Upcoming Events » October 2010
Kicking up your Creativity thru Composition, Lighting, and Psychology
On October 7th at 7:30pm Emanuel Pontoriero will be coming to South Florida Camera club to teach a Seminar about Kicking up your Creativity thru Composition, Lighting, and Psychology. This seminar is free for all SFCC paid members and will be $40 at the door for non-paid member.
Any photograph that has ever captured your attention is the bi-product of correctly executed compositional and lighting technique. Techniques that affect you, the viewer, psychologically. This is why certain photos stand out in your mind long after you have viewed them. Manny’s seminar teaches you some of those rules but more importantly Manny will teach why they work, the psychology. This empowers you to not just use any rule but specific rules that are congruent with what you are trying to express. It is the difference between shooting an arrow in the air and hitting something or shooting the arrow and hitting the bulls-eye!
At 18 years old and in High School, Manny started out as an apprentice to photographer and custom color printer David West. Just three months into his 3 year apprenticeship Manny won his first Blue Ribbon (First Place) at the Professional Photographers Association of New Jersey, BPH Chapter.
Soon after, he became Print Chairman in charge of print competition for three consecutive years. In 1980, after winning many local awards, Manny won The Fassbender Award at the Atlantic City Convention of the Professional Photographers of New Jersey. At 22 years old he was the youngest to receive this prestigious award.
Manny has also been a member of the Professional Photographers of America, Professional Photographers of North Eastern Pennsylvania, and Professional Photographers of Greater New York, where he continued to receive awards for his photographic excellence. As a result, he lectured to other professionals at local and statewide meetings. When he lived in New Jersey some of his commercial accounts were Unilever Brothers, Prudential Securities N.Y., Prudential Bache Great Britton, YKK Zippers, Corporate Express.
In 1993 he received a “Certified Professional Photographer” degree with the Professional Photographers of America. At that time there were only eleven photographers in the entire state of New Jersey to receive this distinction.
In 2005 he held a photo exhibit at the Pasco Arts Council. Opening night, he was received by a standing room only crowd. Manny broke all their attendance records as well as sales records. Besides having his own photography business Manny finds time to conduct major seminars throughout Florida and has been a guest speaker at numerous amateur photo clubs.
If you are not a member of South Florida Camera Club yet and would like to become one, just head over to our “Join Now” page an sign up 
The Cat’s Meow - Featuring Barbie Pearson
On Thursday, October 14th from 5:30 till 7:00 PM South Florida Camera Club member Barbie Pearson will be exhibiting three framed art pieces of her cats Precious and Nauticia at the Cornell Museum’s Fall/Holiday Exhibit Opening Reception for “The Cat’s Meow”
Barbie is very excited about this exhibit and invites everyone at South Florida Camera Club to come out and celebrate with her “The Cat’s Meow” – A Perrrfect Celebration of Cats… From Mild to Wild!
After the show all of us from South Florida Camera Club will head over to Dada’s for drinks and yummy food! This will be a very fun event you will not want to miss!
October 2010 Photographic Competition
On Thursday October 21st at 7:30pm we’ll be having our photographic competition for the month. You can find all the rules for the competition by clicking on the “Competition Rules” link in the top left had corner of our website.
Theme: Documentary - Photographers are often the historians of life, documenting the world around them. Your photograph this month should be a candid representation of the world through your lens.
The selected winning photograph for each monthly competition will be framed by Frame Gallery and will then be displayed in UNCOMMON Gallery for a month. The photographer whose photo wins the year end Grand Prize competition will have a choice of selecting either a: Nikon D300s! Or a Canon 7D!