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Phillip Island Camera Club Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2011

Meetings: 1st Monday of the month @ 1.30 – 4pm,

Heritage Centre, Thompson Ave, Cowes

Enquiries: Rob McKay on 5952 3512 or 0437 409 446 Email: robertmc@waterfront.net.au

Website: www.aspi-inc.org.au

PICC CLUB COMPETITION RESULTS

OCTOBER 2011

Judge: John Spring

EDPI’s

1st Dianne Davy „Thistles‟

2nd Lyn Young „Hairy Poppies‟

3rd Dianne Davy „Retaining the Sand‟

HC Gary Matthews „Yuraygir NP‟,

HC Colleen Johnston „Wonthaggi Coal Train‟

HC Jan Cheshire „Taking the Rough with the Smooth‟

HC Rhonda Buitenhuis „Nature‟s Sculpture‟

HC Rhonda Buitenhuis „Golden Grains‟

HC Jenny Skewes „Fox Glacier‟

HC Lyn Young „Deceptively Harmless Cacti‟

NOVICE EXPERIENCED

1st Colin Allen „Try Starting This,

2nd Phyllis Brereton „Rock Grid‟,

3rd Jan Cheshire „Candy Rock‟

HC Scott Allen „Rapid Ocean‟

HC Rhonda Buitenhuis „Stumped‟

HC Phyllis Brereton „Peeling Off‟

1st Gillian Armstrong „Nature‟s Touch‟

2nd Val Polmear „Rock Falls Mallacoota‟

3rd Colleen Johnston „Snow Gum‟

HC Jenny Skewes „Wax Works‟

HC Gillian Armstrong „Bumps „n Curves‟

Wishing all PICC Members a very Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year!

Hairy Poppies

Thistles Retaining the Sand Taking the Rough with the Smooth‟

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MONTH FEED-

BACK on

SUBMIT

JANUARY (NO MEETING) ‘OPEN’ for Feb feedback to be submit-

ted by 10th Jan 2012 to Rob

FEBRUARY

6th

OPEN SET TOPIC 1 - Shape in Composi-

tion

MARCH 5th SET TOPIC

1

OPEN

APRIL 2nd OPEN SET TOPIC 2 - Silhouette

MAY 7th SET TOPIC

2

OPEN

JUNE 4th OPEN SET TOPIC 3 - Machines

JULY 2nd SET TOPIC

3

OPEN

AUGUST

6th

OPEN SET TOPIC 4 - Portrait

SEPT 3rd SET TOPIC

4

OPEN

OCTOBER

1st

OPEN SET TOPIC 5 - Weather

NOV 12th SET TOPIC

5

PRINT OF THE YEAR

DEC 3rd

Christmas

Party

Image of the

Year !

OPEN for February 2013

Phillip Island Camera Club’s -

2012 Syllabus

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BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

Having permission to visit an exclusive

PINP bird hide near Rhyll, attracted the

attention of photographers as far away as

Essendon and Foster, for our Bird Photog-

raphy Workshop on the 14th & 15th of Oc-

tober. Perhaps the main drawcard though,

was meeting Ian Temby - DSE Wildlife

Manager, International Naturalist Tour

Guide and author !

Ian was a scientific advisor to the BBC for

„The Life of Birds‟, and twice in the win-

ning team of the „Victorian Twitchathon‟, a national

bird-watching competition. He frequently appears

on radio, TV and print media on wildlife issues. In

2005 Ian wrote a book called „Wild Neighbours‟

After an enjoyable social start to our event over din-

ner at the RSL, we adjourned to the Heritage Centre

where all twenty-five attendees were spellbound by

Ian‟s photographic collection of creatures and his

adventures in the wild. An early start the next day at

Conservation Hill (walk & hide visit), followed by

Fishers Wetland, Swan Lake and the Nobbies filled

our camera cards, as we experimented with aperture

and shutter speeds etc, to capture the active birdlife

on offer at this busy time of year.

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FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

AND COMPETITIONS

WORKING IN GIPPSLAND

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

An exhibition to showcase creative photography

January 5th to January 31st 2012

Official Opening 6th January 6 to 8PM

Our Gallery invites you to contribute works to this

exhibition

Important Dates: -

Wednesday 30th November 2011- Entry forms and details to be re-

turned to the committee. „Phone 03 5157 9134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

VAPS 2012

CONVENTION

UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT Mt HELEN CAMPUS

19th to 21st MAY 2012 Registration forms and interclub entry forms will

be forwarded directly to clubs and will be available on

the VAPS website soon.

Enquiries: www.vaps.com.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Korumburra Rotary Art Show Friday 10th February 2012 – Opening & Preview 7.30pm,

Sat 11th February 2012 10am – 9pm & Sun 12th 10am – 3.30pm

Entry Fee: $6 per entry (Limit of 5pp)

Location: Federation Rotary Art Gallery,

Cnr Commercial & King Sts, Korumburra

Entry Closing Date: 30th January 2012

Contact: Jenny Rowe (5655 2299

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PICC MEMBERS PAGE

Members Achievements

I would like to start a column in this newsletter mentioning the achievements of PICC

members in other competitions/exhibitions that they may enter during the year. It‟s al-

ways inspiring (especially to us Novices) when someone from the club receives an ac-

colade from another club or exhibition . So don‟t be shy or modest, we‟d all love to

know about your success stories! Please email me at jancheshire@yahoo.com.

Jan Cheshire ,Editor

SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE CUP WEEKEND

EXHIBITION

Congratulations to Will Hurst and Val Polmear who each sold a photo at the

Exhibition

Congratulations to Lyn Young who won the $200 Bendigo Bank prize for Photography

at the Exhibition.

To Dianne Davy & Malcolm White who received HCs !! great for the Club.

REMEMBER: Send in your photos to local newspapers and magazines for all to see!!

NEW MEMBERS:

Welcome to the following new members during 2011:

Vicki Breen, Bevan Walton, Julie Haywood, Dale Rogers, Dennis Hickman

(apologies if I‟ve missed anyone,, please let me know for the next newsletter (Ed.)

EDPI ENTRIES REQUEST:

When naming your EDPI files, please put:

1. title first,

2. Club comp number

3. PICC

4. use an underscore _ between each of these three sections

It really helps the Print Steward as then all files comes up alphabetically, as on the

Judge‟s form. Thanks

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WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Dean Cooper Photographics www.deancooper.com.au

http://www.chrisbray.net/photography_sa faris_kenya.php

Checkout the African & Galapagos Island workshops

Australian Centre of Photography—view this site for exhibitions, courses, artists talks & news

etc. http://www.acp.org.au/

PassionForPixels is an on-line digital photography community whose members share their knowl-

edge skills techniques and passion for the digital medium and film through galleries,

photography forums and a library of links. Guests may view what Forums are covered, visit Links

and view samples of over 5,000 images on-site at any one time by clicking here.

It costs nothing to join, so why don't you, you won't be sorry you did.

http://www.passionforpixels.com

How to Make a Killer Photo using 8 Simple

Composition Rules

http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography

After choosing a camera, once you start taking photos and before considering lighting, exposure, noise

and other settings, you should take good care of composition.

There are some “rules” (never call them rules because from definition art is free from rules) that make

your pictures “better”, depending on the photography type.

1 Rule of Thirds This “rule” applies for everything: landscape, macro and portraits, but exception would be the classic

portrait. This means that instead of placing the subject (main focus of interest) in the centre of the frame

put it on an intersection of the thirds. For me it is much simple to consider this “mind drawing” where

my subject is placed either in point 1 or 2 or 3 or 4:

2 Cropping Sometimes cropping a subject to make the viewer focus on some specific detail is an extremely good idea. But other times, when it‟s not

about details, it‟s good to have the entire subject inside the picture and don‟t take a shoot as if the subject is just about to leave, but rather

just about to come if it is not standing. If you are in hurry or not so sure about what you want and you also got a high megapixel camera,

you can afford thinking about cropping after shooting in the post-editing process. Otherwise, get closer and if getting closer will scare away

your subject (hehe) then use your zoom.

3 Straight Horizons Even if the Earth is not plane, we are walking on a plane land. Therefore, if the pictures are meant to reflect reality, just keep the horizontal

and vertical the way you see it with the eyes. The most common example of the placement of the horizon line is in landscape photography.

Sometimes, however, the pictures are not meant to depict reality and just by questioning your imagination you‟ll be able to find situations

(frequent in architecture photography) when shapes look more interesting deformed.

Continuing our series on The basics of Digital Photography by Rob

Sloane

Question: What's a shutter?

In last month's newsletter we tackled the concept of f-stops: units of measurement that tell you

how much light is passing through your lens.

Quick review: as you change the aperture setting on your lens, what you're really changing are

the f-stops. When you open the lens up by one full stop you DOUBLE the amount of light pass-

ing through. When you narrow the lens by one full stop (also called stopping down) you HALVE

the amount of light passing through. F-stops can also be changed in half and third increments.

Here's where things start to get a bit tricky. Up to this point, we've only been dealing with one

variable: aperture. But there really are THREE principal controls that affect the amount of light

your camera's sensor is absorbing. The other two are shutter speed and ISO.

This week we'll be talking more about shutter speed. Like its counterpart aperture, shutter speed

affects the amount of light that lands on your camera's sensor. Before I get into too much detail,

it helps to take a step back and talk about the mechanics of your digital SLR camera.

The sensor of your camera is a light-collecting device, a digital version of film. The minute that

you exposed film to light, it began to capture an image. Anyone who ever accidentally opened

their camera with film loaded is well aware of what happens when film is exposed to light.

Your camera's sensor is not at all different - when exposed to light, it captures an image. Left to

its own devices, a sensor would capture a pure white image if left exposed to light for long peri-

ods of time. That is why all sensors are safely protected by a shutter.

Shutters are simply jet-black electronic windows that are able to snap open and closed in frac-

tions of seconds. When closed, they shut off the digital sensor from all forms of light.

Important point #1: a shutter blocks light from hitting the digital SLR sensor.

Every time you press the button on your digital SLR to take a photo, the shutter opens and then

closes - this is why the button you press is also commonly referred to as the "shutter release".

Unlike aperture, you can't control the WIDTH of the shutter opening - but you can control its

SPEED.

Important point #2: when you change the aperture, you're adjusting the width of the lens

opening. When you change shutter speed, your adjusting the amount of time the shutter

stays open when you press the shutter release.

Shutter speeds are measured in fractions of a second, but don't typically display that way on your

camera. Instead, the only number you ever see displayed is the DENOMINATOR of the frac-

tional second.

For example, a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second will display as 500, while a shutter speed of

1/4th of a second will display as 4. But what happens when the shutter speed is no longer a frac-

tion of a second? In this case, digital SLR cameras display two small tick marks after the number

that look like quotes: a two second shutter speed appears as 2" and a ten second shutter speed

appears as 10".

That's the basics of shutter speed. Next month we'll get into the shutter speed scale (there are dis-

creet shutter speeds just as there are apertures) and talk more about the relationship between

shutter speed and aperture.

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Lunch Anyone ? Extend your social time with members, by meeting for lunch before monthly meetings. We meet - 12pm @ Mad Cowes, The Esplanade, Cowes. See you there – usually along the back wall !

NEXT MEETING:

Monday December 5th

Submit : ‘’OPEN’’OPEN’

Awards Presentation

Image of the Year

2011 Club Competition Winners

This is our

CHRISTMAS BREAK-UP Scrumptious food will be provided

b y the PICC Committee This is due to the success of the Calendar sales and from

everyone’s efforts that we have the money to fund this.

If you have any suggestions or items you’d find of interest to be included in our next

PICC Newsletter, I’d love to include them. The plan is to publish a Newsletter each

month, a week or so after each meeting. Please submit your contributions by the

Friday following the meeting, so this Newsletter truly becomes YOURS !!

Cheers, Jan Cheshire

ST PHILIP’S ART & CRAFT MARKET ROSTER FOR

PICC CALENDAR SALES

2nd Sat of each month.

Cnr Church & Thompson Sts, Cowes

2 people each session

1ST SESSION 10.30AM-1PM 2ND SESSION 10.30AM-1pm

(depending on crowd)

12th November Gillian & Lyn Val & Vicki

10th December Ken & Dianne Hall Jan Cheshire& ………………………….

4th January

St Phillips Church Fete

…………………………… ....& ……………………… ……………………… & …………………………..........

14th January……………………… & ……………... Colleen&Rhonda

11th February ……………… & ………………... Jan Cheshire& ………………………….

10th March ……………… & ………………..... …………………………… & …………………………......

We need some more volunteers, please let the committee

know if you can help out with the blank spaces

Thank you

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