The Angle - Channel City Camera Club

The Angle
Newsletter of the Channel City Camera Club
February 2016 − Volume 79 − Number 1
Club Website: http://www.cccameraclub.com
Photo Website: https://googl.Kzjyxa
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/191692638713/
Angle Email: [email protected]
Submit Images To: [email protected]
Member Of: Photographic Society of America
Ines Roberts - CCCC Member for 50 years, and Honorary Member
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Table of Contents
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(hyperlinks, click to go to)
Calendar
From the Editor
President's Message
Exhibition Night
2016 Exhibition Schedule
2016 Special Assignments
Image Requirements/Categories
2016 Awards Banquet
Field Trips
Program Night
Education/Training Night
Image Evaluation Program
Camera Help
Member Article
Print Shows
Webmaster Report
PSA News
Member News
Other News
Our Board
Calendar
February 2016
Tuesday, February 2 at 7:30 pm
Exhibition Night – Prints, Open, Nature and People
Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30 pm
Program Night – David Auston - Contrast Control
Saturday February 20 at 9:00 am
Field Trip – Small Animal Shoot at Rocky Nook Park
Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 pm
Education/Training Night – Ron & Stuart - Image of the Year
Founded in 1939, The Club meets publicly from February through November (exception of August)
and an awards banquet occurs in January. Exhibitions are held on the first Tuesday, some Programs
on the third Tuesday, and some Education/Training on the fourth Tuesday. Please check the schedule
to verify if and when Programs and Education/Training actually occur. We meet in Farrand Hall, at the
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History at 3559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara. Doors open at
7:00pm to give visitors time to meet members before formal programs begin at 7:30pm. These events
are free to the public and we are always happy to see new faces. Only club members may enter their
works into Exhibitions and attend Field Trips. Annual dues for membership are $50.00.
From the Editor
Ken Pfeiffer
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday season and enjoyed your
break from camera club activities. We had a fabulous banquet on January 10,
thanks to vice president David Hancock and all the others who helped make it
happen. This issue of the Angle has a report on that from our president George
Welik, along with award winners and pictures. Congratulations to Ines Roberts
(on the cover) for being made an Honorary Member after 50 years of
membership. Also congratulations to vice president David Hancock for winning
the Merrill C. Hart award for devoted service to the camera club.
The Angle is the official newsletter of the Channel City Camera Club. We invite our members to
submit articles or other news to be included in the Angle. Please send any contributions by the 15th of
each month to the Angle via email. I am also interested in your ideas for improving this newsletter, so
please send your input to me at the above address. Thanks much!
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“Photography is more than a medium for factual
communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”
– Ansel Adams
President's Message
George Welik
If you participated in our 76th Annual Awards Banquet, I hope you had as much fun
as I did. Valle Verde again provided excellent accommodations for our event, and
served a wonderful dinner. Our outgoing Director of Projected Images, David Orias,
again produced splendid slideshows of our members’ accepted photos and awardwinning images from 2015.
If you were unable to join us for this Banquet, I’d like you to know about two special
awards that were presented to members for their exceptional service to the Camera
Club. Over the years, both recipients of these awards have volunteered for Board
positions and have contributed ideas and efforts to help the Club reach its goals. They are
outstanding role models for participation in the Camera Club.
The 2015 Merrill C. Hart Memorial Award was given to David Hancock in recognition of devoted
service to the Camera Club. The Hart Award recipient is selected by the President and the previous
recipient, who was Ken Pfeiffer in 2014. David makes a big contribution as our current VicePresident, and he has done a great job arranging our Annual Banquet and Annual Picnic. His service
has included being a former President and former Equipment Director. Also, he has judged at our
juried exhibitions, conducted training in his home on how to prepare images for our exhibitions, and
presented very enlightening education/training night sessions for the Club. The many aspects of his
devoted service, past and present, make David Hancock a very deserving recipient of this award.
An Honorary Member is a person who has performed distinguished service for the Club, or who has
made an outstanding contribution to the science and art of photography. Ines Labunski Roberts has
done both, and her Honorary Membership was rededicated at the Banquet. An Honorary Member
has all the rights and privileges of the Club without payment of dues. The reason that we are
rededicating this award is that, as a long-time member of the Club, Ines was initially elected to
Honorary Membership in the early 1990s. Then, during the late 1990’s, when the Club was
experiencing financial difficulties, she volunteered to give up her privilege of not paying dues in order
to help the Club survive. Now, in 2016, Ines marks her 50th year of distinguished service to the
Channel City Camera Club, and we are rededicating her award.
Ines has had an illustrious career in photography, and you are likely to have heard or read of her
many accomplishments when she has served as a Club Judge, volunteered to do a presentation on
an aspect of photography that she has mastered, or presented the London Salon Show in October.
Besides being a member of the prestigious London Salon of Photography, Ines is also a Fellow in the
Royal Photography Society of Britain, which is the reason you may see the FRPS after her name. In
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the Camera Club, she frequently earns our top photography awards. She is a former Club President
and has probably held every Board position at one time or another (I don’t know for sure, our recordkeeping isn’t that good). Ines still participates as assistant to the Director of Print Exhibition, and she
often sends me emails with advice concerning the Club, which shows how much she cares about
making the Club the best that it can be. Her plaque reads: “Honorary Membership Rededication for
50 Years of Distinguished Service, Channel City Camera Club, Ines Labunski Roberts, FRPS.”
Although dues are waived for Honorary Members, everyone else still needs to pay. If you haven’t
already done so, please send your $50 dues payment for 2016 to Channel City Camera Club, P. O.
Box 30453, Santa Barbara, CA 93130-0453. Thank you!
Exhibition Night
Ron Williams
For our CCCC Exhibition on February 2, 2016 our professional judges will
be Tony Mastres and Joyce Wilson. Our club judge will be Stuart
Wilson.
Tony Mastres is the head photographer at UCSB's
Photo Services where he has worked for the past 22
years. Prior to UCSB, Tony operated a commercial
photography studio in the San Diego area, servicing a
diverse clientele. A native of San Diego, Tony
graduated from Palomar College before moving to Santa Barbara to attend
Brooks Institute, where he graduated in 1990. Tony's duties at UCSB include
photographing everything from architecture and art exhibits to soccer, basketball,
and other sports. Tony is also responsible for producing portraits, scientific, and
marketing images as well as maintaining UCSB's stock image library. You can view some of Tony's
work at the following links:
http://ucsbphoto.photoshelter.com/galleryslideshow/G0000P7NnYKLp.Qc/C0000DW6jALHEQKQ?start=
www.ucsbphoto.photoshelter.com
Joyce Wilson's career as an artist and photographer has spanned over 50
years. After a successful business at portrait studio photography she began
experiments that evolved into a second career. That work allowed her to become
the artist she always longed to be. Joyce continues her explorations into art and
teaches at photographic workshops. She served on the faculty at Brooks Institute
from 2000-2013 and currently mentors students in the MFA program. She has
exhibited her work in dozens of venues nationwide and has won numerous
awards. She has published articles and books including "Visions," Imagine," and
"Woman."
Stuart Wilson became interested in photography during high school in Florida. He
bought his first Nikon F at age 17. After serving in the Army he attended college in
Orlando, Fla. In 1968 he moved to Santa Barbara to attend Brooks Institute. Later
family needs took precedence over photography. Gradually, as family pressures
declined, Stuart rediscovered his love of photography. He joined Channel City
Camera Club in 1997 and has served in a number of positions including President,
Vice President and Director of Projected Images, Field Trips, and Membership. He
has been avidly photographing mostly nature subjects ever since. He markets his
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photos through Photo Researchers stock agency, and has published a book with local author Joan
Lentz: "A Naturalist's Guide to the Santa Barbara Region".
2016 Exhibition Schedule
Date
Subjects
February 2
Open
Prints
Nature
People
March 1
Open
Prints
Digitally Altered
People
April 5
Open
Prints
Nature
Digitally Altered
May 3
Open
Prints
Nature
People
June 7
Open
Prints
Digitally Altered
People
July 5
Open
Prints
Nature
Digitally Altered
September 6
Open
Prints
Nature
People
October 4
Open
Prints
Digitally Altered
People
November 1
Open
Prints
Nature
Digitally Altered
2016 Special Assignments
Date
April 5
June 7
September 6
November 1
Classification
Digitally Altered
Open
People
Nature
Assignment
Still Life
Sanctuary
Silhouette
Camouflage
The special assignments for 2016 are:
Still Life: A still life of any subject.
Sanctuary: An image of your idea of "sanctuary". This can be anything portraying peace, safety, etc.
Silhouette: A silhouette or partial silhouette with a film noir feel.
Camouflage: An image of a subject that is camouflaged by its surroundings.
Each year, the club has a special assignment for one month in each of the four digital exhibitions.
Remember that entries for special assignments must be taken in the calendar year of the
exhibition.
Image Requirements/Categories/Scoring
Requirements for submitting images for Club exhibitions are posted at:
http://www.cccameraclub.com/competition.htm
Images are submitted in six categories:
1. Open: This is an open-ended category for all exhibitions includes images on any subject done
using any technique.
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2. Prints: A printed photograph may be entered at each exhibition without restriction on subject
material or the technique used to create the image. It shall not be smaller than 5" x 7" or larger than
13" x 19", horizontal or vertical. It must be mounted to a suitable backing board or printed on a light
weight flat surface less than 1" thick that can stand on the exhibition easel. The maximum size of the
backing board and mat is 20" x 24", horizontal or vertical.
3. Digitally Altered: Images submitted to the Digitally Altered category must display an obvious change
in natural color, form, shape or any combination of these three. These images should reflect an
altered reality and may be montages (a blending of composite of multiple images). All parts of the
image must start as a photograph that was taken by the photographer. Filters and Texture Layers are
allowed. Images where only HDR technique is used are not considered part of this category.
4. Nature: restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict observations from all branches
of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, in such a fashion that a well informed person
will be able to identify the subject material and to certify as to its honest presentation.
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All adjustments must appear natural.
The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while
maintaining a high technical quality.
Human elements shall not be present. The presence of scientific bands, scientific tags or
radio collars on wild animals is permissible.
Photographs of artificially produced hybrid plants or animals, mounted specimens, or obviously
set arrangements, are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the
photographic statement.
No techniques that add to, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping
are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing
the nature story or the pictorial content are permitted.
5. People: Any depiction of the human condition. Formal portraiture, documentary and photojournalistic images are all appropriate. One or several persons are permitted.
6. Unscored Critiqued: this category is available during every Juried Exhibition for members who want
an image critiqued but not scored by the judges. The unscored critiqued category has the following
specific rules:
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Subject: There is no restriction on the subject material or the technique used in creating the
image.
Quantity: Unscored critiqued submission is limited to one digital file for each Exhibition, and
that individual is able to enter photos in two other digital categories as well. Thus every Club
member is eligible to enter three digital categories at each Exhibition.
Images are scored by three judges according to the following guidelines:
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Score of 9: image showing exceptional artistic and technical skill.
Score of 8: image showing very high artistic and technical skill.
Score of 7: very good image worthy of award consideration.
Score of 6: average image with some good and some bad aspects.
Score of 5: below-average image needing improvement.
Score of 4: below-average image with a serious technical defect.
Score of 3: image with multiple defects.
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2016 Banquet Awards and Images
Each year awards are given for the highest cumulative score in each category. The scores for each
month are totaled, and the lowest score is dropped. First, second, and third place winners are
determined from the final values. Congratulations to the following cumulative score winners for 2015:
First Place
Prints:
First Place: Ines Roberts
Second Place: Ron Williams
Third Place: David Auston
Open:
First Place (tie): David Hancock
First Place (tie): Ron Williams
Third Place: Robert Rottenberg
Digitally Altered:
First Place: Stephen Sherrill
Second Place: Ron Williams
Third Place: Robert Rottenberg
Nature:
First Place: Robert Rottenberg
Second Place: Chris Seaton
Third Place (tie): Patti Gutshall
Third Place (tie): Ines Roberts
People:
First Place: Robert Rottenberg
Second Place (tie): David Hancock
Second Place (tie): Stephen Sherrill
Second Place
Third Place
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Image of the Year Award Winners
Digitally Altered
2nd runner-up: “Flight” - Robert Rottenberg
1st runner-up: “Diving in Cheerios” – Steve Sherrill
Winner: “Sulfur Motif” – Stuart Wilson
Nature
2nd runner-up: “See How Fast I Am” - Walter Naumann
1st runner-up: “Coho Salmon Fry” – Stuart Wilson
Winner: “Tree Alone” – Ines Roberts
People
2nd runner-up: “Native American” – Walter Naumann
1st runner-up: “Half and Half” – Ellen Clark
Winner: “Himba Lady” – Jeff Lipshitz
Open
2nd runner-up: “Lilly” – Chris Seaton
1st runner-up: “Sunset” – Robert Rottenberg
Winner: “Here Comes the Sun” – Ron Williams
Prints
2nd runner-up: “Exploding Cocktail” – Ron Williams
1st runner-up: “Pacific Surfliner” – Ron Williams
Winner: “Ghost Train” – Ron Williams
Merrill C. Hart Award for Devoted Service to the
Channel City Camera Club was awarded to
David Hancock.
Honorary membership was awarded to our 50
year member Ines Roberts.
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2015 Print Image of the Year
"Ghost Train" - Ron Williams
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2015 Open Image of the Year
"Here Comes the Sun" - Ron Williams
2015 Nature Image of the Year
2015 Digitally Altered Image of the Year
"Tree Alone" - Ines Roberts
"Sulfur Motif" - Stuart Wilson
2015 People Image of the Year
2016 CCCC Board
"Himba Lady" - Jeff Lipshitz
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Field Trips
Saturday February 20 at 9 a.m. - Small Animal Shoot at Rocky Nook Park
Back by popular demand! Dennis Sheridan is a small animal expert based in Los Osos, who will
bring his menagerie of reptiles, snakes, amphibians, insects and lizards to be photographed in a
‘natural’ like setting among the rocks and trees found at Rocky Nook Park. We are lucky that he can
stop here on his way back home from his assignment at the Ventura campus of Brooks Institute.
Images from the: 2013 small animal field trip
The trip will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end around 12:00 noon. A fee of $15 is being asked to cover
Dennis Sheridan’s expenses. Rocky Nook Park can be reached from Mission Canyon Road.
Dennis Sheridan is a professional photographer and entomologist who has traveled worldwide and is
published in many journals and textbooks.. He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 1973, with a
degree in biology, specializing in entomology. Dennis moved to Morro Bay and began a career in
photography, concentrating on native wildlife, as well as fungi, lichens, insects, wildflowers and
California scenery.
For preparation, read the e-book and follow Naskrecki’s blog cited in Rob Sheppard‘s post on insect
photography: A Buggy Post | Nature and Photography
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To sign up please email Stuart Wilson or call him at 805-962-0365.
Program Night
Dorothy Littlejohn
February 16, 7:30 pm - David Auston
Contrast Control in Lightroom and Photoshop
This lecture will cover techniques for control of both global and local
contrast of color and black & white images. The main emphasis of the
lecture will be on the use of Lightroom tools such as Curves, Contrast,
Clarity, Dehaze & B&W conversion for contrast control, and the
advantages and limitations of each. In addition, some special cases of
contrast control which can only be accomplished in Photoshop will also be illustrated, such as the use
of the luminosity blending mode to change contrast without affecting saturation, and the use of the
high pass filter and the unsharp mask to selectively control textural contrast. Examples of images will
be used throughout to illustrate each technique. One example is shown here of an image, both as it
was out of the camera and after being processed to enhance the local contrast.
About the lecturer: David Auston, a member of CCCC, is a lifelong amateur
photographer who began using Photoshop v3.0 in 1994 (he still doesn’t know it all
– and never will) and Lightroom since its launch in 2006. A Canadian by birth (will
never be a U.S. president), he has twice been a Santa Barbara resident, once
from 1963 to 1966 and again from 2002 to the present. In his day job, he is a
research professor at UCSB, working on climate change mitigation.
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Education/Training Night
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George Welik
Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. - Ron Williams and Stuart Wilson
How to Make an "Image of the Year"
Images by Ron Williams and Stuart Wilson captured three of the Club's five 2015 "Image of the Year"
awards. Ron won with "Here Comes the Sun" in the Open Category and with "Ghost Train" in the
Print Category; and Stuart won with "Sulfur Motif" in the Digitally Altered Category. These images can
be seen on Page 9, in the section on the 2016 Banquet Awards and Images. For this
Education/Training Night, Ron and Stuart will talk about how they produced these extraordinary
images and answer questions about them. If you are interested in boosting the quality of your own
images up a notch, don't miss this opportunity to get valuable tips from these award-winning
photographers.
Image Evaluation Program
Stuart Wilson
The Club will continue its successful evaluation program in 2016. Its objective is to
help members improve their photographic skills. Club members may submit one
photo per month via email for critique and helpful suggestions by some of our more
advanced members. Members may use this service to help them refine their entries
in the monthly exhibitions. Your photo will be sent anonymously to our reviewers
and their comments will be emailed to you a few days later. Simply email your photo,
resized to no more than 1400 pixels on the long side, to Stuart Wilson with a subject
heading of "Image Evaluation Program". If you have any questions contact Stuart at
805-962-0365.
Camera Help
In response to our previous requests, the following two members have volunteered to provide
"camera help":
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Canon Cameras - David Orias - [email protected]
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Nikon Cameras - Stuart Wilson - [email protected]
You are welcome to contact them if you need help.
We would like other camera brands to be included (Sony, Olympus, etc.), as well as adding more
experts on Canon and Nikon cameras. If you would like to volunteer as a camera expert, please send
your name, camera make or model that you know well, and Email address to
[email protected]. Thank you.
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Member Article
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Stephen Robeck
USING MULTIPLE CAPTURES TO INCREASE PRINT RESOLUTION
Wikipedia says that panography is “a photographic technique in which one
picture is assembled from several overlapping photographs.” If you’ve ever
seen an image constructed from a bunch of Polaroid photos, this is a classic
panograph. But building images digitally with multiple captures is a great way
to create large, high-resolution images that are impossible to generate with a
single capture from most cameras.
To illustrate, consider that a standard 35mm slide or negative (or full-frame digital sensor) is about 1
by 1.5 inches in size. As a general rule (there are lots of technical variables here), the largest galleryquality print that can be made from a 35mm frame is about 16 by 20 inches. If you use a larger-format
camera with 4-by-5-inch film, the same rule-of-thumb maximum-print size would be upwards of 4.5 by
6 feet! And, of course, the converse is also true. An iPhone 5S can take good photographs, but its
sensor is only about 1/5 by 1/7 of an inch, so large gallery prints really aren’t an option.
To make the point about resolution, here’s a visual example. The two images below are similar views of
Laguna Blanca in Hope Ranch, taken on different days with somewhat different light. On the left is a crop
from a single wide-angle Canon 5D frame showing the full width of the lake. Some of the foreground trees
and background sky have been cropped out. The right hand image is a similar view from part of a
panograph made with eight vertical full-frame captures taken with a medium-telephoto lens. These eight
frames were balanced for tone and color in Lightroom, and then seamlessly blended together in
Photoshop. Though the light is different and the second image looks a little more crisp, both images are
presentable.
The next two images below are enlarged details from the two images above. As you compare them
you will notice dramatic differences, particularly in tonal clarity and sharpness. As I said, the light is
different, but look at the houses, the power-line towers in the hills, detail in the trees and so forth.
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Going back to the discussion of film or sensor size above, the single-frame image only has about 60%
of the image data in one 35mm frame. The panograph has the equivalent of about six full frames of
image data (the full image is wider). The result is twelve times more detail. I’ve sold several prints of
the panograph image that are about 60 inches wide and sharp as a tack.
Many of my finished images are panographs of one kind or another. Some are very wide panoramic
views, others may be squares, verticals or typical rectangles, but the use of multiple captures in one
finished image is a great way to balance creative goals with technical ones. Last, here is a panograph
made from about a dozen Sony A7R captures showing a 370° view of a local eucalyptus tree, an
image that no camera can replicate with a single capture. You can see a 72” print at Michael Kate
Interiors here in SB through February 15th.
Feel free to write with questions at [email protected].
Print Shows
Stephen Sherrill
Goleta Library Print Show - Mark your calendar!
It’s time to start thinking about images you would like to hang in the
Goleta Library Print Show from March 1 through March 30, 2016. The
ingathering will be on March 1 between 9:00AM and 2:00PM. at the
Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave. in Goleta. Takedown will be from
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10:00AM to 2:00PM, March 30. In the past, members have been permitted to hang two to
three images depending on how many participants we end up with. We will need volunteers
to help hang the images so if you have a good eye and any skills with a hammer and tape
measure, we need the help. Any questions can be directed to Stephen Sherrill at:
[email protected].
Webmaster Report
Terry Straehley
The cccameraclub.com web site has been fully converted to be powered by
WordPress. Damian Gadal is helping with administration, and I am looking for
volunteer authors for the various pages. These positions include posting the
scores from the monthly exhibitions, displaying images from the exhibitions,
reporting on field trips future and past, etc. Ideally the Directors responsible for
each section would do this or find an assistant to take over this position.
If you are interested, contact me [email protected] or talk to the
appropriate director.
PSA News
Aavo Koort
The Southern California Roundup Chapter of PSA is holding a two day photo event
on February 5-6 in Costa Mesa CA. The activities on Friday include several nature
photo walks. On Saturday there are presentations on how to create Photo Books
and Essay/Slide Shows and a program on 'Little Known California Photo
Opportunities'. This event is free for PSA members.
PSA Chapters were organized primarily for PSA members who did not live near local
camera clubs. However all PSA members living in Chapter area are members. The
Chapters have various photo events during the year. More info about this Chapter is
available at:
www.psa-socal.org/2016-photo-event.html
Member News
From Patty Franco - CALL to ALL LOCAL ARTISTS
The March show at the Faulkner Gallery is a juried show open to all artists and
is managed by the Santa Barbara Art Association.
Ingathering: Monday, February 29 from 10 - 12:30
Pick up:
Pieces not selected must be collected from 3 - 4 the same day.
Entry Fee: $10 per piece and up to two pieces may be submitted.
All two dimensional pieces must be wired and ready for exhibition.
No theme and no size limitation.
All media welcome including photography
but any requiring a pedestal must be safe for display in public area.
Juror:
Dittee Wolff
Reception: Thursday, March 3 from 5-8
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Takedown:
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Monday, March 28 from 10 - 12.
Do not enter if you or surrogate cannot make the takedown.
From Gerry Aspen - I juried in for a Faulkner small room gallery solo show.
But . . . the show is listed for Feb, 2017.
I hope I can find the library then.
From Stephen Robeck - Stephen Robeck is one of four photographers participating in “Click”, a
curated show at Michael Kate in the Funk Zone. The show opens on December 11 and will run
through February 15, 2016.
From George Welik - A photo that I took last year at a dress rehearsal of a theater dance
performance was used in advertising flyers and posters for a repeat of the show in New York City in
January. The performance, called "Sorry," appeared January 13 through 15 at the LaGuardia
Performing Arts Center in Queens. "Sorry" is a story about cultures colliding in the exploration of
contemporary interracial partnerships, presented in dance, spoken word, and video projection. The
three leaders of the production company, called "Shook Ones," told me that this still image was
selected for their advertising because it evokes strong feelings and best portrays their message of
hurt and frustration that interracial couples experience in a society that still often works against them.
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Other News
From Chuck Place - For those of you giving, or receiving, a new camera for Christmas, please
consider one of my winter photography classes at Santa Barbara City College Center for Lifelong
Learning, or Adult Ed. https://thecll.org/classes-programs/events-language-photo/ If this is your first
digital camera, try my "Creating Photographs with Impact". We start by setting up your camera's
menus and move on to exposure, composition, use of color and processing images.
If you plan on traveling this year, take your travel images to the next level with my "Photography for
Travelers" class. Photographing people, architecture, events and food are all covered as you learn to
produce dynamic, powerful images using techniques practiced by professional travel photographers.
And if portrait photography is your passion, join my class "Create Dynamic Photographic Portraits on
Location". We will cover the use of available light, modifying that light with diffusers and reflectors and
finally mixing ambient and flash for drama. After each class lecture, we will try out the techniques
discussed, producing portraits with the various light sources.
All three classes will have suggested weekly homework assignments and a critique of the images at
the end of each class period.
If you are unfamiliar with my background, I have been an editorial photographer for thirty-five years
working for such clients as National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Sunset and Time magazines,
Smithsonian Books and many others. For the last twelve years I have also taught at Brooks Institute
and conducted many workshops for both Panasonic Cameras and Brooks Institute. I'll make sure you
not only learn quite a lot, but also have a great time doing it. My core feeling about photography is if
you aren't having fun, you're doing it all wrong. Hope to see you this Winter. Happy Holidays!
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Our Board
President
George Welik
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(hyperlinks, click name to email)
Past President
Stuart Wilson
Vice President
David Hancock
Projected Images
Chris Seaton
Print Exhibition
Brian Woolford
Field Trips
Open
Publicity
Patty Franco
Education/Training
Open
Print Shows
Stephen Sherrill
Secretary
Open
Scorekeeper
Zoltan Puskas
Programs
Webmaster
Dorothy Littlejohn Terry Straehley
Judges
Ron Williams
PSA Rep
Aavo Koort
Treasurer
Sharon Metsch
Equipment
Walter Naumann
Membership
Patti Gutshall
Newsletter Editor
Ken Pfeiffer