FOCUS CERPS WINNERS 2018 AND 2019
Edenvale Photo Club Newsletter - April 2020
Sharing Visual Art since 1950
02 / APRIL 2020 COVER IMAGE BY KENNETH Story behind the shot: This image was taken by Kenneth Kubheka, this is how he got there..... Shot taken during lockdown at home A water bubble was placed on a dandelion clock using a syringe. Used a dinner plate filled with milky water as foreground so to achieve reflection of the dandelion clock and a moody effect: Prestik was used to secure it. Used pink Croxley plastic file as a background. Used a torch to shine at the back of the plastic file single speed light used to get the reflection on the water bubble Took several shots and was eventually happy with this one Let me know if this is okay.
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EDENVALE PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA
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DEAR MEMBERS
Chairman: David Wolstencroft 083 229 8066 davewol@gmail.com
Last month was the month for our 5th Salon and our 70th Anniversary Salon. We thought we did well with our 4th Salon. This salon knocked that salon out the park with a record 6461 entries. A truly outstanding number of entries. The support was amazing, especially from you, our club members. Your support and enthusiasm were overwhelming. Thank you. I hope all the people that entered for the first time or received an acceptance for the first time, learnt something in the process. It is a good check to match your work at a national level. It can be disappointing or disheartening if you do not achieve success. Keep in mind you are competing with the best in the country and only the top quarter of the images are accepted. You can see from your result mail how close you came to making an acceptance. Sometimes it is only 1 point. Check your images. If you are unsure why it did not make it, ask a senior member of the club for their view. Maybe a slight tweak and you be successful next time. Salons are not for everyone. Some thrive on the competition, some do not. They are necessary to measure your standard against the rest of South Africa. So, view them as a measurement tool to evaluate your images.
Just because an image missed the mark in one salon does not mean it will not make in another. It is all dependant on the standard, category and number of entries. Your support was so impressive that I must share the stats for Edenvale here. The full stats for the Salon can be found in this newsletter. Total Number of entries: 6461 Entries by Edenvale Members: 507 (7.85% of the entries) Second highest Club Entries: 352 Next highest by a CERPS Club: 187 Acceptances of Edenvale Images: 141 (27.81 acceptance ratio) This means that we exceeded the baseline of 25% acceptances. Really amazing. Once again, a big thank you from all of us for your support. It is genuinely appreciated. Dave
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Committee Members Chairman:
MEETING TIME AND PLACE 2ND AND 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH AT 18H30 FOR 19H00 EDENVALE COMMUNITY CENTRE COR. VAN RIEBEECK & 2ND STREET, EDENVALE
David Wolstencroft 083 229 8066 davewol@gmail.com
Salons, Judges and Outings: John Coumbias 079 1732 825 jcoumbias@telkomsa.net
Marketing and Secretary: Natasha Bird 082 920 8898 mnktrad@mweb.co.za
Newsletter Editor & Graphic Design: Hanli Smit 083 253 1034 hanlis54@gmail.com
Treasurer: Ted Kinsman 083 461 2350 tkinsman@global.co.za
Certificates & Awards Des Alexander 083 226 1452 neoncomp@webmail. co.za
New Members, Social Media & Website Clare Appleyard 083 234 0247 clare.appleyard@gmail.com
Scoring & Promotions:
Training:
Jorge Borralho 082 337 9575
Robbie Aspeling 082 309 7470 rob@raphoto.co.za
Jorge.borralho@vodamail.co.za
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IN THIS ISSUE DIANE ARBUS Past Masters Page 6
8 April - Winners Page 20
Focus on Paul Lees Page 53
22 April - Winners Page 23
MEMBER FOCUS Tony Wilson Page30
PROCESS RAW FILES Page 14 Set subject ideas Art of the Self Portrait Page 49
A Chat with Paul Lees Page 53
06 / APRIL 2020 PAST MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Diane
Arbus
Diane Arbus’s Photography One of the greatest photographers of her generation, Diane Arbus revolutionized fine art photography during her mature period (1959-71). She became internationally known for her harrowing black-and-white pseudo-documentary photography, featuring freaks, eccentrics and marginal people, including dwarfs, giants, transvestites and other ugly or surreal individuals. Although highly praised by some, her portrait art also attracted considerable criticism from a number of art critics, notably Susan Sontag (1933-2004). In 1971, at the age of 48, Arbus took her own life, thus inadvertently adding herself (in the minds of her critics) to the category of damaged people that appeared in her photos.
07 / APRIL 2020 Even so, a growing consensus now sees her as a cult figure of her generation and ranks her among the best portrait artists of the 1960s. It is possible that Arbus would not have attained such a level of fame had she not died, although it is widely recognized that her austere, almost brutal style of contemporary art greatly influenced other photographers - see, for instance, the edgy work of Nan Goldin (b.1953) and Robert Mapplethorpe(1946-89).
In her lifetime she achieved some recognition and renown with the publication, beginning in 1960, of photographs in such magazines as Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, and Artforum. In 1963 the Guggenheim Foundation awarded Arbus a fellowship for her proposal entitled, “American Rites, Manners and Customs”. She was awarded a renewal of her fellowship in 1966. John Szarkowski, the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City from 1962 to 1991, championed her work and included it in his 1967 exhibit New Documents along with the work of Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. Her photographs were also included in a number of other major group shows.
At any rate, Arbus radically altered our perception of what was permitted in photography, dramatically extending the spectrum of acceptable subjects. In 1972, a year after her suicide, Arbus became the first She also deliberately explored photographer to be included in the Venice Biennale, where her the visual ambiguity of marginal groups as well as of photographs were “the overwhelming sensation of the people well integrated in American Pavilion” and “extremely society. powerful and very strange.” The Although something of an icon first major retrospective of Arbus’ work was held in 1972 at MoMA, for contemporary women organized by Szarkowski. The artists, Arbus’s work was retrospective garnered the never associated with highest attendance of any feminist art or feminism. exhibition in MoMA’s history to date. Millions viewed traveling A year after her death, ten of exhibitions of her work from 1972 her photos of marginalized to 1979. individuals were shown at the Venice Biennale (she was the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the event).
The book accompanying the exhibition, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel and first published in 1972 has never been out of print.
08 / APRIL 2020 Images by Diane Arbus
09 / APRIL 2020 Images by Diane Arbus
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Images by Diane Arbus
Images by Diane Arbus
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12 / APRIL 2020 Images by Diane Arbus
extracted fromEntitymag.com
Diane Arbus wasn’t your average photographer. She found beauty in what was traditionally viewed as ugly. She photographed marginalized communities such as dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists and circus performers. Arbus attempted to capture “the space between who someone is and who they think they are.” She became famous for her photography in the last nine years of her life. Arbus challenged conventional ideas of art and became labeled as a “photographer of freaks” or, reversely, a “great humanist photographer who was at the forefront of what has become recognized as a new kind of photographic art.”
Famous Quotes by Diane Arbus
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Her lessons and ideas about photography made others see life through Arbus’ eyes. But her quotes about photography are so profound that they can be applied to everyday life. ENTITY.COM compiled a list of the most famous Diane Arbus quotes that can be used in any situation. 1 ON PERSPECTIVES OF REALITY “If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.” 2 ON TAKING CONTROL OF THE WORLD “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. 3 ON HOW WE SEE THE WORLD “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” 4 ON FACING YOUR FEARS “Take pictures of what you fear.” 5 ON NOTHING EVER BEING PERFECT “I don’t know what good composition is…. Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There’s a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.” 6 ON COMPASSION AND TRAGEDY “What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.” 7 ON ALWAYS WANTING TO MOVE ONTO THE NEXT THING “I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn’t dropped it, but there’s something similar in what I’m trying to say. That once it’s been done, you want to go someplace else. There’s just some sense of straining.” 8 ON FEELING LOST “The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.” 9 ON LOOKING CONFIDENT “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.” 10 ON MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES “Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.” 11 ON BECOMING AN ADULT “When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It’s something like that.” Diane Arbus saw the world differently than the rest of the world at the time. While some thought she was insane, others thought of her as an artistic genius. But her quotes remind us to take a step back and think outside of the box and against what is traditional and conventional.
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R AW FILE
Processing The Image above is the Raw File before processing
Improve contrast and colour... Discover how to process a digital negative to improve its colour and tones! Our starting image lacks colour and detail in the under exposed areas. The raw editor places all the colour and tone tweaking in your own hands. When you shoot JPEG only, the camera will apply colour and tonal tweaks according to the camera mode it is set on. By shooting raw you have much more controll over the processed pictures colours and tones.
The image above is one result after raw procesing The image below is another result after processing the same raw file The style and control is in your own hands
RAW FILE PROCESSING
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Improve the exposure The Histogram window shows lots of strong shadow information on the left. This indicates that the image is under - exposed. By dragging the exposure to 1,25 you can reveal more detail in the shadows but it blows out the highlights. Click Default to restore the image to its original settings Restore the settings After you restored the image to its default settings, set the Shadows slider to + 100. Use your own discretion as it may not have to go all the way to +100 This lightens the shadows without over exposing the highlights.
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RAW FILE PROCESSING Increase the midtone contrast
To tease out more detail in the midtones we will push the clarity up to 50, this reveals more texture in the rocky midtones.
Boost the Saturation If you increase the saturation you will improve the sky, but create over-saturated grass and foreground. Rather boost the vibrance, by boosting the vibrance up to +60 you will selectively increase the saturation of the weaker colours
Adjust the white balance Now that you have revealed more detail and colour in the under-exposed areas, you can see that they look quite cold. To reduce the intensity of the blue colour cast in the shadows the temperature can be set to 7000 Kelvin. Change the tint to +25 to reduce the hint of magenta.
RAW FILE PROCESSING
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Changing the temperature by using Photo Filter adjustment layer. Open your image and choose Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter to apply the filter to the entire image. If you want to apply the filter to one or more layers, choose Layer>New Adjustment Layer> Photo Filter. Make sure you have the Preview option selected so you can view the results. Now you can use the drop down selection to choose a suitable filter.
This samples shows the result of a warm Photo filter
This samples shows the result of a cool Photo filter
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JOHN COUMBIAS
Members Acheivement
John
Coumbias EPC and FOCUS wish to extend their heartiest congratulations to one of our most amazing photographers, John Coumbias! He has achieved another noteworthy and inspiring achievement: The Campina Photographic Exhibitions Society awarded John Coumbias a medal of Excellence, for having contributed 60 photos, with a consistent high level of excellence! Outstanding achievement, John, keep up this brilliant work! Your multitude of great achievements honour EPC!
19 / APRIL 2020 JOHN COUMBIAS
20 / APRIL 2020
ONE STAR WINNER 8 April
Water Thick Knee
Fabiola Geeven
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ONE STAR WINNER 8 April
Ponte Umberto
Tahlita Verster
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TWO STAR WINNER 8 April
The look
Tony Wilson
23 / APRIL 2020 COMPOSITION 101
TWO STAR WINNER 8 April
Liquid Art
Tony Wilson
24 / APRIL 2020
THREE STAR WINNER 8 April
Vulture
Augusto Dias
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THREE STAR WINNER 8 April
Portrait of Rachel
Stephen
Kangisser
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FOUR STAR WINNER 8 April
Cape White-eye
Christa Smith
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FOUR STAR WINNER 8 April
Sunrays in the City
Clare Appleyard
28 / APRIL 2020
FIVE & 5 STAR HONOURS WINNER
8 April
Pied On The Hunt
Jorge Borralho
29 / APRIL 2020
FIVE & 5 STAR HONOURS WINNER
8 April
Implied Beauty
Hanli Smit
30 / APRIL 2020 MEMBER FOCUS TONY WILSON
Member FOCUS TONY WILSON
My photographic journey began in the late 1970s when my Dad brought me a Kodak 110 camera. However, during all the trips I did with Mom and Dad to Namibia and the Kalahari the camera couldn’t get the images I wanted but I experimented. My inspiration began on a trip to the Kalagadi National Park (Kalahari Gemsbok Park then) in 1979 and seeing four Cheetahs hunting a Springbok, and I could not get a photo …. I was frustrated. Shortly thereafter I managed to buy a Pentax K1000 SLR and photography began.
Shooting motorsports at Kyalami, wildlife and whatever else I could through the 1980s and part of the 1990s but things were becoming difficult finding film with the entry of the era of digital... I stopped photography. In 1999 I bought a Fujifilm digital camera and thought it was amazing but it was just a “mik and druk” but I still played and played. Then the camera and my film camera were stolen and things stopped … again. In the early 2010s, a Canon 1000D DSLR and 2 lenses were a birthday present and I started again in earnest and loved every single moment. Then I started to attend photography workshops and began to realise how little I knew about photography and all the photos I had been taking were snapshots but I was not going to give up.
31 / APRIL 2020 MEMBER FOCUS TONY WILSON Early morning starts, going outside after midnight to shoot a lunar eclipse. Shooting in the heat and the cold in all-weather types and enjoying every minute. Learning, reading, and learning. Watching tutorials and learning more. Practicing, practicing and practicing. Three years ago I started a mentorship programme with Robbie Aspeling and then things started to get real. Around the same time, I joined EPC and enjoy the Judges’ comments as well as all the images presented. I still attend workshops held by other pro photographers plus Robbie’s mentorship. I try to photograph every type of genre I can however the passion is still with wildlife and landscapes but time and budget restraints mean getting out of Joburg is limited. Photography is a learning curve all the time with new challenges. I’m still trying to learn how to read the light properly. My kit currently is a Canon 80D and a selection of lenses from wideangle through to super zoom. Future goals are to develop better Photoshop skills plus possibly to progress to a mirrorless system the final goal to improve my photography to the next level. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
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ONE STAR WINNER 22 April
Waterbuck
Linda Carter
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ONE STAR WINNER 22 April
Robyn
Linda Carter
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TWO STAR WINNER 22 April
Impala Affection
Andrew Mayes
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TWO STAR WINNER 22 April
Old Building
Andrew Mayes
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THREE STAR WINNER 22 April
African Darter
Stephen
Kangisser
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THREE STAR WINNER 22 April
Dont burst my bubble
Kenneth Kubheka
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FOUR STAR WINNER 22 April
Sunset
Christa Smith
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FOUR STAR WINNER 22 April
City Hall
Clare Appleyard
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5* & 5 Star Honours Winners 22 April
Down the hatch
Dino Bottega
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5* & 5 Star Honours Winners 22 April
Night Bridge with Coral
Gary Andrew Peck
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Edenvale Salon Acceptances The results of our very own EPC Salon are out, and our members should all be proud. We had an amazing number of entries, and it was exceptionally well supported by our own members, so thank you! Before we list some results, we must point out that it is very challenging to get an acceptance because you are competing on a national scale. Only 25% of submitted images will ever receive an acceptance - so it is tough! To receive aCOM’s, a maximum of 10% of the accepted image count. To our junior club members, please do not feel despondent if none of your images were accepted - it’s not expected for a member to get any acceptances until 4* level. This is where senior club members are here to help you grow and develop, but also enter the PSSA Up-and-Coming Salons. These are specifically aimed at 1-3* workers to help them start to understand salons and image quality. Congratulations to the following members for their EPC Salon acceptances:
Brian Abrahams
Ted Kinsman
Further congratulations to
Clare Appleyard
Brian Kleinwort
the COM recipients
Robbie Aspeling
John Paul Lees Cecil Mayhew
Robbie Aspeling - “Floyd”
Gary Atkins
Ken Mukute
Natasha Bird - “Trust Me”,
Antonette Bezuidenhout
Gary Andrew Peck
Natasha Bird Jorge Borralho Dino Bottega Heidi Broschk Linda Carter Fabiola Geeven Dave Gordon Johann Harmse Bianca Holburn Stephen Kangisser
Hanli Smit Ruth Anne Smit
“Jayme”, “The Alchemist” & “Robin” Jorge Borralho - “Fantasy Leap”
Dino Bottega - “Tail Spin” Heidi Broschk -“Woodnymph”
Vicki Street
Stephen Kangisser - “Africa
Adrian Style
Dreadlock Princess”
Vadivelu Thanicachalam Esli van Niekerk Ken Warburton Caryn Wilson Tony Wilson David Wolstencroft
Gary Andrew Peck - “Under the Bridge” & “The Crossing” Vicki Street - “Cody”, “Akhona” & “My Fair Lady” Well done everybody!”
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Current list of Salons as per the PSSA Webpage Get the Salon Brochures on Photovault or www.pssa.co.za
2020.04.11 Edenvale PDI Salon (Brochure Available) 2020.04.18 17th PSSA Up & Coming Competition 2020.04.25 Boksburg PDI Salon (Brochure Available) 2020.05.09 Magalies Foto Fun Club PDI Salon (Brochure Available) 2020.05.23 Paarl PDI Salon 2020.06.06 Heigel PDI Salon
Some interesting Statistics about the Edenvale Salon Total Number of entries Entries by Edenvale Members Second highest Club Entries Next highest by a CERPS Club Acceptances of Edenvale Images Number of Clubs that entered Number of people that entered Total number of acceptances Total number of COMS Total number of awards
6461 507 352 187 141 76 516 1511 143 12
7.85% of the entries 27.81 acceptance ratio Average of 12.5 images per person
Highest number of acceptances by one person
18
Best in Salon
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SPECIAL SUBJECT APRIL - WINNER
DOUBLE EXPOSURE
The Art of Double Exposure Hanli Smit
45 / APRIL 2020
EPC-Scoring Explained BELOW FIND BELOW AN EXPLANATION ON OUR CURRENT SCORING METHOD
All of this still needs to be confirmed at our Special Meeting as soon as the Lockdown is over!! The scores attained by all club members, as of the first club meeting of 9th October 2019 (first club meeting for EPC year) until 22nd January 2020, have been retrofitted with all scores attained in the stated period following the new scoring and points system. The approach taken in retrofitting the five meetings prior to 12th February 2020 was to award points at the lowest level of each award range as follows: • • • • • •
COM = 13 Points Gold = 10 Points Silver = 7 Points Bronze = 4 Points No Award = 1 Point Club night winning images = 0 Points ( still to be discussed)
On 12th February 2020 onwards, the NEW club scoring system went live, and the previous meetings’ retrofitted scores were added to this club meeting and the above log is the net result. From February onwards, the club will have Set Subject evenings (4th Wednesday of each month), and only one image per member is allowed as entry. Images will be scored between the range of 1-15 Points and the results will count toward Club Log as well as Promotions Log. If anyone needs clarification or they have issues or concerns, please feel free to call Jorge Borralho at your discretion.
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FOCUS ON VISITING JUDGE
Anne
d’Oliveira I started photographing with my Gran’s box brownie camera at the age of 8 and at the age of 16 received my first 35mm camera. After using two models of Minolta I switched to Canon with which I have remained - now using the Canon 5D MKIII. Up until I joined the Camera Club of Johannesburg in June 2000, I realised that all I had been doing was taking pictures – nice ones at that – but just pictures. From then on, I began to do photography. I have learnt a huge amount from being with a camera club and continue to do so each and every day. The old adage is absolutely true – “we are never too old to learn”. I joined the Committee of the club at the beginning of 2002 and was appointed Secretary. In 2003 I was elected Chairperson and hold that post to this day. I have been President of the club 4 times, am still Secretary and officer for the submission of allclub entries. In 2005 I became a Director for the Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA) with the portfolio Regional Director Central Gauteng.
47 / APRIL 2020 IMAGES BY Anne d’Oliveira I am also very active in judging at many of the clubs in the Gauteng regions as well as further afield and have done remote club judging and judged at numerous salons. I also participate in both National and International salons with reasonable success. I have gained my APSSA and am working on my “F” but continually set my own goals and challenges to improve my skills. Being a member of the PSSA has brought my passion for photographer into another realm and great joy in meeting people who share the same passion. After being the President of PSSA during the term of 2 years – 2018-2019, I received my Hon PSSA. My aim since doing “photography” (as opposed to taking pictures), is not to restrict myself to any one genre of photography because I realised that there is so much to photograph I did not want to be bound by categories. As a result, I have done just that. I will try anything new and attempt to master it. I have very itchy feet and love travelling. My travels take me to unusual places and at the front of all the travel is photography. When I am not physically travelling, I am armchair travelling and photographing – always reading books on the subjects to broaden my horizons. So, I am kept quite busy and this is in between running my own business where I do Project Management and Cost Control within the Construction industry. I am not sure if it is because some of my roots are embedded in the Edenvale area but I have always had a deep affiliation with the Edenvale Camera Club and their band of wonderful photographers who are such great people as well. My final 6 years of schooling was at the Holy Rosary Convent, where I was Head Girl in my Matric year.
I also started school at that same convent when I was five but only spent the year of Grade I there coming back later in Std 5 (Grade 7). My family lived in Edenvale in the years 1952-1953, returning once more in 1961. I left the area in 1978. So yes - now for those mathematicians I have given away my age.
48/ APRIL 2020 IMAGES BY Anne d’Oliveira
Due to the National Lockdown our Photo Club meetings were suspended, Anne d’ Oliveira did remote judging with comments. The Committee and members of Edenvale Photo Club want to take this oppertunity to thank Anne for this sefless gesture and affording us her precious time.
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The Art of
Self
Portraiture self-portrait noun
noun: self-portrait; plural noun: self-portraits; noun: selfportrait; plural noun: selfportraits Definition of self-portrait: a portrait of oneself done by oneself a portrait that an artist produces of themselves. “a self-portrait of Rembrandt dating back to 1635� is one of the oldest we know of....
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SET SUBJECT FOR MAY SELF PORTRAIT
5 Famous Self Portrait Photographers These 5 famous self portrait photographers are unique in their own way. Each of them made a contribution to modern art and deserve to be mentioned here. Below, you will get acquainted with their famous photos that are outstanding. It is worth your while to visit each of the websites below!
1. David Uzochukwu Location: Europe https://www.daviduzochukwu.com/
Kyle Thompson is a famous surreal self portrait photographer, who has no formal training in this field. He has a passion for deserted locations, such as macabre forests or abandoned buildings. Kyle is a true nature lover, who, at the same time, is disgusted with the suburban outskirts, where he spent his youth. He believes that suburbs are nothing but artificially made reality. He likes emphasizing his belonging to surrealism, and often uses effects typical for this style: smoke, water, mirrors and balloons help him show abstract concepts.
Even though Uzochukwu is only 19 years old, he has been engaged in self portrait photography for six years. He started it because heenjoys the fact that every step of the shooting process can be done by himself. Uzochukwu is originally from Austria and has moved around quite a lot. He spent his childhood in Luxembourg and Brussels. Soon, he is going to leave Vienna for Berlin. Self-portraiture helps the young man to become more aware of his inner feelings and the kind of person he actually is.
2. Kyle Thompson Website http://www.kylethompsonphotography.com/fine-art Location: USA
SELF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS 3. Laura Zalenga http://laurazalenga.de Location: Germany
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SET SUBJECT CALENDAR May
Laura Zalenga belongs to the self portrait photographers who want to show their deep inner world by means of photography.
SELF PORTRAIT
Her photos always look awesome thanks to natural lightning and the unbelievable scenery she prefers. It is hard not to notice that she adores herself. She has an architectural education, but photography has become her only passion.
June
With the help of self photography and Photoshop, she tries to understand herself better and become happier.
4. Isabella Bubola Location: Croatia
Isabella Bubola is famous as a model, but she is also a fine art/portrait photographer. She is inspired by surrealism, colors and dreams. Isabella has her own website where you may see her works both as a model and as a photographer. She is also a blogger, who shares fashion 4. Isabella Bubola and self portrait photography https://www.isabellabubola.com/self-portraits tips with her followers. Location: Croatia
5. Rosie Hardy http://www.rosiehardy. com/1145-self-portraits Location: UK
5.Rosie Hardy is a professional photographer from Manchester who is well-known all over the world. She is not just a self portrait photographer. Rosie also takes portrait and wedding photos and all of them are amazing. Her works are mysterious in some way and we may notice the theme of unity with nature. You may find a selection of portraits from the 365 Day collection on her website.
SHADOWS
July
NIGHT LIGHTS
Aug
TEXTURES
Sept
PEOPLE AT WORK
Oct
DOMESTIC ANIMALS
CUT OUT AND KEEP
52 / APRIL 2020 A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
Sharing Visual Art since 1950 This year is a very special year at Edenvale Photographic Club.... We are celebrating our 70th year of existence, we would love to publish relevant and interesting historical clippings and any news that has transpired over the past 70 years. Send any contributions to hanlis54@gmail.com
Paul Lees shared this copy of the Focus Newsletter 1981
53 / APRIL 2020 FOCUS ON OUR VERY OWN PAST MASTERS OF EDENVALE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
FOCUS on
PA U L LEES As part of our 70th Celebrations,we are feauturing the history of EPC and a few of the members that took part in creating the foundations of our excellent club. We are being spoilt with a visual feast,offered by Paul Lees Can you recall when you first joined EPC? Yes, I joined EPC 1979, at that time I was a member of Jabula Camera club for +/- 4 years. Who were your peers/ friends? Oh Yeh, Len Miller, Terry Carew, Roger Callegari, Jack Weinberg, Derek Pearman, to name a few How did you become interested in photography? I remember July 1969, I purchased a Zenith B Camera, also I was inspired by my cousin Alfie who was a police photographer in Liverpool United Kingdom at that time, and he inspired me with his work. However when I emigrated from the UK to South Africa, that’s when Photography really kicked in, the Wildlife and almost guaranteed natural low lighting, who could ask for more,
54 / APRIL 2020 Slides & film or digital photography? Both Slides and Digital, Slides was vey demanding in a couple of ways, when you hit the shutter button, that’s your image, and each time you hit the shutter it costs you money, Digital can be equally trying in a different way, who said photography is easy…?. What was the image submission format then – prints / slides/ pdi? In the early 1980’s, very much the same as it is today, only 2 Slides every second and fourth Wednesday of the Month, 1-5@ divisions? What about categories Na / PI and Set subject Nature is predominately my favoured subject, however I have dabbled in PI and Portraiture,
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE PAUL LEES Can you share a special memory? Special memories, Well there
Are you still a keen photographer – what are your hobbies now?
Yes I’m still very interested in Photography, but not as active outing (June 1981) to Krugersdorp as I should be, perhaps a little encouragement from BungGame Reserve , I encountered bing might kick start sometwo Hamerkop birds engaging thing in the near future…?, in a mating ritual, took plenty of Hope we get over this Covid pictures over a period of 15 min, 19 virus, and to all SA citizens, especially Photographers, almost near the end of my roll of be safe,...Keep Well, CT 100 ISO x 36 Slide Film, probBest regards ably only 3 shots left before I have Pauly are quite a few, nevertheless one
to do a reload, and then “Kaboom” the male Hamerkop mounted the female, I took my last three pictures which included the male Hamerkop with his wings fully extended and an open beak, It’s a pity that Krugersdorp Game Reservations (chalets) are closed,
Approximately how many members? According to my Oct 1981 Newsletter of the Edenvale Camera Club, Membership Slide workers 40 members, Print workers 9 members, Did Salons exist? Yes Salons existed, and I did on occasion enter local and some International Salons
The Hand of Buddah.
55 / APRIL 2020
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE PAUL LEES
Image on the left:
Bung with an Old Lady
Above image:
White face whistling duck
Image on the left:
Flamingo
Image on the left:
Standing proud
Thank you Paul for sharing these lovely images with the Edenvale Camera Club