SHUTTER OPEN SHUTTER CLOSED. Guests Houston Brown Atan Chua Diane McNabb Reid McNabb Todd Montag Matt Salim

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1 VOLUME 72, No. 12 Published for members and friends of the Dallas Camera Club December 2005 SHUTTER CLOSED November 1 - We viewed results of last month s turnin, CURVES. November 15 - Our meeting was at commercial photography company, Greg Booth + Associates. We were given a tour of their 40,000 sq. ft. facility, which has eight individual photography bays and three natural daylight studios. Our host was business manager Vince Bove; in addition, we talked with one of their seven staff photographers, Peter Marince. INSIDE New Members Lisa Castro Frank Richards Raymond salinas Guests Houston Brown Atan Chua Diane McNabb Reid McNabb Todd Montag Matt Salim Competition Subjects... Page 2 Hospitality Schedule... Page 2 Field Trip News... Page 2 How I Got The Shot....Page 3 October s Winning Images Page 4 Year-To-Date Contest Scores..... Pages 7-9 October s Award Winners Pages 9-10 Executive Committee and Officers Page 11 SHUTTER OPEN December 6 - Meeting at Parker College CONTEST - View results of last month s turn-in. Submit this month s entries, Deep in the Heart of Texas. December 20 - Meeting at Parker College. PROGRAM - We will have our annual Holiday Dinner and gift exchange. The dinner will be a potluck dinner with an optional gift exchange. If you wish to participate in the gift exchange bring a WRAPPED present. The price minimum is $15. NO WHITE ELEPHANTS!!! A food/drink sign-up list was passed around at our Nov. 1st meeting. You may also sign up at the Dec. 6th meeting. Categories of food/drink are: main course/meat, salads, vegetables/fruits, desserts, breads, nonalcoholic drinks. Spouses and guests are also welcome to attend the party. We hope to see a big turnout. Plan to arrive a little early so that we can start serving food at 7PM. January 3 - Meeting at Parker College. CONTEST - View results of last month s turn-in. Submit this month s entries, OPEN. January 17 - Meeting at Parker College. PROGRAM - Rosanne Pennella, who left a successful career as an attorney to travel the planet and photograph remarkable people and places, will share some of her images and experiences with the DCC. She is a mentor / teacher for the Nikon-sponsored American Photo / Popular Photography Mentor Series Workshops. Recent locations for her photo workshops were Thailand, Morocco, and Australia. Her images of Morocco were exhibited at Union Station in Washington, DC. Clients include Nikon, Kodak, Lowepro, Random House, Blue Magazine, and the tourist offices of Morocco, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Hungary. February 7 - Meeting at Parker College. CONTEST - View results of last month s turn-in. Submit this month s entries, Photojournalism. February 21 - Meeting at Parker College. PROGRAM - TBA. March 7 - Meeting at Parker College. CONTEST - View results of last month s turn-in and submit End-of-Year entries. 1

2 DALLAS CAMERA CLUB HOSPITALITY SCHEDULE by The Editor December 6 December 20 January 3 January 17 Ken Zapp Joseph Armstrong Eleanore Avery Annual Holiday Party LeDon Becker Aruna Birakayala Dody Bracken Nellie Bretherick Jim & Toni Broadwater Steve Burlison HOSPITALITY Please consider making a cent donation into the hospitality donation cans when you partake of the refreshments brought to each meeting. This money is used to buy the paper plates, napkins, ice and cups. If you know you will not be at the meeting when you are scheduled for hospitality, please find someone to take your place and let Linda Clifford know as well. Those members whose names appear each month in the space above are asked to bring drinks and/or snacks to the meeting by which they are listed. THRU THE LENS DALLAS CAMERA CLUB FIELD TRIPS No scheduled field trip this month. The remaining schedule is: January Rio Grande Valley Bird Sanctuary Rare migrating birds and tropical landscapes. March Caddo Lake Cypress trees, Spanish moss and dogwoods. PHOTOJOURNALISM Are you wondering if your images will qualify for the Photojournalism category in February? Read on for a definition from PSA. This is a definition of photojournalism as set out by the Photographic Society of America (PSA). Photojournalism entries shall consist of pictures with informative content and emotional impact, including human interest, documentary, and spot news. The journalistic value of the photograph shall be considered over pictorial quality. In the interest of credibility, photographs which misrepresent the truth, such as manipulation to alter the subject matter, or situations which are set up for the purpose of photography, are unacceptable in photojournalism competition. Dallas Camera Club Annual Christmas Party REMAINING COMPETITION SCHEDULE FOR YEAR December 6th - Deep In The Heart of Texas January 3rd - Open February 7th - Photojournalism March 7th - End of Year Images (Don t forget, the year-end total score is the total from all monthly competitions within each classification after dropping the two lowest scores.) December 20th, 7pm Bring food item and optional wrapped gift 2

3 DALLAS CAMERA CLUB Two French Curves - By Jerry Comer, 1st place in the Masters Prints division in the October Curves contest. THRU THE LENS Film or Digital Digital ISO Setting Camera Type - D-SLR Camera Manufacturer - Pentax Camera Model - istd Shutter Speed and Aperture - Unrecorded Lens Choice zoom Lens Manufacturer - Pentax Filter - Polarizing on camera Flash - None. Light source is a lightbox with polarizing sheet. Location - Studio (spare bedroom). Time of Day - Evening. Tripod - None. The camera is mounted on a copy stand. Cable Release - Yes. Special adjustments made after image was captured - Nominal cleanup, saturation and sharpening. Jerry Comer Comments - Back in the days before computers took over, engineers used pencils and paper on a drafting table to create drawings. As an aid to drawing irregular shapes, there were templates called French Curves in various shapes and sizes. These templates were usually molded of transparent plastic. When plastic parts are molded, internal stresses are created in the material as it cools. If the material is transparent, these stresses can be viewed as color fringes by illuminating the part with polarized light and viewing it through a polarizing filter. The image entered in the DCC competition shows the stress lines in two French curves. A polarized light source for the templates was created by laying a flat sheet of polarizing material over a light box used for slide viewing. The curves are laid on top of the filter sheet. This can be seen in the first picture which also shows the camera mounted on the copy stand; the lamp in the light box is not turned on in this view of the setup. The polarizing filter for the camera is still in its storage box in this shot. The second picture shows a split view through the camera lens, with and without the polarizing filter on the camera. The light box is illuminated in both views. The color fringes appear when the camera filter is attached. Note that light from the light box is still visible when the color fringes are - this is because the filter on the camera has not been adjusted (rotated) to be completely out of phase with the filter sheet. In the submitted image, the camera filter has been turned until it is exactly out of phase with the light passing through the sheet filter. This blocks all of the light and makes the background black However, the light which passes through the curves undergoes a phase shift which allows it to be seen by the camera, rendering the curves visible and showing the color fringes. Jerry Comer Jerry Comer TWO FRENCH CURVES 3

4 OCTOBER 2005 WINNERS - CURVES ADVANCED PRINTS YELLOW WHEELS Bob Frank MASTERS PRINTS TWO FRENCH CURVES Jerry Comer BEGINNERS PRINTS ORCHIDS David Linton MONOCHROME PRINTS ARCHITECTURAL CURVES Nellie Bretherick MASTERS PROJECTED IMAGES NATURE S CURVES Tom Marusa BEGINNERS PROJECTED IMAGES CARTOON SPIDER Ann Redfearn 4 ADVANCED PROJECTED IMAGES SPACESHIP TETHERS Harry Rumberger

5 MASTERS - YEAR TO DATE SCORES Projected Images May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Eleanore Avery Nellie Bretherick Jerry Comer Gary Kelly Paula Buzenius Tom Marusa Dody Bracken Dan Meredith Ralph Pyke Sharon Dorsey Rolando Solis Color Prints May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Eleanore Avery Jerry Comer Paula Buzenius Nellie Bretherick Gary Kelly Dody Bracken Ralph Pyke Rolando Solis Toni Broadwater Jim Broadwater Dan Meredith

6 ADVANCED - YEAR TO DATE SCORES Projected Images May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Kaye Hargis Bob Frank Harry Rumberger Swapan Sarkar Jessica Gluck Mel Sharp John Wathne Robert Sherman David Gregory Art Givens Ari Plosker Bruce Faust Joseph Armstrong Color Prints May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Bob Frank Kaye Hargis Tom Marusa Mel Sharp Jessica Gluck Harry Rumberger Philip Johnson John Wathne Robert Sherman Bruce Faust David Gregory Ari Plosker David Rochier Art Givens

7 BEGINNERS - YEAR TO DATE SCORES Projected Images May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Carol Schmoker LeDon Becker Ann Redfearn David Linton Richard Wasserman Jack Harrison Indraneel Hajumdar Neil Culver Danette Sissom Bob Krause Philip Johnson Color Prints May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Ann Redfearn Carol Schmoker Neil Culver Richard Wasserman David Linton Bill Lanza Ted Sherman LeDon Becker Kevin Moody Bob Krause Paul Hornung Danette Sissom Aruna Birakayala Spike Eskins

8 YEAR TO DATE SCORES MONOCHROME PRINTS Monochrome Prints May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Total Nellie Bretherick Eleanore Avery Paula Buzenius Gary Kelly Bob Frank Jerry Comer Mel Sharp Tom Marusa Jessica Gluck Ralph Pyke Ann Redfearn Harry Rumberger Bob Krause Carol Schmoker John Wathne Philip Johnson Robert Sherman Danette Sissom Paul Hornung David Linton David Gregory Ari Plosker OCTOBER 2005 WINNERS Prints - CURVES Monochrome Name Title Score Place Nellie Bretherick Architectural Curves 15 1 Jerry Comer Shamilar Reflection 14 2 Jessica Gluck Repeating Prayer 13 3 Gary Kelly Glass Weave 12 HM Tom Marusa Pinwheel Curves 12 HM Ann Redfearn Flower Power 12 HM 8

9 OCTOBER 2005 WINNERS Projected Images - CURVES Beginners Prints - CURVES Beginners Color David Linton Orchids 15 1 SEE Ann Redfearn Pella, Iowa Courtyard 14 2 LeDon Becker Curves in the Sky 13 3 NEXT Neil Culver Reflections in the Past 12 HM PAGE Advanced Advanced Color Bob Frank Yellow Wheel 15 1 SEE David Gregory Sunrise at Mesa Arch 14 2 Bob Frank Old Wood 13 3 NEXT Mel Sharp Church Domes 12 HM Robert Sherman Red Balloon 12 HM PAGE Tom Marusa Blimp Nose 12 HM Masters Masters Color Jerry Comer Two French Curves 15 1 SEE Eleanore Avery Curves 14 2 Nellie Bretherick Curves in Hot Air Balloon 13 3 NEXT Ralph Pyke Wait s River Church 12 HM PAGE Gary Kelly Bend in the River 12 HM 9

10 OCTOBER 2005 WINNERS Projected Images - CURVES Beginners Projected Images - CURVES Beginners Ann Redfearn Cartoon Spider 15 1 LeDon Becker Morning Walk 13 2 Ann Redfearn Big Elk 13 3 Carol Schmoker Greek Curves 12 HM Carol Schmoker Curving Fowl 12 HM David Linton Tandem Beauty 12 HM Advanced Advanced Harry Rumberger Spaceship Tethers 15 1 Harry Rumberger Kaye Hargis Austin Rotunda 14 2 Kaye Hargis Holy Trinity 13 3 David Gregory Tomato Through Faucet Handle 12 HM Robert Sherman Curves 12 HM Robert Sherman Running Water 12 HM Jessica Gluck Parrots Two 12 HM Ocean Through Cape Blanco Lighthouse Lens 12 HM Masters Masters Tom Marusa Nature s Curves 15 1 Jerry Comer Curve Meal 12 HM Nellie Bretherick Curved Leaves and Petals 14 2 Gary Kelly Amaryllis 12 HM Eleanore Avery Curving Canopies 13 3 Paula Buzenius Abstract Ceiling 12 HM Sharon Dorsey Follow the Horizon 12 HM Paula Buzenius Yin Yang Lizards 12 HM Sharon Dorsey Back Bone 12 HM Eleanore Avery Fish Nets 12 HM Tom Marusa Colorful Slinky 12 HM Jerry Comer Glass Flower 12 HM 10

11 DALLAS CAMERA CLUB THRU THE LENS CLUB OFFICERS Past President President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Newsletter Editor Slide Co-Chairs Print Co-Chair Field Trip Co-Chair Historian Hospitality House Managers Membership Web Site Managers Yearbook Editor Yearbook Photos PSA Representative GSCCC Representatives Tom Marusa Paula Buzenius Steve Burlison, Jerry Comer Jessica Gluck Adela Rochier Tom Marusa Eleanore Avery, David Linton Bob Frank, Mel Sharp Gary Kelly, Kaye Hargis OPEN Linda Clifford Bill Forbis, Dave Rochier Sharon Dorsey, Kaye Hargis Alex Bischoff, Swapan Sarkar Linda Clifford, Tom Marusa Dave Rochier Barbara & Ralph Pyke Dan Meredith Barbara & Ralph Pyke The Dallas Camera Club meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at the Parker Chiropractic College, 2500 Walnut Hill Lane, South Building, Dallas, Texas. Directions: From I-35, turn east on Walnut Hill Lane. Turn right (south) on Ables, the second light, and go south for one block. Turn left on Electronic. Go about 1/2 block, turn left to enter the college through the south gate. Come in the main door, take the elevator to the 2nd floor. Go west to the end of the hall, turn left into Room 226. Refreshments and fellowship begin at 7:00 PM. Meeting begins at 7:30 PM. Visitors are always welcome. Go to: Editor: Tom Marusa 1915 Buffalo Bend Dr. Lewisville, Texas First Class Mail THRU THE LENS VOLUME 72, NO. 12 December