Sunday Outing to Old Noarlunga

Our Club Outing on Sunday 19th July will be at Old Noarlunga, meeting at Market Square Green, 2.30 pm. This will be followed by an evening meal at the local pub. Things to photograph: historic buildings (click on the link to go to the Old Noarlunga website for information), the river and reflections, the park and surrounding areas.

Trade Night at Atkins Technicolour

Our meeting on Tuesday 21st July won't be at the clubrooms, but will be a Trade Night at Atkins Technicolour, 89 Fullarton Road, Kent Town. Start time is at 7 pm. The club has visited Atkins before, and it's been interesting seeing how the lab has changed over the years, from processing film and slides, to printing digital images.

WE HAVE MOVED

The Edwardstown Photography Club has moved the location of it’s meetings.  We are now meeting at MITCHELL PARK NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, 1 CUMBRIA COURT, MITCHELL PARK.  Our first meeting at the new location will be tomorrow night, July 14^th.  The meeting will start at the usual time of 8pm.  Tomorrow night we are having an Open Print Competition, and entries must be submitted by 7.45 pm.

Photo Quiz, Tuesday May 19

Next week’s meeting is going to be a little different.  Peter Phillips has taken photographs at various locations around the city and parklands, and these will be shown on Tuesday night.  Cryptic clues will be given, and members are to try to identify the locations.  Please bring supper, and a pen and notepaper.  It should be a fun evening.

Club Outing Sunday May 17

The Club Outing for this month will be on Sunday May 17 at the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens.  We will meet at 3 pm at the lower car park, which is off Lampert Road.  To get to there go up the freeway from the city, take the Crafers exit, head towards Piccadilly and follow the signs.  Things to photograph:  autumn colours, reflections in the lake and ponds, close ups of flowers and ferns, bird life, scenery.  Afterwards we will either go for a coffee or an evening meal.

Club Outing Sunday April 19

The Club Outing for this month is scheduled for Sunday April 19, meeting at the Art Gallery, North Terrace in the city, at 2 pm. It will be an opportunity to look for ideas for the next set subject competition, which is “Close, Closer, and Closer Still”. Later in the year is the set subject competition on “Reflections”. It will also be an opportunity to look for architecture shots for the End of Year competition.

Program Changes

The dates for the Judging of the Great Photographic Challenge and the Photoshop Tutorial have been swapped, so the Photoshop Tutorial will be on April 21, and the judging of the Great Photographic Challenge will now be on April 28.

The program page on the club's website will be changed to reflect this, and the program will be updated if members wish to download an updated copy.

How to Keep a Log of Your Work in Photoshop

The Digital Photography School website has a useful tip on keeping track of your work in photoshop without having to write it down in a notebook or in a separate document on the computer. Let photoshop do it for you, and all you have to do is to set it up under preferences. Read the full article.

Great for when you create your own special effects, or when you come up with a general workflow that you use for similar images.

Great Photographic Challenge

This is an annual event where club members gather at a specified place and are given a list of 8 subjects to photograph on the day. What's the catch? Members can't use their own equipment, but are given the use of a cheap fixed lens compact camera which is loaded with a roll of 24 exposure film. This is a challenge to see what you can come up with using the most basic of equipment. At the end of the day, all cameras and films are returned to Reg, who will arrange to get the films processed and returned to members at the next meeting. The idea is to choose the best shot of each subject to be entered into a special competition. The 6 x 4 prints are entered as is, with no re-printing or manipulating of the images allowed.

This year's Great Photographic Challenge is to be held at North Adelaide, meeting at the Piccadilly Theatre at 1.30 pm. Cost is $11 per member, to cover film and processing.

On Tuesday April 21 the Great Photographic Challenge will be judged, each photograph will be given a score out of 10, and the person who scores the most points in total will be awarded the Great Photographic Challenge 2009 trophy.

Australian Digital Photography Awards

ANNOUNCEMENT - NOW OPEN! Australian Digital Photography Awards (ADPA) 2009

Go to www.adpa.org.au for instructions and the entry form. Closing date: June 21 2009

The Australian Photographic Society invites residents of Australia to enter the third year of this popular annual digital photography competition. No membership is required and entry is free.

If you are proud of your work, your photographs do well in club competitions, or your friends love what you do, why not see how the judges like your photographs? If you were among those who entered in previous years, come back and try your luck again this year.

Simply resize your images as set out in the entry form and email your entries before June 21. There are 4 sections: General, Creative, Nature and Photojournalism. You can enter one or all sections with up to 4 entries per section.