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CAPE CAMERA November 2014 Official Newsletter of the

Cape Town Photographic Society

President’s message 2

125 Year celebration 9

Top images open

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CTPS Annual awards 3

Jackets 125 years

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Top images general 15

Members at awards 5

November judge

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Members perform 16

News flashes

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PSSA club entries

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E&D evening

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AV achievers

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Top images set

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125 Year Diary

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President’s message

he year is fast fading into oblivion. With all the shops having their Christmas decorations up one wonders where the year has disappeared to. It was only yesterday that we celebrated the New Year.

Looking back at last month we must be pleased with the results of the Inter Club competition. Well done CTPS and congratulations to all whose images gave us the winning score!

It was good to see some clubs that had not entered last year, show us their images.

The final result was listed in the last Cape Camera. It is important that we communicate any exciting and/or important happenings to our editor. This prevents us getting stale news when Cape Camera comes off the press.

For quite a while members have not been happy in the way their images have been displayed on the screen during competition evenings. After much searching and testing, council has found the ideal projector for our needs.

At the December meeting we will be using the new

Monthly meetings Please note: The December Audio-visual meeting will be held on 17 December because St Stephen’s will not be available on the 2nd Wednesday.

projector. Since the format of the new projector is larger than the present one, council is investigating getting a larger screen, thus getting the best showing of your images. You will have seen the specs of the new projector in competition convenor Lesley Parolis’ mail to you.

We have had a number of our members travelling to some remote corners of the globe. I hope that we will see some of these images. Of the images that have been taken, some are not always of competition quality but never the less good to share with fellow club members.

Why not come to the AV evening on the second Wednesday of the month — see date for the December meeting below — and learn to make an AV? Through this medium you can show many images. These images, while supporting each other, give a sequence of high quality. I find it most enjoyable to see how creative some of our members are.

To all of you wishing the best in your photography, Detlef Basel Hon PSSA, APSSA

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Polchet trophy winner for Best PDI Image of the Year 2014: Busy Bee by Bob

Flowerday.

There will be no Education & Development meeting in December.

Monthly meetings are held in the St Stephens Church Hall in Pinelands at 7pm.

1st Wednesday: Competition evening 2nd Wednesday: Audio-visual meeting 3rd Wednesday: Education & Development

Contact CTPS council members

President

Vice-president Development & Education

Honorary Secretary

Honorary Treasurer

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Detlef Basel president@ctps.co.za Tel: 082 898 6759 Nicol du Toit treasurer@ctps.co.za Karyn Parisi development@ctps.co.za Jacoba van Zyl info@ctps.co.za

Nicol du Toit treasurer@ctps.co.za

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Cape Camera is published after the last CTPS function of that month, namely: December 2014 issue: 19 December January 2015: 26 January February 2015: 25 February March 2015:

30 March April 2015: 20 April May 2015: 2 June (after the CTPS Congress weekend) June 2015: 22 June July 2015: 27 July August 2015: 24 August September 2015: 24 September

Property Manager Richard Goldschmidt Website Manager

Steffne Hughes

webmaster@ctps.co.za Competitions Convenor Lesley Parolis

competitions@ctps.co.za Audio-visual Convenor

Joy Wellbeloved

joy.wellbeloved@telkomsa.net Public Relations Officer Steffne Hughes

webmaster@ctps.co.za Publications Officer

Trudi du Toit

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Cape Camera • November 2014 Detlef Basel with the 2014 prize winners.

Nellian Bekker is on his knee, and in the middle row are Joy Wellbeloved, Leslie Maginley, Karyn Parisi, Jeanette du Toit, Pat Scott, Anna Engelhardt and Jeanette Brusnicky. In the back row are Dante Parisi, Nicol du Toit and Neels Beyers.

2014 CTPS award winners

The top photographers and AV makers in CTPS, as well the members who have been of service to the society were rewarded and recognised at the annual Awards Dinner this year

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ive trophies and various other awards were handed out to CTPS members during the hugely enjoyable annual year-end function organised by Pat Scott at the Granger Bay Hospitality Training Centre this year.

For the first time, the top performers in the AV section were also awarded prizes (see p8 for details). The following members won trophies in the print and PDI sections:

• The Vertue Trophy for Best Colour Print was won by Malcolm Jones for Prehistoric Stranded Whales; • The Lawley Trophy for Best Monochrome Print was won by Anna Engelhardt for Okavango Magic; • The Polchet Trophy for Best PDI was won by Bob Flowerday for Busy Bee; • The Johanneson Trophy for Best Nature PDI was To p4

Left: Jeanette du Toit was the CTPS member who won the most points for her images in competitions during the year, as well as the most points for PDI entries and second most points for print entries.

She was also the runner-up in the Best Nature Projected Image of the Year category with the image Action Reflections, and won the Set Subject Category in the AV section.

Right: Nicol du Toit received the Chairman’s Award for ‘Services beyond Requested’ and Pat Scott, who organised the awards dinner, received an Infinity badge in recognition of her services to the society.

Nellian Bekker won the Millington trophy for Best Portrait of the Year (Karli), won the Workshop Category in the AV section, won Barbara Basel (left) with Anna Engelhardt, who won the third place in the A Place Near Here AV Challenge and received Lawley trophy for the Best Monochrome Print of the Year an Infinity badge for service to the club.

(Okavango Magic) and was awarded an Infinity badge.

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Above: Karli, Best Portrait, by Nellian Bekker. Okavango Magic, Best Monochrome, by Anna Engelhardt. Top right: Prehistoric Stranded Whales, Best Colour Print, by Malcolm Jones and (right) Protesting Angel, Best Nature PDI, by Kim Stevens.

Annual awards from p4 won by Kim Stevens for Protesting Angel; • The Millington Trophy for Best Portrait was won by Nellian Bekker for Karli.

• Most points for all images in club competitions: Jeanette du Toit (1104), who also scored Most points for PDI Entries (581); • Most points for Print Images: Jeanette Brusnicky (554).

• President’s Award for Service: Nicol du Toit.

Certificates went to the following runner’s up in the different photo categories: • Colour Print — 2nd place: Dante Parisi for Coming Back to Earth; 3rd place: Joan Ward for Confrontation; • Monochrome Print — 2nd place: Jean Bradshaw for Running; 3rd place: Karyn Parisi for Papa Can You Hear Me? • PDI — 2nd place: Marius-lee Pretorius for Coming Around.

He also won 3rd place for Pod. • Nature PDI — 2nd place: Jeanette du Toit for Action Reflection and 3rd place: Jean Bradshaw for Feeding Time; • Portrait — 2nd place: Kim Stevens for Victor Victoria and 3rd place: Malcolm Jones for Woman with Stripes.

• Most points in club competitions — 2nd place: Kim Stevens (1054), 3rd place: Neels Beyers (1021).

• Most points in PDI competitions — 2nd place: Kim Stevens (538), 3rd place: Neels Beyers (531).

• Most points in print competitions — 2nd place: Jeanette du Toit (523), 3rd place: Kim Stevens (516).

• Infinity badges (recognising contributions): Nellian Bekker, Anna Engelhardt, Lesley Parolis, Marius-lee Pretorius, Pat Scott and Joy Wellbeloved.

Neels Beyers (left) with Johan Greeff, scored Dante Parisi (2nd in Best Colour Print of the Year for Coming back to Earth) the third highest total for all his images enand Karyn Parisi (3rd in Best Monochrome Print of the Year for Papa Can You tered during club competitions this year, and Hear Me?) receiving their awards from president Detlef Basel and competitions also for his PDI entries. He also won the Open Category in the AV section. convenor Lesley Parolis.

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Left: Jeanette Brusnicky, who won the most points for Print Entries during the past year, with CTPS property man Richard Goldschmidt and John Spence.

Right: Cathy Bruce, Marius Stockenström and CTPS secretary Jacoba van Zyl.

Left: Sakkie Smit and Linda Murran, middle: Lesley and Lambe Parolis and right: Melanie Neethling and husband.

Left: Johan Strydom and Julie Dyer.

Right: Lionel and Elmara Willis, King Tong and Johan Booyens in deep conversation.

Above left: Carin Hardisty enjoying dessert; (middle) ‘swallows’ Alison and Keith Bull, Vic Els and wife with Jack Charteris, who helped wife Pat Scott decorate the tables for the function.

Right: Cathy Jenkins.

Far right: CTPS webmaster Steffne Hughes.

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Members vote to sell Jarvis Street Members have voted that the CTPS building at 28 Jarvis Street (right) may be sold. At a Special General Meeting held on Wednesday, 5 November 2014, CTPS members approved a resolution that the building may be sold for an amount not lower than the minimum price agreed to at the meeting.

The building, which was built in 1890, the same year that CTPS was founded, has been the society’s main stream of income.

It was initially used as a CTPS meeting venue, but an alternative meeting place had to be found when parking became a huge problem. Once the Cape Quarter area started to develop commercially, the narrow roads around the building offered hardly any parking.

Tenants have subsequently been renting the building as office space. The current tenant is filmmaker and photographer Adrian Steirn, who was responsible for the 21 Icons series featuring famous South Africans, including Madiba. He had, however, indicated that he would not be renewing his lease when the current term runs out

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next year.

At the 2014 AGM members agreed that a task team consisting of Richard Goldschmidt, Neels Beyers, Dante Parisi and Nicol du Toit, investigate whether the building should be sold. After consulting various agents and comparing the cost of rent and building sales in the area, they recommended that the building be sold at a price not lower than a specific amount agreed by members.

How to resize your images for new HD projector CTPS has acquired a new, high end, HD format projec- mums only, which cannot be exceeded. Your pictures do tor — an Epson EH TW9200 — which will be used to not have to be exactly 1920 x 1080 px. They can be any project the images for the December competition. ratio you like — as long as you don’t go wider than 1920 “The image quality that we view is a great improve- px and higher than 1080 px.” ment on our old one and I'm sure that you will be happy with the way your images will project,” says competition December competition entries convenor, Lesley Parolis.

A total of 107 images were entered for December: PDI This does, however, mean that the format of the imOpen 29, PDI Set 52, Print Open 13, Print Set 13. ages submitted for club competitions will need to be of a higher resolution than before. The new size to enter images is the HD format of 1929 x 1080 pixels with a CTPS meetings in 2015 maximum file size of 1.2 MB. Month Competition AV E&D “You will have to upload your photos to Photovault in January 14 21 No E&D the new size,” says Lesley. Therefore, when you upload new images to My Photovault, under the menu Photo February 4 11 18 Size Model, select the option HD - from 10250 x 500 up March 4 11 18 to 1920 x 1080 px (max 1.2mb). “It is the second option April 8 15 22 on the dropdown menu. Continue as normal.”

May 6 13 20 A camera produces images which have a 3:2 aspect ratio. The old format of 1024 x 768 px is a 4:3 aspect ratio.

June 3 10 17 The new HD format of 1920 x 1080 px is a 16:9 ratio.

July 1 8 15 “With the old format of 1024 x 768, if you resized your August 5 12* 19* image on the horizontal axis first to 1024 px, the vertical September 2 9 16 axis was always less than the maximum of 768 (it would be 683 px).

October 7 14 21 “Now, with the HD format of 1920 x 1080, the height November 4 11 18 will be 1281 px if you resize only on the horizontal axis to December 2 9 No E&D 1920 px — which is too large. So, you will have to resize on the vertical axis to 1080 first and then the horizontal *The PSSA congress will be held in Swellendam axis will be 1618 pixels, which is fine. from 9 – 14 August. A combined AV and E&D even“Please remember that the axis dimensions are maxi- ing will be investigated for the 19th of August.

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2015 Set subject themes

No image protection on Facebook

Members may not be aware that they actually sign away the intellectual property rights to their images when they post images on Facebook, Nicol du Toit warns.

In their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities Facebook stipulates: “For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, such as photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: • You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on, or in connection with Facebook (IP License).

• This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account, unless your content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it.”

Facebook does acknowledge that “you own all of the content and information you post on Facebook and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings.”

But, they make it clear that any images or videos posted on Facebook become free game.

CTPS council has therefore resolved that we will use Facebook to share information, but that under no circumstances will the society publish the images of members.

Members may enter a maximum of three images in any category per competition. It is no longer compulsory to enter an image in the set subject, nor are entries in for print or PDI restricted to two.

The 2015 judges are still to be finalised as a sub-committee chaired by Pat Scott is taking another look at the judging procedures during club competitions.

The Set subject themes for 2015 will be: 21 January: Yin and Yang.

4 February: Windows and/or doors 4 March: Composite image 8 April: Monochrome 6 May: Nature 3 June: Hands and feet 1 July: Low key 5 August: Macro 2 September: Scapes 7 October: 125 year celebrations 4 November: Shadows and/or reflections 2 December: Rustic

Points needed for Salon Advanced Intermediate Beginner

Gold 24 22 20 18

Silver 20 18 16 14

Red 16 14 12 10

Promotion criteria Members are promoted to a higher level based on the following criteria: • Beginner to Intermediate: 3 gold awards & 30 points • Intermediate to Advanced: 5 gold awards & 40 points • Advanced to Salon: 50 gold awards.

Points awarded in the club competitions count as follows: Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Red =1. Salon acceptances count 3 points.

December judge’s portraits featured in worldwide adverts The work of Jan Verboom, our judge for the December competition, is probably more familiar to members than what most of us realise: as a top commercial photographer, his images are featured in adverts that we regularly see (example above).

In his close to twenty years as a commercial photographer, he has done work for some of the best known brands — from local brands like Oude Meester, to US brands like Ketchup, or sleek German cars.

Nowadays, he is also a passionate portrait photographer, shooting a much wider variety of subjects for a

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much wider range of media, including billboards.

According to his website (www.janverboom.com) he likes images that have a narrative and tell their own stories. He also likes to capture “the essence of images that need to work for their own reasons, images that sell.”

With the boom in international crews shooting adverts and full-length films in Cape Town, Verboom also does a lot of on-set, behind the scenes, still photography. He also shoots for social media and blogs.

He will be judging the CTPS images on Wednesday, 3 December, with the set subject Portraits.

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AV achievers rewarded

This year, the best work done by members of the audio-visual section was also recognised at the annual CTPS prize-giving dinner. This included winners of the Place Near Here AV Challenge, reports JOY WELLBELOVED

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Robert Maginley (secretary of the AV group), Leslie Maginley (winner of the Chairman’s AV Award for the best advancement during the year), Nellian Bekker, winner of the Workshop AV Category and Joy Wellbeloved, AV representative on council and runner up in the A Place Near Here Challenge.

or the November meeting the committee reviewed the AVs submitted by members during 2014, and selected one AV from each person to be shown.

The committee also selected the prize-winning AV’s for the year, with the following AV section winners receiving their awards during the annual CTPS Awards Dinner: • AV Workshop Category: Nellian Bekker; • Set Subject Category: Jeanette du Toit; • Open Category: Neels Beyers.

The top three AVs for the AV Challenge (A Place Near Here) were also announced at the Awards Dinner. They are: • 1st Place: Wonderful World by Juan Venter; • 2nd Place: Bracken Nature Reserve by Joy Wellbeloved; • 3rd Place: Namakwa Park Coast by Nellian Bekker.

The AV’s entered by the following AV Group members in the A Place Near Here Challenge got Acceptances: • Ingrid Gane: Shades of Grey • Margaret Collins: Kogelberg • Mary Hunter: Township Tour • Neels Beyers: Matjiesfontein • Ingrid Gane & Nellian Bekker: Resthaven • Len van Wyk: Velddrif • Jeanette du Toit: A splendid time spend at Club Mykonos

Next AV meeting on 17 December Please note that the next audio-visual meeting will take place on 17 December, because St Stephen’s Church Hall will not be available on December 10th and it will be impractical to move all equipment to another venue.

All CTPS members are cordially invited to enjoy this last meeting of the year with the AV group. It will be partly informative and partly a social get-together.

All 14 ‘A Place Near Here’ challenge entries will be screened – starting from the bottom up — before tea.

There will be an extended tea break with no aftertea program as everybody attending the December AV meeting are asked to bring along a paper plate with finger snacks for all to share.

If you bring a precious plate it will be your responsibility to make sure you take it home again, cautions Joy Wellbeloved.

• Robert Maginley: McGregor • Nettie: Nieu Bethesda • John Arseniou: Beautiful Nature • Leslie Maginley: Philadelphia

Left: Leslie Maginley accepting the AV C h a i r m a n ’s award from Detlef Basel.

Right Joy Wellbeloved accepting her Infinity award from Detlef Basel and Lesley Parolis.

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CTPS 125 years celebration

The 125 Year celebrations for CTPS in 2016 kicks off with two memorable outings: appropriately starting on the iconic Cape Town symbol, the mountain, in January, followed by a ‘getting to know you’ weekend in the Overberg in February, reports RICHARD GOLDSCHMIDT

Table Mountain : 24 January

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o mark the start of our 125th year celebrations, it is intended to hold a social function in the late afternoon on top of Table Mountain. We invite and encourage all Society members to attend.

For the fitter members, we’ll ascend the mountain by cable car at 3.30pm and walk along the top to Mac Clears Beacon. The object is to take photos of the city and the Peninsula from the highest point. This mini-walk will be led by Richard Goldschmidt.

We’ll return to the upper station by 6.30pm, in time to meet the other CTPS members who choose to not walk, but rather enjoy the half-price ticket rate after 6pm. On arrival at the top, those members will walk the paths around the cable station, and take photos of the city from the various viewpoints.

We’ll all assemble on the deck on the west side below the restaurant, and have drinks and snacks, or picnic suppers, whilst watching the sun go down. Members are to bring their own food and drinks. We will be able to take photos of the city below as the lights begin to come on.

People can return whenever they wish.

The last car down from the mountain is at 9pm.

Members are encouraged to hold back two or three of their best images for the 125-year competition in November 2015, but to provide as many of their images as they wish for the making of an AV of the event — or for

Richard Goldschmidt, organiser of the January and February 2015 outings to celebrate the CTPS 125 Year anniversary, with his wife, Joyce.

inclusion in Cape Camera.

Tickets for the cable-way should preferably be pre-purchase on the web, if possible. The return ticket price is R225. You have to queue for the half-price tickets (R112.50), so come earlier to be near the front of the queue.

The event will be cancelled — or postponed — if the weather is unsuitable. Please inform Richard Goldschmidt if you are interested in attending so that he can inform you of any change of plans.

Stanford weekend: 20 to 22 February, 2015 CTPS is organizing an action-packed activity programme in the quaint little Overberg town of Stanford over the weekend of 20-22 February as the second outing of our 125th year celebration.

We can promise sunset birding cruises on the river, sunrise birding photography from a dedicated hide on the lake, an architectural guided tour of the heritage buildings and market in the village, a trip to Die Kelders archeology cave and beach, breakfast looking out over Walker Bay, a visit to a brewery/winery and free time to relax and do what you like. There are wonderful opportunities for landscape photography as well.

We are hoping for a big turn-out of members.

Stanford is only two hours’ drive from Cape Town, via Hermanus. The club will be hiring a newly renovated property that can sleep ten members in five en-suite rooms and will use this as a rendezvous base for all. We will enjoy a braai there on Saturday night and perhaps also on the Friday night – plans are still formulating.

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What is urgently required, is to book accommodation, as it can quickly fill up for weddings etc.

Members who know they will be coming on the Stanford weekend are requested to contact Richard Goldschmidt if they wish to book space in the rendezvous accommodation venue The club will subsidize costs to a degree, but members interested in this venue must be prepared to pay R800 (per person in total) for the two nights stay – but it could be cheaper when we know numbers interested.

There is an opportunity for accommodation to be even cheaper if members bring their own stretcher and sleeping bag and are prepared to sleep in a dormitory situation.

Another option is Valda Finch of Stanford River Lodge (028-341 0444). She is holding seven rooms open for a few weeks, only for our members. These are To p10

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Remember the date: The CTPS 125 Year Congress in 2015!

The CTPS congress planned for the weekend of 29-31 May, 2015, at De Hoop is taking shape

Pat Scott is hard at work, organising the CTPS Congress that will be held at De Hoop Nature Reserve as one of the highlights of the CTPS 125 Year Celebrations. This congress, planned for 29-31 May, 2015, will be exclusive to CTPS members.

Accommodation for 60 people have already been booked and members are encouraged to let Pat and her committee know if they will be attending.

The congress will start on the Friday afternoon (29 May) and will end on the Sunday afternoon (31 May).

Among the confirmed speakers will be great white shark experts and nature photographer Chris Fallows.

His talks were among the highlights at the PSSA Congress earlier this year.

Renowned architectural and landscape photographer

Exciting outings planned

Throughout 2015 CTPS will be organising outings, talks, competitions and other events to commemorate our 125th birthday year.

Some of the events you can look forward to next year, are: • A red bus tour around the Peninsula in March (weather permitting).

• Bein Wine will offer donkey cart rides and a wine tasting at sunset in April.

• An outing to Stellenbosch, guided by photographer Nicole Palmer, is planned for June.

• The club is planning an outing to Postberg, part of the West Coast National Park, in the wild flower season (probably August).

• Current and old club members will be honoured at a smart gala dinner on the society’s birthday, 30 October, at the Granger Bay Hospitality Training Centre, where the year-end function was held this year.

Stanford weekend from p9 superior rooms with magnificent views, that all look out over their garden, which runs down to the lagoon and mountain beyond. The prices vary between R750 per room per night (sleeps two) and R940 for the honeymoon suite. There is a swimming pool. Those who can afford this are encouraged to make their own bookings with Valda as soon as possible.

Members who do not wish to avail themselves of these arrangements can find other accommodation through the Stanford tourist website – but should do so as soon

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De Hoop offers many exceptional photographic opportunities, as can be seen from this image by Nicol du Toit.

Paul Bruins has also confirmed that he would be among the illustrious group of speakers Pat is still finalising.

Plenty of photographic opportunities Apart from the monthly club competitions, club members will be encouraged to record the year in pictures and also to pit their skills against other photographers in our celebratory National Salon.

• Members will be encouraged to photograph the celebrations throughout the year, with the set theme for October the 125 year celebrations.

• The Cape Town Photographic Society 125th Anniversary Salon, planned for our birthday month of October, will include prints (run by Antenie Carstens), PDI (Lesley Parolis) and AV’s (Joy Wellbeloved). Nicol du Toit will be the overall coordinator.

• A photo competition for schools is planned to promote the club to the younger generation. Learners will be encouraged to take photos during the July school holidays.

• An exhibition of members’ work from the past 125 years is planned for the foyer of the Artscape to coincide with the performance of West Side Story at the end of July.

as possible.

As with all of our weekend outings the club will generously contribute to providing a meal — and perhaps more. Further details will be provided once members commit to attend.

Members are requested to e-mail or phone Richard Goldschmidt to show their interest/commitment and for any questions they may have – as soon as possible.

Contact him at Richard@goldschmidt.co.za or call Cell: 082 558 3037 or home 021 794 3648.

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125 Year celebration club jackets

Make sure you come to the Competition Evening on Wednesday, 3 December, to try on a 125 Year Celebration club jacket for size and to place your order

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s part of the 125 Year Celebration next year, we are offering members special celebratory club jackets at a vastly reduced price, partly sponsored by CTPS. CTPS will contribute R100 towards the cost of one 125 Year-jacket per member (you may order as many jackets as you wish without the CTPS contribution). The full cost per jacket is R348 — which includes VAT and the cost of the embroidered badge. With CTPS contributing R100, a member will only pay R248 for a wind-, waterproof and breathable jacket to wear on society outings next year.

The idea is that as many CTPS members as possible order these jackets, in a similar style and colour (navy) so that we are all easily identified as members of the society when we go on outings. A 125 Year Celebration CTPS badge will be embroidered on the front of each jacket.

The All Weather Jacket pictured here is available in ladies and mens styles. They share the following features: • They are constructed from windproof and water resistant 100% rip-stop polyester, with a mesh Airtex lining to offer breathability; • The hood can be zipped off or tucked into the collar to be concealed; • The jackets have a waist shock cord with cord lock for a snug fit; • It features an inner phone pocket with velcro flap; • Adjustable elasticised cuffs with a velcro tab, zippered pockets and reinforced stitching offers protection against the wind.

Samples of all sizes — from small to 5XL — for ladies as well as men will be at the Competition Evening meeting on 3 December. Please come and try them on and place your orders, so that we can order the jackets embroidered with our CTPS badge in time for our first 125 Year outings in January next year.

Concealed arm pocket Cellphone pocket

Adjustable velcro cuff

Zip pocket on arm

Shock cord

Draw cord hood

The examples of the jacket features are in green for illustration purposes only, they will be navy.

For more information or to order jackets, contact Trudi du Toit on 021 461 2544 or editor@ctps.co.za

PSSA Congress held on our doorstep Cape Photographers and the Swellendam Photographic Society will be hosting the 61st PSSA Congress in Swellendam from Sunday 9 to Friday 14 August, 2015.

The Congress in the Canola 2015 will be held in the Swellengrebel Hotel, who are also offering specially reduced rates to delegates.

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On the PSSA website there is also information about other accommodation that will offer special rates for congress delegates. See more at www.swellendamtourism.co.za/congress-in-the-canola-accommodation.

To register for the congress, follow the link from the PSSA website (www.pssa.co.za) and click on the Congress tab at the top.

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Monkey in evening light by Joan Ward

was Jenny Powis’ favourite image that was entered in November, as she gave it the highest score of 29. It was also the Digital Set Subject Salon winner. “It is exquisite,” she said. “The backlight works beautifully with the light on its fingers.” She also commented favourably about the depth of field.

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fter 25 years as a CTPS club member — and one of our ten life members — Jenny Powis was a popular judge in November, especially as she was kind to her fellow club members and had something encouraging or complimentary to say about every image.

A renowned scapes photographer — landscapes, seascapes, desertscapes, etc. — she has a good eye for judging the set subject, Low Light, which attracted many scape entries. Especially, since she prefers photographing in what she describes as “the sweet light” of dusk or dawn

herself.

She also loves macro work, and enjoys capturing the very small details that are so often overlooked by other people.

Jenny has been a keen photographer for more than 30 years, ever since she was given a film camera as a graduation present in 1980.

She joined CTPS in 1989 and has been an enthusiastic and hard-working member ever since, serving in different positions on council member for several terms.

In 2002 Jenny was accepted as an Associate by the PSSA.

PSSA Entries:

Every month the judge must nominate a competition entry from a senior (Advanced or Salon) and junior (Beginner or Intermediate) photographer to enter in the PSSA competition. The club entry winners can be seen on the PSSA website at www.pssa.co.za.

Left: Salon Print Open winner: Human Form 2 by Malcolm Jones (28) is the PSSA senior entry. “A lot of impact — a perfect, unique body form,” judge Powis said of this image, which she described as “powerful” and “simple”.

Intermediate PDI Open winner: Weary Crocuta by Cathrin Jenkins (26) is

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the PSSA junior entry. “A beautifully composed story, well lit, with good depth of field,” said the judge, who especially liked the facial expression.

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Winning images November Set subject: Low light

Left: Advanced winner Print-Set: Pinnacle by Marius-lee Pretorius (26). A strong com-

Left: Salon winner Print - Set: Last hint of light by Pat Scott (26).

A painting with light, using the last light to accentuate the shape, said the judge. “This is what photography is all about.

I like the exposure and the detail on the buck.” She also mentioned the sharpness and the well-selected depth of field.

position using low light, said judge Powis. “I don’t mind that it is in the centre, because it works — the ‘finger’ pointing upwards works well in the centre.”

Left: Advanced winner PDISet: All souls Eve by Anna Engelhardt (28). “ Beautiful

composition, and beautifully exposed” said judge Powis, who commended the light on the hair of the girl who looks like a bride in contemplative mood.

Right: Intermediate winner Print-Set: Penguin couple at dusk by Jenny Cole-Rous (24).

A strong composition is created by the frame of the rocks, which form a good base, balanced by the rocks at the top, the judge commented.

“The use of light is also good.”

Left: Intermediate winner PDI-Set: Sesriem sunset by Jenny Cole-Rous (26). The vertical format creates a powerful image, which is dynamic and well exposed. “The proportions are dead right.”

Above right: Beginner winner Print-Set: Silky Water by Barbara Hallock (25).

Judge Powis liked the image very much and would have given it an even higher score if the rocks had not been slightly soft. “I would have liked to see the rock in the front sharper,” she said.

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November winners & top scorers: Open Left: Salon winner PDI -Open: I’m in a hurry by Jeanette du Toit (28). A beautiful sharp dramatic action shot with the focus on the centre, is how the judge described the image. She liked the fact that not too much of the other elephant is visible.

Winner Advanced Print Open: Shadows in the Mist by Anna Engelhardt (28). “All the pieces come together.” com-

mented judge Powis, who was impressed with the subtle tonal range that created an almost surreal, dreamy image, and the repetition of the tree pattern.

Advanced winner PDI - Open: Kokerboom country by Mo Bassa (28). “Beautifully composed and lit at the right time of the day. The shadows lead the eye into the subject. The clear blue sky works well.”

Right: Winner Intermediate Print-Open: Koue Bokkeveld Cold Front by Brian Hallock (23). ‘A pleasing,

well-composed image taken in beautiful light,” judge Powis commented.

Salon PDI Open: Bee Attractor by Joy Wellbeloved “Absolutely (28).

beautiful,” was the judge’s comment, who especially liked the colours and the fact that the focus is on the stamens, which are very sharp. “The frame left works well because your eye foWinner Beginner PDI Open: Seagull at the Fair cus on the centre.”

by Carin Hardisty (21). The judge liked the colour reflection of the fair ground, which is explained by the title, but she would have liked to see the bird stand out more against the background.

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More November top scoring images

Left: Salon PDISet: Monreale Cathedral by Jeanette Brusnicky (28). “So

Left: Advanced PDI-Set: Spires by Leslie Maginley (28). “Absolutely beautiful,”

said the judge. “The vertical format works because of the spires.” She commented on the fact that all the detail can be seen, despite the low light.

“Well done.”

much detail!” commented judge Powis, who was impressed with the exposure and lighting that created a beautiful image that works beautifully in the vertical.

Below left: Salon PDI-Set: Melkbaai met sononder by Neels Beyers (28).

“Beautiful composition and light,” said the judge. “The colour of the sky is recreated on the sand. Very well seen.”

Salon Print Open: Levitation 2 by Malcolm Jones (26).

“The lighting is beautiful,”said the judge, who admired the sharpness of the image with a pose that would have been difficult to keep.

Advanced Print Open: A Cub’s Hunger has no Bound by Dante Parisi (26). “Animals have to be shown in

Above: Salon PDI Open: De Hoop Dunes by Lambe Parolis (26). “A

their environment,”said the judge, who liked the fact that there was lots of space around the cub. “Beautiful image, with the beads of colour.”

pleasing image,” she said, with interest created by the shadows and the different textures. “Very good composition with the lines of the clouds in the sky repeated in the patterns on the ground.”

Right: Salon PDI-Set: Blue Mosque

by John Spence (26). A dramatic, al-

most surrealistic image that had been well exposed and seen, was the judge’s comment.

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CTPS members perform well in salons Left: Wrapped in Time by Mariuslee Pretorius.

Right: Tuscan Landscape by Mo Bassa.

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everal CTPS members got acceptances in PSSA salons whose results were announced during November. Apart from salon veterans Mo Bassa, Shaun Laishley, Marius-lee Pretorius and Nicol du Toit, whose entries are regularly accepted in salons, several other society members have also had images accepted this month, namely: Joan Ward, Jenny Cole-Rous, Anna Engelhardt and Karyn Parisi.

Pretorius get six more acceptances During the past month, Marius-lee Pretorius got six acceptances from PSSA salons, which also contributed to him being promoted to Salon (see on right).

In the 5th TAF Digital Salon he got three acceptances: • The good wife in Open Pictorial • Wrapped in time in Open Pictorial • Pod in Movement He got two acceptances from the Brandpunt Kameraklub: • Focused in the Open category • The mind of Jan van Wijk in Open - Scapes In the Bluff National Digital Salon he got acceptance for • Up in smoke in Pictorial – Colour only

Four acceptances for Laishley Shaun Laishley had four acceptances in two salons. He got two acceptances from the Bosveld Fotografieklub: • Please don’t get up in Pictorial - Sports Action; • A Telling Blow in Pictorial - Sports Action; In the Krugersdorp Camera Club Salon he got the following two acceptances: • Highway Star in Pictorial - Human Portraits; • Good night in Pictorial - Photojournalism and Sport;

Four in four salons for Du Toit Nicol du Toit got acceptances for the following: • Vlerksleep in the Nature-birds only-Colour category of the Midlens Salon; • Bote in die baai in the Water-Monochrome category of the Bluff National Digital Salon; • Kolmanskop doorway in Pictorial-Open of the Bosveld Fotografieklub;

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• Blood on the beach in Open-Scapes of the Brandpunt Kameraklub Salon.

Three acceptances for Ward Joan Ward got three acceptances from the Brandpunt Kameraklub Salon: • Coot conflict in Nature - Wildlife Birds • Flamingo fight in Nature - Wildlife Birds • Monkey in evening light in Nature-Wildlife Open Two for Mo Bassa The Bosveld Fotografieklub accepted two of Mo Bassa’s images in the Scapes category, namely: Kokerboom country and Tuscan landscape.

More member acceptances • Tuscan Landscape by Anna Engelhardt in the TAF Digital Salon, Scapes - Panorama; • Target practice in the Namib desert by Jenny ColeRous in the Brandpunt Kameraklub, Salon, Open; • Blondie en Pointe by Karyn Parisi in the Krugersdorp Camera Club Salon, Wildlife including birds.

Latest promotions The following members were promoted in October: • Rob Marconi to Advanced • Lionel Willis to Advanced • Anna Engelhardt to Salon • Marius-lee Pretorius to Salon* * Marius-Lee has achieved 11 salon acceptances to date and by virtue of these acceptances, and attaining 8 gold awards and 32 points in CTPS competitions, he gains promotion to Salon. The following acceptances in salons contributed to his promotion: five acceptances from the East Rand Super Circuit; one acceptance from the Bluff Camera Club National Digital Salon; two acceptances from Brandpunt Kameraklub Fotografie Salon; three acceptances from the 5th TAF Digital Salon 2014.

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Education & Development

Of portraits and star trails Peter Haarhoff gave CTPS members a two-in-one presentation on the best light for portraits and sharing the secrets of star trail photography, report KARYN and DANTE PARISI

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n Wednesday 19 November, we had the pleasure of Peter Haarhoff giving a talk and slide presentation on Portrait and Star Trail Photography. The evening was well attended, with a turnout of 34 people.

Peter gave a very comprehensive, informative talk on portrait photography, including aspects such as composition, natural lighting, flash and exposure compensation. He stressed a very important factor for using flash in sunny conditions outdoors: “Always use high speed flash synchronisation!”

Some tips on the use of light Since photography means capturing images with light, the use of light is the most important factor in portrait photography, Peter explained. He gave the following tips: • The bigger the light source, the softer the light • The further you move away from your subject, the smaller, and harsher, the light source becomes • Make use of natural light indoors by positioning your subject next to a door or window • The rule of thumb in the use of a side light is that it is better if your subject faces the main light, and you use a smaller light to provide shadows • When shooting outdoors, first choose your background (e.g. a door or window can be a good frame) and then move your subject out of the harsh light to the shade, otherwise you’ll get a racoon face when shooting in harsh light.

After a well-deserved coffee break, Peter spoke about Star Trails, giving some good information and tips on camera settings and image stacking. As always, he delivered a very relaxed and humorous talk… his story of trying to relocate his camera on a tripod in total darkness for star trail photography, while relying only on the camera’s click of a 30 second shutter speed, was priceless!

We were also treated to some of his wonderful star trail images, including a fabulous Milky Way image taken in the Cedarberg.

This was the last E&D evening for 2014. The next one will be on 18 February 2015, with Malcolm Venter from Vega School of Photography, on Composite Images. (March subject). You won’t want to miss this one. Mark the date!

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A Star Trail image Peter Haarhoff took at Gifberg.

Easy-going and genial speaker Peter Haarhoff now combines his 20-year career as a professional photographer with the booming tourism industry in Cape Town. He organises scenic and phototours — sometimes combining a photographic workshop with a guided tour to the townships where participants can put their newly-gained insights to practical use. He is also well-known for the Star Trail tours he organises to Sutherland and other Karoo places.

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125 Year celebration diary Save these dates for 2015

January 24, 2015

February 20-22, 2015

Table Mountain outing - climbing for the fit members, via cable car (half-price after 6pm) for the not-so-fit. Meet on top for sundowners and picnics (see p9) Weekend in Stanford: urgently confirm attendance with Richard Goldschmidt and book accommodation (see pp9-10).

March 28, 2015

Red bus day outing around the Peninsula. Details and date to be confirmed.

April 2015

Bein Wein Private Cellar outing in Vlottenburg with donkey ride and wine tasting at sunset. Date and details to be confirmed.

CTPS Congress for members in De Hoop Nature Reserve. Expect top speakers like Chris Fallows, Paul Bruins and others.

May 29-31, 2015

Schools photo competition launched.

June 2015

Outing in Stellenbosch area under guidance of photographer and graphic artist Nicole Palmer. Includes a braai.

July 20 to 3 August, 2015

Exhibition of members’ work across 125 years in Artscape Opera House foyer, during the run of West Side Story musical Postberg outing during flower season.

Date and details to be confirmed.

August 2015

PSSA National Congress in Swellendam 9-14 August. Organised by Swellendam Photographic Society and Cape Photographers. See PSSA website at www.pssa.co.za (Congress tab).

September 16, 2015

An illustrated talk on the club’s 125 years’ history. Possible AV shown?

Cape Town Photographic Society 125th Anniversary Salon for print (Antenie Carstens), PDI (Lesley Parolis) and AV (Joy Wellbeloved), coordinated by Nicol du Toit.

October 2015

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On October 30th, the society’s birthday will be celebrated with a gala dinner at Granger Bay with a good speaker, where old and current members will be honoured. A book on the society’s 125 year history launched at the event.

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