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MANASSAS WARRENTON CAMERA CLUB ROLL 29, FRAME 8 APRIL 2015

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The Proof Sheet

In this Issue: Dan Jenkins President’s Corner Page 2 The James R. M. Spor Memorial Award Page 3 Arts Alive, Gordon Tassi Page 4 When White is not White and Gamut is a Gambit, Alan Skerker Page 5 Oatlands Photography Workshop, Steve Heap Page 7 Beyond the Lens: A Photographer’s Journey, Ed. Page 9

Speaker for April: Jennifer King, Steve Heap 0 2015, 16-‐2017 Competition Themes, Roger Cox Page 10 Judge for April Open Competition, Wayne Wolfersberger, Roger Cox Page 11 March Competition Results, Roger Cox Page 12 Summary of Competition Scores, Roger Cox Page 15

“Slave Quarters,” Image by Joyce Harman


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Spring is Xinally here! If you’ve been waiting for warmer weather to get back out for the I See You See Club Project, now’s the time to do it. At the end of this month we’ll ask you to upload up to three digital images, one each from Henry Hill on the BattleXield, downtown Warrenton, and the Virginia Arboretum. We’ll also be collecting matted images for Arts Alive during April. Then in May we’ll collect framed prints for our “Service to the Community” project of donating our work to Birmingham Green’s Willow Oaks Assisted Living facility. MWCC will also participate in Manassas City Hall’s art exhibit by displaying framed prints from May 36 to June 30. And at our Banquet in June, we’ll display images that received a 7 or higher in our competitions this year. Lots of opportunities this Spring to see your photography on display!

We need volunteers for next year’s Board of Directors! So I’m asking that you think about

volunteering for 1st Vice President or Secretary. But don’t think too long, because I’ve been practicing my arm-‐twisting techniques!

There is enough interest that we’re going to have a workshop designed as follows: everyone will have an opportunity to send in questions about different aspects of photography, we’ll organize the questions into similar categories and solicit volunteers to be prepared to answer the questions, then we’ll invite all to a workshop set up with a table for each category where the volunteers will be stationed and available with the answers. You can visit one or more tables and learn something you’ve interested in as well as perhaps some things you hadn’t thought about at all. And we’ll have refreshments!

Now get out there, have fun, take pictures!

President’s Cornerby Dan Jenkins

Field Trip to the Outer Banks, NC - Night Photographyby Sue McPherson

Event Details Start: 7:00 PM April 17, 2015 End: 9:00 AM April 19, 2015 Cost: $265.00 per person Contact: Sue McPherson


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The James R. M. Spor Memorial Award is given to a member or members of the club that have given outstanding spirit and dedication in the last year. This is the most prestigious award given by the club and it’s named in honor of the club’s founder and Xirst president Jim Spor. The recipient is chosen from nominations made by MWCC members and it’s time to think about who you think is the most qualiXied individual.

As an additional aid in understanding the reason for the award you might like to know a little bit about the history of the club and its founder. James (Jim) Russell Meyers Spor established the Manassas Warrenton Camera Club in September of 1985. He served as the club president for three years. He devoted countless hours toward skillfully and lovingly nurturing the club through its early years. He constantly reXined his vision of the club as he learned new ways to promote photography and as he solicited fellow photographers to help him in achieving his goal of a Xirst class camera club in Northern Virginia. He considered himself a novice photographer during the early years of the club, however he was a quick study and became a major contender on competition nights. He was a gentle man, never seeking personal recognition for his work with the club. His reward was handing out a ribbon to a Xirst time winner on competition night or introducing a new member to the club and seeing it grow. He did not realize that he was gifted with organizational skills that many of us were envious of. While he was a family man, devoted to his wife and children, he considered the camera club members his extended family and our mentor.

Sadly on October 1, 1994, at the age of 50 years, Jim fell victim to a heart attack. Hence the memorial award was established in 1995 to honor Jim for his unlimited devotion to providing a forum where fellow photographers, regardless of their skill, could meet and share their skill and photographic experiences. His helping hands and willingness to help other photographers became the launching pad for our success. He would be very pleased to see how the club has grown and what talent it has nurtured.

James R.M. Spor Award Nominations

The Jim Spor Award is the highest club award given to a member of MWCC who best exempliXies the spirit and dedication of our founder to the principles and goals of the Manassas Warrenton Camera Club. This award brings to the attention of the MWCC members the many hours of volunteer work and contributions provided by the recipient.

Nominations should be sent to Steve Heap at Vp-‐programs@mwcc-‐photo.org. Steve was last year’s winner and is this year’s chairman of the Jim Spor awards committee. The recipient will be announced at the annual banquet and year-‐end awards night on June 4, 2015.

The James R. M. Spor Memorial Awardby Dan Jenkins

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Arts Alive 2015by Gordon Tassi

The Prince William County Arts Council is a membership organization serving the Greater Prince William Area, including Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park. The mission of the Council is:

• To promote and support local artists and arts organizations, and

• To enlighten and educate audiences about the arts in the Greater Prince William Area.

The Arts Alive festival is one of the Council’s important activities. The Manassas-‐Warrenton Camera Club, as part of the Prince William County Council for the Arts, will take part in “Arts Alive 2015”, a celebration of the arts organizations in the county. This is an annual event that allows arts organizations to market their activities and build support for the arts.

The event will take place at the Hylton Center for the Performing Arts, on May 2, 2015, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The club will display both print and digital images in the Main Lobby of the Center. We will also assist attendees who have concerns about their photography and/or camera’s operation. Club membership participation is essential for making this event a success.

The club will display digital images from this year’s competition that received a 7 or above in a slideshow format. We also expect to display at least 20 prints, depending on their size, on our display rack and table stands. Club members will be allowed to sell their images, but we must have the makers name, sales information, and image title, and, for digital images, the maker’s contact information to handle a sale.

The print images will be collected at the meetings in March and the April. All print images, 8 x 10 or up to 11 by 14 inches, must be matted with plastic eyes attached to the back of the matt for hanging them. The rules for matting are the same as those for “Nature Vision.”

Writer’s wanted… your newsletter needs content. Please share your photographic experiences with club members. Have you traveled somewhere or have you found an interesting photo location close to home? Please tell us about your favorite equipment. Why do you like it? Are you into the history of photography or alternative photographic techniques? Do you put your photos on mugs or Tee-shirts or cakes? How do you do that? Please email your contributions to the [email protected] Contributions received by the last week of each month will appear in the following month newsletter.




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In school we learned that white is the mixture of all colors and that black is the absence or absorption of all color. When we consider illumination and color perception or color mixing and printing, life is not quite that simple, or if you excuse the pun just not that black and white!

Color has two aspects, luminance and chromaticity. The image to the right is the standard chromaticity diagram at a constant value of luminance. The diagram, known as the CIE diagram, was developed by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), in 1931 from a series of experiments in the late 1920’s. The acronym CIE derives from the French name, Commission international de l’éclairage. The diagram is still in use, although in current revisions, the axes have been scaled to better align the gradation from one color region to another with our perception of those color gradations.

The interior of the CIE diagram describes all the hues the “standard” human eye is capable of perceiving. The x,y coordinates deXine chromaticity. The third coordinate z, which is not shown on the 2-‐dimensional diagram, represents luminance. Therefore, the diagram is actually a slice through the z-‐axis, and represents a single or constant value of luminance. While we tend to think of x and y describing color, the role of luminance is extremely important in accurately describing visual color perception. At its brightest, the point E is perceived as pure white, but as we take successive slices in the direction of decreasing luminance the same spot will be perceived as gray. A further complication is that the image is from an sRGB print, a narrower gamut than human vision; consequently, there are colors on the diagram that are not, and cannot be rendered correctly.

The white point (E, or alternatively the achromatic point) on the CIE diagram lies at the intersection of all lines connecting complementary color pairs. We perceive true white whenever a subject is illuminated by one or more sets of complementary colors in the proper ratio and brightness; however, if the object selectively absorbs any of the illuminating colors, the reXlected color we see will change. Moreover, the eye and the camera have different sensitivities to the different colors; they have different gamuts so consequently, just because something looks white, it doesn’t mean that the scene will be recorded the same way by the camera.

When White is not White and Gamut is a Gambitby Alan Skerker

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The same holds true for every other color or (x,y,z) point within the CIE diagram. Each perceived color (x,y,z in CIE space) can be produced by an uncountable number of different color pairings in the correct proportions. Just as with white light, selective absorption changes the color of objects we see. Sometimes the change is drastic such as the Xirst time you couldn’t Xind your brand new car parked in a movie theater lot because it looked so different under artiXicial lights then it did during the day or in the showroom!

The gamut of any device such as a computer monitor, printer, or projector is a subset of the chromaticity and luminance values that describe the range of humanly perceived color that the device can reproduce. Camera sensors have gamuts that extend well beyond human perceptibility in some directions but not in others. If we recorded everything a camera sensor could see, the world would indeed look quite different. To ensure that the camera records images close to what the human eye sees, unwanted colors must be blocked and the sensitivity to the RGB channels adjusted. Cut-‐off Xilters block the unwanted colors in the ultra violet and infrared and Bayer arrays, as well as other types of sensors incorporate more green Xiltered pixels than red and blue Xiltered ones to more closely match the sensitivity of the human eye to colors around 550 Angstroms. Finally, Xirmware in the camera and external software in our development tools adjust the data in each channel using knowledge of the sensor and camera system characteristics; yet, despite these features, images from a properly exposed scene generally require some tweaking to match the pictures in our mind.

Printing has a similar set of gamut issues. We have mentioned the relatively narrow gamut of sRGB a common color space for printing. Another interesting issue is the printing of white. There are special printers that can print white pigment, but almost all of our printers rely on the subtractive CMYK color mixing of printer colors. In other words, white is not printed at all and the white we see is the color of the paper… now let us see, was that paper we used pure white, bright white, arctic white, or snow white? Also, are we looking at the print under Xluorescent or incandescent lighting or a mix of sources and is a portion of the light striking the image being absorbed by the surface of the paper. Each of these factors effect how we perceive color.

The optimal, if indeed imperfect solution to these issues of perceptibility is calibration. In a word, calibration maps the colorspace from one device to that of another so that we perceive the two devices to be displaying or printing or projecting the same colors. The mapping or proXile is saved to our computers so that the proper proXile can be selected whenever the computer is connected to a display, projection, or printing device. Calibration doesn’t solve all perception issues, but it will get one as close as the technology being used to display and print will allow. Modern calibration tools and software automate the process so that no technical expertise is needed.

When White is not White and Gamut is a Gambit (Continued)by Alan Skerker


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Oatlands Photography

Workshop May 16 – 8:00 AM to 12:00 May 17 – rain date

Join professional photographer Wayne Wolfersberger for a morning photographic workshop at the Oatlands Historic Manson and Gardens, just a few miles west of Leesburg, VA.

The workshop will meet at the Oatlands Carriage House for orientation and instructions, then spend the rest of the morning photographing the mansion, old barns, out buildings and the four and a half acres of gardens.

Bring your camera and lenses along with a tripod (if you have one) for three plus hours of shooting. The workshop will cover details of composition, aperture settings for selecting the desired depth of Xield and other camera settings.

You may submit several of your images to the instructor via email to be critiqued at a later date. A sample of Oatlands images may be found on the instructor’s website: www.waynewolfersberger.com: click on Galleries, then All My Photos, and then select Oatlands to view these images.

Price: $50 per adult / Friends of Oatlands members: $42

Maximum of 10 participants

Call 703-‐777-‐3174 ext. 103 to register

Visit our web site for more information: www.oatlands.org

Oatlands Historic House and Garden A National Trust historic site and National Historic Landmark

20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg, VA 20175


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Oatlands Plantation Historic Mansion

Oatlands Plantation Gardens


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Beyond the Lens: A Photographer’s JourneyAn Upcoming Local Event provided to the Ed. by Melissa Clark

April 19, 20158:30am-4:30pmRosborough Cultural Arts CenterAsbury Methodist VillageGaithersburg, Maryland

The North Bethesda Camera Club celebrates its 50th birthday in 2015. You are cordially invited to join us on Sunday, April 19, for a full-‐day celebration of the past, present, and future of photography.

Our keynote speaker will be renowned National Geographic photographer Bruce Dale, who will take us behind the lens and share the stories behind capturing some of the magazine’s most stunning cover images. Bruce’s pioneering work has distinguished him as one of the leading photographers of our time. One of the Xirst western photographers to visit China, he has since returned at least a dozen times and worked in over 80 other countries.

For 30 years, Bruce worked exclusively for National Geographic. His vision and creativity twice earned him the title Magazine Photographer of the Year as well as White House Photographer of the Year. In addition to many other awards, one of his photographs now journeys beyond the solar system on board NASA's Voyager Spacecraft, as testimony about planet Earth. Another was selected to grace a U.S. postage stamp.

Besides the sheer glorious beauty he captures, Bruce Dale’s adaptation of technology to highly complex composition challenges has always stretched the boundaries of the Xield. Dale was the man behind the lens of National Geographic’s famous centennial issue in 1988 featuring a hologram of planet earth. His cover photo showing the perspective of a jumbo jet from a tail-‐mounted pair of cameras was recently named one of National Geographic’s “50 Greatest Photographs.”

Bruce Dale’s presentation will feature fantastic photographs and engaging, inspiring stories. A Q&A period will follow. The day will also feature a panel discussion about the future of photography. A complete agenda will be posted prior to the event.

Tickets for this special event are $35, and are available on a Xirst-‐come, Xirst-‐serve basis. Ticket price includes your seat for the presentations; food (morning coffee and pastries, snack breaks, and lunch); access to the vendor hall; and a chance to win exciting door prizes.

Tickets are on sale now -‐-‐ follow this link to reserve your seat today! www.nbccmd.org/event2015.htm

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Speaker for April: Jennifer Kingby Steve Heap

Applying the Principles of Design in Composition

We are very pleased to have a speaker with some unique skills at our upcoming meeting on April 2nd. Jennifer King has worked in the advertising arena as a creative director, art director and director of photography for... well, let's just say more years than she cares to admit! Her Bio continues: "I have been fortunate to work with the best photographers, designers, stylists and clients in the business. While I had more fun than anyone should have at work, my retreats to the wilderness were even better. So I traded in the long hours and endless days of the ad world for the more alluring 4a.m. alarm clock to catch the sunrise, replaced my designer shoes with fashionable waterproof boots and the models have become bison and grizzlies (and far less demanding). Photography is now a journey, it's about the destination and its uniqueness, the world at its best. Simply... photography inspired by nature. I still enjoy the usual tromp through the airport and crowded seats, but at least my luggage is lighter."

Jennifer's presentation will discuss ten design principles based on her experience as an art director that contribute to creating better compositions and more effective images. It is likely that we may have heard some or all of these principles before but Jennifer does a nice job of putting them all together in her presentation. I'm certainly looking forward to it!

Please check out her website and photo workshops at http://www.jenniferkingphoto.com/

2015-2016-2017 Competition Themesby Roger Cox

http://www.jenniferkingphoto.com/

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Wayne Wolfersberger, Judge for April Open Competitionby Roger Cox

An ecologist-‐naturalist and educator by professional training and a nature photographer by passion, Wayne has integrated both areas to become a well respected nature photographer in the area. His photographic expertise was honed while working for a D.C. area commercial photography Xirm, the US Navy and involvement in numerous seminars and workshops. Wayne is a member of NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association), the Vienna Photographic Society and Northern VA Photographic Association for which he serve as VP and President. Wayne has delivered numerous and varied photographic programs to many local groups and also in the UK and Australia. Many of his images have appeared in national magazines, on calendars and postcards exhibited as Xine art prints. During the spring and fall Wayne teaches a variety of photography classes for Fairfax Co Adult & Community Education but during the summer you will Xind Wayne in Yellowstone working for the US National Park Service.

Photography and nature have always gone together as Wayne grew up in the Washington D.C. Area. With degrees in biology and conservation from the University of Maryland and George Mason University, the use of photography to teach concepts to his classes became second nature. Valuable experience was obtained while working for a commercial photographer and later with the US Navy Photo Laboratory and a brief stint with the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service. During his years of full time public school teaching the science of biology and earth sciences, Wayne found time to further expand upon his photographic skills which included wedding photography, school groups and craft shows. Now having left full time science teaching, Wayne now is teaching photography classes during the fall, winter and spring which allows for a great deal of traveling to prime locations for nature photography.

http://www.waynewolfersberger.com/




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March Competition Resultsby Roger Cox


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Competition Themes and Judges for 2014 - 2015by Roger Cox


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