Meetings Listing 2010

RPS January 4th Meeting - Speaker: Craig Tanner

Craig Tanner will present our program this month. One of Craig's most ardent passions is teaching. Over the last 15 years, he has become widely acclaimed as a dynamic teacher and speaker. In addition, he is the founding contributor of The Mindful Eye (http://www.tmelive.com), an educational website. Craig's career has spanned everything from being a location advertising photographer, filmmaker and nationally known photographic educator. In addition to his editorial and advertising photography, Craig's fine art landscapes are widely collected and exhibited and can be found in the corporate collections of The Coca-Cola Company, Cox Communications, The Home Depot, Southern Company, and UPS. Craig is also a prolific photographer of people and specializes in impromptu street portraits of the people he meets during his travels. His work exemplifies how the use of light, rhythm, color, and emotional connection with the subject can bring out the beautiful and timeless qualities of a person, place or moment. Craig is a frequent guest at RPS and one of the club's favorite speakers.

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

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RPS January 25th Meeting & Photo Review - Judge: David Akoubian
Theme: Open, Vintage

David Akoubian, a Georgia resident for 40 years, started photographing in the early 70's when his father gave him a camera to take pictures for his high school annual. Although he trained as an illustrator, he found that he preferred photography. However, he has transferred his formal training in art and design into his photographic images.

David has studied photography in the field with some of the superstars of our era: Bill Fortney, Art Wolfe, Pat O'Hara and Galen Rowell. In additional to teaching his own seminars and workshops, he has taught at the Showcase School and the Sharptop Arts Association in addition to presentations at REI and most of the photography clubs in the Atlanta metro area. David enjoys sharing his experience and his love of photography through his workshops and speaking to clubs like the Roswell Photographic Society.

You can find his workshop schedule and view some of his outstanding images at: BearWoodsPhotography.com and a link to his March 5th-7th, 2010 Savannah, GA workshop, in particular: BearWoodsPhotography.com/savannah_workshop.htm.

6:30-7:00 PM: Image Submission

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RPS February 1st Meeting - Speaker: John Mariana
Topic: FINE ART TECHNIQUES IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

This program presents Photoshop (PS) and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) techniques that I use to achieve images in my style and color palette. My first approach to enhancing an image is the color. I will show the benefits of the tools in PS and ACR. The most striking use of these tools is used in changing a spring image into an autumn image.

The presentation will provide samples of my original image and the techniques used to create fine art. Topics will include Adobe Camera Raw color enhancements, adjustment brush and corner and edge burns. Photoshop techniques include dodge and burn, transformations with distortions and warp, levels, multiple exposures and the value and appropriate use of a light ray.

John Mariana - www.MarianaPhotography.com
F i n e   A r t   P r i n t s   a n d   B o o k s
"Photograph that which stirs your heart and excites your mind."

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

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RPS February 22nd Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: Kathryn Kolb - Theme: Motion / Movement

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RPS March 1st Meeting
Speaker: Sundra Paul

RPS March 22nd Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: John Mariana - Theme: Abandoned & Discarded (Vintage)

RPS April 5th Meeting Speaker: Charles Needle
Topic: Creative Macro & Impressionistic Photography

RPS April 19th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Open
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS May 3rd Meeting - Speaker: Stan Clay

Stanton Clay is a retired photographic scientist. His formal education in chemistry, electrical engineering, and mathematics has served to provide the background to work as an emulsion chemist and manager Ilford Inc. photographic company technical service department for the USA. He was awarded a patent for "Tamperproof Security Card" using lenticular photography techniques.

Stanton has been in photography as a commercial and Portrait photographer (paid his way through 7 years of college) and is an award winning Photographer. He has half of his points toward "Master of Photography" from the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). He has his images in shows and on display throughout the Roswell area.

Stan is the Educational director for the Roswell Photographic Society (RPS) and teaches classes at the Visual arts center (VAC) and many other venues. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and has used and taught Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Draw, Corel Paint, as well as many other programs for over 15 years. He has developed setup and taught in computer classrooms at the VAC and the YMCA and many other areas. He taught computer software and technology programs at CompUSA for over 10 years.

His interest is in sharing his experience with others in the new exciting world of digital technology through teaching. His RPS e-mail is: education@roswellphotosociety.org.

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

RPS May 17th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: People
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS June 7th Meeting - Speaker: Kathryn Kolb

Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta area since 1985. In 1983, she received a BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on ancient Europe and the Near East. In 1984-5 she took photography classes at the Southeastern Center for the Arts, in Atlanta.

Kolb's editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others. Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: a series of environmental portraits of regional artists for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's Samaritan House.

In 1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural communities in the Dominican Republic. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of Atlanta in 2008.

Since the mid-nineties, Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series includes black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and other plants from diverse natural environments.
Her most recent work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer, Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works are straightforward, unmanipulated images, and she uses no digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs can be found in numerous private and institutional collections including those of the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding (Atlanta), Georgia Conservancy, Emory's Goizueta Business School, Georgia Tech, and the City of Atlanta.

Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ. You can see her outstanding work on her website at www.KathrynKolb.com or you can buy her new book at Showcase or other bookstores around Atlanta. For those of you who have not seen it, in 2007 she was featured on TBS Storyline. Here is a link to the video.

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

RPS June 21st Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Nature (Outdoors)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS July 12th Meeting - Speaker: David Akoubian

David Akoubian, a Georgia resident for 40 years, started photographing in the early 70's when his father gave him a camera to take pictures for his high school annual. Although he trained as an illustrator, he found that he preferred photography. However, he has transferred his formal training in art and design into his photographic images.

David has studied photography in the field with some of the superstars of our era: Bill Fortney, Art Wolfe, Pat O'Hara and Galen Rowell. In additional to teaching his own seminars and workshops, he has taught at the Showcase School and the Sharptop Arts Association in addition to presentations at REI and most of the photography clubs in the Atlanta metro area. David enjoys sharing his experience and his love of photography through his workshops and speaking to clubs like the Roswell Photographic Society.

You can find his workshop schedule and view some of his outstanding images at: BearWoodsPhotography.com.

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

RPS July 19th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Open (Vintage)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS August 2nd Meeting - Speaker: Tom Vadnais

Chairperson appointed for 2011 Officer Nominating Committee

6:30-7:00 PM: Social

RPS August 16th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Abstract
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS September 13th Meeting - Speaker: TBA
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS September 20th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Churches & Graveyards (Vintage)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS October 4th Meeting - Speaker: Thomas Dodd

Atlanta based photographer/Digital artist, Thomas Dodd, has been called everything from a Pre-Raphaelite with a camera to a modern day Rembrandt or Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His lavishly-textured creations have an ancient Old Masters look about them and yet are created in modern mediums such as Digital Photography and Adobe® Photoshop®.

His work which can be described as fantasy, surreal, dark, gothic, and symbolic has gained national and international attention. His work includes: a recreation of DaVinci's "The Last Supper", that he did for Lil' Wayne's producer D.Smith, appeared on the cover of the Urbanite magazine. His piece, "3 Weird Sisters," was used as the graphic by Chicago Theatre Company for the play, "Idle Muse," and was featured in the Chicago Stage Review. In addition, Thomas' work appeared as the cover art for the Halloween issue of British Poetry magazine, Decanto.

More information about Thomas and his work can be seen at www.ThomasDodd.com.

RPS October 18th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: Open
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

RPS November 1st Meeting - Speaker: TBA

Annual Business Meeting - election of officers for 2011

RPS November 15th Meeting & Photo Review
Judge: TBA - Theme: After Dark (Night Photography)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM