Thanks to Annie Carmichael for her appraisal this month, and congratulations to Greg Hughson, Kate Burton and Suzanne Renner!
-Nicola
Thanks to Annie Carmichael for her appraisal this month, and congratulations to Greg Hughson, Kate Burton and Suzanne Renner!
-Nicola
Thanks to John Hart for his appraisal this month, and congratulations to Simon Parsons, Gordon Speed and Clive Copeman!
-Nicola
Welcome back to DPS! Our first talk with Daniel Wong was a great opener to set the tone for 2021, and seemed to be well enjoyed by everyone there (give or take a few minor technical hitches 😮). Please see below for our February plans.
Date | Activity | Details | Location |
7:30pm, Monday 1 February | View Finder #7: Petra Leary – Aerial Photography | Zoom | |
Monday 8 February | (no meeting for Waitangi Day) | ||
7:30pm, Monday 15 February | Focus group meetings | Zoom and various (confirm with group) | |
7:30pm, Monday 22 February | Club meeting: Gail Stent – My journey into underwater photography | Print of the Month: Open Appraiser: | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
TBC February | Port Chalmers photo walk | Hosted by NatMAT group |
Monitor Calibration is the process of measuring and adjusting the colours on your computer monitor to match a common standard.
Images from https://www.rubbermonkey.co.nz/X-Rite-i1Display-Pro
Every screen displays colours slightly differently. The image you see on your computer monitor screen will look slightly (or hugely!) different on your phone screen, and different again on anyone else’s computer monitor screen. This is partly due to the inner workings of the screens, and partly due to tweaks and settings on each screen.
Calibrating monitors to a standard set of colours, lessens the differences between the different monitors and improves the consistency of colour rendition. Consistency becomes particularly important when you want to print, as the professional printers are also calibrated to the same standard.
DPS has the X-rite i1 Display Pro screen calibrator available to borrow to calibrate your screen/s.
Basically you download some software to your computer (and restart your computer), plug in the calibrator, then, following the instructions, you hang the calibrator in front of your screen and let it do it’s magic!
The calibration process will measure a range of colour variables (colour, gamma, brightness, contrast etc), and optimise your screen settings. These settings are stored on your computer or monitor and used each time you use your computer screen.
Depending on your screen a calibration will take about 10 minutes to complete.
REQUEST: by emailing Nicola (secretary.dpsnz@gmail.com) and ask to borrow the calibrator. Judith will then get in touch with you about when and how you’ll get the calibrator and when it needs to be returned by.
USE: following the instructions.
RETURN: the calibrator, or pass on to the next member, by the date agreed when you requested the calibrator.
Excellent! Here are some useful sites (which are also the references for this blog post):
These next two sites provide further reading about calibration and discuss using a different calibrator the DPS one.
Melanie Dick has whipped up a fancy poster, featuring David Steer’s friendly Kea, to promote our exhibition which starts this week. Please feel free to download and print out the poster if you’re able to display it anywhere, and we hope to see you all there throughout the week!
Thanks very much to Ross McIvor and his trusty assistant Judith Swan for their appraisals of the POTM this month, and congratulations to the following for their placings:
– Nicola
Just a few more activities for the year, then we’re done! Our first meeting for 2021 will be at Mornington on 25 January, but watch this space in case we organise any photo walks or field trips before then.
Date | Activity | Details | Location |
Wednesday 2 – Tuesday 8 December | Members’ Photo Exhibition | Community Gallery | |
7:30pm, Monday 7 December | View Finder #6: Julia Coddington, Women in Street Photography | Zoom | |
7:30pm, Monday 14 December | Club meeting: President’s Evening | Trophy presentations, quiz, bring a plate for shared supper | Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Tce |
The 14 Nov saw some 17(!) photographers pile out of cars at Katiki Point lighthouse into a clear, sunny, and warm afternoon. The plan: photographing around the Katiki Nature Reserve, fish and chips at The Fishwife in Moeraki, then on to Moeraki boulders. Some folks chose to stop at Shag Point on their way home, they found a grand spot for a specific visit!
Walking around the reserve and headland led to images of photographers, fisherpeople, sea gulls, shags, penguins, terns, plants, insects, landscapes, and more. We were entertained with seal antics, in the water and on the rocks; the fishermen and their catches; and lots of birds in flight.
The general consensus seems to be The Fishwife dishes up some of the best blue cod around!
Then on to the beach and fun with jumping and pushing and sitting and running with the boulders. Some long exposures, reflections, and shadows. Those at Shag Point found barnacles, rocks, rock pools, sea weeds, star fish, more rock jumping, and more landscapes.
A fabulous afternoon, and evening, out with friends and photos …
Thanks to Melanie Dick and Anastasia Labudina for their appraisal this month, and congratulations to Simon Parsons, Judith Swan and Gordon Speed!
-Nicola
The results of our second Projected Image Exhibition for 2020 were announced at the club meeting this week. For the first time, we used Zoom at a club meeting, so that one of our judges was able to present her comments ‘in person’, and it seemed to work really well. Watch this space for more Zoom visitors at meetings!
Congratulations to Stephanie Forrester APSNZ for her Champion Open Image Out of the Fog and to Simon Parsons for his Champion Natural History Image Albatross 1, and well done to everyone who had images accepted.
Thank you very much to our judges, Nicki Mora LPSNZ for the Natural History section, and Cushla Moorhead for the Open. We really appreciate the time they put into judging for us, and their thoughtful commentary.
The results are available here as a PDF and below in the two slideshows.