Zoom tonight Astrophotography Workshop
Ever wondered how you can capture images of the stars at night. Zoom in tonight Wednesday May 15th to find out how to plan and capture nightscape images.
It is not difficult to shoot the Milky Way or star trail images you just have to know some camera settings and “not be afraid of the dark” 🙂
You will learn all of the tricks required! From now to November is the best time to capture milky way images. What are you waiting for?
Zoom in tonight using the link on the website. Meeting will open from 6.45pm with a start time of 7pm.
Below nightscape images from the local area.
by Greg Carruthers, May 15, 2024
APS Australia Cup – 7 days to go
Our club has the opportunity to enter the 2024 APS Australia Cup on the theme – “This is Australia”. By way of background, approximately sixty Australian photographic clubs enter this competition each year. Our results for the last three years have been 18th (2023), 6th (2022), and 6th (2021).
All members can enter a maximum of 2 images from which a final selection of our 20 best images will be selected and uploaded as our club entry. You do not have to be a member of APS, and the cost of our club entry is paid by our club.
The competition definition is – THIS IS AUSTRALIA
… Any image that shows a flavour of life in Australia, including landscapes, people, events and places including architecture, birds and animals. Images may be taken from any of Australia’s territories. …
You can upload your best two images on this theme with a closing date of 11.59pm on Sunday 19th May.
Competition Rules:
- Twenty images per club
- Two images per club member
- Images cannot be used that have been submitted in prior APS Australia Cup competitions
- Authors can only submit entries via one club
- Digital images only – Colour or Monochrome are accepted
- Maximum dimension are 1920 x 1200 pixels, size 2Mb
Other information:
Final results – clubs will be notified by July 31st
All entered images and awards are eligible as National acceptances for APS Honours LAPS and AAPS.
Any questions, please contact me (davidrichards5050@gmail.com or 0419 626 321)
David Richards
by David Richards, May 13, 2024
Member Feedback Forms
At our club night last Wednesday we handed out feedback forms and received some really good feedback and ideas from members on what is going well and how we might better meet members needs in the future. I would like to give all members the chance to provide feedback before we consolidate the responses and share with everyone in the club. So, if you were not at our meeting last Wednesday and would like to provide feedback to the committee you can download the feedback form at the following link.
You can complete the feedback form and email it back to me (bicton36@gmail.com) or simply answer the questions posed on the form and reply in your email. Please send in your responses as soon as you can and no later than Wednesday 15th May. Many thanks.
by Dennis Archibald, May 10, 2024
Results for competitions in 2024 May Prints
There were 5 entries that were rated the highest by our judge(s).
Members can view all images and comment on them by following this link
View / Comment entries in 2024 May Prints
Member’s choice voting is available. This just for fun and does not affect the club pointscore. To vote follow the link above.
click here to see a pdf catalog of all competition results
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Emily Bay Peter Treloar – Honours-Judges-Choice A Grade Open Colour Large Print 
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Native Teddybear Bee John Bennett – Honours-Judges-Choice A Grade Nature Large Print 
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Woops ran Aground Elica Petrovska – Honours-Judges-Choice B Grade Open Colour Large Print 
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Puppy Training Annette Collins – Honours-Judges-Choice Advanced Open Colour Large Print 
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Successful Hunt Bill Chambers – Honours-Judges-Choice Advanced Nature Large Print 
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by Susan Slack, May 10, 2024
Club Training and Tutorials in May
At the May Print night I ommitted to mention the training and tutorials we had planned in May. You can see these on the club’s home page in our calendar on the left hand side or by clicking on the right hand side panel which begins Zoom Presentations link and …….
Greg Carruthers will deliver a training session by Zoom at 7.00pm on Wednesday 15th May – A Beginners Guide to Astrophotography.
On Wednesday 22nd May there will be a presentation by C.R. Kennedy on Portrait Photography using studio lighting setups at Valentine Bowling Club, commencing at 7.00pm.
At the end of the month between 27th and 31st May (weather permitting) Greg will run an astrophotography photoshoot. Details will be announced closer to the date.
Please come along and support these events. A good attendance by members is always strong encouragement for the members who plan and deliver these sessions.
by Dennis Archibald, May 9, 2024
