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CAPE CAMERA 03 News from the CTPS Council
Information and decisions you need to know
May 2024
about.
In the news
04 Performances of members and important news.
06 Salon stats and standings

How does the performance of CTPS members com-
pare to salon entrants and clubs countrywide?

Medals and COMs in Print Circuit
07 Three medals, 18 COMs and 86 acceptances in
Official Newsletter this three-in-one print salon.
CAPE TOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
PDI salon achievements
Two impressions of Mauritius• A feast of salon awards
On The Cover 10 CTPS members earned a medal, 11 COMs and
Deadvlei Milkyway by Paramasivam Saravanaku- 133 acceptances in the latest three PDI salons.
mar was one of the high scoring images in our May E&D presentations by Melanie and Kim
competition, earning 25 points.
Kumar explains that the image, captured at dead- 13 Steffne Hughes reports back about the macro
vlei, Namibia, is a blend of blue hour for the fore- presentation in April and introduces the Portrait
ground and late night for the sky. He used a sky presentation by Kim Stevens in June.
tracker for an hour with a Sony A7iii full spectrum
camera, Samyang 50 mm lens, and Quad Narrow-
band filter. 14 Two views of Mauritius
"The Quad Narrowband filter was used to capture Kishore Seegobin, a citizen, and Sally-Ann Spoon-
the Hydrogen Alpha (656 nm), Hydrogen Beta er, a recent tourist, share some valuable insights
(486 nm), Oxygen iii (495 and 500 nm) and Sulpher about visiting this colourful photo-friendly travel
ii (672 nm) portions of the visible spectrum. Each
exposure was 60 seconds with ISO 800 and F/4. A destination right on our doorsteps.
total of 60 light frames and 20 dark frames were
stacked using Sequator. Starnett++ was used to Outings to Slangkop and Harmony Park
remove stars before further processing in SIRIL to 18 Member images show the many different ways
remove green noise. He applied Generalised Hyper- photographers capture a scene, and information
bolic Stretch to bring out the optimum contrast. about the June outing.
GraXpert was used to extract the background and
further reduce noise. The processed sky image was Weekend outing to Tulbagh
blended with the foreground using Photoshop. 20
"I am satisfied with the final image after overcom- Make sure you are among those who'll enjoy our
ing physical challenges (e.g. leaving the tracker, spring weekend outing to Tulbagh.
camera gear and accessories overnight in the hope
that it won't be damaged by the wildlife) and tech- PSSA competition images in May
nical challenges like finding the Southern sky polar 21 Our senior and junior winners in May that were
alignment with a basic sky tracker, learning how to entered in the PSSA monthly club competition.
capture images with a sky tracker and mastering
the different aspects of deep-sky image processing
with various software." 22 Winning images entered in May

CTPS was founded in 1890. The set subject and open images that won the
different rankings in the May competition, with
It was a founding member the judges' comments.
of the Photographic Society
of South Africa in 1954
and has been affiliated to High scoring images entered in May
PSSA ever since. 29 Images that scored 24 and above.

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