Eastern Rosella Twirled – Kerry Malec

The challenge for us this time was to ‘…produce images that “break the rules” and challenge your own comfort zone.’ While down on entries this time, there were some excellent examples for us to consider.

Our judge for the evening was Lindsay Poland, who is a professional photographer and works at Diamonds Camera Video and Digital. To pinch words from James Allan in the September Camera Clips article ( https://cameraclips05.wordpress.com/2018-camera-clips/september-camera-clips/ ):

‘Lindsay has quite a reputation, conducting workshops and has just returned from judging in Victoria.  Coming from outside the camera club circuit he has a different approach.  He favours strong simple compositions and rewards well printed and presented images.  He penalizes post processing that is obvious to the viewer, in particular if it increases noise and sharpening artifact.  His attention to detail is phenomenal, viewing the images from close up he is uncanny in his analysis of camera technique and post production.  It is hard to pull the wool over his observant gaze.’ Thanks James, well summarised.

He was certainly hot on spotting images where he saw evidence of over sharpening and it was clearly a focus for him.

We hope you enjoy some of the images from the evening.

Through the Door – Judy Sara

Alphabet – James Allan

Perfect Pangarinda – Bev Langley

Slinky and Vase – Judy Sara

Fractured Iris – Helen Whitford

One Loose Cannon – Helen Whitford

Up and Down – Anthony Kernich

Red Centre – Helen Whitford

Reading! It’s Beautiful Outside! – Judy Sara

Parisian Street Art – Anthony Kernich

Hello Sunshine! – Helen Whitford

Melbourne Docks – James Allan

Look Down to Look Up – James Allan

Fluff Up! – Bev Langley

Hint of a Camelia – Judy Sara

Our Set Subject for August 2nd was “Square Crop.”  It didn’t matter what the subject of the image was, as long as it suited the square aspect ratio.  A number of members came to the party with some creative use of the format. Ray Goulter’s “Alignment”, James Allan’s “Loch Luna”, Howard Seaman’s “Fine Dining”” and Helen Whitford’s “Soursobs” and “Cutie Pie” were all noted by judge, David Rowlands, as suiting the square crop particularly well.

Alignment – Ray Goulter

Loch Luna – James Allan

Cutie Pie – Helen Whitford

Fine Dining – Howard Seaman

Soursobs – Helen Whitford

David provided very fair, well rounded comments, elaborating on what he liked and where he could see opportunities to improve the image.  I think we all appreciated the fact that he gave every image his full attention.

The Open category attracted some strong images too, with Anthony Kernich’s “Duomo” impressing, and Helen Whitford’s “Hello Sunshine” having impact.  James Allan’s “Pigs” and Mark Pedlar’s “Grey Ghosts on Pulteney” both showed a different perspective.

Duomo – Anthony Kernich

Hello Sunshine! – Helen Whitford

Pigs – James Allan

Grey Ghosts on Pulteney – Mark Pedlar

Entry numbers were low again and we’d really like to encourage everyone to participate in the competition, challenge yourselves and your fellow club-mates and take the opportunity to access feedback on your images from both the judge and other members.

Click the links for all of the Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images.

June’s competition saw us getting in close with Macro/Micro/Closeup as the set subject.  We took a fairly loose approach to the definition as not everyone has macro equipment.  The idea was simply to get in for close detail.  However image numbers were down significantly although there was a great turnout of members for a cold winter’s night!  We even welcomed a couple of new members!
Our judge, John Hodgson, provided thoughtful comments on each image, with lots of constructive tips.  It was great to see new member, Meredith Retallack, among the top images with “Dew Drops”.

Dew Drops – Meredith Retallack

And Judy Sara cleaned up in the Projected images Set Subject with three very different images.

Pollination Target – Judy Sara

Bird’s Head or Seed Pod? – Judy Sara

Sweat Sucker – Judy Sara

Kerry, Eric and Howard provided some other interesting entries in the set subject.

Fern Frond – Kerry Malec

HRH Coined – Eric Budworth

Just Add Cream – Howard Seaman

There were some great images displayed in the Open category as well!

Berry Fest – Heather Connolly

Those Ears! – Helen Whitford

Turning Alcoholic – James Allan

Little Ray of Sunshine – Helen Whitford

Adelaide Autumn Leaves – Anthony Kernich

Sam Solarised – James Allan

Red Brow – James Allan

Click the links for more Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images