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02 - JULY 2022 COVER STORY BY Ruth Smit This was a random pic that I took of our cat Blackie, with my iPhone 12 . I saw the silhouette of his shadow and thought...WOW I’ve got to take a pic of this, and so I did . My camera was too far away, I would’ve lost the moment if I went to go get the camera .I realise what they mean when they say the best camera is the one in your hand. I should have called it “Carpe diem”
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EDENVALE PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA
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DEAR MEMBERS
Do we Judge the Judge?
First of all, remember that the judge is not attacking you personally. Remember that photography is very subjective. Just because one person doesn’t like something about your photo doesn’t mean that it’s bad – a hundred people could love exactly what the one person is hating. I often smile and nod when people give me their advice or tell me what they don’t like. It’s hard sometimes to fight the urge to justify why you did something, or tell someone why their critique is wrong. But really, what’s the point in fighting back? It is just one person’s opinion. As I mentioned before – photography is subjective and, first and foremost, shoot to please no other than yourself. Over the past 18 years that I have been with Edenvale Photography club I have learned a lot and developed tremendously..even though I have not always and still don’t always agree with the judges critique. Keep an open mind, listen to the judge and don’t take it personally. Keep on trying and keep on shooting for your own pleasure, we have a very strong club and I am sure some (less experienced) judges find the standard at Edenvale intimidating. Hanli Smit Editor & Chairperson
Hanli
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CUBISM IN ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
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Source: Wikipedia
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
CUBISM Art & Photography Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre and Montparnasse) or near Paris (Puteaux) during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s. The movement was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger. One primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne. A retrospective of Cézanne’s paintings was held at the Salon d’Automne of 1904, current works were displayed at the 1905 and 1906 Salon d’Automne, followed by two commemorative retrospectives after his death in 1907. In France, offshoots of Cubism developed, including Orphism, abstract art and later Purism. The impact of Cubism was far-reaching and wide-ranging. In France and other countries Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism, Vorticism, De Stijl and Art Deco developed in response to Cubism. Early Futurist paintings hold in common with Cubism the fusing of the past and the present, the representation of different views of the subject pictured at the same time or successively, also called multiple perspective, simultaneity or multiplicity, while Constructivism was influenced by Picasso’s technique of constructing sculpture from separate elements. Other common threads between these disparate movements include the faceting or simplification of geometric forms, and the association of mechanization and modern life.
JULY 2022 - 07 History Historians have divided the history of Cubism into phases. In one scheme, the first phase of Cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, a phrase coined by Juan Gris a posteriori, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1910 and 1912 in France. A second phase, Synthetic Cubism, remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity. English art historian Douglas Cooper proposed another scheme, describing three phases of Cubism in his book, The Cubist Epoch. According to Cooper there was “Early Cubism”, (from 1906 to 1908) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque; the second phase being called “High Cubism”, (from 1909 to 1914) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent (after 1911); and finally Cooper referred to “Late Cubism” (from 1914 to 1921) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-gardemovement. Douglas Cooper’s restrictive use of these terms to distinguish the work of Braque, Picasso, Gris (from 1911) and Léger (to a lesser extent) implied an intentional value judgement.
Far Left: Early Cubism by Braque, Still-Life with Violin and Pitcher Left: Woman with guitar By Georges Braque 1913
Images on the left: Cubist oil paintings by Pablo Picasso The Cubist movement was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
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Proto Cubism Proto-Cubism: 1907–1908 Cubism burgeoned between 1907 and 1911. Pablo Picasso’s 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has often been considered a proto-Cubist work. In 1908, in his review of Georges Braque’s exhibition at Kahnweiler’s gallery, the critic Louis Vauxcelles called Braque a daring man who despises form, “reducing everything, places and a figures and houses, to geometric schemas, to cubes”. Vauxcelles recounted how Matisse told him at the time, “Braque has just sent in [to the 1908 Salon d’Automne] a painting made of little cubes. “The critic Charles Morice relayed Matisse’s words and spoke of Braque’s little cubes. The motif of the viaduct at l’Estaque had inspired Braque to produce three paintings marked by the simplification of form and deconstruction of perspective. Georges Braque’s 1908 Houses at L’Estaque (and related works) prompted Vauxcelles, in Gil Blas, 25 March 1909, to refer to bizarreries cubiques (cubic oddities). Gertrude Stein referred to landscapes made by Picasso in 1909, such as Reservoir at Horta de Ebro, as the first Cubist paintings. The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1911 in a room called ‘Salle 41’; it included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, yet no works by Picasso or Braque were exhibited. By 1911 Picasso was recognized as the inventor of Cubism, while Braque’s importance and precedence was argued later, with respect to his treatment of space, volume and mass in the L’Estaque landscapes. But “this view of Cubism is associated with a distinctly restrictive definition of which artists are properly to be called Cubists,” wrote the art historian Christopher Green: “Marginalizing the contribution of the artists who exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1911” The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass, time, and volume supports (rather than contradicts) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler as early as 1920,but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg. Contemporary views of Cubism are complex, formed to some extent in response to the “Salle 41” Cubists, whose methods were too distinct from those of Picasso and Braque to be considered merely secondary to them. Alternative interpretations of Cubism have therefore developed. Wider views of Cubism include artists who were later associated with the “Salle 41” artists, e.g., Francis Picabia; the brothers Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, who beginning in late 1911 formed the core of the Section d’Or (or the Puteaux Group); the sculptors Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky and Ossip Zadkine as well as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens; and painters such as Louis Marcoussis, Roger de La Fresnaye, František Kupka, Diego Rivera, Léopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, André Lhote, Gino Severini (after 1916), María Blanchard (after 1916) and Georges Valmier (after 1918). More fundamentally, Christopher Green argues that Douglas Cooper’s terms were “later undermined by interpretations of the work of Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger that stress iconographic and ideological questions rather than methods of representation.” John Berger identifies the essence of Cubism with the mechanical diagram. “The metaphorical model of Cubism is the diagram: The diagram being a visible symbolic representation of invisible processes, forces, structures. A diagram need not eschew certain aspects of appearance but these too will be treated as signs not as imitations or recreations.”
JULY 2022 - 09 PHOTO CUBISM OR CUBISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY How did Cubism influence photography? It asserts that Cubist painting triggered the formation of modern photographic style, that the seeds of this style were already present in Pictorialism, indeed that ‘’straight photography’’ was a concept formulated by the most advanced Pictorialists (Stieglitz, Paul Haviland, Karl Struss) as early as 1910
Cubism in photography was practiced by very few photographer as the principle style. However a great number of great photographers did a number of photos with a cubist approach. In Painting the cubist had two branches:
Within Photo Cubism there are two attitutes:
-Conceptual Cubism is mostly done - Analytic Cubism analysed the subject and broke it into fields representing the with post processing or mirrors and gives substance to a single concept total form and different angles - Synthetic Cubism was practiced by combining non related elements to create a new whole Analitic Cubism tend to explode whereas Synthetic Cubism implodes
Comparted Cubism Is more generally practiced by many photographers and involves a mosaic of images mostly supporting a central theme. These works would be a single photo or multiple photos.
Almost similar to painting, conceptual Cubism tend to explode and Comparted Cubism implodes. As with many 20th centuary avant garde styles Photomontage was a popular technique.
10 - JULY 2022 Conceptual Cubism - El Lissitzky 1890 - 1941
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Comparted Cubism - Robert Frank Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019)
was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider’s view of American society.
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Photo Cubism Ideas to try out.
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Photo Cubism Ideas to try out.
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ONE STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 13 July 2022
Summer fun
Sonja Olivier
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ONE STAR NATURE WINNER 13 July 2022
Wet andCattle wrinkled elephant Egret John Hosking Peter Fine
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ONE STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 13 July 2022
Mad skills
Leanne
Stone
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TWO STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 13 July 2022
It Takes Three
Tahlita Verster
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TWO STAR NATURE WINNER 13 July 2022
Hello Aloe
Brian Shaw
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TWO STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 13 July 2022
Fox Racer
Brian Shaw
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THREE STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 13 July 2022
Deep Beauty
Debra Russell
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THREE STAR NATURE WINNER 13 July 2022
Weaver in early morning light Linda Carter
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THREE STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 13 July 2022
My Thoughts
Debra Russell
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FOUR STAR NATURE WINNER 13 July 2022
African Fish Eagle and its Food Stephen
Kangisser
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FOUR STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 13 July 2022
Beautiful Smile of Africa
Stephen
Kangisser
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FIVE STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 13 July 2022
My cats shadow
Ruth Anne Smit
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FIVE STAR NATURE WINNER 13 July 2022
Incoming
Antonette Bezuidenhout
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FIVE STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 13 July 2022
Singapore Esplanade Vadivelu TT
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ONE STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Ontvlugting - Ingrid Jonker Jana Botha
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ONE STAR NATURE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Standing Tall
Jade Nolan
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ONE STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 27 JULY 2022
One two threeee
Sonja Olivier
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TWO STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Far far away
Clifton Hack
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TWO STAR NATURE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Feeding on an Aloe Brian Shaw
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TWO STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Smoking on the Move Brian Shaw
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THREE STAR CELLPHONE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
White haze
Debra Russell
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THREE STAR NATURE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Lilac breasted Roller Gavin
Duffy
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THREE STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Portrait of a Dancer Linda Carter
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FOUR STAR NATURE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
African Hawk Eagles
Stephen
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FOUR STAR PICTORIAL WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Learned Gentleman
Stephen
Kangisser
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5* & 5 Star Honours Cellphone WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Failure to launch
Clare Appleyard
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5* & 5 Star Honours NATURE WINNER 27 JULY 2022
In The Spotlight Ian Cooper
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5* & 5 Star Honours PICTORIAL WINNER 27 JULY 2022
Nightmare
Laetitia Kenny
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SET SUBJECT WINNER
27 JULY 2022 LEVITATION
Go towards the light
Clare Appleyard
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ETTIENNE VAN NIEKERK I have always been interested in wildlife photography and especially avian photography but never knew what was required for getting that perfect image. I bought my first entry level Canon 1000D DSLR in 2009, after signing up on a photographic web site, where people could post their images. I received such negative feedback on the site and decided to rather stop posting. Instead, I spent a lot of time trying to read up and understand how to take better photos. I upgraded to a Canon 7D at the end of 2010 in the hope that this will improve my photography but sadly to say, it did not help. I then realized that there is more to photography than just equipment In September 2010, I joined a camera club after receiving advice from a colleague at work.
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He suggested that I needed to join a club so that I could learn and understand the rules and techniques involved in taking photos. I really tried to take as many photos as possible and got advice where I could. I mostly learnt by reading articles on the internet and by learning from friends I slowly but surely got more positive feedback and it started to become an obsession to =improve. I moved up from 1 star to 5 star quite quickly and did my LPSSA and APSSA Honours. One of my photos was also awarded as the PSSA photo of the year in 2012. It is my passion to photograph birds. There is a lot of practice and patience that goes into photographing these beautiful creatures of nature, but the rewards are big when you get the perfect image. I have tried other types of photography but still have a lot to learn. I am currently using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 500mm F4 lens for most of my avian photos. I sometimes add a 1.4 extender to give me a focal length of 700mm and this combination works well. I use Adobe Photoshop to process all my images but would not say that I am an expert at editing. I just know enough to make the necessary adjustments in sharpness and in exposure. Although there is not a lot of manipulation allowed in nature photography, processing is very important because it could make or break an image.
What is important to take good avian photos? Someone told me a few years ago that it is 10% equipment, 20% talent and 70% Photoshop processing skills. I did not believe it at that stage but I tend to agree, if I think about it now. The only missing element in that statement would probably be patience. Without patience you will not get the shot and you need a good photo before you can start with the Photoshop techniques. I take most of my avian pictures between F5.6 and F8. It is advisable to try and keep the shutter speed as high as possible especially with birds in flight to get them pin sharp. I know we are told to lower shutter speed to get movement blur in the wings but that is still an area that I need to improve on. Golden light always works best, so get up early. The background is also very important. Try and get a clean, smooth and out of focus background by planning your shot before the time. You want the emphasis on the bird and a busy background normally spoils the image.
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I’ve recently joined the Edenvale Photography club after taking a 5year sabbatical. I am currently doing my best to get back into taking photos. I used to enjoy the peace and quiet of nature, and this was always my “me” time where I had time to think and relax. There is not anything more rewarding than to plan and wait to get that perfect shot.
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Click on the links and take a look at some inspirational websites by other photographers...
https://www.scottsnyderphoto.com Scott Snyder is a product/object photographer based in Costa Mesa, California. His photography is clean-cut and top-of-the-line quality, as apparent from his minimal photography portfolio website. The professional photographer showcases his best photos with plenty of negative space on the homepage. You can find more about each photography project by clicking on the associated photo: He mentions his roles in the project, what he did to successfully complete the project, about the client, and more for each photo. It’s a lot of (well-written) text, but it follows the “show and then tell” principle I discussed in the intro. Besides showcasing his work on the homepage, he has a separate Work page where he has displayed more of his works beautifully in a two-column layout.
52 - JULY 2022 http://www.sanzlena.com Sanz Lena is a fashion and beauty photographer based in Paris. He has been working since 2012 and has an impressive portfolio. There is also editorial work, still-life, and personal-based work in addition to his main focus. His website is built using Format, one of the two best website builders for photography portfolios (the other ones Squarespace). The website uses a classic ready-to-use Format template and looks awesome. It defies the “have plenty of whitespace like in photo galleries” rule I mentioned earlier, but it pays off. (Side note: You need to know the rules to break them.)
https://melvolkman.com/collections/for-beauty-and-truth
This website is the portfolio of Mel Volkman, a fine artist based in Maine. It features a clean and simple design, with a focus on showcasing her work and selling prints. For the ecommerce store, she uses an Instagram profile-like three-column template. She also showcases her photography in the Journal, where the photos are stacked one below another. https://melvolkman.com/collections/for-beauty-and-truth
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Adrieana is a photographer raised in New Jersey. She has some sharp and breathtaking images of animals, people, and more. There are a lot of black and whites for a classic yet loud vibe. She also used to be an opera singer and learned a lot about what it meant to succeed from her years in that field. She uses a slider to show her beautiful photography in the portfolio section. I love the images but am not a fan of the portfolio design choice here. It isn’t bad per se but looks very 2015ish — but it sure is a way to showcase photography in case you are looking for something that isn’t just photos stacked in columns.
https://blazinphoto.com/
54 - JULY 2022 Haris Nukem Commercial photographer that provides images that stand for something and accompany important messages. You can check out his “press” tab on the website and see where his images have been featured and read articles about the photographer and his skills. The horizontally scrolling portfolio looks a bit weird, but you’ll know that it scrolls horizontally anytime you enter the website.
https://www.harisnukem.com
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