Pukekohe Franklin Camera Club
is proud to invite you to:

"Fields of Colour"

The 2011 PSNZ Epson
Northern Regional Convention

Where:

The Franklin Arts and Cultural Centre at the Corner of Massey Ave and Edinburgh St Pukekohe

Geoff Cloake

"The Extreme Difference" – Geoff has wide photographic interests, but it is New Zealand's diverse landforms that compel him most as he regularly journeys out from his Timaru home to capture tremendous landscape images.  With one eye constantly on weather and atmospheric conditions, he is well based to rapidly respond to ever-changing shows of light, which make every image unique.
Geoff's key note presentation will be a light and entertaining introduction to his photography and the opportunities he creates for himself, the extremes he goes to and the phenomenal things that happen, all of which help him which evolving his own unique style of fine art photography.  Through his presentation of short AVs and projected images laced with explanations and anecdotes, Geoff will focus on how mixing various extremes led to the development of his 'OUR LAND' panoramic landscape series.

Bret Lucas

"The Magic of Stop Motion Video" – Bret is a professional photographer and owner of Fstop Studios.  His immaculate lighting skills have recently been on show at the PSNZ National convention, but Bret has also been exploring the fascinating world of stop motion video with Yolanda Bartram (body paint artist) and in this presentation will explain the process and difficulties he overcame.
Bret will discuss problems he and Yolanda faced in planning with the natural progression of time in the video requiring backwards planning. Issues during the shoot with the studio strobes keeping up with shooting at five frames a second are also discussed, and he’ll finally talk about post processing the images from RAW format in Lightroom through to video creation in Photoshop CS5 extended version with the movie option.

Cory Scott

"Wet & Wild" – Cory has spent the last 13 years as New Zealand's only full time surf photographer. In this presentation he talks us through his journey to becoming a top sports photographer and winner of the Qantas Media Winner Best Single Sports Photo and Best Sports Portfolio Awards in 2009. He'll show us his award winning international surf photography complete with his stories of the trials, patience, and outside-the-box thinking and planning required to capture them. When not shooting surfing images Cory likes to keep his eye and reactions fresh, and he will also show images he's captured of other sports and the natural environment around him in that quest.

Graham Dainty FPSNZ

"Wilderness Photography" – Graham is currently head of the PSNZ Honours Board and a Landscape photographer from Te Anau, right on the edge of Fiordland National Park.   Join him for a journey through this southern wilderness that so inspires and satisfies his love of the land.  Along with his inspiring images and informative discussion about where he goes to making his images in and around Fiordland, Graham will also share tips and tricks and talk about how he goes about capturing his images.

Richard Spranger

Richard is a hard working local professional sports photographer spending most of his time in the Franklin area photographing sports action and teams, but when time allows he likes nothing better than to head for the hills  to capture memorable New Zealand landscape and wildlife images.

“Spotlight on Sports” – In this presentation, Richard treats us to his sports images and the wonderful stories behind them.  They include images from his last few years of sports photography both for himself and also for Counties Manukau Rugby Union, local newspapers and photographic libraries.

“Close to Home” – Richard shows us his collection of local images taken from within the boundaries of one property at Bombay, showing that you don’t always have to travel far and wide to capture good photos. They can be right on your back doorstep.

"The Extreme Factors" – Geoff Cloake explains how a wide range of photography's 'success factors' can be radically mixed and explored to find totally new and different ideas. Geoff's streamlined method of hunting, shooting, stitching and optimising his panoramas will be explained as an example.  He will then demonstrate how relatively inexpensive equipment can be used to produce very high quality images allowing simple but extreme possibilities using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

"Beauty & the Beast"

Bret Lucas partners with Yolanda Bartram (BodyFX) to demonstrate how they combine light with body paint.  See how to use colour, with shadows, highlights and mid tones, and how they address matching the lighting with the body paint work.  Watch Yolanda paint a model’s face and upper body while Bret discusses the lighting required, then hear them both discuss other projects they’ve completed together

"The Wilderness Shoot"

WORKSHOP FULL

Graham Dainty FPSNZ will take you to a workshop/outing at a local reserve in a picturesque river setting where he will teach you his style of wilderness photography, by showing you how to find images on location and look out interesting compositions

"Go With The Flow"

Cory Scott will entertain you with a guided tour through the professional workflow required for a professional sports photographer to shoot, store, edit and prepare his images

"Body Beautiful"

Reg Baker and Greg Stevens APSNZ will treat you to a workshop which includes a one hour workshop on setting up and photographing rim lit nude figure studies, and  street photography with clothed models.  Participants will be split into two groups and will have an hour at each location.

"Nik Software"

Want more from your images? Then Nik Software can help you achieve this. Learn all about what is available to help you create fantastic images. There will be a 2 hour demonstration of the different Nik Software packages which are plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture.

WORKSHOP CANCELLED - Presenter Unavailable

Travel by bus into the Karaka countryside where this reputedly haunted pre-villa house featured in the 2005 movie “Boogey Man” is our backdrop for photographing “Retro” cars and models, old sheds, and various chicken breeds which roam freely.

ALMOST FULL

Richard Spranger FPSNZ will host this trip by bus into his favourite Bombay market garden countryside where he will take you to some of his most fertile hunting grounds with opportunities to shoot colourful rolling agricultural landscapes, cropping in progress, and heavy agricultural machinery.

Glenbrook Railway - This bus trip takes you to the Glenbrook Railway where you will board a steam train at the old train station that will take you to the train repair workshops where big shiny machines and beautiful models will be available. (Subsidised excursion fare of $13 applies)

Wright’s Water Gardens – Enjoy a picturesque walk around the 1.6 hectare water lily gardens featuring ponds, gardens and pathways surrounding the historic Mauku Waterfall and rock quarry, or relax with a coffee at the café.  Private transport required for this nearby outing.

http://www.wrightswatergardens.co.nz/