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A Quick Word from the President What s in this issue. It s nearly Christmas - an invitation to join the Club celebrations is detailed below.

Full details on page 2 Creating your own Member Gallery for display through Website What I m hoping to achieve on our Website is a vibrant current showcase of Member (your) images with you in total

I m excited to see that we have a couple of Exhibitions coming up shortly the 2017 People s Choice Exhibition (images for this have been selected) and our new February 2018 - Exhibition (images

1 A Quick Word from the President What s in this issue. It s nearly Christmas - an invitation to join the Club celebrations is detailed below. Club News October 2017 President: Helena Slade M: info@creativeshots.com.au Secretary: Penny Valentine M: secretary@creativeshots.com.au Treasurer : Donna West M: treasurer@creativeshots.com.au Newsletter: Tanya Staines M: newsletter@creativeshots.com.au Committee Members: David Phillips Royce Bishop Wendy Coad David Condie Mitch Galletly Photo Club Inc. ABN PO Box 5257 Mackay Mail Centre Qld 4741 Our October meeting saw me walk everyone through Adobe Spark Pages. Full details on page 2 Creating your own Member Gallery for display through Website What I m hoping to achieve on our Website is a vibrant current showcase of Member (your) images with you in total control of the content and artistic display and it s totally easy to achieve. David Phillips followed up with a discussion on How to Resize your images for Export an interesting night of information. I m excited to see that we have a couple of Exhibitions coming up shortly the 2017 People s Choice Exhibition (images for this have been selected) and our new February Exhibition (images required). Both exhibitions are a fantastic opportunity for you to showcase your photography to the Mackay Community and boost the Club profile. So why not get involved. And finally, the PSQ BBQ Mini Convention is being held in Townsville on the November. Winners of the NQ/CQ Interclub Competition - Monochrome will be announced at the weekend as well as Club results. I ve included a link on page 6 for you to have a look at the competition entries. See you at November s Meeting - Comp night - can t wait to see your images. So.. Get Ignited, Get Excited, Get out there and Try It!!! Helena Christmas Celebration Christmas is fast approaching and we re having a social gathering to celebrate Website Website Co-Ordinator Helena Slade Club Meetings: 3rd Wednesday of Month Community Meeting Room Gordon White Library Phillip Street, Mt Pleasant 6:45pm for 7pm start Venue : Salt Restaurant, Dolphin Heads Resort When : Saturday 18th November 2017 at 6pm RSVP: Friday, 3rd November 2017 Via SMS to Helena or info@creativeshots.com.au Dress : Casual (we re outside if the weather s good) Meals and Drinks at your own expense. Should be a great night out. October 2017 Page 1

October Meeting - Information Night Creating your own Member Gallery for display through Website Presentation by: Helena Slade Helena talked us through how to create our own Photo Gallery using Adobe

au/members-gallery/ and have a look at what this is all about. Click on a member s name and you ll see the website gallery. Helena has set up an example Adobe Spark Page for her gallery on this page.

It s your choice as to what photos you d like to include in your gallery. It can be photos from this year s comp as per Helena s example above or your best photos that you ve taken overtime.

2 October Meeting - Information Night Creating your own Member Gallery for display through Website Presentation by: Helena Slade Helena talked us through how to create our own Photo Gallery using Adobe Spark Pages. As an example Helena took us to the Club Website and showed us the galleries that are currently in place for some of the members. Go to the Club website and have a look at what this is all about. Click on a member s name and you ll see the website gallery. Helena has set up an example Adobe Spark Page for her gallery on this page. The Club is looking for each of the members to create their own gallery of photos to be displayed through the website on our Members Image Gallery page. It s your choice as to what photos you d like to include in your gallery. It can be photos from this year s comp as per Helena s example above or your best photos that you ve taken overtime. It s all up to you. By creating your own gallery you (the photographer) are in total control of what images are current in your Gallery. You are able to update your Gallery as often as you like, you can swap photos in and out to change the look of your gallery and to keep it fresh. What you need to do: 1. Export a selection of your photos to a folder on your desktop. File size it s really up to you. Helena s example was about 1MB. Once you ve loaded one or 2 to your gallery have a look at them in Preview and see if they re displaying correctly. You can either increase or decrease the size depending on your requirements. (refer to David Phillips Resize your Image below for more details). 2. Login to signup for FREE this can be done via Facebook, Google, or AdobeID. 3. Create a Page, Share it (which creates the URL) 4. Copy your Page URL and paste it into an to info@creativeshots.com.au and the website co-ordinator will add it to the Club Website Gallery Page To help you get started here are some links for tutorials on how to set up an Adobe Spark Page. Link: How to Create an Adobe Spark Page with Julieanne Kost Link: Adobe Spark Tutorial 2017 Link: Adobe Spark Page 2016 Tutorial Note: All photos uploaded are stored in Adobe s Cloud URL Link required by end of November - For those members who want to have a Showcase Gallery If you re having any problems let Helena know and maybe we can set up a small workshop to assist. As the only link to your gallery is the URL that you provide to the Club you are in total control of your content. If you no longer wish the gallery to be displayed you can let us know and we will remove the link from the Club Website. You can also Delete or Unpublish your link and it will no longer be accessible. Don t forget, once you ve created this gallery you can share the link to your facebook, twitter or other social media sites. You can also share it with family and friends just by sending them the link. Note: Adobe Spark Pages can also be used as a tool for any of you who take Wedding, Baby or Event photos. Create a page and share it to your clients as a presentation of the occasion. Remember you control it and can kill the page at any time. October 2017 Page 2

How to Resize your images in Lightroom for Export Presentation by: David Phillips Resizing process Go to File Export or press CTRL+SHIFT+E on your keyboard.

3 How to Resize your images in Lightroom for Export Presentation by: David Phillips Resizing process Go to File Export or press CTRL+SHIFT+E on your keyboard. Choose your Export Location Under File Naming you can choose to rename your file when exporting. If so check the box and choose Custom Text then type the name. This next step is important. If resizing for the web i.e. social media and blogs always choose jpeg and if you are going to use the quality slider do not go any more than 80, closer to 65 may be better. The reason being the higher the amount the larger the file, the longer it will take to load and view on the web. Your file size should always be less than 1000kb (1mb) from my experience. Mine are around 500kb normally. You can check the Limit File Size To box and enter you file size. This will disable the quality option. Personal preference you which way you go. Next is Color Space, choose srgb as this is what the Internet and most monitors can see properly. If resizing for printing, totally different settings and a discussion for another time. Under Image Sizing, check Resize to Fit box. This will actually resize the image to a smaller version for the web. I normally choose Long Edge that limits the width or height depending on the orientation of the image and typically between 1000 and 2000 pixels is a good size for the web. Remember the higher pixel count the larger the file becomes and the whole idea for the web is to keep it small. Resolution this setting has no meaning when exporting to the web, it only important for printing. You can set the resolution between 1 the lowest and being the highest and have no effect to what you see on the web. I normally use 72 pixels here as this is the recommended size to discourage people who want to steal you image from the web and print it. It will print like crap. The next section is important, Output Sharpening. As you are resizing your image smaller it will loose sharpness and you want it to look good for web viewing so choose Screen and either Standard or High depending on how much sharpening you have already done to your image in processing. The next steps of Metadata and Watermarking are personal preference. October 2017 Page 3

The Roundup - October Club Outing Roundup by: Damian Walls Despite

have members of and Mackay Camera Group together and having fun.

! Brianna - by Marian Moyle Shells - by Damian Walls Sunset - by

to an Exhibition by one of our members - Cheryl Eager s For more

4 The Roundup - October Club Outing Roundup by: Damian Walls Despite a few issues with registrations and organisation, the Worldwide Photowalk was a lot of fun on the day. The time at the Eimeo Pub afterwards was great and it was good to have members of and Mackay Camera Group together and having fun. We will see if I have the audacity to organise it again next year!! Brianna - by Marian Moyle Shells - by Damian Walls Sunset - by Damian Walls November Club Outing Or you could lend your support to an Exhibition by one of our members - Cheryl Eager s For more details here s a link to the Proposed Program for the Weekend and Registration Form October 2017 Page 4

November Meeting- What s On November Meeting is Wednesday, 15th November, 2017 Venue: Community Meeting Room, Gordon White Library, Phillip Street, Mt Pleasant Time: 6:45pm for 7pm start COMPETITION

5 November Meeting- What s On November Meeting is Wednesday, 15th November, 2017 Venue: Community Meeting Room, Gordon White Library, Phillip Street, Mt Pleasant Time: 6:45pm for 7pm start COMPETITION NIGHT There is NO TIME LIMIT on when images were taken for the November Competition, but you cannot rework and resubmit images that you have previously entered into competition. This will give you a chance to show us some of those images that have not been able to make it into Competition due to the 6 month requirement People s Choice Exhibition Personality Captured Selections have been made, and Members notified. Thank you and Congratulations to all members involved. The Exhibition will be framed and up for viewing at Mackay Regional Botanical Gardens, Lagoons Cafe from Wed 6th Dec 2017 to Mon 15 Jan So don t forget to take your friends and visitors down to the Botanical Gardens, grab a coffee or lunch, enjoy the exhibition and vote for your/their favourite photo. The People s Choice Winner will be announced and Trophy presented at the 17th January Meeting. February Exhibition Venue : Gordon White Library, Phillip Street, Mt Pleasant Dates : Thursday 1st February - Wednesday 28th February We ve negotiated with Mackay Regional Libraries to hold an exhibition of our Photographic Images inside the Library at Mt Pleasant. The exhibition will run for the month of February and will also be highlighted in the Library s What s On event publication, so this should generate some additional interest. The People s Choice - Personality Captured winning image from the Gardens Exhibition will be showcased. Invitation for Entries : There is no topic or time frame for images submitted, but they do need to be new images that have not previously been exhibited at a Club exhibition. As there is no December meeting your images are to be submitted via usb at the 15th November Club Meeting. The Committee will choose images at the following Committee Meeting and members notified of successful selection and print size requirement. All images to be finalised, printed and submitted to the committee for framing by the 17 th January club meeting. So another great opportunity to involve and showcase our talented members as well as boost the profile of our Club locally. PSQ 2018 Conference Bookings are Now Open for The PSQ 2018 Conference Gems of the Outback When: 5th-7th May Where: Emerald It s the May Day Long Weekend, why not take the opportunity to have a weekend away. They have an amazing line up of guest speakers with Steve Parish headlining. Find out more by following the link: Emerald Photo Club - Gems of the Outback October 2017 Page 5

COMPETITIONS NQ/CQ Interclub Competition - Monochrome The November Monochrome images have all been received into the competition for judging.

advised of winners or ranking as yet, so standby for more info.

The full list of categories plus all the entry requirements and procedures can be found at www.pinkladyfoodphotographeroftheyear.

and the winner judged. Why not consider being part of it in 2019!

Christmas? Here s a couple of sites that can help you with ideas.

6 COMPETITIONS NQ/CQ Interclub Competition - Monochrome The November Monochrome images have all been received into the competition for judging. Here s the link if you re interested in checking out the competition and images submitted Dropbox - CQ-NQ Interclub Comp Monochrome We haven t been advised of winners or ranking as yet, so standby for more info. Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year The closing date for entries in the 2018 Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition is 6 February The full list of categories plus all the entry requirements and procedures can be found at The Freemantle International Portrait Prize The 4th biennial Fremantle International Portrait Prize (FiPP 2017) for portrait photography was run and the winner judged. Why not consider being part of it in 2019!! Check out the link 2017 FiPP Awards Workshops / Training & Photography Services Are you thinking of providing that special personalised gift for Christmas? Here s a couple of sites that can help you with ideas. Specialising in Acrylic and Canvas Prints Follow the link imagebank Australia for more details and special offers. Photobooks, Stationery and other gift ideas. Follow the link Momento for more details. Photobooks, Canvas, Acrylic or Wood Prints, Cards and other gift ideas. Follow the link Photobookshop - Special Offers Prints, Photobooks, Canvas and other gift ideas. Follow the link Snapfish and check out their Weekly Deals. October 2017 Page 6

November 15th December January 17th February 21st March 21st 2017+ early 2018 Meeting Schedule Competition Night + submit images for February Exhibition No Meeting - Christmas Break Competition Night

7 November 15th December January 17th February 21st March 21st early 2018 Meeting Schedule Competition Night + submit images for February Exhibition No Meeting - Christmas Break Competition Night + People s Choice Exhibition Winner Awarded Information Night AGM & Competition Night Competition Category Definitions Monochrome Black and white, sepia or images containing hues of a single colour such as green made lighter by adding white (tint) or darker by adding black (shade). Maximum Print size: A4 Portraits An image of a person/group of people or animal /group of animals that displays expression, personality and mood of the subject. The focus should be the face or the entire body and the background may be included to highlight a relationship with an environment or an object. (Not an image that simply happens to contain people/animals.) Maximum Print size: A4 Enhance It Any post processing allowed. Maximum Print size: A4. For Arts Sake Fine art is the production of images to fulfil the creative vision of the photographer. It may be produced for sale or display rather than in response to a commercial commission. May include other media and can use any manipulation. Any size. (Maximum Print size: A4 preferred for judging) Pure Talent This image is to be a single exposure taken in camera as a jpeg file and may be cropped or straightened only. No cloning, enhancing colours etc. The aim is to encourage the photographer to get the best in camera image possible. Include camera settings on the back ie. ISO, F-stop, TV and any other functions or filters used. Maximum Print size: A4. Novice For beginners only. No club points awarded. Maximum Print size: A4. Competition Guidelines All the Competition Categories are run each competition night - there is no fixed subject for competitions. Each member will be able to enter a maximum of 6 images in total. Each member may enter a maximum of 3 images per category. Images must have been taken within the previous 6 months. Images must have been taken by the member entering the image. Member must be financial to enter competitions. Printed Images may be up to A4 size, except For Art s Sake which may be any size. Points Earned: Each image entered earns you 1 point towards the annual Club Awards. Plus, Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2 points, Bronze = 1 point. Photo of the Month in each comp category earns an extra 1 point. (So, the more you enter the more chance you have of becoming an award winner). Images may be submitted as a print or as a digital file. ( As every effort is made to calibrate the computer screen and the projector to get the colours correct, members will need to realise that the digital file may not view the same as their home computer screens are not calibrated. It is at the member s discretion whether they submit a print or digital file). Digital Images supplied in digital format to be sized as follows and supplied on usb to the Projection Co-ordinator before the start of the meeting: Note: by providing your images in digital format, you automatically agree that the Club can share your images on the Club s website, social media and Newsletter. Naming your Images : yourname_category_imagename i.e. joeblogs_enhanceit_prettyflower October 2017 Page 7

A Quick Word from the President What s in this issue.

A Quick Word from the President What s in this issue. Club News April 2017 President: Helena Slade M: 0418 154 198 info@creativeshots.com.au Secretary: Penny Valentine M: 0407 369 621 secretary@creativeshots.com.au