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Your Key to Photo

Enjoyment &

Understanding

May 2014 Volume 21. Issue 220

EXPOSED

The Official Newsletter of Exposure Unlimited - Beaudesert Camera Club Inc.,

PO Box 728, Beaudesert, 4285. www.beaudesertcamera.com

President - Malcolm Baldwin, Ph: 07 5541 2866 Secretary - Cliff Pottinger, Ph: 07 5543 1881

Treasurer - Shirley Baldwin, Ph: 07 5541 2866 Editor - Ailsa Corlett, Ph: 07 3200 0253

Club meetings: Fourth Tuesday of each month at 7.00pm, at Beaudesert Community Arts and Information

Centre, 2-14 Enterprise Drive, Beaudesert, QLD

See: www.beaudesertcamera.com for the club calendar and all the club activities.

IMPORTANT DATES Next club meeting – Tuesday 24

th June. Supper by John Amos. Anderson's Camera Rep will be there to

talk about camera maintenance.

Next Committee meeting – Tuesday 17th

June at 25 Monarco Crt, Beaudesert 7pm.

Submission of Photos - Tuesday 24th

June Club Meeting for Industrial as Subject, Open & Altered

Reality

Judge will be Robert Cullen of Bundaberg and will remote judging, with audio comments.

Enlargements - 2 Enlargements to be judged at the meeting Tuesday 24th

June.

Firstly I would like to apologise for this newsletter being later than normal. I got back from my NZ trip on

Tuesday 3rd June, then was off again on the Friday for the PSQ Convention at Boonah in which Bill and I

only got back yesterday, Tuesday 10th June.

General Business of Meeting 27th May 2014

Present:-Cliff Pottinger, John Staib, Malcolm Baldwin, Barry Cheeseman, John Amos, Bill Corlett, Ian

Hinrichsen, Rosemary Hinrichsen, Brent Randall, Rosemarie Worthington, Michael Ashburner, Gwenda

Wright, Mark Connop, Laurie Sims, Jennefer Richardson, Gary Moloney, Tom Moon, Tony Spies, Shirley

Baldwin, Finella Loch, Maria Amrein, Wayne Love, Megan Kenny, Denis Bettridge, (24)

Apologies:- Theresa Johnston, Bob Hall, Ailsa Corlett, Colleen Brown.

Visitors:- Lorraine Jones (Judge), Colin Jones, Carley Bryan, Kelly Wilkinson, Steve Fitchett.

Club Business. The meeting commenced at 7pm with President Malcolm Baldwin welcoming members

and visitors. The following points were then addressed.

Foundation members Maria Amrein, Gwenda Wright and Gary Maloney were presented with official

invitations to attend the club's 20th

Anniversary dinner on 12th

July.

The club is in the process of purchasing Adobe Lightroom 5 and Adobe Elements 12 to be installed

on the club's laptop for purposes of teaching and practical workshops.

Basic Portrait Workshops will be run later in the year by Barry Cheeseman.

Members were asked to suggest ideas for workshops and outings.

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Malcolm then introduced Lorraine Jones as the judge of tonight's images. Lorraine, originally from New

Zealand but currently living on the Gold Coast gave us a rundown on her life as a photographer, having

taken up photography seriously 11 years ago. She attended as many workshops and demonstrations as

possible in order to learn the art of photography, and more recently spent 2 weeks just photographing one

family of Fairy Wrens. The images from this marathon went towards Lorraine's Honours in APSNZ.

Lorraine presented a slideshow of some of her bird photography before critiquing our images.

Supper was provided by Jennefer Richardson.

Barry Cheeseman then gave a short demonstration on the basic tools available in Adobe Lightroom.

A slideshow of the recent Wyaralong Dam sunset workshop along with some Karumba sunsets by distant

member Steve O'Connor was shown before the meeting closed around 9pm

PRESIDENT’S REPORT for May 2014

The sunset outing at Wyralong Dam was well attended. It was good to see some new members out there

with their cameras experimenting with settings they haven’t used before with the assistance from our

experienced members. There were some great shots taken, it was a shame the sunset did not get to meet our

expectations. All had a good time.

A couple of the Committee attended the Photographic Society of Queensland’s Presidents’ Forum where

topics and ideas were discussed, such as; member grading, keeping new members, judges, self and remote

judging and different ways in helping members enjoy photography. We came back with some ideas, which

should benefit the Club.

One of the ideas, that a lot of Clubs have, is a Practical Workshop and Demonstration night separate from

the normal critique meeting nights. Our meeting room is available at night throughout the week and

weekends and it is proposed to run these practical workshops. Any ideas would be appreciated.

The Committee has purchased Lightroom and Adobe Elements to be installed on the Club laptop for use in

workshops, by judges and speakers.

Our fund-raiser, first for a few years, was a huge success and raised $620.00. The winner of the raffle was

Renee Lohmann. A fantastic result and congratulations to all members.

Malcolm.

May - Club Critique

Subject: Architecture.

Lorraine Jones was the Judge for our Critique subject of Architecture. The main thing that Lorraine pointed

out to everyone was the they needed to really zoom into the actual subject. Eg. no trees or shrubbery

overtaking the point of the subject. Many of us seem to have had trees in our actual photo, taking away from

the main point which was Architecture. When you look at the 3 winning subjects, none of them had any

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other distractions in the photo, just pure building type photos. I must admit that when I look at the winning

photo done by Ian Hinrichsen, with the building with the lovely purple lighting around it, it has no clutter of

trees or other drawing features in it and is pure lines and geometrical shapes of the building.

1st: Ian Hinrichsen

The LEC

2nd: Bill Corlett

Design Feature

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3rd: Brent Randall

Sky Scraper

OPEN SECTION

1st: Barry Cheeseman

Hmong Children

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2nd: Barry Cheeseman

Lost World Orange

ALTERED REALITY

1st: Rosemarie Worthington

Another World

3rd: Tony Spies

Gus and the FunGi's

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3rd: Brent Randall

Purple Haze

2nd: Rosemarie

Worthington

Our ANZACS

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Lightroom by Barry Cheeseman

Barry did a demonstration of Lightroom, which was very encouraging to all to learn some of the different

things that Lightroom can assist if you do not have Photoshop. It is a program in which it is non destructive

in the processing of the photo. You can alter the photo many times without affecting the original. The

program is seemingly once you start to understand all the commands, relatively easy to learn and use.

Bill and I have just purchased this program, so will fill in you in on our learning curve as well later on.

Barry will continue to explain the different functions of Lightroom during the meetings when he is able.

Many thanks to Barry for running these mini workshops, they will be greatly appreciated, and I for one will

be looking forward to them.

PSQ Convention

The Convention took place this year at Boonah. A Great spot for lots of photography and not too far from

Beaudesert and surrounding areas to visit. Our club I thought had a good turnout of 8 members. Ian and

Rosemary Hinrichsen came for the day on Saturday, but Tony Spies, John Staib, Brent Randall, Cliff and

Jan Pottinger and Bill and myself attended all the days as well as the Dinner on Sunday evening.

This was the first PSQ Convention we had been to, so did not really know what to expect. We stayed along

with Cliff and Jan at the Boonah Showgrounds Caravan Park. Quite nice and very reasonable for the few

days we all stayed. The others I know travelled back and forth from Beaudesert each day as the trip was not

that long.

The Conference itself was very well run between the Qld Camera Group and the Boonah U3A Photography

Club. The guest speakers were well known identities like Richard White, William Long, Innes Larkin,

Michael Snedic, Ben Stoffl, Mark Rayner, John Lomas just to mention a few. We had the Town Cryer all

dressed in his traditional costume assist at opening the Convention along with the Mayor John Brent.

Boonah itself gave us great days in which we could go out and photograph the area, nice sunset skies if you

were in the right location at the time for sunset, and most importantly no rain during the weekend.

Most of the morning was devoted to guest speakers and a lot of note taking done to remember just what so

and so suggested that we all try. Many of the speakers had wonderful backgrounds that had lead them into

being the photographer that they were today. I particularly enjoyed listening to William Long's background,

coming from the art of Ballet, and he also mentioned that the film "Billy Elliot" made him cringe as it was

like his own experiences of growing up in the East End of London.

Many of the guest speakers had important words to pass on. Like "Look Up", "Look for lines and

composition", "See what is in front of you", "Think in Black and White for the picture - remove the colour,

so that you see the picture", "photos need to be punchy and powerful".

Innes was a great ambassador for the Boonah region, telling of all the wonderful areas in which

photographers could delight in the nature of the Scenic Rim. Many parts I had not even heard about and Bill

and I will definitely be going to go out on day trips to some of these areas mentioned.

Over all I think everyone who attended gained a lot from the convention. I know that we did just from

listening to the speakers talk, as well as some of the practical demonstrations.

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To see some of the photos that have been taken during the weekend. Visit the following Flickr site.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/2657741@N20/

I have enclosed a couple of those photos in this newsletter. Acknowledgement to the Photographers, Stewart

Parker and Brent Randall.

If you would like to submit some articles, ideas and any information into the next newsletter, I would

be very interested to hear from you.

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Year

2014

Committee

Meetings

Wednesday

Club Nights

Tuesday

Guest

Speaker/Judge

* Subject

* Open &

* Digital

* Submit

By

Enlargements Workshops / Excursions

Feb 19th 25th Members Judging Club ‘AGM’ plus Two ‘Dust to

Dawn’ images

- - - Enlargements displayed at ‘Photo

Continental’ during February.

March

19th

25th

Solitary

Any

Subject

26th Feb

Enlargements Judging

25th March

Enlargements displayed at

‘Beaudesert Library’ 3rd to 21st March

April 16th 29th - - - - NEW Club Meeting date is TUESDAY

29th APRIL.

May 21st 27th Architecture Any

Subject

23rd April -

June 18th 24th - - - Enlargements Judging

25th June

July 16th 22nd Industrial Any

Subject

25th June -

August 20th 26th - - - -

Sept 17th 23rd Abstract Any

Subject

27th Aug Enlargements Judging

23rd September

Oct 22nd 28th - - - Submit ‘Photo of the

Year’ by 28th October

Nov 19th 25th Bubbles Any

Subject

29th Oct -

Dec - - - - - - Sunday 6th Dec. Christmas breakup. 11am

to 2pm

Critique Sizes: Max. Resolution 1024 wide x 768 high pixels. jpeg format. File size not restricted.

Orientate image either landscape or portrait, but kept height to a maximum of 768 pixels in both cases

Enlargement rules: Maximum size 20”x16” including matting or equivalent surface area. (320 sq. ins).

Naming protocol:

- Subject: SJAN1sbaldwin_title.jpg = Subject/January/Image Number 1or 2/ Photographer Name /*Title. (Title is not compulsory)

- Open: OJAN1sbaldwin_title.jpg = Open/January/Image Number / Photographer Name /*Title.

- Altered Reality: ARMAY1peterh_title.jpg = Altered Reality/Month/Image Number/Photographer Name /*Title.