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Presidents Report.

Depth of Field Workshop

Open night gallery.

Links, etc.

A Point of View.

Leading Lines.

Members Photos.

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The next meeting will be held on Wednesday September 24th at the Darley Neighbourhood House at 7:30PM.Theme for the night is ‘Water Reflections.’

The Light Painting Workshop will be held on Wednesday 10th September at the DNH at 7:30PM.

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From the President:

It’s been another successful and enjoyable month for the Club, as we continue to improve in both structure and membership. The workshop discovering Depth of Field was well attended, and thanks to Kim and Marilyn providing both video tutorial and props, provided plenty of opportunity for those present to practice this important photography skill. The August meeting was once more well attended, with the Mini Comp greatly supported in both Print and Electronic Digital Im-age (EDI) entries. Again Marilyn and Kim provided Video Tutorial and accessories making the night flow smoothly and successfully. Thank you again to them both, and congratulations on some excellent entries and to those gaining Awards.Along with all this great news comes the sad news that Matthew has resigned from the Committee due his success in obtaining work in his chosen field. Unfortunately this means his re-locating to Northern Victoria, slightly too far to travel for regular meetings. We wish Matt all the best in his venture and thank him for his support since the inception of the Club back in 2013. The Committee is also sad to be losing Judy as Vice President. Judy was the instigator of the then Bacchus Marsh Photography Interest group which first met mid 2013. From this group of 4 or 5 people has grown our Club as it now is. Whilst not leaving us, Judy has decided to become a “general” member, taking a larger interest in her retirement and other projects.We thank Judy for her constant input and drive in developing the club, and passing on experience and knowledge gained from other clubs in which she has been a member. If not for her passion, the BMDPC may have never existed. Thanks Judy This now leaves positions vacant on the Committee for anyone who would like to help in making BMDPC a successful and pros-perous club. Please indicate if you may be interested. Please remember that Clubs flourish through everyone being involved, therefore the Committee encourages all members to have input involving Club Meetings, Workshops, Field Trips and Training.If there is something that you would like to see happening, please let the Committee know and it will be discussed as soon as practicable. If possible every effort will be made to accommodate, understanding that we can’t please everyone all the time. The weather is improving, so let’s see some stunning shots for the next meetings theme: Water Reflections.

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In the prints section, Robert Armstrong’s waterfall photograph was the clear favourite and his monochrome was second, closely followed by Mattie Page with his bird on the wire. Highly commended awards went to Judy Archer and Julie Page.In the EDI section, Mattie Page was first with Venice, Eric Bunn was second with Kelp and Nathan Stanley’s zebras was third place.Some of the EDI images are HERE.

Winners of the Open Competition -

At the August meeting we welcomed back Rhonda & Oscar Mauff again, who, by the way, contributed some very nice EDI photos of New Zealand. The lucky couple are off to Samoa for a couple of months and we look forward to their return with (hopefully!) some great photos.We also welcomed Jan Stafford and hope you enjoyed your first evening with our club.

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P&CWe held the Depth of field workshop on Wednesday 13th August with 12 people attending including 2 visitors, who were Rhonda & Oscar Mauff. There were also 4 apologies.We kicked off the night with three videos explaining Depth of Field and how it affects your photos and what effect the aperture setting has on depth of field. Props were scattered over two rooms and down the corridor to allow people to try out various aperture settings.For those that weren’t there, or those that would like to see the videos again to try it out, here are the links:

Depth of Field Exercise

Depth of Field Part One - Short Lens

Depth of Field Part Two - Long Lens

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get a ‘group’ photo with people scattered over the rooms!

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Leading lines describes a photographic composition concept where natural and man-made lines, as well as suggested lines, are used to lead a viewer’s eyes around a pho-tograph. You can use lines in conjunction with other compositional tools such as centering, the rule of thirds, or point of view as well as letting the leading lines be the main compositional tool on its own.

What Can Make a Line?Almost anything can create a line within a photograph. There are three main categories of lines that can be used in leading lines. These are: natural, man-made, and sug-gested. Natural Natural leading lines are things such as rivers, tree tops, edges of flower patches, geese flying in formation, or even an alligator’s tail. Anything that creates a continu-ing line within your frame can be used as a leading line. ManMade Manmade leading lines are lines that do not naturally occur in nature. Manmade lines can be things such as roads, power lines, rooftops, fences, rows of windows or doors, support structures for bridges, or the bridges themselves. As with natural lines, the composition of the line isn’t important as long as it creates a solid pathway for the eye to follow. Suggested This is where leading lines gets a touch tricky, and perhaps a little controversial. Not everyone calls a suggested leading line part of the leading line composition rule. Because it falls into lines, I prefer to consider it part of leading lines rather than a wholly separate tool. A suggested leading line is a broken line or an absent line that is strongly suggested by the positioning of items within the frame. These suggested leading lines are most frequently due to line of vision. This is when a subject in the frame is looking directly at a specific point with nothing between the two to visually separate them. For example, a person holding an apple and looking at the worm crawling out of the apple with the background strongly blurred between the face and the apple/worm. In addition to the lack of separating objects between two points in a suggested leading line, it works best when the distance between the points is the shortest comfortable route for the eye to take. This means that while the distance might be longer for the eye to wander around the frame a bit, if another composition tool is present that suggests a different visual path (say the rule of thirds), the eye will follow the other progression of sight instead of the suggested leading line. In other words, if in our hypothetical subject looking at the apple/worm photo there was a large bee on a rule of thirds intersection point above the main subject’s head, the eye of your viewer would be drawn away from the suggested leading line to that blasted bee so that the visual path might be subject-bee-apple/worm instead of subject-apple/worm. Use caution when attempting a suggested leading line as the composition has to be just right for it to work strongly. However, if everything comes together properly it is a powerful option for a leading line. Do the Lines Have to be Straight?No, lines do not have to be straight. In fact, some of the most interesting lines are curved or even looped. As long as there is a definite path for the viewer’s eyes to fol-low, the line can take any path you wish. For example, a twisted road leading up a mountain still works as a leading line although it takes the eye through a twisted path within the photo.

Leading Lines

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P&CUsing Sets of Lines TogetherOne of the most obvious and often used lines is a railroad. The rails them-selves are strong lines that are usually in strong contrast with the surround-ings. However, the gravel beside the tracks creates lines and the tree tops (or power poles) following the tracks create even more lines. Because these lines all work together and run in the same direction, the strength of the railroad line is greatly increased by the support of the secondary lines around it.You can also use converging lines together. A flock of geese in a V formation is actually two lines coming together at the point of the V. In this case you have two lines joining and the eye follows those two lines like an arrow point-ing to the intersection of the line.

Conflicting LinesJust like some lines can be used to strengthen each other, others can fight each other and confuse the composition. Crosshatch wire on fences is a good ex-ample of this confusion. There are so many crosses of the wire that it stops the eye from moving anywhere in the photo. Roads intersected by multiple power lines and trees growing out of people’s heads are good examples as well. Any time lines break another line they run the risk of creating confusion. If you use crossing lines you must be very careful to have something of interest at the intersection or the lines will conflict with the rest of the composition.

Examples of leading lines.

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Last evening I with other members of the YRPS visited the Knox Photographic Society for the Black and White Interclub competition. Several clubs had entered the competition some from as far away as Philip Island and Williamstown and in between. I left the KPS club rooms feeling numb, never, ever have I seen so much mediocrity and lack of imagination. The same old same old work repeated again and again, now I am talking subject matter as print Quality and presentation were excellent. But, the often lack of imagination in interpreting the scene or subject in front of them was mind-boggling. Why is this? What is stifling the imagination and vision? Is it the rules for making images? The sacred cows that camera clubs employ or is it the Judges? Last night’s judge was so conservative that it was almost unbelievable. Are judges of this ilk in the majority and imposing their views on the clubs? Are clubs slavishly following their doctrine? I do not know, but I do think that at the moment photographic clubs and societies are not progressing the cause of Photography at all. As usual these thoughts and opinions are mine alone.Antony Dimmock

Point of View.This letter appeared in the August edition of the Yarra Ranges Photographic Society Newsletter and is reproduced here with the writers permission.

““So....What do you think? Personally I think there is a lot of truth in these comments. So often we see the same subject taken

from the same angle (and yes, I am just as guilty of this as are others). Why? Is it easier to replicate what thousands of others have done rather than use our imagination to take that ‘special’ shot?Are Judges giving ‘favour’ to images that adhere to the ‘Rules’?...which in turn is making Clubs and their members ‘worry’ that their photographs are not good enough if they don’t stick to the rules?Do you have an opinion on any of this? If so, I would welcome any and all comments or thoughts to be published in the next edition.

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The Australian Photographic Collectors Society is holding a market on September 21st at the box Hill town Hall.

Further information is available from HERE.

THE FORTY - SIXTH BALLARAT NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONis being held from 13th December 2014 to 18th January 2015.

Entries close on the 3rd October and entry fees apply. Please read their terms and conditions, in particular #6 regarding mounting.Further details are available from HERE and click on the Ballarat National Entry Form link.

Yea Camera Club are holding their 2014 Exhibition on the Melbourne Cup weekend, 1st - 4th November.The brochure and entry forms are available from HERE.Entries must be in by Friday 10th October - No late entries will be accepted. Entry fees apply. Please read the terms and conditions on the entry form.If anyone wishes to submit an entry check with Jill Bell or Marilyn or myself at the next workshop as we may be able to arrange delivery of your entry.

There will be a free 1 hour ‘workshop’ on taking time lapse photography of fungi to be held at the Melton Learning and Library Hub, 31 McKenzie Street, Melton on Saturday 6th September at 11:15AM. If you are interested in going please contact Linda Bradburn on 9757 7200

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AV Group 2 Wednesday September 17, 2014 at 8.00 pmCnr Ferrars and Dorcas Sts, South Melbourne

Visiting from Adelaide, Charles Hulse, experienced audiovisual maker, will bewith us and we would love to have AV enthusiasts join us to see his presentation:

“My way with nature”

Please come along, bring a friend, and enjoy Charles’ wonderful AVs many of which have had International success.

(these are different works from what Charles will beshowing at APSCON).Charles Hulse FRPS AV-AFIAP

Charles Hulse is a semi-retired industrial chemist who works in the food industry. In the 1970s he joined the WEA Camera Club and had local and national success with

both slides and black & white work. By the late 1970s he had began a lifelong interest in audio-visual work and currently has more than 70 productions. In 1979, 1981 and 1999 respectively he gained his ARPS, FRPS and AFIAP for AVs. In 1992

he was a member of the Barossa Valley APSCON organizing committee and gave presentations of his work at that convention. He was the Director of the Adelaide

International AV Festival from 1994 to 1999 and has 34 acceptances and 11 awards at international AV festivals. His work tends to the artistic/documentary genre and is

organized and bold in style with a sense of the epic or dramatic usually present. Feelings about the environment and the eternal also tend to be part of his themes. He is currently a member of three photographic groups in South Australia -”f22”,

“The Roving Photographers Group” and “The Audio-Visual Club of South Australia”.

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Members PhotosThis is from Martin Ball. OM-D E-M5, 17mm f1.8 lens 30th sec, ISO 1000. Many thanks Martin

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P&CSome of the photos from the August Open night.

They are presented in no particular order.More to appear next month.

© Eric Bunn.

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P&C© Nathan Stanley.

B DMP&C© Marilyn Prime.

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P&C© Ray Wendt.