Scrub Hen Beach - Whitsunday Passage
by Danielle Lancaster ©

In this Issue:

l Photo News: Incredible Injune Workshops

l Photo Competition:

 l Workshops
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l Exhibitions

l Checking Out Websites

l Photo Tip: Isolate Your Subject

l Photo Trivia:

l Thanks to our Sponsors


A Happy New Year to All!

We hope you have had a safe and happy festive season! We have heard that Santa has been very kind to many of the shutterbugs amongst us - there must have been some very good people last year.

Now for the year ahead: Our first round of workshops commence in February - check out the dates below as limited numbers still exist for some of the workshops. We are also now running One-On-One classes with understanding your digital camera and Photoshop the first to be offered - more will be following as the year progresses. Please if you have any questions - just ask. We have also had some requests for a mothers and general photography day once a month - mothers can bring their children along. If you are interested in either of these suggestions please let us know, as if there is enough interest we will try and organise this for you.
We continue to love your feedback - so keep it coming. Due to many of you asking for an extension of the Photo Competition - Massage/ Day Spa - due to a busy social schedule during the past month (lucky things!), we are happy to confirm this will now be open till the 1st March 07. Please see below for details.

 This newsletter is designed specifically for you, to be yours, so please enjoy!

Here's to a wonderful 2007!

Photo News:
Incredible Injune Workshop:
In December we travelled to Injune to conduct three days of workshops and what a great time it was. The weather was warm-ish and the spirits high. Overall it was a wonderful fun-filled weekend of learning and making new friends.

The photography class was huge - 16 participants.
We look forward to seeing some fantastic work in the near future!


by Puddy Chandler ©

"The workshops were great and of course word has spread so I have had people asking
when the next one will be!!

You are a wonderful 'teacher' Danielle, not a skill everyone has," Puddy Chandler.


Some of the crew at lunch in Injune
Courtesy Puddy Chandler ©

What's On: Workshops:

Date/Time
Workshop
Cost
Sat. 3rd
Feb
9.30am-4pm

Beginner Workshop
Let's Start!

$110.00
Booking Essential

Sat. 10th Feb
1-5pm

"Portraiture Using Natural Lighting" with Deirdrie Cullen
$88.00
Booking Essential

Sat. 17th Feb
9-4pm

A Day at Lillydale
$125.00
Booking Essential
Sat 24th
Feb
10am-12md
Photography in the Rainforest
$30.00pp
Booking Essential
Sun. 4th March
9am-1pm
Composition, Composition, Composition!
Let's get it Right!
$88.00
Booking Essential
Sat. 10th March
9am-1pm
Understanding Depth
of Field
$88.00
Booking Essential
Sat. 31st
March
1pm-3pm
Why Use Filters?
$44.00pp
Booking Essential


l Beginner Workshop - "Let's start"
Understand what all those buttons and dials mean - interpret the jargon and learn basic composition skills.
Date: Saturday 3rd February 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, North Tamborine 4272
Time: 9.30am-4pm
Cost: $110.00 Includes - small class sizes, all notes.
Limited numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "Let's Start! "

l "Portraiture With Natural Lighting" by Deirdrie Cullen
Professional photographer, Deirdrie comes to Tamborine Mountain to share her knowledge on portraiture using natural lighting. Deirdrie's work is highly acclaimed appearing in many magazines, galleries, websites world-wide. Her photographs of mothers and children using only natural light are superb. Models included.
Date: Saturday 10th February 2007
Venue: Commence at 42 Licuala Drive North Tamborine then on location - some transport will be available for early bird bookings from Tamborine Mountain.
Time: 1pm-5pm
Cost: $88.00 per person
Limited numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "Portraiture"


Mother & Baby
by Deirdrie Cullen ©

l A Day at Lillydale
Date:Saturday 17th February 2007
Venue: Lillydale is set at the foot of Mount Barney, south-east Queensland's highest peak.
Time: Meet 9am
Animal feeding with Farmer Doug; welcome by Pam and Doug Hardgrave over morning tea; talk on koala sanctuary and history of Lillydale; photo time; lunch; choice of either half hour horseriding or abseiling and the opportunity for more great photographs; afternoon tea;finish at 4.00pm. Additional option available: Lillydale is a 41/2 star farm stay and has a some luxury rooms available for those wishing to stay a night or two either side. Tasting of regional wines and cheese will be served on the homestead lawns at 5.00pm for those that wish to stay overnight at no extra cost to room, for all others $10 per person.
Cost: $125.00 per person, inc GST; Includes:Morning (a superb damper and billy tea) and afternoon teas, lunch served at the homestead using locally grown produce. Half hour either horseriding or abseiling activity. Animal feeding activity and talks.
Limited numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "A Day at Lillydale"


'Mount Barney at Dawn'
Photo by Danielle Lancaster ©
Like to more about Lillydale? Click here

 

l Photographing in the Rainforest -

Come on a leisurely stroll through the rainforest after a short informative talk about how best to do it.
Date: Saturday 24th February 2007
Venue: Esme Street Park, Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Time: 10am-12md
Cost: $30.00 per person
Limited numbers apply. Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
"Rainforest Walk"

l Composition, Composition, Composition!

One of the most important aspects of taking a great photo is the composition of your subjects. Learn how to position them and why this is so important in this session every photographer should attend at some time.
Date:Sunday 4th March 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain then on location.
Time: 9am-1pm
Cost: $88.00 per person
Limited numbers apply.
Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
a"Composition"

l Understanding Depth of Field -

An often confusing and misunderstood photographic subject! In this 4 hour workshops you will understand the principals of depth of field and why it is important is obtaining that brilliant image. A must for those wanting the best of the best in their images.
Date:Saturday 10th March 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain then on location.
Time: 9am-1pm
Cost: $88.00 per person
Limited numbers apply.
Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
 "Depth of Field"

l Why Use Filters -

Learn about the different filters and why you should use them and why not. A variety of filters will be available during the session for participants to use.
Workshop notes will be available.
Date:Saturday 31st March 2007
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Time: 1pm-3pm
Cost: $44.00 per person
Limited numbers apply.
Bookings taken now.
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail "Filters"

New - One-on-One Classes

l Understanding Your Digital Camera -

Designed for those who want to gain a better understanding of how to their digital camera.
Date: Open - you contact us and we arrange a mutually suitable time.
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Cost: $77.00 per person/per hour
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
a"One-On-One Camera Use"

l Photoshop -

Designed for those who want to learn Photoshop and enhance their digital editing skills.
Date: Open - you contact us and we arrange a mutually suitable time.
Venue: 42 Licuala Drive, Tamborine Mountain
Cost: $77.00 per person/per hour
Ph: 07 55454777 or e-mail
"One-On-One Photoshop"

Checking Out Websites:
Need help finding your hyperfocal distance on your new digital lens then check out this website to make things nice and easy:
http://www.outsight.com/hyperfocal.html

Competition

l Massage/Day Spa Theme

Images may be of anything that is evocative of relaxing, tranquility, serenity etc or anything associated with day spa and massage.

Prize: Ripple Massage has kindly donated some terrific prizes for the next comp:
Winner:a two hour Frangipani Massage package (or if it's a bloke - a two hour Blokes Massage package) Runner Up: An hour massage.
We thank Ripple for joining as a sponsor

Conditions of Entry: Only one entry per person. Photographs must not be larger than 3MB file. Prizes are not exchangeable for cash and are subject to conditions as set out by the generous prize givers. Photographs must be taken by the person submitting the photograph - proof of such may be asked for. Entrants must be registered as receiving the newsletter. Entrants agree to allow Bluedog Pty Ltd and Ripple to publish their photograph in the Bluedog Photography and Ripple Newsletters.
Closing Date: 1st March 2007

To Enter:
Simply send your photo to: Photo Competition
with a brief description of what, where and why - including camera details and your contact details.

What's On: Exhibitions

l Sights Unseen: Michael Riley - One of Australia’s most important Indigenous visual artists. In his short lifetime, artist Michael Riley left a strong and enduring impression. Riley challenged Australia’s perception of Indigenous culture, giving a voice to the disenfranchised communities of rural and remote eastern Australia and, in doing so, established himself at the forefront of international contemporary art.
Cost: Free
Venue: National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place Parkes ACT 2600
Date/s: Finishes 27.04.2008

l Olaf Breuning - Home
A master of the constructed scenario, Olaf Breuning's videos, photographs and installations draw liberally from advertising, movies, television and music videos. He dishes up a glam-trash fantasy world, an archive of alternative realities. Equally enamoured with the heavy metal and the new age, historical costume drama and serial killer splatter, the courtly and the degenerate, he cultivates bizarre intersections of reality and fantasy in which pop culture's interlocking clichés are amplified and exploded.

Venue: ACP 257 Oxford Street Paddington NSW Dates: Friday 2 March to Saturday 14 April 2007 Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm Galleries One and Two.
Admission: Free

Photo Tip:

Isolate your subject............
Using a wide aperture (small f-stop number) will result in a shallower depth of field - ideal for blurring the foreground or background and therefor isolating your subject.

Remember if you are working in manual with every aperture change you must also make a change in your shutter speed to maintain correct exposure.




'Agapanthus'
Photo by Danielle Lancaster ©

Photo Trivia: Did you know?

 The world record for the highest price paid for a photograph was set when The Pond - Moonlight by Edward Steichen 1904 was sold in the US for $2,928.00!

The following also are in the top ten - and who said photography doesn't pay!

2. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy), $1,248,000,
3. Joseph-Philibert Girault De Prangey 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l'est, $922,488,
4. Gustave Le Gray The Great Wave, Sete (1857), $838,000,
5. Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol (1987), $643,200,
6. Ansel Adams Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948), $609,600,
7. Andreas Gursky Untitled 5 1997, $559,724,
8. Gustave Le Gray Tree (1855), $513,150,
9. Diane Arbus Identical Twins(Cathleen and Colleen),478,400,


The Twins by Diane Arbus

10. Charles Sheeler Ford Works (1927), $447,350, 1999(1927), $447,350, 1999 .
Sponsors:

a We appreciate the generous donations from our sponsors. Please, when able, support them.
l Ripple Massage



l Karnak Restaurant & Cafe
Mediterranean & Lebanese Cuisine
10 Macdonnell Road, Eagle Heights
Ph: 07 55454055


If you are interested in supporting the photography group - maybe donating a prize for the photo competition please contact
Danielle Lancaster
danielle@blue-dog.com.au
All donations are gratefully accepted - big and small and everyone will be mentioned on the newsletter.

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