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MAROONDAH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

NEWSLETTER

IJune 2016 Issue 154

Welcome to the June MPS newsletter for 2016.

Cameron Mates Website: www.mpsociety.org.au Editor:

editor@mpsociety.org.au Email: president@mpsociety.org.au

President’s Report

Hello everyone

There seems to be a lot of activity about the club at the moment. Our Special Interest Groups are up and running (see page 4 for a report on their activities), the outings group is busy again organising interesting places for us to visit, and our entries into interclub competitions are ramping up.

If you’ve got a chance when you’re at NRCH next, have a look at the gallery of photos from our members along the walls leading to the reception area, and in the reception area itself. It’s a great showcase, and some of our best work is on display. We plan to rotate the images on a regular basis, so everyone should get a turn at some stage.

Our AGM will be held on Wednesday 1 June, and will be followed by our regular club night. Please don’t let yourself

be put off by having to sit through a long, boring AGM. We have an admirable precedent at MPS for the quickest possible AGMs – it will all be over within ten minutes so we can get into the interesting business of the night, which is, of course, talking about photography.

Thanks to Sheryle Griffiths, who led one of our most interactive workshops for our mid-May meeting on macro photography, which is a great mystery to some people and a great fascination for others. Sheryle brought a wide range of gadgets for us to experiment with, and Oddette has put some links on our Facebook page to sites to purchase some of the more interesting ones.

Our mid-June workshop will be on studio lighting and still life, which promises to be very interesting and informative. I look forward to seeing you then.

Cheers

Joy

Contents

President’s report 1

APSCON 1

Calendar 2

Winning Images—April 3

UTAS— Course 3

Outings 4

Special Interest Groups 4

Photo Recipe 5

Invitations to events 6

APSCON’s annual photo-

graphic convention is in

Adelaide on 12 to 16 October.

Visit www.a-p-s.org.au for full

details

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Wednesday 15 June

8:00 pm - Workshop on studio lighting/still life

Tuesday 7 June

8:00 pm - Committee Meeting

July calendar

Wednesday 6 July - Judging of set task Texture and B&W EDIs

Tuesday 19 July - Four-club Interclub—Mount Waverley Community Centre, 47 Miller Cres-

cent, Mount Waverley

Wednesday 20 July- Workshop on action/sports

Wednesday 1 June

8:00 pm - AGM and Competition night, judging of June’s Open task and B&W EDI entries

Submit images for July’s set task “Texture” and B&W EDI

And looking further forward ...

Saturday 17 September - Competition closes for FJC Rogers photo competition

12-16 October - APSCON, in Adelaide

Sunday 6 November - Maroondah Festival

Wednesday 7 December - Christmas breakup dinner at Kilsyth Club

More details for all these events are on the calendar on the MPS website

June 2016 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

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6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June

VAPS Convention at Albury Commercial Club

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Wednesday 4 May

8:00 pm - Competition night

May Task Sharing

B&W EDI –

Neil Roberts for Max

A-Grade Prints – Neil Roberts for

The Drummers

A-Grade EDI – Neil Roberts for

Security

B-Grade Prints –

Ross Taylor for Sharing Tea

B-Grade EDI – Phillip Campbell for

Bike Share

Course in photography and social media

A couple of people in the club have undertaken a free on-line photography course that is offered by the University of Tasmania. It is loaded with fabulous resources and two very in-teresting assignments. More details are at

http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/photography-and-social-media

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MPS Outings

Watch out for details of the Night Photography Outing to Melbourne City on Friday 24 June. If this night has extreme weather forecast we will move it to Friday 1 July. Coming up later in the year will be an expedition to the Werribee Wetlands and exploration of the back beaches of the Mornington Peninsula.

Special Interest Groups

Audio Visual

The club's Audio Visual SIG (aka the MPS AV SIG) combined with the Urban Landscape SIG for an outing to the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum on Sunday 29 May (stop sniggering, that boy in the back row). The sunny day promised by the Bureau didn't eventuate but it was good to get out and photograph this remarkable campus of Gothic Revival and Art Deco buildings and ponder their grim past.

The AV group has also had a couple of mini workshops on AV production techniques and is currently trying to formalise a meeting date and time. We are also seeking suggestions for a group AV to kick start the group's activities.

Talk to Mike Scully at the Wednesday meeting or call him on 0411 800 850 if you are interested in this demanding but reward-ing photographic medium.

Urban Landscapes

The Urban Landscapes SIG currently has nine members. There were five of us on our first outing on Sunday 29 May to the Caloola site in Sunbury that once housed the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum from 1879 until the late 1980s, and Victoria University from 1992 until 2011. Unfortunately, most of the buildings are vacant nowa-days. We also had a few members from AV SIG come along with us.

The 34 old-style buildings, ranging from blue stone to a more modern brick that once formed the hospital, are scattered through the large grounds. We also found the boiler house, which was a very interesting subject. Many of our photos are going to look fantastic in black and white!

We haven’t decided on our next adventure yet, but your ideas are more than welcome. Our next meeting is on 30 June 2016 at 7:00 pm at the Bendigo Bank in East Ringwood.

Macro

The Macro SIG has met a couple of times, and has discussed many topics such as depth of field, the large range of equipment that is available and optimal camera settings. Our homework from our last meeting was to practise focus stacking. We aim to meet once a month, and plan to entre macro photos in our regular monthly competitions. Our mid-May workshop on macro photography, led by Sheryle Griffiths, reinforced what we had been discussing at our meetings, although it did give us a fair bit of “equipment envy”.

Portraits, Black and White

We will give you updates on the Portraits and B&W SIGs at Club meetings.

Please note that only MPS financial members can take part in the SIG programme.

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By Judy Mullan – Committee Member

PHOTO RECIPES

Hello All

This month’s photo recipe is a gorgeous wild life composition by

Nalini Scarfe called Willy Wagtails. I love Nalini’s work. She puts in

so much time and patience into her beautiful images.

Nalini has been promoted to the A grade group this year due to

her fantastic photographic results. Congratulations Nalini.

In recognition of her talent, she was invited to exhibit of her work in

the Warrnambool Scope Gallery. “The Magic of Birds”.

Image by Nalini Scarfe

Genre Wildlife/ Nature

Camera Type Canon EOS 7D

Lens Tamron 150-600mm

Focal Length 600 mm

Camera Settings Al Servo / spot metering

Auto/Manual Focus Auto

Type of Focus setting on Camera AV

F Stop f/6.3

Shutter Speed 250

ISO 800

Equipment Used

Tripod Monopod

Flash Yes. Fill flash. Canon speedlite 430 Raw

Image Quality JPEG/RAW Raw/jpeg

Behind the scenes – exact set up

The photo was taken late in the afternoon. The little birdies were in a very dark area under heavy foliage. A

monopod was used to help reduce camera shake.

Thought process – why it was done this way

It was a very low light situation and had to balance the light with a high ISO.

The birds were also some distance away and didn’t want to scare them off. They were looking like they were

ready for a little siesta. The flash was really to give as fast a shutter speed as possible as it would not have given

her much more light as the birds were too far away.

Post Processing

Lightroom/Photoshop

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Invitations to events in the photographic world

Calling all shutterbugs! Entries to the 2016 Heritage Bank Photographic Awards are now open.

There's over $8000 in prizes and cash up for grabs across two categories, as well as the chance for your

photos to appear in the official exhibition at USQ Arts Gallery.

2016 Categories

Open - the choice is yours in the Open category - your entry can be anything you like. Photographers of all ages, backgrounds

and experience levels are invited to enter this category where great imagery is everything and creativity is the key ingredient.

Promises - the theme of “promises” opens up a huge range of possibilities; from the promise of rain from a storm cloud to the

promise of commitment between lovers or the promise of support athletes give their teammates. Put your own twist on the subject

– it’s totally up to you.

For more information on the 2016 Awards, and to enter, visit heritage.com.au/photocomp - but hurry,

entries close 30 June 2016.

The Exhibition of Orchid Photography and Art will be held again this year in August from the 26th to

the 28th. The exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Melbourne Orchid Spectacular which

attracts several thousand visitors each year. You can find out more about our organization, The Or-

chid Societies Council of Victoria (OSCOV) and the show on our website at www.oscov.asn.au

I have attached a flyer about the photographic exhibition, an entry form and a general flyer about our

orchid show.

Would you please let your members know about our exhibition and invite them to enter photographs

into the exhibition.

If your members would like to see orchids to photograph there is a list of orchid shows on the OSCOV

website.

The exhibition is:

FREE to enter photographs.

There are prizes from Michael's Camera Store, Empathy Photographics Mirror Graphics and Canson

Australia.

Photographers can sell there photographs for a 10% commission to OSCOV

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Leongatha Rotary are the organizers of the annual Arts Prom Country Art and Photography

Show and this year is special as it is its 40th year.

We have a new venue and new dates to

make it one of the major and best shows in

South Gippsland.

The venue is:

Mesley Hall, cnr Ogilvy and Horn Sts,

Leongatha.

Dates are:

Fri 26 Aug 1pm to 5pm with the official

opening at 8pm (cost is $20 per head for

drinks and finger food)

Sat 27 Aug 10am to 6.30pm. Sun 28 Aug 10am to 3pm.

Visitor entry is $5 per head.

There are well over 300 works exhibited including 3D and youth.

The awards for the photographic section are Best Colour, Best B & W and Best Digitally

Modified.

Entry forms will be available on the website or by mail and entries close on 26 July.

The show is also being held in conjunction with the 60th Daffodil Festival at the Leongatha

Memorial Hall.

The official website is www.leonartshow.com.au

Or contact Harry Leggett on 0418363299

Leongatha art and photography show