January 14 meeting - 6:30 PM - Sharon and Vic Prislipsky will present "Understanding the Elements of a Merit Image".
Monochrome results announced at February 11 meeting.
Jerry Schlesinger: PSA JUDGE FOR MONOCHROME COMPETITION 2025
I am a native New Yorker who was born in Brooklyn. My parents always had Life magazine in the house and that maybe where I got my interest in photography. Professionally, I hold three engineering degrees (ME and EE), and my career was in manufacturing semi-conductors. I retired after 30 years at Western Electric/AT&T Microelectronics in Allentown PA and Orlando FL and retired again after 14 years at Texas Instruments in Dallas. A large part of the process that makes semiconductors is photographic (photolithography) and I was primarily involved with the Metrology in that area. The most expensive “camera” I ever used was in that area and cost about $10,000,000.
I bought my first camera and match-needle range finder while I was still in college, and I think I still have the first picture that I took with it. Soon after getting my first real job, I bought a Canon-FT SLR. My wife bought me a Canon 55-135 zoom lens as a wedding present. It had 13 glass elements and was heavy (it had a tripod mount), but it became my standard lens. This was 1968 and zoom lenses were rare. Somebody told me that the lens didn’t exist! About 30 years later, it, and the FT, finally broke. I didn’t trust my eyes to focus a camera, so a bought a Canon Rebel SLR that had auto focus. My first digital camera was a 4 MP Olympus point and shoot, but I graduated to an 8 MP digital Rebel when the 2nd generation came out. Now I shoot an 18 MP Rebel T3i. My standard lens is an 18-200mm from Sigma. I also use a Canon G15; a good bridge between a point and shoot and a DLSR. I am largely self-taught, primarily from the entire set of Time-Life books on Photography. The training that the Plano Photography Club and the Robson Ranch Photo Club offer supplement that. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements-2022 as an editor, and I have yet to tap its full potential.
Photographically, I am an opportunist; I go out and look for things but rarely go out to look for something specific. I really don’t have a niche, but if I had to name one it would be “found still life”. Since I originally wrote this, I have learned it’s STREET PHOTHGRAPHY. I took the Photographic Society of America course and it’s a challenging technique, totally opposite from what most of us are used to.
I like experimenting with things, macro and infra-red for example. I “shoot from the hip” and rarely use a tripod. The camera is set to either shutter speed preferred or manual most of the time.I never did people or portraits until I did a model shoot at the Plano Photography Club; posing your subject is the hardest part of that, but I like doing it now. I also like to do close ups of critters. My wife and I like to cruise, and my business card says HAVE CAMERA, WILLTRAVEL.
Here is a link to some of my images:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pgsafvt3mrxk88gpr9peg/AHSeNPp0rMQ9nYiZRRKHqrU?rlkey=fbon2w6m999j3lp846ufpomeq&e=1&st=434zipgv&dl=0
I bought my first camera and match-needle range finder while I was still in college, and I think I still have the first picture that I took with it. Soon after getting my first real job, I bought a Canon-FT SLR. My wife bought me a Canon 55-135 zoom lens as a wedding present. It had 13 glass elements and was heavy (it had a tripod mount), but it became my standard lens. This was 1968 and zoom lenses were rare. Somebody told me that the lens didn’t exist! About 30 years later, it, and the FT, finally broke. I didn’t trust my eyes to focus a camera, so a bought a Canon Rebel SLR that had auto focus. My first digital camera was a 4 MP Olympus point and shoot, but I graduated to an 8 MP digital Rebel when the 2nd generation came out. Now I shoot an 18 MP Rebel T3i. My standard lens is an 18-200mm from Sigma. I also use a Canon G15; a good bridge between a point and shoot and a DLSR. I am largely self-taught, primarily from the entire set of Time-Life books on Photography. The training that the Plano Photography Club and the Robson Ranch Photo Club offer supplement that. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements-2022 as an editor, and I have yet to tap its full potential.
Photographically, I am an opportunist; I go out and look for things but rarely go out to look for something specific. I really don’t have a niche, but if I had to name one it would be “found still life”. Since I originally wrote this, I have learned it’s STREET PHOTHGRAPHY. I took the Photographic Society of America course and it’s a challenging technique, totally opposite from what most of us are used to.
I like experimenting with things, macro and infra-red for example. I “shoot from the hip” and rarely use a tripod. The camera is set to either shutter speed preferred or manual most of the time.I never did people or portraits until I did a model shoot at the Plano Photography Club; posing your subject is the hardest part of that, but I like doing it now. I also like to do close ups of critters. My wife and I like to cruise, and my business card says HAVE CAMERA, WILLTRAVEL.
Here is a link to some of my images:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pgsafvt3mrxk88gpr9peg/AHSeNPp0rMQ9nYiZRRKHqrU?rlkey=fbon2w6m999j3lp846ufpomeq&e=1&st=434zipgv&dl=0
Print Contest - Best of Show
Vic Prislipsky - Cedar Falls
Digital Contest 3 – Wildlife Winners
To see images of Scapes click HERE
To see images of Monochrome competition click Here
To see Eclipse photos click HERE
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