Learn to Photograph Your Artwork

Edna Davis is offering another great, inexpensive workshop:

Photographing Your Artwork

Sunday, June 27, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

$30

at

Tyme Gallery17 West Eagle Road
Havertown, PA 19083-2204
(610) 853-1215

Stop paying other people something you can do yourself. Let the photographs of your artwork look as good as your work. Learn how to photograph your art for less money than you would pay someone to shoot it. Let John Benigno take you through the simple steps.

John A. Benigno is a fine art photographer. Recent exhibits of his work include showings in the Art of the State Exhibition hosted by the State Museum in Harrisburg, the Lancaster Art Museum, the Art Association of Harrisburg, the University of Delaware, and the Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey, to name a few.

John's work is represented in many collections, including the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the Lancaster Museum of Art, The Noyes Museum, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

The class will cover:

• inexpensive lighting equipment and how to set it up
• if you're using film, which film to use with your light source
• using a tripod
• which lenses are best
• squaring up your art with your camera
• backgrounds
• shooting through glass.

Check out John Benigno's photostream on Flickr. Call Edna Davis at Tyme Gallery to register: 610-853-1215.  You must pre-register with your payment.

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Calling All Photographers: Take a Picture of the Pitcher And Make the Big League!

Edna Davis, owner of Havertown's Tyme Gallery has "teamed up" with the minor league Camden Riversharks to conduct a juried photography competition. The First Place photograph will be hung in Campbell’s Field for visitors to see and four runners up will have their photographs displayed on the big screen during the July 10th game at Campbell’s Field.

First:

• Photographers must bring action photographs to Tyme Gallery June 5th or 6th from noon to 3:00 pm for jurying
• The initial entry fee is just $10.00.
• Contestants are permitted to bring in 3-5 photographs, and framing is not necessary.
• Photographs will be juried on Sunday evening June 6.
• Ten photographers will be picked from this group.
• Contestants will be notified of their status on Monday, June 7.
• The chosen photographers will go to a game of their choice at Campbell’s Field from June 7th through June 26th to photograph the players.

Then:

• Admission to the field (good seats!) will be provided for each photographer and a friend. (And no, you're not limited to a picture of the pitcher!) 
• The entry fee for this part of the competition is $25.00.
• From the shots taken by the ten photographers picked, five images will be selected.
• The top five images will be presented to the Riversharks.
• The Riversharks will select the winning photograph. which will be displayed in the Diamond Club Café, an exclusive club box.
• The other four photographs will be displayed on the big screen during the Riversharks game scheduled for July 10th.

Call the Tyme Gallery at 610-853-1215 for more details.

AARP is Looking for Older Artists to Interview

Freelance writer Jamie Katz is looking for outstanding American artists to interview for a feature article in AARP—The Magazine, Not just any outstanding American artist though. Katz is looking for older artists who have discovered their creativity after reaching age 50 (or later) and who have gone on to become recognized and accomplished practitioners.  In other words, people who have entered the arts as an encore career and whose work has now earned some recognition through gallery shows, published work, awards, accolades, performances in serious venues—as opposed to being very talented amateurs and hobbyists.

Katz is interested in the arts, broadly defined—music, writing, painting, sculpture, dance, theater, performance art, digital art, folk crafts, and so on. And she is especially interested in people with a compelling personal story.

She is not looking for lifelong artists who only earned recognition late in their career.  Katz is looking for folks who only became serious artists later in life.  Folks who typically had another occupation altogether before that point: a waitress-turned choreographer, a soldier-turned-clarinetist, an accountant-turned–Off-Broadway actor...

If you know someone who has become an accomplished artist (performer, dancer, musicisian, etc.) after age 50  (or you are that someone!), please send a brief description with contact information to Jamie Katz  at jamiekatz44@gmail.com by Sunday, March 7.

Grab Your Camera... Grab Your Pen... or Grab Both!

As part of the 2009-2010 Pennsylvania Association of Senior Centers (PASC) Conference, to be held in State College, March 4-5, 2010. PASC is sponsoring a competition for photographers and poets to showcase their work. Professional and amateur photographers and poets, aged 50 and older, are invited to submit works related to aging.

The theme of this year's PASC Conference is: “The Winds of Change – A Vision of the Future.” In the photography category, contestants may submit up to three, previously unpublished, original photographs, printed from slides,negatives or original digital file format, in color or black and white, related to aging, highlighting this year’s theme. Poetry contestants may submit up to three, previously unpublished, original poems, also based on this year's theme.

Prizes will be awarded for each category: 1st—$100, 2nd—$75, 3rd—$50.

No entry fee is required, but entries must be postmarked by January 31, 2010and will not be returned. The winning photos and poems, as well as other selected photos and poems, will be displayed at the PASC Conference, March 4-5.

Note: Do not send the only existing copy of any work of art. All entries become the property of PASC and will not be returned. (The artist retains copyright, although PASC retains the right to one-time publication.)

More more complete details of the Photography and Poetry Competition, go here and read the Submission Criteria.

RFF Pass the Camera Project
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