Image Review Night 21/06/2022 @ 7PM on Zoom

At the start of the meeting we will ask for volunteers and then prepare the images.

If you would like to get some feedback on images you may be thinking of entering for future judging’s, please submit them in the “Critique Corner” which you can find here:
https://toowoomba.myphotoclub.com.au/enter-a-collection/?collection_id=1315

After the image review section there will be some discussion around the next set subject of Water.

Set Subject Defined as:
Water is an essential ingredient to life. Photograph water in any form the appeals to you; be it, the local creek, water drops, the surf in the ocean, ice cubes, bath tub full of water in a paddock etc. Use your imagination.

Some inspiration for the set subject might be found here:
https://www.viewbug.com/search/water

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by Travis Lord, June 21, 2022

Results for competitions in June 2022

There were 45 entries that gained our highest award(s).

Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in June 2022

click here to see a pdf catalog of all competition results

Golden Beauty Margaret Kebble – Honour DIGITAL A Grade Open Colour	Taking 5 Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Honour DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Colour
New Holland Honey Eater Ann Gibbs-Jordan – Honour DIGITAL B Grade Open Colour	Wilpena Pound at dawn after the rai Pete McDonald – Honour DIGITAL B Grade Open Colour
Farmer Asif Rasheed – Honour DIGITAL B Grade SetSubject Colour	Tiwi Artist Sandra Neill – Honour PRINT Salon Grade SetSubject Colour
Butchers Table Pierre Boudib – Honour DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour	Aurora Australis Nov 2021 Jenny Graff – Honour DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour
Lunch Time Janine Waters – Honour DIGITAL Salon Grade SetSubject Mono	Missing the Message John Stewart – Honour PRINT Salon Grade SetSubject Mono
Waiting for the One John Stewart – Honour PRINT Salon Grade SetSubject Mono	Under Pressure Veronica Sorley – Honour DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Mono
Life through a hole in a wall Jason Wheeler – Honour DIGITAL A Grade Open Mono	Flower Fairy Roberta Edwards – Honour DIGITAL A Grade Creative
Keyed Alike Pierre Boudib – Honour DIGITAL Salon Grade Creative	Bike Jump Robert Brown – Merit PRINT A Grade Open Colour
Boat Bedtime Anthony Harrison – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Open Colour	I Think I Got One Dean Mengel – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Open Colour
Into the Mist Sonny Rutherford – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Open Colour	relaxing in Queen’s Park Dianne Horrocks – Merit DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Colour
Justin Roberta Edwards – Merit DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Colour	Working for Crackers Veronica Sorley – Merit DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Colour
Recreation Time Dean Mengel – Merit DIGITAL A Grade SetSubject Colour	Is this a round To-It Peter Allison – Merit DIGITAL B Grade Open Colour
Right Place, Right Time Cheryl Bellette – Merit DIGITAL B Grade Open Colour	Cape Nelson on a bad day Pete McDonald – Merit DIGITAL B Grade Open Colour
Cruising Is Tiring Dennis Clark – Merit DIGITAL B Grade SetSubject Colour	strange stranger iris Castle – Merit DIGITAL B Grade SetSubject Colour
Pink Fungi Sandra Neill – Merit PRINT Salon Grade Open Colour	Autumn baby Sara Hedley – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour
Mothers Day. Robert Fox – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour	Glengallan staircase Jenny Graff – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour
Aurora Australis Feb 2022 Jenny Graff – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Colour	Happy Soul Janine Waters – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade SetSubject Colour
The Protector Janine Waters – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade SetSubject Mono	lost in thought Sara Hedley – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Mono
A lot of fun! Sara Hedley – Merit DIGITAL Salon Grade Open Mono	Catching Up John Stewart – Merit PRINT Salon Grade SetSubject Mono
The Winner Is Graham Burstow – Merit PRINT Salon Grade SetSubject Mono	The Last One Standing Allan Rosser – Merit PRINT Salon Grade Open Mono
Good Knight Jason Wheeler – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Open Mono	Thoughtful Nicola Lancaster – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Open Mono
Happiness Asif Rasheed – Merit DIGITAL B Grade SetSubject Mono	Row Row Row your Boat Kym Stewart – Merit DIGITAL B Grade Creative
Toowoomba Medley Margaret Kebble – Merit DIGITAL A Grade Creative

by Travis Lord, June 14, 2022

Judging Night 14/06/2022 7PM @DeMolay

Hi All, Tonight is our Monthly Competition Judging Night for Set Subject “Stranger”.

We will have two guest judges as follows:
Rochelle James for our Prints
Simon Cox for our Digitals

Where: DeMolay & Zoom

COVID Restrictions have been lifted by Queensland Health / Government and all members are welcome to attend. If you are currently sick, or isolating due to a COVID Positive test – please stay home and join us over Zoom instead.

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Images for set subject “Bridges” are due by 11:59PM Tonight!!

by Travis Lord, June 14, 2022

1H22 Trans-Tasman Results

I wish to thank everyone who entered into the first Trans-Tasman competition with our friends from Howick for 2022.

Standings:

1H21 – Our town – Winner: Toowoomba

2H21 – My Springtime – Winner: Howick

1H22 – Nature – Winner: Howick

Last nights judging was performed by Anne Pappalardo from Brisbane and Elizabeth Passuello from New Zealand. Both judges put in a monstrous effort in not only scoring the images, but preparing exceptional feedback for all images shown. They spent a lot of time explaining to us how “Nature” photography would be judged in an “international” sense and how certain elements, composition and in some cases image titling can have a impact to an images eligibility.

The competition was fiercely contended throughout the night with Howick coming out on top. We now have the opportunity to set the subject for the 2H22 comp and we’re definitely going to find a subject to challenge our NZ friends.

We should be proud of our efforts, with 96% of images entered coming from our B and A grade’s, opposed to Howick’s 40% from their C and B grades.

Special mention to Pete McDonald receiving the highest marks from Toowoomba from both Judges and a 9/10 from Elizabeth with a total of 15 for his image Wilpena Pound at Dawn after the Rain, and Dianne Horrocks having received a 9/10 from Anne but also getting a total score of 14 from both Judges for her image My Breakfast.

For anyone interested, all of the images entered onto MyPhotoClub by members were scored by all members of our Committee and the top 30 images from the collective scores were entered into the competition against Howick.

Below is a breakdown of the images and scores received:
You can see the images here:
https://tpsi.org.au/1h22-trans-tasman-toowoomba-images/

Image Name	Author	Grade	Total
Wilpena Pound at dawn after the rai	Pete McDonald	B	15
My Breakfast	Dianne Horrocks	B	14
Flying High	Dean Mengel	A	14
Lake Mungo – home of Mungo Man	Pete McDonald	B	14
Pretty Face Wallaby	Veronica Sorley	A	14
Small Green Banded Blue Butterfly	Travis Lord	Salon	14
Grass Skipper	Charlotte Lord	B	13
Nap time	Jo-Ann Aspromourgos	A	13
Azure Kingfisher	Richard Wyton	A	12
BYO Lunch	Belinda Kranz	B	12
Crocodile Soup	Anthony Harrison	A	12
Dagg Falls after flooding rain	Peter Allison	B	12
Masked Lapwings	Gracie Lord	B	12
Playing Chase	Dean Mengel	A	12
Afternoon Swim	Tim Dunn	A	12
Black-shouldered Kites	Veronica Sorley	A	11
Dwarf tree frog	Jo-Ann Aspromourgos	A	11
Fallen Mushroom	Sonny Rutherford	A	11
flycatcher	iris Castle	B	11
Flying Seagull	Sonny Rutherford	A	11
Purple Plant	Gracie Lord	B	11
White faced Heron	Kym Stewart	B	11
Yellow Throated Shrubwren	Bruce Tame	A	11
Me and my Shadow	iris Castle	B	10
The Ranges	Jasmin Lord	A	10
Wait for Me	Anthony Harrison	A	10
Cotton-On	Charlotte Lord	B	8
Wonderland	Jasmin Lord	A	8
Daisy Love	Kym Stewart	B	7
Foxtail weed	Margaret Kebble	A	7

Please keep in mind that a number of images the judges explained were amazing captures, but that they did not fit into the nature category and as such scored them lower.  

For future competitions I have recommended we use different naming criteria to allow for more freedom and a broader range of images.

by Travis Lord, June 8, 2022

Starting 5:30PM TONIGHT 7/06 – Trans-Tasman Cup Judging on Zoom

REMINDER: the judging night for the “Nature” images that were entered for the Trans-Tasman Cup will occur Tonight.

The Zoom meeting will open at 17:30 QLD Time for some general conversation time with Judging to commence from 18:00. We encourage all members to join us on zoom for the judging process.

Topic: Toowoomba Interclub Zoom Meeting
Time: Jun 7, 2022 05:30 Brisbane Time

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Meeting ID: 898 9765 1472
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To see the 30 images we submitted click the following link:
https://tpsi.org.au/1h22-trans-tasman-toowoomba-images/

There were 25 Toowoomba members who entered with a total of 63 images for the committee to go through. These images were scored by all members of the committee which then gave us our top 30 images.
Thank you to everyone who entered and wish you all the best on judging night!

by Travis Lord, June 7, 2022

Trans-Tasman Cup Judging

As mentioned last week, the judging night for the “Nature” images that were entered for the Trans-Tasman Cup will occur on Tuesday – 7th of June.

The Zoom meeting will open at 17:30 QLD Time for some general conversation time with Judging to commence from 18:00. We encourage all members to join us on zoom for the judging process.

Topic: Toowoomba Interclub Zoom Meeting
Time: Jun 7, 2022 07:30 PM Auckland, Wellington

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 898 9765 1472
Passcode: 278497

To see the 30 images we submitted click the following link:
https://tpsi.org.au/1h22-trans-tasman-toowoomba-images/

There were 25 Toowoomba members who entered with a total of 63 images for the committee to go through. These images were scored by all members of the committee which then gave us our top 30 images.
Thank you to everyone who entered and wish you all the best on judging night!

by Travis Lord, June 5, 2022

General Discussion Meeting 31/05/2022 @7PM on ZOOM

Tonight we will have a quick meeting to discuss some up coming changes and get some feedback from members.

7PM on Zoom, 31/05/2022

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by Travis Lord, May 31, 2022

**IMPORTANT** Update to Aggregate Competitions

Hi All,

After feedback from a number of judges, the PSQ Judges Executive and Members, the committee have decided to bring our monthly aggregate competitions in line with other clubs in the state.

Each month, members will now be able to enter 2 images, down from the previous 3. This should bring our average monthly total images down to around 100 images total, down from 150. This will greatly reduce the load on judges each month.

NOTE: This change will commence from August (Set Subject of Water) onwards all competitions on MyPhotoClub have been updated.

You should still enter 3 images into July’s (Set Subject Bridges) competition.

This will also modify the scores required to move up a grade where eligible, the percentage of total score remains the same.
The maximum attainable points from competitions is now 174.

To move from B grade to A grade you must score over 55% of the maximum possible score, members will need to attain a score of 95 or above to move forward.

To move from A grade to Salon grade, you must score over 60% of the maximum possible score, members will need to attain a score of 104 or above to move forward.

Awards	Aggregate Points
Honour	6
Merit	4
Highly Commended	3
Commended	2
Out of Category	0
Alice Black	+2 ontop of the allocated score

Members eligible for re-grading are advised prior to December, the start of the new competition year.  The management committee makes the final decision on re-grading.

Changes to image dimensions and sizes:

The sizes of images that members can upload has been changed.
Dimensions: Ensure your image is at least 1500px on the long edge. There is no longer a maximum image dimension requirement.
File Size: Maximum of 5MB.

Some Do’s and Don’ts of Entering our Monthly competitions

To address some issues noted recently, we’ve put together some do’s and don’ts for entering our competitions:

• Do – enter your best work
• Do – familiarise yourself with the set subject and definitions (click here)
• Do – title your image appropriately so the judge understands your image
• Do – consider adding a small border to images with dark edges to help the judge identify where the image ends
• Do – Check you’ve entered into the right competition (print vs digital, open vs set subject)
  
• Don’t – include watermarks or signatures on images
• Don’t – use stock imagery, downloaded images or creative works from the internet, any works that have not been photographed by yourself or created with your own hand

Clarification of Creative Subject

Definition: Creative photography is the altering of reality

Explanation and Guidelines:

It is an extension of conventional photography into creative art, and its purpose is to take the image beyond the literal through the use of imaginative skill or originality of thought.

There should be a significant photographic content, and inclusion of mixed media of any kind (paint, transfer, digital etc) is welcome. It can be a collage or a montage. The final result must be all the photographer’s own work.  This includes any tools used to alter the image that are not native to the software used, such as

• Extra brushes that add photographic elements such as snowflakes, raindrops, leaves etc
• Replacement pre-sets such as skies, sunsets, scenery
• Expansion packs

If you use image manipulation software you can

• Combine two images then experiment with different blending modes and opacity
• Experiment with the inbuilt tools such as colour replacement, invert, free transform, perspective warp, puppet warp, liquefy
• Create your own backgrounds by photographing interesting textures, skies, sunsets and scenery

If you are not using image manipulation software there are many other ways of being creative, such as

• Using in camera effects such as zoom pull, multiple exposures, intentional camera movement
• Cutting and pasting of printed images to make collages and montages
• Painting on prints or hand colouring

Creative does NOT mean abstract.

If there are any concerns regarding these changes, please contact the committee via email committee@tpsi.org.au

by Travis Lord, May 25, 2022

For Sale Section

We have a new section on our website for members to list equipment for sale. Anyone can view items already posted for sale.

To create a new listing you must create an account, this process is explained when you visit the links.
https://tpsi.org.au/

If you have any questions feel free to message Travis at president@tpsi.org.au

This feature is only available for Toowoomba Photographic Society Members.
Account registrations need to be manually approved to confirm membership status, this may take up to 5 days.

by Travis Lord, May 25, 2022

Skills Night / Field Day TONIGHT

At this stage, tonight’s Skills night is still on.
Please share this with members without email or internet access.
We will NOT be meeting at DeMolay tonight

We will be having a combined skills night / field day this coming Tuesday Night.
We are going to meet at the rail bridge in town that is at the corner of Bashford and Long Street.

Details:
Where: Rail bridge Cnr Bashford and Long Street (Across from the driving range)
Parking: Parking available in Water Street
When: 7PM
Plan: The general idea is to use this old wooden rail bridge as a subject interest to practice photographing bridges with, Try and get them level, perspective right, depth of field. We will probably light paint the bridge depending on what the ambient light will be like at the time. Vehicles will drive past so there will be a chance to get light trails, we “might” even get a train.

You might have an opportunity to photograph people at the driving range.
There might be running water in the creek underneath

What to bring:
Camera, batteries, memory cards.
Lenses: Wide will probably be best (generally anything under 24mm on a Full Frame), however longer lenses will work too and will give a different effect.
Accessories:
Tripod, Shutter Cable Release (helpful b ut not required), a torch / LED panel or something that can be used to light paint with.
Jumper/s – it might be cold
Warm Drink if you’re that way inclined.
Umbrella – Given the weather lately it’s almost necessary everywhere.

by Travis Lord, May 24, 2022