Charley led the meeting today...his narrative is below
Today’s meeting saw a nice selection of abstract photography with a sampling of both unaltered and manipulated photographs. Generally speaking, most images were properly non-recognizable and were aesthetic with a randomness quality. With the help of yet another computer-to-screen adapter and the experience of Charles Edwards and Joe Loudermilk, all images were projected easily on the large studio screen. With many of the selections taken very close to the subject, Charles made the observation that photography in all its forms allows a person to experience and appreciate more of the world that many would otherwise miss. Cyndi produced works ranging from stained glass windows to the sub-ground level of the legendary Rialto Theater in South Pasadena. A very small area of a 100-ft wide triptych was taken from the Resurrection Window at the Judson Studios in Kansas City. The stained glass had been given a watercolor quality and depicted biblical stories from Genesis to Revelation. Cyndi’s abstract was a small interior sampled area, coincidentally following the May 6 interior composition theme. Jim’s abstract started with the sun’s reflection from a backyard pool, then rotated the image and pumped the colors, followed by several posterizing and blurring operations. Charles created his abstract by photographing a stack of color-coded safety corners coded for different widths of glass, finally using Photoshop to increase the contrast dramatically. Joe’s abstract was a reflection from a car window of an eclipse that appeared multiple times on the window as a result of light passing through many “pin-hole” cameras in the intervening leaves. Charley’s abstract was an unaltered close-up photograph of some graphic-design-like scene in Los Angeles that he can no longer recall, but his favorite abstract scene was created totally in Photoshop to appear as a chalky figure. John Holmes also showed street scene images made by combining and altering several images to create the final result.
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