publication no 43 august 2010 - redlands camera club · cover of a magazine. well done. ... sarita...

Redlands Camera Club … Snaps and Snippets Publication No.43 August 2010

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Publication No 43 – August 2010

President’s Column

August 2010

Hello Everyone What a great month we have had! We started with our Open subject judging by Gordon Dean PSQA. Gordon was able to help members with his helpful commentary and evaluation, all delivered with a great sense of humour. This was possibly Gordon’s last judging for us, as he is shifting to the north side of the Brisbane River to the fabulous north coast hinterland. Maybe we can catch him when he is travelling to through to his Gold Coast based activities? Many thanks Gordon. Our Second Master Series speaker was Ron Willems FPSNZ ARPS AAPS. Our thanks go to the Victoria Point Community Bank for their continuing sponsorship which aided us in obtaining such a talented presenter. Ron was joined by his wife, Joy, who participated with Club members over the three day visit. The two day workshop was very well received by thirty attendees. Ron gave us the benefit of his skills and knowledge and helped remove many of the “mental” roadblocks some of us had with Photoshop. Now it is practice, practice, practice until we get what we want. On Monday evening, about eighty members and visitors heard Ron’s “Digital Kiss” presentation. Ron covered all aspects of digital photography from the film (now a digital camera) to the finished projected image or print. On the journey, we found that a fine quality, large jpeg image, when correctly exposed in camera will produce images comparable to an image obtained by the use of camera raw format and its subsequent post processing. Ron promoted the idea of a monopod rather than a tripod for getting those low shutter speed shots. He recommended a unit which can take about 10Kg. A DSLR with a fast telephoto can weigh in at over 2kg. It is also handy as a hiking staff. Many thanks Ron and Joy. Some of you have expressed an interest in a Photoshop Elements based workshop. The Elements price is much less than Photoshop CS5 and is almost as well packed with features and functions. If you are interested in an Elements only workshop, a full Saturday or a half Saturday please let me know by contacting me at


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[email protected] or, let any of the committee members know what your preferences would be. Another vexing question is how do you travel on your holidays and protect your valuable “rolls of exposed film”, (read camera storage cards), so that they do not get damaged or lost etc. Ron is an advocate of efficient photography, take the best possible situation image and don’t keep the images which are not really what you wanted. This raises the issue of what do you store your holiday images on? Do you have many eg. 1gb cards, fill them with quality images and then put them aside not to be used until you load them into your home based computer? The fine quality large jpeg images are about 5mb to 10mb so a 1gb card holds between 100 -200 images. A quick scan of retailers on the internet shows that 2g SD cards are about $11 each; 4g SD are $17 each. Those of us with CF cards are being singled out a bit, as the CF card is being replaced by SD cards in the newer Canon DSLRs. CF 2gb are $30 each. If you are retaining the best shots, how many cards do you need for the duration of your holidays? The camera storage cards are fairly robust and are easily stored in your luggage. Alternative storage strategies are a laptop with large HDD ($1000+); Photo vaults ($700+); notebook computer ($500+) with USB External HDD ($100+) or USB External DVD dual layer burner ($100+) or both. I am starting a thread on the club site to canvas what members do in order to have safe storage/backup of their images whilst away from home. The 12th National Exhibition working bees start shortly, and if you can assist, please let me or Allen Forbes know. The working bee timetables are listed on the club site. Well that’s it from me Cheers Len Maloney

A Note from our Program Director

Greetings Well our exciting two months is now upon us and I have had many favourable comments re the Ron Willems week-end. Ron, who did not charge for his services and whose air-fares were donated by the Victoria Point Community Bank, really enjoyed visiting the Redlands and his visit to our Club. It was great that he has recovered from his accident tripping over a dog and fracturing his skull. This occurred at Walgett NSW on his way to the Redlands. The local hospital was unable to cope with the injury and he was flown to Sydney for specialist treatment. Ron and Joy will now spend a few days at Tweed Heads and Bundaberg before returning to Christchurch on July 30th. A special thanks to all who helped make this visit a successful one.

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Future Events Aug 2nd Garry Bradford AFIAP FAPS and Neville Male AFIAP FAPS will visit us and present their PJ/SD and Nature Images Garry and Neville are firm friends and have been very successful International and National exhibitors. Entries into our next Club competition topic Sport should be lodged tonight. Aug 7th Preparation for the 12th Redland National judging. at Wellington Point commencing at 8.30 am. Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Aug 14/15 Judging of the 12th Redland National & 2nd Redlands Schools Exhibitions at Cleveland U/C Hall, 36 Passage St Cleveland commencing at 9.00 am. Lunch & Morning tea provided. Aug 16 Presentation by Professor David Malin FRPS "The Galileo Legacy". David has been involved in scientific imaging all his working life. He joined the Anglo-Australian Observatory as its Photographic Scientist in August 1975. He is now Adjunct Professor of Scientific Photography at RMIT University Melbourne. He developed hyper sensitizing processes which give enormous gains in speed to the photographic materials used in photography. He also invented new ways of revealing information on astronomical plates , a specialty which has given him an International reputation. These novel image enhancements quickly led to the discovery of two new types of galaxy and in 1987, he discovered an extremely faint but massive galaxy which has been named Malin -1. He has published over 120 scientific papers on astronomy and photography as well as nine books. He is a well known and entertaining lecturer on these and related topics. This will probably be the highlight of our year and should not be missed. Trust me. Aug. 27, 28 & 29 12th Redlands National Exhibition of Photography will be held in the Cleveland Uniting Church Hall, 36 Passage Street, Cleveland. Opening will be at 7.30 pm on Friday August 27th Admission $5 Children free. Saturday and Sunday 9 - 4.30 Admission Donation Children free. Whepstead Manor The date for this Portrait shoot is most likely to be October 24th. This will be confirmed in our next Newsletter. Workshops Elements. We are considering holding a workshop on Elements in the near future. Any interested members should advise Allen or Len. Scrapbooking. We are also considering holding a workshop on scrapbooking. Any interested members should advise Allen or Len Personal Congratulations to Kym Morris and to Erica Siegel both of whom have been asked to provide an image for the front cover of a magazine. Well done.


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Photo Gallery

Ron Willems

L-R Len Maloney, Ron Willems, Allen Forbes

Dinner group with Ron and Joy Willems at the Redlands Sporting Club 17th July

Gordon Dean

L-R Len Maloney, Ron Willems, Allen Forbes , Garry White - Community Chair of the Victoria Point

Community Bank.


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Metropolitan Inter-Club Digital Competition 2010 (from Pia Jessen) The selections who will represent the Redland Camera Club 2010 are now published on the club forum. We will compete in 7 categories, each category represented by three club members. Thank you and good luck to all! All club members are invited to the public judging being held at a comfortable venue with plenty of parking. It's a good opportunity to witness how impact judging works. Mark this date in your calendar Date Wednesday 11th August Time Registration 4.30pm (Judging from 5.30pm) Entry Fee $5.00 pp, includes Lucky door prizes, Tea and Coffee provided. Venue St Bartholomew's Church Hall, Cnr Mountain St & Logan Rd - Mt Gravatt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's Al-thani time again! from Pia Jessen

The International group is again sending print and digital entries to the Al-thani - Award for Photography. Download the interactive pdf (type in your details, then print) and begin to prepare your entries. http://www.al-thaniaward.com/index.php This competition is for individuals and we send our entry across as a group. Entering this competition as a group gives us a cheaper entry fee and we don't have to pay return postage for prints/CD's. Another advantage of sending our entries across as a group is our unmatted prints are flat-packed, which takes the hassle out of sending prints international.

** Please note - OUR Deadline is end of August

Every entry receives a quality (large) hard-cover coffee table book full of beautiful photography. This years special theme is: Planet Earth, Landscapes around the world. Check the forum for more details.

Progressive Results

REDLANDS UNITING CAMERA CLUB

2010 Progressive Competition Results

Grade: A Prints

Name No. Feb Mar Jun Jul Sep Oct Nov YTD Placing

Mark Carleton 94 4 6 6 5 21 1

Julie Elliott 54 5 4 3 4 16 2

Tony Bloor 53 3 5 6 14 3

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Noelene Oliver-Poole 56 3 4 3 3 13 4

Jane Crutchfield 107 3 5 8 5

Geoff Baisden 246 6 6 6

Ina Stacey 82 4 4 7

Marie Baisden 245 4 4 7

Ian Doyle 9 2 2 9

Grade: AB Prints


Doreen Payne 95 4 4 2 3 13 1

Peter Holley 132 3 4 3 3 13 1

Stanley Robinson 130 4 4 8 3

Bill Sturgess 203 3 3 4

Grade: B Prints


Bill Batton 171 4 4 5 3 16 1

Keith Smith 58 4 4 4 4 16 1

Maree Morris 210 3 4 4 3 14 3

Robert Myles 220 2 3 4 4 13 4

Allan Dutton 190 3 2 4 9 5

Ron Cox 214 4 3 7 6

Peter Brown 256 4 4 7

David Paul 116 3 3 8

Trevor Linton 142 2 2 9

Grade: A Projected


Victoria Purdie 44 4 6 6 6 22 1

Jacqueline Craig 113 5 3 4 5 17 2

Kym Morris 209 7 3 6 16 3

Natalie Vogelsang 180 3 4 4 5 16 3

Julie Geldard 225 4 4 3 4 15 5

Sarita McCabe 175 5 4 3 3 15 5


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Amber O'Connor 185 4 4 3 3 14 7

Leonard Maloney 31 3 4 3 4 14 7

David Richards 183 3 3 4 3 13 9

Ralph Brown 64 3 4 3 3 13 9

Allen Forbes 1 4 4 3 11 11

Lesley McEwan 35 3 4 3 10 12

Dudley Olsen 61 3 3 3 9 13

Ted Cleary 7 3 5 8 14

Pia Jessen 110 6 6 15

Noel Clark 109 4 4 16

Diana Webster 36 3 3 17

Nikki Blades 230 3 3 17

Paul Newman 42 3 3 17

Marie Baisden 245 1 1 20

Grade: AB Projected


Karolyn Campbell 93 3 5 3 5 16 1

Steve Longton 184 5 4 4 13 2

Karen Duffy 168 2 4 3 3 12 3

Dee Olsen 125 3 4 3 10 4

Karl Neilson 241 4 6 10 4

Bill Sturgess 203 4 1 3 8 6

Stanley Robinson 130 3 3 6 7

Erica Seigel 162 4 4 8

Grade: B Projected


Cara Williams 239 3 4 6 5 18 1

Christine Booker 223 4 4 5 3 16 2

Michelle Valkenburg 216 3 5 3 4 15 3

Patti Power 238 4 5 3 12 4

Gillian Rawle 218 5 6 11 5


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Reese Griffith 200 4 2 5 11 5

Linda Jessen 215 3 4 3 10 7

Allan Stephen 259 3 4 7 8

Nadine Randall 204 4 3 7 8

David Linz 60 3 3 6 10

Martin Rawle 217 4 2 6 10

Allan Dutton 190 3 3 12

Deb Crompton 265 3 3 12

Josie Holmes 205 3 3 12

Piper Griffith 207 3 3 12

Ron Cox 214 3 3 12

Ron Okey 86 3 3 12

MISR - A Photographic Exploration of Egypt Experience much of what Egypt has to offer as participants in the 2009 Egypt excursion share a selection of their photographic work with you. The exhibition will take you from Abu Simbel to Alexandria through dazzling desserts and down the deadly Nile while conveying a sense of the contrast in culture and diversity of its people. Hopefully this exhibit will inspire you with its account of Pharonic sites, souks, Mt Sanai region and even tempt you to consider next years trip. The exhibit runs from August 7 - 14 at the Project Gallery in the Webb Centre Building Griffith University’s Southbank Campus at 226 Grey Street with the official opening 6.30pm Sat the 7th of August.

The Chosen Ones Set Up Supper Welcome

August Dudley Olsen Karolyn Campbell Dee Olsen

September Denis McGrath Noelene Oliver-Poole Mark Carleton Julie Elliott

Office Bearers President Len Maloney Secretary Maureen Maxwell Treasurer Allen Forbes AAPS SSAPS PSQA Competitions – Sub-Committee Director Ralph Brown Program Director Allen Forbes AAPS SSAPS PSQA Newsletter Editor Marion Upston Committee Members Julie Kirwood Tony Bloor Greg Wedlock Mark Carleton Noel Clark

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