18 February 2010

Meeting Report
16 February 2010

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The imagination of our President Bill Goodwin seems to have some Heath Robinson about it judging from his latest image, Flight Plan.  This week's meeting was within the octave of President Bill Goodwin's birthday so it was celebrated at the meeting complete with a cake with sparklers - but the sparklers could not be lit. It was explained that lighting them would summon the fire brigade with a consequent bill for the club. So the dormant sparklers decorated the cake presented to Bill. Owen Tassicker led the singing of the traditional birthday song.

Bill introduced the scholarship winning student to the club, 27 year old Mei Maruyama from Japan. She was sitting at the President's table with Peter Frueh.

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Professional photographer Shelton Mueller showed the club examples of photography which used digital images and showed how the images could be altered for special effects. It was once thought that only film could provide the right `skin tones' for clients but as Mueller showed, digital images could replicate that effect using proper digital programs even after the picture was taken. 
In the past three years digital photographic equipment had changed considerably and he recommended spending only about $800 on a camera that could do all the jobs even professionals required these days. 

He spent part of his youth in a professional dark room in Elizabeth Street Melbourne at a photo shop printing pictures and grew up manipulating images to get desired effects. He had turned into a professional photographer by the time he had left school. The delay some photographers once complained about with digital cameras as they set the exposure after the shutter button was pushed had now been overcome.

The point he made was that the photographer had the image in his mind of the picture he wanted and after taking the picture with a digital camera he could then massage the picture to achieve the desired effects. The pictures he showed to the club illustrated well the ability of the imaginative photographer to first conceive the picture and then take it and then turn it into the picture he first visualised. 
The point was clear that the photographer had the image he wanted firmly in his imagination and getting it once the image was taken was simply a matter of digital technique. He did not exhort members as photographers in the past have done to keep taking pictures on the basis that something could be done with the results and film was cheap compared with the cost of getting to the site for the picture session. Instead he showed how pictures that looked impressive enough could be greatly enhanced by composition alteration and lighting.

 Some of the great photographers of the past such as Cecil Beaton were experts in lighting but this could often now be added to digital pictures later.
You coluld almost hear those with a classic camera collection sigh as he said he had sold all his classic film equipment because modern digital gear could do so much better.  
He was delightfully clear in his presentation and had a clear faith in the digital future of photography.

Claire and Hamish Macmillan decided to visit Sydney to attend the Edinburgh tattoo. The transport to Sydney was by bus, which detoured to Healesville to pick up some attendees. Included among new passengers was Norma Perkins - widow of our late treasurer Bob Perkins. Norma is now living in retirement accommodation in Healesville and is very well and quite vibrant. Through Hamish she sends best wishes to all her long term friends in Balwyn Rotary.

(Hamish said Tattoo was great -- but I am not sure you get an unbiased opinion from a Scot!)

Had report of another long term member, Doctor John Pawsey, president in 1974 /75, actually our third President. He is now living in Tewantin, up the river from Noosa. Unfortunately he had a fall in his garden and has broken his leg. He presently is in Nambour Hospital, but is quite positive about his future. Has not deferred plans to fly to France in 2 months to see grandson living there. He is going with son Richard and daughter Carol who is immediate past President of Box Hill Rotary.

I understand a number of Rotarians are going to visit Don Jones at Portsea who still struggles with his foot, and is quite immobile. He can answer the phone - how about ringing him.

Keith 

 

Could she

•  be an elite athlete who nearly made Australia’s 2000 Olympic Team as a heptathlete?
•  be a qualified teacher?
•  have a Polish father?
•  be a non – executive director of Vic Health since 2001?
•  be an employee of the AFL?
•  be a descendant of the Wotjobaluk people?
•  have been the recipient of the Sir Doug Nicholls Fellowship for emerging Indigenous leaders?
•  have been the Victorian Taekwondo champion in 2002?
•  have been an ambassador for ybblue, a youth depression campaign?
•  be all of the above?

WHY NOT COME TO OUR MEETING ON TUESDAY MARCH 02 AND FIND OUT?  AND PLEASE BRING YOUR PARTNER.

MARCH 02 IS THE ANNUAL PRESENTATION EVENING OF OUR ROTARY ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER TERTIARY SCHOLARSHIP. WHO WILL BE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE THREE $80,000 SCHOLARSHIPS WE SHALL AWARD THAT NIGHT AND WHOSE LIVES WILL BE PERMANENTLY CHANGED FOR THE BETTER?

This evening is one of the highlights of our Club year, so make your decision now and be there. Don’t forget to let the attendance desk know.

There are three types of people in the world.

Those that are good at arithmetic & those that aren't!

NOTE
There are many other Rotary events scheduled for the year. Please refer to the calendar in the club website for details. You can click on the "Agenda" tab for a summary.

23 Feb 10 - Australian Aphasia Association . . .  Miranda Rose (LaTrobe Uni) & Marc Skolnik

2 Mar 10 - Rotary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tertiary Scholarship presentation evening. Guest Speaker Belinda Duarte. Chairman Bob Batrouney.

9 Mar 10 - You be the Judge . . .  Prof Ari Freiberg (Sentence Advisory Council)

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