Our Next Monthly Meeting is May 7, 2010 May Competition Theme - Portrait. President s Message

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President’s Message

Once again our very talented members showed their skill and artistic vision in another impressive competition showcase. The variety of work on display within the Architecture theme was truly inspiring and everyone who had images in the competition should be very proud!

Did you make it out to the William Harris Homestead shoot we had on the 10th? That was great fun – Jack did a wonderful job organizing the event and hosting everyone at the property. We shot until well after dark and at least one hardy soul (Hi Carl) stayed late into the night in order to do a bit of experimenting with star trails and other dark sky techniques. If you didn’t make it, make sure to stop by Meetup for this shoot and look at the nearly 40 photos that folks are sharing and commenting on from the shoot. Inspiring and educational!

Speaking of great Jack outings, don’t forget we have another field trip coming up on May 1st. This is a morning shoot in historic Madison. Make sure to RSVP on our Meetup site so Jack knows how many to expect, and you’ll also get an automatic reminder as the date gets closer.

Lastly, we are still planning to have our regular “4th Tuesday Learnshop” this month (27th) so watch Meetup for details since we’re getting this one together a bit at the last minute.

I look forward to seeing you all at our next club meeting on May 7th, where the competition theme will be Portrait.

Ken

April 2010 www.spsatlanta.org

Our Next Monthly Meeting is May 7, 2010

May Competition Theme - Portrait

“The portrait image should have one or more people as the primary and sole subject. Portraits are generally posed/staged but can be taken in studio or environmental settings, with artificial and/or

natural lighting. A documentary shot of a child in a fountain is not a portrait”

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May Speaker and 2 Judge Information

Photography Field Trip 2 To Washington D.C. April Competition 3-5 Winners Membership News 6 Opportunities to Shoot 6 2010 Competition Themes 7

How to Submit Digital 8 Images

Board Contacts and 9 Meeting Directions

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May Guest Speaker and Judge

Our guest this month is Jim Morganthaler. Jim has been teaching photography in Ath-ens for 35 years and has been involved with digital photography for the last 20 years. He bought his first Nikon when stationed in Korea in the Air Force. Exploring Korea and Japan with that camera sparked the interest in photography that continues to this day.

Jim has been teaching for the Professional and Personal Development program at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education since his retirement from the University of Georgia. During his work life at UGA, Jim produced educational video, film, computer graphics and still photography. Jim regularly teaches "Fundamentals of Photography," "Taking Better Pictures,"

Take a Photography Field Trip to Washington D.C.

Our Nation’s capital is a great place to photograph. If you go now, you may have just missed the peak of the cherry blossoms. You can spend an entire weekend just on the Mall. And you aren’t limited to only daylight. You can shoot well into the night, or early morning, if you like because the Mall never closes. With the monuments illuminated the Mall takes on a whole new persona at night. And with people from all

over the country, and the world, as well as the locals the poten-tial for people photography is huge. And if you are lucky enough to be there during a festival or celebration you can al-ways photograph fireworks over the Mall, or reflected in one of the pools. Luckily, airfares between Atlanta and Washington D.C. are relatively cheap and flight schedules plentiful.

In addition to the great photography opportunities, Washington D.C. is also currently the location of two unique and important photography exhibits. Ansel Adams: The Mural

Pro-ject 1941-1942 is a collection of photographs by the famed photographer taken for the Depart-ment of the Interior. In 1941 Adams was commissioned by then Secretary of the Interior Harold

Ickes to produce large-format murals of areas controlled by the De-partment. The project was stopped with the bombing of Pearl Har-bor, and the 200 plus works shelved. Until now. Starting March 10, 2010 twenty-six murals were put on display at the Department of the Interior. There are no plans for a traveling exhibit, so the only place you can see them is at the Department of the Interior . You’ll have to make an appointment to view them during normal business hours.

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Black and White Print Winners April 2010

Theme-Architecture; Judge-David Akoubian

These images should highlight architecture as the primary subject. Images of whole structures (man-made buildings, bridges, etc.) or of architectural details are typical.

1st

Ron McKitrick Triumphal

2nd

Carl Fredrickson Shaker Stairwell

3rd

Jack Martin _Watertower

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Mike Boatright Pulaski Ramp and Cannon

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Alan Schrank Spiral and Cubes

4th

Elton Saulsberry Flatiron

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1st

Alan Shrank Inside the Tent

Mike Boatright Tin Roofed House

Color Print Winners April 2010

3rd

2nd

Carl Fredrickson Riveted John McGinn Stargate

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4th

Stan Bowman Corporate Ladder Harriet Dye

Window With Roof Tiles

Ken Ross

Courting the Storm

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1st

John McGinn Curves

2nd

3rd

4th

Huey Bible Untitled Sheila McIntosh

National Gallery Tunnel

Carl Fredrickson Tybee Tunnel View-2

Digital Winners April 2010

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Alan Shrank Tower-Rain

Roy Gordon Buckhead

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Membership News

We have not officially surpassed our total membership from last year! Our membership now stands at 163, with the addition of 13 new members. Welcome back to Bob Walters, and a hearty welcome to our new members:

Jeff Ashe Pedro Delgado Do Nguyen

Huey Bible Kelly & Matt Enser Darron Randolph Deborah Badigian DeLaun Fuller Jan Smid

John Corsiglia Tonesha Housen Jonathan Taylor

Take a Photography Field Trip to Washington D.C (con’t)

The second exhibit is of works by photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The name may not be familiar, but his work fundamentally changed how we think about the art form. The im-ages he produced in the late 19th century -- sequential photographs of men walking, or horses at a gallop, their movements broken down frame by frame -- have become iconic. The largest ret-rospective of his work ever assembled is starting a multicity tour at the Corcoran Gallery of ArtHis early images of the pacific northwest inspired Ansel Adams to photograph Yosemite Valley. His later work expanded the medium of photography from still images to one about time and motion. In the 1870s there was a huge scientific debate over the question of whether all four hooves of a horse ever left the ground simultaneously. Muybridge's astonishing photo-graphs settled the debate. His motion work led him to borrow dozens of exotic animals from the Philadelphia Zoo, including elephants, antelopes and zebras. He would set up as many as 30 cameras and took over a Philadelphia racetrack. He shot them strolling, cantering and running on the track. His idea was to break down motion so it could be studied by scientists. You can read more about this iconic photographer and his work at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/ story.php?storyId=125899013.

Opportunities to Get Out and Shoot!

Saturday May 1, 2010 - Madison, Georgia

We’ll be meeting in historic Madison to photographic the historic homes, buildings, and other architecture, as well as anything else that catches your photographic eye. Don’t let the 7 AM meeting time discourage you. If you can’t be there at 7, come when you can. We’ll likely be meeting together somewhere around noon to have lunch together for those who want, and compare the morning’s efforts.

May 14-16, 2010 - Alligator Farm Zoological Park

Join us for some great opportunities to photograph wading birds at the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine, Florida. Nesting birds include herons, egrets, ibis, spoonbills, and storks. There are, also, lots of alligators! More details are on our Meetup site (http://www.meetup.com/SPS-Meetup/). You can also RSVP for any of our outings.

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2010 Competition Themes

Meeting Date Theme

January 8 Open (Vintage): The Open competition allows photographers to enter their best work on

any subject. Since this is also a “vintage” competition, the image can be from any prior year.

February 5 Abstract: The image must not depict the subject matter in a direct manner; patterns,

tex-tures, colors or elements should not be immediately recognizable as to the source. March 5 After Dark: The intent here is capture images after nightfall, preferably out of doors,

where you can convey the “night time” in scenes through creative use of artificial light and/ or long(er) exposures.

April 2 Architecture: These images should highlight architecture as the primary subject. Images

of whole structures (man-made buildings, bridges, etc.) or of architectural details are typi-cal.

May 7 Portrait: The portrait image should have one or more people as the primary and sole

sub-ject. Portraits are generally posed/staged but can be taken in studio or environmental set-tings, with artificial and/or natural lighting. A documentary shot of a child in a fountain is not a portrait.

June 4 Pathways: Life is a journey – with this theme, we want you to show us the way. This may

be a path through the woods, a road less travelled, or other creative interpretation of “pathway”.

July 9 Animals: If it’s not human and walks, crawls, swims, or flies, is a potential subject for this

theme. It may be your cat “Spot” or a lion the plains; show us your best shot.

August 6 Reflections: The idea here is to get creative reflections as a key element of your image.

This may be a subject captured in a reflection (window, water, mirror, etc.) or clever use of reflections as the subject itself.

September 3 Travel: The primary criteria here is that the image must give the viewer a sense of place

outside of Atlanta. This might be someplace out in the country [near Atlanta] or some far away land. Take us there.

October 1 Water: For this theme, water must be the primary subject of the image. Water comes in

many forms, fits many containers, can be colored, and found in many settings – be creative! November 5 Landscape: The subject for this theme should be a natural outdoor setting showing an

ex-pansive point of view. Grand vistas with few (if any) man-made objects are what we’re looking for.

December 3 Member’s Choice: Members select their favorites from among the first, second and third prize winning images in all categories from the prior 11 months of 2010.

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How To Submit Digital Images

Three basic steps:

1. Make your image the best it can be. Make all your adjustments in Photoshop (or other editing soft-ware) and save your master file.

2. Resize a copy of your image for competition and save it as a jpeg file. Maximum pixel dimensions should be 1024x768.

3. Email your image to digital@spsatlanta.org by 9pm the Thursday before the competition.

How to resize your image and save as a jpeg:

1. Open your master file in Photoshop or other photo editing software.

2. Create a flattened duplicate of the image. Choose “Image > Duplicate” from the menu. Check the “Duplicate Merged Layers Only” checkbox.

3. Close your original image.

4. If necessary, convert your image from 16 bit to 8 bit. Choose “Image > Mode > 8 bits/channel”. 5. If your image isn’t already in the sRGB color space, convert it. Choose “Edit > Convert to Profile”

NOT assign profile) and change the Destination Space to “sRGB IEC61966-2.1” (your sRGB color space may have a slightly different name.

6. Bring up the image size dialog with the “Image > Image Size” menu.

7. Make sure the “constrain proportions” box is checked at the bottom of the dialog.

8. Make sure the pixel dimension section of the dialog is set to “pixels” not “percent”.

9. If the image has a horizontal orientation, set the width to 1024 and let the height change automati-cally.

10. If the image is vertical, set the height to 768 and let the width change.

11. Make sure the “Resample Image” box is checked.

12. Ignore the “Document Size” Resolution box. It makes no difference how the document settings are set.

13. Click OK. Congratulations! When you do this Photoshop will correctly resize the image. Save it as a jpeg file (.jpg) and email it to digital@spsatlanta.org!

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Exposure Notes

Published monthly by the Southeastern

Photographic Society P. O. Box 49646, Atlanta, GA 30359.

Newsletter Submittals: Information and articles for the newsletter should be submitted two weeks prior to the meeting date. Articles may be

submitted either electronically or by hard copy and may be given to Ken Ross in person, or mailed to 948 Rolling Meadows Dr., Loganville GA 30052 or e-mailed to ken@KennethRossPhotography.com Meeting Location: The Southeastern Photographic Society (SPS) normally meets in the Fellowship Hall of Briarcliff Baptist Church, 3039 Briarcliff Road, on the first Friday of each month at 7:30 PM.

Directions: Take the Clairmont Road exit from I-85. Go south on Clairmont Road toward Decatur/ Emory. At first light, turn right onto Briarcliff Road. Turn left into the drive way adjacent to the wrought iron fence adjacent to Ed’s IGA and park in the lot. An awning labeled 7'6" CLEAR covers the entrance to the hall that leads to the Fellowship Hall.

2010 Officers President Ken Ross

ken@kennethrossphotography.com Vice President Candy Ford

candyford@gmail.com Secretary Mike Boatright

f64@mikeboatright.com.

Treasurer Elton Saulsberry

Elton@eltonsaulsberry.com Past President Wendell Tudor

awtudor@comcast.net

Committee Chairs Competitions Ray Davis

RDavis7939@AOL.Com Facilities &

Equipment

Stan Bowman

sbowman64@yahoo.com Programs Jack Martin

jackandlinda@mindspring.com Membership Virginia Dunbar

vdunbar@emory.edu

Communications Josh Earhart

josh_earhart@bellsouth.net