The Image of the Year Competition is available for all previous 2024 Competition entries that won an award. Either Image of the Month, Merit, Credit or Acceptance. Each member will be allowed to enter a maximum of 4 Images across Digital and Print. Digital Images entered during the year can be entered in the print section. There will be awards for Image of the Year Digital, Image of the Year Print and the Keith McGaughran Perpetual Trophy will be awarded to Image of the Year either Digital or Print.
Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 20th October
Judging Date: Tuesday 22nd October
Judge: Doug Carley
Playing with Artificial Light Set Subject Guidelines
Artificial light refers to any light that’s not produced naturally. The light source excludes the sun, moon and stars as the dominant light source.
Be creative and use a light source or light sources to create an image that has impact. Light can be generated through streetlights, car headlights, torches and light painting tools. The light is to be added to the exposure whilst the camera shutter is open.
The use of light that is synchronised with the camera shutter in the form of a flash is excluded from the competition. Portraits of people, close up images that use studio flash or studio lighting are also excluded from this competition.
What you can learn:
The effect that different light forms can have on the impact of an image.
- Experiment with some composite images that tell a story with some creative lighting.
- Experiment with changing the colour of the light in post-production. The light source must be captured by the camera.
Lightroom and Photoshop are two products that intersect at the LR develop module and the PS Adobe Camera Raw modules as these are the same editing engines.
Lightroom has the Library module to import and catalog your images. The Develop module is where an image can be edited.
Photoshop takes an image you have on disk and performs the same editing in ACR before moving to PS proper where layers are used to further refine the editing. There is much more that can be achieved in PS than the basic LR editing.
As both products can never be entirely learnt, this course is an introduction to the essential building blocks so that a user can gain a solid grounding for the image workflow.
AS time is limited on the day, there will be homework consisting of a series of videos which will cover the essentials. So, on the training day there will be a number of exercises to get actual hands-on experience. There will be mentors to assist with any roadblocks.
The outcome from the day is that the attendee will be comfortable in processing images for competition or personal use.
Join in the fun.
Annual Mini Print Night will be held in the Phoenix Room, Castle Hill RSL
Bring along up to 2 6X4 prints. The prints must have NOT been entered in club competitions before.
Some form of Matting needed to support your print, could be print glued to a piece of cardboard. Alternatively stores like Kmart, Reject Store or Target sell cheap frames that the Matt can be removed from.
Printing can be done at store print departments, Officeworks or Harvey Norman’s for example.
Registration is required for Catering purposes.
NOTE: YOU WILL REQUIRE YOUR SMART PHONE TO VOTE
Tuesday 5 November – Pete Farrington – Aviation (Zoom – from the UK) – fee to confirm (May be a donation
to charity)
Peter is an author and photographer specialising in military aviation photography. Within recent months, Peter has retired from the RAF and pursues his passion in photography. Over the years of being a member of the Royal Air Force, Peter was lucky to be in the position to capture many fantastic aircraft up close and personal – from the ground, and from the air.
Peter uses photography to keep the stories of those who serviced and flew aircraft, alive. He is a fantastic story teller, and will use his great images, to take members on a journey into the skies, and the past.
Sports photography can be a very satisfying genre.
There are varying conditions such as indoor and outdoor lighting.
There are many types of sports action. There will be something happening nearby nearly every weekend that you could photograph.
Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 24th November
Judging Date: Tuesday 26th November
Judge: Graham Cam
Panning Set Subject Guidelines
The image is to be taken while panning the camera. Blurred backgrounds must be created by the camera movement and not the use of post-production software.
What you can learn:
- Experiment with shutter speeds to determine what parts of an image show motion and add to the story.
- How changing the shutter speed can affect the clarity of the subject or parts of the subject and blur the background.
- Practice panning through using the hips to turn with the subject with the arms close to the body.
Our 2024 Award Night is on the 14 December 2024 at 7.30pm. Tickets are now available and bookings for the event close 24rd November 2024.
The cost of each ticket is $50.00 for member and $60.00 for Non-Photography Club Members Includes a three-course meal with tea and coffee to follow. A limited bar bill is also included.
Come and join your fellow members as we celebrate the end of the Competition Year. Announcing the Image of the Year, the transition for Grade B members to Grade A, the winner of the Brian Coleman Award and so much more.
DATE
Sunday 14th December 2024 7:30 PM – 11:00 PM
LOCATION
Phoenix Room, Castle Hill RSL Club
77 Castle Street, Castle Hill NSW 2154
