SCHENECTADY PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

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2006-2007 Schedule

Month	Group	Assigned Topic**	Comments/Essentials	Speaker	Master Series Program
Sept. 20	Annual Kick-off Meeting			Shelby Lee Adams	*Life in Appalachia*
Oct. 4	Print	Saratoga	From a street scene on Broadway to horses coming around the far turn	Mark McCarty	*Photographs and Printing*
Oct. 11	Slide	Fences	White picket, barbed wire, stately iron, etc.	Max Tiller	*A Norman Hagadorn Retrospective*
Oct. 18*	Digital		*Digital Camera basics*	Jeffrey Marks	*Recursive Digital Paintings*
Oct. 25	Photo Essay			Connie Houde	*Getting it Together*
Nov. 1	Print	Fire	Capture the mesmerizing effect of fire	Gary Weitzman, Art Forms Gallery	*Framing*
Nov. 8	Slide	Moving Water	Waves, streams, large, small, fountain, etc.	Jose (Jun) David	*Everest, Extreme Photographic Conditions*
Nov. 15*	Digital		*Opening Images and Cropping; Elements and CS2 Compared*		*Film Scanning*
Nov. 29	Mentoring			Max Tiller	*Inside Flash Photography*
Dec. 6	Print	Spider Webs	Show their delicate nature, with or without a resident	Christina Florada	*Alternative Process Photography*
Dec. 13	Slide	Shoes	On or off, old or new, bronzed or otherwise	Thalia Cunningham	*Worldwide Journalism and Photography*
Dec. 20*	Digital	Digital Black & White	*Common Retouching Problems*		*Creating Panoramas*
Jan. 3	Print	Sporting Events	Any aspect: excitement, concentration, frustration, joy, etc.	Leif Zurmuhlen
Jan. 10	Slide	Online submission		Ray Hull	*An Evening of Medium Format Slides*
Jan. 17*	Digital		*Tonal Control*	Jeff Perkins	*Blend Mode Magic*
Jan. 24	Mentoring & Grab Bag			Jeff Perkins
Jan. 31	Photo Essay			Connie Houde	*Methods and progress*
Feb. 7	Print	Motion	Your work will convey movement of anything	Lawrence White	*Photographing American Dancers*
Feb. 14	Slide	Online submission		CANCELLED	*CANCELLED*
Feb. 21*	Digital		*Handling Color with Saturation*		*Gray Scale Conversion and Tinting*
Feb. 28	Fine Arts	Judging of Online slide submissions		Peter J. Crowley	*Negative Space and the role it plays in great images*
March 7	Print	People Close up	One person, possibly more, and not necessarily a portrait	Colleen Skiff, Fulton Street Gallery	*Photoregional*
March 14	Slide	Portrait Streetscape	Tell me about this subject and what they are like Quiet village or bustling city	Tom Clingan	*Buried Treasures*
March 21*	Digital		*Imaging Sharpening and Sizing*	SPS Members	*Digital Salon*
March 28	Photo Essay			Connie Houde	*Finishing Touches*
April 4	Print	Hudson River	Let this be the beginning of the Hudson River School of Photography	Frank Bumbardatore, Linda Heim and Robert Near	*So, Why Pinhole?*
April 11	Slide	Tracks Interiors	For Bicycle, pedestrian, vehicles, through the woods or over the field From, through or of the inside	Catherine Mota	*People Photography*
April 18*	Digital		*Outfitting the Digital Darkroom*		*Fine Tuning Photoshop Preferences*
April 25	Photo Essay	Photo Essay of the Year Competition
May 2	Print	Print of the Year Competition		Nancy Bruno
May 9	Slide	Slide of the Year Competition
June 6					*Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet*
June 13*					*Joint Board Meeting*

** Assigned topics for 2006-2007 must be photographed after May 1, 2006
* SPS Executive Board meets at 6:30 PM.