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Competition Winners — March 2009

Steve Crane — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:58:39 +0000

Here are the winners of the March competition for which the set subject was Energy.

Please note that only digital images are available for display.

Prints

Set Subject

Taken by the Flow
Brenda Botha
Crashing Through a Wave
Neels Beyers
On Wings of Energy
Paddy Howes

Open

King of the Dune
Neels Beyers
Time to Reflect
Paddy Howes
Storm Brewing
Neels Beyers

Projected Images

Set Subject

Power from the Sun
Steve Crane
Energy Explosion!
Jenny Simpson
African Rush Hour Delivery
Marthinus Retief

Open

Leap of Faith
Nettie Warncke
Untitled
Ernst Laubscher
New Life
Neels Beyers

Competition Meeting Wed. 11th Feb.’09

nettie28 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:19:42 +0000

More than 50 members and guests arrived for our Competition Meeting, the set subject being ‘Energy’. After welcoming everyone, Nettie called on Marius Swart, and Pieter van der Westhuizen, who ‘Got their Feet Wet’ – each showing 5 favourite images. We look forward to seeing more of their work in competition and evaluation.

Paddy spoke about the Gansbaai/De Kelders outing on the weekend of 20 – 22^nd March, and Irmel explained the audio visual program. Should you wish to go on the Gansbaai outing – even if it is only for Saturday when you will need to be at the De Kelders gate at 4pm – please call Paddy on 021 876 2136 as soon as possible.

The competition subject was a challenge! JJ mentioned that it was one of his toughest judging exercises, and he is thanked for his effort and input. The Open section was once again well subscribed, displaying a wide range of subjects. Steve will put up the results on this website.

After tea, JJ gave a technical talk on histograms and exposure. Members had been invited to bring along their cameras, and a practical session followed which was quite illuminating to some (eg. Me!) Thanks, JJ!

All in all it was a good meeting at which we welcomed a number of new members, explored creativity, and gained technical knowledge.

See you next time!

Nettie

Looking ahead to …

nettie28 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:48:38 +0000

Our next meeting takes place on Wednesday 11^th March at the Somerset West Library Hall, at 7.30pm. It is a ‘Competition’ meeting and the Set Subject is ‘Energy’. I have been wracking my brains as to how I am going to interpret ‘energy’ … it’s quite difficult (for me) … and it’s going to involve me actively going out to make images – First Prize? – a dark and stormy night with lots of lightning! I guess photographing a static windmill, or a row of unlit light bulbs won’t exactly work … so I will have to do a little left-brain thinking, and try my best. If you are also thinking along these lines (!) remember we only have three weeks left! Of course, prints, slides and digital images may be entered in the Set Subject and Open Sections (a total of 8 – if desired) … check the ‘How To’ tab in the toolbar above.

Our judge for the evening will be JJ van Heerden – our Technical Adviser on the HPS Committee (he who sponsors our prize vouchers … J).

Two new members are going to ‘Get their Feet Wet’ – Pieter van der Westhuizen and Marius Swart. (five images each).

After tea, JJ will be giving a talk, with images, on Histograms, Exposure and File Formats (JPEG vs TIFF vs RAW). Please bring your Cameras! We are going to have a practical session so that you can work the buttons on the back of your camera. Naturally we have members who may know about all of this already, but we have members who are fairly new to photography and who would appreciate learning from an expert, without stress! Our experienced photographers could perhaps sit alongside ‘newbies’ and be of help to them.

OK, so let’s activate those brain cells – find examples on Flickr by searching tags, Google it , think about it! Let’s see the results! Good luck!