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Member Pages

rcdanek — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:20:11 CDT

Members can create their own subpages and put anything they want on them. They can also have images and and ask for critiques. Casey's Page is just an example to get the juices flowing. (HINT: If you add a page of your own using "Add a new page", you can also add a link to it as in the examples in the list that follows.)

Some members on an outing to Hope Cemetery in 2007

Photographers We know...

DonnaDufault — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:46:57 CST

Photographers around the globe....

We wanted to start a page about photographers we have meet over the years. These are the people who inspire us, create books, make new and exciting photos, run workshops, and generally share thier love of photography! Feel free to add anyone here you'd like! We perefer photos you took of these people - but do your best!
Links to their web sites are encouraged.

Henry Horenstein - by Donna D.

Here is Henry Horenstein! Photographer, Writer and educator...

http://www.horenstein.com

Henry came into my life a million years ago when I started college at RIT. His book Black and White Photography was our text book my freshman year. I learned a lot from the book and have my copy on my shelves today. Pretty tatered - but full of information I used every day. Later, while working at AutumnColor - I got the op to meet Henry and work with him. We helped make prints for his shows and crated the framed pieces to be shipped to LA for his debut of a series of images from Creatures.

An extraordinary series of images of animals like you have never seen before. Henry is a Prof at RISD and I have meet students from his classes. All speak highly of him. It seems to me just about everyone knows Henry! If you ever get the chnace to see his work in person- be sure you do- esp if it's at a gallery opening. The man knows how to throw a party!

Ron Rosenstock - by Donna D.

Here we have Ron Rosenstock! He's a local - but he is worldly! Ron travels all over the world giving photo tours. He owns a place in Ireland, travels to Morocco, Iceland, Italy, Peru, Czech Republic...and the list goes on. The has several books published of his work as well. I meet Ron years ago when he was only doing larger format stunning black and white photography- lugging his 4x5 camera all over the place. He recently made the switch to digital and a whole new world opened up - you should see his work these days. http://www.ronrosenstock.com/

Brad Washburn - By Donna D.

Brad Washburn- Mountaineer, Explorer, Surveyor, Mapmaker, Author—Brad Washburn is known as all of these, but equally compelling has been his role as a dramatic landscape photographer. http://www.washburngallery.org

Let's see here... we have Nancy Carbonaro, Lou Jones, Michel Tcherevkoff ~ http://www.tcherevkoff.com ~ (This was taken at his lecture at a CIPNE event.) B and Scott Erb. Photo By Donna

Casek Danek, Brian Skerry and Donna Dufault : Photo by Scott Erb

We took a drive out to Canton to see the show of underwater images by Brian Skerry. Casey helped Brian create a video of him speaking about his work for the show. Check out Brian's web site at http://www.brianskerry.com

If you want to add more, right-click in this table row. You should see a dialog pop up that lets you add a row. (This may only work with Internet Explorer, though...or maybe just on a PC and not a Mac. For your convenience, we've added an empty row above.

Don Ricklin's Domain

DonRicklin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:08:42 CST

There are more Moore State Park images in the Photo Gallery.

Some images from my SmugMug galleries.

All my recently posted images (over 1000, currently) ar at my SmugMug site DonRicklin. I also have a Photography Blog at Blogspot.com. Please do come and visit!

Don

Jeff @ Visions by Baker Photography

Jeff@VBB — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:19:07 CDT

The Worcester Photography Center is a great place to share the love of our art and is a supporting family of friends that grows together at all levels of photography. Come join the fun!

Multi award winning and nationally certified professional photographer... Visions by Baker Photography is Jeffery A. Baker Sr. Only 3 percent of all photographers in the United States have reached this certified status. "When excellence matters and good enough, isn't." I am your family photographer specializing in portraiture and all of the life events we share. .

Biography: My Grandfather gave me my first camera when I was 10 years old. Professional training teaches how to use a camera, but his guiding eye helped me learn to see. Photography gives me balance between the logical and the creative, the left brain and the right brain. My Grandfather's guiding eye, together with today's photographic tools, provide the combination that allows me to focus on my art, my vision, of people around me. www.VisionsbyBaker.com

Sandy's Page

wings1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:10:44 CDT

I am interested in Nature Photography and would like to learn more about it. I got a digital camera a few months ago and am enjoying trying it out. for more images visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/wings01/ also http://www.flickr.com/photos/wings02/

Framingham

ALANKIDAWSKI — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:15:54 CDT

Originally posted by Alan K.

The Garden in the woods. Great place to shoot in the spring

Framingham, MA

Photo Critiques/Comments

ALANKIDAWSKI — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:04:30 CDT

The Cloud

Beautiful shot- love the color and comp nice abstract look!
Raining during a snow storm

New Orleans Face

Boston View

Web Thoughts Photography by Alan J. Kidawski
This photograph was taken while on a photographic retreat. This photograph is a deviation from my comfort zone. Although I do photograph nature I am a straight as I see it and record shapes and angles shooter. I wanted to take the a bit further and create something different. I also wanted to be in a retreat presence of mind, where I was projecting thoughts into the subject as I would meditate on a subject and try to see beyond the subject. I enjoyed the silvery lines that led to a red shape that drew me down to the bottom and I visually crawl up the web to be drawn back to the red and around and a round I go.

I hope you can make some comments on this.

And be as honest as you can I can handle it.

Casey - I saw this submission a few days ago and I wanted to wait a few days to collect my thoughts. First of all, I like it. But...there's something odd about it and I couldn't put my finger on it. I think I now know. It is almost architectural. I know you like architectural photography and for some reason, this image has that quality. First of all, the way the image is presented, I wasn't sure if it was upside-down or not. (The web segments seem to be going the wrong way.) then, there's a bit too much geometry (the architectural thing, I guess). Perhaps, all the other spider webs I've seen have had a more graceful feel to them. Nevertheless, I do like it, architecture and all.

Casey you photographed the same web.
Thanks

Casey - Hmmm...same web? Possibly. I went back and checked and I actually didn't photograph the web as much as the spiders, themselves. You had the better eye to have seen this composition in the first place. I missed it.

Photo by Casey Danek - my brother and I were walking around Nantuckett in the late afternoon. We kept away from the cobblestone streets; those have been photographer a lot an we weren't going to become famous making more photos of them. So, we looked for something different. My brother chose a small portion of this building to photograph and fixated on it. I backed away, leaving him room to work. That let me take in more of what was there and I liked the splash of colors I saw.

Comments welcome.

Hi Casey! Nice use of color here. Many different reds between the boat, the clothes and the flag. It keeps the eye in the center of the photo dancing between them all. I like the unique angle too. Cutting off the roof and the boats really keeps your attention focused in the middle... Let's see more work!!- Donna

Casey ... Donna said it all! Steve

I do enjoy looking into the photo I think the play of colors down the center look great.

Here is one of my images...I call it 14. Hee hee, Donna

Hi Donna .... I think this is as 3D as you can get. It looks like you could reach right out and touch the numbers. Steve

Oh hey, look, another picture to critique! Don't worry, my berries won't be offended. Crit away! - Tom S

Casey D: I like it. It's kind of static. Perhaps a different lens choice might have allowed a more dynamic placement. I'm refering to the reflection of the background berries. The berries and reflection are about the same size, and a the same level, as the glass.

Donna: I want a smoothie... The photo is a nice use of color. I might like to see the berries just a smidge brighter. But overall - very yummy.

This is a shot already in the gallery except this has been edited. The other is nearly straight from the camera. I can't decide on a crop for this and I'd love to hear opinions!-Tom W

Hi Tom,
I personally like the closer crop- the out of focus hand is less noticeable and the focus more on the face and purple. So the one on the left for me.~ Donna

Casey - how about taking a bit off the top? ...this leave the image a bit more in line with the divine proportion aspect ratio and eliminates the brightness in the upper right corner that can pull the eye too easily.

Hi Tom ... both are nice photographs. As Casey mentioned, a bit more cropping on the top would eliminate some of the bright area. As a result, I believe the viewers eyes will first be draw right to the subject's face instead of the bright area at the top of the photo. Thanks for sharing. Steve

Donna: I loved the color here and the paint texture. But I might have moved the line of vine up or down..what do you guys think?

Casey - I like the play between the red and blue in the image. The selective focus makes it tough to decide if the vine should have been higher or lower. Not being there and all...but what I notice is that I'm distracted by the brightness along the left edge. It's like the horizontal line pulls me there. I sat back, held up my hands to see what kind of cropping might work best (to try to answer the vine up or down question) and I noticed that if I held my hands at an angle, eliminating the bright (brownish) highlighted area, that the image became more interesting to me, perhaps because it's simpler and the red-blue theme becomes more prominent.

Alan Kidawski' Page

ALANKIDAWSKI — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:50:22 CDT

Sophie I saw Lincoln

Alan J. Kidawski
Framingham, MA
a.kidawski@rcn.com

High Peaks

Red Fender

Eye to Eye

I have been for most of my life a light chaser. I enjoy what light does to objects. How it creates, shapes, defines, and intrigued me. Photography has been my creative avenue, my adventure, my passion, from the age of 10. I was a junior astronomer interested in stars (light) I was privilege to explore large photo plates of the stars. I started to take large format, 6 to 8 hr long exposure of light from the sky. have the plated developed and then see the beauty of of light. I was hooked. I am a LIGHT CHASER

Interests: Photography, Fishing, Exploring STUFF

Favorite movies: STAR WARS,
Favorite TV shows: Monk

My hero(es): Garry Winogram, Waker Evens, Eugene Smith, Robert Frank.

My superpower is:seeing out side the BOX

If I could live anywhere, it would be: Everywhere at once

My dream job(s): Retirement to Photograph my early dream, Photograph everything.

St Anthony faire The Trombone Player

Low Key High Key

Click'n'Shoots

DonnaDufault — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:08:12 CDT

Eagle Lake~ Photo by Donna

Trash The Dress- Photo By Donna

Lincoln Hike CnS run by Jeff Engel ~ Photo By Donna

Photo by DonnaAbove, another Trash the Dress photo (do you feel the exhuberance...yeah, it was that good!)

Eagle Lake click and Shoot (above)~Photo By Donna

Photo Walk through Hope Cem and Webster Street Worcester MA ~ Photo By Donna

Scott Kelby's World Wide Photo Walk- August 23, 2008 Along Highland Street From Main Street to Park Ave, Worcester MA. We ended up at Tortilla Sam's for a nice dinner after the walk. WE uploaded over 300 photos from members of the group to Flickr- where they were judged and entered into the Final Round... Waiting to see who the final winner is! Photo by Alan

You can check on other Click'n'Shoot in the navigation panel on the left.

New

meadowworks — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:55:31 CDT

This is a template page

Use this template when you want to use photos and text to tell your story. Click EasyEdit, then highlight this text with your cursor and type over it with your own words: You can write as much as you want!

This sample photo is easy to replace with one of your own: Click the EasyEdit button, highlight the placeholder image at left and hit "delete." Then click the "image" button in the toolbar and use the "browse" button to find the image you want to insert from your computer. It's that easy.

The text can be wrapped around your image, or you can have the text start below the photo. You can also move the photo to the right side of the page. See your choices for photo and text placement by clickin on the photo with your mouse and then clicking "image" on the toolbar.

You can also change the size of your photo by clicking on it once to highlight it, then by clicking the "plus" or "minus" sign in the "Edit Image" toolbox. When you're all done, save your page.

Marie's Page (Tari Tasartir)

TáriTasartir — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:47:00 CDT

Sterling- Quag

TáriTasartir — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:19:37 CDT

Along the Path...

Across the water...

Little things...

Reflected sky...

Color in August...

Sterling- High Crest

TáriTasartir — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:24 CDT

Wide view...

Detail view...

Lowell

DonRicklin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:17:48 CDT

There is no abstract available for this page revision.

Cook's Canyon

DonRicklin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:57:18 CDT

A very nice small Mass Audubon place to visit, walk trails and take pictures. It is a quarter mile down South Street on the left from Barre center, Route 122 and 62. There is one nice wide grassy path that takes you down to the main attraction, the Gallaway Brook, a Reed filled pond and an old dam falls that tops a Cascade down Cook's Canyon.

There is also a second return path that is more woodsy (the Wildwood Trail) and a short side trail to the Main Trail that runs along a picturesque stretch of the Gallaway Brook with oxbow bends and old stone walls.

The Canyon itself is rather inaccessible. It is only viewable from one side and above. Warning, this is a dangerous drop off that is not protected as with someother such places.

A few images (photos by Don Ricklin)

More images at Cook's Canyon.
Enjoy

Barre

DonRicklin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:42:18 CDT

Cook's Canyon, Mass Audubon

Massachusetts

DonRicklin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:39:45 CDT

So many places - how do you choose?

As new members make more visits to our site, we hope they can provide insights to interesting places throughout the state. Information can get posted up here in this large space, or below as a new thread. And, to keep things interesting, we may want to organize things by making a set of sub-pages for each of the towns or areas of interest. Wiki not?

So, if you are inspired to add information about your town or some special place you know, click on the "Add page" link on the left. Follow the instructions. Don't worry. If you make a mistake, someone else will fix it. That's the Wiki way.

Barre
Worcester County
Newbury Port, Plum Island, Salisbury Beach
Princeton
Moore State Park
Rockport
Spencer
Paxton
Framingham
Cambridge
Jamaica Plain
Shelburne Falls
East Boston, Noodles Island
Down Town Boston.

Yes, so much to choose from!

More to come!

Software

rcdanek — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:25:33 CDT

One is likely to find lots of neat software that helps day-to-day. Let's hear about it. There are three major operating systems to consider: Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some software is cross-platform, others tied to a particular operating system. Bear these in mind when making entries. Identify which is which.

Open Source or Platform Neutral

Platform Neutral means it'll run on a variety of platforms, maybe even all.

PTLens - plugin and external apps for Photoshop, Lightroom, Apeture. Neat stuff...things like perspetive control, barrel and fish eye correction, chromatic abberation. Not expensive!!!

WordLE - an online, web based word graphic generator. Enter text, hit random over and over until you see something you like. Then, do a screen capture or print to PDF. It's all explained on the site.

The sample on the right was done by entering something like...

Worcester Photography Center Worcester Photography Center Wiki Wiki Wiki Photographers Meetup

...and the site makes words that repeate larger in the design.

Audacity - a free, open source, cross-plaftormsound editing package that supports a variety of plug-ins.

GIMP - a fairly powerful, free image editing package that's open source and cross-platform.

Mac Only

Cocothumbx and Cocoview - are a couple neat, free apps for the Mac. Cocothumb, in particular, is a nice way of generating small images with shadows quickly. (Note - sometimes cocothumx chokes on many large files.)
GraphicConverter - not free, but pretty powerful. It has a nice way of utilizing multiple monitors where you can see closeup detail of an image quickly.
LiveQuartz - free with lots of filters for making adjustments.

Windows Only

FastStone - wicked cool app that lets you manage/edit images. We use it at 7HCC when going through digital images during competition. Highly recommended.

Irfanview - image browers with some very nice batch editing features.

Linux

Linux distros usually come with lots of nice packages, so you usually don't need to go looking for anything.

Casey's Page

rcdanek — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:09:47 CDT

About Me

Professional photographer, like to take longs walks, enjoy road and off-road bicyling, used to hike the White Mountains a lot but my knees gave out. I love the Red Sox and Patriots and Celtix. (I'm not a big hockey fan...sorry.) In my former life, I was an engineer for DEC, Compaq, HP. So, my skill set includes technical things like computers and the Internet.

My Work

I do weddings and portraits. I have a small studio in my home. I've done some commercial work and would love to more of it. I'm also a videographer (is that a real word?). I mostly do projects for local cable access stations. Check out my pages...

I am quite adept at figuring out computer problems/solutions. I have been a Windows-guy for a long time (when there wasn't much else to do)...then I discovered Linux...and later, when I could afford it, Macs. Now, when you see the "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC" commercials, I definately identify with one of those guys!!!

[I wonder which one that would be?] (Comment by DonRicklin)

A Recent Assignment

I was asked to photograph a jazz group at their recording session in Amherst. The lighting was tricky and I had to mostly work with a tripod.

Comments From My Friends

HI Casey, Nice shot, I like the composition between all the music guys. The lines from the trumpet and the lines radiating from the walls highlight each person. Nice job.

~ Scotty

Major Willard Moore State Park

rcdanek — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:16:01 CDT

Click the collage for a Zoomify version!

Click here to view a slideshow that others can contribute to. Read NOTE below.

June 28, 2008 - a good number of us came to the park to enjoy the photographic opportunities. The weather started off kind of cloudy and one might have been put off by the threat of drab, colorless photographs. But, at 10:00 AM or so, a misty fog formed and this is usually a good thing on a "clousy" day. The backgrounds become muted but the foregrounds stand out. Also, with modern photo software, any image can be boosted with a touch of this and a dab of that...just tweak your Photoshop settings a bit...

NOTE: although the image above links to a single Zoomify version, the comments below it link to a slide show on our WPC site. You are invited to send Casey some of your images to be included in the slide show. Or, if you prefer, just add them to this page...or do both. The more the merrier.

It was fun and thanks to the organizers for making it happen!!!

-- Casey

Here are some links to other images copied from our Meetup site...

http://panospin.smugm...- Carlton SooHoo

Moore State Park- Don Ricklin (C&S images are labeled so at end of the gallery.)

Alex's Meetup Flickr Set- Alex from Worcester