Kiama-Shellharbour Camera Club

Congratulations to Geraldine Lefoe for her image Metallic World which was selected by our guest judge Mark Kelly for PI of the month. Martin’s insightful commentary on the night was well received by the group. You can see Mark’s website at http://mkimages.com.au/ - check out his superb mono landscapes and infrared.

Gerry shot this image at the railway station in Auckland, New Zealand. She was using a tripod and just managed to get this shot in as a security guard asked her to leave - no tripods allowed inside but handheld fine. She used her Nikon D70s with settings of 0.005 sec (1/500) on aperture f/11. Well done Gerry!

Our club’s entry form for the Federation of Camera Clubs interclub competition can be found here:

fcc-2008-interclub-entry-web

It’s good to see some entries from our newer members!

The August POTM was “Old Timer Windang Island” taken by Graham Hamilton at our breakfast outing. Graham used a Nikon D70 with the Nikon 18 -70 at 18mm, f9 @1/40 sec, tripod, neutral density filter, with some level and saturation adjustment in Lightroom. And he didn’t get his feet wet.

The pointscore competition results were announced at our Annual Dinner and trophies were presented by Allan Hitchell, President of the Federation of Camera Clubs. Congratulations to all the winners.

A- Grade Colour Prints
1st Karen Csellich
2nd Dulcie Dal Molin
2nd Peter Csellich
3rd Tom Daley
A- Grade Monochrome Prints
1st Karen Csellich
2nd Dulcie Dal Molin
3rd Max Baez
B- Grade Colour Prints
1st Geraldine Lefoe
2nd Brian Luckins
3rd Brian Lefoe
B- Grade Monochrome Prints
1st Geraldine Lefoe
2nd Allayne Foley
3rd Helen Woodward
Small Prints
1st Leanne Zampa
2nd Lorraine Tibbitts
3rd John Street

Our first Projected images competition was launched on July 2nd with 49 entries. The judge was Chris Senior from Tomerong who provided a detailed critique of the images ensuring that we all learned a great deal from the night. Congratulations to a new member, Steve Selby, who won the Bi-Monthly Projected Image Award with Arc de Triomphe. A combination of nine shots taken at Killalea Reserve, these were the first images Steve had taken when his new camera was just out of the box. We look forward to some strong interest in this new competition.

The club has developed new entry forms for both the print and projected image competitions.

The Adobe Acrobat forms can be downloaded and filled in on screen before printing - making the job of the Competition Steward a bit easier. You can also save the form to keep a record of your entries.

You will need Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later - go to http://www.adobe.com to download the latest reader.

The club will also have a small supply of forms available on competition nights for those members who put all their effort into their prints, run out of time to type their entry and have to hope the Competition Steward can read their handwriting.

Print Competition Entry

Projected Image Entry

The club committee met on 3 June 2008 to consider some modifications to the club by-laws for the competition. A copy of the new by-laws is available for down loading - By-laws 3 June 2008

The FCC Topshot competition will be held again this year. It sees more innovations, more prizes and more awards than in previous years which makes it an exciting competition in which to be involved; a real plus for the camera club movement in New South Wales. MAny KSCC members have submitted entries so head up to Lidcombe to view.The exhibition will be at Dooleys Catholic Club Lidcombe (right opposite the station) on the 19 April 2008 commencing at 11.30 am to 4.00 pm in conjunction with the FCC AGM (commencing at 10.30am).

Enquiries can be directed to fcctopshot@photographynsw.org.au or call Bob Milo on 0419 336 127

Regards

Bob Milo

FCC Treasurer, Club Development and Country Liaison

Here are the KSCC Competition Rules

Please note that we no longer have a slide competition.

They will be updated shortly to cover the new digital projected images competition.

The object is to photograph any or all of the six subjects. Prints need only to be 6 x 4 format mounted on one sheet of cardboard for display. Digital images may be presented if preferred and should be provided in jpeg format on a thumb drive or CD following the guidelines below.*

Bring your prints or images to the 5th March meeting for display and critique. You have one month to complete the Photographic Hunt, please join in and have fun with your photography.

1. All creatures great and small - Time to get out of the house and find an image of one or more living animals, birds or insects photographed in their natural environment.

2. Out of the blue - Anything related to blue e.g. feelings or colours

3. Old and weary - Self portraits welcome but let your imagination go here and I’m sure you’ll find lots of images to enter in this section.

4. Room with a view - Could be an outhouse or a million dollar mansion ….

5. Going for gold - Anything related to gold e.g. money, colour, winning

6. Creative people - Be creative with people or find a creative person

*For projected images

Images to be in JPEG format and sized ready for viewing by projection.

Maximum width is 1024 pixels Maximum height is 768 pixels Maximum File Size 220kb jpeg

An ICC Colour profile of sRGB should be used. File Names should contain the section (A, B or SP) followed by an underscore _ then your name underscore _ the title of the image e.g B_BillSmith_SunsetBeach.jpg