Freo Graphic

Apri l 2021 FREO GRAPHIC NEWS 2 The goal of the ClickWest digital photography competition is to recognise and celebrate diversity across various genres of photography and to identify and reward individuals who have excelled across multiple genres through the portfolio prize. To get you shooting for 2021 here are the topics Close-up - An image taken close- up of a subject consisting mainly of water, another liquid or a mixture Portrait - An image of a person, or part thereof, with shadow(s) forming a significant compositional component. A silhouette is not acceptable. Landscape - An image of any scape taken at twilight either morning or evening. Monochrome - An abstract image derived from an industrial/ architectural/machine source. For mor details go to: www.wapf.org.au/index.php/competitions/ clickwest-2021 Entries Open May 3 Clickwest 2021 Competition News Coments from the judge - David Steele Conclusion from David Steele’s judging of this months digital competition We’ve seen a fair number of over- processed images tonight and my advice is to keep it simple and keep it subtle. There are a lot of apps out there and some of them are very good. Nearly all of them enable you to control the amount of the effort you wish to use and it’s not necessary to use 100% of the effect all the time. Also, for those of you who would like to learn more about monochrome photography I can recommend the “how to” books of a photographer calle Andrew S Gibson (see www.creative-photographer. com). I come from a background of writing, editing and designing books and I really admire his work. In fact, he’s just released a new book called The Magic of Black and White and it’s available in PDF format for just US$10. His website lists a number of books on monochrome photography, as well as on other subjects such as Lightroom, and it also includes a number of free tutorials. Thanks David Steele