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Artworks, clockwise from left: “Endeavor to Persevere” by Bruce Wallace, “Hyner View” by Dean Marshall and “Becoming” by Pam Dillet are inset against the image of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew as they were traveling towards the moon in 1972.
LOCK HAVEN — The Clinton County Arts Council’s juried photography show has become an event that many look forward to every year.
It not only showcases the work of talented photographers in our area; it also provides an opportunity for visitors to Lock Haven’s Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., to view the world in fresh and sometimes surprising ways.
The theme of this year’s photo show is “Worth Protecting.” Since the start of the show corresponds to the CCAC’s annual Earth Day celebration, its highlighting those many things in our lives that are worth protecting from the effects of climate change and environmental damage — with an emphasis on the precious, the fleeting, the precarious and the fragile, as well as the persistent and the tenacious.
This year’s show features close-ups of natural wonders, stunning portraits, meditative reflections and local scenes from a variety of both interesting and inspiring perspectives.
Nature, as seen through the lenses of this year’s photographers, can be magical; it can also be provocative.
“We invite you to think along with us about the natural world and our place in it,” a release from the CCAC said.
The exhibit will officially begin with an opening reception at the Station Gallery on Friday, April 21, at 6 p.m.
This year’s judges will be Steve Getz and Rich Wykoff.
Steve was recently elected as the CCAC Board President. A graduate of Lycoming College, he has been a professional artist and marketer for over 40 years. He has worked with companies including Sesame Street, Universal Studios, Mattel Toys and Marvel Comics in product development, design, licensing, photo styling, corporate branding and advertising. As a fine artist, his primary focus has been oil and digital painting, photography and graphic arts. His work has been shown throughout our region, and he is the recipient of the prestigious PA Wilds Artisan of the Year Award.
Steve has served as a jury or awards judge for many fine art and photography exhibits throughout the region.
These have included the CCAC/Keystone Central Annual Student exhibits, the Northern Tier Student regional art exhibit at the Gmeiner Gallery in Wellsboro, the Hameau Retreat Plein Air exhibit, the CCAC regional photography and art exhibits and the Shutterbugs Annual Photography exhibit at the Taber Museum in Williamsport.
Over the past year, he served as the awards judge for the Art Alliance Figurative Exhibition and was co-judge for the Images 2022 Juried Exhibition, which is part of the Central PA Festival of the Arts in State College.
Rich Wykoff is a retired elementary teacher and has been a CCAC board member for 15 years. He received a B.S. in Elementary Education from Lock Haven State College, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State, and was a PhD candidate in Instructional Systems at Penn State.
Rich has a life-long interest in the arts. In high school it was music and theater. In college he took electives in graphic design and painting and assisted in building the “Cactus Rose” fountain that is in the patio at Raub Hall.
Since the late 1970s, he has been involved with mural projects at Renovo Elementary, Dickey Elementary, Renovo Library, 16th Street Park in Renovo, the Railroad Heritage mural at Lingle’s at 16th Street and the WWII Fly Boys mural that will be unveiled May 28 at Tony’s Hardware in Renovo.
Photography has been an interest since childhood when his mother taught him how to use her box camera. His primary interest is landscape photography and covering events. As a member of the CCAC Education Committee, he coordinates the annual “Shutterflies” summer photo camp for middle school students.
The judges will award the prizes for the show at 7 p.m. at Friday’s opening, after which they will talk about the decisions they made in their judging.
A People’s Choice contest will follow, in which participants will vote for their favorite images. Ribbons for People’s Choice will be given out at the end of the night for those photos that receive the most votes.
This year’s show will be sponsored once again by Robert C. Gleghorn, President and Principal Agent of the Mountain Top Insurance Agency, Inc.
“We are extremely grateful for Mr. Gleghorn’s continuing support for our photo show,” said Carol Cillo, board member and past president of the Arts Council.
The exhibit is free of charge. The public is invited to attend the reception to see the show, have some refreshments, talk with the photographers and vote for the images they like best.
Menlo Park, CA, April 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zenfolio, the market leader in creative and business solutions for photographers, is pleased to announce the release of its latest State of the Photography Industry Report. The report provides insights into the photography industry from the perspectives of professional photographers and their businesses, and is the fourth conducted since 2021.
The report is derived from survey participants who primarily specialize in Portrait, Landscape, Wedding, Sports, and Family photography. The survey respondents were mostly part-time or full-time self-employed with more than 10 years of experience. The 2023 report covers a variety of topics, including business trends, marketing, revenue, pricing, technology, and photographers’ sentiments about using artificial intelligence (AI).
Main highlights:
Almost 20% of Photographers surveyed in Q1 2023 reported their business had increased from a year ago. However, many are still grappling with the aftereffects of Covid and the impact of rising inflation. 66.6% of photographers reported that their businesses were either slower or performing as expected.
Photographers making at least $100K saw clear revenue increases over the past year. Across all other brackets, 40% reported that revenue decreased. However, this number marks an improvement from the previous year, when 76.2% of all surveyed photographers had reported a negative impact on their revenue
AI is being embraced by the industry. Almost 50% reported that they have integrated AI into their photography workflows, and only 11% see AI developments as having a negative impact on photographers.
Marketing strategies have shifted. Photographers are relying more on non-paid or organic social media over paid ads for marketing their business.
Mirrorless Cameras continue to gain ground on DSLRs. Mirrorless cameras are shaking up the professional photography industry, challenging traditional DSLRs. While 50% of photographers still prefer DSLRs, mirrorless cameras are rapidly gaining ground, with 41% of photographers now choosing this newer option. This represents a significant increase of 50.7% in mirrorless camera usage compared to the last survey.
Is AI the solution to photographers’ biggest pet peeve? If photographers could choose one thing to spend less time doing, 41% of photographers want to spend less time editing. 34% say they are using AI to help them with this tedious task.
“We are excited to share our findings from the 2023 State of the Photography Industry survey,” said Jason Egnal, CMO of Zenfolio. “The report provides valuable insights into the photography industry and the trends that are shaping it. We created this report to help photographers better understand their industry so they can make informed decisions about their businesses.”
The full 2023 State of the Photography Industry Report and the previous reports, can be viewed at Zenfolio.com/SOPI. Zenfolio is committed to helping aspiring and professional photographers succeed in their businesses and will continue to provide resources and tools to support them.
About Zenfolio
Zenfolio.com is an all-in-one portfolio and website builder with a full suite of advanced business and e-commerce solutions for photographers to showcase their work, manage their business, and build their brand. For almost two decades, Zenfolio has proudly served photographers around the globe.
Zenfolio brands and services include Format.com, a portfolio website solution with marketing and studio management tools for all creative professionals, PhotoRefine.ai, advanced AI technology that takes the work out of grouping, rating and culling images, PhotoBooker.com, a resource to find and book local photographers, and PrintsMarketplace.com, an online gallery that sells museum grade prints from artists and photographers around the world.
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The Middle St. Gallery in Washington will show black-and-white portraits by photographer Susan Raines from April 21 through May 28. Gallery member Paulo Neuhaus will also offer a small collection of his photographs along with works by other members of the non-profit artists’ cooperative.
Raines’s show, “Out and About in Black and White,” offers portraits made over many years, some for publication in newspapers and magazines and others for a calendar of Atlanta bars. Many of the photos are part of her ongoing personal series of portraits; they are not studio portraits but are of people in their every-day settings – such as dressing rooms, bars, restaurants, a Navajo reservation.
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“Documenting Israel: Visions of 75 Years” will open at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem on Independence Day. The exhibition will include documentation of Israel since before its establishment through photographs and works of renowned local and international photographers.
The exhibition was curated by Anna-Patricia Kahn, founder of the international photography gallery °CLAIRbyKahn. She has curated exhibitions of the most prominent photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The exhibition includes 120 photographs and one video, compromising the works of 12 artists from 1931 until today. The selected works draw a diverse portrait of Israeli society and offer many viewpoints to observe Israel, its development and the growth of its communities.
‘Documenting Israel: Visions of 75 Years’ photo exhibition (credit: Museum of Tolerance)Two founders of the international photography agency Magnum, Jewish photographers Robert Capa and David “Chim” Seymour, visited Israel frequently from 1947 to 1956 and closely documented the rise of the state in its earliest years. The documentation of these photographers, who gained worldwide fame due to their international work covering wars and conflicts, presents an optimistic point of view on the new state that was established from the ruins of the Holocaust.
The exhibition includes never-before-seen documentation from photographer Inge Morath, one of the first women members of the Magnum photographic agency. Her photographs will be shown alongside the work of other senior photographers, including Israeli photographer Micha Bar-Am and modern artists Benyamin Reich and Nanna Heitmann, as well as the video work of international Israeli artist Sigalit Landau.
The exhibition culminates in a large-scale exhibit that presents dialogue photographs taken in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s by Swiss avant-garde portrait photographer Helmar Lerski, alongside works commissioned in January by American photographer Bruce Gilden.
The exhibition will open to the general public starting in May. Entry is subject to prior registration on the museum’s website.
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Dancing Down The Rabbit Hole by Amy Horn.
Join the Sedona Camera Club for a presentation by professional photographer Amy Horn. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 24 at the Mary D. Fisher Theater, 2030 W. State Route 89A, Suite B-2, Sedona. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Club’s annual business meeting will precede Amy’s presentation.
Join Amy as she presents the ‘Art of Macro Photography – Liquids!’ She will explain her methods for capturing abstract images of liquids from water drops to paint, oil, and milk, and include behind-the-scenes images. In addition, she will include tips and tricks for creating your own setups at home and where to find the gear. Finally, she will share her newest cross-polarization and colored paper projects to inspire your creativity.
Amy lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and has enthusiastically shared her knowledge in software and photography-related fields in secondary and post-secondary levels since 1995. With a Master’s Degree in Education, she enjoys demonstrating photographic techniques both in the classroom and out in the field.
In addition to teaching photography, her photo interests include macro, water, studio splash photography, ice, wildlife, sports, and travel. Let’s face it – if it’s not a wedding, she’s shot it. Amy says, “For me, the joy in photography comes from finding the extraordinary image of the ordinary subject.”
Her ongoing personal project is photographing water: from oceans to ice. During the summer of 2018, she spent 10 weeks in a teardrop trailer along the Pacific Coast in search of lakes, rivers, waterfalls, oceans, and mist while on a year-long sabbatical.
Amy loves teaching photography. An educator at Northern Arizona University, she also teaches workshops with Arizona Highways PhotoScapes. Her publications include Arizona Highways, Gold Prospectors Association, and her co-authored book, The Art of Macro Photography. When she is not teaching, she enjoys time with her family, running, and photographing the tiny landscapes around her.
To see more of Amy’s work, visit HornDesigns.com.
Presentations, hosted by the Sedona Camera Club, are free to members. There is a $5 fee for guests. The Club does not have any requirements for COVID precautions. Attendees are welcome to wear masks. Local photographers are encouraged to join to support bringing high-quality speakers to promote interest in photography and develop photographic skills. Membership costs $35 for the whole year. For more information on the Sedona Camera Club, go to SedonaCamera.Club.
If you’re in the photography scene at all, there’s no avoiding just how popular the Fujifilm X100V is. And even if you’re not, odds are you’ve at least seen someone on TikTok or Twitter sharing gorgeous photos all across social media. But if you’ve tried to get your hands on one, all of that popularity has made it nearly impossible to bring those signature vibes to your photography kit.
Last fall, Fujifilm released the new X-T5, a mirrorless camera that not only delivers on those signature vintage shooting capabilities and old-school form factor but packs even more professional features. As far more than just the next best thing to its famous brethren, I’ve been putting the new camera through its paces over the past few months.
The latest edition of Fujifilm’s higher-end mirrorless camera lineup, the X-T5, first hit the scene back in November of last year. It’s a predecessor to the 2020 X-T4, delivering a number of quality-of-life adjustments and improvements along the way. All packed into a smaller body than before, the new release still has that trademark retro flourish while also delivering a higher resolution 40.2-megapixel sensor backed by improved autofocus and so much more.
Here’s a quick look at the specs:
For the past few years, I’ve been a Sony girl through and through. In that time, I’ve been rocking the A6400, which has served as the workhorse of my photography for 9to5Toys and beyond. As much as I loved the shots I could pull off with it, the camera just wasn’t that fun for use outside of my professional life. That’s really what drew me to the Fujifilm X-T5 in the first place, though I did learn that there’s more to the camera than its film-inspired features.
Easily one of the most enticing aspects of any Fujifilm camera is its superb build quality, and the X-T5 is no exception. Everything from the metal body to the textured grip makes this one delight of a camera to hold, and the smaller body size means that it’s also more comfortable for extended periods of time.
On top of just looking like an old-school camera with the optional chrome finish, there are also the brand’s signature physical controls on top. It’s a design philosophy that I adored in theory before I actually got my hands on the camera and that I have really come to love in actual practice. Having quick access to all of the ISO, shutter speed, and exposure adjustments I need – without having to dig through settings or look at the screen – really makes shooting with the Fujifilm X-T5 such a blast.
It’s far easier to dial in settings in a pinch than the simplified control schemes from over in the Sony camp. There was certainly a bit of a learning curve, but once I got the hang of it, Fujifilm’s signature design isn’t something I am going to be ditching any time soon.
Not everything is perfect, though. As much as the Fujifilm X-T5 likes to think that it’s an all-arounder for general photography, there are some areas where the build falls short. The biggest of these is the touchscreen. It’s certainly responsive and makes it easy to get the autofocus dialed into the subject of your scene, but it lacks the articulation that even its predecessor had. I suppose that’s one of the sacrifices of the more compact design, but not being able to position the screen in-view to take selfies or vlogs or anything of the sort does limit its potential for me. It’s hardly enough to knock this out of my everyday carry, but it’s something that does make me yearn for what could have been.
Physical form factor aside, the biggest element of the Fujifilm X-T5 that drew my attention was its film-simulation technology. It’s something of a trademark for Fujifilm and isn’t exclusive to the X-T series. But combined with the massive 40.2 MP sensor, the promise of being able to take detailed photos with fun effects called to me in a way that previous DSLRs and mirrorless cameras haven’t.
Packed into the X-T5 are 19 different film-simulation modes that let you digitally replicate the look of classic film photography. There are so many options to recreate the look of old photographs, all of which are far from just adding filters on top of finished shots. And if the built-in monochrome simulation, motion picture recreation, and other ultra-vivid modes aren’t quite cutting it, you can also go in and fine-tune your own custom adjustments.
I’ve been particularly obsessed with the color priority mode that adds such a distinct flair to many of the photos I take. And if all of that wasn’t enough, you can even go in and add grain to your photos – you know, to really deliver on the vintage photography vibes that a film camera would.
The biggest praise that I can give to the Fujifilm X-T5 is that it makes me feel like such a pro. I might take photos for a living here reviewing gear at 9to5Toys, but I’m far from a “professional” in a more classic sense of the word. But this camera truly makes me feel like one. So many shots leave the camera without any editing and are instantly ready for sharing on social media. I bought the X-T5 to really start getting into more casual photography and enjoy shooting as a hobby, and the camera has already accomplished that. It’s just plain fun to shoot with, and more importantly, it produces results that give me more pride in my work than I’ve felt from almost anything captured on my old A6400.
That’s led the X-T5 to become an essential part of my everyday carry. Whether I’m going out on a Saturday morning to get some coffee or you see me heading out for the night in Brooklyn, Fujifilm’s latest has been glued to my person. In fact, it’s even become my preferred way to take photos – period. I’m a person of convenience through and through these days, and all of the ease-of-use features that are packed into the camera help make it worth taking the second to switch on the X-T5 and capture a shot. My iPhone 14’s camera has certainly been feeling a little neglected as of late, and please don’t tell it, but that’s likely not going to change anytime soon.
Over the past few months, I’ve been using the Fujifilm X-T5 for everything from product shots for reviews to just street photography, portraits, and other odds and ends. You’ve likely already seen countless photos that fit into the former category, and if you follow me on social media, then all of the others have certainly popped up on your feed here and there.
Clocking in at $1,700, the Fujifilm X-T5 isn’t going to be for every photographer. But if you’re like me and are looking for a new addition to your kit or just your first serious camera, there is so much to love. It may even clock in at a higher MSRP than the X100V that has captured the minds of photographers all around the world and the Internet, but that difference in price is so worth it to me.
I personally picked up the kit version that includes the XF16-80mm lens and then went out to get an even more compact XF23mm lens from Fujinon, which is what you see in the review photos above. That secondary pickup has served me so well that I almost don’t even reach for the XF16-80mm anymore – especially not when I am using the camera to capture street photography. I’d easily recommend getting just the X-T5 camera body alongside the XF23mm lens and calling it a day. You won’t be disappointed in the performance, and one of the improvements over the X100V is that you can, in fact, swap the lens.
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Streaming has become a core part of our digital lives and serves so many purposes now. Having a 3-camera live stream has typically been highly expensive and difficult to setup. Well, if you’re interested in that, this is far more achievable.
Streaming feels as if it has been around for so long, but with every passing year, it establishes itself into the foundations of more areas. I have seen weddings, tutorials, behind the scenes of photoshoots, questions and answer sessions, and much more, live streamed. There has been a sharp rise in the uptake of this form of media with covid lockdowns which forced many people online.
In fact, since 2020, I have had to be on camera so much at my desk, I created a live stream setup, even though I don’t stream all that much — it was just a worthwhile expense given the more than weekly call for it. There have been many times when I would have liked to have more than one camera. Sometimes it’s simply for creative purposes, and other times it would be nice to have a camera on my face and then a camera on my hands to show what I’m looking at. This Logitech Mevo 3-camera live streaming kit could have solved that problem in a cost-effective way, though it would sacrifice some image quality.
MADISON – Running from April 7 through Sunday, May 7, all are invited to witness photographer Patrick Hilaire’s shots of prominent jazz musicians in rehearsal and performance at the Madison Community Arts Center, 10 Kings Road.
“I’m constantly drawn to live music to attempt to capture the relationship between images and sound,” says Hilaire, the latest artist to be showcased in the arts center’s “Roseum Gallery.”
