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By Andrew Denny.

Report of the February outing to Bloubergstrand

Dynamic gathering at Blue Hour

by Simon Mouton, Rudi Pothas and Brian Jones

Late afternoon on Thursday, 20 February, two dozen CTPS members

converged on the Ons Huisie restaurant in Bloubergstrand with cameras
and tripods to participate in the CTPS “Blue Hour” outing. Professional

landscape photographers Kyle Goetsch and Jon Kerrin had been invited
by the club to lead the outing, which they did very ably — making this

one of the most popular and successful outings in a long time.

The topic and destination of the Feb- the sea can be captured in various landscape photography before the
ruary outing had been specifically stages of unrest between dark rocks group split into two, depending on
chosen to coincide with the March that create a very pleasing leading how experienced members were
competition set subject, Blue Hour. line to the grand old lady mountain with long exposure photography
We were fortunate because Simon in the background. and Neutral Density (ND) filters. He
Mouton was able to secure top land- The wind was very kind on the day, and Jon each led a group.
scape photographers Kyle Goetsch as the notorious South Easter, which Access to the S-curve location is very
and Jon Kerrin of VentureKJ to pro- blows throughout summer, can often restricted and some members fore-
vide guidance. ruin the location for photography. went the opportunity to shoot the
After attendees had briefly caught The tide was high, which is necessary curve so that others could have that
up with each other and been intro- for an interesting photograph of the opportunity.
duced to the leaders at Ons Huisie S-curve. Being the peak of summer, Jon discussed the use of ND filters in
restaurant, the group walked across the sky was completely clear and more detail with his group. He and
to a shooting location which offers this was about the only aspect of the Kyle had kindly brought along some
great views across the bay to Table outing that could have been better. demo Nisi filters for use by those
Mountain. There was, however, an attractive who didn't have filters.
The specific location is home to the golden glow over the City. The general consensus was that the
iconic S-curve composition, where Kyle gave some helpful tips on outing was a resounding To p15

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