Category: Club Night
PSNZ Judging workshop and inhouse judging night
Another eventful week and weekend lies behind us. It was all about assessing images and how to do it. First we had another round of inhouse judging on Tuesday night (club evening), following for some of us (actually, quite a lot of us) this weekend with a full-on PSNZ Judging Workshop weekend.
I think the workshop was very successful in driving home some key messages, and it gave us a renewed appreciation of what the judges do for our club when they assess our images. Well done, Bruce and Shona, I think you did a great job!
Eventful week
This week is full of events for the club. We already had our Midwinter Brunch last Sunday after a lovely Sunrise trip to Godley Head. Tuesday was club night with the presentation of the 3rd Open Club Competition results (thank you Julia Home for assessing over 100 images for us!), the awarded images are in the Gallery section here: https://www.newbrightonphotoclub.org.nz/galleries/gallery/3rd-open-2019/
Next Sunday is another Field Trip in the CBD area, details to be announced.
Stay warm!
Simon Runting (Guest Speaker)
A wonderful evening full of awesome bird photography is behind us. We had guest speaker Simon Runting visiting us, to tell us all about the bird photography he does. If you want to get an impression of the images shown, have a look at his Facebook page for his commercial images, where he also has some of the bird images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/onsiteimagesnz/photos/
So get your bird hide, drop to worm level and fire your off-camera flash to try to get the early bird on to your memory card. Ah, and you need this: https://petapixel.com/2016/06/22/rare-nikon-1200mm-lens-setup-3-feet-long/
Well, not quite, but a long lens is needed to get close. You shouldn’t be afraid of mud and dirt, put your camera into silent shutter mode, shutter priority with 1/2000s and whatever ISO crank up you need for that speed. Good luck!
Thank you, Simon, for the evening!
Inhouse Judging Night
Last Tuesday we had another inhouse judging night, a bit different from what we had last time. Our external competition sub-committee assembled print-outs from the various external print and digital competitions we entered (as a club), together with the top three results of that competition. It was really good to see where we stand among the other clubs, and that we are doing well for such a small club. Well done all, and thanks again to the sub-committe (Jill, Rosemary and Katrina) for putting this together!
The remainder of the evening was then in the (now) common format of having three more or less 🙂 voluntary club members voicing their thoughts about other full voluntary club member image submissions, in an effort to practice taking and giving critique. I think there were some good lessons in there to learn. And Nadine got probably most out of it, as she had the lion share of the images submitted. Sorry Darren for your images not shown, your USB stick was hidden. My fault.
Next week is no club night, it’s committee meeting time. If you want to be more involved into what’s happening behind the scenes, think about joining the committee and help with a very diverse set of tasks. Talk to anybody on the committee if you are keen.
John Miller Oshkosh Talk
Another great talk night today. We had John Miller talking about his experiences of the Oshkosh Airshow Event 2018 in the US. Despite coming fresh from the Airport, he was not tired and delivered an engaging talk. Fabulous images from lots of different aircraft flying and on the ground.
You don’t know what this is all about? Have a teaser here (Youtube video from the EAA Youtube channel):
And… we also learned … again … hopefully … how to name our competition entry files correctly! If you don’t get it right, I will do the training again. Aaaaand again. And again. You have been warned.
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