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03 News from the CTPS Council

Council news you need to know about.

04 In the news

Performances of members and important news.

08 Celebration of Photography
The unique exhibition CTPS is hosting for Western
Cape clubs at Groot Constantia is a huge success..
11 CTPS' team of magic workers

The volunteers tasked to plan, curate, mount and
host the exhibition for the region worked wonders.

On The Cover 12 Martin Barber rocked and moved us

Cederberg Dawn by Lesley Parolis The renowned Gauteng photographer and speaker
was a top scoring image in our Martin Barber inspired the region's photographers.
CTPS November competition and
was awarded a Certificate of Merit Glamorous year-end function
in the print section of the Vander- 14 This was again a memorable and very enjoyable evening
bijlpark Salon. during which all our achievers received to 13awards.
Lesley explains as follows: “This
image was made in August this Annual competition
year while on an Astro Photography 17 All the winners and their winning images entered in
workshop led by Kyle Goetsch and
Jon Kerrin to the southern part of the eight categories of this once-off competition.
the Cederberg, near Op-Die-Berg.
Most of the shoots were done at Bird outing to Woodbridge Island
night in the freezing cold, which 20 See some of the images members captured on this
yielded beautiful Milky Way land- outing led by Vernon Chalmers.
scapes and star trails, but on one
of the mornings we headed out to Kirkcaldy competition
a dam nearby to catch the sunrise 22
over the mountains with the dam in See all the images that were entered by both clubs in
the foreground. this annual competition with the Scottish club.
I found a lovely composition with
the proteas right in front of the lens. 28 Winning images from November
I waited for the sun to catch the tops The images that won the different categories and ad-
of the mountains and then took the vancement levels, with comments from the judges.
shots. I wanted to make the water
soft and streaky, so I set the shutter High scoring images entered in November
speed at 25s, with F14, ISO 80, and 37 Images that were awarded 24 or more points.
the focal length at 42 mm. I used
my Nikon Z9 and a 24-70 mm lens.
I took one image focussing on the
proteas in the front and then anoth-
er image focussing on the moun- Cape Town Photographic Society (CTPS) was founded
tains behind. The two raw files were in 1890. It became a founding member of the
processed with DXO PureRaw3 and Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA) in 1954
further processed in Lightroom. and has been affiliated to PSSA ever since.
They were then combined in Photo- Email:info@ctps.co.za.
shop to produce an image that was Website: www.ctps.co.za.
sharp from front to back .“ Facebook

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