NORTHERN NSW ZONE CONVENTION 2020
Dates: Sat 16th– Sun 17th May 2020
Venue: Wests Diggers Club, 4 Kable Ave, Tamworth NSW 2340
Set Subject: Capturing the Light
Definition:
A photograph simply recording the patterns of light and shade. The light will determine not only brightness and darkness, but also the tone, mood and the atmosphere in order to get the best texture, vibrancy of colour and luminosity on your subjects.
The light source can be either natural or artificial.
Format: Digital
by Terese Miller, August 18, 2019
Competitions in August are closing soon!
Competitions in August will close Saturday, 10th August 2019, 11:55 PM.
Entries can be made in the following areas:
- A Grade Open Colour Large Print
- A Grade Open Mono Large Print
- A Grade SetSubject Large Print Texture
- B Grade Open Colour Large Print
- B Grade Open Mono Large Print
- B Grade SetSubject Large Print Texture
- C Grade Open Colour Large Print
- C Grade Open Mono Large Print
- C Grade SetSubject Large Print Texture
All members are encouraged to enter.
Competitions in NSW FCC InterClub selection are closing soon!
Competitions in NSW FCC InterClub selection will close Friday, 9th August 2019, 11:59 PM.
Entries can be made in the following areas:
- All Grades Open Colour Large Print
- All Grades Open Mono Large Print
- All Grades Nature Large Print
- All Grades Open Colour Digital
- All Grades Open Mono Digital
- All Grades Nature Digital
- All Grades Creative Digital
- All Grades Australian Landscape/Seascape Digital
All members are encouraged to enter.
Club Meeting Night 6th August
Just a reminder to all club members that our monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday night August 6th at 7 pm upstairs in Diggers.
Visitors welcome.
Basic training will be held between 6 – 6.45 pm for those who wish to attend.
by Kevin Craggs, August 4, 2019
Basic Training-6th Aug-6-6.45pm
Looking forward to another basic training night.
Please email me your topics your questions you would like to learn about this month.
photography1619@gmail.com
by Terese Miller, August 3, 2019
6-6.45pm Training-Critiquing
6pm start
Just a reminder about Critiquing section
Bring a printed copy of an image, at least 5″x7″ plus a digital copy on USB
by Terese Miller, July 23, 2019
Training Night 23rd July 2019 – ASTRO EDITING
Craige Watson from Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club has again kindly offered to give up his time to help club members…. this month he will be tutoring members in editing astrophotography images.
The evening will start at 7pm, make sure and bring writing material to take notes for later use, when using your own editing software.
Looking forward to seeing as many as members as possible on the night.
by Kevin Craggs, July 20, 2019
Competitions in July are closing soon!
Competitions in July will close Wednesday, 10th July 2019, 11:55 PM.
Entries can be made in the following areas:
- A Grade Open Colour Large Print Open Colour
- A Grade SetSubject Large Print Juxtaposition
- A Grade Open Mono Large Print Open Monochrome
- B Grade Open Colour Large Print Open Colour
- B Grade SetSubject Large Print Juxtaposition
- B Grade Open Mono Large Print Monochrome
- C Grade Open Colour Large Print Open Colour
- C Grade SetSubject Large Print Juxtaposition
- C Grade Open Mono Large Print Open Monochrome
All members are encouraged to enter.
Astro Training Notes
A huge thanks must go out to Craige Watson from the Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club for giving up his time to conduct the Astro training evening on the 25th June. 15 club members attended and spent nearly 2 hours being tutored by Craige and taking photos.
Craige has sent to the club a summary of setting to use as a base line to explore and adjust for great astro shots.
Tripod, cable release or a timer release, manual mode on your DSLR or Mirroless camera, use your widest angle lens eg 14mm, 24mm or 50mm, sutter speed 15 – 20 seconds, aperture set to the widest possible eg f2.8 or 3.5 or 4 etc and ISO 1600 – 6400.
Focus on an object such as the moon, distant light or bright star and switch camera lens to manual focus.
Apps for your phone to assist with times for astro events. Planetarium software for your Android phone or Sky Safari, Stellarium for IOS. some apps may cost. PhotoPills is another app but does cost to purchase.
Software to process your images. DeepSky Stacker (free), Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Lumiar, GIMP.
A great resource: Alan Dyer – AmazingSky.com
by Kevin Craggs, July 7, 2019
Basic Training-Reminder
2nd July 6-6.45pm (Tomorrow Night)
Please email me at: photography1619@outlook.com
with any questions or topics you would like me to cover
by Terese Miller, July 1, 2019
