Frankston Photographic Club Newsletter July 2019 page 1

July 2019Volume 17– Issue 06

Proudly supported by the Frankston City Council

Cover Photo - by Robert Williamson

“ Everythings Not Black And White”

The image is a composite made up of several components and so it is difficult to provide the camera settings. The purpose of creating this image was having something to enter into the Frankston Photographic Club Synergy Competition. The background pattern and shadows which I think are an integral part of the image were created in Photoshop. The model was photographed at a FPC clubrooms shoot a couple of years ago, with a Nikon D800 fitted up with a Nissin Di866 flash. I liked the image but at that time I couldn’t find a use for it. The Magpie was photographed in my back garden recently with the objective of including it into this composite image. Initially, the image was intended to be monochrome, but that didn’t work for me, so I added the Magpie and named it Two Maggies, but it still wasn’t what I was looking for. I then added blocks of the RGB primary colours, and renamed it “Everythings Not Black And White”.The image was awarded an acceptance in the Open Colour Print section at the 2019 Warragul National Photographic competition.

Club Message

The last few weeks at the club have been excellent with cam-

era based activities, a big thank you to everyone who help out on those nights and also to the members who participated.

We are looking at the programme going forward and will ensure we have more camera and photo/pro-cessing activities planned, if anyone has suggestions as to what they would like to see covered please let us know.

We do have some good speakers lined up in the weeks to come so make sure that you check the pro-gramme on the website and also the weekly bulletin that is sent out each Friday.

Peter Kewley ¤President

Inside This Month

Club Message 2

Daytime Group 3

Exhibitionst by Peter Dwyer 4

Judging Results 6

Notice Board 9

Australian Cup 10

Certificate IV in Photography and Photo Imaging 11

Do you have Mobile Phone Im-ages 11

Warragul Camera Club Presenta-tion Day 13

Buy Swap or Sell 14

Understanding Photography 15

Printing Sevice 16

Membership Form 17

Committee 18

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FPC Contact Details

Email: fpc@frankstonphotoclub.com.au

Web: frankstonphotoclub.com.au

Phone/Email: Peter Kewley

president@frankstonphoto-club.com.au

Address for meetings: Baxter Masonic Hall Baxter-Tooradin Rd, Baxter 3911 Every Wednesday 7:00 pm for 7:30 start

Items for sale: Please submit any items for sale to fpc@frankstonphoto-club.com.au complete with full details of item, price, condition and contact details.

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Daytime Group

I will be away for the next two months and Di Bell has agreed

to co-ordinate the activities for the Dy Group.

The next day group excursion will be on 17th July 2019 to the Healesville Sanctuary. Meet in High street in front of the Brotherhood of St Laurence at 8:45 AM for a 9:00 AM departure. To check out what’s on when click here. If you are going make sure that you contact Di Bell and tell her if you require ride shar-ing (transport may be limited). Di can be contacted by email at sec-retary@frankstonphotoclub.com.au or 0438 892 829

On August 21st Peter Dwyer will give a presentation at the Library on Monochrome

Photography. Peter will talk about different techniques for black and white conversion (Lightroom, Sil-ver Effects Pro (Nik) and photo-shop. He will also talk on Infrared Photography.

On September 18th we have an excursion to Toorongo Falls at Noogee. The walk to the Falls is moderately steep and about 2.2 Km. There is opportunity to take some nice images of the creek adjacent to the car park. Nearby the Noogee Trestle bridge is well worth a short detour, and Glen Nayook, near Neerim is on go the prettiest fern gullies you are likely to visit.

 

17-7-19: Healesville Sanctuary

 21-8-19: Meeting, Long Room, Frankston Library Monochrome Photography Peter Dwyer

15-9-19: Toorongo Falls, Noogee.

16-10-19: Meeting Long Room, Frankston Library

 17-11-19 to 20-11-19: Three day getaway to Phillip Island

 18-12-19: Planning Meeting and Christmas Mack Fenwick

I will be back early September but in the meantime contact Di Bell at secretary@frankstonphotoclub.com.au or on 0438 892 829

Mack Fenwick ¤ (0417 592 865)

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Exhibitionst by Peter DwyerTaken with a Canon 5D II using a 17-40mm lens, exposure in HDR mode, 1/60 @ F11, +/-2 Stops. The location was on the street leading to St Vitas Cathedral, Prague, just up from the Karl Bridge. I had noticed this Porsche, decorated in luminous gold paint just begging to be photographed. Much of the idea for parking your Porsche in the street and going the extra step of repainting it Gold is to make a look-at-me statement. The camera angle was achieved by kneeling down and using a focal length of 24mm. This gave a pleasing perspective and prominence to the sleek front design. A standing perspective would have flattened things out and excluded much of the contextural setting. Utilising a high dynamic range exposure was to provide extra richness to the rendition of the gold surface as well as to ensure sufficient shadow detail in the surrounds. The HDR Image Sequences follow

These three images were then HDR processed in Lightroom for a fairly conservative result. The Gold of the car is what I wanted as was the extra detail in the pavement and buildings but the background sky was quite distracting. Also there was still some cleaning up to be done with the pedestrians, the light pole and the car parked behind. This tidying up probably consumed more time than any other part of the processing. (More, if I had done a better job of it.) A crop of the image reduced the sky distraction and helped make the subject more prominent.

The small aperture used in exposure provided good detail from foreground to back so the next step in emphasising the subject was to increase the mid-tone contrast in the foreground and especially the reflections on the car bonnet. This was applied selectively using Nik Color Efex 4, Detail Extractor. Colour saturation for the background was also selectively reduced which again helps emphasise the subject.

The remaining issue was the registration plate. With a strong graphic presence this was a distraction but to leave it out all together would be a wasted opportunity. I googled ‘amusing registration plates’ and found nothing to fit the show-off theme so I constructed a plate from two commonly used acronyms, WTF and LOL. This complemented my idea of the owner thumbing (I bet it’s a him) his nose at the average plebeian whilst attracting the maximum amount of attention.

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Renders well as a monochrome too. What is lost in colour is made up in the luminosity of the vehicle against the background. I think that either version would come up well on a metallic media.

This is why I find image editing as about the most fun that you can have sitting down. Photoshop-ing is too often used as a pejorative term but when applied carefully can lift an image idea to another level. I doubt if there were more than just a few straight-out-of-the-camera images on display at the VAPS Exhibition. The end result;

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Judging Results For July 2019 Symmetry/OpenPrint Monochrome

 Advanced Open

Peter Dwyer 12 Dave Unbuttoned

13 Left For Dead

Bob Williamson 15 The Country Dunny

Advanced Symmetry

Bob Williamson 15 Here’s Looking At

You Kid

 Print Colour

Advanced Open

Bob Williamson 15 Everything’s Not

Black And WhitePhillip McKenzie 14 autumn

leafs.436jpg 11 boulder

beach.436jpgMax Lane

12 Green Bee-eaters Tony Alevizopoulos

11 Opening The Vortex Phillip Mckenzie

12 rone_mural.436jpg Max Lane

14 Roseate Tern And Chick

 Tony Alevizopoulos 10 The Bluff’s Wilder-ness

 Mack Fenwick 13 The Cathedral

 Peter Dwyer 13 Wallace’s Hut

 Max Lane 14 Young Hanuman Langur

Steve Strauss 13 Frozen

15 Strawbs Power

Advanced Symmetry

Bob Williamson 14 The Early Bird

 Digital Monochrome

Regular Open

Paul Kearney 13 Beside Polly

  13 EscapeDamian Burke

12 Sexy Legs

 Advanced Open

Julie Balaam 10 BIG CAT

 Judith Meier 14 Emerging from the fog

 Bob Williamson 15 Fore

 Cristina Solomon 13 Melbourne Univer-sity

 Frank Langenhoff 10 THE RAVEN

Judith Meier 12 The Tide is Turning

 Regular Symmetry

Paul Kearney Off topic Bones

 Paul Kearney Off topic Hashtag

Paul Kearney 9 Triangles

  Advanced Symmetry

Cristina Solomon 12 Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden

 Darryl Oats 12 First Church of Otago

 Christa Tapping 13 Moscow metro

 Rose-Marie Burns 15 Skyscrapers

 Cristina Solomon 11 The Big Store Prah-ran

 Mack Fenwick 10 The Centre

Darryl Oats 12 Ulladulla Light-house

Christa Tapping 9 Warneet

 Digital Colour

Regular Open

Rob Alica 10 Archibald Prize Entry

Dale Jones 11 Bird in a tree

Cheryl Adams 12 Bright Eyes.

Dale Jones 12 Colours

 Brendan Edwards 10 ice on fire

 Lore Singer 13 Just Floating

  13 Just saying ‘Hi’ 11 Movement Cheryl Adams

13 Oh, Just look at that.

 Damian Burke 11 Puddle Play

 Dale Jones 13 Reflections

 Damian Burke 12 Shadow Boxers

Paul Kearney 12 Snowshoeing

  Advanced Open

Peter Morris 11 16th beach_486_jpg

 Christa Tapping 11 a penny for your thoughts

 Frank Langenhof 11 ANIMISM

 Cristina Solomon 11 Banff, Canada

 Judith Meier 11 Before Sunset

 Darryl Oats 11 Bright Avenue

 Christa Tapping 12 camouflage

 Darryl Oats 11 Colour Splash

 Denise Tyrie 10 Ghosts In The Water.

 Esmir Zukancic 9 Glowing Tulip1

 Frank Langenhof 13 HANG ON

 John Morter 10 Here’s looking at

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you ! Julie Balaam

11 Honey eaters Peter Morris

13 jennifer_486_jpg Janet Mansfield

10 Jurassaic_Coast_266 11 Lake_Windeme-

re_266 Cristina Solomon

14 Luna Park Mel-bourne

 Esmir Zukancic 10 Magic Sea Rock2

 Peter Morris 11 Nude_486_jpg

 Tony Alevizopoulos 13 Old Man Macaques

 Mack Fenwick 13 Pastel Dawn

 Darryl Oats 11 Reflections of Auck-land

 Denise Tyrie 10 Sheep In The Mead-ow

 Julie Balaam 13 Smokey sunset

 Christa Tapping 11 taking off

 Mack Fenwick 11 The Haystacks

 Steve Strauss 14 The Safety Officer

 John Morter 12 The Taj at first light - Agra

 Denise Tyrie 10 Toadstools

 Esmir Zukancic 13 Tulip Beauty1

 Janet Mansfield 11 Whitby_266

 Rose-Marie Burns 14 Wilsons Prom

John Morter 10 With her proud father - Jaipur

Regular Symmetry

Lore Singer 12 Castle Charlotten-burg

 Lore Singer 14 Escalator

 Damian Burke 11 fire wheel

 Dale Jones Off topic Just a shell

 Rob Alica

14 Orb in Hand IMAGE OF MONTH Lore Singer

12 Shaping-up Brendan Edwards

10 submerged log at sale wetlands

 Brendan Edwards 10 tonic water and uranium glass

 Damian Burke 11 westgate pink lake

14 yarra bridge

 Advanced Symmetry

Denise Tyrie Off topic After The Fires

 Julie Balaam 12 Ballarat station

 Rose-Marie Burns 15 Canary Wharf

 John Morter 13 Classic Symmetry (YES-INVERTED)

 Janet Mansfield 13 Cologne_Cathe-dral_266

 Denise Tyrie Off topic Dunedin Station

 Phillip McKenzie 9 far_far_away.436jpg

 John Morter 12 Geometric Symme-try - Iran

 Janet Mansfield 13 Hampton_Court_Palace_266

 Mack Fenwick 14 Hancock Gorge

 Phillip McKenzie 13 into_the_bay.436jpg

 Phillip McKenzie Off topic jeffs_436.jpg

 Janet Mansfield 13 Liverpool_Cathe-dral_266

 Cristina Solomon 14 Melbourne Uni Arch

 Rose-Marie Burns 15 NGV

 John Morter 10 Organic Symmetry - Sri Lanka

 Julie Balaam 11 Planks

 Frank Langenhoff 12 POINT OF VIEW

 Steve Strauss 14 Return to Dust

 Bob Williamson Off topic Roses

 Tony Alevizopoulos 12 Still Standing

 Frank Langenhoff 11 SYMETRIC

 Darryl Oats 9 Tesselaar Nursery

 Tony Alevizopoulos 9 The Gorge

Mack Fenwick 12 The Library

Christa Tapping Off topic windows

Please note an error in last month’s results - The image “Angst” was done by Frank Langenhoff with result of 14.

Apologies to Frank.

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“Orb in Hand” by Rob Alica

Photo of the Month

“NGV” by Rose-Marie Burns

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NOTICE BOARD

� Australian Photographic Society (APS): For a full list of all up and coming competitions with accreditation, go to the Australian Pho-tographic Society’s webpage Click here.

� The Monash Gallery of Art in Wheelers Hill specialises in Photography.Click Here

� The next Day Group Meeting is on 19th June at 10:00 PM in the Long Room at Frankston Library. Guest speaker is Bob Williamson on creating artistic images and some simple photoshop techniques.

� Adam Williams is one of the foremost Fine Art Landscape photographers in Australia and an excellent communicator (as those who attended VAPS at Latrobe Valley will attest to). Check out his web site (Click Here) get some free Photoshop tutorials or subscribe to his more comprehensive courses. His You Tube site also has lots of free tutorials(Click Here).

� The Ballarat International Goto Biennale in on from the 23rd August to 20th October, and APSON is on during this from 12th to 15th September.For further info Click Here

� Julieanne Kost is one of the best teachers of photoshop or Lightroom on the internet and is always worth listening to. Log in here.

� For all those interested in I-phone photogra-phy take a look at Russell Browns web sight. This guy is a senior principle designer with adobe and uses smart phones and drone exclusively for his photography. His tutorials tell you how to set a work flow from mobile to desktop using LR cc in DNG. http://russell-brown.com/

� Another useful website for PS and LR tech-niques is Piximperfect. Click here

� For anyone using Lightroom, in particular those starting out, I think that Anthony Morganti’s You Tube Channel is the easiest to follow. There are over 20 of these training modules but they are free and very comprehensive, Click here

� Great photography presentations on from B&H Optic Workshops. This bird photog-raphy one is very helpful but there are lots of others from optic 2016, 2017 and 2018.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58G-ttOw6PM

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Frankston did not score that well this year, we had a good selection of images and scored ok in the

mid range however our images fell short of the top rankings..

The full catalogue and images with the individual awards can be found at  APS Australian Cup

Results for the Australian Cup for Australian Camera Clubs

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I am preparing a talk on mobile phone photography for the APJA, and would like images that received

high marks from judges to use in a PowerPoint presentation. If you are willing to let me use your images, please email them to lyn.haywood@gmail.

com. Please name the image [your name}-{name of image] Thanks for your help

Chisholm will offer the Certificate IV in Photogra-phy and Photo Imaging, at Frankston Chisholm

in 2019 .Full time one year on Monday, Friday and Saturday.

For more information see https://www.chisholm.edu.

au/courses/certificate-iv/photography-and-photo-imaging. The course commences 28th Jan.

FRANKSTON PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB

NOTICE

OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 17TH JULY AT THE BAXTER CLUB ROOMS

AGENDA TO FOLLOW SOON

Do you have Mobile Phone Images that you entered into a club competition?

Certificate IV in Photography and Photo Imaging, at Frankston Chisholm in 2019

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PHOTO BOOK COMPETITION 2019

A project of the Print Group of Australian Photographic Society Inc. and

$1,000 IN PRIZES MOMENTO PRO VOUCHERS

Portfolio section Story telling section

1S T PRIZE: $250 1S T PRIZE: $250 2N D PRIZE: $150 2N D PRIZE: $150 3R D PRIZE: $100 3R D PRIZE: $100

AND A CASH POOL OF $500 PROVIDED BY APS PRINT GROUP

Entry is FREE and open to all APS members and Camera Club members

Entries must be submitted as printed books, with a maximum 1 book in each section

There is no limit to the content, size, format or number of pages

Send entries to Yvonne at 67 Sugars Rd, Bellbowrie QLD 4070 by 30 August

Winners announced at APSCON Ballarat, 12- 15 September

For further details contact: Yvonne Hill - hilly308@bigpond.com or 0450091322

* Momento Pro offers all Camera Club members 30% off their first order then 10% off all

other orders. Join and redeem your discounts at momentopro.com.au/club.

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Warragul Camera Club Presentation Day

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We now accept eftpos and Credit Card.

Hiring Of Club Equipment

ITEM HIRE COSTPER WEEK

Matt cutter $5.00Colour Munki calibration system $5.00Studio flash lighting system with backdrops $50.00Voice dictation unit $5.00Laser pointer with USB Connection for Powerpoint or slide shows

$5.00

Light stands and bar only $25.00Assorted backdrops ( 2 ) $10.00Light tent $10.00Large projector screen (one week only) $20.00

All Club Equipment is subject to replacementcosts if lost or damaged

The Club sells Matt Board for mounting prints

White with Black Core 16x20 panels not cut $5.00Black/Black Core 16x20 panels not cut $5.00Off White 16x20 panels pre cut $5.00Black panels 16x20 pre cut $5.00Off White 16x20 panels not cut $3.50Black Card panels 16x20 not cut $3.50Small backing card 3 for $1.00Large backing card 3 for $1.00Recommended Brown Backing Tape $9.50Authentic Hinging tape $12.00

You can save on Matt board costs when you purchase from your club

Matting LinksThe Framers Workshop

Frankston 1/6 Kitson Street Ph: (03) 9783 8980 Mornington Cnr Main & Blake St Ph: (03) 5975 3674

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Monthly competition1. Set image + Open

2. Print: colour + monochrome

Digital: colour + monochrome

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MEMBERS

Effective immediately DIGITAL images are restricted to 4 images per member per monthly competition.

You would have noticed over the last few months a significant increase in the number of digital images being submitted to the monthly competitions, in one month taking the total number of images to be judged past 160.

Not only does this create a very long night it is not fair on judges to have to judge and critique such a large number of images.

We ask members to respect the limit of 4 Digital images per month.

Prints remain at 6 per month and we will be releasing more information on initiatives to promote prints very soon.

Judging of monthly competition

1. same as current 9-15

2. to be added:image of the month in digital, regulars only, to be chosen by the respective judge. Maker of this image to be awarded with a free print/matt. Print has to be used for a colour/monochrome competition at the club. Prize can be won more than once.

Understanding Photography

Not sure how to set your Camera? I can help you understand how to

master the basic techniques and feel confident taking photos. Mentoring and various men-tored landscape photo tours available. For more Infor-mation see me at Club meetings or contact me on:

jmeier.images@gmail.com   or call me on: 0490 062 137 Thanks so much. Looking forward to see you at the club.

Cheers,Judith

For Sale Olympus

E-M10 Batteries x 2 Charger x 1

$75 Contact: Lore Singer (03) 8900 6776

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The club offers a quality printing service, producing A3 and A4 prints for $8 and $6 respectively.On the nights we advertise the printing service bring your images in correctly sized and cropped

ready for printing, you will be very pleased with the quality of the prints that are produced from our Epson printer.

 For our Regular members, for just $2 more as a once off offer, you can get a pre-cut matt and backing board and you are ready to matt up your prints for the club competition.

 Note: this offer is only available to Regular members using the print service, as a once only and only for prints going into the club competitions.

 So just starting out or never matted a print before or first-time entry, take advantage of this great offer.

Don’t miss out on our quality printing service

FPC Competitions For 2019—Set Subjects

Subjects for 2019February Scape / OpenMarch Nature/OpenApril Places of Worship /OpenMay Australian Weather / OpenJune Red/OpenJuly Symmetry/OpenAugust Food/ OpenSeptember Portrait/OpenOctober Street Photography/OpenNovember Travel / OpenDecember End Of Year Judging

CategoriesLarge Colour, Large Black & White, Digital.Regular and Advanced entries apply to Large

prints and Digital.Slides are discontinued as of 2009.

OpenAny type of image can be submitted as long as

it is deemed not to be offensive to any club member.

PortraitImages of a person/people from head to full-

length studies. Images of individuals or groups of people are permitted and may include accessories or backgrounds that are in char-acter with the subject but these should not dominate the photograph. Includes candid photographs, environmental portraits and formal studio portraits. Animals can be includ-ed where they are not the major component of the image. i.e. a photo of a senior citizen with their pet cat as long as the cat is of minor importance to the image.

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FPC Register of Committee v417

FRANKSTON PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB Inc

No A0047095S

ABN 97 436 531 520

REGISTER OF EXECUTIVE AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2018-2019

PRESIDENT PETER KEWLEY

VICE PRESIDENT CASUAL VACANCY

SECRETARY DI BELL

TREASURER BOB HAYTER, PETER KEWLEY

COMPETITION STEWARD CHRISTA TAPPING

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES BRENDAN EDWARDS

SECRETARY

WEB MASTER/ BOB HAYTER

TECH OFFICER

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

ASSIST FRONT DESK MICK TAYLOR

ASSIST FRONT DESK ESMIR ZUKANCIC

CASUAL VACANCY

CASUAL VACANCY

NON-COMMITTEE CLUB TASK HOLDER

NEWSLETTER EDITOR CRISTINA SOLOMON

INTER-CLUB TBA

& NATIONALS COORD.

DAY TIME LEADER MACK FENWICK

MEMBER IMAGE JUDITH MEIER

MENTORING

ASSIST PRINTING JESSE BALSHAW

OPERATIONS

ASSISTANT WEB MASTER STEVE STRAUSS