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Patron: Graham Dainty
Office Bearers:
President: Ian Smith
Vice President: David Tose
Past President: Stephanie Forrester
Secretary: Liz Collett Treasurer: Stephanie Forrester (Acting) Committee Members: Kevin Tyree, Rosemary McGeachie, Sandra King, Les Ladbrook, Val Wardell
Editor: Rosemary McGeachie
Southland Photographic Society http://www.southlandphotographicsociety.com
July 2016
Southern Exposure
Meetings held at Age Concern Rooms in Forth Street, Invercargill at 7.30pm on the first & third Thursday of each month.
Camera Basics - 7pm
Results: Open (3) C Grade
Guest Speaker: Graham
Dainty - PSNZ
Honours
Results: Open (3) A&B
Grades
Close-off: Open (4) A,B & C
Grade
Intro: Championship/End-of
-Year
Member’s Portfolio: Anita
Hayman
Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease.
Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about
yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance
performed just after you've accidentally walked
through a spider web.
Supper Duty for Meetings 7 July: Dee Uren-Perry, Ian Smith 21 July: Val & Rob Wardell
2 June 7 July
21 July
A busy night starting with an AV from the photoshoot at the Old Flour Mill, featuring the Steampunkers. This was followed by NHx(2) and PJ(2) results. Leigh Burford then talked and showed pictures from the trip he and Glenda did to Europe last year. Good stuff - makes one keen to get there! And finally we had a short AV on the Set Subject ‘Bald’. It seemed quite difficult to get people to make ‘Offerings’ for this SS! Well done, those that did - much appreciated!
We began the evening with Jason and his father Murry Goodall, from Cameo Picture Framers, in Yarrow Street. They talked to us about the services they provide around matting and preparation of photographs for exhibition, and showed us some examples of what they can do for us. We then moved on to Dave Tose talking about (and showing us) his photography. Some really good stuff there, Dave. Thanks for that! So it was a slightly shorter meeting than usual, but good in that we had time to talk to other Club Members over Supper. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having
a flat stomach. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing
adopted by proctologists. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while
drunk.
16 June
Light My Fire
As we have five Thursdays this month, the last one (30 June) will be a Workshop. This will be run/orchestrated/organised and put together by ‘Our Annie’
Topic: Light my Fire.
This will be well worth coming to, and don’t forget, there is a $5.00 charge to cover expenses (the expense of using the rooms for one extra night).
Breaking News!
‘Our Roger’ (Roger Wandless) got:
8 Silver Medals
& 2 Bronze Medals
At the IRIS Awards
Well done Roger, and
congratulations from SPS
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Natural History (2) Projected Images C Grade Cameron Campbell ‘Australasian Crested Grebe’ - Accepted Liz Collett ‘Bull kelp’- Accepted Peter Emms ‘Kekeno [Arctocephalus forsteri]’ - Accepted ‘Greylag Geese (ANSER anser)’ - Accepted Margaret Kalweit ‘white face heron’ - Accepted Mark Mexted ‘Royal-Spoonbill’ - Merit ‘PIed-Stilt’ - Honours Ian Smith ‘Kelp - Bluff Seashore’ - Accepted ‘Seaweed - Bluff Seashore’ - Merit Shane Todd ‘NZ Tomtit (Miromiro)’ - Accepted Val Wardell ‘Aciphylia colensoi’ - Accepted ‘Juvenile White Fronted Tern’ - Accepted Eb Wikstra ‘White faced heron Kaikoura’ - Honours B Grade Brian Hall ‘NZ Falcon (falco novaeseelandiae)’ - Accepted ‘Storm Approaching’ - Accepted Les Ladbrook ‘Aurora Australis’- Accepted ‘Banded Dotterel - Charadrius bicinctus’ - Accepted Barbara Lee ‘Male NZ Tomtit - Petroica macrocephala’ - Merit ‘Female NZ Tomtit - Petroica macrocephala’ - Honours Dot Mullay ‘Monarchidae Rhipidura fuliginosa’ - Accepted Chris Watson ‘Creested grebe chick’ - Accepted Dayle Wright ‘Crowned-Hornbill- Tokus- alboterminalus’ - Accepted A Grade Rosemary McGeachie ‘Banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus)’ - Accepted
‘Small Hover fly (Melanostoma fasciatum)’ - Accepted Prints C Grade Margaret Kalweit ‘white face heron (2) - Honours B Grade Chris Watson ‘New Zealand scaup’ - Accepted ‘New Zealand falcon’ - Honours Dayle Wright ‘Hamerkop Scopus unbretta’ - Accepted ‘Hippotamus-amphibius - Honours A Grade Rosemary McGeachie ‘Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)’ - Accepted ‘Australasian Harrier (Circus approximans)’ - Honours A woman was at home happily jumping on her bed and squealing with delight.. Her husband watches her for a while and asks, ‘Do you have any idea how ridiculous you look, What's the matter with you?’ The woman says, ‘I don't care, I just came from having a mammogram and the doctor says I have the breasts of an 18 year-old’.. The husband said, ‘What did he say about your 65 year old bum ?’ ‘Your name never came up,’ she replied.
Spare a thought for the guy who told his wife that he was going on a business trip to China on Malaysian flight MH 370 and now can't leave his girlfriend's flat! Have you ever wondered what the difference between Grandmothers and Grandfathers might be? A friend, who worked away from home all week, always made a morning available when he would take his 7-year old granddaughter for a drive in the car for some bonding time - just he and his granddaughter. One particular Sunday, however, he had a bad cold and just wanted to stay in bed. Luckily, his wife came to the rescue and said that she would take their granddaughter out in the car. When they returned, the little girl anxiously ran upstairs to see how her Grandfather was. 'Well, did you enjoy your ride with Grandma?' he asked. 'It was really great, Grandpa' the girl replied, 'and do you know what? We didn't see a single tosser, blind bastard, f#%kwit, dickhead, As!@n idiot, ******, or a wanker anywhere today!
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click ‘I agree’.
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
Photojournalism (2) Projected Images Cameron Campbell ‘Te Anau Rodeo 1’ - Accepted Chris Duggan ‘On the limit’ - Accepted ‘Wonder Dog’ - Merit Anita Hayman ‘CSI Invers’ - Accepted ‘Jamie trains for big fight’ - Honours - Third Margaret Kalweit ‘The winning delivery’ - Accepted ‘What a putt!!’ - Accepted Les Ladbrook ‘Beach Fun’ - Accepted Barbara Lee ‘Demolition site clean up’ - Accepted ‘I think we have a problem’ - Accepted Mark Mexted ‘Oh-No-Big-Al’ - Accepted Dot Mullay ‘Winning the jumps race’ - Merit Bill Shieffelbein ‘2015 Tour of Southland Stage 2 Break away group’ - Accepted Ian Smith ‘Missing The Action Above’ - Merit ‘Mud Racing- Daffodil Bay’ - Merit Shane Todd ‘Focus and Determination’ - Accepted Eb Wijkstra ‘Wrestlingmatch’ - Accepted Chris Watson ‘Hard on attack’ - Honours - Second ‘Tight turn’ - Honours - First Prints Chris Duggan ‘The Gentle Farmer’ - Accepted - Second ‘Kiwi Battler’ - Honours - First Anita Hayman ‘Almost over’ - Accepted Margaret Kalweit ‘Bucking Bronco’ - Accepted - Third Chris Watson ‘Took the wrong line’ - Accepted Dayle Wright ‘Home’ - Accepted
Results
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
― Arnold Newman
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White Balance When you are shooting landscapes, you will want to be shooting at golden hour, or the blue hour. These are the times of day when the light works really well for dramatic landscape shots. In the golden hours, the light will be warm tones of yellow, orange, or red. Check your white balance setting when you are shooting at this time. If your camera is set to Auto White Balance, it will cancel out much of the warm tones in your image as it tries to neutralize any colour casts you may have in your scene.
If the golden hour light is really strong in your scene, Auto White Balance will make the scene look really bland and colourless. Try and shoot on Daylight White Balance instead. That way, the camera will be capturing the light as it truly is in the scene. You could even turn your white balance to cloudy or shade to enhance the warm tones even more. Use these settings as a creative tool, it can really make a good impact on your image.
Movement
Some of the best landscape images have some form of movement in them. The movement can be caused by water, wind, or both. Subjects that work well with movement are rivers, waterfalls, seascapes and even stars. A long exposure image of the sea with water looking all silky and wispy is ethereal, and adds drama to the image. Less is more Landscape images become more dramatic if there is a very clear subject in them. If you are unsure about what should be included in your scene, ask yourself this
question as you look around the scene, ‘Does that rock, tree, river, etc., add to the scene or not?’ If you think it is not adding to your scene, remove it. Even if you are unsure, remove it and take a shot to see how the image looks.
Adapted from: http://digital-photography.com
Three men married.................... The first man married a woman from the USA. He told her that she was to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away. The second man married a woman from Australia. He gave his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done and there was a good dinner on the table. The third man married a woman from New Zealand. He ordered her to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and he could move his right arm enough to fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulty when he pees.
An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to get the anaesthesia, he asked to speak to his son 'yes, Dad, what is it?' 'Don't be nervous, son; Do your best and just remember, if it doesn't go well, if something happens to me, your mother is going to come and live with you and your wife....'
Great Anagrams: PRESBYTERIAN: BEST IN PRAYER ASTRONOMER: MOON STARER DESPERATION: A ROPE ENDS IT THE EYES: THEY SEE THE MORSE CODE: HERE COME DOTS DORMITORY: DIRTY ROOM ANIMOSITY: IS NO AMITY ELECTION RESULTS: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT SNOOZE ALARMS: ALAS! NO MORE Z'S A DECIMAL POINT: I'M A DOT IN PLACE THE EARTHQUAKES: THAT QUEER SHAKE ELEVEN PLUS TWO: TWELVE PLUS ONE MOTHER-IN-LAW: WOMAN HITLER DYSLEXIA: DAILY SEX
When chemists die, they barium.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.
5 Tips to Take Your Landscape Photography from Good to Great
Landscape photography is one of the most favoured genres of photography. It also happens to be the one genre that is not easy to master. Many photographers end up being disappointed with their images, but there are few things that you can do to make sure you get better results, in a short space of time.
Foreground interest Having a subject in the foreground, anchors the image. It tells the viewer where to look first and once they have looked at that, their eye will explore the rest of the image. We read text from left to right, so if your foreground interest is on the left hand side, it makes it feel easy for the viewer to interact with the image. The foreground interest could be anything, a piece of driftwood, a rock, a tree, anything that works for the scene.
Colour in your scene
Your image will have inherent colour based on the time of day and subject you are shooting. If you are shooting a forest, your scene might be predominantly green, if you are doing a seascape, there may be lots of blue because of the colour of the water.
Be aware of the colour in your scene and work with the opposite colours on the visual colour wheel. As an example, there are three primary colours that your camera sees, they are: Red, Green and Blue. The additive colours (opposite colours) are Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. To be clear, Cyan is the opposite colour to Red, Magenta is the opposite to Green, and Yellow is the opposite to blue. These opposing colours can work well in a scene, particularly yellow and blue.
Look at the colours in your scene and decide what you want to emphasise. To make sure you have great colours to work with, you will want to shoot during the golden hours and emphasize the warm colours.
I had my passport pic taken this week...
‘There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.’
― Abraham Lincoln
‘The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’
― Dorothea Lange
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Three more Project Ideas to Spark Your Creativity
Monochrome
Try to shoot all your photos in monochrome, or convert them to black and white in post-processing. The beauty of black and white photography is that it focuses more on visual elements such as tone, texture and shapes. By starting this project for yourself, you’ll see the objects in a different light, and rather than just colour, your eyes will be better trained to recognize various forms and shapes.
Panoramas
Panoramas are one more way to develop your creative vision. Panoramas usually give the viewer a much wider viewing angle than normal. You can create some small panoramas by merging three photos in one, or go full 360 and make tiny globes like the ones in the picture below. It’s all up to you!
Perspectives
Shoot a whole set of images from one perspective, such as from a child’s the point of view. Or try to capture all photos from up high. We are used to seeing the majority of shots at eye level, why not to try something different? It’s a great way to learn how to deviate from the normal.
Adapted from: Nancy Young - digital-photography-school.com
Lawyer: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your Lawyer? Witness: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
A Russian woman married a Canadian gentleman and they lived happily ever after in Toronto. The poor lady was not very proficient in English, but did manage to communicate with her husband. The real problem arose whenever she had to shop for groceries. One day, she went to the butcher and wanted to buy chicken legs. She didn't know how to put forward her request, so, in desperation, clucked like a chicken and lifted up her skirt to show her thighs. Her butcher got the message and gave her the chicken legs. Next day she needed to get chicken breasts, again she didn't know how to say it, so she clucked like a chicken and unbuttoned her blouse to show the butcher her breasts. The butcher understood again and gave her some chicken breasts. On the third day, the poor lady needed to buy sausages. Unable to find a way to communicate this, she brought her husband to the store... Her husband speaks English! So what were you thinking then? I worry about you lot sometimes!
Best Things to Say if Caught Sleeping At Your Desk.......................... ‘The Doctor at the Blood Bank told me this might happen.’ ‘This is just a 15 minute power-nap as described in that time-management course you sent me.’ ‘Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably got here just in time!’ ‘I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm.’ ‘I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance.’ ‘I was doing Yoga exercises to relieve work-related stress.’ ‘Damn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.’ ‘The coffee machine is broken...’ ‘Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot...’ and, probably best and safest of all......... ‘....... in Jesus' name, Amen....... Yes, did you want me?’
Did you ever wonder why earrings became so popular with men? A man is at work one day when he notices that his co-worker is wearing a rather feminine earring. The man knows his co-worker to be a normally conservative fellow and is curious about his sudden change in 'fashion sense', so he walks up to him and says, ‘I didn't know you were into earrings.’ ‘Don't make such a big deal, it's only an earring,’ he replies sheepishly. His friend falls silent for a few minutes, but then his curiosity prods him to ask, ‘So, how long have you been wearing one?’ ‘Ever since my wife found it in my car.’
A professor of chemistry wanted to teach his 5th grade class a lesson about the evils of liquor, so he produced an experiment that involved a glass of water, a glass of whisky, and two worms. ‘Now, class. Observe closely the worms,’ said the professor putting a worm first into the water. The worm in the water writhed about, happy as a worm in water could be. The second worm, he put into the whisky. It writhed painfully, and quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail. ‘Now, what lesson can we derive from this experiment?’ the professor asked. Johnny, who naturally sits in back, raised his hand and wisely, responded, ‘Drink whisky and you won't get worms.’
A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student nurse appears to give him a partial sponge bath. ‘Nurse,’' he mumbles from behind the mask, ‘are my testicles black?’ Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, ‘I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet.’ He struggles to ask again, ‘Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?’ Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles in the other. She looks very closely and says, ‘There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine.’ The man slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, ‘Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very, closely: Are - my - test - results - back?’
Club Competition Entry SPS is now using the electronic entry form for Competition Entry. You will find this on the Southland Photographic Society Webpage. Go to Club Competitions, then to: Competition Entry Form. If you have any difficulties, please ask a Committee Member for help.
SCOTT FOWLER WORKSHOP
Early next month, a couple of us will be going up to check out the accommodation, and following that an email will be sent out to all those who are going. This will let everyone going know of any important details that they will need to know. We will also include, with that email, a list of everyone going, so that shared rides etc. can be organised amongst yourselves.
It is past the deadline for the workshop fee to be paid, but there could still be room for one or two more to attend. We will keep you posted on this.
Ian Smith - President
