PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 13

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

JULY MEETINGS The first meeting of the Dunedin Photographic Society for July was in the hands of Mr D. Y. Erwin, who took for his subject ‘ Pictures; What They Are and How to Appreciate Them.’ Mr Erwin had delved into the work of the old masters for his illustrations, and by means of colour slides, line drawings, and coloured reproductions shown through the lantern and by an epidiascope, an instrument by which an image of flat objects such as paintings or drawings, can be projected on to a screen, greatly enlarged, showed works of Pen ben, Corot, and others, and by means of slides of the line drawings illustrated the compositions of the pictures. .Miss Joan Novill’s lecture at the next meeting was on ‘ Portraiture.’ The lecturer discussed several of the points in the taking of a successful portrait, such as posing, lighting, composition, and backgrounds, and showed several examples of her work to illustrate different points, and finally took photographs of some of the members, showing the different lighting effects that could be obtained with the two 500watt lights she was using. A long-cherished wish of the society was brought to fruitioit towards the end of the month, when members of the council met cinema enthusiasts in the city, with the object of forming a cinema group within the society. .Cinema photographers had been cir-

oularised, and an enthusiastic meeting took place at which it was decided to go ahead with the scheme, and for that purpose a small committee was elected to formulate rules and regulations to govern the group. This cinema group is said to be the first of its kind in tho Dominion, and brings it more into lino with the large photographic societies in the Old Country.