North Hampshire. P.S. 25th February 2011

Hi All

For those members who have an interest in Digital Audio Visuals.

North Hampshire P.S have Robert Albright FRPS presenting his personal D.A.Vs .

This will include his latest winning sequence  

"THE LEGACY"  

which won the Flanders International, and 3rd in the Great Northern Festival.

The evening will commence at 8.00.p.m. although there is entrance for 7.30 onwards.

It is FREE admission.

Robert & his Wife Maureen will be the Judges of our forthcoming Oak Leaf Salver Competition for S.P.F. Clubs.  on the 15th April.

Ernie Fullbrook BEM, APAGB.

North Hampshire P.S.
MAP HERE 

RPS DI Group Thames Valley Centre: next meeting Sunday 30 January

SUNDAY, 30 JANUARY 2010

Morning: "FAMOUS FOR FIVE MINUTES ... or ten or fifteen!"

This is your chance for all attendees (whether RPS/DIG members or not) to hold the attention of the meeting for 5 to 15 minutes with whatever subject they think will interest the members in the Digital Imaging field. . it's up to you! No need for a prepared talk (unless you want to).  If you have not already indicated your willingness to contribute, please contact Roger Norton with a title and a one sentence description.

Afternoon: "PRINTER TEST PRINTS REVIEW"

An informal discussion lead by Roger Norton and Alan Cross to delve a little deeper into the interpretation of the results from the test prints from Mike McNamee's excellent presentation last September. Please bring your test charts with you or collect them at the meeting if you haven't already done so. If you have made any improvements or changes to your printing set-up, you might like to bring a new test chart for visual comparison. Mike's 'control' print will be available for comparison.

followed by: "YOUR PRINT WORKSHOP"

This informal 'prints around the hall' workshop is designed for you to get feedback on, or simply show off,  your prints. If you can bring your image(s) on a memory stick (ideally JPEG 1024x768 sRGB), we may also be able to arrange projection for group discussion.

For further details on each of these topics, please see our website (www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk).  The meeting will be held at the usual location, Coopers Hill Community Centre, Bracknell, and doors open at 10 am for 10.30. Don't forget your pack lunch.

As usual, we advise booking your place at this meeting. Cost: Season Ticket holders FREE, otherwise £5.00 for members of the RPS Digital Imaging Group; £10.00 for all others. Why not buy a 2011 Season Ticket and pay no more for the whole year? Details via the booking page www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/Pages/booking.html on our web site.

Doors open at 10 am for 10.30 and free refreshments will be available. Don't forget your pack lunch.
Further information at www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/

Best wishes from me and the committee for 2011.

Roger Norton

centrecoordinator@rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk

www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk

RPS Digital Imaging Group Southern Centre

Sunday 27^th February 2011

10.30 am to 4.00 pm

Doors open 10.00

Greyfriars Community Centre

44 Christchurch Road

Ringwood, BH24 1DW

1. Movie Making with a Digital SLR Camera

Stuart Culley 

Demonstration and talk using Canon and Nikon cameras  courtesy of Robert White Photographic.

2. Be Famous for 5 Minutes - Bring your prints, images for digital projection, or short AVs (max 5 minutes) to present informally.
   (DP images 1024X768 pixels tiff format please)

Admission:  DIG Members £4.00. All others £6 

 All welcome 

Tea and Coffee, Bring Packed Lunch

Further Information from Barry Senior:  

email: barry@littlepics.freeserve.co.uk 

T: 01425471489

Hot News

You will be pleased to learn that member Julie Layzell has been awarded the LRPS today.

Our congratulations.

More on this later.

Powell Publishing Charity Christmas Cards - Christmas shots

A year ago we contacted Camera Clubs across the country in search of a 'Special Christmas card shot'. We had an excellent response from members, who sent in a variety of wonderful photos. Some were selected by our Art & Design Manager, Zara Pyke, to mock up and present to some of the major charities we work with.

One image was chosen by the Children's Hospice Association Scotland -a photo of a robin, sent in by Ann Collins of Wokingham & East Berkshire Camera Club whom we awarded £100 and £50 to her club.

This year we are looking for new photos to present to charities and would like to offer the same reward for any photos that are selected by a charity.

Popular categories include:-

Robins
Red Berries
Snow Scenes
Animals in snow (Cats, dogs, sheep, horses)
Postbox in snow

If your members would like to send in your photos for consideration please email to:-

zara@powellpublishing.co.uk

Thank you and kind regards
Kind regardsCoreen Hardy
Administrator
Powell Publishing Limited
Direct Tel- 01304 833568
Direct Fax - 01304 833555

PicStop Phot Competition

Why not try this.  It is free.  You can vote on the current entries too.
See HERE to view.
This looks good fun.

PAGB News No 39

Hi All
Welcome to the Issue 39 of e-news which is mainly concerned with an obituary for Don Morrison but has some important news for those who have sent entries to the 2011 GB Cups plus several notices of forthcoming events and an interesting article on judges manipulating Digital Images that they are judging in club competitions.

Issue 40 of e-news in February will be distributed via the "managed distribution" which I recently informed you of. Already we have transferred our database and, if you know of anyone who would like to subscribe, please direct them to www.pagbnews.co.uk/enewssubform.html I would like to assure you again of the confidentiality and security of this database. Your address will not be shared with any other business or person and we will only use it for e-news and related supplements, none of which you need download unless you are interested in the content.

We will be using HTML in future for future e-news, a simple document which will link you seamlessly to the current issue of e-news on a website. We will also list back issues and this means that those of you who load it to websites will probably have the option of loading a link instead of the entire e-news although we do not object if you prefer to do it that way.

BANNER/PAGE HEADER Can anyone design a banner for e-news that we can use on the website and probably as header for the newsletter? I know there are many creative readers out there and I'm sure we could make a design statement. The only rule is that it must incorporate the (rather old fashioned) PAGB logo and that our title, e-news, is written lower case just as I have used it.

Rod Whelans

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Calendar 2012 Competition

To celebrate The Wiltshire Wildlife Trusts 50^th anniversary we are offering everyone the opportunity to put forward a photo for our 2012 anniversary calendar. The theme is ‘Wild Wiltshire’ and we want your best wildlife and landscape photos to show off our county and its wonderful wildlife throughout the year.  The calendar will be sold across the county and online and should be available from the end of May 2011.  We invite you to send your photographs to photos@Wiltshirewildlife.org or to Anniversary Calendar 2012 at the Trust.   Please include your name, contact number or email, and the location of where the image was taken.  Remember all photos must have been taken in Wiltshire and we are unable to return hard copies.  Make use of the dark evenings to go through your photo collections or get out there and click your way into our anniversary celebration.  Closing date for entries is 11^th February and we will notify winners by the end of February.  We look forward to seeing your entries.

Regards

Keely Everson

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has 18,500 members and manages 37 nature reserves in Wiltshire.
The Trust also endeavours to lead by example in the protection of the environment. Visit our
website at www.wiltshirewildlife.org

Southern Federation Exhibition is coming

Dear Club Members,

Do not forget that the SPF Exhibition is to be hung tomorrow.  The Federation is always grateful for help in doing this and as the local club we can do this more easily than most other clubs. This operation usually takes from 9.30am to 12 noon. Refreshments are provided for helpers. You will meet many members from other clubs too. So if you can spare some time it will help to get the exhibition hung that much quicker. This takes place on Thursday 6th Jan in the Library Galleries upstairs. Remember to sign yourself in at the enquiries desk before going upstairs.  This is for fire regulations as at the club.

Then on Friday evening from 7.30pm the SPF hold the Preview when the Trophies will be presented.  You are welcome to attend. Meet lots of people and the exhibition including the Projected Images.  Drinks and nibbles available.

The exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 8th until 30th Jan.  SPF site 

Just to remind you our next club meeting is on Jan 10th when we will be showing the SPF Exhibition Projected Images.
AND we shall have a Teach-In trying to answer some of your photographic queries. To that end it is sensible to ask us the queries beforehand. Please can you send Richard by email any problem you may have in this regard. After our visit from Barry Senior recently you may like to revisit some of the techniques he revealed but you now cannot quite remember!

Regards
the Committee

'Life in the Freezer' by Ben Osborne - in your area for one night!

If you’re inspired by nature or have a passion for photography, don’t miss this special evening with Ben Osborne.  Organised by Barkers of Ringwood, Ben’s inspiring slideshow is headlined as ‘a most absorbing, educational, amusing, remarkable evening.’ 'Life in the Freezer' by Wildlife & Landscape Photographer Ben Osborne Monday 31st January 2011 at 7pm Ringwood School Theatre, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 1SE Life in the Freezer is an inspiring and entertaining show about Antarctica.  It includes superb photographs of the wildlife and landscape of this dramatic continent and tells the story of the making of the BBC TV series. Behind-the-scenes photographs of film crews, filming techniques and the presenter (Sir David Attenborough) give a unique insight into the creation of television wildlife documentaries.

Ben Osborne has worked in many parts of the world but is best known for his images of Antarctica in the book of the BBC series ‘Life in the Freezer’.  His work has been published in numerous magazines and he works regularly with BBC film crews – most recently for ‘Planet Earth’, a major series about the Natural History of the world. Ben won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007, beating off 32,000 other entries from 78 countries. The competition is one of the most prestigious photographic events in the world and is one of the leading promoters of wildlife and environmental photography. Ben uses Páramo for his global travels and we are delighted to support this event. £17 tickets from Barkers

Winchester Photographic Society 78th Annual Open Exhibition

WINCHESTER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 

78th Annual Open Exhibition

16^th April – 8^th May 2011

OPEN FOR ENTRIES:   1^st – 28^th February 2011

Winchester Photographic Society is pleased to announce its 2011 Annual Open Exhibition will be held, as in previous years, in the City Space gallery at the Discovery Centre (Library) in Jewry Street, Winchester from Saturday 16^th April until Sunday 8^th May 2011.

The submission period for entries for consideration into the Exhibition is the month of February 2011.  All entries must be made, and images submitted, by the closing date of Monday 28^th February 2011.

Full Information about the Exhibition, the Entry Procedure and the Conditions of Entry is provided on the WPS website:-

www.winphotosoc.co.uk ® Our Exhibition ® 2011 Exhibition ® Information

From Tuesday 1^st February you will also find the Exhibition Entry section under the 2011 Exhibition menu on the website.

This is where you submit your images and make payment.

Please read the Information pages on the website.

Some details about the Exhibition have changed since last year.

For more information about any aspect of the exhibition, please contact:-

The Exhibition Co-ordinator: Louise Brown

Tel: 023 8026 5979      email: exhibitioninfo@winphotosoc.co.uk

PAGB News No 38

Hi All,
Welcome to the Issue 38 of e-news which is a picture special of the PAGB Inter-Federation Projected Image Championship. Click HERE
Also attached as a separate Supplement is an excellent article by Christine Widdal, the L&CPU President, on the subject of Photographic Plagiarism.
Click HERE
e-news is compressed as much as possible and is only suitable for screen viewing. If you need a copy to print for your club or for someone who has no e-mail please let me know and I will send a larger file.
Rod Whelans