QCCP September 201 Newsle!er

Volcanic and Mount Cook Workshop reports and links to images and books

Promo for the West Coast Landscape Photography Workshop Sept 28-October 2 2012

!e passing away of my father Dick Nell and a link to images we made together.

Announcing the 2013 Workshop calendar

Queenstown Centre for Creative PhotographyHello to all the new photographers that have joined our Newsle!er.

My aim is to keep you connected with your/our ‘QCCP’ photographic family.

Please explore the links to the books made on our Landscape Photography workshops. You will "nd 6-8 pages from each photographer (you may know them). Each of us with a similar passion, “to make and take be!er photographs”. We hope to inspire you to a!end one of our Photography Workshops or a 5 Hour Photo Sa-faris from Queenstown with Mike Langford and/or myself ( Jackie Ranken).#is newsle!er is a link to our favourite photographic destinations. Feel free to make comments and share this newsle!er with your friends. Report on :Rotorua Volcanic Landscape Workshop-June 2012

"is year’s Volcanic workshop travelled to what we think is the best place to see volcanic activity, ‘White Is-land’. We also explored the Waimangu and Waiotapu volcanic areas travelling around each day in our 12 seater bus. We hired a huge seven bedroom holiday house on the edge of Lake Okareka. "e kitchen has great cooking facilities, the outside hot tub was a great place soak away any strains from the day and living area has plenty of room to set up your computer so you can edit your images in the company of your new and old friends. "is was a highly successful weekend, the highlight being the day trip to White Island and seeing it in beautiful, moody light. ( "e White Island trip is never a certainty, mainly due to the weather and the ocean swell. ) h!p://www.wi.co.nz/

• Link to this year’s BOOK is HERE

Next year’s dates will be 5-9th July 2013

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#e emphasis for all our workshop is to share our photographic knowledge. #e best way to do this not only at the time of shooting but later each day in the review and critique sessions.

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Report- Mount Cook Winter Landscape workshop - August 2012

Our Winter Landscape Photography Workshop at Mt Cook (with accommodation at the Hermitage Hotel) has just been run. "e weather was warm for this time of year (if you were standing in the sun) and Aoraki (the mountain) was visible at sunrise and sunset for us to photograph. It was a lot of fun and everyone made great photographs. "e highlight was possibly photographing the stars and star trails (two nights in a row).

Next year we have two workshops up there both during winter. See web site www.qccp.co.nz

• Link to this years BOOK is HERE

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Upcoming workshops for 2012

September 27-Oct. 2 West Coast - Hasst $1400 - 3 places

October 13-18 Fiordland - Doub#ul Sound $1400 FULL

October 28-31 Portraiture- Queenstown $1200 - 2 places

PHOTO SAFARIS in Queenstown - 5 hours of Photography tuition December- March 2013

Contact Jackie for one-to-one mentoring or tuition

Places still available - WEST Coast Landscape/ travel Workshop September 27-Oct 2 2012

If you have done this workshop before...then it’s time to do it again. "e bene$ts of doing the same workshop twice is that when you arrive at a destination you get to see it with experienced eyes and have more of an idea of ‘where to start’.

We have three places available book-in with Jackie at : info@qccp.co.nz.

• See last year’s book HERE published on a site called issuu

Images from the Haast below

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My Dad - Dick Nell 1930-2012

"e last couple of months have been difficult for me. My wonderful father Dick Nell passed away peacefully in his sleep, he was 82 years young. I know we all have to go...sometime...and Dad knew this too, ( he lived with cancer for twelve years) he was not afraid of dying. He lived most of his life “on the edge” and self published $ve books about his adventurous experiences. Dad was the one who started me off in Photography, I was sixteen when he gave me my $rst SLR camera. He taught me about exposure, aperture and shu!er speed and straight away taught me how to process my own black and white $lms. He gave me space in his darkroom and was always on hand to give advise on printing and composition. We spent many many hours making photographs together. "e most important project being “Aerial Ab-stracts”. It was the images from this series that won me Australia Landscape Photographer of the Year, (two years in a row), a World Press Award and $nally the AIPP “Photography Book of the Year” in 2004. "ese acco-lades certainly helped me to become be!er know in the photography industry. "ank you Dad xxx. "e im-ages were made upside down while performing a loop. Dad called us the ‘shadow hunters’ because we went out late in the day looking for long shadows cast upon the landscape .

See the link to this series HERE

In April this year Dad made a speech at Mum’s 80th birthday party. He told us all that he’d worked out what life was all about. It wasn’t about creating a successful business, being an adventurer and traveling around the world on a motorbike, being known as a famous pilot or about writing books….“It’s about looking a'er Marga-re!e and having a successful relationship.” It’s all about love and “being true to yourself”. (Pic Mum and Dad)

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Dad was a philosopher, an adventurer, a motor cy-cle enthusiast, a photographer, a writer and an avia-tor … he would try his hand at most things and al-ways did his best. He $nished projects and then started another. He re-built two Tiger Moth bi-planes and a Stampe and in his 70’s built a kit plane Rans s-6 s Coyo!e Li.

I would like to share a movie I made of Dad, when he was well. "e movie was $lmed in July 2011 but the project was not $nished until two weeks before his $nal farewell. View this $lm and re(ect on your own life and relationships….think of the impor-tance of the recording of events.

I have much more to learn about editing and controlling the sound but here it is (there is always something new to learn).

Link to 3 minute MOVIE HERE

Images of Dad.

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Fiji commercial/travel workshop June 2012Our Fiji workshop was based at the Novotel Hotel n Suva, (a great place to stay, thank you Simon Harper GM). "ank you to everyone who a!ended. It was a great workshop with lots of knowledge shared amongst the group. "is was our third photography workshop in Fiji and the last for the time being. Our $rst Bali (Ubud) photography workshop is coming up in a couple of weeks and we will be posting dates for next year when we return.

Environmental Portraiture• Environmental Portraiture tells us more about the person, than just how they look. • The photograph is also hopefully telling us who they are, where they are and what they do.• To read an image, we give importance to what is largest in the frame, what is sharpest and

what is purposefully lit. • We always look at the eyes, so make sure you have at least one eye focused and it gener-

ally should be the eye that is nearest the lens.• We learn about the person by what we choose to leave in a photograph. If it has no relevance

then leave it out.

Below images from Suva markets Fiji

Photographer’s quotes

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alter-natives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough--there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins. “-Robert Frank, From pages 20-22 of Aperture, vol. 9, no. 1 (1961)

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"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice." Robert Frank, Life (26 November 1951), p. 21

“A model can only be successfully directed by talking her into a mood or attitude. The moment you physically place a limb into position you may as well be photographing a shop dummy.” Sam Haskins "Views on nudes" by Bill Jay , ISBN: 0240507312. Focal Press Ltd, London and New

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera”.Yousuf Karsh, "Master Photographers – The World’s Great Photographers on their Art and Technique" , page: 125

From the QCCP ranks

Thomas Jensen (Fiji) has had one of his images selected as one of the final-ists in the Photographer's Forum's 32nd Annual Spring Photography Con-test.

Well done Thomas, it’s always a thrill to have your work published.

To all: Please check that before you enter a contest that you retain copy-right. By simply entering some contests you can loose your copyright of your own work.

QCCP Workshops Calendar 2012 & 2013September 28-Oct 2 Landscape West Coast - Haast(tuition-NZ$1200)

October 12-15 Landscape Fiordland FULL

October 26-29 Portraiture - Queenstown Tuition (tuition-NZ$1200)

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April 12-15 Autumn Colours I Queenstown (tuition- NZ$1300)

April 19-22 Autumn Colours II Queenstown (tuition- NZ$1300)

May 31- June 3 Landscape - Kinloch - (tuition $1380)

July 5-9 Volcanic Landscape - Rotorua (tuition NZ$1450)

July 19-22 Winter Landscape Mt Cook (tuition-NZ$1300)

August 23-26 Winter Landscape Mt Cook (tuition-NZ$1300)

September 12-16 Landscape West Coast - Haast (tuition-NZ$1200)

October 17-21 Landscape Fiordland (tuition- NZ$1480)

November 1-4 Portraiture - Queenstown (tuition -NZ$1300)

Field guide to Landscape Photography book now in its second print run. NZ$40 Available as an ebook HERE NZ$11.95

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