New Years Eve Fireworks and a Full Moon

Fireworks at Flagstaff Hill 9:30pm and Midnight

Rotary Raffle

Thank you to everyone who sold tickets and returned their books. Special mention to our raffle ticket stars Lorraine and Rosana who both sold two books.
We have raised around $400.
If you are yet to return your book, I need it back ASAP even if you haven't sold the tickets.
Thanks
Patti

Set Subjects 2010

In 2010 we are again having a set subject every month as well as the open competition. Set subject is for all sections, except Creative/Experimental and Novice, unless otherwise specified. I have listed the set subject alongside the month the prints are due in. They will be then judged and displayed the following month.

February - Action

March - Bling

April - Street Photography

May - Portrait - MONOCHROMATIC ONLY

June - Death

July - In The Kitchen

August - Beatles' Song - CREATIVE/EXPERIMENTAL ONLY

September - Tools Of Trade

October - Music - COLOUR and The Past - MONOCHROMATIC


I hope everyone finds something in there to interest and challenge them. I will try and put a definition and also some links to examples up here before each month.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

Exhibition 24 Dec 2009 - 26th April 2010

Experience the power, mystique and beauty of nature through the wildlife photographer's lens. Be captivated by the big cats fighting, raptors hovering and silent icy landscapes in these 95 images selected from more than 42 000 entries worldwide.

Discover the amazing world we live in - only at the Australian Museum in Sydney for a limited time.

Australian Museum

6 College Street

Sydney

http://www.australianmuseum.net.au

IOTY - a few pictures

Image of the Year - 2009 - UPDATE

The prints are up and looking great. Thanks to those who helped with the set-up.

Hope everyone enjoyed IOTY as much as I did.

Thanks to Ron Cork for coming up from Melbourne to judge and present the workshops on Saturday. The workshops were excellent and I'm sure everyone got something out of them. I can't wait to have a go at making AV's over the Christmas break.

It was fabulous to see so many people come to dinner and to the IOTY presentations - thank you for supporting the club. We were privileged to be the first club to see the Narbathong AV - what an amazingly powerful piece of work.

Congratulations to the Winners
Yearly Aggregate
Small Print - John Culver
Colour print - Graham Dixon
Monochromatic - Graham Dixon
Creative Experimental - Graham Dixon
Slide - Craig Homberg

Image of the Year
Small Print - Josephine Vallance
Creative/Experimental - Kate Hope
Monochromatic - Patti Vallance
Colour Print - Kate Hope
Slide - Craig Homberg

Overall Image of the Year
The Mugavin Family Perpetual Trophy - Kate Hope

Live Lens on New Inventors

On The New Inventors last night they featured the Live Lens. It is designed to eliminate the problem of correctly exposing both dark and light areas of an image. I don't really understand how it works, but it sure sounds interesting.
Check it out - Here and Here

Lots happening this weekend

Drag Racing - may not be everyones thing, but this could provide some great opportunities for action shots. Sunday 15th 9am -5pm. More information Warrnambool Drags

Tarerer Festival - Killarney, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th. All information here Tarerer Festival

Koroit Show - Saturday 14th. Childrens entertainment, live music, truck and classic car exhibits, animal nursery, Beaut Ute Competition, cattle competitions, horse events and art and craft competitions

Southwest Games - Southwest Games
Hockey -Warrnambool Hockey Grounds, November 14th & 15th.
Motorcycling - Lake Gillear, November 14th

Dunkeld Cup - Saturday 14th - Dunkeld

SW TAFE Art Dept - 1st Year Students Exhibition - Opening Friday 13th - 6-8pm. Including work by some members of Camera Club.

November Competition Results

Thanks to Peta Jolley for being our judge and making comments about the prints.

Small Print - Open

1st Maites Rhst Fungi John Culver


2nd Kenny Patti Vallance


3rd Beautiful Chris Vallance



Small Print – Set- Beach

1st Stingray Bay Erica Vallance


2nd Surf Fishing John Culver


3rd Seagull Vivian Carter



Colour Open

1st Hopkins Bridge Kate Hope


2nd Otways Ranges Waterfall Craig Homberg


3rd Blue Shine Les Lockland



Colour Set - Beach

1st Beached As Patti Valance


2nd Lake Pertobe at Night Patti Vallance


Monochrome Open

1st Stingray Storms Mark Williams


2nd Sparks Flying Kate Hope


3rd Medals On Parade Patti Vallance

Monochrome Set – Beach

1st Message In A Bottle Shane Vallance



2nd Watching the Sunset Graham Dixon


3rd Twelve Apostles Patti Vallance


Experimental/Creative

1st Botanical Gardens Kate Hope


2nd Spikey Kate Hope

3rd Values Patti Vallance

Roger's Travels

Wondering why Roger has been missing from camera club for the last few months? Click on the title for the answer.

Warrnambool Show

The Warrnambool Show has come and gone for another year. Thank you to those who helped out with the setting up and gave prints for the display - John, Les, Barry, Graham, Ros, Patti, Sue, Neil, Roger and Vivian. But most importantly a HUGE THANK YOU to Karen, who was there for four or five days setting up, organinsing the prints, re-organising the prints, labelling the displays, re-organising the prints again, organising the judging (thank you Mark for stepping in to judge at the last minute), writing the tickets, and organising the distribution of prizes and removing the prints. Karen you are a legend and we really couldn't have done it without you.

HDR Workshop - This Saturday 24th October!!!

Just a reminder that this Saturday is the HDR Workshop from 12 -4pm!

Read below for more information - if you are keen, it would be fantastic if you downloaded a free trial version of 'Photomatix' from the hdrsoft website, and could bring your laptop. If not, no big deal everything will be on handouts and I will use a data projector to go through the workshop!

What is HDR?

HDR means ‘High Dynamic Range’. Using software like Photomatix you can create images with more detail in the highlights and shadows than you can with a normal photo from today’s digital cameras. It’s similar to the old technique of exposure blending. Taking one photo for the sky and one for the ground, then merging them both together allows you to create some unique photos. You can use it carefully to create natural looking photos or you can use it creatively to create atmospheric and emotive photos. The choice is yours as to how you process the end result.


Program for Saturday

12 – 1pm We will start with a quick overview of what HDR is and go over the process required to capture images on your camera. This will involve looking at how to set your camera to bracket for 3-5 different exposures.

1-2.30pm We will go to a nearby location and take a series of photos.

2.30 – 4pm Time to see the magic come alive!! Using the photomatix program we will process our images and experiment with producing different styles of images.


What to Bring...

· Your camera and a tripod if you have one. I will bring my two tripods though if anyone wants to borrow them. A tripod is very helpful; to make sure your 3 images are exactly the same when you merge them.· If you have a laptop and are able to download a free trial version of the ‘photomatix’ software program this would be very helpful. No drama’s if not though I will put it all up on the big screen!!· A free trial version of ‘photomatix’ can be downloaded super easily from http://www.hdrsoft.com/

More examples of HDR can be seen here

October Competition Results

Small Print –Open
1st El Quettro Gorge John Culver


2nd Martini Patti Vallance


3rd Yep Broome Kate Hope


Small Print – Set Hot and/or Cold
1st Cool Chilli Vivian Carter


2nd Flaming Hot Chocolate Joey Vallance


3rd Alaskan Glacier John Culver


Colour Open
1st Sammy Seal Graham Dixon


2nd Matai Falls Patti Vallance


3rd Bali Rice Fields Kate Hope


Colour Set Hot and/or cold
1st Snow Queen Patti Valance


2nd Glacial Combustion Shane Vallance


3rd Candles On Ice Graham Dixon


Monochrome Open
1st Covent Garden Walkway Chris Bell


2nd Shakespeare’s Ghost Neil Smith


3rd Little Liam Vivian Carter


Experimental/Creative
1st Winter Fishing Graham Dixon


2nd Road to Loch Ard Neil Smith

Thanks to Clinton Warburton

Thank you Clinton for your presentation at the October meeting and for passing on these links
food photography tricks
Studio lighting podcasts
Chase Jarvis/

Australian Photography Magazine Survey

Complete the online survey for a chance to win a Gitzo Traveller Tripod + a Gitzo Traveller back Pack (Valued at $1515). Takes about 3 minutes.

SURVEY

Photo Chains

I found this on the Canon website PHOTO CHAINS. A photochain is a growing chain of photos taken by different people, where each shot inspires the next. If your photo is selected to be part of the Hero chain you can win a prize.

HDR workshop - Now on 24th Oct

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The HDR workshop has been postponed (due to problems with the hall). New Date: Saturday 24th October
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HDR workshop.

Don't forget the HDR workshop on Saturday 3rd Oct. Postponed. New date 24th Oct

What is HDR?

HDR means ‘High Dynamic Range’. Using software like Photomatix you can create images with more detail in the highlights and shadows than you can with a normal photo from today’s digital cameras. It’s similar to the old technique of exposure blending. Taking one photo for the sky and one for the ground, then merging them both together allows you to create some unique photos. You can use it carefully to create natural looking photos or you can use it creatively to create atmospheric and emotive photos. The choice is yours as to how you process the end result.

Program for Saturday

12 – 1pm We will start with a quick overview of what HDR is and go over the process required to capture images on your camera. This will involve looking at how to set your camera to bracket for 3-5 different exposures.
1-2.30pm We will go to a nearby location and take a series of photos.
2.30 – 4pm Time to see the magic come alive!! Using the photomatix program we will process our images and experiment with producing different styles of images.

What to Bring...

· Your camera and a tripod if you have one. I will bring my two tripods though if anyone wants to borrow them. A tripod is very helpful; to make sure your 3 images are exactly the same when you merge them.
· If you have a laptop and are able to download a free trial version of the ‘photomatix’ software program this would be very helpful. No drama’s if not though I will put it all up on the big screen!!
· A free trial version of ‘photomatix’ can be downloaded super easily from http://www.hdrsoft.com/

More examples of HDR can be seen here

October meeting

Next monthly meeting is Thursday 1st October.

The guest speaker is local photographer Clinton Warburton. You can see his work here

Set subject due in is "Beach" this should be an easy one so hope to see lots of entries. Don't forget the set subject is for small print, Colour and Monochromatic.

Don't forget to bring back your voting forms for Set subjects for next year.

Membership fees are now over due. Single membership $36, family $42.

Safari Wise Photo Tours and Workshops

Safari wise offers world wide photographic tours and workshops. Click on the title to go to the website. The tours look fabulous

Night Shoot

This was a snap I took from Thursdays night shoot. I have used photomatix to create quite a surreal HDR image (some will love it, some will loathe it!!!). I took 3 images using my tripod, one under exposed, one over exposed and one correctly exposed and then used the program to merge the 3 images! Keep watching blog for more info on HDR workshop to be held Saturday October 3rd - probably 12-4pm!

Make sure you click on this image - has to be viewed full size to be fully appreciated - Patti

Chinese Paper Cuttings

Les will hold an informal photo workshop at his house on Wednesday 16th Sept 1:30pm to take photos of Chinese Paper Cuttings. These cuttings are very thin coloured paper Chinese masked Warriors. The aim is to project light through them and create black and white shadows. They are worth taking in colour alone.

If members are interested please contact Les Lockland ph: 5561 2925

September Competition Results

The set topic for this month was "Elegance".
Congratulations to all place getters and thanks to Perry Cho for judging and being a great guest speaker.



Small prints Set subject - Elegance

1st Nose Dive Vivian Carter


2nd King of the Castle Vivian Carter

Small Print Open

1st Escaping Fear Rosanna Sialong


2nd Diamond Firetail Finch John Culver


3rd Sea Lion John Culver


Set Colour – Elegance

1st Australian White Ibis John Culver


2nd Sturt Desert Pea John Culver


3rd Elegant Jelly Fish Graham Dixon


Open Colour

1st Hopkins Mouth #3 Graham Dixon


2nd Alaskan River John Culver


3rd Hard Labour Les Lockland


Monochrome Open

1st Clouds Light Up Roger Neal


2nd Breakwater Storm Roger Neal


3rd Flowers Len Asling