tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67126314409300073612012-03-02T16:44:35.225+02:00The Centurion Camera Club endeavours to promote amateur photography and to enhance interest in all subjects related to photography. This Blog is a forum for members and visitors to contribute issues relevant to the club. Please feel free to leave a comment on articles in this blog.Bernard Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07214379225857261654noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712631440930007361.post-27274927832285550462012-03-02T16:44:00.001+02:002012-03-02T16:44:35.360+02:00

Maryka compiled this information page to assist with a better understanding of the photo theme for March.  I am looking forward to the entries that we are going to receive on this topic. Thank you Maryka.

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As an ex Air force member I was selected to work in the South African Embassy in Bern, Switzerland from 2007 to 2009. During that time I bought a small Pentax pocket camera. During that time my ex-wife and I got caught in a point of no return situation deep in the mountains when I tried to take some photos during fall of 2009 of the beautiful trees and colours deep in the mountains. Those photos

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This photograph is a good example of how a picture can tell a little story. A story that is not necessarily an accurate reflection of the true events, but a story created  within the frameworks of my artistic freedom. The original RAW image was captured at 10h08 on a bright sunny day on the South Coast. The two subjects, who are brother and sister, were both very unsure of themselves playing in

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is a relatively new genre in photography. The idea behind HDR is to capture much more of the information in a picture that what one can achieve with a single frame. Therefore more comparable with what you can see with your eyes. In order to create a HDR image one typically captures 3,5 or 7 images with different exposures in order to have details in most parts

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In part 2 of the Project 365 blog, I want to give you some tips on when you want to attempt a project of this nature. The most important rule or tip is take one (or more) photo everyday. Don't skip a day. It may seem obvious, but this is the biggest challenge. There will be days that life seem to get in the way, but make time for the project. Take your camera everywhere! Don't feel self conscious

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If your new years resolution was to take better and or more photographs in 2012, a good idea may be to start a 365 (or 52) project. Project 365 is a self challenge to perform a particular task each day, throughout the year. This does not mean that you have to start the project on the 1st of January. Also, there is no need to publish it every day, just take the photo everyday. Participating in

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I read an article recently in the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain’s Magazine and I wanted to rush out and give it to all our judges. I just found it so interesting and I learned a lot from it. I have taken some of the salient points from it, and I hope by sharing it, it will also be a great learning for many other judges as well as an understanding about judging photographs. The

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Geluk aan al die lede wat suksesvol deelgeneem het aan die 2011 Bloemfontein Salon.  Hier is ‘n verkorte lys van resultate soos deur ons lede verwerf is.  Die volledige lys resultate, met al die ander deelnemers, kan op die PSSA webblad afgelaai word. Lede moet asseblief onthou om nog steeds, soos gewoonlik, die resultate in te stuur op die voorgeskrewe formaat vir EMMA, al verskyn die resultate

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I have been interested in time lapse photography for quite some time after seeing it in action on both television shows and on the internet, but I have always been a little hesitant to try it out. After reading a very interesting article about time lapse photography on the internet I decided to finally give it a go. Time lapse photography is nothing else but to take a bunch of pictures of the

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Are you wild about photography? We’re looking for the wildlife image that best captures the spirit of Africa. Wild magazine would like to invite Centurion Camera Club to take part in our 2012 photographic competition. You could see your image featured in Wild magazine – plus stand the chance to win photographic equipment and outdoor gear. This year’s competition is titled "Capture the Spirit of

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For those who wanted to enter but didn’t make the deadline of 30 November 2011 – GOOD NEWS! The entry date has been extended till the 8th of December 2011.                    Photo club Novi Sad                                 1st INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY "ANIMALS" A)  ANIMALS (color/monochrome digital) B)  CREATIVE (color/monochrome digital) C) FREE/OPEN COLOR (digital) D)  

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After an exciting 2011, it was time to judge the best achievements in the various categories. A total of 85 Members participated in the club events through the year.  A total of 1575 photos were entered into these events. The best photos from the club were judged by an external judge and all the points were added to determine the winners. These were awarded as follows: Most Salon Points [

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I've walked up and down these stairs a "million" times before; to go to work in the morning or to go home at night. I was looking for a picture to take for our LOOKING UP or LOOKING DOWN theme, when one evening on my way home I looked down to see if it could possibly make a good theme photo. I immediately realised the potential and took my camera along the next day. After I took several photo's

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My wife and I were on vacation in June 2010.  We used Clarens in the Eastern Freestate as our base to explore the area.   One afternoon after some retail therapy (my wife loves this) or after an outing to one of the to-do’s we returned to our guesthouse for a little afternoon nap.  Upon our return I spotted the little lady bugs outside our room in the garden.  I grabbed the tripod, fixed the

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  Aan almal wat so baie hard gewerk het om hierdie uitstalling ‘n sukses te maak - baie dankie!   Die fotos is uitgestal in die voorportaal van die Atterbury Teater vanaf 25 Oktober 2011. Ons het 71 foto's gedruk en het baie goeie terugvoer vanaf besoekers ontvang. Aan die wenners baie geluk, hulle is: 1e plek:  Preparing for the flight, Chris Mulder 2e plek:  Leader of the pack, Bennie du Plooy

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I was on holiday in Swakopmund and decided to do 'The Little Big 5 of Namibia' tour.  While driving up and down the dunes, our tour guide spotted the chameleon from a distance. We had the opportunity to stretch our legs and watch how this chameleon catches 'tok tokkies'.  I tried 7 times to 'freeze' the movement of the tongue but failed terribly!! Only when I downloaded the photo's I realised

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This image was taken at one of my grandsons birthday parties.  It is a genuine action shot which without any of the manipulation is a great image.  I converted it to Black and White and added some funny strokes around the ball and his arm.  With him wearing a T-shirt that said Sunlight Kid, I decided to call the image by that name. It was taken with the Nikon D3s, on motor drive, at F8 and

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This picture is of my best friend.  I had just finished the renovations on my studio and asked her to pose for me in order that I could test my lights with the new background.  I set up my studio lights  in a butterfly lighting setup and we just had a whole lot of fun.  I always use the manual setting on my camera when I shoot in my studio.  I was not trying to take pictures for camera club, but

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The Nyala are fairly tame at Sondela.  Management of Sondela leave Nyala treats in the chalets, we were feeding three Nyala and I decided to take a few pictures.  This little bokkie was a greedy pig and kept stealing the food from under his friends’ noses.  I sat and waited until he looked directly at me.  I selected this picture from a burst of about 10 photographs as there are catch lights in

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Introduction Our web site makes use of an online calendar.  The advantage of this feature is that it allows the committee to update our club calendar regularly without interaction by the webmaster.  The calendar is hosted under Google which has the added advantage that members can access the calendar via a web interface but the calendar can also be imported into your email program and your active

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Atterbury teater, Dinsdag 25 Oktober om 18:30 Die idee van ‘n fotouitstalling spruit uit die inisiatief om belangstelling in die klub vir hoë gehalte fotografiese afdrukke te bevorder. Aangesien afdrukke nie meer as medium vir die beoordeling van foto’s in die klub dien nie, sien ons glad nie meer afdrukke nie en sterf dit as’t ware uit. Die uitstekende gehalte wat huidige inkdrukkers behaal

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The procedure for entering your results of Salon acceptances to the Club Database will be only be done with a special entry form submitted to EMMA. This form can be found on the Download section of the web site. The form is in Excel (xls) format. Download it to your computer, fill it in, and e-mail it to ccc.salons@gmail.comWhen the EMMA server is started it will read the spreadsheet and update

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