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RESOURCESHere is the place to find information and links on many aspects of photography: artistic, technical, informational, inspirational. Send along your favorite to add to the list.
Local Art Associations and GuildsNew! Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County From the Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI), at www.psri.us: PSRI, the Photographic Society of Rhode Island has been in existence for over 65 years. During that time, it has changed its name and meeting location but never its spirit. PSRI is the premiere camera and photographic society in Rhode Island, dedicated to excellence in the art and craft of photography. It has members who have been with the organization for decades and remember the "good old days" when they ran from one pick up point to the next to collect photographs for the competitions. The group arguably represents the best photographic talent in the state and the membership has been growing every year. The activities of the society are run by its governance, consisting of the officers and board members. The first Tuesday of every month during the meeting season is dedicated to official business and it is open to any member who wishes to participate in the affairs of the organization. The activities include the regular meetings, which include almost all the Tuesdays except when there is a board meeting, or those that coincide with the holidays or holiday seasons. Additionally, PSRI organizes field trips that include nearby places as well as far away destination. When a meeting is not dedicated to periodic competitions, there is some activity planned aimed at taking the art of photography to higher levels and the practice of this art to a more meaningful and fulfilling experience. We invite you to join us at one of our meetings to experience this energy first hand. You will meet people of great photographic talent, and great people to boot. The Island Photography Group is an informal association and is open to photographers of all skill levels. There are currently over a dozen participants. We meet every Thursday morning for breakfast. We share our pictures, exchange tips and advice, and have a good time. Then we select a location for an hour or two of picture taking. For more information, call Don Heywood at 683-1046. Supplies and EquipmentHunt's Photo/Video, with stores throughout New
England, is a local supplier with competitive prices and a very helpful, service-oriented
staff. And, Hunt's offers discounts to Newport PhotoGuild members! Arnold's Art Center, 700 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown (the Polo Center). 25% discount on basic supplies like matting and 50% discount for PhotoGuild members if doing metal framing. Need equipment: first place to start, while not the only, is B&H Photo www.bhphotovideo.com. Great folks, reliable, best prices in the industry. Do you have an Epson 3800 printer? This is a great article on ink usage! http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/3800-costs.shtml And if you want to take advantage of the incredible deals available in pre-owned
film equipment, try this great company! Matting and FramingGreat online framing resource: www.lightimpressionsdirect.com. Superb products and very responsive. You have the matting and the mounting board and a killer print...but how should you mount it? Try: http://www.framedestination.com/picture_frame_mounting.html Matcutter.com offers quality, pre-cut mats, backs, and supplies. There is a great "How-To" section, also. Processing and Printingiolabs in Pawtucket, RI is a photographic and fine art printing studio catering to many artists, photographers, galleries and museums in the region and nationally. Their services to photographers include archival b/w and color print editions and enlargements for display, exhibition or permanent installations. They produce exhibit quality, archival prints onto a wide variety of substrates including rag and bamboo papers, fiber papers, matte, satin and luster finish photo papers, silk, cotton and poly fabrics, brushed aluminum, wood veneer, canvas, wallpaper, wall cloths and a variety of graphic films. They also offer a variety of custom finishing and alternative framing and photo hanging options, including plexiglas, komatex (pvc), gatorboard and acid-free foam board mounting, french cleats and lamination in a variety of finishes. For more information visit or call www.iolabsinc.com 401.365.1330 MPIX.com -- www.mpix.com -- for online film processing, or digitizing or printing. They send you self addressed mailers and it is an easy process. White House Custom Color -- www.whcc.com -- for two-day delivery of prints. They have a wide variey of print products including canvas wraps, books, and press-printed cards and posters. Fantastic pricing on inkjet printer supplies, including inks and papers (OEM and others): www.atlex.com. They are fast! Normally shipped same day you order online. Photo SharingFrom Jan Armor... At http://www.flickrleech.net/ you can find interesting photos posted each day to Flickr. JPEG Magazine -- Share photos and
vote on submissions. DPChallenge -- Submit to challenges, cast your votes, participate
in the forums, and much more! Zenfolio -- "Combines the best in online photo
viewing experience with a flexible shopping cart." Workshops, Classes, and Online InstructionsNikon Mentor Series member and RIer, Chris Alvanas, has Photoshop DVDs available at http:// www.rickspixelmagic.com and Photoshop turorial podcasts which can be viewed on iTunes under "Photoshop Alley" or on his website at http://www.lightyearimaging.com. Chris also offers one-on-one, customized Photoshops lessons; visit his website to request an appointment. The New England School of Photography offers classes for all levels of photographer. www.nesop.com A link to a good instructional site: http://www.betterphoto.com/home.asp. Thanks to Dallas Molerin for the tip! The website of Mark S. Johnson (from Radiant Vista) offers workshops and great Photoshop turorials. http://www.msjphotography.com/ The Light's Right Studio Digital Darkroom tutorials: http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/digital-darkroom.htm Maine Media Workshops http://www.theworkshops.com/ Cambridge in Color Digital Photography Tutorials -- the technical aspects of digital cameras and photography explained. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/ Also, visit the Events page for current, local workshops and classes. Articles of InterestJohn Mecray (juror, The Written Word) suggests this article from MacWorld "Eight
great sites for photography lovers" From Reuters/Photographers/What Makes a Good Picture From The
Online Photographer blog: What is a Photograph? Or Real vs. "Photoshop job" (as David Pogue, the author
of this article, calls it) From The Luminous Landscape:
I was struck
by this article’s cogency and the message it tells about how much work
it takes to be excellent. For those of us struggling on in photography, year
after year, with the hope (sometimes forlorn it seems) of finding a voice,
achieving a recognizable style and even—dare I say it?—an audience,
this can perhaps put the time required in perspective. -- Don Jagoe How about film? NOT DEAD! And to prove it, Nikon produced this gem of a
camera: More Links to Photography-related SitesHave you seen http://photo.net/ ? It's a wonderful photo site - started as a small community website by a brilliant man named Philip Greenspun..... I have been a Photo.net member for years and have watched it grow! Many good articles on gear, etc, also. -- Jill Meyers If you are a camera-techie, then you know that the show-of-shows for photography, Photokina, happens in Cologne, Germany. This is where the companies roll out their new equipment. A great place to keep track of the announcements is www.dpreview.com. Enjoy! Newport Round Table for local writers and photographers: www.newportroundtable.com. Hosted by our own Melissa Martin Ellis! From Chris Kosegarten, some excellent legal information for photographers: http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/2668/the-war-on-photographers.html and http://www.krages.com/bpkphoto.htm Here is a wonderful series of articles by Ben Lifson, a noted photographer and instructor, on photography as art, NOT cameras and gear. Highly recommended: http://www.pictureflow.com/making_pictures/01/index.html. Hi there! Moved into a DSLR and have to face the scary sensor cleaning task?
(once for the record, you are NOT cleaning the sensor, you are cleaning the
glass filter on top of the sensor...but I digress...) Here is a nice site that
covers all the possible solutions in one place --
DJ Preparing for a gallery exhibition -- here is an interesting discussion on print
size---something
many of us don't give a lot of thought to. We either print at the maximum size
of our chosen printer, or default to a common size. Peruse Alain Briot's essay
on the subject and perhaps you will give it a second thought --
DJ Presentation for exhibition http://www.artframeit.com/exhibit.htm Dallas Molerin sent us this link after visiting Susan Stanton's gallery in Asheville, NC: http://www.susanstanton.com/ A link from the Jack and Barbara Renner: http://www.earthlightgallery.com/links.htm Some terrific new links, courtesy of Jan Armor: http://www.shadowandlight.net/index2.html, http://www.russelljames.com/flash_content.html (both require Macromedia Flash and decent bandwidth.) Great weather photography (amazing!) at http://www.jimreedphoto.com. At SpaceWeather.com you can find news and information about the sun-earth environment including auroras, meteor showers, eclipses, and other celestial happenings. Subscribe to their email service for simple text messages of upcoming sky events. And for a taste of what our digital imaging content world will look like, try this wonderful site: http://www.mediastorm.org/index.htm Visit The Online Photographer for an interesting perspective from well-known photographer and curmudgeon-in-residence, Mike Johnston: http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/ The website of Mark S. Johnson (from Radiant Vista) offers workshops and great Photoshop turorials. http://www.msjphotography.com/ The Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com One of the best landscape photography sites available. Tends to be digitally oriented, especially high end DSLRs and Medium Format digital backs. But many reviews, great articles and super links. Digital Photo Review: http://www.dpreview.com Perhaps
the best "techno-geek" reviews of digital cameras. Wonderful forums to ask
virtually any question you might have. Super resource for the digital photographer
and printer. -- DJ PhotoSig: http://www.photosig.com Where any photographer can go to have his or her work praised or shredded. Can be highly X-rated, although this is selectable by the user. Excellent tool if you are looking for unvarnished and global critique of your work. Digital Outback: http://www.outbackphoto.com/ Lots of hands-on trials of current equipment. Lenswork: http://www.lenswork.com Superb little magazine looking at B and W photography. An elegant, classy publication. Try the audio blogs..which are by Editor Brooks Jensen and done weekly. They are short, they are insightful and he has a great view of our--by which is meant the photographic--world. -- DJ http://www.lenswork.com/lwb.htm Newport Art Museum: http://www.newportartmuseum.com Our favorite museum! Film photography: http://www.usefilm.com Just like it says... Confused about the never-ending debate about film vs. digital? Well here's a site that REALLY examines the issue: http://www.clarkvision.com/index.html Going to Paris sometime in the future? Well one of my favorite places to spend a morning or afternoon is near the Marais, at the Maison Europenne de Photograhphie. http://www.mep-fr.org/us/default_test_ok.htm Constantly changing exhibitions, a nice little cafe and you are 2 blocks from some of the best little cafes in Paris. Great street shooting too! Don Also in Paris, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, www.henricartierbresson.org. Don's personal favorite all-time photographer. It's great fun to go to Mecca.... Pinhole photography, as demonstrated by our friend Martin R. Anderson: www.martinranderson.com. New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) Photographic Society of America Photographic Society of Rhode Island InspirationFrom Lenswork No. 55... "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt "I have gradually confused photography with life." Jerry Uelsmann "For me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the signficance of an event." Henri Cartier-Bresson "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." David Bailey "No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." Minor White "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce " Photography is not about cameras, gadgets or gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture anymore than a typewriter wrote a great novel." Peter Adams "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." Dorothea Lange "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." Elizabeth Bowen "There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and their intelligence, transform the yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso "All large tasks are completed in a series of starts." Neil Fiore "No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." Robert Adams
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