is published every month by and for the members of 718-793-0246vv [email protected] the Park West Camera Club. Subscriptions are in- Joan Slatkin cluded with Club membership. Yearly subscriptions 212 260 7091 [email protected] are available to non-members by e-mail (free) or Field Trip!! Susan Sigrist! postal service ($10 per year). Individual issues are 212 758 0036 [email protected] available at PWCC meetings. Joe Cruickshank 212-751-6077 [email protected] Submissions of full-length articles or smaller items of photographic or general interest are always ac- Gallery!! Christine Doyle cepted. The staff of Photo Notes reserves the right to 212 595 4920 [email protected] edit any submissions which are published. Maria Fernandez 908 447 8075 [email protected] Deadline for submissions is the first Monday of each month. House!! Seymour Perlowitz 718 338 6695 [email protected] Photo Notes is optimized for viewing on the inter- Chuck Elster net. 917 796 7847 [email protected] Contact Information Membership! Marlene Schonbrun 212 662 3107 [email protected] Website www.parkwestcameraclub.org Newsletter!! Chuck Pine! 212 932 7665 [email protected] E-Mail Address [email protected] Program!!Marilyn Fish-Glynn 212 685 8784 [email protected] Club Mailing Address 345 East 73rd Street, #8L, NY, NY 10021 Social!! ! Sid Georgiou! Photo Notes Mailing Address 212 777 3960 [email protected] 680 West End Avenue, #5D, NY, NY 10025 Telephone Tree ! Dottie Mills! 212 926 4375 [email protected] Club Officers Website!! Ruth Lowell President!!Paul Perkus! ! 212-362-4379 [email protected] 212 929 1687 [email protected] Bob Wine V. President!!Ed Lee! 212-758-5762 [email protected] 212 242 8714 [email protected] Workshop!! Jerry Harawitz Treasurer!!Myron Galef 212 673 2096 [email protected] 212 249 1270 [email protected] Corres. Sec.!!Helen Bohmart Pine! !! 212 932 7665 [email protected] Cover Photo Rec. Sec.!!Lee Backer! ! Wading Wood Stork 212-662-6740 [email protected] by Chuck Pine ©2012 Pres. Emeritus!Chuck Pine!!!! 212 932 7665 [email protected] March/April 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 2 Competition Info Did You Know? Here’s some information for our members regar- Did you know that the on-line PDF version of ding our Club competitions. All the details may Park West Camera Club’s Photo Notes offers you be found in the PWCC By-Laws (Article III) and/ advantages? or in the illustrated PWCC Competition Manual. Did you know that all of the website and e-mail There will be one slide, one print, and one pro- addresses are hyperlinks? That means if you jected digital image (PDI) competition each click on them, you will be taken to that website month. (if you are connected to the internet) or to your e-mail program to send an e-mail. Each member may submit up to two images each month. Did you know that the images are in color and of higher quality than when printed out? And, you Print and slide entries must be submitted to the can enlarge them a bit, too, for detail. Competition Committee by 6:45 p.m. on the eve- ning of the competition. PDIs must be via e-mail Did you know that reading Photo Notes on-line to <[email protected]> at least one saves trees, landfills, inks, toners, water, and week prior to the scheduled competition. other natural resources? All entries must be sized, labeled, formatted, etc. Did you know that reading Photo Notes on-line as described in the Competition Manual. saves the Club over $100 each and every month? Here’s a hint for the Year-End Competition held in June. Each member may submit up to four Photo Notes Staff prints, four slides, and/or four PDIs. Only im- Publisher:!Paul Perkus ages which competed in this year’s (October Editor:!Chuck Pine through May) monthly competitions are eligible. These entries must be unaltered from their origi- Committee:!Bill Apple, Elsa Blum, nal entry. The Club does not keep records of !Madeleine Barbara, Ruth Formanek, Sid ! which slides or PDIs you entered. You should Georgiou, Gladys Hopkowitz, Hedy ! ! make a list of all your entries (and their scores) Klein, Helen Pine, and Judy Rosenblatt for your own benefit when you are ready to Contributors:!Bill Apple, Lee Backer, submit to the Year-End Competition. Christine Doyle, Marie Fernandez, Ruth Formanek, George Hansen, Paul Perkus, Elena Pierpont, Chuck Pine, Judy Rosen- blatt, Marlene Schonbrun Photo Notes is produced on a MacBookPro using iWork Pages and Adobe Photoshop. All uncredited images are royalty-free clip art or oth- erwise believed to be in the public domain. Credited images remain the sole property of their copyright holders—all rights reserved. March/April 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 3 to contribute please let us know. Rules of Photography We are also looking into fancier awards to competition leaders Some of the more common things you hear at such as ribbons or suitably en- just about any photographic competition or cri- graved memory cards. Again, give tique is “that horizon line us your suggestions. is not horizontal” and “the vertical lines are not vertical.” The problem is that our As I often point out this is a Club of mem- brain is used to seeing horizontal things as per- bers—not just officers and committee chairs. fectly horizontal and vertical things as perfectly Every contribution is needed and counts. Uncle vertical. (It has something to do with our sense PWCC wants you! of balance and the liquid in our inner ears.) If they are just a tad off being exactly horizontal or !Bring your entrenchment tools or tripods: ! vertical, they jump from the image and scream to ! flowers are for photographing. us, “tilted.” It, therefore, behooves us to make sure that our My best! to you for a bountiful spring, verticals are straight up and down and that our Paul horizontals are truly horizontal. There are ways to make sure you keep your lines straight by using a spirit (or 1 Apologies to the Walrus bubble) level when shooting your images. Some tripods have them built in. Some cameras have airplane-like levels as part of the electronics. And, you can always buy a dou- ble- or triple-axis level that fits into your camera’s hot shoe. You can also correct tilted lines after-the-fact us- ing the built-in leveling tools in most photo software and/or by using transform/distort tools in software. The bottom line? Keep it straight! However, if you want your lines not to be straight, make them look like you meant it, not like a mistake. March/April 2012 www.parkwestcameraclub.org Page 4 PWCCʼs Yahoo Group B & H Event Space Have an idea to go shooting but don’t want to go B & H Photo is offering free workshops in their alone? Have a question about Photoshop™, or newly redesigned presentation space. Here is a your camera, or some technique but don’t have sampling of some of the photography offerings someone to ask? Know of a great photo op or this month: workshop that you’d like to share with your fel- low Club members? What to do? Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Memory Cards Ta Da! The Club’s Yahoo group is the answer to Speaker: Alan Parry your questions.