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Photo Developments Newsletter.....
February 2003.....
Meeting place:
The meeting location for the Calgary Photographic Society will held at the University of Calgary, Kinesiology (Phys Ed) building, room KN B-133 (Theater room) @ 7:30pm .
Newsletter Web site: http://members.shaw.ca/baziw/cps.html
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Well we have an exciting year ahead of us with lots of new expectations.
We can always do with your help to make this year even better.
If you would like to be a leader of change. February is the
Month. The word is "Elections", all positions are available, if you do
not want the full position you can volunteer to be an assistant.
Looks like we have lots of new visitors, and the interest is increasing.
Please help me in welcoming these potential new members. Introduce your
Selves, be open and friendly.
Scott Winter, President
UPCOMING THEMES
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January |
Holiday "A Period of Recreation" Time off from school or work Oxford English mini Dictionary |
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February |
Frost "White frozen dew or vapor Oxford English mini Dictionary |
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March |
Environmental Portrait "environment-a surrounding" "Portrait-Picture of a face" does not have to be a human. Can be an animal. |
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April |
Gloves and Mittens anything goes ( Submissions to photo life is May) |
LAST MONTHS COMPETITION RESULTS
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Novice Open |
Hot Spring |
Holly Pekau |
7.6 |
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Intermediate Open |
No Title |
Harry Mah |
8 |
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Intermediate Open |
Devyns Family |
Deb Marchand |
6.3 |
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Intermediate Open |
No Title |
Gordon Sinclair |
6.3 |
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Intermediate Open |
Catch of The Day |
Steven Butt |
5.3 |
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Intermediate Theme |
The Mighty Adventurers |
Deb Marchand |
7.6 |
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Advanced Open |
Journey to Nirvana |
Norm Capper |
7.6 |
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Advanced Open |
Jenny |
Bob Lee |
6.6 |
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Advanced Open |
Grist Mill |
Dan Gordon |
7.6 |
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Advanced Open |
Say Aaahhhhh |
Julie Meisser |
7.6 |
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Judges |
Stephen Butt, Bob Lee, Tom Gafni, Sam Hunter |
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UPCOMING SPEAKERS
The February guest speaker is Julian Ferreira, who was a successful commercial photographer, until his daughter was born, now a part owner with Peter Jeune at the Camera store.
Julian will be talking about "Getting more out of your camera flash. Some of the accessories covered will be brackets, cables and defusers.
Past Speakers
We would like to thank Jeff Perkins for presenting and reviewing our judging techniques and doing a fine job. The points covered were important and I think that it would be appropriate to restate for future reference.
When Judging
-Every print, starts out with 10 points ( Max point possible)
-Every print is based on technical, composition, Impact.
-Technical (focus, contrast, depth of field, distractions, detail in the high lights and shadows.)
-Composition (rule of thirds, if not used does it work. Leading lines, High lights
-Impact (The power to move you emotionally)
-Subtract a point for every element that you see missing.
Remember that this work has been created, and is very personal at heart. We do not want to hurt any ones emotionally. One policy that I live by is be constructive criticism here we do not criticize unless it will help them.
We would like to Thank Stephen Butt for his presentation on Executive positions, a job well done. Would also like to take this opportunity to mention that Stephen has been working behind the scenes and have been available in helping the club and members in every way.
Readers Corner
Printing well
To print well, you need an informed sense of what's possible. You can get some of this from looking Printing well at the best prints around. Go and see a lot of original prints by people like Stieglitz, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Frederick Evans, and W. Eugene Smith. There have been many very different good printers. No one way is best. The best print is the strongest one for the picture more a matter of appropriateness than of skill or control. To print well, you need patience the patience to do all those steps right without hurrying. The work of making photographs consists largely of timed laundry. The laundry is worth doing well. To print well, you need some dissatisfaction. Everything that turns up on the paper looks wonderful to you, the only way you'll ever get a good print is by accident and when you have that happy accident, you won't know it. You need to be unhappy when anything in your print harms your picture, or how can you undo the harm?
Your picture is no better than your print. It lives through the print
EXECUTIVES
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Scott Winter |
President scott@winterphotographics.com |
870-4291 |
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Fran Williams |
Archivist franonccd@yahoo.com |
238-0808 |
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Brian Mitchell |
Editor bmitchellphotos@hotmail.com |
874-8543 |
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Stephen Butt |
Past President butts1@telus.net |
247-6649 |
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Brian Henson |
Program coordinator |
217-7861 |
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Julie Messier |
Secretary meissert@telus.net |
288-7869 |
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Jose Guillen |
Treasurer guillenj@telus.net |
226-2517 |
If anyone has any speaker ideas or other concerns please feel free to contact any one of the executives.
Meeting Notice
The February 05 meeting will be at 7:30pm at the University of Calgary in the Kinesiology building in room #Kn133 New room. It is the theater room at the beginning of the same hall we were in before.
Reminder
Club memberships are due: Single person $30.00 Family $40.00. Our year runs from January to December, please see Jose Guillen for membership.
For Sale:
Blue-yellow polarizer filter. Ideal for special color effects. Brand HOYA,
52mm screw. Asking $60 OBO.
2 times TAMRON SP Tele-converter for Nikon. Asking $75 OBO.
Infrared Red 092 (89B) filter for sale. Ideal for B&W infrared or near
infrared film. Rollei bayonet VI mount, easy to adapt to any size step-up
ring. Asking $75 OBO.
Contact Jose Guillen 226 2517 or by email:
mailto:guillenj@telus.net
Calgary Photographic Society – Executive Positions
Elections will be held this February meeting.
President
: Chairs the monthly meetings, calls for executive meetings usually no more than twice per year, arranges for room rental and signs leases, organizes the annual scavenger hunt, and attends to other business that comes up from time to time. The time commitment outside of the monthly meetings averages about 2 hours per month.Treasurer
: Maintains the societies financial accounts and books, files taxes and annual returns, pays bills, collects the membership dues. The Treasurer also maintains the societies membership list. The time commitment averages 2 hours per month. An accounting background is NOT necessary….will train the right person!Monthly Programming Director
: Arranges for guest speakers for the monthly meetings. Duties include phoning potential speakers, and booking them for a meeting. Time commitment is approximately 1 hour per month.External Programming Director
: Arranges 2 – 4 field trips or seminars per year. The only skills required for this 1-hour per month position is your imagination!Secretary
: Records the scores for the critique at the monthly meetings, and records the minutes for any executive meeting that the president calls. The secretary forwards the results of the critiques to the newsletter editor. Time commitment varies, but last year there was only 1 executive meeting, so it probably worked out to about 3 hours per YEAR.Archivist
: Photographs both the winning and any interesting images that are submitted for the monthly critique, and maintains the archive album. This position requires a camera and about 1-hour per month.Newsletter Editor
: Writes, edits, publishes, and mails the newsletter each month. This is a great position if you like to voice your opinion!! The time commitment is about 2 hours per month.Web Watch
If you have any web sites that you enjoy and would be of interest to others please let the news letter editor know.
Thanks to Neil Koven here are some of his favorite web sites.
16. Ghost Town Gallery
http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/
Two Swiss individuals, Daniel Ter-Nedden and Carola Schibli, have
established this lively and informative tribute to those places that form
the heart of much folklore and legend within the American West: the ghost
town. The site contains over 1300 photographs from 174 ghost towns across
the West, with the majority of them located in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico,
California, and Arizona. Each ghost town entry is complemented with
photography, short captions, and a brief history of each place. To encourage
browsing of different states, a clickable map allows users to search
different geographical areas for individual ghost towns. Visitors to the
site can sign the guestbook, send a virtual ghost town postcard, and even
purchase high-quality prints of different photographs featured on the site.
Visitors will also find the page of additional ghost town links helpful,
along with a brief explanation of how these two Swiss residents became
involved in "ghost towning." [KMG]
4. Seattle Municipal Archives
http://www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives/
The staff of the Seattle Municipal Archives have created a Web site that
facilitates the work of amateur and professional historians (along with
satisfying the curiosity of the general public) seeking to utilize their
archival holdings. A quick reference area allows visitors to obtain
information about historical election results and some basic facts about
Seattle, as well as read their in-house newsletter, which documents their
ongoing archival projects. Additionally, an online exhibit section offers
perspectives on subjects such as Seattle's City Halls and Pike Place
Market's Corner Market Building. The centerpiece of this site is the online
photograph collection, which contains over 40,000 images of Seattle from the
last century. The photograph archive is searchable by time-period,
neighborhood district (a neighborhood map is also provided), and user-
identified search terms. Finally, the site also includes a variety of
research guides, including a guide to the archives held by the City of
Seattle and the Pike Place Market Records. [KMG]
Thanks to Jack Dyck for some of his favorite sites:
One commercial website that may be of interest is "Digital Light and Color"
< TITLE="http://www.dl-c.com/>" TARGET="_blank">http://www.dl-c.com/>, the creators of a product called "Picture Window".
This is a package designed specifically for correcting and printing digital
photographs on PCs. Its photograph manipulation capabilities are similar to
PhotoShop for only 20% of the price, and every operation it performs
supports 16 bits per color.
Another commercial website is "Hamrick Software" < TITLE="http://www.hamrick.com/>" TARGET="_blank">http://www.hamrick.com/>,
makers of a product called "VueScan". This is a third-party scanner driver
(PC, Mac, Linux) which provides excellent control over film-scanner
operation, particularly useful in the area of contrast control when scanning
slides. Unlike scanner drivers written by some hardware manufacturers, this
product provides full support for 16 bits per color.