5 November 2020
October 2020
About the judge
The guest judge for this month’s competition is Glen Moralee. Glen has always loved photography. Started shooting with an Olympus Trip 35 pre-teens, before eventually moving to a modern Nikon SLR in later teens, usually using colour print film and sending it away for mail order developing. The excitement of waiting to see the results has never gone away.
After studying photography at high school, Glen went on to study further at TAFE. In 2012, he decided to join a camera club, but instead joined three at the same time. After seeing how things worked, he bought a digital camera and photoshop and won photographer (or runner up) of the year at all three clubs in 2013.
After spending way too much time in front of Photoshop in 2013, Glen realised he gained no sense of satisfaction in creating a photograph with a computer and went back to shooting film. Since then, the digital camera has only been used for graduation ceremonies, corporate functions/headshots/advertising and weddings, never for personal work.
Glen now shoots some colour slide film, but predominantly black and white film, some he develops as negatives for making prints in his home darkroom, and some he reversal develops for projection. He’s always happy to help anyone wanting to get into, or back into, shooting film.
Subject
Self Portrait: A portrait of the photographer in which he/she has arranged the lighting etc. within the picture. The shutter release must be under their control i.e. remote, electric or timer etc. Note: Creative entries allowed/encouraged, but must include the author in the image.
NB: Not all gold/silver images have been submitted for publication.