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November 2015 Volume 66 #3 http://www.greatneckcameraclub.org
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Message from the President
Someone the other day asked me a question regarding photography that took me a few moments to grasp. The question was “what is the most important thing about taking pictures?” This person had indicated to me earlier that things like high quality equipment and exotic soft-ware were the critical components to a good picture. And suddenly I realized how wrong that was. Wrong in the sense that the camera, no matter how many pixels or how well equipped it is in terms of fea-tures and that this so-called exotic software could do wonders to any photo, is not that answer. The camera in essence does not take the picture unless the person be-hind the viewfinder presses the button. So what is the correct answer? Composition and nothing else. A good photo can be taken with any kind of equip-ment; it is that person taking the photo that is key. How he or she composes the photo that makes it good (or bad). In future comments, I shall attempt to describe what composition is and how to deal with it. Stay tuned for those comments.
George Novello MGNCC President
Dates for 2015 2016 Club Year
November16th Wednesday – Year in review show.
November28th Competition
November12th Competition
November26th Program
November 9th Competition — Judge: Dennis Golan
November 23rd Program — Speaker: Al Bellow
December 14th Competition — Judge: Susan Nolan
December 28th Program — Social Program
January 11th Competition
January 25th Program
February 8th Competition
February 22nd Program
March 14th Competition
March 28th Program
April 11th Competition
April 25th Program
May 9th Competition
May 23rd Best of Year Competition.
the Editor’s Proof Sheet
the Hole in Photography
History of the Hole
Since its beginning, photography has had a hole at its
center. It’s possible that, in a
way, the hole was the found-
ing of photography. You see,
light passing through a ‘pin’
hole forms an inverted but
sharp, clear and small image
of the surroundings in front
of it on a wall behind. This effect has been know for
thousands of years—in fact Aristo-
tle described it.
In a form called a ‘camera obscu-
ra,’ often with mirrors to reverse
the image, it was used by Leonardo
da Vinci, Jan van Eyck and other
painters to sketch life-like images on canvas for their
realistic paintings. Photography was born when the can-
vas was replaced with a photo sensitive screen.
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The pinhole, acting as a lens, forms a small image on the
backing (a screen, canvas, film or a light sensor). But a
pinhole lets in so little light that exposure times are very
long. By using a real lens though, in place of the pin
hole, more light is captured, concentrated and focused so
that a much larger hole can be used. As a result exposer
times can be considerably faster.
Evolution of the Hole
The hole, which we’ll now call an ‘aperture’ in pho-
tospeak, is relatively large; so much so that some way of
stopping some of the light from entering the camera and
overexposing the image is needed. At first, this was ac-
complished by manually covering the aperture with
plates having holes of various sizes, thereby ‘stopping’
some of the light from entering the camera—‘stops’ of
various sizes let in more or less light.
The concept of ‘stopping’ a camera’s aperture up or
down was developed to meet varied lighting conditions
and the exposure requirements of the light recording
medium. The stopping plates were soon replaced by a
variable diaphragm, which is closed or opened in incre-
ments called stops. The stops were standardized so that
each full stop up or down halved or doubled the light by
increasing or decreasing the aperture by a factor of 2.
But, it turns out that there is another effect of increasing
or decreasing aperture—the depth of field is changed!
Depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest
and farthest objects in a scene that appear in focus and
acceptably sharp in an image. What happens is that wid-
er apertures blur the background (or foreground) objects
more than narrow apertures. The reason is that a wide
aperture lets in more of the unfocused light from the
background than a narrower aperture.
The resulting photographic effect can be dramatic, as
seen in the illustration, or subtle, depending on the focal
length of the lens, the distance to the subject and back-
ground, and the absolute size of the aperture, the actual
physical measurement.
Photographic Hole
A number of photographic conventions have come with
the hole becoming the aperture. We’ve seen one al-
ready—that each full stop, down or up, reduces or in-
creases light by a factor of 2. Another is the naming con-
vention of the stops—the f/stop. f is the focal length of
the lens and stop is the stop-number. But remember,
f/stop is a dimensionless, relative number—relative to
the focal length of the lens.
Notice that the aperture gets smaller as the f/stop gets
larger. The stop-number is a ratio of the focal length of
the lens to the diameter of the aperture. This peculiar
sequence of numbers are the factors needed to reduce
the aperture’s diameter so that its area is reduced by 2
for each stop. No, you don’t have to remember this to be
a great photographer. Just know that each f/stop reduces
or increases the light by 2, and f/2.8 is a much larger aper-
ture than f/16 .
A small camera (such as in a cell phone), has a very
small actual aperture yet it may have the same f/stop,
say f/2.8 as a large DSLR, which has a much larger actu-
al aperture. The depth of field of the DSLR though, will
be very short compared to that of the cell phone camera,
and its overall light sensitivity will also be greater. In
fact, it’s very hard to create short depth of field or high
light sensitivity with a small format camera.
Art of the Hole
Significantly, the art of photography is the application of
technology to the creative graphic process. The hole, as
a variable aperture, is a technological tool for the pho-
tographer that has evolved over a surprisingly long time.
It enables photography in widely varying light, and is of
inestimable value to the photographer for its control of
DOF.
We see and use the aperture effects of long and short
DOF respectively for highly detailed landscapes, and for
subject isolation for portrait and journalistic
photography. Look for it in the presentation of our pic-
tures at MGNCC competitions, and use the aperture with
understanding and artistry in your photography.
Let me know what you think at: [email protected].
Wide Aperture Narrow Aperture
Wide Aperture Narrow Aperture
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Editor
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ayers rock SUNSET
by LINDA ABRAMS
SAILING by LORRAINE HEANEY
Arc of Remembrance
by MARC BERNSTEIN
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RAINBOW by ARLENE LANCETTA
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every
hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud
BB from MB by DAVID LEVIN
Blood Moon Eclipse on 27 Sept 2015
by JACKSON LUM Yellow Iris by COLUMBA SPIGNER
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Highland park by
LEO TUJAK
Laundry Day by
LINDA RUSSO
Bright Eyes by
IRWIN ZUCKERMAN
DIGITAL COLOR SCORES
DIGITAL B&W SCORES (all class A)
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TOTALED SCORE
# OF ENTRIES NAME
53.00 6 BRUNO, JOHN
51.00 6 APPEL, GERALD
50.00 6 MICHELSON, ALLEN
49.00 6 HACHADOORIAN, RONNY
48.00 6 RUSSO, LINDA
47.50 6 PANDELAKIS, GEORGE
47.50 6 LANCETTA, ARLENE
47.50 6 NOVELLO, GEORGE
47.00 6 HALPERN, MONROE
47.00 6 HEANEY, LORRAINE
47.00 6 SPIGNER, COLOMBA
46.50 6 EBENAU, ROBERT
46.50 6 GOODFRIEND, PHYLLIS
46.00 6 GLASSER, SANDY
45.00 6 TRACEY, ROSE
42.50 6 FRIEDMAN, CARL
36.00 5 TUJAK, LEO
31.00 4 STERNEMANN, PHYLLIS
24.50 3 GREENHUT, ANITA
24.00 3 HACHADOORIAN, HAIG R.
21.50 3 ABRAMS, LINDA
21.50 3 FIELD, BARBARA
14.00 2 WEISSMAN, JULIE
14.00 2 REINHARDT, SY
Class TOTALED
SCORE # OF ENTRIES NAME
A 50.50 6 SPIGNER, COLOMBA
A 50.00 6 FRANZONI, PETER
A 48.50 6 ALLIGER, ERIC
A 48.00 6 PANDELAKIS, GEORGE
A 46.00 6 ZUCKERMAN, IRWIN
A 45.50 6 MICHELSON, ROSEANN
A 31.00 4 HALPERN, RICHARD
B 49.00 6 LUM, JACKSON
B 47.00 6 SUSIN, JANET
B 46.50 6 FRIEDMAN, CARL
B 46.00 6 EBENAU, ROBERT
B 46.00 6 GREENHUT, ANITA
B 46.00 6 HEANEY, LORRAINE
B 45.50 6 TRACEY, ROSE
B 44.50 6 HACHADOORIAN, RONNY
B 44.50 6 BURKE, KEVIN
B 43.50 6 GLASSER, SANDY
B 42.50 6 TUJAK, LEO
B 42.00 6 REINHARDT, SY
B 30.00 4 STERNEMANN, PHYLLIS
B 23.00 3 LEVIN, DAVID
B 15.00 2 WEISSMAN, JULIE
B 7.00 1 HALPERN, SUSAN
S 50.50 6 BRUNO, JOHN
S 50.00 6 RUSSO, LINDA
S 50.00 6 GOODFRIEND, PHYLLIS
S 49.00 6 MICHELSON, ALLEN
S 48.00 6 LANCETTA, ARLENE
S 47.00 6 APPEL, GERALD
S 47.00 6 HALPERN, MONROE
S 47.00 6 NOVELLO, GEORGE
S 46.00 6 FIELD, BARBARA
S 24.00 3 ABRAMS, LINDA
S 24.00 3 BERNSTEIN, MARC
S 23.50 3 HACHADOORIAN, HAIG R.
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B&W PRINT SCORES
COLOR PRINT SCORES
CLASS TOTAL SCORE NAME # OF ENTRIES
A 49.50 APPEL, GERALD 6
A 48.00 SAGERMAN, RONALD 6
A 45.00 LEFF, MURRAY 6
A 38.00 LANCETTA, ARLENE 5
A 16.50 FRIEDMAN, CARL 2
B 44.00 GLASSER, SANDY 6
B 15.50 FRIEDMAN, CARL 2
CLASS TOTAL SCORE NAME # OF ENTRIES
A 49.00 APPEL, GERALD 6
A 47.00 LANCETTA, ARLENE 6
A 46.00 LEVINE, HARVEY 6
A 45.00 LEFF, MURRAY 6
B 45.00 GLASSER, SANDY 6
B 32.50 FRIEDMAN, CARL 4
B 25.00 STEINBERG, DAWN 3
B 14.50 MANKOWITZ, NAOMI 2
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PFLI Scores for Manhasset-Great Neck for November
Judges: Marty Silverstein - Richard Witkover - Tom Crosely
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Black & White Print A
Murry Leff Montana Winter 20
Gerald Appel Self Portrait 21
Ronald Sagerman Oriental 21
Arlene Lancetta Castaway 23
Gerald Appel Loverly Cross 22
Total 105
Black & White Print B
Sandy Glasser Shoe Island 20
Sandy Glasser Eating Elephant 21
Total 41
Color Print A
Murray Leff Arboreal Tunnel 21
Gerald Appel Self Portrait 22
Arliene Lancetta Victorias 22
Harvey Levine Molly 3 22
Harvey Levine Gorilla 2015 23
Total 110
Color Print B
Sandy Glasser Brick Bridge 21
Sandy Glasser African Animal 21
Total 42
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PFLI Scores for Manhasset-Great Neck for November
Judges: Marty Silverstein - Richard Witkover - Tom Crosely
(continued from previous page)
Digital A
Phyllis Goodfriend Autumn Woods 21
Irwin Zuckerman Nutzy 22
Peter Franzoni Isaeli White Flower 22
Gerald Appel Thoughful Moment copy 23
John Bruno Frau Blucher 23
Total 112
Digital A II
Eric Allger A Bit ofColor 21
Richard Halpern Early Morning Cityscape 21
Arlene Lancetta O J 22
Haig Hachadoorian Bird #3 23
Allen Michelson Do NotDisturd 25
Total 112
Digital A III
Colomba Spigner The Tower 21
Roseann Michelson Thirsty Bear 22
George Novello The Back 22
George Pandelakis Castle View 21
Linda Russo Thee Plaid Undrella 23
Total 107
Digital B
Sandy Glasser Fisherman 21
Carl Friedman Windmill Field 21
Robert Ebenau Twilight Sail 21
Anita Grenhut Waiting for Dad 2 22
Kevin Burke Sunset at Bridge 22
Total 107
Digital B II
Sy Reinhardt Wine Glass 20
Lorraine Heaney Bronx Whitestone Bridge 21
Phyllis Sternemann Lunch 21
Ronny Hachadoorian Dhaia #1 22
Jackson Lum Majestic Mt Torres del Paine in Patagonia
23
Total 107
Digital B III
Janet Susin Shoreline Silhoutte 21
Leo Tujak GW Bridge 21
Rose Tracey Girl on the Beach 21
Total 63
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With the warmest of greetings
from the members of the MGNCC:
Send us your Birthday month at
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MARC BERNSTEIN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JULIE WEISSMAN
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2015-2016 Executive Board
President George Novello
Vice President Haig Hachadoorian
Vice President Monroe Halpern
Editorial Vice President Bob Ebenau
Vice President of Library Affairs James Pelzer
Treasurer Allen Michelson
Recording Secretary Rose Tracey
Member at large Gerald Appel
Board of Directors
Program Chair George Novello
Rules Committee Co-Chairs George Novello
Monroe Halpern
Competition Chair Monroe Halpern
Hospitality Chair Dawn Steinberg
Membership Chair Rose Tracey
PFLI Delegates Suzan Goldstein,
Dale Goldstein
Field Trip Coordinators Phyllis Goodfriend
Haig Hachadoorian
Harvey Levine
James Pelzer
Webmaster Janina Krach
1st Immediate Past President Haig Hachadoorian
2nd Immediate Past President Monroe Halpern
3rd Immediate Past President George Novello
Fellows Of The Manhasset Great Neck
Camera Club
*Eric Kahn, APSA, APFLI
*Herbert Goldschmidt
Jim Pion, AMC, FMC
*Joseph Boverman
*Sidney Goldstein, FPSA, FPFLI
Gerald Appel
* Deceased