© Danielle Lancaster

In this Issue:

l Bluedog Photo News

l Workshops

l Exhibitions

l Checking Out Web Sites

l Photo Tip

l For Sale and Wanted

l Photo Trivia/Dedication:

What's On: Workshops, Retreats and Outings:

For further details refer to Photography Workshops and Retreats
Don't forget to let us know if there is anything specific you would like covered in any workshop or during a retreat. Our workshop calendar will be on the web site and updated regularly as you make your requests and we are now trying to plan all workshops well in advance so you have plenty of time to prepare. Remember once you start with us, our advice does not stop when you leave the workshop you can e-mail us with questions and images for further continued advice.

The Bluedog Team of wonderfully talented professional photographers have a wealth of knowledge to share and have taught various aspects of photography throughout Australia. You may be a good photographer but that does not mean you can teach. We all continue to work as professional photographers and have the confidence and patience to take you on exciting paths with your work.

Registration and receipt of place is essential as numbers are limited. We want the workshops to continue to be very personalised so that you may gain the maximum from the workshops. Remember we do need you to book your place and after you book you receive a registration form. Once we receive this back with payment to secure your position then you are booked. View our terms and conditions.

An outline of each workshop and retreat itinerary is listed on Photography Workshops and Retreats

Photo Tip: Get Ready For Autumn

Now summer is officially behind us for another year our minds may be turning to the colours and textures autumn and winter will bring. Just because the temperature may be starting to drop doesn't mean it's time to put the camera into hibernation!

Here are a few tips to get some great looking images during the change of season:

l Keep the ISO low - yes it will mean you need a tripod and maybe even a remote, cable release or if you haven't these try using your camera's self timer, but by keeping it low you will get such better clarity of the colours.

l Shoot all but landscapes on overcast days when the sky becomes a huge light box of soft diffused light.

l Keep Watching - the colours are always changing - pick a tree and watch as the weeks move into winter how the colours of not only the leaves change but also the light.

l Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today! If the lights right, the subject there - then shoot! Don't miss an opportunity for mother nature waits for no one and tomorrow it may be all gone.

l Make repeat trips to one site - each time you will get to know it better, see something different and perfect your images.

l Carry extra batteries - while alkaline batteries generally perform well in cold weather we always carry a spare set in an inner pocket where they remain toasty and warm. When not using the camera tuck it inside your jacket as well and it will help extend its performance.

l Don't let the rain put you off. Try looking at doing photographs from indoors - rain on windows can look terrific, shoot from the car or be brave and get on out there as during the rain and just after the colours of nature are brilliant!

By © Nick Lancaster

For Sale and Wanted:

l Nikon F55 with Nikon 28-80 lens and snoot bag Tamron 80-210 lens (in box) all as new with books. Offers? Contact Harry: lily-whites@hotmail.com

l Photo Buddy: Anyone looking for a buddy to go out and take photos please contact Sue: suebbb@gmail.com

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What's On: Exhibitions

l Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007 'Explores the thread of portraiture through the prolific career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent photomedia artists.' Features many iconic images, will introduce audiences to previously unseen portraits. Curated by Karra Rees, Hall of Mirrors examines portraiture, representation and identity throughout Zahalka’s celebrated career, which spans more than 20 years. Zahalka’s portraits reveal more than just the individual – with an ironic and critical voice the images cleverly subvert stereotypes while capturing subcultures and a spirit of the times with acute observation. Featuring over 70 works, Hall of Mirrors brings together Zahalka’s renowned imagery, introduces previously unseen portraits from several series, and also showcases new works commissioned for this major touring exhibition. One not to be missed.
Venue: National Portrait Gallery (ACT) For other venues and dates
Date/s: 23 November 2007 – 31 March 2008
For other venues and dates: http://www.ccp.org.au/AnneZahalka.php?nav=f

l Daryl Hewson’s collection of Queensland and Australian photography is considered to be the most comprehensive archive of photographic art in the State. His contribution to the careers of many Queensland artists links him to the tradition of patronage seen in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and is at the core of the current resurgence of Queensland photography on the national stage.
Venue: The Studio, level 1 Queensland State Library
Date/s: 24 Mar – 11 May Entry Free

l Certificate no. 000358/ Nuclear Devastation in the Former Soviet Union by Robert Knoth
This will prove to be an exciting and moving exhibition by Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has been visiting Chernobyl and other sites of nuclear devastation in the former Soviet Union since the early Nineties.
Venue: Gallery 1 & 2 Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
Date/s: Friday 14 March to Saturday 26 April 2008

l New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography
The New Scientist Eureka prize for Science Photography is awarded for a single photograph that most effectively communicates an aspect of science. Curated and managed by the Australian Museum, Australia's oldest museum, and New Scientist, the world's leading science and technology news weekly, entries in the inaugural New Scientist Eureka prize were received from amateur and professional photographers, working scientists and students.
Venue: Gallery 3 Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
Date/s: Friday 14 March to Sunday 13 April 2008

l Michael Riley :: Sights Unseen
22 February – 27 April 2008 - Art Gallery of NSW.

Checking Out Web Sites:

Always inspiring over generations and generations have been the photographers who contribute to National Geographic.
Become inspired with their wonderful photography and check out:http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/index.html

If you have come across a great web site
send it to us and it may just be featured!

Photo Trivia: Did You Know?

The first ever image of Earth above the lunar limb was captured by Lunar Orbiter 1 on 23 August 1966. Note the parallel strips making up the image; arising from the way Lunar Orbiter photographs were scanned on board the spacecraft for transmission to Earth. Credit: LPI/NASA, Lunar Orbiter. From August 1966 and August 1967, NASA's five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft returned more than 2,600 images of the moon and photographed 99 percent of the lunar surface.

Winter 5th Avenue 1892

The Steerage 1907

Dedication to the Masters of the Lens

Alfred Stieglitz
(1864-1946)

American photographer Alfred Stieglitz was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his images are known for appearing like those other art forms and he became a leader in a movement called Pictorialism, promoting photography as art. Stieglitz and other Pictorialists understood that a photograph was created when the camera was used as a tool, like a paintbrush was a tool. And they tried to show that they were a part of the art tradition by manipulating their photos in the darkroom, using tricks and techniques that were evidence of the human hand in the process.

He is also known for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who herself became very famous for her large-scale paintings of flowers. Stieglitz photographs of O'Keeffe made up one of his greatest bodies of work - over 300 images.

His tool of trade was the single lens reflex camera and Stieglitz was proficient and meticulous in the darkroom printing all his own images even into retirement.

Stieglitz was also interested in the technical boundaries of photography. His image featured here 'Winter 5th Avenue' is one of his early experiments in stopping motion. Stieglitz stood for three hours in a driving blizzard to get this picture!

The Steerage marked a turning point for Alfred Stieglitz. In it, he abandoned the idea that photographs should bear some likeness to paintings, and embarked on a new path to explore photos as photos in their own right. Ironically, Stieglitz would not recognize the social aspect of this photograph until many years after he had taken it. For Stieglitz, the main considerations were visual.

During his career Stieglitz also owned and was the editor for photography magazines and journals and managed a range of galleries to promote photography as an art.

"There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art."

Alfred Stieglitz, American Amateur Photographer, 1893