Audio-Visual Meeting Wed. 25th March ’09

This month’s task was sequences of zooms (last month it was ‘third images’), and next month it will be ‘dark/light images’ (where a dark section on the image is substituted by a light one, using the fading technique).  Nothing is as easy as it seems (!)… and one needs the time to play :-) … we carry on as best we can!  Irmel showed two travelogues – one featuring the city of Prague, and the other the city of Budapest – both contained excellent audio- visual work as well as beautiful ‘stand-alone’ images.  Clive Kefford brought along an audio-visual made by a renowned av-maker, Barry Beckham (www.beckhamdigital.co.uk) on Yosemite – beautiful images set to Tony O’Connor’s music.  Johan Beyers visited us from Paarl – he brought ‘pictures set to music’ on Botswana (some stunning images taken from the air), and is now going to attempt to learn Wings Basic for a more professional finish! After tea, Irmel took us through a few more tips on Wings … and sent us off with homework to be done (‘dark/light’).

Classics in Lego

Mike Stimpson aka Balakov has a great set of photos recreating Classics in Lego. For each of these he has used Lego figures and pieces to recreate a classic photograph. Definitely worth browsing through, or view the set as a slideshow.

How many of these famous photographs can you recognise without looking them up?

Top Ten Annoying Things That Photographers Say to Each Other

Top Ten Annoying Things That Photographers Say to Each Other | Paul Burwell Photography

Last week’s list of the Top Ten Annoying Things to Say to a Wildlife Photographer was quite popular and it generated a lot of great comments. That has inspired me to produce another Top Ten list for this week. Today’s list compiles the top ten things that other photographers have said to me that I’ve found to be annoying. And, the more often I’ve heard something the more annoying it tends to be. That’s just the way I am.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2009

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2009 | PhotographyBLOG

This year’s Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day will be held on April 26, and the organisers invite everyone who uses a pinhole camera to participate. Anyone who takes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday of April (26th) and scans it can upload it to www.pinholeday.org where it becomes part of a public gallery. Pinhole cameras are the oldest photographic tools, which are used to create photos without a lens. So if you as a photographer are looking for routes to your roots, Pinhole Day may be just your ticket.

Spot Sharpening with a Faux Layer Mask in Photoshop Elements

Spot Sharpening with a Faux Layer Mask in Photoshop Elements

One of the features on the wish list of most advanced Photoshop Elements users is Layer Masks. It is one of the key features that separates Photoshop Elements from Photoshop – but it doesn’t have to be that way. It is possible to create faux layer masks in Photoshop Elements if you know how – and today, I am going to show you how.

One of benefits of this approach to creating faux layer masks in Elements is that it uses features built into Elements and it doesn’t rely on a third party plug-in so it works with most versions of Photoshop Elements.

The important lesson to take from this tutorial is not how to do the sharpening, but how to create the faux layer masks that you can use for many purposes.

How Flickr Can Make you a Better Photographer

How Flickr Can Make you a Better Photographer

If you’re not using Flickr yet, then you’re really missing out. Not only is it a great way to store and share your photos, but it’s also an excellent place to get feedback and learn from other photographers.

When I first joined Flickr, I merely saw it as a way to store my photos and serve as yet another backup source, but after using the site for a few months, I became addicted, and quickly realized how the site could make me a better photographer.

Free eBook: Digital Art Photography For Dummies

Free eBook: Digital Art Photography For Dummies – Digital Camera Reviews & Photography Tips

Digital Art Photography For Dummies is jam-packed with full-color images that show you just what you can produce. You’ll earn how to select the right digital equipment , take well-exposed photos, no matter what your shooting conditions may be, tweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something a lot better than what you started with, Create special effects in Photoshop, Mat and frame your work for maximum effect and many more.

Cape Photographers Tsitsikamma 2009

We received this e-mail with some updated information about the Cape Photographers Tsitsikamma 2009. Attachments received with this e-mail can be found here.

Dear fellow photographer

My apologies should you be receiving this more than once; the reason is that I have updated the registration form and split it into separate documents. The update affects only part time delegates where the fees have been revised. The web-link has also been inserted but please only use the attached registration form until the webmaster of George Camera Club and PSSA have done the updated downloads.

http://www.onlinesources.co.za/cameraclub/congress/index.html

Shared accommodation is to be booked directly through George Camera Club ’tillienel@telkomsa.net’ and any other directly with the Parks Board: http://www.sanparks.org/tourism/reservations/

It is also opportune time to use your Wild Card or apply for one if you don’t have one. http://www.sanparks.org/tourism/wild/

Not only does the early bird fee for congress close on 31 March 2009, so does a National Parks Board Photo competition. See the web for more details: http://www.sanparks.org/about/news/2009/january/photo_comp.php

Best regards

Roel van Oudheusden
Treasurer
Cape Photographers

E-mail: roel@mweb.co.za
Fax 086 671 6713
Tel 041 367 3994
Cell (New) 082 739 7679