Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia

Just a short reminder about CAPA’s competition guidelines and deadlines which have changed this year.
In an effort to encourage new images, images submitted to CAPA competitions must have been taken with 24 months of the competition deadline.

So for the upcoming Digital Theme and the Altered Reality competitions, images must have been taken after Jan 20, 2008.
CAPA uses the following definition for “altered reality”.

‘ALTERED REALITY’ COMPETITION
The image must always begin with an original photograph captured by the photographer. A variety of subject matter is accepted. Images must be heavily manipulated and obviously creatively enhanced including, but not limited to composites, creative filters etc. These images are not meant to look like a regular photograph and cannot be entered into a Digital Theme competition nor an Open competition.

In addition, all aspects of the image (if a composite) must have been shot after the deadline.

For the Spring round in Nature, Pictorial (Film and Digital) and Print, images should have been taken after Mar 20, 2008.

Looking forward to seeing your images,

Joyce

Hello everyone,

The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is seeking images of Nova Scotia wildlife to use in an advertising campaign. The images are required by December 15th.

Profile shots of wildlife native to Nova Scotia including birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians are being sought. (Some cropping of images may be required for use in the campaign but is subject to approval by the photographer.)

The NSNT is a non-governmental, charitable, land conservation organization. For more information about them visit their website at: www.nsnt.ca .

If you have some images that you are willing to share that may assist NSNT, or have any questions about use of the images or how you will receive credit for contibuting an image, please contact Sally-Jo Gallant at sallyjo@nsnt.ca or 406-3320.

Dean

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately Keith is ailing with one of the nasty viruses making the rounds and is not able to present this evening, so our Photographer of the Year meeting this evening is cancelled.

I wish Keith, and any other members who are under the weather, a speedy recovery.

Dean

PGNS will be participating in the 2010 Adobe-PSA Club Photo Contest during our January 11th regular PSA competition night. Uploads for this competition will be done using the same process as usual and by selecting “Adobe/PSA Special” (or similar) as the category for the images.

Each PGNS member may submit up to two images. The subject matter is completely open and will be judged for their pictorial quality, colour impact, strong composition and unique style. Image titles will not be made available to the judges prior to judging. All images must be original, made by the named entrant, and may not contain any elements produced by anyone else. Artwork or computer generated graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated, provided the photographic content predominates.

Images must be no more than 1024 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically. Images larger will be rejected. Smaller images are acceptable, but may suffer a disadvantage when compared to a larger image. The images should be saves as JPG files in sRGB colour space at highest quality.

All images must have been taken during 2009 and must have never been entered in a PSA recognized International Exhibition. The images may be entered in future PSA recognized exhibitions anytime after January 2010.

Two images (one per maker) will be selected from PGNS for submission to the competition, which closes onJanuary 15th and judging takes place January 22nd, 2010.

Prior to receiving the any prize awards, the maker must submit a 300dpi resolution TIFF for potential publication in the PSA Journal. The winning images – at low resolution – will be posted on the PSA web site and Adobe web site with the image title, maker’s name, city, province, country and club information. Full copyright will be retained by the maker.

And now for the part everyone has been waiting for… Prizes!

Third Place: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

Second Place: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

First Place: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and “Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop” book by Jerry Courvoisier ($36 USD)

Best of Show: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2, Adobe Photoshop CS4, A two-day “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: The Essential Tool for Your Photography Experience” Workshop with Jerry Courvoisier ($395 USD, travel and expenses extra)

Please note that this is NOT a PSA recognized Exhibition and there are no acceptances. The winning images cannot be used for PSA Star Ratings or Who’s Who.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Mike McCarthy.

PHOTO GUILD CHRISTMAS DINNER
ASHBURN GOLF CLUB – JOSEPH HOWE DRIVE
DECEMBER 9TH, 2009 – TIME – 7 FOR 7:30
$32.00 – TAX & GRATUITY INCLUDED

MENU:

SALADS: CAESAR AND COLESLAW

DOMESTIC CHEESE AND FRUIT PLATE, PICKLED VEGETABLES AND FRESHLY BAKED BAQUETTE

SAVOURY BASTED ROAST TURKEY WITH APPLE CRANBERRY STUFFING
GRAVY ON CRANBERRY COMPOTE
FRESH BAKED SALMON WITH A ROMA TOMATO SALSA
ROASTED POTATOES AND SEASONAL VEGETABLES

DESSERTS:
ASSORTMENT OF CHEESECAKES
FRESH BAKED APPLE CRISP
CHOCOLATE MOUSSE WITH CANDIED ORANGE
FRESH GINGERBREAD WITH ORANGE CARAMEL SAUCE

PLEASE CONTACT ME AT THE PHONE NUMBER OR E-MAIL BELOW. YOU CAN PAY AT THE DOOR.

PLEASE TRY AND NOTIFY ME 2 0R 3 DAYS AHEAD IF NOT ABLE TO ATTEND OTHERWISE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF THE DINNER.

Edie Greene
902-444-1727
ediegreene@mac.com

The date for the Awards Banquet has been changed to Wednesday, May 26th, 2010. Change the date on your Blackberries and iPhones. Don’t worry if you forget, we will remind you next year!

See the new Canon EOS 7D!

Meet with the Canon Pro rep Neil Stephenson to learn about the new standard in dSLR techmology.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Mariott Harbourfront
1919 Upper Water St
Halifax, NS

Limited Seating. Call 421-1980 or email SherryM@carsand.com to register by Monday, November 23rd.

Hosted by Carsand Mosher Photographic.

Full review is now available at www.dpreview.com.

8:00 PM
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Burke Theatre
Saint Mary’s University
Corner of Inglis and Robie

Program
Images close to Home
by Stephen Scott Patterson
Flavours of PEI
by Keith Vaughan
Kejimujik Backcountry Paradise
by Joyce S.K. Chew
A Glimpse of Nova Scotia in All Its Seasons
by Eugene Mio

An Adventure of Peace and Beauty, Newfoundland 2009
by John Wm. Webb
The Best Images and Silent Essays from the Members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia

Many valuable door prizes offered by our sponsors:

Carsand Mosher

Atlantic Photo Supply

Henry’s

Black’s

Admission is Free – Donations at the Door

Hi folks,

Although the weather forecast for tomorrow afternoon is not great, Clarence plans to proceed with the field trip, recognizing it may not go the full day if the weather turns for the worse during the day. (The forecast for all day Sunday is poor.)

If you plan to go tomorrow (Saturday October 24th), please call Clarence at 506-758-2979 and leave a message with your name, the fact that you plan to attend and your phone number or email him at cjnowlan@nb.sympatico.ca . The plan for tomorrow is to meet at 9 am at the Tim Horton’s in Parrsboro, but please call or email Clarence if you plan to attend – (if he doesn’t receive any calls or emails, he won’t be there.)

Thank you.

Dean

Silent Slide Competition – November 1st

The deadline for submissions is: 8 p m on Tuesday, October 27th.

For Slides:

1) Title is emailed to Merv at mkmphotok@netscape.net . by deadline.

2) Slides should be labelled, thumbspotted and numbered in accordance with the Blue Book instructions and must be at the Museum by 7.20 p m on November 1st.

For Digital:

1) CD or Jump Drive is given to Merv before 8 p m on October 27th.

Address 6430 Cork St., Halifax
Please call 456-1449 before delivering to ensure Merv is home.

2) Blue Book rules e g maximum of 12 images, etc should be followed (except those rules pertinent to slides only). Images must be a maximum of 1024 by 768 (maximum height of 768 for verticle images) and in sRGB colour space.

3) Proshow Gold format is preferred. Use standard of 7 seconds/image and 2 second AB dissolve. Ideally, CDs will include : the Proshow Executable file, as well as the ProShow “.psh” file and any image files. MacIntosh software productions should be discussed with Merv prior to submission.

Dean Hirtle