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Plus PicTwo: Sonoma State Historic Park

MARSHALL BERMAN TO MODERATE THE  EXPLORING PHOTOGRAPHY MEETING  ON THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 2010.

Homework: SFMOMA, Three Scallions, One Brown Onion and  One Red Onion

By Bob Nelson

The Photochrome Exploring Photography and Pic  meeting scheduled for Thursday 21 October 2010. Pic Two will feature member’s photos from the September 18th field trip to North Beach.

The Exploring Photography portion of the meeting will be  moderated by Marshall Berman, a professional photographer, sculptor and teacher of photography at City College of San Francisco.  As some of you may recall Berman was the judge  at  Judged Night in July.

He describes his part of the evening more as a salon than a presentation. He says: “ The whole notion of getting together would be to give voice to ‘free thought’.  A group of people ‘exploring’ through discussion and visuals the allied arts  (   music, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture cinema etc ) and how they impact and especially enhance the choice one makes of any one of them, in this case photography.”

Berman makes the point that the meeting would be an open, interactive meeting that would be exciting, thought provoking where the  mind meets the heart. With discussions of why we do what we do with an aim to doing it  better. At the session there would be NO stupid or dumb questions.

Berman suggests an interesting  element to the meeting: Two areas of homework, encouraged by not required, and he outlines the assignment by saying:

“First go to the MOMA in San Francisco and look at the Fisher collection that is currently on display including the two videos on the  3rd floor. Get as much as you can of what you see. (DO NOT LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW.  But really “LOOK” at the Fisher Collection.    http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/83

Secondly Bring a flash drive with three ( 3 ) VASTLY DIFFERENT “VERSIONS” of a still life of the following:

3 SCALLIONS, 1 BROWN ONION, 1 RED  ONION

Viewing these images  would not be a critique session but rather would be a springboard to express the diversity of thought as it  pertains to a given visual interpretation.”

Berman concludes his thoughts by saying: “Do I know what will happen or what the outcome will be…No…! and that’s as it should be.”

Please mark your calendar for the Photochrome Exploring Photography meeting on Thursday 21 October 2010.  It will be an   interesting and interactive experience.

Futher Details:

“ALL” the objects should be in the SAME picture:

• 3 scallions
• 1 brown onion
• 1  red onion

It’s important to make sure of the understanding that EVERYONE is welcome. The discussion is open and members do not all have to participate in the shooting to be a part of this workshop.

Those who do, do the “homework”, can do anything they want with the five items.. Any kind of lighting, objects can be cut, chopped, pealed, diced left whole, bent etc. and arranged in whatever fashion the participant feels makes the best composition. Foreground and backgrounds again are open to inspiritation . JUST “NO” PHOTOSHOPPING !!!

NATURALLY THE MORE PEOPLE WHO DO THE “HOME WORK” AND GO THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE OF SHOOTING THE FIVE OBJECTS, WILL BE ADDING A RICHER  TEXTURE TO THE WORKSHOP AND THAT WILL MAKE IT A MUCH MORE INTERESTING EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US..

If only a few do the outside work it will lessen the depth (and especially the group energy) that this undertaking and the experience might provide .

This is an exercise dealing with how we “think” and then communicate visually.. No one is going to be graded or singled out for criticism, it’s the “process” I’m mostly concerned with..

I’m looking forward to this being is an open ended  workshop/discussion, where we will all have a voice in the outcome. Hopefully it will bring us a higher consciousness not only in the field of visual arts but perhaps a little something to think about for future.

Oh, one more thing (request),  everyone should come to this event wearing a different color or style sox on each foot. (nothing wrong with a male wearing one leg of a panty hose either)

Members enter up to two images for Club discussion and critique.

Save meeting time. Send your digital images by midnight Wednesday(s to: Photochromeprojectionist@gmail.com

Mark your images:

Print Night moderated by Alan Heald

The last Print Night for this year takes place on Thursday, September 16th. After that, the next Print Night won’t be held until March, next year! So, if you have something to show the group, there is still some time to get busy and make a few prints for display.

Print Chair, Alan Heald, says that “this has been a very good year for Photochrome’s print makers”. Alan reports that “not only the evenings have featured excellent work, perhaps even more gratifying has been the enthusiasm shown by everyone who attend these events.” Print making at Photochrome is alive and well!

Even for those of you who don’t yet make prints for display, it’s quite possible that you just might enjoy coming to this event and see what the rest of us are up to.

Judged Night with special guest and judge Dick Stahlke

Dick has been photographing seriously since about 1993 & has studied with many of the best, including Freeman Patterson, Galen Rowell, George Lepp, Eddie Soloway, & Neil Chaput de Saintonge. Beyond the technical aspects of good photography, Dick soon realized that the best of photographic expression emanates from within oneself. It communicates the essence of the subject in some way, using principles of design, lighting & perspective to elicit a response from the viewer. The attempt to achieve in an image what he wants to see & wants to communicate is a constant challenge. He feels that judging will be a similar challenge, beginning with the craft of photography & looking for greater meaning & interpretation in the photographic expression of others.

Story by Burr Preston

The orange windsock at the hang glider site indicated perfect winds for flying. Not a single glider was in the air. No one was readying a glider in the staging area. The only glider in sight was tucked away in its traveling case atop the carrying rack of a plumber’s truck in the parking lot. It was 10 AM on Saturday morning.

The driver of the truck informed the group he intended to fly, but was waiting for his buddy. He allowed that the people who flew here were not early risers.

Gary, Bob, Pam, Chris, and Laurie decided to go over to the native plant nursery situated by the entrance from Skyline Blvd. Being a first-time visitor to the site, I chose to snoop around the place. The National Sea Shore management has several interesting displays portraying the history of the site—it was fortified for both World War I and II and later contained a Nike missile launching site under the present parking lot. Other placards described the geology and the wind currents that make hang gliding possible.

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