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Upcoming CPS Events

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Jackie Ranken - Guest Speaker, Wed 1st July for CPS Commonwealth Challenge

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New, updated and revised Tutorials / Training Programme available

Multi award winning photographer Jackie Ranken first established herself as a master photographer with her unique black and white aerial imagery. Since moving to New Zealand in 2003 her photography has matured into a more diverse range of subject matter, her love of the monochrome image remains true.

The high-lights of her career were in 2002 when Jackie won the Canon AIPP Australian Photographer of the Year and was second in ‘Stories’ in the World Press a Awards. She is the current Epson NZIPP Photographer of the Year and Landscape Photographer of the Year. She is co-director of the Queenstown Centre for Creative Photography in New Zealand with her husband Mike Langford.

Bruce Jensen has updated the Tutorials / Training Programme and it is now available as a PDF file for you to view.

Please use this instead of the copy you may have previously had.

Below are the sessions that have changed:

The Photo-Journalism tutorial by Frank Green is now to be October 7th and 21 October instead of July as originally planned. There will be no tutorial in July except for Image Analysis with Ron Willems on the 22nd July.

Publishing a Photography Book by John Barnes has been bought forward to 26th August and the Critique and Feedback session originally planned for August will now be on 23 September.

The November tutorial (4th & 18th November) is now entitled Digital Dark Room and this will be conducted by Wayne Collins.

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Viewfinder July 2009 Issue is available for downloading now

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Trenna Packer Salver for
Natural History

The July issue of the CPS Viewfinder is now available (290kb)

Viewfinder 2008/09 back issues

On the 20th July, the entries for the Trenna Packer Salver will be screened at the Nature Photographic Society of New Zealand club rooms, from 7.30pm.

They meet at Hancock Hall (formerly the Hoon Hay Working Men's Club), Tankerville Road, Hoon Hay.

This interclub competition commemorates Trenna Packer, a member of Hagley Camera Club and CPS. She was a keen naturalist and died tragically travelling home from a field trip. Clubs are required to enter six images, and they should show the diversity of nature.

Our set, selected by S and G member Ron McKie consists of the following images:

Blue Damsel Fly by Kevin Tyree
Windblown Sand, Farewell Spit by Bevan Tulett
Australian Juvenile Sea Lions by Dianne Calvert
Stratocumulus Cloud by Ron Willems
Green-breasted Mango Feeding by Graeme Guy
Flamecap by Robin Wood.

It is a very diverse set made up from bird, animal, fungi, insect, geological and cloud studies.

For members interested in things natural, this is a very entertaining evening, and well worth attending. Why not car pool with some friends.

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Tutorial Presentations prepared by
Dave Slaten

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What makes a great competition picture, by Ron Willems FPSNZ, AFIAP, ARPS, AAPS

Dave Slaten has been busy preparing some tutorials which you can view online.

You are sure to learn something new if you have a look at them.

After recently judging the first 2009 C Grade competition Ron Willems has prepared a document with his thoughts on what makes a great competition picture.

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ALL PLACES FILLED UP!
Laurie Thomas Winter School

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Witta Priester's Black & White in the Digital Age Presentation

All places have now been filled for the weekend of photography at Flock Hill between July 24-26.

For those of you who missed Witta's presentation on Black & White in the Digital Age she has kindly supplied her PowerPoint presentation which has been converted so you can see it easily on the website.

We hope you enjoy it and find it useful, if you follow her suggestions you will see an improvement in your digital black and white work!

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CPS Syllabus 2009 Revised
Download here

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Lake Pearson - Mt White Bridge Field Trip
7th June Report

Frank Green has revised the format of the Syllabus for 2009 to make it easier to read and understand.

You can download it here in PDF format

Ulysses has prepared a long and interesting report on the recent field trip up to Lake Pearson and the Mt White Bridge areas.

Read all about the trip on the Field Trip page!

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