Successful 2018 Northern Zone Convention Congratulations to David Targett and his crew for achieving a very successful Northern Zone Convention and competition. The planning and organisation for the event was flawless. For this year’s convention and photography competition, the Hastings Club departed from a long tradition by transferring competition images to a specially created Northern Zone website for the judging process and recording scores. Colin Woods, webmaster of MyPhotoClub websites, worked tirelessly setting up the Northern Zone website for the convention, coordinated the judging process with the FCC judges. I greatly appreciate Colin’s contribution to the success of the convention.

This year’s event, I believe, has raised the professionalism of the convention and set a new benchmark which will be difficult to emulate, and I know how much hard work and negotiation went into the planning of the event. The exhibitors attracted great interest from delegates and they displayed a fine array of photographic equipment to handle and discuss.

The seven ‘free’ Masterclasses led by professional presenters were a great success. The presenters’ sessions covered a wide range of subjects which were well attended and drew favourable comments from the delegates. The morning and afternoon teas were superb with a delicious variety of cakes and pastries. The dinner, award presentation and the after-dinner speech by Roy Killen was excellent and greatly appreciated by the delegates.

We especially thank the following presenters and masterclass leaders who donated their time to attend the conference: Dr Roy Killen, Dr Jim Frazier, Mark Galer, Malcolm Fackender, Ben Fewtrell, Tim Bauer, Doug Coleman, Susan McNeil, Dianne Schofield, Colin Schofield and David Oliver. Our special thanks go to the Federation of Camera Clubs (FCC) Competition judges: Dr Roy Killen, Alex Hunter and Neville Foster. The quality of the venue contributed to the success of the convention and I thank management of the Laurieton United Services Club for the use of their excellent facilities for this year’s convention.

I wish to express my great appreciation to David Targett and his crew of Lindie Kolver, Jody Carey, Peter Forsyth, Joanne Brown, Chris Randall, and Kathy Appleby who dedicated many hours to planning and running the event; and to John and Suzie Smith, the event photographers—whose images provided a souvenir of attendance for delegates. I would also like to thank Frank Kolver, Trevor Dearle, Charlie Madders, Kevin Ho, John Shaw, Ian Wilbore, Paul Barron, and Linda Appleby for their vital help behind the scenes.

June 2018

Northern NSW Zone of Photographic Societies Overall Most Successful Club

2012, 2016, 2017

Club Activities Meetings are held at 7.00pm on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. Visitors are always welcome.

Venue: Emerald Downs Community Centre, Lighthouse Plaza, Port Macquarie. Entry via the Emerald Drive roundabout

at the corner of the Plaza building in the lower carpark area.

Club Night program on the first Tuesday includes print competitions, photographic tutorials, presentations and discussions.

Monthly projected digital image competi-tions are held on the third Tuesday, and judged by accredited Federation of Camera Club judges.

Hastings My Photo Club Website is contin-uously updated to provide information about club activities; documentation; how to join; member profiles, and tutorials.

Digital and Print photography competitions are managed via the website and members use it to upload their images and view re-sults and comments

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide an opportunity to learn specific aspects of pho-tography in small informal groups.

Group Facebook account enables members to contact each other and share infor-mation.

Newsletter is emailed to members each month: includes club news: feature articles: competition results: details of planned activities/events, and may be downloaded from the website — under ‘About the Club’ tab.

Coffee Mornings are held every Wednes-day (see Club Calendar) at venues all over the local area and provide a great oppor-tunity to socialise, discuss club matters, photography, and just about everything else.

Northern Zone Convention Issue

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Category Winners — Individuals

Digital Frank Kolver Hastings

Colour Prints Barry McCulloch Coffs Harbour

Small Tony Green*

Creative Prints Narelle Fox Port M Panthers

Monochrome Digital Frank Kolver Hastings

Prints John Smith Hastings

Set subject Digital Brian McCauley Forster

Most Successful Exhibitor Fay Braunisch Kempsey

Club Trophies

Most Successful Club Tamworth

Digital Open Mono Kempsey

Digital Open Colour Hastings

Large Colour Prints Coffs Harbour

Small Colour Prints Lismore

Mono Prints Coffs Harbour

Creative Prints Tamworth

Ranking Tamworth

Lismore

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Hastings

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Kempsey

Wauchope

Taree

Nambucca

* winning image of the competition

Link to Northern Zone website for details

— click on View results and galleries 526 Digital Images: Colour 109 — Mono 109 — Set subject 308 328 Prints: Large Colour 97 — Mono 97 — Small 67 — Creative 64

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Acceptance Minor blemishes, lacks

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Credit Certificate

Strong image, needs more impact

Distinction Certificate

Strong image of national competition standard

Print of the Month

Winner of the Sunset Gallery Prize

Loco 6060 by Peter Forsyth

Looking Looking by Paul Barron

On My Tail by Rod Wratten

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Distinctions Credits

Peter Forsyth (2) Chris Randall

John Upton

Total entries 15 Acceptances 11

Distinctions Credits

Rod Wratten (2) Tony Hounsell John Upton

Trevor Dearle Peter Forsyth Chris Randall

Total entries 18 Acceptances 11

Distinctions Credits

Paul Barron Kevin Ho

Kevin Ho Peter Forsyth (2)

Total entries 14 Acceptances 9

You may need to log-in to access Links To enlarge images ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Scroll-wheel’

Featured Member — Rod Wratten

Rod Has lived in Port Macquarie since 2000. Prior to that, he lived in Tamworth for 27 years; before that lived on a farm at Willow Tree near Quirindi—where he started work. Two years later, in 1963, moved to Tamworth where he worked in the carpentry industry for 14 years—and later became a partner in an office furniture and stationary business.

When Did You Start In Photography? I bought my first camera when I worked in Quirindi from a Chemist shop as they stocked a few cameras — could only buy film — and had to send it away and wait up to three weeks for it to come back.

In Tamworth I was still taking photos all the time and joined a local camera club—which folded six months later.

So I put an ad in the local paper and had a lot of responses from people wanting to form a club.

The newly formed club was called:

Tamworth Camera Club

—and it’s still going today!

I did a lot of study, and from 1973—1998 became a wedding photographer, averaging around thirty weddings a year.

Places You Like to Shoot? I did go to USA in 1981 with eleven other people, for 21 days travelling from Canada, USA, by motorhomes; took a lot of slides, but they did not last, also shot a lot of landscapes during the trip.

What Fuels Your Creative Passion? I love to photograph places and areas around our region up to the hinterland: also action, such as boat racing, rodeo, speed boat racing, plus landscapes.

Where would you like your photographic Journey to Take You?

I would like to increase my knowledge to better myself in Photoshop, and the way light falls and plays a big part in images — and put that knowledge to good use in my work.

Equipment You like to Use? I did use Nikon camera and lens, till I came to Port Macquarie then changed over to Canon when digital came in. New ways, new things to learn, no more film to develop. I now have Canon EOS 200D body; Sigma 10/20 lens; 55/250

Canon lens; 300mm L series lens; Canon 430 flash unit, carbon fibre tripod and monopod.

Photographers You Admire?

I do like Adam Williams work. Rod

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Judge: Nev Male You may need to log-in to access Links To enlarge images ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Scroll-wheel’

May Digital Competition Awards

Aggregate Scoring System

Rejected Score 0

Does not comply with category definition

Entry Score 1

Obvious technical problems

Acceptance Score 2

Minor blemishes, lacks pictorial strength

Credit Score 3 Certificate

Strong image, needs more impact

Distinction Score 4 — Certificate

Strong image of national competition standard

Digital Image of the Month

Winner of the Sunset Gallery Prize Standing Guard

by John Upton

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Kick Boxing by Kevin Ho

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Maintenance by John Smith

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Distinctions Credits

John Upton Linda Appleby (2) Frank Kolver

Susan Smith John Smith Bill Quaglio

Nick Lefebvre Kevin Ho (2) Lindie Kolver (2)

Ray Cooper Jeremy Hardy

John Upton Rod Wratten

Total entries 35 Acceptances 10

Miners Beach by Colin Bennett

Link to website to view full results for this category

Distinctions Credits

John Smith (2) Trevor Dearle Lindie Kolver (2)

John Upton Kevin Ho (2) Jeremy Hardy

Nick Lefebvre Frank Kolver Rod Wratten

Peter Forsyth

Frank Kolver

Total entries 31 Acceptances 10

Distinctions Credits

Kevin Ho Susan Smith (2) Frank Kolver

Frank Kolver John Shaw Lindie Kolver

Lindie Kolver Nick Lefebvre Rod Wratten

Peter Forsyth

Total entries 31 Acceptances 10

Distinctions Credits

Colin Bennett Chris Randall Frank Kolver

Chris Randall Colin Bennet Jeremy Hardy

Frank Kolver Kevin Ho

Lindie Kolver (2)

Total entries 35 Acceptances 10

1 Lindie Kolver 128 11 Ray Cooper 68

2 John Smith 127 12 Rod Wratten 63

3 Frank Kolver 120 13 Linda Appleby 62

4 Susan Smith 111 14 Trevor Dearle 60

5 Kevin Ho 109 15 John Shaw 59

6 John Upton 97 16 Jeremy Hardy 59

7 Chris Randall 87 17 Colin Bennett 54

8 Peter Forsyth 77 18 Nick Lefebvre 46

9 Paul Barron 73 19 Barry Ihle 29

10 Bill Quaglio 72 20 Katherine Appleby 24

We are now half way through our competition year and on the right are shown the current ‘Top Twenty’ Aggregate Scores for January through May digital competitions.

Aggregate score points are based on the number of Entries, Acceptances, Credits and Distinctions you have achieved this year. See top of this page for scoring system.

Our website updates these monthly for ‘each category’ and ‘all categories’ — click on Link to website for full details.

Approximately 60% of our members enter competitions.

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2017/18 Committee

Harry Bryant: President/Web Admin Colin Bennett: Vice President/Training Ian Wilbore: Secretary/Treasurer/Membership Lindie Kolver: Competition Steward/Web Admin Chris Randall: Competition Steward/Web Admin Kevin Ho: Training Coordinator John Shaw: Newsletter/Events/Web Admin

https://hastings.myphotoclub.com.au/ Click here

Hastings Photo Group aka—The Fun Club

22A Yarramundi Rd Port Macquarie Contact us:

EFT Banking Holiday Coast Credit Union A/c name: Hastings Photography Gr0up BSB: 802 214 A/c No. 100146215

president@hastingsphotogroup.com.au

Famous quotes on photography

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like,

it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”

Paul Caponigro: b. 1932. American photographer, is renowned as one of America’s most significant landscape photographers with a career spanning almost seventy years

A great way to meet and socialise with members and friends

6th June Westport Club Buller Street 27th June Bittersweet Café Watonga St

13th June Beantree Café Horton Street 4th July Rivermark Café Hastings Riv. Dr

20th June Bonny Hills Nursery Café 11th July Pipeworks Café Bay Street

Club Night Northern Zone Convention Review

Presentation: Indoor Portraits — by Harry

Kevin will show how to obtain a better competition score by applying a few simple techniques

Indoor Portraits is the Set Subject for August —entries by 18th July

A follow-up Workshop will be held on Saturday to learn how Photoshop ‘Layers’ may be used to improve competition images

Workshop: Photoshop 2 — Introduction to Layers Using ‘Layers’ learn how to use Masks, Selection and Brush tools to make local adjustments

Convenor: Kevin Cost: $5·00 includes refreshments

Bring laptop with Photoshop CC or CS6

Please arrive by 8:50am to assist room set-up so we can make an early start

Committee Meeting — please contact any member of the committee if you wish to raise any items for consideration

Field Trip — Street Scenes (set subject for July Digital)

7.30am: to photograph the weekly Port Macquarie parkrun — meet opposite the Police Station — park locally — after photoshoot adjourn to Zebu Bar (Rydges) for coffee

9:00am: to photograph ‘street scenes’ in the CBD — meet opposite the Police Station — park locally

This is an ‘all-weather’ event as a drop of rain or high wind may add interest to your story

If raining, rug-up and meet under Rydges entrance awning

Link to Port Macquarie parkrun website

June Digital Competition For entries uploaded to website by 16th May Projected Images — Judging — Awards

Upload July digital competition images − closing date for entries 20th June 5.00pm − Categories: Open colour — Open Mono — Nature − Set Subject: Street Scenes

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Club Night — Forum What did we learn from the Northern Zone Masterclasses?

Sharing new techniques for individuals and ideas for workshops

Club delegates to the Conference will be asked what new ideas and techniques they learned from the Masterclasses they attended

Workshop: Photoshop 3 — High Dynamic Range How to increase dynamic range of Light and Dark in your photos

Set subject for September competition — entries by 22nd August

Convenor: Colin Cost: $5·00 includes refreshments

Bring laptop computer with current version of Photoshop CC or CS6 Please arrive by 8:50am to assist room set-up so we can make an early start

July Digital Competition For entries uploaded to website by 20th June Projected Images — Judging — Awards

Upload August digital competition images − Closing date for entries — 18th July 5:00pm

− Categories: Open Colour — Open Mono — Nature − Set Subject: Indoor portrait

Field Trip — Coffs Harbour Butterfly House — meet in the Café for coffee Butterflies are more active after 10.00am Link to website Then optionally, Coffs Harbour Jetty for more photo-ops and fish ’n chip lunch Link

An ‘expression-of-interest’ sheet will be circulated to ascertain numbers with a view to obtaining a group discount

Jul 17

Tue 7:00PM

Jul 3

Tue 7:00PM

Jun 15

Jun 9

Sat 9:00AM

Jun 5

Tue 7:00PM

Jun 16

Sat

Jul 14

Sat 9:00AM

Jul 21

Sat 9:30AM

Jun 19

Tue 7:00PM