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August 2023 Cape Camera

CAPE CAMERA WHAT’S INSIDE

Editorial Team
Competitions Lesley Parolis
Anna Engelhard
Council news Jacoba van Zyl
E & D news Joyce Goldschmidt
AV News Rob Maginley
Member profile Dave Gordon
Travelogues Brian Jones
Away outings Richard Goldschmidt
Copy chaser Trudi du Toit
Proofreading Lesley Parolis
Snapshot/ Andre Mouton
Layout editor

The CTPS Council
Harmony by Kim Stevens
President Jacoba van Zyl
Vice-president Lesley Parolis
Treasurer Nicol du Toit 02 ON THE COVER
Secretary Margaret Collins 03 NEWS FROM THE COUNCIL
Competitions Lesley Parolis 04 IN THE NEWS
E & D Kim Stevens
Day outings Andre Mouton 05 CTPS ANNUAL COMPETITION
Venues Mike De Villiers 06 SALON RESULTS
Webmaster Andre Mouton
10 PHOTOSHOP TIPS
Portfolio Managers 12 BEGINNERS COURSE
Away outings Richard Goldschmidt 14 E&D NEWS
Facebook Steff Hughes
AV Ken Woods 15 AUGUST WEEKEND OUTING
Archives Trudi du Toit 18 PROFILE OF JOYCE GOLDSCHMIDT

20 CELEBRATION EXHIBITION
CTPS Contact Details
Email info@ctps.co.za 22 MARTIN BARBER
Website www.ctps.co.za 23 ACHIEVEMENT - LPSSA IN MONO

Refer to website for contact details. 24 WINNING IMAGES FROM AUGUST
32 OTHER HIGH-SCORING IMAGES FROM AUGUST
On The Cover
Our cover image, Choice and doorways by Marianna Meyer was one of our winning images in
the August competition. Marianna reports "Great was my delight that the Set Subject for Au-
gust was my favourite, Altered Reality. I had not entered the monthly competition for a while
and was spurred to look for suitable images to enter from my collection. To my surprise I discov-
ered images were “too old” to enter, with a further realisation that I had not been photograph-
ing much this year. Since moving to Plettenberg Bay I have been painting more and more and
had not noticed that the camera had been gathering dust. The target was to break the drought
by entering at least one image, a multiple exposure in-camera abstract. The location was my
sunny lounge on a cold winter’s day. Long stem arums with one of my abstract paintings as
backdrop, I started photographing. Not so easy I discovered. Instead of being an exercise in
creativity, my efforts went unrewarded and became pure frustration. I moved to put the cam-
era away, defeated. Don’t give up so easily, I thought, taking the camera out of the bag again.
How to remedy the sum of captures that resulted in an over exposed mess, over and above not
achieving even one pleasant composition. Improvising, no clear plan, just instinct and perse-
verance, the final result was achieved by increasing shutter speed exponentially when making
the last exposure in each collection. More pleasant compositions were made possible by limit-
ing the overall number of exposures. This in-camera creation consists of 5 exposures, each at
1/125 sec F3.6 ISO 160. The 6 th and last image at 1/1600 F4 ISO 160.

2 Cape Town Photographic Society