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03 News from the CTPS Council

Decisions and future plans you need to know about.

04 In the news
Performances of members and important news.

05 Body of Work

A new initiative for members interested in creating
a Body of Work that expresses their personal vision.

06 Salon group launched
A member-based group to assist each other to im-
prove salon acceptances and awards.
07 Salon acceptances and achievements

Members who received acceptances and awards in
recent salons, their current standing on the Impala
Trophy Log and how it works.

On The Cover 10 AV salon achievements

Start of a new day by Jacoba van Zyl was CTPS members have done very well in the PSSA AV
one of the high scoring images in our salon.
February competition. Two members receive AV Honours
"I took this image from our hotel room 12
window in November last year on the first Ken Woods and John Arseniou were awarded LPSSA AV
morning of our holiday in Plettenberg
Bay," says Jacoba. APSSA Honours for two members
"It was an overcast morning and the light 13 See examples of the panels Jacoba van Zyl and Nicol
was beautiful. I had my 24 – 70 mm lens du Toit submitted for their successful APSSA Honours.
on my camera, but actually needed a
longer lens. I did not change the lens as What are Honours?
I thought I still had a whole week to take There are two ways to achieve PSSA Honours. Nicol
images of people of the beach. 15
"Needless to say, the light was never du Toit explains how.
that good again and I therefore heavily E&D with Tony Bramley
cropped into the image – something I al-
ways try to avoid. 16 Read more about the image evaluation evening fol-
"My settings were 1/5000 sec, f5.6, ISO lowed by the social get-together. Future E&D topics.
800. I normally prefer to shoot at a lower
ISO, but had to push the settings to get a Outing to Vergelegen
sharp handheld image. I applied Denoise 18 Members took some excellent images during the re-
in Lightroom. cent club outing to this wine estate.
"It once again became clear that you have
to calm down and do things properly PSSA entries for February
when the conditions are perfect – it will 21
never be the same again!" The winning senior and junior images entered in the
PSSA monthly club competition.
CTPS was founded in
1890. It became a Winning entries in February
founding member 22 The images that won the different categories and ad-
of the Photographic vancement levels, with comments from the judges.
Society of South
Africa in 1954 and High-scoring images in February
has been affiliated 28 Images that scored 23 and above in the February
to PSSA ever since. competition.

2 Cape Town Photographic Society