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December 2011 Volume 68, Issue 6 Special points of interest:
“Where do I put the
film?” Film???
Route 66, photos to
look for - send some
our way.
Does new photogra-
p h y t e c h n o l o g y
change the rules of
the game?
Christmas - photo ops!
Inside this Issue:
The Woes of Well
Intentioned Gifts,
Lorraine Caddy
1,
3, 4
Meetings, Workshop
Schedule, Visitors &
Announcements
2
Off the Beaten Path,
Driving Route 66 -
Photos to Look For
5
Competition Photos 6-9
ZooFriends
Membership Op
10
Competition Results 11,
12
When is a photograph
a photograph?
N. Sukumar
13,
14
Remembering
Halloween
15
1930’s PSA Collec-
tion, Photo Ops
16
Oklahoma Camera
Club, Inc.
Founded 1931
The Woes of Well Intentioned Gifts by
Lorraine Caddy
Cont’d Page 3 . . .
Ah, it’s Christmas and all those present
buying people are shoving and hoping
they will find just the right gift. There
it is – they think to themselves, I have
an older Auntie who should get with
the current digital age. I’ll get her a
digital camera. You know it’s so easy –
great photos you can transfer to your
PC, email to your friends – it will be
fun for her. Want to bet!!!
Come Christmas morning aging Auntie
opens her new camera. Looks at it
and says ―what is this‖?? Younger
family members begin to explain, and
even provide a book – why it’s
wonderful – welcome to the digital
world. Auntie looks more than a bit
confused. It’s a beautiful camera but
where do I put the film??? And the fun
begins.
Weeks later, the camera is still in the
box. The book has been scanned by
eyes that have no idea what its saying.
It says it will ―walk me through the
puzzling, anxiety-producing world of
digital photography.‖ Sure it will!!!!
I glance at the table of contents and
don’t even know what the titles of the
chapter’s mean in most instances.
It starts out by telling me this camera
takes pictures without film – it uses
something called a memory card.
Tells me how much money I’m going
save and that I can be sure I got the
picture by looking in the LCD
(whatever that is) —
Merry Christmas Aloma Anderson
HypoCheck Schedule & Announcements Oklahoma Camera
Club
Inc.
Meetings: 7:30 pm
2nd and 4th Tuesdays
50th and N. May Ave.
Central Presbyterian
Church
For club information
Contact
405.751.8179
Page 2 of 16
Board of Directors
President Derrell Dover
1st VP Lee Donlon
2nd VP Randy Carr
Treasure Brad Smith
Secretary Wally Lee
APSA
Directors:
1yr. Jaci Finch APSA
1yr. Jan Lee APSA,
PPSA
2yr. Diane Hogue
2yr. Aloma Anderson
Visitors: We had one visitor this month dur-
ing our November 8 meeting, Paul Gilchrist
[email protected]. Paul visited us from Norman
having found the club on the website. Paul has an
interest in Nature Photography and will fit right in.
Thanks for coming by Paul and we certainly hope
you enjoyed our holiday celebration and will
return soon. But we do need to
warn you, we don’t eat that well at
every meeting.
Workshops
Photography 101 Workshop: This workshop has
been discontinued due to lack of interest, i.e., no
participation. For information please contact
Ed Lamb at 721-4714 or [email protected].
Beginning Imaging Workshop: We will be
holding the workshop on Wednesday,
December 14 at 7:30 pm. Bring the pictures
you would like to discuss, or other
photography question or problems. We’ll also do
some very basic Elements. For additional
information call Wally or Jan Lee at 751-8179.
Meetings
December 13, 2011: Competition: Projected Images - Open A & B,
Creative, Nature, Monochrome & Photojournalism
Judges: Doug Finch APSA, Jack Melton &
Vickie Jenkins
Program: Jan Lee APSA, PPSA & Wally Lee
APSA will present a program on Judging, taking a
look at what changes in an image would raise the
score from a 3 to a 4 or 5. The first image would
be a 3, cleaned up to a 4 and then WOWed to a 5.
Refreshments: Jan & Wally Lee
Board Meeting
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, December 20.
Location: 6021 Glencove Pl, Oklahoma City.
Subject: We will finalize the agenda at the Board
Meeting.
If interested I thought we would meet for dinner
at Billy Simms Barbeque, 6401 NW Expressway,
for all the Sooner Fans, 6:00 PM. Derrell Dover
December 27, 2011: NO MEETING
Photoshop/Elements Workshop: Tom and
Carol McCreary will hold the workshop on
Friday, December 16 at 7:30 pm. This will be
an open assignment, bring something to share or
ask questions about. Please contact Tom or
Carol [email protected] . with any
questions. Club Website - Our webmaster, Jaci
Finch APSA , would appreciate
members sending her some images to
use on the Website. Please send them
to her at [email protected]. Thank you.
Christmas Love
Vickie Jenkins
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The Woes of Well Intentioned Gifts . . . Cont’d next page . . .
Club Dues
Individual $30
Family or Joint $40
(other rates available as
well as partial for less
than year)
Make Checks Payable To
Oklahoma Camera Club
Mail To
Club Treasurer
Brad Smith
1008 NW 18th,
Oklahoma City, OK
73106-6417
Contact
when I finally find it on the
camera I burst out laughing – they
must be kidding that my old eyes can
be sure of anything in that LCD
picture. But, I decided to give it a try.
I open the book to the page titled ―all
about your camera features‖. There is
the list again – mode controls, built-in
flash (that one I understand), optical
viewfinder (front) – OK – hot shoe for
external flash – now they are talking
my language – optical viewfinder
(back) – OK I’m with ya – then the
LCD display (figured out that was that
little screen I’m supposed to use – yea
right), then it mentions a zoom feature
(they are back to speaking my
language), setting dial and a shutter
release – words I can relate to.
As I read further it talks about
playback, panorama mode, movie
mode, false color mode and . . . now I
have to read again. Then it gives me a
lesson in various lenses which I
already know, I’m not stupid you
know. Now they tell me about the
various memory cards (film) on the
market. Next page tells me my
camera is like a computer – Oh
goodie, I’ve just figured out how to
send an email. Well, I decided to put
the dumb card in and see what would
happen.
The book says, press the shutter
release gently to check your focus and
exposure settings – I guess I have a
lead finger like some people have a
lead foot . . . once I touch it I’ve got a
picture – or at least I hope so. I read
about how to save and view my pho-
tos – and it says if you have a problem
it won’t be the memory card probably
Cont’d Page 4 . . .
The Night Before
Christmas . . .
Aloma Anderson
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The Woes of Well Intentioned Gifts . . . Cont’d from page 3
because it’s a tough little dude – they
haven’t seen me crash a computer!!!
However, after I do what it says, sure
enough, there is an image.
This masterful book of knowledge goes
on to tell me that what I learned about
35mm photography still applies to
taking photos digitally. Finally admitting
I do have some knowledge of
photography. Now it says, join a
camera club – it’s like I never did
before? Well folks let me tell you
those camera club people are with it –
but it will take me a while to catch up.
The next chapter in the book is how
to move pictures to the PC. Anybody
want to bet I mess that up!
Well, that wasn’t as hard as I thought it
would be. And I must admit storage
and editing is much easier on the
computer than with a dark room
image.
Surely do miss all those wonderful
smells – but guess with time I’ll enter
the new age of digital photography. All
I ask is patience and a great deal of
help. There is a whole chapter on
―cool accessories‖ – are they kidding.
I haven’t learned how to take and
handle simple photos in the computer
as well as printing them on the ―proper
paper‖ with authentic colors.
Oh well, I wonder what the ―kids‖ will
think of for my next torment. They
are sweet and lovable but haven’t a
clue about Auntie’s limitations. Guess
that’s a good thing. Back to the
book!!!!!!!!!
Lorraine Caddy
Joy!!!
Jack Melton
Club Members
PSA
Positions:
Doug Finch APSA
Jaci Finch APSA
PSA Region 24
Co-Directors
Jan Lee APSA, PPSA
Wally Lee APSA
CPID Star Ratings
Co-Directors
PPD Chairmen
2012 PSA International
Exhibition
Randy Carr
PJD Exhibitions
Standards Director
Club Members
GSCCC
Positions:
Ed Lamb
GSCCC Director
Carol McCreary
APSA, PPSA
Editor, GSCCC News
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It's good to
have money
and the things
that money can
buy,
but it's good,
too, to check
up once in a
while and make
sure you
haven't lost the
things that
money can't
buy.
~ George
Horace
Lorimer
Off The Beaten Path, Driving Route 66 - Photos to Look For
Route 66’s early history is revealed by its early paths. Tank Farm Loop
This 1.7-mile stretch of the original Route 66 between Kellyville and Bristow is so named
because several oil storage tanks stand along the roadway. This curvy alignment, built without
shoulders, carried the Mother Road from 1926 to 1938. The Tank Farm Loop is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Directions: To enter the loop from the east, go a half-mile west of where Oklahoma 66 goes
over I-44 and turn north. From the west, go four miles east of the intersection of Oklahoma 66
and Oklahoma 48. The entrance to the loop is at the top of a hill.
Ozark Trail Obelisk
On a gravel road near Stroud stands a rare obelisk that marked an intersection with the Ozark
Trail. This primitive road was Route 66 from 1926 to 1930. The 15-foot-tall stone obelisk on a
triangular patch of land is marked with graffiti but still impresses.
Directions: Go about two miles west on Oklahoma 66 from the intersection of Oklahoma 99
and turn south at 3540 Road. The obelisk is 1.4 miles south.
Key Bridge Ruins
At Bridgeport, a suspension bridge spanned the South Canadian River beginning in 1921. This
structure, called the Key Bridge, carried Route 66 until 1933, when the Pony Bridge was built to
the southeast. Only the pillars of the bridge remain on the river bank. Getting to the ruins
requires traveling a 4.3-mile dirt or gravel road that shouldn’t be attempted after a rain unless
you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. This road that carried Route 66 was never paved – and still
isn’t.
Directions: Slightly west of a prominent intersection of U.S. 281 and Old U.S. Highway 66 is a
gravel road. Go north onto the gravel road for a half-mile and veer west at a fork, away from a
sign that says ―private property.‖ The bridge’s remains are another 3.8 miles west; you’re close
when you see the river near the road to the left.
Ghost Road
Route 66 between Erick and Sayre was four lanes from 1956 to 1975. But east of Interstate 40’s
Exit 11, this stretch of the Mother Road was reduced to the southern two lanes. Portions of the
abandoned two lanes remain accessible. Nature is reclaiming this road; you’ll often find yourself
driving through a tunnel of brush and trees.
Directions: The ghost road begins less than a quarter-mile east of Exit 11. Be aware that the
abandoned road’s accessibility can change because of fallen tree limbs and other debris.
Fortunately, there are frequent turnouts on these stretches. More to come later . . .
Around the Bend
Eva Ryan
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When you
dream, you
dialogue with
aspects of
yourself that
normally are
not with you in
the daytime
and you
discover that
you know a
great deal more
than you
thought you
did.
~ Toni Cade
Bambara
November Competition Cont’d next page . . .
Revolutionary War Cannon Man
Carol McCreary APSA
Beautiful Lilly
Joe Spence
Ship’s Bow
Carol McCreary APSA
Ely Steam Train
Tom McCreary EPSA
Gut Feeling
Joe Spence
Seaside Sunset
Jack Melton
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Let us not look
back in anger,
nor forward in
fear,
but around in
awareness.
~ James
Thurber
November Competition Cont’d next page . . .
Pointing the Way for the Little Runner
Carol McCreary APSA
Bee’s Wings
Eva Ryan
Fruita Utah Truck
Tom McCreary EPSA Infrared Nevada Church
Carol McCreary APSA
Scramble
Randy Carr
Rock N’ Roll
Eva Ryan
Page 8 of 16
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One of the
sanest, surest,
and most
generous joys
of life comes
from being
happy over the
good fortune
of others.
~ Archibald
Rutledge
November Competition Cont’d next page . . .
Six Stamen
Joe Spence
This Old House
Eva Ryan
You’re Home Now
Eva Ryan
St.. Elmo
Randy Carr
Focus on Me
Randy Carr
A Pair
Jaci Finch APSA
Page 9 of 16
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They can be
like sun, words.
They can do
for the heart
what light can
for a field.
~St. John of
the Cross
November Competition
Chevy Apache
Eva Ryan
Spreading Monarch
Joe Spence
Berlin Old Truck
Carol McCreary APSA
Goalie Leaning to the Left
Carol McCreary APSA
Skull Mountain
Eva Ryan
Morning After
Jaci Finch APSA
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And while I
stood there I
saw more than
I can tell and I
understood
more than I
saw;
for I was
seeing in a
sacred manner
the shapes of
all things in the
spirit, and the
shape of all
shapes as
they must live
together like
one being.
~Black Elk
Have you ever wondered where a lot of the club members images
come from, in particular, the great animal photos? OK, some came
from Africa but a greater number of them came from the wonderful
OKC Zoo. That is why you receive emails inviting you to meet to go
to the zoo on Saturday mornings. If you are going frequently, it is a
lot cheaper to have a ZooFriends Membership and now is the time
to buy. What a great Christmas Gift!!!
Page 11 of 16
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Competition Results - Prints
November 8, 2011
Page 1 of 2
Name Entry No. 1 Place Entry No. 2 Place
Monochrome - Class B
Eva Ryan This Old House 1 Chevy Apache 2
Vickie Jenkins Blowing a Bubble for the First Time 1 Leaning House on the Prairie 3
Monochrome - Class A
Jack Melton Storm at Marland Mansion HM Established 2012 HM
Randy Carr St. Elm 1 Scramble HM
Joe Spence Six 3 3 Tulips 2
Carol McCreary Infrared Nevada Church 1 Revolutionary War Cannon Man 3
Color Prints - Class B
Eva Ryan Around the Bend 3 Time of the Orange 3
Jaci Finch The Dawn of a New Day 1 A Pair 1
Vicki Jenkins Oklahoma Windmill HM Petals in Bloom 2
Color Prints - Class A
Joe Spence Beautiful Lily 1 On the Rocks 3
Randy Carr Frontier Cabin HM Donnie Vigil 3
Jack Melton Living on the Edge — Seaside Sunset 2
Tom McCreary Fruita Utah Truck 2 Ely Steam Train 292 1
Carol McCreary Berlin Old Truck 1 Ship’s Bow 2
Nature
Eva Ryan Skull Mountain HM Bee’s Wings 3
Vickie Jenkins Lookin’ Good 3 A Bit of Nature HM
Randy Carr Old Bird 2 Stand Out in Crowd 2
Joe Spence Rocky Mtn. Falls 3 Spread Monarch 1
Randy Carr Fast Buck 2 Scoop it Up 3
Vickie Jenkins Calm and Carefree — Tranquility HM
Eva Ryan You’re Home Now 3 Rock N’ Roll HM
Joe Spence Splish Splash 3 A Gut Feeling 1
Carol McCreary Pointing the Way for the Little Runner 2 Goalie Leaning to the Left 2
Name Entry No. 1 Place Entry No. 2 Place
Competition Results - Prints
November 8, 2011
Page 2 of 2
Photojournalism
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Santa
Vickie Jenkins
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True
forgiveness
includes total
acceptance.
~ Catherine
Marshall
When is a photograph a photograph? N. Sukumar
While this question is posed nowadays in the context of the film/digital conflict, it is worth bearing
in mind that the earliest cameras used neither lenses nor film. The camera obscura has been in use
since ancient times, to form images through a pinhole on the walls of a darkened room. Due to the
non-permanent nature of the image, I doubt that we would call these photographs today. Lenses
became prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries. Silver entered the picture (again no pun intended)
in 1727, when Prof. Schulze created the first photosensitive compound by mixing chalk, nitric acid
and silver in a flask and noticed darkening on the side of the flask exposed to sunlight. In 1816
Nicéphore Niépce combined the camera obscura with photosensitive paper and in 1822 he made a
contact print (of a portrait of Pope Pius VII) on a glass plate. In 1825 Niépce etched his images on
copper, then on tin in 1826. In 1834 Henry Fox Talbot created permanent (negative) images using
paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. In 1837 Louis Daguerre created
images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and developed in warm mercury and
patented the daguerrotype process. Talbot patented his process under the name calotype in 1841.
Glass plates, gum bichromate and paper negatives continue in use to this day, but are now definitely
considered ―alternative process.‖ George Eastman set up the Eastman Dry Plate Company in
Rochester in 1880 and it was only in 1889 that improved Kodak cameras came out with roll film
instead of paper. Film is thus a relatively recent development (no pun intended) on the
photographic scene, but it was this critical technical innovation that enabled photography to move
out beyond the realm of artists and photographers and to capture the mass consumer market. Just
such a technical advance has taken place with the digital revolution and, while I doubt that silver
gelatin film will ever truly disappear in our lifetimes, it is very likely that it will soon become
―alternative process.‖ Every other day some other old-time photographer discovers these market
realities and declares with great pomp and finality that ―film is dead!‖
Most photographers, publishers and camera clubs have now, sometimes grudgingly, conceded the
point that digital prints and digitally-captured images are legitimate photographs. But there is still
considerable resistance to digitally-manipulated images. So when is a digitally-manipulated image a
photograph? It is possible to create photograph like images entirely in the computer using programs
like Bryce® with sometimes very realistic-looking (and at other times very surreal) landscapes;
obviously these cannot be considered photographs. At the other end are images that obviously
started out as photographs, but have been tweaked digitally in much the same way that a
photographer would in the darkroom: namely, by burning and dodging, cropping, using contrast
filters or adjusting color balance and spotting out specks and scratches. Do these negate the
photographic content of the image? Before you answer, consider that if you are using an
auto-anything film camera, there is a silicon chip in there that automatically performs some
manipulations before the photons even strike the film surface. Furthermore, if you hand your film
over to a drugstore or mail it in to Kodak, the concentrations and temperature of the chemicals and
processing times are computer-controlled. You can even opt to forego chemical prints altogether
and to have your film scanned onto CD. Then you can send those files (with or without digital
manipulations) to a lab to be printed chemically on real photographic paper. Where does that leave
us? Talk about complicating the issue!
Cont’d Page 14 . . .
We’re on the web!
www.Oklahomacameraclub.com
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My first
thought is
always of
light.
~ Galen
Rowell
When is a photograph a photograph? Cont’d from Page 13 . . .
Many digital shooters are content to stay with kinds of digital manipulations we just discussed.
Others choose to use the digital process to exercise their creativity. But just as photography is not
the exclusive domain of the film shooter, neither is creative manipulation the exclusive domain of
the digital artist. The images of Jerry Uelsmann, Freeman Patterson and André Gallant, to name just
a few, are instances in point. In one case the composites or montages are created in the darkroom,
in the other case, they are done in the camera. Since I want to learn to take (not just make) better
pictures, I personally try to resist the temptation to use Photoshop® to simply correct flaws in my
photos. But then should all digital manipulations of photographs be acceptable as photographs? I
feel that this needs to be answered on a case-by-case basis. The intent of the image is, to me, a
prime consideration. Most newspapers and news agencies have policies that strictly forbid all but the
most innocuous manipulation of journalistic photographs. And remember, people have been
―doctoring‖ photos long before the computer. The PSA Nature Division has a similar policy
forbidding manipulation of images for nature competitions. For a creative competition, this stricture
obviously does not apply. The operative principle in either case seems to be one of honesty: of not
altering the content of the image with intent to deceive.
Then there is the question of fairness for the purpose of competition. Do digital manipulations
make things easier for the digital artist? You bet they do! At least for many kinds of manipulation, if
you know what you are doing and how to go about it. But then an experienced printer will find
many things easier in the wet darkroom. It still takes me less test prints to get a good monochrome
chemical print in the darkroom than to calibrate my monitor, software, printer, paper and inks and
get a decent inkjet print. And does getting your film processed and/or printed at a custom lab not
give you an advantage over the photographers who process and print their own images? Perhaps
so, for ―straight shooters‖, but probably not for creative printers. Ultimately photography is all
about what you want your images to say and choosing the right tools for the task, be that a fish-eye
lens or a Photoshop® filter. And for every purist who sees the film/digital divide in terms of ―real
photography‖ versus digital, there are ten new converts every day who see the same issue as one of
photography versus ―alternative process‖ (yes, read: film!)
[Schenectady Photographic Society FOCUS, February 2004]
Editor: While this article is a little dated, it is so well written I thought everyone would enjoy reviewing what
an impact technology has had on photography. The next digital photo revolution may very well be the Lytro
Light-Field Camera. With this new technology you will be able to focus your image after tripping the shutter.
Check it out at http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/290 or Google “Lytro.”
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We do not see
Nature with
our eyes,
but with our
understandings
and our heart.
~ William
Hazlit
Remembering Halloween . . .
Halloween Front Yard
Derrell McClanahan
Derrell is convinced, with more of this - you will have fewer of
these and do away with handouts!!!
Beware! Mwaah Hah Hah!! (It was a very dark and noisy porch.)
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Photo Ops: (From: Oklahoma Today)
Editors:
Doug Finch APSA
Jaci Finch APSA
Page 16 of 16
Nov 19 - Dec 31: Christmas in the Park - colorful light displays across three city parks,
classic holiday music, wagon rides and photo ops - Yukon, cityofyukonok.gov.
Nov 23 - Dec 31: Rhema Christmas Lights - the Rhema Bible Church Campus comes
alive as millions of the diodes are put to work dancing to Christmas music - Broken
Arrow, rhemabiblechurch.com. (Drive or park and walk around.)
Nov 25 - Dec 23: A Territorial Christmas Collection - where visitors watch the history of
Christmas in real time with trolley tours, live music and a parade - Guthrie,
gutherieok.com.
Dec 18: Fort Reno Christmas Guns Celebration - war re-enactors fire cannons, powder
guns, rifles and pistols to ward off any evil spirits that might be lurking, clearing the way
for punch, cookies and a visit from Saint Nick - El Reno, fortreno.org.
Decade by Decade: The 1930's
From the PSA Collection
On view in our west gallery through January 7, 2012
This exhibition represents the second in a five part series – the 1920’s through the
1960’s – that will draw upon works from the collection of the Photographic Society
of America (PSA) [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd Street, OKC
Nov 19 - Dec 31: Christmas in the Park - colorful light displays across three city parks,
classic holiday music, wagon rides and photo ops - Yukon, cityofyukonok.gov.
Nov 23 - Dec 31: Rhema Christmas Lights - the Rhema Bible Church Campus comes
alive as millions of the diodes are put to work dancing to Christmas music - Broken
Arrow, rhemabiblechurch.com. (Drive or park and walk around.)
Nov 25 - Dec 23: A Territorial Christmas Collection - where visitors watch the history of
Christmas in real time with trolley tours, live music and a parade - Guthrie,
gutherieok.com.
Dec 18: Fort Reno Christmas Guns Celebration - war re-enactors fire cannons, powder
guns, rifles and pistols to ward off any evil spirits that might be lurking, clearing the way
for punch, cookies and a visit from Saint Nick - El Reno, fortreno.org.
This exhibition represents the second in a five part series – the 1920’s through the
1960’s – that will draw upon works from the collection of the Photographic Society
of America (PSA) [Artspace] at Untitled, 1 NE 3rd Street, OKC