Member’s Gallery – Digital: Flower Photography with Georgette Grossman

This presentation is all about FLOWERS…some photographed in nature, some in a studio setting, and some captured in grocery stores with my cell phone! Each flower has its own personality and I love photographing their beauty. 

Bio:

Georgette Grossman’s love of photography began in earnest when her granddaughter, Ava, was born in 2006. Before then she had played with point’n’shoot cameras but never understood what was really going on inside the “box.” The following year, when Ava began to move around faster than her point’n’shoot could capture her smiles, it was time to buy and learn how to use a DSLR (Nikon D80 was her first). Georgette took a class through Fairfax County Adult Ed. Her first instructor, John Gonsalves, was wonderful. He told the class on the first day of instruction that we all had expensive cameras with lots of automatic features, but we were going to learn how to shoot manual! Initially the class was terrified, but somehow the concept of aperture, shutter speed, and exposure fell into place. Tell a story he would say; fill the frame! Georgette’s journey in photography had begun.

Georgette learned about the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS) at Meadowlark in February, 2008 and she joined shortly thereafter. The club was a source of endless people who LOVED photography as much as she did—folks who were willing to share their talents to help her improve her photography. The meetings provided wonderful programs and hands-on workshops that made learning fun.

Georgette especially remembers participating in a Portfolio Project where Joe Miller announced that in this day of digital technology almost anyone could take a decent picture, but it took effort to capture great images. What a true statement! Monthly competition became a way to learn what makes an image better. Watching everyone’s images being critiqued, became a useful learning experience.

In 2010 Georgette was elected the Secretary/Historian for NVPS. She was elected the president of NVPS for the 2014-2015 term and has served as an Advisor to the Board ever since.

She photographed with a variety of Nikon DSLR’s but switched to mirrorless Fuji in 2016. Currently she uses the Fuji X-T3 and loves the fact that she can “see” what the image will look like before she presses the trigger. She also photographs with her Pixel 6 cell phone camera.

Georgette uses her photography to share her vision of the world with others. She captures moments she wants to remember; her subjects include abstracts, people, places, nature. Flowers are a favorite. During the COVID pandemic she did not get out to photograph much, but, every time she grocery shopped she captured the flowers in the Giant and practiced various post-processing techniques in Lightroom, Photoshop, DXO Nik, and Topaz Studio 2. Some of those images are in her presentation.

She had a solo exhibit at Beanetics Coffee Roasters coffee shop in Annandale, VA. . Her images, A Man and his Dog and Quiet Lunch were selected for Volume 31 of The Northern Virginia Review, Spring 2017. Her image African Daisy was the cover image in The Washington Gardener Magazine in 2019. Georgette has exhibited her images at The Art League in Alexandria, VA, the Glen Echo Annual Labor Day Art Show, the ArtSpace Herndon Fine Art Photography Exhibit, Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions Expo annual exhibit, Washington Gardener Magazine, and the Annual Joseph Miller Abstract Photography Exhibit. Her images can be seen at https://georgette-grossman.pixels.com/.

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