PSQ Convention 2019

Hosted by

Mount Gravatt Photographic Society

Labour Day Long Weekend 4-6 May 2019Club Manly 26 Faine Street, Manly West

Presentations, Workshops, Field trips

Social events – dinners

Photo competition award presentations

Interaction with fellow photographers

MGPS invites you to

Join us in Manly to explore the creative possibilities of modern photography.

We will illuminate the creative processes possible whatever your genre of

photography.

Stimulate your creativity and challenge you to explore photography beyond

preparing images for judging.

Leave refreshed and motivated to broaden your photographic outlook, to be

more creative in your photographic pursuits.

Take! Make! Illuminate!

• “

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

Ansel Adams

Take! Make! Illuminate!

“Light makes photography.Embrace light. Admire it. Love it.But above all, know light.

Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

George Eastman

Keynote – Prof Des Crawley - Visual Cultures and the Imagined Vision

Dale Sharpe - Landscape Photography

Jennifer Bell - Creative Photography

PSQ Judges Forum

Workshops

PSQ AGM

Social dinner

Saturday

Adam Williams The Search for Meaningful Photography

Andrew Hall Sport Photography

Christopher Blakey Lighting for Video

Richard O’Leary Event Photography

PSQ Forum

Workshops

Gala Dinner – Award PresentationsSalon of Excellence Queensland Portrait for Parkinsons

Sunday

Russell BrownChange the channel – Utilising the power of colour spaces in Photoshop

MGPS MembersCreativity at Home

Prof Des CrawleyDeveloping Creativity at Club Level –

the Portfolio Process

Monday

Bright ideas can come from studying the work of others

PHOTOGRAPH BY RUSTY PARKHURST

Workshops• Speakers

– Jennifer Bell Creative Photography

– Adam Williams Creative Photoshop Wizardry

– Richard O’Leary Event Photography

• Trish Dixon – Digital Art

• Sue Gordon – Alternative Processes

• Priscilla Gibbs – Light Painting

Workshops• Light Painting - Priscilla Gibbs

– Friday 7:30pm Pandanus Beach Wynnum

Alternative Processes - Sue Gordon

Experience the darkroom without the expense and set up cost

Explore the processes of cyanotypes and salt prints in a hands-on workshop

All materials including transparencies, chemicals, equipment and paper are included in the cost

Take home resource documenting the processes is included

Bookings are essential – Limit of 10 participants

$60 per person

Field Trip type Workshops

• Sunday 6am Sandy Camp Wetlands - Bird Photography

• More to be announced

A National Digital Portrait Exhibition – Portrait for Parkinsons

Organised in conjunction with the convention by MyPhotoClub

APS Approved - Five Salons with State and National Awards

Exhibited at and awards presented at the Gala Dinner

Portrait for ParkinsonsEnter at the MyPhotoClub website

https://natportrait.myphotoclub.com.au/

Entries close on 31st March

Part of your entry fee supports the

PSQ convention and 25% goes to a

Parkinsons Disease support group

in Queensland

MGPS thanks

Co Host Wynnum Bayside Camera Club

Major Sponsor – Bentleys Camera House

My Photo Club

Living Image

RGB Digital

Brisbane City Council

for their support

Six suppliers present

Canon

Fujifilm

Nikon

Olympus

Panasonic

Sony

Costs• Full registration $160• Early Bird registration $125

– Closes 16th March

• Day Registration– Saturday $80– Sunday $80– Monday $35

• Social Dinner $30• Gala Dinner $40• Alternative Processes Workshop $60

Full Details & Registration

• PSQ Website

– www.psq.org.au

• MGPS website

– www.mgps.org.au

My thanks to the authors of the images used in this presentation

See you there!