“There is no better time to crop a bad composition than just before you press the shutter release.” Bryan Peterson Today was an "open session" with images presented by Kevin, Richard & Bill Kevin showed a series of images he shot on a recent trip into the natural world. The discussion centered on composition in taking pictures in nature where you have to take into consideration the inherent chaos of nature. Below are several examples from his series. Below are two further example of Kevin's series where placing the horizon is a compositional judgement in framing the image Richard showed several pictures from his travels...one is below Bill showed two "abstracts" taken recently at Bergemot Station. These were reflections on the floor of the gallery as the staff was hanging an exhibit by Jimi Gleason. The artist's images reflected on the black gallery floor and turned out to be the images below. They're entitled "Reflections on Jimi Gleason" They did prompt another discussion on "appropriation." Finally, Bill discussed the issue of re-exploring and mining your collection of images to find new series of older images The two examples below are looking for color to B&W conversion; the second is exploring removing color(s) to produce new and unexpected effects....also putting new borders on your images
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“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” Sally Mann The Rialto Theater / South Pasadena presented by Cyndi Bemel The following is narrative by Cyndi (edited by Bill) Cyndi shared with us the history of the Moorish-style Rialto Theater in South Pasadena from it’s opening in 1925 to being featured in several films, including Robert Altman’s 1992 thriller “ The Player” to it’s most enduring role in “ a LA LA Land." She has been documenting the inside and outside of the theater and featured many photos from the dilapidated outside, to the very dirty basement where the dressing and green rooms once were. There were color and black and white photos from the main auditorium to the balcony and the projection room. We saw pictures from the upstairs, which is now filled with graffiti, but in the past was used to house many of the African American and Jewish actors that were not allowed to stay in the local hotels. Some of the highlights included pictures of the famed Rialto Theater Sign from the upstairs windows. Currently, the Mosaic Church is holding its Sunday Services (11am) at the Rialto and it’s possible to see the inside of the theater if you attend the services. Below is a link to video: The Rialto – A fading Treasure by Miranda Gontz Rialto Theater and below are some of Cyndi’s pictures of the Rialto Above pictures: (L) Rialto today (R) Rialto 1933 Pictures above: (L) inside today (R) inside 1933 Pictures above: upstairs in old apartments now with grafitti Pictures above: the decaying Rialto signs from inside theater Her presentation also included a historical image collection of movie and legitimate theaters that are part of the historic Broadway District in downtown Los Angeles. Those featured were the 1927 United Artist Theater (The Theater at the Ace Hotel). Cyndi mentioned that the rooftop bar is a great place to go shoot especially at sunset. She showed pictures and videos along with a brief history of the Orpheum, Los Angeles, Mayan, Palace and Pantages Theaters too. Los Angeles Theater Link LA Theater Tour Below is an historic image gallery from downtown theaters The pictures above are fro theaters downtown LA
Cyndi's presentation was a great combo of her own images of the Rialto and historic pictures of both Rialto and theaters on and off Broadway downtown LA Thank you Cyndi "every photograph is altered in one way or another" john paul caponigro This weeks meeting was lead by Charles whose talk today centered on the art of image manipulation before the digital age and Photoshop. First, he demonstrated his own use of layering negatives to produce a final "altered" image. He used this particular technique while attending Art Center and in the early part of his commercial photography career. He then showed how various techniques were used from the dawn of photography to the current day in cinema to produce altered images. These images were in politics, photojournalism, advertising and even fine art photography. After his demo and general discussion, he presented a 45 minute show with examples of famous and infamous altered images Unfortunately, could not attach his whole PowerPoint show....too big...but below are a few examples...some self-evident, some requiring some explanation and others beyond explanation. For those not there it was a tour de force ...thank you Charles...well done Steve sent in a picture from far off and cold Detroit...see below...thank you Steve and come home soon. It did prompt some compositional discussion. Finally, we are going to feature whichever f8'er is currently showing at Jones. As you all know we still have a small gallery at Jones administered by Rene Sheret. Currently Joe Loudermilkis showing his B&W images...see below
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