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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.
by system account, July 8, 2019
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
Club results from the Northern Zone Conference 2019
Well done to the following members who achieved awards at Zone.
Monochrome Digital :- 2nd Place – Fay Renton “Ariana”
Merit Awards :- Fay Renton “The Ball” – Large Colour Print. Cheryl Randall “The Pelican” – Small Colour Print. Chris Miller “Ebor Falls” – Colour Digital.
The Ball 
The Pelican 
Ebor Falls
Honourable Mentions :- Harry Hausfeld “Roma’s Flower” , Terese Johnston “SCB” and Jenelle Germon “On The Beach” – Small Colour Print. Phil Ennis “Platform” and Angelina Nelson ” The Game” – Monochrome Print. Angelina Nelson “Fried Eggs” – Set Subject “Still Life”.
Roma’s Flower 
SCB 
On The Beach 
Platform 
The Game 
Fried Eggs
Congratulations to all our members who achieved awards at this year’s Northern Zone Conference.
by Kevin Craggs, June 9, 2019
Competitions in June are closing soon!
Competitions in June will close Monday, 10th June 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 Colourising
- A Grade Open Mono Large Print Open Monochrome
- B Grade SetSubject Large Print Colourising
- B Grade Open Colour Large Print open colour
- B Grade Open Mono Large Print Open Monochrome
- C Grade SetSubject Large Print Colourising
- C Grade Open Colour Large Print Open Colour
- C Grade Open Mono Large Print Open Monochrome
All members are encouraged to enter.
by system account, June 8, 2019
Camera Club meeting 4th June 2019 @ 7pm.
Everyone is welcome to the June meeting at West Diggers starting at 7 pm. We will announce the results of members who were successful at the Zone convention in Macksville.
After the meeting, we get to view the images and find out the results from this months competition and the winner of the Wal Trophy – “Starburst”.
We look forward to seeing you all at the meeting.
by Kevin Craggs, May 30, 2019
