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Vol. 72 No. 3 May/June, 2016

THE LENSPublished bi-monthly by the

AUSTRALIAN PORTFOLIO PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Dancing in Glen by Rhonda Martin - Circle 11

In the Garden by Judy Heath - Circle 7

President’s Pen

The Lens - May/June, 2016

Divisional Secretary’sReport

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SAT, AUGUST 27, 201624 Church Street, Quirindi, NSW, 2343

OR e-mail: [email protected]

Winter has certainly arrivednow, with cold spells in the south andviolent storms along the Eastern coast.

We certainly saw some dramaticimages of back yards washed awayleaving houses on the brink of collapseinto the sea. Watching the localweather I can see more rain on the way,though last time I heard, people wereconcerned that there was rain in theAlps, not the hoped for snow,especially with the school holidaysstarting here at the end of the week.

Some good news for theSociety, in recent months I have beenpleased to be able to welcome 3 newmembers, Denise McMillan and FredMorris in Circle 2 plus Rhonda Herbertfor Circle 11.

They receive a special welcomefrom me as I am in both these circlesand Secretary of one of them. Theirwork that I have seen so far is ofexcellent standard. So clearly there aremore people interested in photographystill, and please encourage anyone youknow who may be interested toconsider joining.

I had an interesting visitorrecently, a student studying

photography in a Melbourne Collegewho was interested in setting up adarkroom for chemical printing.

I was able to pass on most of myremaining equipment at a very nominalprice and offer to help him should heneed assistance, or offer further aidfrom a past newspaper photographerwho lives nearby.

(A nominal price included 3easels for $10, enlarger with Hauktimer $50 and a lens – Nikon - $40.Similar and higher prices are asked one-Bay but with the requirement oftenthat the purchaser collects, no posting,and I suspect few buyers.)

Now we have a gap in theLaundry/Darkroom where I suspect Iwill need to get a new cupboard built,probably at great expense.

If I worked out a price for theseitems new it would be well over$2,000, but these days few areinterested in the chemical processes.

Though I hear from somesources that the demand for B&Wchemicals and paper is growing againas people realise the quality availablein these prints.

About the same time as the last

issue, a notice went out forsubscriptions and nominations forCommittee.

I asked the Committee to againconsider Certificates/Plaques for theEnd-of-Year awards and there was nosupport to change our recent decision.I have heard that EoY entries arealready being received by John Northand he has a judge lined up.

Happily John has nowcompleted most of the work for theQueensland International DigitalImage Salon so he will be all primedup for this relatively small exercise.Thank you John for undertaking thiswork for the Society.

Until next issue, keep warm,check out the equipment and look forsome wonderful winter pictures. Ihave some recent pictures of stormyseas with waves breaking over thelocal promenade wall and flooding thepath, but happily no real damage downhere.

Jim Thyer,

Hon. President

Circle changes:

We have a new member. I would like to welcomeFred Morris of Elanora, Qld. who joins Circle 2. I hope youwill enjoy your time with APPS.

Stephen Straub has resigned from Circle 7.Linda Robinson - address is now PO Box 5294,

Chittaway Bay, 2261.It was nice to have Jenny Davidson and husband call

recently and relieve me of some of my unused cameraequipment. It is good to know that it is going to a goodhome. I just wished their stay could have been longer; therewas so much I would have liked to have talked about.

And You Are? by Margaret Gilet - Circle 14


Hover Fly by Keith Hibberd - Circle 14

The Shearer’s Bike by Peter Robinson - Circle 7 The Falls by Graeme Collins - Circle 9

Hi Everyone, As I write this it is snowing here

in Orange, the year has passed quicklyand our circle secretaries are sendingthe Circle images off to the judges forthe print and slide of the year judging.

The circles I am involved inhave all worked well and no holdupsthanks to our very efficient circlesecretaries.

The quality of images seems toremain a high standard and are veryinteresting, Iimagine that thesame can be saidfor the other circles.

Recently Itook a step backfrom our fast digitalworld and startedtaking mediumformat black andwhites.

I read whereour DivisionalSecretary RitaEngland was wondering what to dowith her old film gear.

After contacting Rita, we took aweekend trip to Coonabarabran whereI acquired amongst other things aYashica TLR, when I had a close lookat it there was an unused film in it.

I wondered what the imageswould be like - I don’t know how oldthe film was so I just snapped away, afriend processed it for me and weallowed for the age of the film.

It is very interesting to see howthe images turned out, a very holga likelook, I have attached one taken at MtVictoria station.

I am enjoying this step back intime - it makes me slow down and bemore careful about what I do.

What am I doing with thatexpensive heavy Canon DSLR that I

usually use? I have found it has a great light

meter and so now it is doubling as alight meter for the old Yashica.

I wonder if its sensor will beable to record images when it is as oldas the Yashica. I have thought about itand we are all saying the digitaltechnology will get away from us.

We should back up to newerstorage methods - like back up CD’s tohard drives, hard drives will eventually

fail, back up to newersolid state drives, solidstate drives fail, back upto the cloud.

People seem to befooled into thinking thecloud is some wonderfulmystical place in the skythat looks after out datain a very safe place, thecloud is just banks ofstorage devices locatedsolidly here on earthwhere they are

susceptible to all the usual things thatcan happen to storage devices, flood,fire, natural disaster and of courseobsolescence.

However, it is heartening toknow that technologies don’t disappearas quickly as we think, film is stillavailable we can still process our films,it’s not as easy as digital but it is stillhere.

I guess the young ones withtheir iPhones think people carryingheavy DSLR’s and big lenses aredinosaurs, they believe the images theytake on their phones and then apply afilter from an ‘app’ are just asinteresting as our images that weupload to the computer and then spendtime in Photoshop or Lightroom orsome other programme (that costs 100times more than an iPhone ‘app’)

tweaking and editing. They take a 20 second snap and

app image that is on Facebook in lessthan a minute after pressing the shutter,it will be accompanied with someforeign language like “tk at bch cus’(that means taken at the beach see yousoon).

Things do change but then they/we will always be able to rememberthe older technologies and perhapstake little journeys into the past for fun.

I certainly am at the moment,but it didn’t stop me from taking ahelicopter flight with the door off overSydney Vivid at night with a Canon IDmkII, couldn’t have done that with theYashica.

Happy Snapping

JennyDSecretary

General Secretary’s Report


A.P.P.S. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

PRESIDENT: Jim Thyer,

6 Beach Close, Point Lonsdale, Vic., 3225 03 5258 3213

e-mail: [email protected]

GENERAL SECRETARY: Jenny Davidson,

6 Yackerboon Place, Orange, NSW, 2800 02 6361 2792


TREASURER: Colin Barnes,

9 Old Beecroft Road, Cheltenham, NSW, 2119 02 9876 1118


DIVISIONAL SECRETARY: Rita England,

East Street, Ulamambri, NSW, 2357 02 6842 7846

EDITOR - “THE LENS”: Graeme Collins,

24 Church Street, Quirindi, NSW, 2343 02 6746 1147


STATIONERY OFFICER & CUSTODIAN OF RECORDS:

Keith Smith,

10 Owl Place, Ingleburn, NSW, 2565 02 9605 1164


COMPETITION SECRETARY: John North,

PO Box 126, Stones Corner, Qld. 4120

Ph 07 3397 1250 or 0411 828 706 [email protected]

HISTORIAN: John Pratt,

16 Oakfield Ave., Clarence Park, SA, 5034 08 8371 1934

e-mail: [email protected] OFFICER:

EVERY MEMBERWEBMASTER: Wal Phelps,

PO Box 2A, Fairfield Heights, NSW, 2165 02 9604 3542

www.australianpps.wordpress.com

Stone Arch by Keith Smith, Circle 2


“The Lens” Tutorial by Jenny Davidson Fixing a colour cast on part of an image

I met this lovely lady at Hobby’s Yards just outside Blayney, I asked if I could take her photoand she didn’t mind at all, she even had a nice gentleman friend (not shown here) with her.

When I looked at the image on the computer the lovely white dress she was wearing had astrong blue colour cast caused by the reflection from the blue sky and probably the fact I used adaylight white balance setting, even some of the hay had a blue cast so I tried out this quick andinteresting fix using a blank layer set to the Colour Blending Mode. There are other ways likeusing the Hue and Saturation adjustment and targeting the blues but the method described belowworked well and now her dress doesn’t look like it was put in the wash with a pair of blue jeans.

1. Open the image2. Create a new blank layer above the

image3. Set the blending mode to Colour

4. Select the colour you would like touse to remove the colour cast, Iselected white for the ‘pretty dress’and then used the eyedropper tochoose a colour from the hay andpainted that colour over the blue castin the hay.

5. My new friend was very happy withher colour accurate photo and sherecommends you give this method atry.


The Great Escape by

Linda Robinson-

Circle 21

Shoeshine Brianby Margaret Gilet, Circle 14

Dancing Tree by Judy Heath - Circle 21

Books andRoses byMargaretGilet -Circle 14


Circle Reports

Circle 7 - General Colour Slides Secretary - Judy Heath

No report - last Folio # 673

Circle 21 - 35mm Nature Colour Slides/Prints

Secretary - Dorothy Deverell

Folio 5981st Wolfram Borgis Altmuchl Valley2nd Peter Robinson Playtime

Rita Ward Bunny Orchid 3rd Judy Heath Dried Mud 2

Folio 5991st Peter Robinson Cormorant Couple2nd Rita Ward Milkweed with Insect3rd Judy Heath Sunlit Cascade

Wolfram is still in Germany on holiday till August.Rest coping well.

Circle 9 Any type of print

Secretary: John Pratt

Folio 161 was the last for the 2015-16 year. HelenaArmstrong and Peter Hunter head the year’s points score,each with 13. John North also scored strongly with 10points, taking 3rd place, although he participated in 2 fewerfolios than the rest of us. Pat Murray, Martin Finzel and Igathered 7 points each, Jenny Davidson 5 and HeatherBoulton 3.

Placings in the latest folio, were;Folio 162

1st Helena ArmstrongThe Red Turban2nd John North Yao Lin Lad3rd Jenny Davidson Seal in Rain

All these prints were colour digital.

Circle 2 - 10” x 8” B & W Print

Secretary - Keith Smith

Folio 7591st Peter Robinson Home Time Kids2nd Tony Lockerbie Tide Patterns3rd Jim Thyer Rear Window

Folio 7601st Peter Robinson Settlers Rest2nd Alan Morcom Mike3rd Jim Thyer Rear Window

Folio 7611st Tony Lockerbie Icy Culvert2nd Peter Robinson Stephanie3rd Alan Morcom Sowing the Crop

Point score: Peter Robinson 23, Tony Lockerbie 22,Jim Thyer 13, Alan Morcom 13, Keith Smith 12. All on thescoreboard.

Circle 14 - Any Type of Print

Secretary - Keith Hibberd

Folio 2061st Una Brown Seen Better Days

Keith Hibberd One Less Cane Toad2nd Judy Heath Put Out to Pasture3rd Jean Trollope Old Fence

Folio 2071st Keith Hibberd Confrontation2nd Una Brown Butterfly3rd Judy Heath Fox Glacier

Circle 6 - General Colour Slides

Secretary - Craig Homberg

No report - last Folio # 649

Circle 24 - Circle Secretaries

Secretary - Rita EnglandFolio 114

1st Jim Thyer The Pier B&W P2nd John Pratt Red Crater CP

Judy Heath In An Alien Land S3rd Jenny Davidson Home Phone CP

Circle 26 - Commercial /Home Processed

Small Colour Prints

Secretary - Helen Mackenzie

Folio 358

1st Helen Mackenzie Morning Light2nd Martin Finzel Old Flour Mill3rd Linda Robinson Migration of Nature & Steel

Folio 3591st Martin Finzel Babelsberg Castle, Potsdam2nd Ingrid Taylor Paulene’s Baby3rd Linda Robinson Tail of a Whale

Jean Trollop Pink BarkFolios are flowing smoothly, thank you everyone.

Colin Barnes is off on another trip, as is Helen Mackenzie,will be interesting to see the photography resulting from thenew sights. Happy clicking. Helen

Billy Thorpe by Tony Lockerbie - Circle 2

Blue Bubbles by Jenny Davidson - Circle 9

Shadows of Christmas Card byCharles Le Fervre - Circle 26

Top right: Mono Lake Dawn by Judy Heath- Circle 21

Right: Liam’s Lizard by Helena Armstrong - Circle 9

Black Cockatoo by Peter Robinson - Circle21

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