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Image March/April 2013 Page 2 The official magazine of the Australian Photographic Society EDITORIAL Welcome to another edition of Image, the second of this, our all digital era. We’ve received much member feedback since the last one – some positive, some less so – and my aim is to see that the magazine evolves to re#ect the consensus of that feedback. Digital publishing gives us great #exibility and capacity for Editor Wade Laube change. Where in days of print, layout, content and Ph 02 8231 6627 timings were almost set in stone, now most things are GPO Box 326 open to negotiation. Sydney NSW 2001 [email protected] So the $rst adjustment will be the balance between words Divisional Correspondents: and pictures. As would seem appropriate given its title, A/V Division Peter Ryan Image will begin to place an increasing emphasis on PO Box 1011, Sunnybank Hills, Qld, 4109 photographs and less on words. [email protected] Print Division William Stewart AAPS Management Committee is also presently exploring other 28 Jean St, Kingswood NSW 2747 ways and means of broadening the distribution methods [email protected] of the magazine in line with emerging technologies. Digital Peter Manchester AFIAP AAPS HonFAPS 14 Hilton Pl, Norwood Launceston Tas 7250 But what remains our priority $rst and foremost is a [email protected] Contemporary Kay Mack AAPS HonFAPS commitment to publishing your best work and lots of it. PO Box 535 Templestowe Vic 3106 [email protected] To that end I want to broadcast to everyone a call for Nature Graeme Watson AFIAP FAPS SSAPS submissions to the magazine. We would like to publish as 35 Bertel Cr, Chapman ACT 2611 much of the Society’s best work as is possible and to do [email protected] this we need your contributions. Headquarters: Secretary Stella Fava Macarthur House While the magazine is produced every second month, you Suite 4/8 Melville St, Parramatta NSW 2150 should feel very welcome to pass on work you are Ph 02 9890 6933 particularly fond of at anytime and I’ll put it aside for an email: [email protected] upcoming edition. President: Paul Bennie FAPS Without members’ submissions we’re not going to get (02) 6555 8003 email: [email protected] very far, so let me thank you all in advance. Registered Office: Mr R Legge SSAPS Wade Laube, Editor 31 Alroy Ct, Hawker ACT 2614 APS Website: www.a-p-s.org.au © Copyright 2013 All material published herein is copyright. Copyright in all articles and pictures belong to the author of the respective article or picture. Copyright in all other material belongs to the Australian Photographic Society Inc. No part of this publication may be produced whole or in part without the written permission of the copyright owner. The views expressed in this journal are not necessarily those of the Editorial Team or the Australian Photographic Society Inc. IMAGE is a journal approved by FIAP. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Contents Page 1..........................Editorial The Society is fortunate to have members of the calibre of Page 2.....President’s Message Wade and his team to guide us through the change of Image from being a printed version delivered by post to an electronic publication. Page 3..............An Audiovisual We are all aware that this is the way that publications are now Enthusiast’s Pro!le going and this is evident in our local newspapers and our Page 3.................Audiovisuals: books and magazines. Alive & Kicking APS Management is dealing with these developments to bring in Camberwell the latest delivery service to our members and of course an organisation of the size of APS cannot afford to be left behind. Page 5-10...How Tasmanians Whilst this is not without its problems and negative impact on in"uenced Australian some members there are also many bene$ts such as the ability photography - Part Two to vary the number of pages in each and include a greater Page 11-17.................... number of quality images. Folio Whilst the younger members are quick to pick up the latest Page 18.........Luminescence electronic gadget, they do not have a great deal of appreciation of how far it has come in the last to 10 to 20 years and therefore have little perception of where it will be in the next 10 to 20. Just as the cameras and methods involved in communication of today were unheard of 20 years ago, the changes over the next 20 years will be even greater and management is working towards providing APS with a structure that can adapt and bene$t from the evolving opportunities. It is truly an exciting time to be a part of it. Paul Bennie FAPS, President Page 2 Cover: Where to From Here, by Warren Stone. An Audiovisual Enthusiast's Pro#le of the most difficult tasks is coming up with the By Ruth Burleigh topic/theme for an AV. Once you have that then it’s a matter of creating the images and $nding What does photography mean to me? Well my the right music. When I see some of the family comes $rst always, but then my wonderful AVs produced I think I have so much photography takes up all of my time. to learn and will probably never get really Photography has always played a huge role in my pro$cient at it. But this doesn’t really matter to life, my whole income came from photography me – what matters is that I enjoy the journey of prior to retirement $rstly as a staff photographer learning another new skill. for the local newspaper then running my own small business doing portrait and wedding photography. Audiovisuals: Alive & Kicking in Camberwell A pro"le of the very active and successful I joined the Warragul Camera Club over 22 years Camberwell Camera Club Audiovisual Group by its ago and it takes up a major part of my life and I founding Convenor, Ruth Goldwasser. thoroughly enjoy it. I strongly believe you only get out of something what you put into it and In 2004, Peter Manchester crossed the Bass Strait camera club is no exception to that, therefore (the other ditch) to do a presentation of his work wherever I can, I get involved, whether it’s on in Melbourne, which I attended. Never having seen this type of work before, I was hooked on committee or running workshops etc., I love the AVs from the start. challenge of preparing images for monthly competitions. This inspired the formation of the Camberwell Camera Club Audiovisual Group with its My introduction to AV’s came about by necessity inaugural meeting held in February 2007. Linda really, when clients were asking for DVD’s of their and Edgar Gibbs from the UK, who I met at the weddings. These early presentations were very Adelaide AV Fest a month later, kindly consented basic, simply images to music. It wasn’t long to be our $rst guest speakers. before I was searching for ways to improve my presentations. I had been a member of the Audiovisual Club of South Australia for some time, having made We formed an AV group within our club and good friends and contacts whilst attending worked together to create AV’s to enter into the Adelaide AV International Festivals, and wanted VAPS 3.21 competition. This was great as we were to join a similar group closer to home. Not being able to help each other. I realised from these successful, I decided to start an AV group at Camberwell Camera Club. workshops how little I knew about the making of AV’s so I began to question everyone I knew I like encouraging camera club members to about them. We invited Barbara Butler, chairman create AVs from their images. I feel it is a of the AV folio, down to one of our club wonderful way to share photos, as a good AV workshops and she showed us some of the takes the slideshow to another dimension by International AV’s, that was it – I was hooked. truly engaging the audience. I love doing them or I should say trying to do The CCC Club AV Group meets regularly, covering them. It’s a steep learning curve. I am using aspects of the art and techniques of AV creation. Proshow Producer. I transferred my print folio to Over the years we have viewed some of the best the AV folio hoping I would learn more and I AVs created worldwid e , e i t h e r s e n t from international festivals or from presentations have. Everyone has been very helpful. I think one shared with us b y individual a w a r d Page 3 winning producers, including David Wilcox, Ron of favourite audiovisual presentations as well as Davies, Carol and Dave Gillow, Maureen and photographic techniques. Or perhaps go Robert Albright, Peter Coles and Ricardo Zarate directly to the CCC AV Group site at amongst others. Barb Butler, the APS AV Division www.youtube.com/cccavg with our members’ Chair, was our guest speaker at our February AVs, a playlist of amazing audiovisuals and meeting. audiovisual techniques. Nowadays I organise activities and meetings, I keep adding to these lists for the bene$t of manage our YouTube site and write information camera club AV producers. for our club’s webpage, newsletter and emails. The members in our group are very supportive Last year we produced our $rst group and we are becoming a voice for AVs in our club.