[See image gallery at www.psri.us] On Saturday, September 29 I was able to see something a little bit different, and a lot special. As you may or may not know, March of this year marked the 100 year anniversary of Girl Scouts of America. This organization shares PSRI’s themes of mentoring & education, and is aimed at building young girls of courage, confidence and character. The celebration for this milestone was held at Waterfire Providence, and consisted of bridging ceremonies, luminaria processions, torch salutes, food & drink, Girl Scout cookies, and LOTS of the color green everywhere! As part of this 100 year anniversary, the Girl Scouts of Rhode Island embarked on what they called their “Year in the Life of Girl Scouting” photography project. Sixteen girl scouts set out to document the life of a girl scout during the course of a year, and Girl Scouts are a very active and busy bunch of young ladies!

[See image gallery at www.psri.us] Three members of PSRI teamed up with the girl scouts and spent countless hours helping the GSRI make their project a great success. PSRI members Mike Di Stefano, Cemal Ekin, and Dennis Goulet volunteered countless hours teaching in person classes with the girls, as well as providing many online image reviews. Over 700 images were created by the girls and reviewed by Mike, Cemal and Dennis before 80 images were selected for printing by our good friends at Printmakers. Many of  these 80 images were on display this past Saturday night as the Girl Scouts of Rhode Island showed off their work to the public under 2 tents on Steeple Street at Waterfire. As I took some photos of the girls photographs I was lucky enough to witness one Girl Scout jumping with excitement and tears in her eyes as she showed her friends and family her photograph. It was being used on a poster used to advertise the event. It was an amazing event to witness, and to know that the members of PSRI had a hand in making this happen is very special indeed.

Thank you very much, and congratulations to Mike, Cemal, and Dennis! Job well done!

Visual Perception and Lighting

Jack Reznicki
Sponsored by Canon

Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 P.M.

Our final presentation for March will be very special night of learning. We are very lucky to have as our speaker, from New York, Jack Reznicki a Canon explorer of Light, who is being sponsored by Canon. Jack states in his program description: “all photos are about light and lighting. Available light, strobe light, ambient light, studio light, it’s all about being able to see, understand and control light. Some days the lighting gods smile upon you and kiss your photos with a glorious light and some days the lighting gods frown and you end up babbling in a corner, mumbling to yourself. “

An internationally popular lecturer, Jack Reznicki is always very informative, insightful, entertainingly outspoken, and refreshingly candid. Jack will discuss in this far reaching session, his commercial and personal work and how they interact. He will also discuss light, how to see it, and how to handle it for better, more dramatic images. “Lighting Essentials” as Jack calls it for both natural and artificial light. Topics such as the quality and quantity of light, size and position of light, including the sun and strobes, why shooting before and after “Golden Hour” is so special, and how just moving your feet can drastically change the light.

Visual perception and how we look at photographs has also been a popular segment in his talks. Composition and how to use these concepts in your photos will help you with any type of photography. Jack will show there is more to understand than just the ever-popular rule of thirds.

Our speaker, Jack Reznicki is an internationally renowned commercial people and children photographer based in New York City. His creative problem solving has helped promote products and services for many companies such as Toys “R” Us, Tylenol, The Wall Street Journal, Hyatt, Reader’s Digest, AT&T, and several Time Magazine covers. He is the author of several books on commercial photography including “Photographer’s Survival Guide”, which deals with copyright and legal issues for photographers and “Studio and Commercial Photography- A Kodak Pro Workshop” book and other books. Along with many other awards, Jack was very proud to twice receive the IPC (International Photographic Council) Leadership medal for “Excellence in Studio Photography” at the United Nations. Jack was appointed a guest professor at Shandong University of Art and Design in Jinan, China and named a Mo-Tse Grand Master Photographer in China. He is also honored to be named an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. He proudly served as the President of Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and named an Honorary Master Photographer. He was President of NY chapter of Advertising Photographers of America (APA), and sat on the NY board of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). His leadership skills have been lauded and awarded both here in the US and abroad.

On the Faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City Jack teaches a graduate level course on the business of photography. You can also find Jack as one of the Dream Team Instructors at the Photoshop World Conventions.

Jack is one of the original  “Canon Explorers of Light”, an “Epson Stylus Pro”, host of the Epson Print Academy’s Track One, an X-Rite Coloratti, and a Sandisk “Photo Master”. Jack has also done Beta testing and consulting with Canon, Epson, Mamiya, Microsoft, X-Rite, Leaf digital backs, onOne Software, and Adobe.

Sponsored by

Andre Gallant, ANEC

Tuesday, February 28, 7:30 PM

This presentation is one you do not want to miss.

Professional photographer and author Andre Gallant will be traveling down from New Brunswick, Canada to judge the Greater Lynn International Exhibition and has graciously agreed to stay over to do a presentations for us on “Expressive Photography”.  Andre describes his program as an exploration into various expressive photography techniques such as Dreamscapes, Multiple Exposures, Panning and Montages which is the combination of 2 or more photographs. André will show some of his work and describe in detail how the images were created in camera, followed by a brief Photoshop demonstration. Andre states ”With my personal photography, like the expressionists, I’m less concerned about showing a representation of the subject matter, but would rather like to convey my feelings towards the subject matter, or unleash an emotion onto my canvases. I want the viewer to feel the photographs rather than view them”.

Our speaker is a freelance photographer who travels the world over, taking expressive, creative photographs.  A regular contributor to Photo Life magazine, his work has appeared in numerous magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, Canadian Camera, Canadian Living, En Route, etc. and he has been the recipient of two National Magazine Awards for his photography. He is also the author of numerous publications including the books “Expressionism: Digital Dreamscapes and other Techniques”, “Destinations: A Photographer’s Journey”, “Dreamscapes: Exploring Photo Montages”, and “Photographing People at Home and Around the World”.  Andre teaches photography workshops with Freeman Patterson with whom he co-wrote “Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image”, as well as, the revised edition of “Photography for the Joy of It”.  He lectures internationally, throughout Canada, and the US.

Andre will have a selection of his books available for purchase the night of his presentation, and will be happy to autograph them for you. Please bring checks or cash. The prices range from $25 to $50. He refers to his latest book “Expressionism”, as the recipe book for Expressive Images.

To see more of his work, his web site can be viewed at www.andregallant.com

You will not want to miss this special presentation from one of the most creative photographers in North America.

This year’s winners of the Image of the Year

You can see their photographs in the small gallery below.

These photographs came from those competed through the year and won a ribbon. Based on the cumulative competition results, the ranking in various competition classes are as follows:

Additionally, Dennis Goulet received the Charlie Miller Award for his photography, mentoring, and his work for the organization.

Congratulations to all.

Here are the images of the year:

[See image gallery at www.psri.us]

This message is from Christina Richardson, chair of Multiscreen Competition

Wanted! Images for the MultiScreen Competition!

PSRI will be holding the MultiScreen Preselction Night on March 22nd 2011. In order to keep with the tradition of digital images being accepted up until midnight prior to a competition, Images for this preselection night will be accepted up until midnight on Sunday, March 20th.

Images must be submitted by March 20th

• Images must have been taken after May 1st 2010.
• Digital images should be submitted to multiscreen@psri.us

Sizing Files:

• Images should be no larger than 1024×768 @ 72 resolution. The maximum width of an image is 1024 pixels and the maximum height of an image is 768 pixels.

Naming Files:

• Naming files requires the subject’s number (found below), the subject’s name, the club’s name, and your name (last name first)
  Example: 10_funny_psri_richardson christina
• You may enter up to three images per subject. If you are entering more than one image per subject then you must identify your individual images within a subject with a 1, 2, or 3:
  10_01_funny_psri_richardson_christina
  10_02_funny_psri_richardson_christina
  10_03_funny_psri_richardson_christina
• A couple of the subject names may be too long to fit in the file name. Please use the provided shortened version of the name found in parentheses after the subject name. For example, a file name for Field of Dreams should look like this:
  19_fieldod_psri_richardson Christina.

And the Subjects are:

If you have any questions, please contact Christina Richardson at christinabeth@cox.net. Thank You!