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Lyle Patton
MARCH  2010
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Meeting Pluto

IMAGE CAPTION -  "Meeting Pluto" the 5 yr old is not really sure her 2yr old sister is completely safe with Pluto.

Technical: Photo taken @ Disney World Nov 1979 50 mm lens on Bessler Topcon 35mm SLR, manual focus, AE w/ shutter priority - Tri-X film, no flash - negative scanned 30 yr later, optimized with Photoshop Elements v 6 (Used BW conversion to remove purple cast of BW negative scan).

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John Larson Ah, the joy in meeting the Disney characters. The story is definitely here. My only negative is that the one girl's face has a posed look, but that's the way it is. Score 8.
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Alex Lane  
Billy Burke Pleases me to see some good black and white. In the older days all newspapers the P-J was nothing but black and white. The girls looked like they are enjoying meeting Pluto. I wonder if they would enjoy it as much now that they are grandmothers? 8
Subhash Sapru The black and white shades appear good and so look the expressions of their faces.6
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  Lyle Patton – Biography

Bought my first 35 mm camera in Berkeley in 1965 when a friend taught me to use the Chem. Dept’s B&W darkroom. Till recently I’d never joined a club or competed but have always done lots of family and travel/scenery photography and usually done home B/W processing. Strongly believe that being ready, steady, well focused and composed are more important than lugging lots of $$ equipment for vacation travel photos, especially when there’s a family along that can’t hang around while I quest for perfect light. I’ve never carried multiple lenses and seldom a tripod. My last film camera was a Minolta Maxim with a 28-400 Tamron zoom, and I don’t yet own a digital SLR – I love the capabilities of the small super-zoom compacts like my 6 MP 12x zoom Canon S3 IS. It goes anywhere, you never change lenses, the IS saves lugging that tripod, and the enhanced depth of field from the small sensor is usually wonderful. However, the shortcomings of high noise above ISO 100 and difficulty creatively focusing will eventually sell me an SLR.

Retired to an “active adult community” near Phoenix, AZ and bought first digital camera in 2004, then joined our community photo club “Grand Photos” in 2005 to learn what to do with the images. I’ve learned that Photoshop Elements is a wonderful “darkroom,” that I’ve enjoyed 3 fun seasons of showing off my photos in club, ACCC, and now PSA competitions, and I frequently teach club workshops to digital newcomers about camera basics, taking better photos and using Elements.

I’ve never intentionally attempted photojournalism, but now see that our 2 yr. old grandson so often finds uninhibited joy and interest in the unexpected that “human interest” is frequently showing up in my photos and I want to learn more.

I’m, 64 and retired from a NY and Illinois research chemist career. Tucson was my first PSA Conf. and I’ll be in Portland in Sept.