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Vancouver Washington Film Pack Camera Club
March 2017 Volume 62 Issue 06
Competition Meetings will be held the first and third Tuesday, 7:30 PM, at Touchmark 2911 SE Village Loop, Vancouver WA. - http://www.touchmark.com/
FPCC Web Site and calendar http://filmpack.org/ Board meetings will be on the 4th Tuesday of every month, location and time to be announced by email.
Film Pack Camera Club FPCC
Adapter Photographic Society of America
http://psa-photo.org/
Editor: Jon Fishback., APSA, ARPS [email protected] Volume 62 Issue 06 March 2017
Columbia Council of Camera Clubs
http://columbiacameraclubs.org/
Goodies list and Schedule:
The above folks are responsible for bringing snacks and juice to the meeting. If you cannot bring goodies please call Sandy Watt 309-750-4351 and arrange a swap.
03-07 J. & R. Fishback 03-14 K. Rupp 03-21 J. & R Hatfield 03-28 G. Clark
04-03 W. Hunter 04-18 R. Klein
05-02 G. Noel 05-16 D. Labriere
Inside Adapter Page: Content: 3. Last Month Print night results 4. Last Month Print night Judges Choice 5. Contd. 6. Last Month EID YTD 7. January EID Judges Choice 8. Contd. 9. Last Month EID night Judges Choice 10. Contd, 11. Contd. 12. RPS Biennial Exhibit 13. Books at Amazon 14. Judge’s corner 15. Cool stuff from the web 16. Crossword 17. Making an International Winner 18. Contd. 19. Fun with PSA 20. Misc. & Board Minutes
Cover image—George Clark
Club Officers: President—John Craig [email protected]
Vice President—Frank Woodbery [email protected] Secretary Treasurer—James Watt [email protected]
Social Chair—Sandy Watt [email protected] Field Trip Chair—Rick Battson [email protected]
Web Co-Chair—B. Deming & D. Fischer [email protected] Touchmark Rep.: Ray Klein [email protected]
03MarkShugert_FPCC_IntoTheFoggySunrise_O Judges Choice - January, page 7.
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Last Month Print Night - Results YTD Year to date Mono.
Mono Print Chair: Doug Fishcer [email protected]
Year to date Color Color Print Chair: Don Funderburg
Touchmark is planning on having us (FPCC) do photography of two future events: 1. Easter Egg Hunt on April 15th a Saturday. Start time undetermined at this point. 2 Car Show on June 17th another Saturday. Start time undetermined at this point.
"Print participation has been dropping these last few months. If you have any suggestions consistent with the 4C's rules to encourage print making please send them to Doug Fischer [email protected]."
Large Mono Cal Schuyler 64
Don Funderburg 238
Doug Fischer 269
Grant Noel 41
Jan Pelkey 90
Katie Rupp 46
Michael Anderson 43
Sharp Todd 238
Tali Funderburg 20
Tim Morton 63
Small Mono
Bev Shearer 42
Cal Schuyler 81
Don Funderburg 237
Grant Noel 44
Jan Eklof 111
Katie Rupp 21
Michael Anderson 44
Sharp Todd 234
Image Maker LC SC YTD
Bev Shearer 0 85 85
Calvin Schuyler 125 124 249
Don Funderburg 238 237 475
Doug Fischer 281 0 281
Grant Noel 41 42 83
Jan Eklof 222 47 269
Katie Rupp 92 70 162
Mark Shugert 44 0 44
Michael Anderson 46 43 89
Priscila Martin -Read 44 23 67
Ray Klein 86 0 86
Sharp Todd 237 235 472
Stephen Cornick 0 60 60
Tali Funderburg 21 0 21
Tim Morton 270 220 490
Wayne Hunter 90 0 90
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Last Month Print Night - Judges Choice
JanEklof_IHearTheTrainACommin_SM
DougFischer_FeathersInBlack_White_LM
DougFischer_SandDune_LC
JanEklof_I'veGotMyEyeOnYou_SC
SharpTodd_BryceCloseup10-9-16-1_SC RayKlein_DrivingLunacy_LC
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Last Month Print Night - Judges Choice
SharpTodd_TreeInZion2_SM
SharpTodd_GrandCanyon9-16-8_LM
KatieRupp_CrownCrane_SC
SharpTodd_BryceMorning10-08-16-1_LC
SharpTodd_Bryce-10-9-16-10_LC
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Last Month EID Night - YTD EID chair: Frank Woodbery [email protected]
EID Theme for March: Color
Ambrose, Tom 66 44 132 242 Anderson, Michael 47 23 83 153 Battson, Rick 128 136 265 529 Boos, Charles 81 63 216 360 Boos, Ruth 0 62 219 281 Campbell, Tammy 63 44 112 219 Clark, George 132 130 271 533 Cornick, Stephen 43 43 216 302 Craig, John 130 136 279 545 Deming, Bob 104 107 188 399 Deming, Sharon 129 137 271 537 Eklof, Jan 135 137 278 550 Fischer, Doug 134 139 274 547 Fishback, Jon 132 137 274 543 Fishback, Rachel 63 36 106 205 Forbes, Lan 0 0 21 21 Forbes, Mark 90 63 178 331 Funderburg, Don 125 134 259 518 Funderburg, Tali 0 0 41 41 Hunter, Wayne 0 0 44 44 Johnson, John 0 21 42 63 Klein, Ray 138 133 263 534 LaBriere, David 133 128 267 528 Martins Read, Priscilla 21 23 43 87 Moore, Lee 62 43 133 238 Morton, Tim 109 69 223 401 Noel, Grant 44 40 88 172 Pelkey, Jan 132 129 272 533 Rupp, Katie 133 109 279 521 Schuyler, Cal 66 20 165 251 Shugert, Mark 109 109 227 445 Swartz, Richard 22 0 43 65 Todd, Sharp 136 110 274 520 Watt, James 43 43 85 171 Watt, Sandy 123 123 253 499 Woodbery, Frank 135 142 269 546
Name Mono Theme Open Totals
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January EID Night - Judges Choice
01DougFischer_FPCC_IntoTheStorm_O
01JohnCraig_FPCC_Winter2_M
01SharpTodd_FPCC_RedLantern1_TH
03DougFischer_FPCC_LightStacking_TH
03DougFischer_FPCC_LightStacking_TH
03katierupp_FPCC_TooCloseToMe_M
03MarkShugert_FPCC_IntoTheFoggySunrise_O 03MichaelAnderson_FPCC_PosingSeagull_M
03RayKlein_FPCC_MoonGlow_TH
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02FrankWoodbery_FPCC_DelicatelLilies_O 02JonFishback_FPCC_FallenLimb_O
January EID Night - Judges Choice
04DougFischer_FPCC_NuggetFalls_2_M 04FrankWoodbery_FPCC_TheLibrar
04JanPelkey_FPCC_StillHangingOn_O
04JohnCraig_FPCC_BlueLines_O
04katierupp_FPCC_WildebeestCrossing_O 04RayKlein_FPCC_NightTraffic_M
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Last Month EID Night - Judges Choice
01LeeMoore_DahliaGlow_FPCC__O
01MarkForbes_FPCC_HanginAround_O
01RayKlein_FPCC_PortlandWinterMoon_O
02CharlesBoos_FPCC_BonsiTree_O
02DavidLaBriere_FPCC_MorningWalk_M 02JohnCraig_FPCC_Winter_M
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Last Month EID Night - Judges Choice - Contd.
02katierupp_FPCC_BateleurEagle_O 02RickBattson_FPCC_CrewCoach_TH
02SharonDeming_FPCC_WheelsDown_TH
03DavidLaBriere_FPCC_RedwoodFerns_O
03JanEklof_FPCC_SparksLakeMorning_O
03JonFishback_FPCC_Peaches_O
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Last Month EID Night - Judges Choice - Contd.
03SharpTodd_FPCC_AdventurerMono_M
04GeorgeClark_FPCC_RememberingDad_O
04JanEklof_FPCC_TwistsAndTurns_O
04SharonDeming_FPCC_LadybugOnAToothpick_O
04SharpTodd_FPCC_BalancedRockMoonLit_O
04JanEklof_FPCC_TwistsAndTurns_O
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Arguably the most important event in the members' calendar, the Members’ Biennial Exhibition represents the diverse interests of the current RPS membership.
The selected photographers have now been notified. Click to visit the page. http://www.rps.org/blogs/2017/february/members-biennial-2017
The Biennial Exhibition is one of the many great ways we can help support our members’ passion for photography and is an important addition to The Society’s programme. Members worldwide were invited to submit their images to an open call competition, which was reviewed by a selection panel. The selected work celebrates the diversity of imagery being created by our community of members, at all levels of photographic practice. The exhibition tours the UK from March and will also include work from some of The Society’s Honorary Fellows, offering members the rare opportunity to exhibit their work alongside some of the most respected names in photography today.
Award Winners: To be announced shortly. Selection Panel: Ben Brain ARPS, Award winning journalist and photographer, Editor Digital Camera Magazine Tony Bramley FRPS, professional wedding and portrait photographer, awarded Fellowship of the Year 2016 Maria Falconer FRPS, professional photographer (specialising in performance photography) and Visiting Lecturer at De Montfort University Andre du Plessis FRPS, Social Documentary photographer Steve Smith FRPS, Social Documentary and Street photographer We are also delighted to welcome renowned American Photographer Joe McNally FRPS, to select the award winners.
Exhibition Tour Dates: 2017 4 - 26 March, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford 1 - 16 April, intu, Watford 22 April - 3 June, The Point, Doncaster 24 June - 5 August, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington 18 Aug - TBC, Washington Arts Centre, Washington 4 November - 7 December, Royal Albert Hall, London. The exhibition can be viewed when attending performances or on a number of free public open days - dates TBC.
Royal Photographic Society - Biennial Exhibit
Image from the portfolio, “Fabric of my Mind,” by Jon Fishback, selected for the exhibition above.
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Books to Buy - Amazon
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Judge’s Corner Judging Chair: Mark Shugert [email protected]
Notice how the analyst ignored the term composition and alluded to it through his opinion of the story being off. In the underlined see how much time was used in correcting composition, without mentioning it. Notice also how many elements were mentioned as done well and how few done poorly, yet the score of six might say something differently.
Judges For March: 03/07 (Prints) J. Fishback, R. Klein, R.Batson
03/08 FGCC TBA
6 Score
I like the color harmony of the near complementary blue and brown tones that initially captured my attention. The diagonal lines drew my eyes up the corridor, past the bike, and then to the brown door at the end. I feel that the image has good sharpness and depth of field throughout. To me the story is unclear, as is the subject of the image. If the maker intended the bike to be the main subject
I feel that they might have positioned it diagonally across the corridor to make it appear more prominent. If the door at the end of the corridor was the main subject then I think cropping the left 20% of the image might focus more attention on it. To my eye there are several areas that might benefit from selective lightening in post processing—the door at the back, the two windows at the left, and the hole in the wall on the right.
Ron Paxton
The Elements
Technical Excellence Composition
Lighting Color
Impact Creativity
Presentation Story
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NO TRIPOD? USE A LAMP! Want to take a group photo but don’t have a place to set the camera? Just whip the lamp shade off a lamp and screw your camera onto the lampshade-holder. The thread size of the bolt on a lamp shade is exactly the same size as the filter thread used on tripods, so your camera will easily attach. Not only will your party and indoor pictures look better, but you’ll look like MacGyver in front of the group. Not bad. This tip doesn’t come in handy every day, but you’ll like the coolest photography nerd on the planet when the situation arises.
REMOVE THE LENS FOR MACRO This is the coolest camera trick I’ve seen in a long time. If you take off your lens and hold it in front of the camera, you get a macro lens! I was really skeptical about this, but I just tried it and it worked like a charm. There are four things you need to know about using this trick: (1) Your camera won’t take a picture with the lens off unless you’re in manual mode. (2) The best focal length seems to be
around 50mm, so either a 50mm prime or an 18-55mm kit lens would be perfect! (3) Obviously, you lose autofocus since your lens isn’t attached to the camera. Focus is achieved by simply moving closer to or further away from the subject, and (4) The camera can’t open up the aperture, so you’ll do it with your hand. On the back of the lens (the side you mount on the camera), move the little plastic slider piece that controls the aperture. If you look in the lens while doing it, you’ll see the hole open up. If you want to take this a step further, you can buy a reverse lens mount for $5 or $10 which should sharpen up the images quite a bit since it will hold the lens more solidly. Also, be sure to use a tripod when doing this or any other macro photography. With such fine detail, even a tiny movement can destroy the sharpness.
THIS LITTLE TECHNIQUE MAKES IT EASY TO GET RID
OF THE TOURISTS IN YOUR TRAVEL SHOTS! This is an awesome trick for travel photographers. Sometimes you’re at an amazing location, but there are people in the way of your shot. If you want to take a picture of a landmark and people are in your shot, you will likely spend the rest of your adult life cloning people out of the shot unless you try this technique. Step 1: Set your camera on a tripod. Step 2: Take a picture about every 10 seconds until you have about 15 shots, depending on how fast people are walking around. Step 3: Open all the images in Photoshop by going to File > Scripts > Statistics. Choose “median” and select the files you took. Step 4: Bam! Photoshop finds what is different in the photos and simply removes it! Since the people moved around, it fills the area where someone was standing with part of another photo where no one was there. UPDATE: The “statistics” script mentioned here is only available in Photoshop Extended or in the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop; however, as someone mentioned in the comments, you can get a somewhat similar effect in recent versions of Photoshop Elements by going to Enhance > Photomerge > Scene Cleaner.
Cool Stuff - http://improvephotography.com/8806/photography-tricks/
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Across: 1. with 7 One of the main things a photo judge looks for. (9) 5. Propeller for a canoe. (3) 7. See 1 above (10) 9. City in India with a much photographed landmark. (4) 10. One of Santa's helpers, perhaps. (3) 11. Totally shocked, horrified. (6) 13. Told you --!. (2) 15. Could be an Opera or a cleanser. (4) 16. Nest-egg for some. (3) 19. Graduate from MIT perhaps. (3)(Abbr) 20. Sound you might hear in a Barber's Shop. (4) 21. Useful filter for photographing sunrise or sunset. (2) 23. Don't do this chasing a remote shot. (2,4) 24. Male child. (3) 26. Genus of the Olive family. (4) 28. Another attribute a photo judge looks for. (10) 29. A Scotsman's yes. (3) 30. Some photographers have their own for film development. (9)
Down: 1. Former name of the Tea plant genus. (4) 2. A regular six sided shape. (7) 3. Frozen mass found in the Polar regions. (6) 4. To shape beforehand. (7) 5. Numero Uno! (3) 6. You might tear or injure these in your knees. (4)(Acronym) 7. Remove from a tape or disk. (5) 8. Someone born, living or from South or Central America. (6) 12. Another name for an arquebus. (6) 14. Don't forget to remove this before taking your shot. (4,3) 17. Italian rice dish. (7) 18. Appropriately suitable. (5) 20. A member of the Slavic people. (6) 22. A flat bottomed boat with high sides. (4) 25. Formerly called. (3) 27. Great photo opportunity
Last Month’s Answers
Crossword - James Watt
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Making an International Prize Winner - Editor/Ray Klein The FPCC Field Trip Coordinator, Rick Battson, planned
several trips during the year to allow members to capture imagery, with potential, to use as material for Print or EID submissions. One of these trips was an excursion over to Portland, Oregon to the OHSU platforms, near the tram landings, where observation can be made of the famous Marquam Bridge.
The excursion became far more than an enjoyable field trip for Ray Klein, as the events unfolded. A fairly cool evening setting, yielded a scene filled with extraordinary colors and lighting, as western clouds moved to reveal a glowing eastern horizon with rays of red hues cast upon Mt. Hood, but just for a few minutes, to allow a dazzling show of light and color.
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At 4:35 PM Mt. Hood was still a ghost in the distance.
At 4:50, just 15 minutes later Mt. Hood became saturated with a brilliant hue of glowing red illumination. Ray busily recorded the images into his Canon T5i at 1/50th second, ISO 100 at 75mm at f/6.3.
Seconds later at 4:51, with a zoom extended to 200mm, a closer look at the fully illuminated mountain was exposed for use as an alternative, still at ISO 100 at f/5.6.
Watching the sky slowly swirling cloud layers to also become drenched with the slowly setting sunlight. At 4:58 PM, using an 18mm lens he recorded the entire sky as the wind swept the clouds into a pattern that seemed to echo the famous Marquam Bridge construction. Still at ISO 100 at f/4 for 1/50th second. A few minutes later the clouds had melted together and a few
frames later were useless to use in the photo.
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The final image (08) was entered into the Popular Photography Magazine Annual International Readers Contest with a deadline of December 31st: http://popphotocontest.bonniercorp.com/ A fee of $10 per imge is assessed and images come from all over the world. By January 05, notice was recived that Ray was a finalist. Ray was contacted by a writer for the magazine and was asked a host of question regarding the making of the image. According to the rules the full judging process was to be completed by January 27, 2017. On the morning of January 25. Ray was notified that he was the winner of the Cities and Architecture Category The final image (08) will be reproduced in the April 2017 issue of Popular Photography and may be a small as 5X7. Now we only need to wait until the April issue of the Popular Photography Magazine to arrive, perhaps by mid March, in order to see the final outcome of this exercise of entering an International Photography Contest.
Peering back at Mt. Hood, the mountain peak was the only thing still illuminated as the lighting event completely left the mountain to drift back into the haze. Looking down at the Marquam Bridge, the illumination on the
bridge was still bright enough to require a faster shutter speed and the moving traffic would not reveal the speed the vehicles were moving. At 5:09 PM, a 4 second exposure at f/22, still at ISO 100, with all point focus, magically seemed to transform the vehicle movement into an electrifying scene of motion, as if the movement was happening, as one gazed at the image.
Three of these images, (02), (04), and (07), were fused together, using “Elements 12” Photoshop Program.
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Congratulations Ray Klein
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Fun With PSA - Editor
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PSA Rep.: Jon Fishback [email protected]
4 C’s Rep.: John Craig [email protected]
FPCC Board Meeting The FPCC Board met on Tuesday February 28th at New Seasons Market. The board began plans for the End of Year Banquette and the up coming programs. Don Funderburg is holding the 4Cs Monthly Color Print Judging Tuesday March 14th at Touchmark. Members can watch, write down their score and compare it to the it to the judges. A discussion about the prints follows the judging. On March 28th, Byron Wills will give a class on composition. Ribbons for End of Year have been ordered and the board OK’d the purchase of a new HDMI cable for EID usage. John Craig
Sotheby’s Aucton - 5 April 2017 Sotheby’s Photographs auction on 5 April includes work by many masters of the medium, and features a range of material from the 19th to 21st centuries. Modernism is well-represented by early prints from Edward Weston’s Shell and Dunes series, as well as in works by Josef Sudek and Rudolf Koppitz. Significant 19th century photographs include seminal works by Timothy O’Sullivan, Horatio Ross, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Eadweard Muybridge. Important Contemporary offerings include Alex Prager’s Simi Valley, as well as works by Lucas Samaras, Robert Polidori, and Lewis Baltz. These photographs, as well as ones by F. Holland Day, Edward Steichen, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and Helmut Newton, will be on view during our pre-auction exhibition in New York beginning 30 March.
Edward Weston - Oceano $100,000 - $200,000
Alex Prager - Simi Valley $30,000 - $50,000
