Jilly’s Cafe next Tuesday

Who started as a painter, was part of a menage-a-trois, nearly died of fever and a broken heart in West Africa, then returned home to found a leading movement in photography?

Find out decisively next Tuesday at Jilly’s Cafe, Margaret Street starting 6pm.

by Geoff Adams, January 29, 2020 Share:

Committee Nomination and Proxy Forms

The AGM is scheduled for 6pm on Tuesday 11th February. Please have all forms to the Secretary prior to the meeting’s commencement.

by Tryg Helander, January 28, 2020 Share:

Skills Night – 7pm DeMolay House

Please bring your camera and flash tomorrow night for Skills Night.

We will be discussing a shooting technique ’Forced Perspective’.

by Tryg Helander, January 27, 2020 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

e:  colin@myphotoclub.com.au 

m: 0419 624 347

w: myphotoclub.com.au

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

Silk Road cultural show Dunhuang Geoff Adams – Gold A Grade Open Digital	The points of things. Robert Fox – Gold B Grade SetSubject Digital
Graceful Tree Frog Andrew Raguse – Silver A Grade Open Digital	The waterfront Geoff Adams – Silver A Grade SetSubject Digital
Survival Dean Mengel – Silver A Grade SetSubject Digital	Rebel Jason Wheeler – Silver B Grade Open Digital
Play misty for me. Stewart Dorman – Silver B Grade SetSubject Digital	Guyra Nightscape John Stewart – Silver Salon Grade Open Print
HardLabour Janine Waters – Silver Salon Grade Open Digital	Parterre garden Peter Granfield – Silver Salon Grade SetSubject Digital
Dust Dump Robert Brown – Bronze A Grade Open Print	Street Companions Sandy Adsett – Bronze A Grade Open Digital
The painter of Crail_Scotland Barry Whisson – Bronze A Grade Open Digital	Tami 01 Graham Harris – Bronze A Grade Open Digital
BULLSEYE Mate Tim Dunn – Bronze A Grade Open Digital	No Smoochies From You Thanks Nicola Lancaster – Bronze A Grade Open Digital
Shaped for Speed Dean Mengel – Bronze A Grade SetSubject Digital	Liliac breasted Roller Terry O’Brien – Bronze B Grade Open Digital
River Sunset Jan Collings – Bronze B Grade Open Digital	Fault Jason Wheeler – Bronze B Grade Open Digital
Twisted points. Robert Fox – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital	Plugs Roberta Edwards – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital
Trouble Twice Jan Collings – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital	Blue zoom Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital
Bubbles Jo-Ann Aspromourgos – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital	Hot Air Ballooning Cheryl Bellette – Bronze B Grade SetSubject Digital
Indiana Steampunk Leslie Rook – Bronze B Grade Field Day Digital	A Hi set Queeenslander Allan Rosser – Bronze Salon Grade Open Print
Pavilion sunbeams John Stewart – Bronze Salon Grade Open Print	Restaurant Reflections John Stewart – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Print
Man From Mars Graham Burstow – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Print	Our pride rock Sara Hedley – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital
GirlsWheatHarvest Janine Waters – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital	LunchTime Janine Waters – Bronze Salon Grade Open Digital
Creation of woman Peter Granfield – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Digital	Cyclists Pierre Boudib – Bronze Salon Grade SetSubject Digital

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: