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October 2024 Cape Camera

CAPE CAMERA WHAT’S INSIDE

03 News from the CTPS Council

Information you need to know about.
04 In the news

Performances of members and important news
and dates to remember.
06 What a year it was!

The President's Report provides an overview of
the highlights of the past year.
09 Three members achieved Honours

David Barnes, Lea-Anne Alexander and Simon Mou-
ton were awarded PSSA Panel Honours. There will be
notable changes to Honours applications next year.
12 Record number of salon acceptances

Members earned a record number of points in the
Hibiscus, Randburg and Centurion salons.
On The Cover
The cover image, In a shower of sugar by Joyce AV Group - Quo Vadis?
Goldschmidt, scored 26 points and won a gold 15 CTPS members are invited to a meeting to deter-
award in the set subject of our October competi- mine the interest among club members in AVs.
tion Tabletop and Still Life.
At our E&D evening in August, Yvette Jordaan — 16 November E&D: manipulation
an award-winning photographer — presented a Submit your images about which you need clar-
talk entitled Tabletop Photography and demon- ity if the manipulation will be acceptable for the
strated how to display food in a creative way. DQ expert Francois Roux to discuss.
Her props inspired everyone to collect old, tar-
nished spoons and a battered baking sheet to AI could you get you banned for life
use in the images. 17 The major international photographic organisa-
I had already been taking photographs for the tions have very harsh sanctions for AI photos en-
tabletop set subject and enjoyed chatting to tered in their competitions.
Yvette to get other ideas for the composition
of my brownies. And so the image A Shower of Outing to Simon's Town
Sugar was developed. 18 A report and images from our October club outing
First came the arranging of the chocolate brown- to Simon's Town..
ies and berries on a black plate, which was placed
in a studio light box to control the light. I used October E&D and November outing
a torch and Godox LED light to highlight parts of 19 Wildlife photographer Johan Greyling gave tips on
the subject. My able assistant helped by gently bird photography, in time for our bird outing to In-
shaking a sieve with icing sugar. The light source taka Island in November.
was adjusted a few times so the light illuminated
the falling sugar. Kirkcaldy competition results
I used a Nikon Z5 mirrorless camera on a tripod. 20 See the CTPS images entered in the annual
The image was captured at 1/10 sec, f13 and ISO
100. In post-processing, I cleaned up some of the competition against the Scottish club.
stray bits of sugar and toned down the nuts in the 24 Entries in PSSA monthly competition
brownies which had caught
too much light. Our Junior and Senior winners.
CTPS was founded in 1890. 25 Winning images entered in October
It was a founding member Images that won in the different categories.
of the Photographic Society
of South Africa in 1954 High scoring images in October
and has been affiliated to 30
PSSA ever since. Images that scored 26 and above.

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