• Maitland International Salon of Photography
  Closing date: 16 January 2012
• 31st Newcastle National Exhibition of Photography
  Closing date: 16 January 2012
• 2012 Australian Digital Photographic Awards (ADPA)
  Closing date: 24 January 2012
• 1st Adelaide AV National Exhibition 2012
  Closing date: 24 February 2012

Further information, including entry forms, is available on the Australian Photographic Society website under Competitions / Exhibitions.

In a change from previous years, all of the monthly competitions will be open, ie there will be no set subjects. However please note that the March and September competitions will be open monochrome. You can use any subject you wish, but it must be treated as monochrome.

In order to avoid having a judging night on Cup Day in November, the judging night for the November competition (and the due date for the end of year competition) will be on the last Tuesday in October.

Finally, please remember that entries are due for our February competition next Tuesday 10 January, 2012. This will be a BBQ at a location still to be determined.

Update: The BBQ will be at Jells Park, arrive as early as 5pm, second hut near the main carpark when entering from Waverley Road.

The first night will be Tuesday January 24, 2012 which will be a basic introduction to using a flash and what you can expect to learn over the following months.

The technical detail starts on the second meeting in February.

A Grade Print – John Hadfield
A Grade EDI – Teddy Tan
B Grade Print – Rosie Hughes
B Grade EDI – Rosie Hughes

Members had submitted their best images from throughout the year, judged in this case by our former president, Pete Davies:

Mono Prints

3rd: Anne DiCarlo – Looking Up
2nd: Dave Sumner – Another World
1st: Andy Armitage – Three Canoes

Open Prints

3rd: Andy Armitage – Coca Cola
2nd: Andy Armitage – Red Umbrella
1st: Ray Anderson – Violet Sabre

Electronic Digital Images(EDI)

3rd: David Burton – Fun or Torture
2nd: Vicki Moritz – Life Goes By – The Glen
1st: Vicki Moritz – Moet

As our outgoing president, Pete also announced the winners of the “End of the Line” President’s Trophy with the winner announced as

Fred Seeber – End of the Hills Line

Thank you to all that came to support the evening and especially all that took part.

Term 1: Monday 30 January to Monday 26 March
Term 2: Monday 23 April – Monday 18 June
Term 3: Monday 16 July – Monday 10 September
Term 4: Monday 8 October – Monday 3 December

Each term should also include two Sunday outings and possibly also a night shoot.

Please contact beginnersclass@waverleycameraclub.org to register your interest.

For this class a Beginner as obviously someone who has never used Photoshop or if you have tried using it and are:

• Overwhelmed by all the tools and functions
• You are not sure when to use one tool over another
• Can’t make proper masks
• Struggle with layers or don’t know what adjustment layers are
• Struggle with topics such as file size, RAW editing

Each month’s lesson will build on what was taught the previous month so hopefully by the end of the year you will have a good grasp of the fundamentals. This has been found to be a better approach than randomly doing topics based on issues people are having at the time.

For this to work:

• Each participant will need their own laptop with Photoshop installed. This is quite important as
  students this year that shared or did not have a laptop found it hard to keep up.

It is hoped that by the end of the year participants will:

• feel comfortable using Photoshop
• be able to look at an image and know what techniques to use to make them better
• know how to better evaluate an image
• improve the quality of their EDI and more importantly start producing better prints

Please contact Ian Hansen if you would like to participate.

On display will be our best images for open prints, monochome prints and open EDI entries and trophies will be awared for the top entry in each section. The trophies for aggregate points will also be awarded, as will the president’s trophy.

As always we ask that you bring your partners/loved ones and a small plate of food.

Now, this does not mean that club members can sit idle, those that submitted an entry during the year can enter the end of year competition with three images in each of:

• Colour printed
• Monochrome printed
• Open EDI

The entry must have been entered into a 2011 monthly competition and in the same format. A print must have been previously entered as a print, and an EDI must have been previously entered as an EDI. An EDI cannot be printed and entered as a print, or vice versa.

Technically these entries are due on Tuesday 1 November 2011, but as we are not having a meeting that night, please bring your prints along to the 4 Club night on Tuesday 25 October. Email through the name and month that your EDI entries were entered previously. If you cannot bring your prints to the 4 Club night, then let me know via the competition email address.

The end of year judging night is Tuesday December 6 and as always we ask that you bring your partners/loved ones and a small plate of food.

Also, don’t forget about the President’s Trophy. The topic this year is “End of the line” and you can submit three EDI entries directly to Pete by Friday 2 December 2011.

Update: We have switched to new hosting and the issues are resolved.

Printed images of the month

A grade: Donna Clarke – Athletics

B grade: Ray Anderson – Grapple

EDI images of the month

A grade: Donna Clarke – Sprite Racing

B grade: John Ho – Shine of dance