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ESPS FORMAT - Volume 50 - Issue 10 - November 2017 Page

Magazine of the

Eastern Suburbs

Photographic Society Inc

No A19507Y

Volume 50 Issue 10

November 2017

The Three Musicians: David Wong

ESPS FORMAT - Volume 50 - Issue 10 - November 2017

President’s Report Joseph Maher

Leave town and look up but

don’t forget to take your

camera and tripod.

This is the “take home” message from

the very interesting and informative

presentation by Neil Creek on

Astrophotography last Wednesday.

Neil was generous with his time closing

the night with a practical demonstration

of night photography. He certainly has a

passion for it and some of his images of

the Milky Way and Andromeda are

truly amazing.

Set Subjects 2018

Thank you to the 33 members who

voted on the number of set subject vs.

open competitions and the set subject

topics for next year.

64% indicated their preference was for

4 Set subjects (plus Berris Stokes Nature

makes 5) and 5 open competitions.

The set subjects chosen by members

are, in order of number of votes

received: Symmetry; People in the

Street; and Door(s)/Lock(s)/Gate(s).

With Culture being carried over from

this year making up the 4th.

Member survey

The Member survey conducted by

Des Lowe provided very useful

feedback on competitions and general

Club activities. As might be expected,

the comments were diverse with some

members liking certain things and

others not liking the same things.

The Committee has discussed the

comments at some length. Hopefully,

members will appreciate the changes

that will be made.

Competition Steward – 2018

Des Lowe, our current Competition

Steward, announced some time ago

that he will be retiring from that role at

the end of this year.

This is a most important role within the

Club, so I urge all members to give

serious consideration to volunteer for

this role. Des has said that he is

prepared to handle the Visual Pursuits

side of things, which will help reduce

the workload of running the

monthly competitions.

I am already recruiting the Judges,

which also assists in reducing the

workload.

Also, we compete in 3 interclub

competitions each year and an

Interclub Competition Steward is

required. The role involves liaising with

the hosting club, selecting images

(with a couple of other club members)

and delivering/retrieving images

to/from the hosting club. ESPS is not

hosting in 2018.

So, members it is over to you!!!!

Format Editor – 2018

Elinor Jack has volunteered to be

Format Editor for next year, replacing

Peter Williams who has done an

excellent job for the past 3 years.

Thank you, Peter and Elinor.

End of Year

Function

I hope as many members as possible

can attend our final event for our

50th Anniversary Year on Friday

8th December at Mitcham

(same location as last year).

The judging for the Images of the year

and other awards is being done by a

panel from Yarra Ranges

Photographic Society.

See you there.

Regards,

Joseph


Club Weekend Away

It was wonderful to see some new

faces this year, as a relaxed social

time away gives you the opportunity

to really get to know members and

their partners better. Astrid had

mapped out several locations for us

to visit, allowing for a great variety of

photographic opportunities, in

addition to some fun activities and

conversing over meals. Some of the

photographic opportunities and

highlights were magnificent coastal

scenery, photographed at different

times of the day, the wind farm,

desalination plant, wildlife,

spring flora, and of course each other,

usually eating!! We were blessed with

magnificent weather which added to

the atmosphere.

Wonthaggi Weekend Away Social Report Astrid Weise

End of Year Awards Night

Time is flying and soon Christmas will be upon us.

This year our club is holding its break-up on Friday December 8th at 8:00pm at the Mitcham Senior Citizen Centre, 14-16 Station street, Mitcham.

Please mark the date on your phone or calendar.

2018 Program

If there are any places Members would

like to visit in 2018, please let me know

asap, so I can start to organize next

years calendar.

ESPS club breakfast

Sunday 11th February 2018

From 8:00am, at Valley Reserve in Mount Waverley.

Dogs are allowed on leash.

Mark this date on your 2018 calendar!

cheers Astrid.

Jenny Vass

Candowie dam

ducks wetland walk


Wonthaggi Weekend Away Jenny Vass

Coastal Banksia

teatree

fisherman

Icecream

Sat lunch

seascape



Andrews burger

duck and ducklings

dinosaur bones

dig crew



The Cave

Rog blowing bubbles



kite flier

sunrise

lagoon

wind farm bee on lavendar


On the Web

Set Subjects

2017 Competition Subjects

February Open

March Blue

April Open

May Circles

June Open

July Technology

August Open

September High Key Subject

October Open

November Berris Stokes nature comp

A discussion of ideas for a forthcoming

Set Subject is often held at the

non-competition meeting on the

second Wednesday of the month.

Entries for competitions for the whole

year are now open on the Visual

Pursuits site. You can change or

replace your photos up until the closing

date for each competition.

Sharpening Technique for Adobe Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFePwcrliY

Post Processing

https://digital-photography-school.com/post-production/

Cameras and Equipment

https://digital-photography-school.com/cameras/

Mastering Shadows in Photography

https://digital-photography-school.com/5-tips-mastering-shadows-photography/

Wildlife Photography

https://www.stevewinterphoto.com/

Calendar

November 2017

8pm Wednesday 22 November

Berris Stokes Memorial Nature

Competition

December 2017

8pm Tuesday 5 December

Committee Meeting

8pm Friday 8 December

End of Year function and

Annual Awards

Mitcham Senior Citizen Centre,

14-16 Station Street, Mitcham

January 2018

8pm Wednesday 24 January

General Meeting

Entries Close for February

Open Competition

February 2018

8am Sunday 11 February

Annual Club Breakfast

8pm Wednesday 14 February

General Meeting

Elinor Jack

Hi there,

I will be your new Format Editor for 2018. I hope you

like what I have done with November’s Format edition

under the masterly guidance of Peter Williams.

Any comments or suggestions will be

greatly appreciated.

If you have been on any fabulous holidays or trips recently I would love to hear

from you. Email me at [email protected]

If you need to get in contact with me directly my email address is

[email protected] just in case you have any questions or queries.

Welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFePwcrliY

https://digital-photography-school.com/post-production/

https://digital-photography-school.com/cameras/

https://digital-photography-school.com/5-tips-mastering-shadows-photography/

https://www.stevewinterphoto.com/


Dear Esteemed Photographer

It’s with much excitement that The Worldwide Publishing Empire invites you to contribute to our next photographic book, on Australia’s cricket obsession. Yep – that’s right – cricket!

Now, we don’t mean photos of a Steve Smith cover drive or Mitchell Starc’s follow-through. We mean the kind of cricket all of us play - in back yards, front yards, schoolyards, laneways, factories, offices, parks and beaches, and anywhere else a ball can be bowled and a bat can be swung. Organised cricket is also fine, but at a more grassroots level, played on beautiful suburban venues or desolate outback grounds, and involving people dedicated to a club’s existence. Also appreciated are photos of stumps painted or drawn on walls, fences, trees, bins, etc, and cricket fans, from spectators to autograph hunters to kids’ bedroom walls covered with posters of their heroes – anything that shows a love of the game (please see attached sample spread).

The preference is for contemporary content, including great photographs

from your files, but they must be in colour. And there’s a whole summer of cricket happening right now. So if this sounds like a project that interests you then please submit your fabulous cricket images.

The aim of the project is to feature wonderful photographs that capture the heart of cricket in Australia, supported by three essays in a book that will be beautifully designed and printed. We can’t guarantee financial riches but what we hope to achieve from this, and from all future titles, is to showcase excellence in Australian photography. We greatly appreciate your support in this endeavour.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to seeing your brilliant work.

For full details on how to submit photographs, and more, please go to www.theworldwidepublishingempire.com/submissions/

The team at The

Worldwide Publishing

Empire.

Photo Opportunity

http://www.theworldwidepublishingempire.com/submissions/

http://www.theworldwidepublishingempire.com/submissions/


Applying a Bit of Pressure to

my Photography

Have you ever put your photography

under a bit of extra pressure to produce

an image to a specific brief within a

restricted time frame and then have it

critiqued? It can be a somewhat daunting

but rewarding experience,

as I discovered in October when

I participated in the Canon Light Awards

Live event in Melbourne.

The event was run over a weekend,

commencing in the Hoyts cinema,

Victoria Gardens, Richmond at 9:00 am.

There was a choice of a three hour

masterclass in Fashion Photography,

Travel Photography, Environmental

Portraiture or the Art of Vision. At the

end of the Masterclass each group was

given a brief of the kind of image they

were to capture. Participants then had 24

hours from midday Saturday to

midday Sunday to plan, capture and

upload their best image.

Sunday afternoon from 2:00 till 5:00 pm

was then given to critique of each image

back in the original groups. Finally

everyone gathered together for a viewing

of all the images from all groups and the

presentation of awards. The first prize in

each group was a Canon A2 printer.

There were some 200 photographers

participating in the event. In the group

that I joined there were about 60 people

including a small number

of professionals. I suspect in

other groups, especially the Fashion

Photography Masterclass, there may

have been a few more professional or

aspiring professional photographers.

Overall there was also a reasonably

good balance of men and women. What

particularly struck me was the age

profile, markedly younger than ESPS.

There were a couple of teenagers, even

more in their 20s and 30s, with the

retired age group represented but not

the majority by a long way.

I chose to join the “Art of Vision”

Masterclass with AIPP Grand Master

Photographer Tony Hewitt. The first half

of his presentation focused on what I

would describe as his philosophy of

photography. There was far too much to

give even a reasonably comprehensive

summary of the presentation, but here

are a few things I jotted down:

He began with drawing a connection

between poetry and photography. Then

Canon Light Experience Awards

use your whole being; trust your

instinct; aim to create pictures that say

what you want to say; the photograph

is not the end product, the viewer may

make it something else.

Ask yourself the questions:, “Who are

you as a photographer? What is

photography to you? What do you

respond to?” Create an exhibition of

your work, what connects your images?

Explore your vision. The power of an

image is often hidden in the invisible

layers. “Everyone is a genius” – Einstein.

YOUR image, YOUR vision!

The second half of Tony’s presentation

was more about the application of his

principles. Again, here is a very brief

summary:

Keep it simple. Creativity starts in your

head. Recognise what you are

responding to when you press the

shutter – simplicity; symbology;

geometry etc.

Balance – negative spaces with

positive space. Balance should ‘feel’

comfortable. Good design can lead

the viewer. Balance includes more

than design. What are your

images about?

“Where the spirit does not work with the

hand there is no art” – Leonard da Vinci.

All of these points and more were

illustrated with examples of Tony’s own

work. You can see some

of the images at

http://www.tonyhewitt.com/galleries/.

Then came the 24 hour challenge brief.

“The search for balance

and design”

Capture an image that illustrates an

inherent balance of design, whether by

man or nature, through the use of light

and shadow, and its effect on texture

and form. It may be an image that only

exists temporarily due to changing light

and/or shadows and invites the viewer

to look deeper and find a deeper

narrative and meaning! It must be taken

in the next 24 hours. Metadata will be

checked.

I had originally thought I would head out

of the city to either the bay or the hills,

but as the venue for the masterclasses

was in Richmond I decided instead to try

the Botanic Gardens. So after a quick bite

of lunch in the food court I drove in to St

Kilda Road and parked just up from the

Des Lowe

http://www.tonyhewitt.com/galleries/


shrine. I then spent the next four – five

hours along St Kilda Road and in the

Gardens searching for balance

and design! Saturday evening was spent

processing and selecting potential

images. I thought about going out again

early Sunday morning but decided against

doing so. Instead I spent the morning

refining the best images from Saturday

and making a final decision. In the end

the image I chose was one of the earlier

ones in my Saturday shoot. It was taken

at the Greek War Memorial just off St

Kilda Road a short distance before the

Shrine of Remembrance.

Back at Victoria Gardens on Sunday

afternoon Tony Hewitt gave a critique of

all the images from our masterclass

group. As might be expected the standard

was very high and just seeing other

photographers’ work and hearing Tony’s

comments was a valuable learning

experience in itself. I was glad that, like

ESPS competition nights, the makers’

names were not attached to the images

except for those who received a

commendation or award. Mine was not

one of them!

There is no question that I was nervous

about putting my photography out there

and having it assessed and commented

on by a Master Photographer in front of

60 other photographers I did not know.

However, having done so, I can highly

recommend the experience. Pitting your

photographic skills against a specific

brief and with a limited time frame gets

you focused in a very positive way.

Coupled with some insightful input and

helpful evaluation of your work it can

inject new life and perspectives into

your images. Whatever the context,

if you have an opportunity to undertake

a challenge like this, don’t hesitate. It is

not about proving yourself, but about

discovering YOUR images, YOUR vision.


Australian Hellenic Memorial



Columns Organic and Structual



Seats Spirit Men


Competition Results are available on the club’s Visual Pursuits page. You can click on each image there to see it full-size.

Select “Competitions” then “Submit Entries” to go to the competition section. There select “Competitions” then “Competition

Results”. Beside each competition there is a “Select” button; simply click on the button for the competition you wish to view.

Theme: Open

Judge: (not recorded) October Competition Awards


Theme: Open

Judge: (not recorded) October Competition Awards


3 Ripe Seeds

Marie Bartlett

3 Ripe Seeds was taken at the Blue Lotus Farm earlier this year on a

Camera Club outing. It was cropped slightly and sharpened. I thought it

might do better as DPI than a print.

How I Did It We welcome contributions from members awarded a High Distinction or Distinction

with notes about how you took the photo, post-processing (if any) and anything else

interesting to others about the photo or which others may learn from.

Email up to 200 words to [email protected] .

Drying off

after a shower

Marie Bartlett

My elephant photo

taken at the

Melbourne zoo

inside the “Barn”

after the keepers

had showered the

anima so there

were still fine water

droplets on it. Trixie

and I had a special

behind the scene

tour and also

watched the

keepers training the

animals & cutting

their toe nails.

mailto:%[email protected]


Official Information

Eastern Suburbs Photographic Society

Inc No A19507Y

PO Box 187, Forest Hill VIC 3131

Web: www.esps.org.au

Email: [email protected]

Complete details of the Society’s meetings

and competition program can be found in

the Society’s published program on our

website, with updates published in this

magazine from time to time. Further infor-

mation about the Society may also be

found on our website or enquiry email

(both above) or by contacting the appropri-

ate Officer from the list of contacts provid-

ed elsewhere in this magazine.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this magazine

are not necessarily those of the Society. The Society

does not accept responsibility for those opinions nor

the accuracy of any statements appearing in this

journal.

Membership Fees

$60 pa—Full adult membership.

$55 pa—Each additional family member or partner

living at the same residence as the full member.

$50 pa—Students and holders of a Commonwealth

Government Concession Card.

Payment Methods

By Bank Transfer

BSB: 633000

Account: 131803314

Account Name: Eastern Suburbs Photographic

Society

In the reference field please insert your last name.

Please send a confirmation to Treasurer:

[email protected]

Other method

Cash brought to a meeting of the Society and paid

to the Treasurer.

ESPS meets at the

Pines Senior Citizens Centre,

25 Central Road, Blackburn

(Melway Map 48 A10)

General Meeting

2nd Wednesday each month (not Jan)

Competition Meeting

4th Wednesday each month (not Dec)

All photos appearing in the Format

magazine and on the ESPS web site are

copyright of their respective

photographers and may not be used or

reproduced elsewhere without

permission.

Please contact the Secretary or President

if you wish to be put in contact with a

photographer about reuse of an image.

2017 ESPS Office Bearers — Committee and [others]

President Joseph Maher [email protected]

Deputy President Des Lowe

Secretary Alan Mackinlay [email protected]

Treasurer Richard Gay [email protected]

Competition Steward Des Lowe [email protected]

Entries are submitted online at

esps.visualpursuits.com

Interclub Competition

Steward

Vacant [email protected]

General (Club)

Meetings Coordinator

Roger Vass

[Librarian] Vacant

Membership Officer Alan Mackinlay

Meet & Greet Vacant

Social Secretary Astrid Weise

Minute Secretary Stephen Everett

General Committee

Members

More positions

vacant

[Webmaster] Vacant [email protected]

[FORMAT Editor] Elinor Jack [email protected]

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