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ALSO INSIDE Member News, Meetings 2 PSC Quarterly Contest Schedule 2 Favorite Place by Connie Thompson 3 2009 PSC Annual Contest Winners 4-5 Quarterly Competitions 6 Members’ Corner 6 Your Rights As A Photographer 7 PSC Calendar, Non-PSC Opportunities 7 Favorite Place - Page 3 MARK YOUR CALENDARS January 22, 2010 (Snow Date) Gallery at Blackwell Reception 6:00 - 9:00 PM February 1, 2010 PSC Social at Hamilton YMCA 6:00 - 8:00 Bring your favorite snack April, 24, 2010 PSC Photo Fest - Heritage House January 2010 Volume 60, Issue 1 Paul Hassell Presents at Next PSC Meeting Thursday, January 21 East Ridge Community Center 6:00 pm - Photo Evaluations 6:30 pm - PSC Meeting Visitors Welcome! Paul Hassell is based in Knoxville, TN near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. He travels to breathtaking lands around the world, but the Smokies always call him home. Paul has a contagious love for life, adventure, and celebrating light. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in May '08 with a customized major in Freelance Photography and Writing for the Natural Environment. Paul frequently shows his fine art photographs in prestigious gal- leries. His adventure stories are published in local newspapers www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/30/mt-r4ainier-outing-aids-eff ort-to-free-child and his images in national magazines such as National Parks Magazine www.npca.org/magazine . Paul is a member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA /www.nanpa.org ) and Southern Appalachian Nature Photographers (SANP www.sanp.net ). "When we find what really makes us tick, we must pursue it and let nothing keep us from that pursuit. From the age of 11 it's been quite clear that adventures and light are what make me tick. I've not ceased chasing the light ever since." NEW LOGO for PSC PSC Board proudly introduces the new logo for the Photographic Soci- ety of Chattanooga. It was designed by Dan Jeter who also created the new banner for the newsletter. Thanks, Dan.
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ALSO INSIDEMember News, Meetings 2PSC Quarterly Contest Schedule 2Favorite Place by Connie Thompson 32009 PSC Annual Contest Winners 4-5Quarterly Competitions 6Members’ Corner 6Your Rights As A Photographer 7PSC Calendar, Non-PSC Opportunities 7
Favorite Place - Page 3
MARK YOUR CALENDARSJanuary 22, 2010 (Snow Date) Gallery at Blackwell Reception 6:00 - 9:00 PM
February 1, 2010 PSC Social at Hamilton YMCA 6:00 - 8:00 Bring your favorite snack
April, 24, 2010 PSC Photo Fest - Heritage House
January 2010Volume 60, Issue 1
Paul HassellPresents at
Next PSC Meeting Thursday, January 21
East Ridge Community Center
6:00 pm - Photo Evaluations6:30 pm - PSC Meeting
Visitors Welcome!Paul Hassell is based in Knoxville, TN
near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. He travels to breathtaking lands around the world, but the Smokies always call him home. Paul has a contagious love for life, adventure, and celebrating light. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in May '08 with a customized major in Freelance Photography and Writing for the Natural Environment.
Paul frequently shows his fine art photographs in prestigious gal-leries. His adventure stories are published in local newspapers www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/30/mt-r4ainier-outing-aids-effort-to-free-child and his images in national magazines such as National Parks Magazine www.npca.org/magazine .
Paul is a member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA /www.nanpa.org) and Southern Appalachian Nature Photographers (SANP www.sanp.net).
"When we find what really makes us tick, we must pursue it and let nothing keep us from that pursuit. From the age of 11 it's been quite clear that adventures and light are what make me tick. I've not ceased chasing the light ever since."
NEW LOGOfor
PSCPSC Board proudly introduces the new logo for the Photographic Soci-ety of Chattanooga. It was designed by Dan Jeter who also created the new banner for the newsletter. Thanks, Dan.
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 2 January 2010
New MemberEletha Gilbreath
Member NewsCONGRATULATIONS! Bill Mueller on earning and Honorable Mention for the Photographic Society of America’s Photographic Travel Division Inter-club Competition for November! His “Gla-cier Bay 2” was the image submitted. Other PSC mem-bers in the contest were: Alan Wolfe, David Temples, Mike Williams, Mohan Rao and Wendell Gordy.
This was the first time PSC has entered the Travel Divi-sion against other PSA clubs. Another round will occur in February. Send your travel images to Bill Mueller at [email protected] who has volunteered to be the coor-dinator for this contest. As usual, images need to be sized for the longest edge: 1024 pixels horizontal or 768 pixels vertical.
Janis Rowland sold one of her pictures on exhibit at PSC’s Gallery at Blackwell.
HEALTHPat Gordy had gallbladder surgery January 6 and is home recuperating and making plans to attend the Wil-derness Wildlife Week to critique submitted images with Ron Plasencia January 9 and 10. Can’t keep a good girl down!
NEXT DIGITAL COMMITTEE6:30 PM - Thursday, January 7
(1st Thursday of each month)Bob Bratton: [email protected]
NEXT PSC BOARD MEETING6:15 PM - Thursday, January 28
John Jackson, [email protected]
PSC Board and Digital Committee meetings are held in the JC Penny Hamilton Place 2nd floor conference room and are open to any members who wish to attend. Board and Digital committee members are asked to email their chairman if unable to attend the meeting.
Glacier Bay 2 by Bill MuellerHonorable Mention Award
PSA November Travel Division Inter-Club Competition
2010 PSC Quarterly Contest Schedule and Subject
Month Subject Images Due
March Curves Feb 25
June Water May 27
Sept. Night Photo August 26
March Quarterly Contest “Curves”
For this quarterly contest everyone needs to get out and look for images with curves. Look for patterns in nature or industry, a pattern of curves. Rules will be posted on the website and published in the February newsletter. Good luck and happy shooting.
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 3 January 2010
My Favorite Place: Planet EarthBy Connie Thompson
My first thought when asked to write something for the Contact Sheet, was “Oh my goodness, what can I write about, for I have no favorite place?”. But I do! My favorite place to shoot is a planet called Earth!
Whether it’s photographing smiling bananas in my kitchen, baby rabbits in my backyard, friends, family,
waterfalls, bugs, lizards, panda bears, sunsets, water drops, mushrooms, fireworks, flowers, bees, bugs, whatever happens to be in my path, I love taking pictures!
I think subconsciously I took pictures from an early age to preserve memories. I can’t recall memories the way most people do, and I depend on my pictures to keep my past alive. I also like to be a part of making someone else’s moments special and lasting by supplying them with photographs of their event.
I love taking pictures of wildlife and thought I might get a chance when on a recent hiking trip in Helen, GA., when my husband, Clay, and I were on a trail to Dukes Creek Falls. We heard something thrashing in the woods, perhaps a big bear (what a photo opportunity!); but, no, while we’re standing there statue still, holding our breath, a good size rock went tumbling by, right in front of me! (Well, a big bear could have kicked it, right?)
While on vacation a few years back, I got the chance to photograph the beautiful desert and red canyons of Sedona, AZ. Every turn of the head was a photo opportunity; even the hotel! I would love the opportunity to go back and try again to capture the awesome sunrises and sunsets—to be able to convey in my photography the excitement and awesomeness of God’s handiwork, so others can experience what I see and feel, is my photographic goal in life.
I know most of us can now view our images instantly on the LCD screen when taking pic-tures, but I can’t really see what I have until I see it on the computer monitor! So, there is al-ways a thrill of anticipation while waiting for the images to appear on the screen, all the while, crossing my fingers that my image is in focus, and I will like it.
Although I’m considered an “intermediate” shooter by PSC’s definition, I consider myself a beginner. I have so much to learn about taking good photographs. And I am so thankful for all the encouragement I receive from members of PSC. And to all those who patiently answer my questions, lend me their valuable time, offer constructive criticisms and helpful hints, and give freely their friendship (you know who you are!), I thank you so much!
I did recently receive the most awesome compliment I’ve ever had. My daughter, Brittany, told me that she and her col-lege roommate wanted a poster sized print of two of my images to frame for their dorm apartment! I was elated!
The Photographic Society of Chattanooga gives us a won-derful opportunity to learn about photography and make lifetime friendships. I am very glad to be part of this club!
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 4 January 2010
Beginner Prints Amateur Prints Advanced Prints Janice Jeter 1st Rosemary Williams 1st Dan Jeter 1st Barbara Daniel 2nd Connie Thompson 2nd Dan Jeter 2nd
Barbara Daniel 3rd Mel Aragon 3rd Roelf Steyn 3rd
Connie Thompson HM Leslie O’Rear HM Rosemary Williams HM Tim Solomon HM
Beginner Digital Amateur Digital Advanced Digital Mohan Rao 1st Vickie Aragon 1st Mickey Rountree 1st Mohan Rao 2nd Don Baldwin 2nd Pat Gordy 2nd
Janice Jeter 3rd Rosemary Williams 3rd Bill Mueller 3rd
Mel Aragon HM Madelaine Cornelius HM Advanced Slides: Gordon Calhoun HM Angela Dillard HM Janis Rowland 1st Russell Robards HM Seth Shaffer HM Lucille Vann 2nd Ken Stuart HM Jeff Holland 3rd People’s Choice Award: Stormy Sunrise by Dan Jeter
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3rd Amateur Prints by Barbara Daniel
3rd Advanced Prints by Roelf Steyn
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3rd Amateur Prints by Mel Aragon
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2nd Amateur Prints by Connie Thompson
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These will be published in the February newsletter with the Honorable Mentions.
2009 PSC Annual Contest Results
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 5 January 2010
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2nd Amateur Digital by Don Baldwin 3rd Amateur Digital by Rosemary Williams1st Amateur Digital by Vickie Aragon
1st Advanced Digital by Mickey Rountree 2nd Advanced Digital by Pat Gordy 3rd Advanced Digital by Bill Mueller
1st Beginner Digital by Mohan Rao 2nd Beginner Digital by Mohan Rao 3rd Beginner Digital by Janice Jeter
1st Advanced Slides by Janis Rowland
2nd Advanced Slides by Lucille Vann 3rd Advanced Slides by Jeff Holland
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 6 January 2010
MEMBERS’ CORNER
PSC member Ken Kirkpatrick uses Photoshop Elements 7 - Photoshop 8 on the way. He would like to hire a tutor for an afternoon or evening in either Cleveland or Chattanooga for help on finer points. Can you help him out? Email Ken at [email protected].
Members Only, email the editor at [email protected] with your item, query. Include info and contact information. If you prefer not to have your name published, indicate this and the contact person will be the editor. As responses come in they will be routed to you.
PSC Quarterly CompetitionsBy Tim Solomon
Hello everyone, I wanted to reiterate to everyone how much I enjoyed the 2009 year’s end contest. A few people have talked to me about how the process was completed, and how or why the one image was picked over another. Rather than send that information down to the individuals, it occurred to me that there may be other people with similar questions, and this article is my attempt to shed one or two rays of light on that subject.
The presentation of an image is a very powerful step in the development of your craft as a pho-tographer. The medium of slides, digital, or prints is almost irrelevant; the point is to show the image. I mentioned at the meeting, that many of the images could have been improved slightly by a crop outside of the standard 4x6 or 3x4 formats seen through a view finder. One factor
that only takes time and experience is to develop a “critical eye” for all the work you see. The next time you look at a magazine, billboard, or anything with a picture in it, try this exercise. Consciously think about what your eye is looking at. Imagine this, you turn the next page of a magazine or book you’ve never seen before, and there is a full page im-age. Think to yourself, where does my eye look first, second, third, and how many times did I come back to the first part my eye looked at first. Consciously track your eye movement throughout the image. Your brain makes your eye move to the parts of the image it needs for more information, that stimulation is very often what draws us to a “liking” or “not liking” of an image. A small point, the goal is stimulation, not confusion. As photographers, we need to lead the viewer to the point of interest we design. Cropping out unnecessary parts assists the viewer in looking at what we are attempt-ing to show. Another way to say it, slightly more blunt, if it doesn’t contribute to the story, get rid of it.
One other factor to consider is the perspective you carry with an image, isn’t shared with the viewer. As human beings, your perspective is shared solely and uniquely by you alone. Objectively look at your images, and think to yourself, does this image convey that moment. Years ago, I was talking with a member of the club about an image they had shot. They were extremely proud of an image of a field of cows. They brought it up on the LCD of the digital camera, and proudly exclaimed, “Isn’t that a great shot!” My reaction was slightly less than supportive, “It’s just a bunch of cows.” I didn’t have the experience of watching the movement of the cows across the field. I had not waited 20 or 30 minutes for this one stubborn cow to come closer. I had not anticipated the positioning of the clouds in the background. All those sights, sounds, and emotions are unique to the photographer. The summation of all those factors is what I would call the “WOW” factor. If as photographers we are successful at conveying the WOW to the viewer, we cease to become mere photographers, and somehow transcend the bridge to becoming artists.
This year the entries need to be submitted electronically or in person by the board meeting of prior to the month they will be viewed. Thank you for your support of the club, and happy picture hunting. Great job to all the participators of the Annual Contest, and good luck with the quarterly contests in 2010.
Contest Subject Images Due March Curves Feb 25 June Water May 27 September Night Photo August 26
The Contact Sheet - Volume 60, Issue 1 7 January 2010
PSC CALENDARJANUARY
7 6:30 pm Digital Committee Meets21 6:00 pm Digital Photo Evaluation session 6:30 pm PSC Meeting22 6:00 pm Gallery at Blackwell Reception (rescheduled from January 8)25 NEWSLETTER ARTICLES DUE28 PSC Board meeting
FEBRUARY 1 6:00 pm PSC Social at Hamilton Place YMCA 4 6:30 pm Digital Committee Meets18 6:00 pm Digital Mini-Tutorial 6:30 pm PSC Meeting25 NEWSLETTER ARTICLES DUE25 6:15 pm PSC Board meeting25 March Quarterly Contest Entries Due
Non-PSC OpportunitiesJanuary 9-16 - Wilderness Wildlife Week Pigeon Forge, TNhttp://www.mypigeonforge.com/events_wwwclasslist.aspx. Register and more details: http://www.GNPA.org
January 29-31-Calloway Gardens, Georgia Georgia Nature Photographers Association’s 1st Annual Photographer’s Convention Register and more details: http://www.GNPA.org
January 30-31-Nature & Digital Photography Seminars 2-Day Seminar by John Shaw (Attend one or both days) Atlanta, Georgia www.photosafaris.com/john-shaw-photo-seminars-2010
February 16-21-Nature Photography Summit, Reno, NV Rocky Mountain School of Photography - Discount to PSC members (Dec., 2009 Newsletter) Details www.rmsp.com/weekends or 1-800-394-7677
February 27-28-RMSP Weekend, Atlanta, GA NANPA (North American Nature Photography Assoc.) Details & info about this event: www.nanpa.org
March 28-April 2-Calloway Gardens, Georgia Mark Johnson & Charles Needlemsjphotography.com/workshops/callaway_2010_flyer.pdf
April 29-May 2 - NANPA Spring Regional Event Western North Carolina - details soon www.nanpa.org
July 25-30-Butchart Gardens (Victoria, Canada) Mark Johnson & Charles Needlemsjphotography.com/workshops/Butchart_Gardens_2010_flyer.pdf
September 13-18-Maine Coast & Acadia Nat’l Park Larry Winslett Details: www.larrywinslett.com
YOUR RIGHTS AS A PHOTOGRAPHERBy Janis Rowland
In times when lawsuits are proliferous, you may be won-dering what your rights are as a photographer. Legal ex-perts tell us that we have many rights under U. S. law. In general, you are allowed to photograph in public places or places where you have permission. Places traditionally considered public are streets, sidewalks, and public parks. Statues or ordinances may restrict photographs in some instances such as copyrighted subject matter.
While property owners are legally within their rights to stop you from photographing on their property, they have no rights to restrict you from taking pictures of their property from other locations. If you are in doubt about taking pho-tos on private property and you think the owner may com-plain, ask permission first.
The public has few rights where photography is concerned when they are in public places. Anyone can be photo-graphed without their permission when they are in public places. This includes children, celebrities, accident and fire scenes, criminal activities, and law enforcement officers to name a few. The except is that you may not impede or ob-struct personnel in the line of duty.
When confronted by security guards and employees of organizations, security is rarely a legitimate reason for re-stricting your rights to photograph. Likewise, businesses may not assert that you are infringing on its trade secrets when photographing a subject in public view.
People are within their rights to question you about why you are taking photographs. They do not have the right to persist with unwanted conduct or cause serious annoy-ance. You may choose not to explain your purpose or dis-close your identity unless state law requires it. It is a wise choice to comply if law enforcement personnel make a re-quest. In general, if you feel threatened by anyone, they are in violation of the law. The right of a private party to detain you or impose citizen's arrest is very narrow. A crime or felony must be committed in their presence to in-voke citizen's arrest.
If a person or agent acting for entities such as owners of industrial plants and shopping malls asks you to hand over your film, there is no obligation on your part to comply. Threats to use force or call a law enforcement agency can constitute criminal offenses against you. Law enforcement may have the right to take your film when making an ar-rest. Otherwise, a court order must be obtained prior to the seizure.
Some things you can do if harassed include: legal action; call the local newspaper and get the story printed; write or call the supervisor of the person doing the harassing; and taking your story to the Internet. These actions should be employed after courtesy and respect has failed. Avoid vio-lence at all cost.
Excerpt from Legal Handbook for Photographers (2006) by Bert P Krages II, Attorney at Law
BOARD MEMBERS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA OFFICERS
President John Jackson 423-591-2916 [email protected] Mark Wurst 423-605-0375 [email protected] Pat Gordy 423-718-7552 [email protected] Treasurer Janis Rowland 423-894-7112 [email protected]
DIRECTORSJames Adams (2010) 423-645-5145 [email protected] Rodney Blum (2011) 423-892-2187 [email protected] Johannes de Wet (2012) 423-298-2923 [email protected] Joni Fisher (2011) 423-892-5966 [email protected] Sara Haase (2010) 423-892-3381 [email protected] Dan Jeter (2010) 423-875-3348 [email protected] Bill Mueller (2012) 423-504-4026 [email protected] Roelf Steyn (2012) 423-488-3869 [email protected] Connie Thompson (2011) 423-899-7299 [email protected]
WEBMASTER: Mickey Rountree [email protected]
Editor Contact InformationMary McLain, Editor5720 Vincent Road
Chattanooga, TN 37416Fax: 423-344-9032
PSC Membership Dues(Effective October 1, 2009)
Full-time Student: $15Single Membership: $25Family Membership: $30
Monthly Meeting Information
Day: 3rd Thursday Each MonthTime: 6:30 Social and 7:00 Program
Location: East Ridge Community Center
Located at 1517 Tombras Avenue: From the intersection of I-75 and I-24, follow I-24 toward downtown. Exit at Moore Road. Go to Ringgold Road and turn right. Move to the left lane and turn left on Tombras Avenue at traffic signal #8. Turn right into the third driveway.
The Photographic Society of Chattanooga holds club membership in Photographic Society of America, Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga, Americans for the Arts, and Tennesseans for the Arts.
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