This will be our End of Year Competition for the 2016-17 year.
We can gather near the car park at 2.00 pm and instructions will be given for the scavenger hunt a small prize will be awarded to the winners.
From 3.00 – 4.00 pm, those who are interested, there will be a social gathering and viewing of some of the images captured during the day.
Refreshments – tea / coffee and biscuits will be available at Michael and Meegan’s residence on the back veranda at 7 Bothwell St Newtown (2 min drive from the park).
Image Challenge: Circles
Deadline for August 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set Subjects;
- Lakes, Rivers, Dams – Definition: must include water still or moving; it must be visble and must be enhanced by nature, man or made structures (N.B. the title shown in plural form – is just to cover more than one entry, but does not refer to multiples in the subject)
- Joy of Life – Definition: must feature any living creature – human or animal. Joy in any form must be evident in the image. Any age of subject is acceptable and can feature one or more participants.
Judge: Graham Harris AAPS AFIAP PSQA
The next Toowoomba Photographic Society Field Day is being held in conjunction with the Toowoomba Field Naturalist Club on Sunday, 13th August 2017. On this field day we will visit two properties in the Kingsthorpe District. The sites provide plenty of photographic opportunities – rural scenery, birdlife, native vegetation and aboriginal scar trees to name a few.
The Field Day locations can be seen in the accompanying map – click on thumbnail for a larger image.
9:45am – Meet at the St Joseph College southern car park off Crown Road, Toowoomba
10:00am – Departure
10:30am – Nikki & Glen Lawes’ property (3 km north of the intersection of North St, Kingsthorpe with the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road – opposite the Wedgetail Winery).
1:00pm – Lunch at the Pioneer Arms Hotel, Goombungee Hotel ($15 counter lunch)
2:30pm – Evan & Russell Ehrlich’s property (on the Oakey-Meringandan Road, 600m east of the intersection of the Kingsthorpe-Haden and Oakey-Meringandan Roads)
5:00pm – Finish and return to Toowoomba
Please bring the following (along with your camera gear of course):
- closed in shoes
- hat
- water
- sunscreen
- cups (there will be a campfire billy boiling)
- $15 for your counter lunch at the Meringandan Hotel
We will be travelling to the Lawes property via Gowrie Junction (to avoid the Zims Corner turn-off to Kingsthorpe). The directions are given below:
- follow Bridge St west until the Gowrie Junction Road (turn north)
- At the Gowrie Junction roundabout turn left into Gowrie-Tilgonda Road
- After 740m turn right into Gowrie-Lilyvale Road
- Take the Gowrie-Lilyval road for 1.1km, then turn left into Gowrie-Glencoe Road
- Follow Gowrie-Glencoe Road until the T junction where you turn left and continue on the Gowrie-Glencoe Road
- Follow this road into Kingsthorpe and turn right into North St and follow it until it meets the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road
- Turn right on the Kingsthorpe-Haden Road and travel 3km to the entrance of the Lawes property (on the left)
- commencing 6:00pm for conversation and socialising
- Main meal served at 6:30pm
- End of Year competition photos on display
- Cash bar serving soft drinks, beer, wine and spirits
- Presentation of 2016-17 competition year awards
- Excellent door raffle
- Dress Code – Smart Casual
Cost: $40 RSVP by Tuesday 15th August 2017
Payments can be made in advance by direct deposit to:
BSB: 638070
Account No. 4278291
Alternatively, pay on Club Night at the door.
The Agenda for tonight includes:
- Dry and Wet Sensor Dust Cleaning (with Hudson Henry)
- Competition Pointers (with Peter Eastway)
- The Lightroom Interface (with Matt Kloskowski)
For this month the Image Challenge is “Far Away”. Please send up to five images for this Challenge, together with up to five images for the Field Day and five for the Favourites to be included in the Skills Night audio-visual to me at graham_harris@westnet.com.au by 6:00pm on Thursday 24th August 2017.
Deadline for September 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Creative Flower Photography Field Day – further details to be provided closer to the field day date
TPS Annual General Meeting tonight
Open
Set Subjects:
- Creative – Creative or experimental photographs display a novel effect because of an unusual combination of objects and /or unusual viewpoint. Photographs in which the images have been modified during or after exposure by using an experimental technique are also eligible in Creative/Experimental sections. The photograph must always have a basic photographic image. Digital manipulation processes may be employed provided the original photograph was exposed by the entrant.
- Recycled – something that has been used before and then put through a process so that it can form a new product.
Judge: Mykl Devlin
The Agenda for this night includes:
- Image Processing with FastStone (Allan Rosser)
- Portraiture (Graham Burstow)
- Posing App (Graham Harris)
- Use of Gradient Filters (Margaret Kebble)
- Using the TPS MyPhotoClub website (Graham Harris)
For this month the Image Challenge is “Music”. Please send up to five images for this Challenge, together with up to five images for the Field Day and five for the Favourites to be included in the Skills Night audio-visual to me at graham_harris@westnet.com.au by 6:00pm on Thursday 24th August 2017.
Deadline for October 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set Subject: Travel
A photograph that captures the feeling of a time and place, and portrays a land, a people or a culture in its natural state. Photo Travel has no geographical limitations. Ultra close-ups which lose their identity, studio type model pictures or obviously manipulated work do not qualify as Photo Travel and should not be submitted. Photo Travel is not limited to other lands or countries and may include pictures of domestic origin.
Judge: Brian Kenny PSQA
We will meet at the Neil St Carpark next to the Wonderly and Hall Building, Neil St at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.
We will be touring the First Coat Street Art and taking night photography shots until around 9:00pm. Experienced photographers will be on hand to assist with camera settings.
Please bring your camera, tripod, shutter release, speedlights and torches.
Guest Speaker: Pippa Ellis, Universal Drones – using drones for photography and cinematography (TBC)
Image Challenge: Perspective
Deadline for November 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Participants need to register for this event by the 27 October 2017 Skills Night with Graham Harris.
Participants need to bring:
- their computer with Lightroom loaded on it (if you do not have a copy of Lightroom you can download a free trial version for 7 days from the Adobe website – www,adobe.com/au)
- A camera with some of their images on their SD card
- $25 to pay for the workshop
The workshop will run from 9:30am to 12:30pm – please arrive from 9:00am in order to set up your computer before the workshop.
Open
Set: No caption required
The message of the image is clearly illustrated by the image itself – there is no need of a title to explain the message of the image.
NOTE: You will have to put a title on the image in order to upload it for competition.
Judge: Tryg Helander
Details to be provided closer to the Field Day
Image Challenge: Seasons
Deadline for December 2017 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set
- Music – As a photographer can you meet the challenge of music?
Besides the obvious, photographing the making of music–musicians and concerts, instruments and equipment, I think music photography is also about capturing an artist’s “sound” in an image. A good music photo should communicate what the artist is about, not only what they sound like but also their personalities. But the end result needs to be generally pleasing, what appeals to some people will not appeal to others.
But don’t just stop there, or even start there. What makes music to your ears? I don’t want to put that in concrete terms, but there is music in nature, and to convey that in photography requires thought, planning and skill–oh yes, timing and opportunity.
2. Broken, Bent or Busted
Self explanatory perhaps, but everything bent isn’t busted, and everything broken, bent or busted may not appear to be, nor are they all “things”.
Judge: Allan Rosser
Deadline for February 2018 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
There is no competition this month.
This will be a training workshop focusing on achieving appropriate exposure in our images.
7:00pm – Welcome
7:05pm – Exposure in Photography – What We Control
7:30pm – Group Work – looking at ISO, shutter speed and aperture
8:00pm Supper
8:15pm – Putting it all together
8:30pm – When things go wrong
8:40pm – Group Work – correcting focus
9:00pm – Understanding exposure
9:15pm – Group Work – exposure modes and exposure compensation
9:30pm – Finish
Image Challenge: Vibrant
TPS members will meet at 8:00am at the Highfields Pioneer Village, 73 Wirraglen Road, Highfields on the 26th January 2018. Experienced members will be on hand to assist photographers with advice on their photography and cameras throughout the day.
The official program runs from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Full details of the program can be found at http://user.tr.qld.gov.au/next-month/eventdetail/54186/-/highfields-australia-day
Deadline for March 2018 Aggregate Competition entries:
12:00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set:
- Upset may include any of the following:- the overturning of something (e.g. a cart); turning upside down; disturbing mentally or emotionally; perturb; physical upset; defeating or overthrow of an opponent and its use in metalworking to thicken the end of (a piece of heated metal) by hammering on the end against the length of the piece.
- Long Exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements.
Judge: Gerard Saide SSAPS PSQA (TBC)
This event is limited to 15 participants – details to be provided closer to event. It is most suitable for beginning members with little experience in studio photography.
Presenter: Sid Owen
Image Challenge: Negative Space
Deadline for April 2018 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set:
- Doors/Windows – The main subject must have a door(s) and/or window(s) as the dominant feature. Parts of door(s) and/or window(s) are allowed.
- Landscape – A landscape is a photograph of natural scenery with land and sky based elements displayed in a pictorial fashion. It may include evidence of man, people, animals, even part of the sea provided that none of these additional elements dominate the photograph.
Judge: John Stewart, AASAPS, FAPS, PSQA
Image Challenge: Wasted
Deadline for May 2018 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set
- Cityscape – the visual appearance from a distance of a city or urban area; a city landscape.
- People – A photograph of a person or persons that may range from a head study to fill body length. This section includes candid photographs and formal portraits
Judge: Elizabeth Kodela EFIAP/b, FAPS, GPU2CR, PSQA
Image Challenge: Patterns in Nature
More details to be provided closer to the event.
Deadline for June 2018 Aggregate Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set
- Letters
- Sport
Judge: Tryg Helander
Image Challenge: A touch of red
More details to be provided closer to the event.
Deadline for the End of Year Competition entries:
12;00 noon – print entries to be delivered to Murray’s Art and Framing, 485 Ruthven St, Toowoomba
12:00 midnight – digital entries to be uploaded into Toowoomba MyPhotoClub website – for instructions click here
Open
Set
- Shapes
- Suburban Life
Judge: Graham Burstow, OAM, FPSQ, FAPS, FRPS, FPSA. EFIAP, HAFB, HFAPS, PSQA
Image Challenge: Insects
End of Year Competition
Judge: Alison Ahlhaus
There will be a Treasure Hunt in and around Queens Park. Bring your camera, turn up across the road from DeMollay house by 10AM to collect your clues. You will have 2 hours to photograph as many clues as you can. Report back to the desk by 12 midday and have your answers uploaded from your memory card. The winner will be announced at the next available club/skills night. Prize to be announced.
Image Challenge: Signs
The AGM will also be held on this club night. Please note the membership fees need to be paid to vote and to stand for office.
Open
Set Subject: Old and New
Definition: An image combining element of ‘old’ (from the past; advanced in years; or, no longer in use) and the ‘new’ (having recently come into existence; in a relationship or condition for a short time; repetition of a previous act or thing; different from something that existed previously) together.
Judge: Peter Granfield PSQA
The End of Year Dinner and Presentation Night has been cemented as the 24th August and Golden Roast, the catering provider, will be tasked to provide both main and desert. Cost per member will be $35 per head. The pre-dinner nibbles will be by contribution by members. The bread will be purchased by Vintage Vignettes Photography. The club will run a soft-drink bar at $1 per can. No alcohol will be permitted as DeMolay house is an alcohol-free zone. pre dinner nibbles will start at 6:30pm. Sit down to dinner at 7:00pm with tea and cofee avavilable after the meal.
Image Challenge: Off the Ground
Proposed Itinerary
Saturday 1st
9 a.m. meet in Warwick and travel along the old road to Dalveen, some dirt road but the last time I was on it it was good. There should be photo opportunities along the way.
10a.m. morning tea at Dalveen rest area
Following morning tea photo opportunity at Dalveen railway tunnel.
Travel to Stanthorpe to book in and then lunch
2 p.m. Leave for Tenterfield Station
5.45 p.m. at the latest leave Tenterfield (Sunset is 5.40)
7.30 p.m. Dinner at R.S.L
Leave for Toowoomba
Members and friends are invited to our monthly meeting and competition night – 7pm at DeMolay House on the second Tuesday of each month.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning photographers and the best Treasure Hunt group during the May monthly meetings. Photos taken on the day will also be displayed.
The Trans-Tasman Challenge judging for the set subject “Flowers” will take place on the 19th May 2024 at 6:30pm.
The Zoom link will be posted on our website on the 19th May 2024 for all to join in.