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2017 April; Presenter and Open competition

Tuesday 4/04 Valerie Martin, Travel Photography; Ethiopia +portraits, markets & wildlife.
A very interesting evening with Valerie Martin, a freelance photographer based on Sydney’s northern beaches. She has had an exciting and varied career working as a press photographer in London, freelancer in the United States and senior staff photographer at Australian Consolidated Press. Her style is to work in a contemporary manner using as much natural light as possible. Being versatile and working quickly especially on street photography for portraits and market opportunities. Valerie showed wonderful travel images on Ethiopia, a taste to inspire anyone to travel there. Working with her street photography images she gave helpful tips on taking the shot quickly and not messing around. Plus the type of lens she travels with giving the approximate focal length, and using manual or aperture settings.

Tuesday 18/04 Competition Open – judge Alfonso Calero
It is always great to see wonderful work presented. We can’t all be winners but more importantly it’s learning from the judge’s critique that counts, the awards are a bonus!

Online subject – Framed – judge Gavin Marchio

Social dinner; Thursday 27/04.
Papaya Thai Cammeray, a great night. Sixteen enjoyed a unique menu of delicious food, full of flavour and colour, and very generous servings.

2017 March; Member Presenters and Action competition

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Tuesday 14/03 Audio Visual.
A very moving Tribute to ANZAC by Les Atkins. Photos from WWII, Vietnam War, memorabilia shots taken from the Australian War Memorial Canberra and leading up to ANZAC day in Sydney. We experienced Australians at war and connected with stories of people and events that shaped Australia and what it means to be Australian.

Making Selections Using Channels – Christine Nelson.
Christine is always bubbling with information when it comes to Photoshop manipulation.
Ready to share her wealth of knowledge to members on techniques and tools of the trade in photoshop. She demonstrated changing backgrounds in an image by making selections and using Channels. Just magic! Once you know how to master these techniques using photoshop, well, the skies the limit. Photo artistry, there is a bit of creativity in all of us!

Tuesday 28/03 Competition Action – judge Malcolm Fackender
A challenge to members to get out and about and build a portfolio of Action photos.
Using creative flare, showing some blur, movement, freezing the action and catching the peak of action. Judge Malcolm Fackender, experienced and always gives a very good critique.
Congratulations to members for a great display of Action images.

Online – Open – judge Tammy Bateman
I would like to say what a talented group of photographers,such wonderful images it was great to judge.

2017 February; Presenter and Open competition

Tuesday 14/02 Presenter, Luke Tscharke, Astrophotography.
Luke Tscharke – Landscape and travel photographer.
We kicked off the first meeting for the year with Luke Tscharke presenting Astrophotography.
It was an exciting evening for the members, this was the first ever presentation on Astrophotography. A fantastic evening by Luke and inspirational images.
Luke specialises in composing and capturing wide field Milky Way images and runs workshops in different locations.
Feedback:
Luke’s presentation was fantastic! Very nicely done and super interesting! Jochen Hess
Excellent presentation by Luke. Les Atkins

Tuesday 28/02 Competition – Open.
Competition got off to a great start with a large number of entries. in all categories.
Judge Dennis Jones is well experienced at camera club judging and gives a very good critique on competition images aimed at being helpful to members learning.
Feedback:
Thanks Dennis, you do a great job!

Online subject – Curves judged by Luke Austin

2017 Welcome back

2017
Welcome back to another year of great photography with lots of fun and friendly gatherings.

The team have been busy organising 10 months of presenters and competition judges.
It’s quite a task pulling the program together as bookings are well in advance, backup is also required as professional photographers are often called away on assignments at the last minute. We aim to have an impressive program for our members and to attract new members during the year.

For all competition results please visit our website Galleries on the Home Page.

2016 September HomeHQ – Open theme, print photography competition.

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HomeHQ Artarmon have hosted a print photography competition for the last 3 years coinciding with the Willoughby Spring Festival in September. The competition is open to Norths Photographic Society members only and is not open to the public.This year the theme is OPEN.
The exhibition will showcase inspiring work from our members.
There will be a launch and announcement of the winners by the Mayor of Willoughby, Ms Gail Giles-Gidney.
Finger food and drinks provided.
Exhibition runs until the end of September.

Congratulations to everyone who entered, there was amazing work presented.
1st place Joslyn Davis, Sleek Peace
2nd place Kian Mak, Re-conz-truk-cion
3rd place Margaret Frankish, Bird on a wire

2016 Friday 02/09 President’s Shield

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Presidents Shield Dinner. Michael Hing is our nominee, come along and support Michael.
It is a fun evening with music and dancing, hear what other intra clubs have to say about their nominee. Throughout the evening there is a slideshow on each intra clubs activities and social events.
The President’s Shield night is held annually in September. Each intra club has a nominee based on their contribution to Norths, their intra club, either their sporting achievements, service to sport or special interest group over the preceding year.

Previous President’s Shield dinners.

2016 Saturday 13/08, Outing – Photo walk Newtown to St Peters with Alfonso Calero.

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The plan; Meet Alfonso 9am Newtown train station. Briefing on Street photography, graffiti art, architecture, techniques on shooting with flash, and street portraits with permission. Guide and mentoring with Alfonso Calero. Photographic walk from Newtown station to St Peters, lunch and share photos. Alfonso is a professional, a great teacher and very skillful with approaching people in the street for permission to take their photo so we can all learn street photography.

Feedback:
What a great time we all had with Alfonso. He gives everyone his time and shares his knowledge with everyone. Michael Hing

We had a full day of street portraits, laneway graffiti art and architecture. All members gained knowledge and skills from Alfonso on this outing. I had a fantastic time. Peter West

July Saturday 30/07: Education: Basic photoshop & Lightroom with Christine Nelson

There was a lot of interest from new members / Beginner to intermediate for a workshop on
the following.
Laptops required loaded with Lightroom and Photoshop.
Bring your own images to work on and any replacement backgrounds or textures.
In brief basics covered for some who need guidance;
Photography Workflow.
Transferring images from camera to computer.
Importing images into Lightroom / Photoshop.
Quick start guide covers the essentials that all Photoshop users should know up front & short cuts.
Moving onto Post-processing images.
The most powerful aspects of PS is the ability to edit in Layers.
Layers allow you to change certain aspects of your image without affecting anything you don’t
want changed.
With practice, photo editing experience will get easier and your photos will look better.

Thanks Christine for your time and sharing all your knowledge with the members who attended the workshop. Everyone would have gone away with inspiration and a more exciting insight into Photoshop. Your notes will certainly help them along their way to better images.
Thank you so much. Sue

2016 June Outing: Urban exploration/ruins – tba

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