"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." Eleanor Roosevelt Today we spent time discussing "light" and our visual perception of light in viewing our photography. Paul brought in several light box viewers so we could see how the viewers could improve our visualizing pictures we see at the meetings. The two basic viewers were variable liight and fixed light. The fixed light viewers provide light at about 5000 Kelvin (daylight); the variable lights can be adjusted throughout the Kelvin range. We agreed that if we consider any viewer it should be the fixed light type. Paul also discussed our visual light perception biases including our aging eyes (cataracts), glasses bias, environmental bias (paper we print on, inks we use, printer bias etc)...clearly it was illuminating. Considering Debra's studio lighting, we will ultimately need to have some external lighting to see the pictures we bring to the meeting. We should alert guests when they are planning to bring pictures to the meeting. Paul also brought an electronic picture frame "Memento"...here is the link to the website for further info https://mementosmartframe.com Thanks Paul for your effort in bringing light to our meeting Joe brought some B&W prints from his recent trip to Asia. They were shot on a long lay-over in Tokyo. An example is seen below. We talked about our upcoming trip to Santa Fe...Howard and Chris's wife have done a masterful job of planning. Please check Howard's email the past few days and complete your hotel reservations asap. The Museum of Neon Cruise was not possible as a group but you can go on these night exploration of neon signs in LA on your own. Reminder: pictures for our first project this year "Neon @ Night" is due at our March 18th meeting. Richard brought in his recently created f8 Pasadena photo book with a number of our f8 members pictures. You can purchase a copy for $50 from Richard. Below is a picture of the book. Thank you, Richard for your effort to get this done. We discussed the passing of Lennart Nilsson the Swedish photographer who explored photography of the unborn fetus in vivo ultimately published in LIfe Magazine in 1965. click on link... Lennart Nilsson Photographe We also discussed a recent article by Teju Cole entitled "The Image of Time"...an essay looking at the passage of time as recorded by a set of pictures...in this essay, a local store and its deterioration over time.
Click on link to the NYT essay Teju Cole...The Image of Tim
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