Photographers wanted

A "Light the Night" walk will take place at Bucks on Saturday, October 3 from 4:30-8pm.  This event benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  The organizers are looking for student photographers to document the event.  There is no pay. . but it is a good opportunity to build your portfolio while doing a good deed!  If you are interested in photographing this event, please call Kate Weissman - phone:  610-238-0360 ex. 225.  Thanks!

SPE Conference Scholarships & Awards.

Attention all photo students.  The Society for Photographic Education national conference will take place this March in Philadelphia.  This is a great opportunity to show your work and meet photographers and photography professors from across the country.  SPE is offering scholarships to the conference and cash awards.  Interested in applying?  You should be!  The link is here:  http://www.spenational.org/conference/conf2010/pdf/SPE_Scholarshipform_10.pdf

Apply today.  See Kimberly, Chad or Kate if you have any questions!

open lab hours for fall 2009

Open labs begin this Wednesday (9/2) in both the digital lab and the darkroom.  

Mondays:   noon-1pm & 5-10pm in the digital lab, 

9am-1pm & 5-6pm in the darkroom.

Tuesdays:   10am-6pm -  digital & darkroom

Wednesdays:   9am-1pm & 5-10pm -  digital & darkroom

Thursdays:   12:30-10pm - digital & darkroom

Fridays:   noon-7pm - digital & darkroom

Get to work!!

WELCOME BACK!!

We hope everyone had a productive and enjoyable summer.  Open labs - both digital and darkroom - will begin next week.  The schedule will be posted on the blog and in the labs as soon as it is available.  The next photo club meeting date & time will be posted soon as well.  

Dominic Nahr photo essay in the NY Times.

I was blown away by Dominic Nahr's photographs of Kenya in a recent times article.  Not to be missed.  Click on the NY Times link here.

Image ©Dominic Nahr 2009

RIP Kodachrome (1935-2009)

Kodak announced on Monday that it will be discontinuing production of Kodachrome slide film.  Kodachrome was the first commercially available color film.  Many of the most iconic images in the history of (color) photo were captured on Kodachrome.  To read an article about the end of the Kodachrome era click on this link to the NY Times article.  The Kodak website currently features a small slideshow of some of the iconic Kodachrome images from the last 74 years.  Steve McCurry's photo of an Afghan girl (above) was shot on Kodachrome.  

To Photoshop or not to Photoshop. . .

Have retouchers gone too far? An recent article in the NY Times asks that question. As an example, the author cites the three images of Reese Witherspoon above. On each magazine cover she looks completely different. Read the article here.