The Two Rivers Photography Club - Newsletter Founded: June 2010 website: www.2rpc.com No. 3 April 2011 Greetings to all Perhaps Mother Nature will awake from the depths of winter and bless us with signs of spring. If you haven t already, it is time to check out your equipment and prepare for warmer weather photography. Are you planning a major trip? Prepare your cameras ahead of time. Be sure your camera s sensor is free of spots. Why wait until you download your images, only to find blemishes that you have to clean up on every photo? For stubborn areas you may want to seek assistance (i.e. Beyond the Print). The Two Rivers Photography Club has made a lot of progress and we are not yet a full year old. Many tasks have been completed, with more still in the wings. The web site is great and Chris Rollo deserves a huge Thank You for all her work to create a wonderful site. There is work going on to devise a financial process that will be used for all monetary dealings and will enable us to print out the information required to file a report with the IRS. Some of these steps are very new to us and Jeff Moore has volunteered to provide guidance to Patsy Nash-Jones in setting up the appropriate formats with Quick Books. Other items in the wings: information to be complied to complete our Not-for-Profit application, consultation with a lawyer, and the creation of a Facebook page for TRPC. Input from the membership is important. Ideas and suggestions are welcome. Can you think of new topics for the Saturday winter classes for 2012? Your board of directors is constantly looking forward. We are looking toward possible presenters for the 2012 Teach-In. The Fall Photo Class dates are set and the class info flyer is ready and on the club web site. Most of the 2011 2012 schedules of meeting dates are complete. This years Teach-In 2011 featured Lindsey Adler. It was a big success thanks to the efforts of Bill Baburchack who coordinated the event and the support of the members who attended. Lindsey came through the Roberson Club as a student, photographed with the pros at national meetings, went on to college in Syracuse, launched a successful career in photography and also has authored two books.. Hope to see you at the End of the Year dinner at Endwell Greens May 6, 2011 for a wonderful evening to include announcements of the winners, class promotions and great fellowship. Bernie Lewis, President Two Rivers Photography Club What s Inside. Page 2: TRPC Bus Trip to PhotoPlus Expo -NYC Page 3: 2011 VPL Saturday Classes Report Page 4: TRPC Member News Page 5: Community Service Projects Page 6: Membership, Web Site, Tips & Tricks Page 7: TRPC End Of Year Banquet & Awards Dinner Page 7 Things To Do Page 8 TRPC Teach-In featuring Lindsay Adler Page 9: TRPC Calendar / End Of Year Dinner 1
TRPC Bus trip To PHOTOPLUS EXPO 2011 October 29, 2011 Jacob Javits Center - New York City The F/Stop The F/Stop is the official newsletter for the Two Rivers Photography Club of Binghamton, NY. It is published three times a year (Sept/Dec/Apr) and can be read on-line at the club s web site at: www.2rpc.com Articles, photos and announcements are welcome and can be submitted to the editor prior to the publication dates as follows: September 1, 2010 December 1, 2010 April 1, 2011 All submissions are subject to the f/stop editor, TRPC Officers and Board of Directors approval. Editor: Pete Kofira Jr. mrpetek@stny.rr.com Staff writers: Geri Hall Kathi Hunt May Lou Shapinas The TRPC Bus Trip to the 2011 PhotoPlus Expo and Trade Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City is planned for Saturday October 29, 2011. The club is announcing this trip early so members can have ample time to plan for this event and also so the club can secure the larger bus for the trip. If you went last year, due to only a small number of people signing up, we had to take a 30 passenger mini-bus to the Expo. Although this was adequate for our needs a larger bus, a 47 passenger bus, is preferred but we need a greater number of pre- paid people to commit in order to rent the big bus. With the first club meeting of the new season not until September 23, 2011 the club needs to get the word out early and secure the bus no later than September 1, 2011. Staring in early summer emails will be sent out, as well as information on the club web site about the bus trip with full details of the cost and trip itinerary. We will try to keep the price in the $45/50 range as in previous years. This is a great experience and something well worth attending. Don t Miss It! Get Club On the members Bus who had pictures on display for the show were: Bill Babruchak, PASS Nancy NOW: Bas- Bas- GET YOUR FREE EXPO mann You MUST register Patricia for a FREE Bonamo, entrance Sandra pass Kirker, into the Pete show Kofira by using Jr., the on-line form at: Grant www.photoplusexpo.com LaBarr, John Rehak, Debra If you Rockefeller, don't have a pass you will be charged a fee at the door. The deadline for the Cindy Ruggieri, Carol Saggese, Mary Lou Shapinas, and Helga Stein pre-registration for the FREE pass is October 15, 2011 The web site also offers some great planning tools to maximize your experience at the show. 2
TRPC Saturday Classes Vestal Public Library: The club concluded another successful series of five Saturday classes at the Vestal Public Library over the winter months. This years classes and instructors were: HDR Photography - Nancy Basmann, Lighting applications - Peter Shell, Macro Photography/Gadgets & Filters Bill Stein, Bill Baburchak & Pete Kofira Jr., Photoshop Q&A s Dave Williams and Photo HyJinx Bernie Lewis, Jean & Morgan Stout, Pat Bonamo & Rebecca, Pete Kofira Jr. & Bill Bay There was an average of over 40 attendees for each class. A big Thank You to all the instructors that gave their time and shared their knowledge by teaching these classes. Did you attend? Any suggestions for improvements? How about some suggestions for next year s classes? Contact Bernie Lewis at: blewis11@stny.rr.com Bill Stein (sweater vest) explains some equipment he uses for Macro Photography. Dave Williams makes a point during his Q & A session on Photoshop / Elements class Nancy Basmann s class was full of attendees ready to use their computers to learn HDR. Peter Shell explains the images he took with a technique called Painting With Light. Club members that attended the HY-JINX had a wide variety of new and interesting setups to photograph from translucent flowers, water reflections, black light-neon objects to the ever friendly and cooperative model Rebecca,Pat Bonamo s beautiful golden retriever. 3
TRPC Member News & Shows: Bill Bay Phelps Mansion March 4 18, 2011. Bill had 30 pictures in his show entitled Viewing Our World. Images included flowers, landscapes and city views of the Twin Tiers area. Bill also has a show in Cortland, NY at the Cortland Eye Center through the month of April. Cooperative Gallery 213 - The Bob Johnston Memorial Photography Show & Competition January 6-20, 2011. This show was a tribute to the founder of the gallery, Bob Johnston, who passed away in 2010. Club member Greg Chianis was awarded a Judge s Choice for his image entitled Dawn at Kastro Church and two Honorable Mention awards went to club members Geoff Gould for Shadows on the Snow and Larry Lefferts for Winter Sunset. Other TRPC members that entered images in the show were: Nancy Basmann, Greg Chianis, Jim Dutko, Geoff Gould, Sandra Kirker, Cecelia Laurendeau, Larry Lefferts, John Rehak and John Sharpless. Realty USA Show - Realty USA office on the Vestal Prky near Talbots, March April 2011 Sandra Kirker has arranged for a member show in the main lobby. Images on display by club members in the March show are: Bill Baburchak, Mary Ellen Baburchak, Nancy Basmann, Pat Bonamo, Barb Croteau, James Dutko, Geoffrey Gould, Sandra Kirker, Peter Kofira Jr, Bernice Lewis, John Rehak, John Sharpless, Pat Stone, and Kathy Whisman. Displaying images in the April show will be: Nancy Basmann, William Bay, Barry Biddle, Pat Bonamo, Geoffrey Gould, Ray Hunt, Grant LaBarr, Courtney Moore, Cindy Ruggieri, Carol Saggese, Myrna Smith, John Sharpless, Pat Stone, William Wandling, and Dave Williams. Jim Dutko - Jim had four images published in a local calendar the Twin Tiers of New York & Pennsylvania. Jim s images included a scene from Recreation Park on a winter s night, winter snow on Clinton Street in the city, trees at Otsiningo Park and his favorite image, his dog Molly playing in the snow. The calendar was available at Olums furniture store and was published by Curcio Printing. Courtney Moore - Won 1st place Youth Division in the Rosamond Gifford Zoo's "Winter at the Zoo" Photo Contest. This is the 5th year in a row that she has won starting when she was 8 years old. The winning pictures are on their website at: http://www.rosamondgiffo rdzoo.org/photo-contest In addition, Nature's Best Photography magazine has selected one of Courtney's pictures to be featured in an upcoming article on Youth Photographers. The picture is of a Cooper's Hawk taken during a snowstorm in her backyard. The article and picture will be published in the Spring/Summer edition of the magazine. Cont d on next page 4
TRPC Member News: cont d Cindy Ruggieri Had a photo essay entitled The Sweetest Month published in the Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Country Magazine. Cindy s article and pictures depicted the Mom & Pop maple syrup industries that are abundant in New York State. Cindy is a regular contributor to the magazine and has many of her stories published. Pete Kofira Jr Delaware based entertainer Mike Truitt (Plain Slice Mike) is using another of Pete s images of him for his latest album cover to be released in May 2011. Pete met Mike on the Ocean City Boardwalk a few years ago where Mike performs during the summer months. In his younger days, Mike performed with the Lynard Skynard Band and can be heard on some of the earlier tracks on Fleetwood Mac albums. Now married with a family, Mike is content with being the pastor of a small church in Delaware, performing on the OC Boardwalk and releasing the occasional album of his mix of gospel, blues and folk music. Barry Biddle - Won 2 nd place in the club s Salon competition with his image Floral Bubbles. Barry took the picture at the club s Hy-Jinx Saturday Class at the Vestal Public Library in March. The setup was a flower in a deep plastic container with a piece of glass on top prepared with RainX and water droplets. The judges liked the uniqueness of the flower reflections in all the bubbles. TRPC Community Service Projects: Boys & Girls Club of Binghamton, NY - Club volunteers Sam Wentz, Sandra Kirker and Pete Kofira Jr. taught a beginner s photography class at the Boys and Girls club in January 2011 and will be offering another session in April. The class is an introduction to basic point and shoot cameras with some instructions on using photo edit tools. The class in April will include all the same material but will be more focused on helping the students prepare entries for an upcoming photo contest sponsored by the national Boys & Girls Club called Image Makers. Also planned for April, the volunteers will be presenting the same class for residents of the Children Home Wyoming Conference in Binghamton, NY. If you would like to get involved with projects like this or have any ideas similar to this, please contact Pete Kofira Jr. at mrpetek@stny.rr.com Legal Aid Society of Broome County - As many of you know the offices of the Legal Aid Society that were located in the Press Building were severely damaged during the Midtown Mall fire in January 2011. Casualties of the fire and water damage were also some of the mounted images that the club had provided and Legal Aid had purchased as wall hangings for their office space. Club member Nancy Basmann has been working with the director of Legal Aid to assess the extent of the damage, arrange for repair or replacement as Legal Aid instructs, and also provide additional images for them to purchase for their current offices. The additional images will come from submissions from club members with Legal Aid making the final choices. This effort is scheduled to be completed by late spring. 5
TRPC Membership: The club membership cards are now available for pickup at the meetings. Thank you all for joining and making the new club a success. Currently we have 84 members. 32 in Salon Class and 52 in Gallerie Class. Thanks to club member Cecelia Laurendeau we now have an Excel spreadsheet to help the club manage the member list. TRPC Web Site: Have you noticed all the neat things on the club s web site lately, like getting the notice out about the meeting cancellation due to the storm, the way the winning pictures magically appear on the top scroll right after a competition and the addition of more club documents and guidelines on the site? These improvements wouldn t be possible if we didn t have a dedicated and skilled webmaster like Chris Rollo. She has really made the web site current and a vital source of club news. Her skills along with some programming help from club member Jason Herne have created an excellent website for the club. And there will be more improvements coming soon. Many club members have expressed that they would like to see the print competition scores posted similar to the way the digital scores are posted. This is a challenge for both Chris & Jason as well as the Competition Committee but they have agreed to work on it hopefully with an acceptable solution for next years competitions. It may sound simple but there are many aspects of the scoring system that need to be considered. It will be a challenge for Chris, Jason and the committee to work out. Always check the club web site for the latest information about what s going on in the club. www.2rpc.com Tips & Tricks: Club member Bill Cole devised a clever way to add memory to his laptop while making it still portable. Using Velcro, Bill utilizes two 500 GB Passport hard drives for off-line storage and to keep the majority of his high meg programs. This keeps the laptop s main hard drive and memory free of clutter allowing for faster processing times. TRPC Help and Education Tools: The club s Calibration Monitor is available for members wishing to check and calibrate their home monitor systems. (not recommended for laptops) Monitor calibration is strongly recommended to insure that what you are seeing on your monitor is what actually will be seen when your image is projected by the club s digital projector for competitions. The club also has a CD disk available for loan that has great instructions for Photo Shop and Elements users. The disk contains step by step and visual tutorials on most of the functions of these programs plus a compete list of keyboard shortcuts. Also available are 2 video disks from last year s Saturday classes on Digital Framing by Grant La- Barr and A Overview of Photoshop by Dave Williams. Contact: Bill Wandling waw49@aol.com will be coordinating the loan out of these items. 6
Things To Do: First Friday Art Walk Downtown Binghamton, NY sponsored by the Gorgeous Washington Street Assoc. www.gorgeouswashington.com Third Friday Art Walk/Art Talk - Downtown Owego, NY sponsored by the Tioga County Council on the Arts: www.tiogaartscouncil.org Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival - 17 th Annual Arts Festival Sat/Sun September 10-11, 2011 East & West Parks in Downtown Norwich, NY. Juried art show and fine arts exhibits. Info at: www.colorscape.org 2011 Joyce Smith Environmental Photography Show & Competition - Reception and Awards ceremony Broome County Library 185 Court St. Binghamton, NY Wednesday May 11, 2011 5:30 7:30 pm. Exhibit open May 11 June 30, 2011. Info at: www.gobroomecounty.com/emc TRPC 6 week Photography Course Starting October 19, 2011 at Beyond The Print Rt# 434 Vestal, NY 7:00 pm. Teaching the Art & Craft of Photography Course covers all aspects of creating great images, understanding your camera and image processing. Info on club website at: www.2rpc.com The Adirondack Photography Institute Offers workshops and seminars in the Adirondack Park area of New York State. Info at: www.adkpi.org NECCC Conference UMass Amherst, NY July 15-17, 2011 New England Camera Club s annual conference and seminars. Info at: www.neccc.org B & H Photo & Video Daily classes at their Event Space on the 2 nd floor of their Super Store at 420 9 th Ave. New York City. Info at: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventspace.jsp Beyond The Print Weekly classes in all aspects of photography at the store located at Rt3 434 259 Vestal Parkway E. Vestal, NY. Contact Dave at: 607-239-5607 Newark Valley Historical Society - Requesting images of their facilities taken in all four seasons. Details and entry forms are on the club web site. Contact: Jerry Acton jerry@jerryacton.com 607-657-8622 Southern Tier Orchid Society: Call For Entries: To all interested area artists including photographers, painters, sculptors, etc.: You are cordially invited to participate in the Southern Tier Orchid Society s Annual Spring Orchid Art Show and to enjoy the Orchid Show and its display of beautiful living orchids. The shows open in the Center Court of the Oakdale Mall, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 6, 7, and 8, 2011. If you d like a copy of the Call for Entries with which to submit your entries, please call or email: Geoffrey Gould ggould@binghamton.edu 607-757-0499 and indicate if you d like me to send the Call for Entries form via email or the oldfashioned way, via your friendly USPS mail carrier. Students are welcome to participate. If you plan to enter works into the art show, please return the form to Geoff by April 29, 2011 He will prepare labels to identify your works and hang them on partitions provided by the Oakdale Mall staff. Please read the Call for Entries for details. Art will be judged by two area artists and ribbons awarded. For those who paint, draw or sculpt, photos of orchids to use as models may be found at the American Orchid Society site: www.aos.org. Once there, click on Collectors Items to see images of orchids. Also feel free to visit the Southern Tier Orchid Society s site at: www.storchidsociety.com and click on Photo Gallery. Photographers: contact Geoff for sources of orchids to use. Geoffrey Gould: ggould@binghamton.edu 607-757-0499 7
Two Rivers Photography Club Presents Photographer / Author extensive work in the fashion photography business. Her presentation was smooth and the audience had no problem following the many detailed explanations of her techniques. Her occasional bit of humor mixed in with the digital video presentation all added to a great experience. Lindsay, is currently being sponsored by SIGMA a leading lenses manufacturing company, and incorporated how she is using their lenses in the work she is doing now. The TRPC club and Lindsay s sponsor, SIGMA provided some great door prizes for the attendees. Lindsay Adler Saturday April 2, 2011 It s a story right out of the movies.. At an early age a local girl shows a keen interest in photography, encouraged by her parents joins the local camera club and excels, goes onto college and completes her studies with honors, serves internships with some of the most prestigious current photographers, opens her own studio in her home town and another one in New York City, is critically acclaimed for her unique style in the fashion photography business, writes for many fashion and photography magazines and currently has two published books and is working on a third. That s the story of our own Lindsay Adler who came back to her hometown as the featured speaker at the Two Rivers Photography Club s annual Teach-In held at the Binghamton University campus in Binghamton, NY. Linday s program, Creativity: Morning, Noon and Night focused on how to take pictures in any of the different periods during the day utilizing techniques that she has developed through her Winning a free membership to TRPC for the 2012 year were, Barry Biddle & John Rehak. A SIGMA sponsored software packages by Triple Score were each won by Rebecca McManus & Frank Ciecelin. Dave Williams owner of Beyond The Print our local photo store, donated print processing coupons good for a wide variety of print sizes and styles from his store. More prizes from SIGMA went to Mary Lou Shapinas & Chris Baca who each won a gift certificate from Millers photo processing, another software package, ImageNumis went to Sandra Kirker, Bernie Lewis won a 4GB CF card, Fred Schum won a NIK Viveza software package and the grand prize, a Lenses Baby Kit went to Mary Gridley who came down from the Syracuse Camera Club for the seminar. The club also held a 50/50 raffle won by Bob Gemmel. Lindsay donated one of her books to the prizes and it was won by Gladys Walling. This event was coordinated by club member Bill Baburchak who deserves a huge Thank You for his efforts to make this year s Teach-In a success. I ll say it for Bill, Thank You for all the people that helped on the day of the event with registration and the overall tasks during the day. Submitted By: Pete Kofira Jr. 8
TWO RIVERS PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB MEETING SCHEDULE 2011 Club Meeting 7:00 pm 2 ND & 4 th Friday The First Congregational Church NW Corner of Front and Main Streets Binghamton, NY GPS - 42 05.959N, 75 55.040W (enter parking lot on Front St. meeting in Fellowship Hall) Board Meetings 7:00 pm (TBA) May 5 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP May 6 Fri TRPC End Of Year Dinner Awards Banquet Endwell Greens Golf Course Endwell, NY June 2 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP July ---- No TRPC Board Meeting Aug 4 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP Sept 8 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP Sept 23 Fri Welcome Newcomers Meeting Program TBA Oct 6 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP Oct 14 Fri Salon Open Board Competition Oct 19 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Oct 26 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Oct 28 Fri Gallerie - Open Board Competition Oct 29 Sat TRPC Bus Trip NYC PhotoPlus Expo Nov 2 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Nov 3 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP Nov 9 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Nov 11 Fri Gallerie / Salon Closed Board Subjet: TBA Nov 16 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Nov 30 Wed TRPC Photo Class - BTP Dec 1 Thu TRPC Board Meeting - BTP Dec 9 Fri Salon Open Board Competition TRPC Annual Holiday Party VPL Vestal Public Library - Rt# 434 Vestal, NY BTP Beyond The Print Rt# 434 Vestal, NY Two Rivers Photography Club End of Year Banquet End of Year Awards at the Endwell Greens Golf Course 3675 Sally Piper Rd Endwell, NY From Rt. 17C exit to Hooper Road to Farm to Market Road take right on Sally Piper Road, Endwell Greens is about 1/2 mile on right. (GPS 42 08.786N 76 00.892W) Friday May 6, 2011 6-7 pm Social Hour - 7 pm Buffet Dinner $26.00 per person Please make check payable to: TRPC Mail check to and inquires to: Patsy Nash Jones 38 Fenton Ave Binghamton, NY 13901 607-724-2611 * * MENU * * Buffet Style Dinner Tossed Salad Holupki Marinated Chicken Breast Stuffed Roasted Pork Loin Vegetable Medley Roasted Red Potatoes Bread Pudding * * PROGRAM * * Winning Prints on display Introductions Dinner Slide Show Awards / Promotions 9
Two Rivers Photography Club 2010/2011 Officers & Board Members President Bernie Lewis Vice-president Bill Baburchak Secretary Jean Stout Treasurer Patsy Nash-Jones Board Members: Bill Bay Pat Bonamo Geoff Gould Sandra Kirker Pete Kofira Jr. Pat Stone Wendell Strumn Dave Williams Bill Wandling TRPC Board Meetings 1 st Thursday 7:00 pm Beyond The Print Rt# 434 Vestal, NY Beyond The Print GPS 42 05.274N 76 02.817W Mail Funds To: Two Rivers Photography Club Membership Application Date: Name: Address: City/State/Zip Email: Phone #: (membership year starts in September fee is ½ price if joining in January) Membership Type Patsy Nash-Jones $40 / yr. Individual Membership 38 Fenton Ave $60 / yr. Household Membership Binghamton, NY 13901 Please list names:,, 1