Congratulations to June’s Long Island Photo Gallery’s Framed Art Giveaway winner – Doreen Snyder!
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Doreen Snyder, June's Winner!
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Portraits, fashion, editorial, landscapes, documentary, conceptual – all of these genres, and others not named, are open for consideration. Prints should take whatever form they need to in order to represent the continuum of tones, including gray tone, warm tone, cool tone, sepia, or other monochromes that comprise your photographs.  Photo Credit: Joanne Henig Awards:
This little group of ours has gone from a ‘good idea’ to a real ‘community with opportunity’! Congratulations to Debra Moody, Jessica Hirschmann and Joanne Henig! All three Long Island Photo Gallery members have had their fine art photography chosen by the SheltAir Corporation to be on permanent display at their new terminal at the Francis S. Gabreski Airport, which is located in the Village of Westhampton Beach. This is some great recognition for our group and our members. Here are the 6 images that were chosen:
What’s next for Long Island Photo Gallery and its members? We can only say that we have high hopes for continued success. It is because of our member’s enthusiasm that we continue to grow and achieve outstanding recognition throughout Long Island as ‘the’ place for fine art Long Island photography! Worldwide Photography Gala Awards benefiting Save the Children is calling for entries from photographers around the world. Enter for your chance to win WPGA 2010 Professional Photographer of the Year, US$ 5,000 cash prize, WPGA Amateur Photographer of the Year, US$ 3,000 cash prize, or WPGA 2010 Emerging Talent of the Year, US$ 1,500 cash prize. The Official web site and entry rules: http://www.thegalaawards.net/call-for-entries Good luck! ~ J On May 8th, 2010 Long Island Photo Gallery members and their guests will be taking a photography field trip to the Vanderbilt Estate Museum in Centerport, Long Island. According to the VanderbiltMuseaum.org website, the mansion has 24 rooms and its original construction was designed by the same architectural firm that designed New York City’s Grand Central Station. Later additions to the William K. Vanderbilt II mansion at his Eagle’s Nest estate were executed by architects that trained with the same architectural firm. Feel free to take a tour of the mansion while we’re there. Mansion tours last 50-60 minutes and are scheduled every twenty minutes. The 43-acre museum complex counts among its collections not only the Gold Coast-era mansion [1910-1936], a marine museum, natural history habitats, curator’s cottage, seaplane hangar, boathouse and numerous other estate features [gardens, fountains, balustrades and pools], but also marine and natural history specimens, house furnishings and fine arts, photographs and archives, and an extensive collection of ethnographic objects that make up the former William K. Vanderbilt II estate. A portion of today’s museum – the Hall of Fish – was actually opened to the public during Vanderbilt’s lifetime. Then, as now, the museum seeks to preserve and interpret artifacts that represent his life, collecting interests and intellectual legacy. The Vanderbilt Mansion is located at 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport, New York 11721-0605. General admission is $7 per adult and $3 per child under 12. The mansion tour is an additional $5. Looking forward to seeing you on May 8th! ~ Joanne  Pink Tulip Spring has officially sprung and with it flower beds around Long Island are beginning to show signs of color. It’s early yet, but soon beautiful flowers will be in bloom everywhere. Flowers make great subjects and are highly sought after as fine art. Want to get that winning shot? Here’s how.  A Bug's Life First thing you need to do is get your equipment together. Gather the lenses that you want to use, your tripod and have your flash unit and diffuser nearby if fill light becomes necessary. Most photographers tend to ditch the tripod, but if you are looking for that really sharp image you may want to adjust your thinking. If your shooting anything less than a 125th of a second or you catch a breezy day you are going to get blur without a tripod. A tripod can assure that at whatever speed or condition you are shooting, your image will be sharp as a tack! How will you frame your subject? Consider this question before you start shooting away. Are you looking to fill the frame with the flower or will just part of the flower fill the frame? What is the most interesting part of the flower? The petals? The stem? An insect? Choose your angle too. It is much more interesting to photograph a flower from an angle that is unusual. You might have to get down low or get up real high. Either way, think outside the box when choosing your angle. Consider your background and foreground. Make sure you don’t have distracting or competing objects that will take away from the focal point of your subject. Aperture. This is critical in photographing flowers. Understand that a wider aperture decreases the depth of field (the smaller the numbers, the wider the depth of field). Most cameras have a macro setting which allows you to get a little closer to the flower while blurring out the foreground and background.  Macro Mode Icon If you have a macro lens, this is the time to use it. If a macro lens is one of your desires, shop through Long Island Photo Gallery photography equipment pages. ~ Joanne **REMINDER** April 14 Critique Night – Please Register (FREE)  White Iris ** This is YOUR blog! Please send us your suggestions of what you would like us to write about.** Long Island Photo Gallery, the LI photography “Community With Opportunity”, is on a positive roll. Please join us in welcoming Tommy Brunhuber and Edward Mooney to our group. Tommy Brunhuber explains, ”My “career” as a photographer is still very much in its infancy and I am by no means a professional, but I am humbly willing to learn as much as I can.” Well Tommy, with your membership in Long Island Photo Gallery, you are beginning to move your career forward. We encourage Tommy, as well as all of our members, to update their images in the gallery and their images offered for sale on the website, on a regular basis. Attend our field trips (May 8, 2010, Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, Long Island) and our critique sessions (April 14th, 2010 at 7:00 PM). Read and post to this blog as well. Challenge yourself everyday! I look back at my work when I first started Long Island Photo Gallery with Jessica Hirschmann and I can’t believe how much my work has improved. You all will improve too. Practice, share, grow. Newest member Edward Mooney has “his work exhibited in several galleries on Long Island and also at the Fire Island, Montauk Point and Horton Lighthouses.” Eddie also has his own website and blog. His distinguished career as a fine art photographer has work exhibited at the Village Art and Frame in Babylon and the Seafarer Gift Shop in Sayville. We are delighted to have his work exhibited here, on the Long Island Photo Gallery website, and we hope to see his framed pieces in our Bohemia gallery soon. With every new member that joins, the exposure for all of us grows. Each of us has a unique artistry. As we grow, we will be able to offer a greater variety of fine art to a general public that is hungry for Long Island Fine Art Photography for their home and office.
~ Joanne Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop filter plugin that allows you to create endless possibilities for your images with, very often, just one or two clicks. The differences that the filter displays in the images are dramatic, in most cases. Topaz Adjust, for me, is the quickest and easiest way to take a good photo and turn it into something stunning. Topaz Adjust’s included Preset Preview allows a user to click through a variety of different looks for an image. Once you’ve chosen a preset that suits your image you can further fine tune the filter by using a series of sliders that control exposure, detail, color and noise. You can even create and save your own Preset to add to the software for future use. Yesterday, Topaz Adjust turned out its Version 4. Just in time for me, because I was getting a little bored with the previous version. I immediately downloaded my FREE upgrade (available to all previous Topaz Adjust owners). I then went through a bunch of digital images I took over last summer and grabbed a couple of photos that I thought were good, but not good enough to be “gallery worthy”. Here are my before and after results.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this little bit of information regarding Topaz Adjust v.4. Topaz offers many other filter add ons for Photoshop. Any of their filters can be downloaded for trial periods before purchase. The filters cost around $40 – $60, depending on the filter. They also offer all of their filters in one bundle for around $180.00. For a limited time, use the coupon code NEWADJUST for a 20% discount on Topaz Adjust or the Photoshop bundle. Expires 3/15/2010, so act now! Enjoy! ~ Joanne I’ve been dancing around these characters on my computer keyboard for over a week now, trying to come up with a great topic for all of our members. I was supposed to do a piece on the fantastic time we all had at the Atlantis Aquarium, but Mother Nature dumped nearly two feet of snow on us and, ‘viola’, another field trip and blog post thwarted! So before the weather gets too nice and all of Spring has sprung, please refocus your photography minds and efforts on two HUGE things in this blog post. First - your NEW Long Island Photo Gallery website, your NEW Fire Island Photography website, your NEW Members area, your NEW Photography Resource area and your NEW Photography Equipment area.
Whoa guys! (I said this was HUGE!) All of this has been revamped and expanded to drive more visitors (a.k.a. shoppers) to us all.
I want to send out a HUGE thank you to Jessica Hirschmann who has been working like a woman possessed with this for a couple of months! It would mean the world to ME … if YOU … would take a moment to post a THANK YOU to Jessica. She deserves our collective praise for making us all look great! Second – our Print Gallery located at 1650 Sycamore Ave, Bohemia needs your print work! We have NEW prints on the walls in Bohemia and want to continue to build our physical gallery. We are looking to advertise the Bohemia gallery to the public and want each of you to have something hanging in the gallery and marked “For Sale”. Call me! I want to help grow our physical gallery into the real deal and to sell, sell, sell for you.
Short, but SWEET! As always, we welcome your comments. And don’t forget to post a thank you to Jessica! ~ Joanne
As promised, 2010 is starting out to be a much anticipated, ‘Year of Action’ for Long Island Photo Gallery and its members. Last night was the start of the push to increase opportunity for our members while helping to ignite the creative juices for us all. If you love photography like we do, a great way to kick the year off is to have a Critique Night. There’s nothing like a group of photographers, of all levels, joining together to enjoy each others favorite photos while having those same images critiqued by a jury of their peers.  Submitted by photographer Joanne Henig Last night we held our first ever, Long Island Photo Gallery critique night. We met new members and had a new guest of LIPG sit in and participate in the event. We had a great group of photographers assembled and we saw some really great photography. The purpose of critiquing images is to help the photographer grow as an artist and to help them reach their personal photographic goals. It is extremely difficult to critique your own images. You, of course, know what you like and what you don’t like about your photos. But, an independent fresh set of eyes can sometimes point out the simplest suggestions to improve upon an image. In many cases, this can take an image from being ordinary to extraordinary!  Submitted by photographer Jessica Hirschmann Those that attended last night’s meeting walked away with a FREE Long Island Photo Gallery 2010 wall calendar. Believe it or not, we are starting to zero in on the 2011 Long Island Photo Gallery calendar. If you would like to get your images in the calendar, please contact either Joanne or Jessica at LIPG. What’s next? <————- Scroll through our events calendar on the top – left of our blog page to see a complete list of events for 2010. Don’t be shy. Sign up. Come on out and share your love of photography with fellow Long Islanders.  Submitted by photographer Mike Stein Missed last night’s critique night? No worries. Sign up for our next critique night on April 14th, 2010. We would love to see you and your images there. Can’t promise a FREE calender, however : ) Stay In Focus! Become a Long Island Photo Gallery Member. Click HERE. |
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