How did you shoot this? There’s Always One

To be a creative photographer it’s not enough to be technically profficient and au fait with the rules of composition; you also need to be able to think leterally.

How did you shoot this? There’s Always One | All Day I Dream About Photography

For this picture I had to figure out a way to turn a glass of water upside down. A quick check on the electric internet didn’t reveal any commercially available antigravity devices so I had to come up with something more in the realms of possibility.

Lots of Places to go, Pictures to take …

Drakenstein Coon Carnival — 24 January

This is one of Wellington’s most successful cultural community gatherings,filled with colour,sound and motion.

Events in Wellington

Starting the year on a high note the Drakenstein Coon Carnival fills the town with colour, sound and motion. Wellington is the only town besides Cape Town that has organized Coon groups to perform at New Year’s festivities since the early eighties.

Classic Car and Bike Show 2009

Saturday 24 January – Modern Classics
On day one of the Show, the exhibition will consist of vehicles which can be defined as ‘Modern Classics”. These include Hot Rods, Street Rods, souped up vehicles, racing cars and bikes, custom vehicles and motorcycles and of course, a few new cars and bikes! This is a day that will appeal to many motoring enthusiasts, but it is important to note that there will be no old or Classic vehicles on display.

Sunday 25 January – Classics
On day two of the Show, the exhibition will consist of vehicles dating from as far back as the late 1890’s, to more recent times. These are the classics that invoke an era of elegance, a more relaxed way of life and a time when craftsmanship was an important element of vehicle design and manufacture. This is always a popular display and will appeal to anyone with a love of restored and maintained classic vehicles.

Southern Ink Xposure

Cape Town International Convention Centre.
January 23rd – 25th 2009
Open to Public – Friday 23 January /16h00-22h00
Saturday 24 January/10h00-23h00 and Sunday 25 January/11h00-17h00
Admission -R120 per day, R250 for VIP Weekend which includes both concerts.

The J&B® Met — 31 January

Want to dress up to the nines, spot celebrities or indulge your inner papparazzi? The J&B® Met is the place to do it.

Oude Libertas – Market

Every Saturday, our very popular market takes place on the lawn in front of the thatched roofed Mon Repos under the huge shady trees – some, centuries old (extending onto the bricked courtyard). The market offers a wide variety of products for you to purchase for yourself as well as offering a wide choice of gifts for friends and family. Jewellery, paintings, organic fruit and veggies, indigenous crafted items (where you can chat with the maker!), furniture, biltong and droëwors, fresh oysters, pure honey, freshly-baked breads, plants and clothing items are just a few of the items currently for sale. Sometimes we also offer wine tasting!

Our kitchen has a variety of sumptious breakfasts available, with the Farmhouse and Omelettes taking a definate lead.

The Saturday Market at Oude Libertas is expanding each and every week and is well worth visiting.

TRADING HOURS – 08h00 till 14h00

Stellenbosch Fresh Goods Market

The Stellenbosch Fresh Goods market is an authentic Slow Food market consisting of producers selling products they have sourced, grown, raised, harvested, caught, preserved or transformed themselves. The market place is located on the Dorpstreet square in Bosman’s Crossing trading village in Stellenbosch and is open every Saturday from 9am to 2pm.

Audio-Visual Salon

Thomas Niemeyer has asked us to bring to our members’ attention an AV Salon being hosted by the Magalies Foto Fun Club.  Details may be found on the PSSA Website:  http://www.pssa.co.za .  Do take a look and consider entering!

First MFFC Audio-Visual Salon – 2009

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South African resident photographers are cordially invited to enter the first Magalies Foto Fun Club (MFFC) AV salon. Entrants may submit up to 3 AVs on a CD or DVD, two AVs in the Open set subject and one in the Africa set subject. Each AV must be between 1 and 3 minutes in length. The salon closes on 15th February 2009.

PSSA Patronage has been granted and Bronze medals will be awarded to the winners in each set subject.

Full details and the entry form are available on the salon website

Enquiries may be directed to the Salon Director: Jeff Morris LPSSA This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Telephone: 012 803 2105 / Mobile: 082 840 5459

 

Comment from Francien Fick, judge at ‘Silhouette’ meeting

It is always good to know how you can improve on a great photograph…

·         Composition –  putting the subject matter in the middle of the photograph;

·         Digital noise;

·         Excessive use of Photoshop or filters;

·         Focussing problems or image blur caused by slow shutter speed in dim lighting conditions.

Feel free to contact me again for any future events, as it will be easier to do now that I know how the club operates.

Thank you for the chocolates, I ate nearly all of them on the way home!

Francien Fick

Photography Department Stellenbosch Academy for Design and Photography Tel.  +27 21 880 2623 Fax.  +27 21 8801233

 

      

International Filter Photo Contest 2008/9

International Filter Photo Contest 2008/9 – PhotographyBLOG

The International Filter Photo Contest 2008/9 is open to anyone who has taken a photograph using any type of filter. Sponsored by Kenko with a top prize of 500,000 Yen of Kenko products, there are a total of 139 prizes to be won with a total prize fund of 2,900,000 Yen. Images can be of any subject and taken on digital or film cameras, black and white or colour. Entries to the International Filter Photo Contest must be submitted by 31st December 2009.

Viewing Distance: The Overlooked Aspect of Print Size

Viewing Distance: The Overlooked Aspect of Print Size – photo.net

A while back, on The Online Photographer, I linked to a video segment from a British television show called The Gadget Show. It documents a not-so-rigorous test of film vs. digital in which the two hosts dress up as the main characters from the old “Avengers” TV show, get their pictures shot with a film 35mm camera (a Nikon F5) and a digital 12 MP camera (a Nikon D700), and then have 17-meter-high prints made from both, which they hang up on the side of a building to evaluate. Not the best test (not to mention the fact that the whole film vs. digital thing is sort of a “who cares” issue these days), but I was impressed by their budget!

After I posted the link, several TOP readers posted comments along the lines of, “Well, I’m never going to worry about the enlargeability of 12 MP digital files again.”

Really? Not so fast.

One thing those commenters might have been forgetting is that print size scales with viewing distance. Looking at a print that covers the side of a building from 200 feet away might be little different than looking at a 6×9” print placed eight inches from your nose.