PHSC Image Show
Toronto. Well you asked us to hold the Image Show downtown and here it is! The show is on Sunday, November 27th, 2016 at the Arts and Letters Club.
SORRY, ALL TABLES NOW SOLD! COME OUT AND SEE THE SHOW.
For full details see our Sonja Pushchak’s creative poster at left or view our earlier post!
PS. While you are there, Cornelia Persich of the A&L Club invites you to see a show of the club members’ work as well. Click for details.
See you at the show!
c1915 WW I British Aeroplane camera in memory of November 11th.
Toronto. Editor David Bridge has issued another pdf newsletter in the new format. Much of the content was created by Sonja Pushchak and John Morden. The links are thanks to Louise Freyburger and the notes on the Braun Paxette and extinction meters are contributions by editor Bridge.
The lead article announces our speaker for November, Toronto photographer Laureate, Geoffrey James. Page 2 is a brief summary of Mike Smith’s October talk on the postcard and magazine photographs of Reuben R Sallows. Next is the beautiful poster announcing our downtown Image Show later this month followed by a column by David Bridge in which he talks about a Braun Paxette and its extinction meter.
In memory of Remembrance Day, Sonja Pushchak writes of Women at Work during WW II. This is followed by a page of Fall Fair Finds, then Louise Freyburger’s column on web links. We then list the PHSC Talks and Events. The popular column Ask Vicky follows plus the final page covering classified ads and camera shows. In all a colourful ten pages of delightful and informative information.
Click the icon at left or here to read and print this ssue.
Vimy Monument taken by Toronto photographer Racheal McCaig
Toronto. Last April, Tom Bochsler talked about his visit to the European monuments, cemeteries, and battle grounds of the two great wars including Vimy Ridge.
Next year is the centennial of the end of the Great War. To celebrate the event, Canadian photographer Racheal McCaig has been invited to attend a memorial in France. Ms McCaig took the photograph shown at left while on vacation with her children. You can read about Racheal and her invitation in this article from the Saturday, November 5th Globe and Mail.
And be sure to take a moment today to reminisce at 11:00 am with the traditional minute of silence!
Photoshop and Kurt Iswarienko “after” adjustment image
Toronto. Kurt Iswarienko in a recent article on PetaPixel discussed the digital darkroom. Basically, the article noted that while moving from chemistry to pixels meant an easier task to transform a shot, it still took a professional photographer to make the results turn out pleasingly as a photograph.
This reminded me that back in January, 2003, after a talk at the PHSC meeting by George Hunter “Tales of a Photographer”, I watched in fascination as Bob Lansdale took a portrait of our speaker using a Kodak digital point-and-shoot – plus over a half century of experience!
Apple iPhone 7 photo by Shin Noguchi
Toronto. PHSC member and friend George Dunbar sent me an email three days ago about an article on PetaPixel. The article compared the results of two cameras using 35mm lenses or equivalent (iPhone 7). Check out PetaPixel for other interesting articles.
The comparison was done by Japan’s Shin Noguchi. Both Apple and Leica are favourite brands of mine. I have owned Leicas since the early 1970s and Apple gear since 2007. It is surprising how good the Apple photo looks compared to the Leica when you notice the diminutive size of the Apple sensor and the cost of the iPhone 7 – less than a tenth the cost of an M9-P with the Summicron lens.
Interestingly, the comparison is between two digital cameras, not digital vs. film. The M9 is a similar format to my favourite Leica – an M4. My 35mm lens is also an f/2 Summicron all be it decades older and made here in Ontario. My Apple gadget is a two year old iPod Touch,
Dr Gotlieb by Robert Lansdale
Toronto. As I ate breakfast last Friday (Nov 4th), I read with interest the Globe’s obituary for Kelly Gotlieb, the father of Canadian computing. Gotlieb earned that title when while associated with the U of T, he imported Canada’s earliest computer from Ferranti Electric in Britain. The computer was named FERUT – FERranti U of T). This obit interested me for two reasons. Firstly, at Bell we brought in some U of T computer folk to help us expand our facilities. Secondly we heard Dr Norman Ball speak on Niagara at our February, 2011 meeting. Dr Ball had written a detailed book on Ferranti-Packard.
As I glanced at the accompanying portrait of Dr Gotlieb, I sensed something familiar-looking about the portrait. Reading the cut line below the photograph, it leaped out at me: ROBERT LANSDALE /COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES.
Years earlier Bob had casually mentioned to me that he had donated much of his professional work and negatives to the U of T Archives. We are truly blessed to have this creative photographer as PHSC’s official photographer and editor of our journal Photographic Canadiana.
Before we had photography – pencil illustrations by Paul Cadden
Toronto. PHSC member and friend George Dunbar came across these remarkable photo-like B&W pencil illustrations by Paul Cadden of Scotland.
Before 1839, only paintings or sketches by very talented artists could record your appearance for posterity – and that took considerable money too! When Daguerre and Fox-Talbot announced their processes that January, it started the world on the way to cheaper accurate renditions of ordinary people culminating in today’s incredible smart phone digital cameras which automatically adjust focus and light balance leaving little to chance.
Paul Cadden does pencil illustrations so detailed and realistic that they appear at first to be photographs. The site Bright Side was the source of these remarkable images.
Toronto. Waddington’s, an auction house here in Toronto are trying their hand at an online auction of popular and well respected camera brands.
The auction will be held November 7 – 10, 2016. Visit Waddington’s web site to see the lots and garner more information. For your convenience there is a pdf catalogue here on this site
Lot 216 – Colour Photograph of a sand storm in India by Steve McCurry
Toronto. Our friends at WestLicht Auction in Austria have announced their next Photographic Auction on the 18th and 19th of this month. Click here for the press images and here for press text.This will be featured as one of their Anniversary auctions as they are celebrating their 25th (Leica Shop) and 15th (Auction House) anniversaries.
You can look at the lots here to order a printed catalogue or view the online version.
As you can see, this auction covers many rare old cameras plus a wealth of photographs by well known photographers.
Girls in the Windows 1960 by Ormond Gigli
Toronto. Planning to be in Paris today? Visit Galerie GadCollection and see the wonderful photographs of American Photographer Ormond Gigli.
For example, featured in various media is his 1960 signature photograph taken in New York City of models standing in the windows of a Brownstone called “Girls in the Windows”.
Other famous photographs by Gigli are also being sold. I left the web site link for the Galerie set to French (FR) as there is more content than in English (EN).
Of course if you skipped French lessons at school, you can see and read the English version by going to Gigli’s web site and the menu item Biography.
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