Welcome to Toowoomba Photographic Society
Our aim is to promote, improve, share and enjoy photography in Toowoomba and the surrounding district offering many services, all specifically designed to improve photography and photographic skills in a friendly social atmosphere. Membership is open to all comers regardless of whether you are a beginner, an amateur or a professional photographer.
To join our club please follow the instructions at About the Club. Additional information about the club can also be found here.
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by MyPhotoClub Colin, May 31, 2017 Share:
Critique Corner
The Critique Corner aims to help members to fine-tune potential entries by gaining feedback from other members before the image is entered into a competition.
All members, regardless of experience are encouraged to upload images and make comments on images. The aim is to help each other to develop both your image capture and processing skills, and to take the judges’ point of view when assessing an image. There are no grades within this activity.
Each member can upload one image. Once uploaded you can use this image in an upcoming competition. You can remove the image and replace it with another image whenever you choose.
The critique corner is accessible from the Members page (use the grey Members button) as shown below:
This is a new MyPhotoClub feature so feedback to colin@myphotoclub.com.au is welcome. All members are subscribed to receive a once a day notification message when new images are submitted. Go to the Critique Corner to unsubscribe.
More information, including a video, is on the Critique Corner page.
Critique Corner demo video – Please watch this video on how to use this feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgITBx_uuMs
Kind regards
Colin Woods
m: 0419 624 347
by Geoff Adams, January 21, 2020 Share:
Your chance to cast a cast a vote on your favourite image.
Our site has the option of allowing members to vote on their favourite image from a competition. To see if you are interested in getting right what a judge may have got wrong, I have opened up the January competition to voting.
You get 1 vote only for your favourite image. Before next competition night on Feb 11, I will remove the voting option, tally up the votes, and we can announce the Member’s Choice. If members show interest in voting for the Member’s Choice award, we can do it as a regular thing, and perhaps give a small certificate like the gold and silver award cards.
Go on, you know you want to. Get right what the judges get wrong and cast your vote today. Just go into the member’s area and vote.
by Geoff Adams, January 21, 2020 Share:
Image Challenge changes
Previously images for the Image Challenge held on Skills Nights were sent by email to Graham Harris. If you have already sent images to Graham, I can find these.
If you haven’t yet sent images, please go to the website and enter the Image Challenge competition for January. This is just the same as entering a club competition. You will find the same 3 sections as for previous Image Challenges – the image challenge theme (Christmas for January), favourites and field days. You can enter 5 images for each section, 15 in total as previously.
Cut-off date is Friday January 24, and the cut-off date for all future image challenges will be the Friday of the 3rd week before the 4th Tuesday when Skills Nights and image challenges are held.
I apologise for any confusion this may cause during the transition period, but putting the image challenges onto our Myphotoclub site was a change that was always intended.
by Geoff Adams, January 20, 2020 Share:
Tuesday Night – Jilly’s Cafe 6pm
Tuesday Night – Jilly’s 6pm
Tripods: Types, usage
Tripod Heads & Alternatives
There will be no handout that night, but please look at the lesson plan below.
by Tryg Helander, January 19, 2020 Share:
Results for competitions in January 2020
There were 36 entries that gained our highest award(s).
Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in January 2020
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Silk Road cultural show Dunhuang Geoff Adams – Gold A Grade Open Digital 
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The points of things. Robert Fox – Gold B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Graceful Tree Frog Andrew Raguse – Silver A Grade Open Digital 
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The waterfront Geoff Adams – Silver A Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Survival Dean Mengel – Silver A Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Rebel Jason Wheeler – Silver B Grade Open Digital 
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Play misty for me. Stewart Dorman – Silver B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Guyra Nightscape John Stewart – Silver Salon Grade Open Print 
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HardLabour Janine Waters – Silver Salon Grade Open Digital 
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Parterre garden Peter Granfield – Silver Salon Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Dust Dump Robert Brown – Bronze A Grade Open Print 
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Street Companions Sandy Adsett – Bronze A Grade Open Digital 
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The painter of Crail_Scotland Barry Whisson – Bronze A Grade Open Digital 
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Tami 01 Graham Harris – Bronze A Grade Open Digital 
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BULLSEYE Mate Tim Dunn – Bronze A Grade Open Digital 
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No Smoochies From You Thanks Nicola Lancaster – Bronze A Grade Open Digital 
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Shaped for Speed Dean Mengel – Bronze A Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Liliac breasted Roller Terry O’Brien – Bronze B Grade Open Digital 
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River Sunset Jan Collings – Bronze B Grade Open Digital 
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Fault Jason Wheeler – Bronze B Grade Open Digital 
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Twisted points. Robert Fox – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Plugs Roberta Edwards – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Trouble Twice Jan Collings – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Blue zoom Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Bubbles Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Hot Air Ballooning Cheryl Bellette – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Indiana Steampunk Leslie Rook – Bronze B Grade Field Day Digital 
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A Hi set Queeenslander Allan Rosser – Bronze Salon Grade Open Print 
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Pavilion sunbeams John Stewart – Bronze Salon Grade Open Print 
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Restaurant Reflections John Stewart – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Print 
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Man From Mars Graham Burstow – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Print 
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Our pride rock Sara Hedley – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital 
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GirlsWheatHarvest Janine Waters – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital 
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LunchTime Janine Waters – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital 
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Creation of woman Peter Granfield – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Digital 
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Cyclists Pierre Boudib – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Digital 
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by Geoff Adams, January 17, 2020 Share:
Changes to Skills Night
The first Skills Night for the year will be at De Molay House on Tuesday Jan 28. The theme is “Forced Perspective” ahead of a field day on that topic to be held in February.
The Image Challenge is “Christmas”. You may enter 5 images on this topic, 5 on field days and 5 for favourites as previously. Graham Harris is stepping down from his roles in TPS due to illness, and all of us thank him for his many years of hard work and service to our club. If you haven’t already sent images to Graham, please send to Geoff Adams at koolkatquilting@bigpond.com by FRIDAY 24th.
Geoff is not as proficient with a/v software as Graham, and would appreciate the weekend before each Skills Night to prepare the Image Challenge presentation.
by Geoff Adams, January 15, 2020 Share:
Jilly’s Cafe Microskills Night
The first Jilly’s Cafe meeting for 2020 will be next Tuesday Jan 21st at 6pm. The topic will be “Holding the camera steady – from hand-held to tripod”, and will be presented by Tryg Helander. Jilly’s is at 181 Margaret Street, gold coin for notes.
by Geoff Adams, January 15, 2020 Share:
Alice Black – January 2020.
To perpetuate the memory of our late member Alice Black, the club has introduced the ‘Alice Black Memorial Trophy’ to be contested each year on a perpetual basis.
At each month’s Aggregate Competition the judge will select an image from all those entered as the monthly Alice Black Image – they will use their own criteria to select the image regardless of the score given. All images submitted in the Aggregate Competition have the potential to become a possible winner of the Trophy as there is no restriction on the grade of the entrant or the medium in which the image is presented.
For January 2020 the Alice Black has been awarded to Geoff Adams for his image “The Silk Road at Dunhuang”. This image was entered in the A Grade Open Digital section.
by Geoff Adams, January 15, 2020 Share:
2020 AGM Notice
Our required 2020 AGM will be on:
11 Feb – 6pm DeMolay House
Our normal competition night will follow.
by Tryg Helander, January 13, 2020 Share:
Note Well….Change of location for Tuesday Meeting
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Tuesday’s Competition Meeting will be held at The Vision Community Church, 45 Jones Street Harlaxton (just near the Aldi supermarket). The meeting will start, as normal, at 7pm.
Please be on the early side. You can see the church at the top left of the map. The turn onto Jones street is from Ruthven, just after the Northpoint Shopping Centre, when travelling North, or at the lights opposite the Harlaxton State School, travelling South.
by Tryg Helander, January 10, 2020 Share:
