Well a year has gone by since I took over as president from Patrick
and to tell the truth it seems like the year flew by. There have
been many things to be proud of for this year. Membership is up, we
are advertising as a group, and we have had some of the largest
meetings in the history of SONOPP. All of the board is to be thanked
for all of this.
There are three people without whom none of
this could have happened: Patrick Rice, Linda Ford, and Bill Ford.
Patrick helped get some of our speakers and did the program where we
had the largest turnout ever, Linda who has been our secretary and
treasurer for the last 3 years along with Bill, and Bill who has
been our newsletter editor and Webmaster. Thanks are not enough for
you all.
Thanks also to Terry, Dale, Karen, John, and
Dave for all you have done to make this year successful. Dale will
be presenting a program on nature photography at the installation.
I
wish Terry all the best for the coming year along with her new
board. The best to you all it has been a challenge but well worth
it. Thanks to all in SONOPP. My year is over but I will still be
around for years to come. Hope to see you all on the 23rd.
Bob
Neldon PPA Cert. Craftsmen Photographer
President 2007-2008
From the SONOPP Website:
Hi. I am looking for photographers in
Columbus, Ohio who can do electro-photography capturing the
Kurlian effect. Any ideas? Jeff Seabrooks
To whom it may concern, Tim Carnes, a
photographer, passed away in December, 2007. We have
finished his work and closed his studio. I am at the point
of selling his equipment. I wondered if I could send you a
list and have it given to the members.
I have folders and some folios with the studio imprint rhat
I would like to give to someone who could use them. Thank
you, Joan Carnes
I want to thank the members of SONOPP for
sending me the kind gift in reference to my father's
recent death. It was very thoughtful and will not be
forgotten!
In addition, the value of membership in photographic
professional organizations is priceless. Being a
member for a very short time has already proven its
value. Last week I received a call from a new
client who saw my name from the SONOPP website and hired
me for a small commercial assignment. The call
came out of nowhere, and when I asked how they got my
name they told me they got it from the SONOPP website.
Bob Neldon: Chairman
Terry Biacsi: President
Linda Ford: Vice- President
John Biacsi: Treasurer
Dale Kincade: Secretary
Directors: Karen Neldon, Bill Morley, Dave Neldon, Bill Ford, and
Patrick Rice.
Followed by
Presentation of Awards
Followed by
Dale Kincaid, speaking on Nature Photography
This Month's Featured
Links
We found a tip from Scott Kelby about color-correcting a digital image in
Photoshop:
read Kelby's tip. (It's safe to use, even if the tip appears in
"Macworld").
And here's a website for the more modern SONOPP photographer. It's
got answers and samples and recipes and tutorials, and it's got the right
name! http://gettotallyrad.com. Go take a look -- the trip is worth it!
Retouching is something that all SONOPP photographers do, and
usually the clients are happy about it, even insistent. But
there's another side to the story: read
The Backlash Against Magazine Airbrushing.
If you're a Canon user, you might be interested in this
interview
with Canon's tech guru, Chuck Westfall, about the bumps and hiccups the company is dealing with.
Every SONOPP photographer is expert in using Photoshop's Liquify filter.
Sure, it distorts reality; but the result is pleasing to the eye.
"Think of an axis from the purely objective to the purely
subjective,” says Microsoft researcher Michael F. Cohen. “At one end is
a photograph, a recording of what really took place. At the other
end is our internal experience of that external event. Somewhere in
between is a place that is a little bit subjective, not quite real.
But if you and I looked at it, we would both say we like it.”
I've always felt that the photographer's job is to produce what the
viewer saw or felt at the moment the picture was taken. So apparently
does Mr. Cohen. For new, innovative ways of doing this, read
Stretching the Truth.
Ever want to turn a photograph into a watercolor? Well, it's not easy.
But SONOPP members can get help from The Photoshop Corner. This month
features the Two-Click Watercolor Painting action to get you started.
Just click here to learn all
about it! And don't forget, you can see a complete list of previous techniques in
The Photoshop Corner.
Member News
The members listed in the box on the right all have
birthdays this month.
Please bring a
cupcake for each of them to the June Meeting!
Herb Ascherman
Lisa Beachler
John Biacsi
Doris Crawford
John Gargus
Chuck Humbert
Loren Selman
Commentary
Hi guys,
This is Jerry Clay and I thought you might be interested in this
little tidbit. I recently worked with a DJ group named Audio
Extremes Entertainment, and I was wandering why the extra DJ was
following us around shooting a lot of what we were shooting.
Well, it turns out that he now offers these shots for sale on his
website. His 4x6 prints are available for 19 cents each, his 5x7's
are 99 cents each, and his 8x10's are a whopping $2.99. You can
check out his website at
www.audio-extremes-biz .
If this becomes the norm we will have to start offering our own DJ
services. I will refuse to book a wedding if the bride and groom
have these DJ's booked for their wedding! Any prints sold by him
may eventually be mistaken for ones that I took and I do not want
this to happen.
This a word of warning -- do with it what you want.
Jerry Clay
Breaking
News
June 2008 - AKVIS LLC announces the release of AKVIS
Retoucher plug-in v.3.0 for Windows and Macintosh. The
plug-in allows restoring damages photos by removing dust,
scratches, stains, and by reconstructing the lacking parts
of a photo. New to version 3.0: bugs fixed; improved
compatibility with Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows and
Macintosh versions. Added support for Mac OS X 10.5
(Leopard). Upgrade for registered users is free.
Few things in life stir our memories and emotions the way
photographs do. Unfortunately, as time goes by, old
photographs fade out, get stained, or get otherwise damaged.
In order to preserve them, many people try to digitize
photos to pass these cherished images on to future
generations.
AKVIS Retoucher plug-in restores damaged photographs to
optimal condition with minimal effort and amazing results.
Surface defects such as scratches, water spots, flakes and
stains can be removed automatically, just select the defects
and run the program. The wide variety of capabilities
are demonstrated at
http://akvis.com/en/retoucher/examples-image-restoration.php.
Moreover, the software is able to reconstruct the lacking
parts of a photo using the information of the surrounding
areas. You can, therefore, restore a torn photo or a photo
with some parts missing.
AKVIS Retoucher is a handy tool for improving the
composition of your photos. You can remove date
stamps, logos, small irrelevant details (wires, refuse bins,
etc) and even big objects (i.e. people who fell into the
shot by accident, cars in the background). If you need
to increase the canvas size (from one side or
proportionally) to bring the main object into focus, i.e. to
center it, AKVIS Retoucher will help you to extend image
patterns to the blank areas of the canvas.
The program comes with a game-like tutorial, so any person
can master the program within minutes.
The full functional trial version of AKVIS Retoucher is
available at
http://akvis.com. AKVIS Retoucher sells for $87
USD, downloadable from
http://akvis.com.
Renowned
Photojournalist Capa Dies at 90
International Center of Photography founder
Cornell Capa, seen in New York in 1996, died
Friday at the age of 90.
May 24, 2008--Photographer Cornell Capa died on
Friday, but his legacy lives on in the museum he
founded -- the International Center of
Photography in New York City -- and in the
images he'd taken during a quarter-century with
Life magazine. Capa covered everything
from a coup d'etat in Argentina to the Six-Day
War in the Middle East, from political portraits
of Adlai Stevenson to celebrity shots of Marilyn
Monroe.
In an interview in 1994, National Public Radio's
Jacki Lyden asked if he was ever haunted by what
he'd seen through his lens. "I remember every
picture that I have ever taken," he said.
"It is a terrible load to carry."
Cornell Capa
was born in Hungary in 1918, five years after
his brother Robert, a war photographer known for
his images during the Spanish Civil War.
Cornell Capa focused his camera on scenes of
politics and social justice. He chronicled
the plight of mentally ill children in Russia
and the presidential campaign of John F.
Kennedy. Capa spoke of a philosophy
he called "The Concerned Photographer": he
rejected the idea of being detached and
objective.
"To really be a passionate person, you can't
really be objective. And if you're
objective, your pictures will not be very
passionate," he said. "War, poverty,
crime, drugs -- the world is going around the
same axis all the time, and the concerned
photographer is going to make the world visible
to everybody. Maybe they're going to end
wars, maybe they're going to end poverty, and we
are going to end all kinds of famine because the
power of photography. It didn't quite work
out that way."
"It is frustrating, but the concerned
photographers who are caring about the survival
of the human race in spite of all the plagues
that confront it, but we can't fix it," he said.
"Of course we can't because nobody can fix it,
but we make you aware of it and their eyewitness
is to bring it to you. Maybe you realize what
it's all about." Capa died Friday at his
home in Manhattan. He'd been battling
Parkinson's disease. He was 90.
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