Competition Winners: Umbrellas and Open

By Tania Chalmers - 26th October, 2017 filed in Competition Results

Print Open

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “Tom” 
• 2nd Place – Ronald Clarke “An Australian Icon” 
• 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Kayaking” 
• Highy Commended - Françoise Muller-Robbie "Water Dragon"

Set Print – "Umbrella"

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Rainmaker” 
• 2nd Place – Neil Anderson “Strawberry Cocktail” 
• 3rd Place – Brian Obst “Umbrella Wedding” 
• Highly Commended - Sue Searls "Through Water"

Open Digital

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “Form" 
• 2nd Place – Neil Anderson "Yarra Twilight ” 
• 3rd Place – Jamie Cifuentes “Splash”

Set Digital – "Umbrella"

• 1st Place – Robyn Bartlett “The Rains Are Here” 
• 2nd Place – Gayle Tout “Coffee Anyone” 
• 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “Windy” 

Novice Digital

• 1st Place – Anne Malthouse “Umbrella”

Castlemaine Weekend 2017

By Karen Malbon - 16th October, 2017 filed in Shoot Reports

We went to Castlemaine seeking gold. Our gold was not the precious metal discovered in the 1880s by miners digging, blasting and panning. Our gold was found in the light, the buildings, the people and the landscape of the historic goldfields town.

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Competition Winners: Silhouettes and Open

By Tania Chalmers - 12th September, 2017 filed in Competition Results

Open Print

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Blue Dress” 
• 2nd Place – Ronald Clarke “White Faced Heron” 
• 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “Foggy Morning” 

Set Print – "Silhouettes"

• 1st Place – Karl Zeller “Dali Exhibit” 
• 2nd Place – Gayle Tout “Inside Looking Out” 
• 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Moonlight Flight” 

Open Digital

• 1st Place – Neil Anderson “Pinnacles Sunset" 
• 2nd Place – Kathryn Hocking "Flame Robin ” 
• 3rd Place – Karin Volz “Set and Innocent” 
• Highly Commended – Karl Zeller “Gone Fishing”
• Highly Commended – Andrea Sparks “Denise”
• Highly Commended – Tess Maddocks “Little snip here, little tuck there”
• Highly Commended – Françoise Muller Robbie “Resting”

Set Digital – "Silhouettes"

• 1st Place – Cathrine Stevenson “Sam Training Henry” 
• 2nd Place – Jennifer Empey “Outliers” 
• 3rd Place – Trudy Purchas “Is Anybody Out There” 
• Highly Commended – Andrea Sparks “Contemplation”
• Highly Commended – Brett Ferguson "Reflection"
• Highly Commended – Kathryn Hocking "The Other Side"
• Highly Commended – Tony Arceri "Heading Home"
• Highly Commended – Kathleen Moyses "Werribee South"
• Highly Commended – Gayle Tout "As the Sun Goes Down"
• Highly Commended – Andre Bellaire "Corvette"

Competition Winners: Environmental Portraits and Open

By Tess Maddocks - 26th July, 2017 filed in Competition Results

Open Print

• 1st Place – Robert Moyses “Pens, Pencils, Scissors and Stuff” 
• 2nd Place – Akm Imran “Smoke” 
• 3rd Place – Neil Anderson “Baby Elephant” 
• Highly Commended - Jennifer Empey "Dandelion"
• Highly Commended - Colin Lofts "Beach Bird"

Set Print – "Environmental Portrait"

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Seamstress” 
• 2nd Place – Christine Dennis “Portrait of the Artist” 
• 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “On the Edge” 
• Highly Commended - Françoise Muller Robbie "Electric Iron Man"
• Highly Commended - Akm Imran "Fire Dancer"

Open Digital

• 1st Place – Akm Imran “Aurora” 
• 2nd Place – Brett Ferguson "Chcolat Sec” 
• 3rd Place – Andre Bellaire “Range Rover” 
• Highly Commended – Cas Bukor “Morning Flight”

Set Digital – "Environmental Portrait"

• 1st Place – James Troi “Di the Collector” 
• 2nd Place – Christine Dennis “Portrait Painter” 
• 3rd Place – Robyn Bartlet “A Shoe In” 
• Highly Commended – Brett Ferguson “Maintenance”
• Highly Commended – Akm Imran "Richard, The Sculptor"
• Highly Commended – Karin Volz "The Cameraman"

So, in the Web Whip this week I included a link to PixelPeeper.io, a website where you can upload a JPG image and, if it hasn't had its metadata stripped, see the Lightroom adjustments that have been made. Well seems the world of photography as a love/hate relationship with the site, that is largely unfounded... because... you've actually always been able to do this in Photoshop!

To confirm that PixelPeeper does what it claims to, I uploaded one of my images to the site to see the results.

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Quite the boast right? Well founded though, we even have a trophy and certificate to prove it.

Earlier this week a delegation from the club visited Camberwell Camera Club to attend the judging of "Camberwell Camera Club Interclub Competition". 

We walked away with the trophy for the third year in a row.

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The Paper Bag Challenge 2017: Forks

By James Troi - 28th June, 2017 filed in Meeting Notes

The Paper Bag Challenge has become a tradition in our club over the last few years. We originally started the Paper Bag Challenge as one of our competitions, a way to get members to shoot for the competition rather than dredging up files from the past to enter. But a few years back we turned it into an in-meeting event.

The premise is simple, we bring along our camera gear and in teams we are given a brown paper bag containing an item that must be used to make an image within the confines of the club and with a strict timeframe.

Last night's paper bag challenge item was "forks". Cathy, our President, had hit up all the op-shops she could find and raided them of their forks for us to use. I imagine there are now a whole lot of lopsided cutlery drawers out there.

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Open Print

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “The Florist - 2” 
• 2nd Place – Trudy Purchas “Neighbourhood Watch” 
• 3rd Place – Phil Taylor “In Flight” 
• Highly Commended - Kathryn Hocking "Lake Hayes"
• Highly Commended - Christine Dennis "F Stop"

Set Print – "Abstract"

• 1st Place – Fransoise Muller Robbie “Red Cone” 
• 2nd Place – Phil Taylor “Escape Route” 
• 3rd Place – Arvin Coloma “Cold” 
• Highly Commended - Jennifer Empey "You Yangs shrouded in Sun Veil"
• Highly Commended - Kathryn Hocking "Spiral"

Open Digital

• 1st Place – Brett Ferguson “Red Skirt” 
• 2nd Place – Tony Arceri "Afternoon Walk” 
• 3rd Place – Phil Taylor “Lucy the Barn Owl” 
• Highly Commended – Jennifer Empey “Treescape”
• Highly Commended – Tess Maddocks “Look, up in the sky”

Set Digital – "Abstract"

• 1st Place – Brian Young “Colourful” 
• 2nd Place – Robert Moyses “Explosion of Light” 
• 3rd Place – Tess Maddocks “Woof” 
• Highly Commended – Raelene Marshall “Can U Guess”
• Highly Commended – Phil Taylor "F1 at Speed"
• Highly Commended – Michael Kennedy "Whirlpool s01861"

Novice Digital

• 1st Place – Catherine Stevenson “Patterns” 

Open Print

• 1st Place – Neil Anderson “Benzai Pipeline” 
• 2nd Place – Brett Ferguson “Lillian” 
• 3rd Place – Trudy Purchas “In Flight” 

Set Print – "Patterns"

• 1st Place – Kathryn Hocking “Arlington” 
• 2nd Place – Colin Lofts “Flutterby” 
• 3rd Place – Trudy Purchas “Autumn Patterns” 

Open Digital

• 1st Place – Darren Malthouse “Up and Over” 
• 2nd Place – Michael Kennedy "LagoGrey 10544” 
• 3rd Place – Karl Zeller “Sunrise Over Melbourne” 
• Highly Commended – Karin Volz “Future Highway”
• Highly Commended – Debbie Raimondo “Heidi(1)”

Set Digital – "Patterns"

• 1st Place – Kathryn Hocking “Remember Us” 
• 2nd Place – Brian Obst “683 Latrobe St” 
• 3rd Place – Eva Bellaire “Window Reflections” 
• Highly Commended – Colin Lofts “Mother Nature-2”
• Highly Commended – Cathy Buchanan "Blobs"