Beach Shoot on Thursday, 3rd January

Dear Members,

 A Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all. May the Light always be good to you and only good things be brought to your door.

I’ve arranged a Beach Shoot – with Models and Props for tomorrow. The 3rd of January at the ungodly hour of 5 am (!not a typo!) at

TOWN BEACH near the OBSERVATION TOWER. We’re chasing the light…first we want the soft light of dawn, then the richer colours of Sunrise

and then , when we have to fight the sun, we’ll be switching to external flash and reflectors.

Please come along with your Camera, external flash , Lens (wide-angle, 70-200, 50mm, 105mm, fixed prime – whatever you’ll think will serve you well) and participate in the Shoot. I have three GORJISSSSSSSS models and they’ll be frolicking, jump-leaping, posing, playing with a ball or frisbee. 

Leave the family at home and come out to Town Beach and enjoy the Shooting Session from 5am-10am. 

Bring your Gear, a hat, sunblock, water, a snack to see you through and LOADS of enthusiasm.

Happy snaps

 

Lindie

 

by Lindie Kolver, January 2, 2019

POTY & DIOTY Competition and After-Party Images

by Lindie Kolver, December 12, 2018

HPG Christmas Lunch at LUSC in Laurieton 2018 – Photo Gallery

by Lindie Kolver, December 12, 2018

Re : Still Life Photography ( Composition is Key)

Find a link to an amazing article on the COMPOSITION of a Still Life Image : 

 

https://digital-photography-school.com/apply-compositional-theory-to-still-life-photography/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nov-2218

 

Happy snaps over the next few weeks.

Remember : You are allowed to submit your Still Life Images into Open Colour as well as Mono…not only in Set Subject.

 

 

 

 

by Lindie Kolver, November 23, 2018

Still Life examples you can try in December for submission in Open Colour in February

A Dropbox -link for your convenience 

 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1slni894hhjvi19/AADCetsHZ6GsTkKtI3m9QrWDa?dl=0

You are allowed to enter any Still Life-images in both the Open Colour  and Mono Category for February if

you have not gotten around to doing much yet for the January Competition Set Subject which closes on Wednesday 21/11/18

at 5pm

Happy Snaps !

 

Lindie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Lindie Kolver, November 20, 2018

Images that will change the way you see Boulders and Rocks (Set Subject for March, closing in February 2019)

Members :

Herewith a link to the Viewbug-Portfolio.

Feast your eyes and let your imagination run free !

 

 

https://www.viewbug.com/blog/boulders-and-rocks-photo-contest-finalists

 

Happy Snaps !

 

Lindie

by Lindie Kolver, November 20, 2018

POTY DIOTY Upload instructions

It is time to upload your digital images for the 2018  POTY and DIOTY competitions, including the digital footprints of your print entries.

Closing date for uploading to the website is 24 November at 5.pm.

Full instructions have been prepared and are attached on the link below:

How to upload Images for POTY&DIOTY

 

by Harry Bryant, November 19, 2018

Re : Link to inspirational Images for one of our Set Subjects : Looking Down

https://www.viewbug.com/search/%22looking%20down%22

Above is a link to the ViewBug Website and a wide variety of images

which were submitted (and gained awards) to the Contest : Looking Down

We have a similar Set Subject Competition in June 2019 (entries close in May 2019)

Looking Down : A higher camera angle, while shooting straight DOWNWARD onto the 

Subject…look down from your own height, a ladder, a building, a plane.

Examples to get your Creative Juices flowing so you can submit different/clever/and great

images.

 

 

by Lindie Kolver, November 19, 2018

Upload your POTY & DIOTY images directly from your Gallery on the Website

The PIOTY & DOTY Competitions with their various categories are now open for Members to upload their entries.

How-to Instructions :

Log in to the Website > Members > Enter a Club Competition > Click on the Competition you want to enter > (your personal Gallery will open with ALL the images you have loaded during 2018, plus the score you were awarded for each) > Click on Thumbnails to have a look at your images > Click on  SELECT (the image you’d like to use) for the Competition you’ve clicked on ( ie. POTY- Nature, Mono, Colour ot DIOTY-Nature, Mono ,Colour )> WAIT (!) for image to upload > repeat the above steps until you have loaded different  images into the various Categories in both Print and Digital (should you want to participate in both.)

Three (3) images are allowed for each Category (Nature, Mono & Colour) in both Print and Digital (a total of 18 DIFFERENT Images !) You may enter an image ONLY ONCE  !!

You can remove any uploaded image from the Competition-site and enter a different image again at any time before the close of Competition which is 24th November @ 6PM.

You will notice that the November 2018 Competition’s different categories are still marked as NO RESULT – you’ll have to wait until after the 20th November to ascertain if some of those images might be good enough to enter into POTY & DIOTY.

 

Note : You are allowed to enter the Print Competition with Digital Competition Images (and vice versa) , PROVIDING you do not duplicate images in the various Categories

 

One last thing : You will NOT be able to upload an image for use in the POTY & DIOTY Competitions from your PC – it is NOT allowed. That pathway has been blocked – you may only use the images showing in your Gallery.

 

I will have a PowerPoint-presentation ready for Club-night on the 6th to illustrate the ease and uncomplicated way to upload images.

 

Kind regards

 

Lindie

 

 

by Lindie Kolver, October 30, 2018

Saturday Outing to Linda Appleby’s Garden

by Lindie Kolver, October 20, 2018