GRAP RA TO H OGRAPH OG PH IC T I T IC O O C O H S H S H S P O P O P O C C C A A A I I I T T T E E E L L L T T T A A A Y Y Y M M M F FO OU 1 U 61 NDED 196 NDED 19 Click Click Mar/Apr - Issue 2 / 2013 Editorial President few days ago, whilst having a chat Louis Aguis A with a foreign friend who is also a Vice President & Event Organizer photography enthusiast, a memory was recalled. Some years back, while Jane Farrugia shooting a particular assignment, I had Hon. Secretary almost finished when an error was displayed Pauline Grech on the camera screen. To cut the long story short, when I arrived back home, I went Hon. Treasurer Raymond Lanzon to check the error out and found, to my misfortune, that all the images I had shot were lost. No software Competition Manager could recover such images. Thus I would love to share some points Mario Mifsud to help prevent or reduce the probability of such an unwanted Social Activities Manager headache. Agostino Baldacchino Use high quality memory cards and be aware of the imitations. Premises Manager Mark Brincat Consider using lower-capacity cards. Always format your cards in camera. Executive Committee 2012/2013 Committee Executive Switch off the camera before removing the card. Editor A dropped card or wet card may also experience such problems. Johann Debono Editorial Advisors It is also advisable to have the latest and most rated software Anthony Blackman available on the market, since in many occasions the images can be Elisabeth Abela recovered but the card would no longer be trustworthy. Design & Layout A good rated software that one can easily download for free is: Emanuel Haber RECUVA - http://www.piriform.com/recuva/builds Printing: Johann Debono AFIAP Five Star Printing & Design Ltd Editor Board Editorial Click Table of Contents OGRAPH OT IC H S O MALTA P C Editor’s Notes 2 A T I E L T A Y PHOTOGRAPHIC Viewpoint 3 M Winners in mentoring Comp. ‘Vintage’ 4 SOCIETY F OU 1 Winner in the High Key Portraits - MonoChrome Panel 5 NDED 196 PSA & FIAP news 6 International Competition Acceptances 7 P.O. Box 590, Valletta, VLT 2000, Malta Member Profile - Conrad Neil Gatt 8, 9 137, Old Bakery Str, Valletta, VLT 1457, Malta Society Activities 10, 11, 12, 13 Tel No: (+356) 21 242 265 Mentoring Results 14 Scedule of Society Meetings 15 MPS e-mail: [email protected] Editor’s Choice 16 ADFront Cover Photo: Conrad Neil Gatt (cngfotography) Readers are invited to visit the MPS website on in collaboration with Top Model (London) www.maltaphotographicsociety.org 2 Click Viewpoint If I can dream! any of you know that one of my dreams show off their works. It could also mean that is that of having larger premises for our we might have the opportunity of improving M Society. We all know that our premises in the rest rooms, as at the moment they are very Old Bakery Street have become quite limited limited in space and décor. in space due to the continuous increase in the After all, photography is part of our national number of new Club Members. Our main hall culture and the art scene; therefore we do can only seat around 55 members and on many deserve to have a better place. occasions some have had to stand outside the room if they wished to attend for our Thursday Finally, I have gotten this off my chest and it is evening session. So it is easy to understand now documented!!! how limited our space at the Club has become. We are at the stage where the club’s annual We would like to use our official photography competition is drawing near, and the entry school licence to the full limit, by giving forms are all ready and printed. We have the local photography enthusiasts more distributed them to various printing labs and, opportunities to learn the trade. If a larger as always, they are available at the Club and can place were acquired, money could be saved, also be downloaded from our website. as instead of renting other venues to hold workshops and seminars, we could then make The last note I want to mention is that the use of our own premises. If we had more room, AGM is also drawing near. Hopefully, this a proper studio could be set up, which is also year there will be more members who will be a requirement for teaching this medium. This willing to take up the offer of forming part of would all be beneficial in the long run for our the executive committee. As you know, this members. year, your committee had to carry out the tasks with a smaller team; in fact we have two less Having a larger place could mean that we members than we normally have. Until now, can set up our own photographic Museum; we have managed to do our duties and chores something which is lacking on the Island, but this cannot go on for a long time. There and which is highly desirable in the local are positives in being a committee member: photographic community. Although we have a such as having the possibility to see your good number of vintage cameras showcased at ideas being implemented by being involved the club, we have quite a good number of other in the running of the Club, when helping your photographic equipment and materials which colleagues in their photography and by giving are stored away in various places. The young something back in return for all you have been members of the Society quite often ask about given by others over the years. And of course, the traditional chemical darkroom; something the huge satisfaction one gets when you see that we would like to showcase as well. The other members learn and grow in photography modest storage space that we have at the club thanks to your involvement. premises was taken up a very long time ago. If the premises were large enough, it could also be used for photographic exhibitions. This Louis Agius FMPS; EFIAP; PPSA would give all photographers more scope to MPS President Issue 2 / 2013 - Mar/Apr 2013 3 Winners in mentoring Competition ‘Vintage’ Left: First place Advanced category by Leonard Cocks Left: First place Preliminary category by Pierre Darmanin 1st prize in the World Press Photo of the Year Paul Hansen with the image GAZA BURIAL 4 Click Winner in the High Key Portraits - MonoChrome Panel for the Photographer of the Year Award. Christopher Azzopardi Issue 2 / 2013 - Mar/Apr 2013 5 Photographic Society of America (PSA) Compiled by Anthony Blackman ESFIAP; Hon FMPS PSA Board of Directors The Photographic Society of America is an a non-profit organization and is governed by a thirteen member Board of Directors. Board members are elected and hold office for a 2-year term each odd-numbered year, beginning at the close of the annual conference. The President, Executive Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer also serve on the Executive Committee, which together with the Investments Vice President makes up the Finance Committee. The Treasurer also supervises the only PSA-salaried employees, the 3-person headquarters office staff, which includes the Operations Manager, who is also a PSA Officer. There are many other committees, which assist the Board in carrying out its responsibilities. The subject-matter-oriented Divisions also play a major role by conducting many of the day-to-day individual and club activities. FIAP NEWS Compiled by Carmel H. Psaila Hon EFIAP – FIAP Liaison Officer 27th LUXEMBOURG PROJECTED IMAGES FIAP BIENNIAL Members are invited to submit their work for the 27th FIAP Projected Images Biennial which will take place in Luxembourg from the 14th April to the 7th June 2013. Conditions for participation Each national Association member of FIAP may enter a CD-ROM containing 20 digital works. Each collection may be coherent from the point of view of realization and presentation. Each Federation chooses the subject and its choice of entries. Not more than two per author. Sizes The files must be JPG 10, 72dpi, 2400pixels on the larger side. Files will be named with the ContinuedFIAP country from pg 6 code and followed by a number from 01 to 20 and the title. (Ex. B01_snow.jpg, B02_ trees.jpg, etc., The FIAP Code list is available at http://www.fiap.net/pdf/1690 OM-fr.pdf Entry fee will be paid by the Society. Each participating author will receive a CD catalogue . At least one work per country will be reproduced together with prize winning works. Continued on pg 7 6 Click Continued from page 6 Awards Sever Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes and Hon. Mention Ribbons will be awarded to individual authors and the Federation. Each author can only receive one prize. NOTE: Executive Committee to decide on the subject of the entries and the closing date for submission of works. Closing date overseas is the 14th April, 2013-02-01 Starting Photography Course Commenced on: 22nd Jan International Competition Acceptances Compiled by Lawrence Bonnici The international acceptances and awards gained by members of MPS follow: Name Country Awards 2 PI / 13 MP Agius Louis UK 1 HM / 5 CP Debono Johann Belgium, France 2 PI 1 HM Muscat Raymond France, Serbia, Italy 107 PI India, Macedonia, Italy, Serbia, UK, Pirotta Joseph 216 PI 13 HM China, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, Baldacchino Austria, Hong Kong, USA, Serbia, 14 PI / 14 Agostino France, Taiwan, UK MP / 18 CP (PI = Projected Images, C/MP = Colour or Monochrome Prints) Issue 2 / 2013 - Mar/Apr 2013 7 onrad Neil Gatt was C born in 1977 and is a senior technician from Paola.