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LENS LINES The Official Newsletter of the Arundel Camera Club April, 2005 |
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April 2005 Programs Planned April 13th: Slide Contest, Open April 20th : Betty Harris will report on and show slides of her African trip last year. April 27th: Print Contest Year End Contest: Any picture that has 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th place in a monthly contest, is eligible to be entered in the year end judging of that program year in the class in which it was entered, regardless of the maker's current class standing. The print or slide must be the orginal print or slide as first entered. No duplicate or replacement prints. The contest will not be judged during a club meeting, but will be done off site. Deadline is the Wednesday, April 27th club meeting. Field Trip, April 23rd: Great Falls of the Potomac, leave Severna Park Park ‘N Ride at 8:00 a.m. Be ready for a bit of walking. March Contest Results Congratulations to Betty Harris who has accumulated enough points to move from Novice Slides to Unlimited Slides. And also to Chuck Gallegos, who moves to the Unlimited class in Color prints. March 9th Contest: Novice Slides Unlimited Slides March 30th Contest Results Novice Color Prints Unlimited Color Prints Novice Monochrome Prints Unlimited Monochrome Prints How The Winners Won: Anne Benintende said of "Dancing With Dad" that she had "more or less planned it.". Using a slow shutter speed she photographed relatives dancing at a wedding. The strobe, adjusted for the same intensity as the room light stopped the action while the slow shutter speed allowed the ambient light to expose the room and give a ghost image to the dancing figures. Ms. Benintende used a Fuji digital camera for the photograph. Tim Chapney’s "Nemacolin Sunday Afternoon" was taken in the sunroom of a resort hotel near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Originally in color on a Canon digital Rebel, Tim made two exposures, one with flash and one without the flash. Without the flash worked best, giving nice shadows and a bit of outside detail. Betty Harris’ "A New Beginning" was the result of photographing the same rhododendron from the same position at the same time of day for five days. Setting up before she went to work, Betty produced a series of photographs from first bud to flower. She plans to print the pictures as a five photo series. Canon EOS1 camera, Velvia Fifty film, macro lens. Howard Penn had two winners in March: "Busy as a Bee" was recorded on Velvia one hundred film and a macro lens. "Lunar Flyboy" was a very late evening shot of snow geese in slightly burred motion flying in front of the moon. Also on Velvia one hundred exposed through a Canon 100mm-400mm image stabilizing lens. Dolphy Glendinning was leaving the new Museum of the American Indian on the mall in Washington, DC, when she spotted the walk way that she photographed in "Brick Zig Zag." The picture was from a digital exposure reversed to black and white by using Image-Mode-Grayscale in Photoshop Elements. Thanks to our Judges: Marketa Ebert judged our March 9th Contest. Ms. Ebert is a photojournalist and works for the Prince Georges Examiner. After her husband gave her a single lens reflex camera she began winning camera club contests. She’s a member of the Bowie-Crofton Camera Club. Ms. Ebert played close attention to subject matter and remarked that a flower in a photo had seen better days. Tim Edberg, March 30th In a little over a month two photographers have given Arundel Camera Club a generous amount of their most valuable asset: time. Tim Edberg and Tony Sweet have both spoken and judged contests. In this issue we take a look at Mr. Edberg and his work. Both are nature photographers, conduct workshops and sell prints. Next issue we’ll feature Mr. Sweet. Edberg as a judge is methodical and quite verbal about his thoughts; thoughts one suspects he works with on a daily basis. Looking at a print he remarked that there are interesting things going on. "Too many interesting things," he said. The print went out, too busy, no central theme. Reminding us that photography is a visual, not a verbal medium, he used the term "Spark", or the lack of it in a picture. Spark, in this case, is a description of how the judge reacts emotionally to a picture. A picture of two soldiers jumping, seemingly from nowhere and going nowhere as a third one looks on brought the question "Where’s the story?" And story telling is part of what we do with photography, making a visual description of a flower or building or a person. As the judging progressed it was apparent that Edberg first looked at the overall message an entry delivered. If the photograph passed the overall test, then Edberg began a process of checking details such highlights that detracted, compositional elements that were in conflict, sharpness and print quality. Edberg as a photographer works with 35 mm film and large format 4x5. He often heads to the Western United States, backpacking to the subject matter. Backpacking can last five or six days and Edberg works with 35mm color exposed on a Nikon and one of four lenses. He doesn’t take the 4x5 backpacking, noting that the further the photographer and his heavy camera walk from the car the more enthusiasm diminishes for the subject matter. Edberg also maintains a traditional black and white darkroom. Black and white is his preference, but color prints pay the bills. Wherever he is working, one suspects that he keeps his cardinal photographic rule in mind: There are no_rules_in_photography.__ Photoshopping Kodak stopped making slide projectors late last year. So your choice is to find a good used Carousel or a new projector from Leitz. And it won’t cost you an arm and a Leica to buy. Street price for the Leitz Pradovit P-150- is about $240.00 with lens and one slide carrier. If you really want to spend money the Leica way, top of the line Pradovit RT-M projector goes for about $1800.00 Tony Sweet Photography Workshop 3 Day Workshop and Photographic Event April 16, 17 & 22, 2005 $175.00 ~ limited to 20, April 16, 2005 ~ 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Slide show presentation of flower images and a book signing of the newly released "Fine Art Flower Photography" Open to the Public April 17, 2005 ~ Sunrise-Early Afternoon: The "hands-on" workshop will be conducted throughout the historic grounds. Personal instruction including composing "winning"images, creative filter use, and answering situation specific questions will be the focus of this day-long activity. April 22, 2005 ~ 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Presentation of work produced by students and critique with in-depth discussions and Q&A on digital photography, image processing, anddigital printing. Registration forms available online: > www.tonysweet.com/workshops/londontown.html The National Association of Photoshop Professionals is sponsoring a workshop for Photoshop version CS in Washington, DC. The Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour is only $79 for NAPP members, $99 for non-members. You'll get our invaluable keyboard shortcuts guide, a copy of Photoshop User magazine, and a detailed seminar workbook that includes all the techniques presented in a step-by-step format so you can spend the day learning instead of taking notes. Workshop is on April 22nd, runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m Web Site, phone 1-800, 201 7323. Travelin’Man: Lonnie Kishiyama traveled to Maine last fall, submitted a story and photograph to the Baltimore Sun Readers Recommend column in the Travel Section. Story and photograph were both published. The picture was of a fisherman’s landing at Bar Harbor, Maine. He also wrote about his experience visiting Bar Harbor with its rocky cliffs and tall pines and changing colors. Printing Your Winning Images Using Advanced Color Management by Michael A Dulisse One of the most difficult pieces of the digital puzzle is getting the printed image to look anything like the image represented on the computer screen. In this article we will learn about calibrating specific system components to better match monitor input and printer paper output color. This can be accomplished in four relatively easy steps. But remember, to get the most out of your images, each component whether it is printer paper, printer ink, scanner, or digital camera should be calibrated for system color management. The color output of the printer you will be adjusting is for the printer paper, inks, and printer resolution for that adjustment only. If you use different papers, inks, or a different printer resolution you must recalibrate the printer for each changed component. For example, Epson Glossy and Epson Premium Glossy papers require different calibration settings due to differences in paper reflectivity, ink absorption rates, surface coatings, and the brightness of the paper. For the purpose of this article I use settings common to both Adobe Photoshop V7 and V8 and Photoshop Elements 2. Other professional level imaging programs provide a similar color management feature. Also, I use Epson printers so the color management routines that I mention are specific to those printers.
To set color management settings for Photoshop go to Edit>Color Settings> and check the Advanced Mode box. Set the following: in Working Space set RGB to Adobe RGB (1998); in Color Management Policies set RGB to Convert to Working RGB; in Conversion Options set Engine to Adobe (ACE) and check the boxes marked Use Black Point Compensation and Use Dithering. In Elements 2 click on Use Full Color Management – Optimized for Print. In My Computer find and start the program Adobe Gamma.CPL in the folder Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration. Use the step-by-step wizard and follow the calibration instructions on the screen. When you finish making the adjustments the program will save the monitor profile. I include the date and the color management setting in the file name since I update my monitor profile every 30 or so days (monitor’s phosphors change constantly and rather rapidly! ). The program Adobe Gamma Loader should automatically set this monitor profile and adjust your screen each time the computer starts. Create a Printer Setting Preference. There are basically four ways of acquiring printer color management. They are, in order of preference, 1). Use a color management software package with a color densimeter or colorimeter screen device (spider); 2). Purchase color printer profiles for specific inks and papers through various manufacturers and suppliers; 3). Create a "printer color profile" using the printer’s color management Printer Setting Preferences found in the File>Print Settings menu of Photoshop or the Printers and Faxes menu of Windows Control Panel; or, 4). Create a Photoshop Action making necessary color adjustments in curves or levels, saturation, brightness and contrast to achieve color matching. Due to the cost and availability of the first two we will use the third method (# 3) to create our printer color profile on an Epson printer. Arundel Camera Club meets every Wednesday evening when school is in session. We meet at 7:30 and usually end around 9:00 p.m. at Severna Park High School, 60 Robinson Road, Severna Park in room G144. Meetings are open to the public, but only dues paying members may enter competitions. Annual dues are $15 per adult, $7.50 per full-time student. If a second family member joins the club, the second member's dues are discounted 50% or $7.50.For further information, check on the club website or feel free to call or e - mail any of the club's officers: NOTE from our WEB MASTER The Arundel Camera Club website URL is now http://arundelcameraclub.org/ Arundel Camera Club meets every Wednesday evening when school is in session. We meet at 7:30 and usually end around 9:00 p.m. at Severna Park High School, 60 Robinson Road, Severna Park in room G144. Meetings are open to the public, but only dues paying members may enter competitions. Annual dues are $15 per adult, $7.50 per full-time student. If a second family member joins the club, the second member's dues are discounted 50% or $7.50.For further information, check on the club website or feel free to call or e - mail any of the club's officers:
President VP(s) Programs: 1stVP
Programs Assoc. Jeff Peters (410)
544-2780 VP(s) Contests: Assoc. Dick Chomitz(410) 721-5573 Delegate Jeff Peters (410)544-2780 Delegate Dick
Chomitz (410)721-5573
Please e-mail your contributing article to the Newsletter Editor at sa.dine@att.net by the 4th Wednesday of Any Month or phone Scott Dine (410). 897 0590..
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