Salisbury Camera Club News: July 2016

Friday, 22 July 2016

Summer Happiness

Reader’s Digest has launched a Summer Happiness photography competition.

Just think about what encapsulates summer happiness for you— and capture it in a photo. It could win you a Nikon DSLR camera worth £750 (or, for the under-18s, a Panasonic Lumix Bridge Camera worth £230).

Is it maybe a day on the beach, a picnic with friends or a holiday with your family? Or something else entirely? All you have to do is take a compelling picture that sums up happy times and send it to us. We’re looking for unusual approaches, so let your imagination run riot! You may enter more than one photograph.

The competition will be judged by the Reader’s Digest editorial team with the help of professional photographer James Eckersley, and the winning entries will be published in our October issue.

For full details and to enter, visit readersdigest.co.uk/enter-photo-competition.
Entries must be submitted by 5pm on August 25, 2016.
Good luck!

Monday, 18 July 2016

Mist Filters

Watch Jonathan Critchley at work using a couple of filters to transform an early morning scene into a magical one HERE

Published on 8 Jul 2016

Fine Art Photographer Jonathan Chritchley demonstrates how he uses the LEE Mist Stripe and LEE Mist Graduated filters to isolate his subjects and achieve the distinctive simplicity and sense of space he is known for.

RPS News No. 49

Read it HERE

eRPS no. 49The e-newsletter from
The Royal Photographic Society
July 2016

The RPS International Print Exhibition 158 is on display at the University of Derby from 30 June –19 August.

View the touring schedule

Image: © Duccio Aiazzi. Green Wall

Members’ Monthly Competition

June Theme: Distortion

Open to members only, submit 5 images online here. Three winning images will be printed in the RPS Journal and the photographers will receive a print of their image courtesy of Metro Print.

Image: © Francis Cox. Marina Speed

International Photobook Exhibition

Entries for the International Photobook Exhibition are arriving at an increased rate in this last month for submission. Entries that are posted by 31 July will be accepted. In addition to those from the UK, there continue to be many from overseas, most recently from Brazil, Japan, Greece and Russia. Exhibition details for the Espacio Gallery are now on the gallery website.

Member Offer: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

This exhibition at London's Media Space at the Science Museum looks at the work of William Henry Fox Talbot who revolutionised culture and communications by inventing the negative-positive process, a technique that formed the basis of photography around the world for over 150 years and immortalised him as father of the photograph.

Discover the influence Talbot’s revolutionary technology, techniques and practices had on his contemporary practitioners – Anna Atkins, Hill and Adamson, and Calvert Jones – and see original prints from his seminal publication 'The Pencil of Nature' alongside the oldest surviving daguerrotypes by fellow photography pioneer Louis Daguerre.

Book tickets here and use the code FOXRPS50 for a 50 per cent discount on tickets.

Exhibition: Lenses on a Landscape GeniusLancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783)

This exhibition which runs until 26 August looks at the landscapes of 'Capability' Brown through the work of contemporary photographers. It is on show at The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT under the auspices of The Landscape Foundation. See more here.

Image: Joe Cornish HonFRPS, Yews in the ruins of Milton Abbey.

In the RPS Shop...

The online shop has new RPS branded clothing and merchandise.

Back in stock is the ever popular OP/TECH camera strap click here to take a look and buy. The new clothing range can be seen here.

Nature and Natural History exhibition

The RPS East Anglia Region is holding an exhibition of Nature and Natural History from Saturday, 2 July--Saturday 30 July 2016 at Woodbridge Library, New Street, Woodbridge, IP12 1DT. See more here.

Image: Richard Revels FRPS, Common Seals Playing.

Chichester Camera Club Annual Exhibition 2016

This exhibition, as usual, takes place at the Assembly Rooms, Chichester, PO19 1LQ and includes the work of a number of RPS members. It is open to the public from Saturday, 13 August-Saturday, 20 August (closed on Sunday 14 August) from 10am-5pm each day. Entry is free, refreshments will be available.

Image: Ann McDonald ARPS. At the Doorway.

The Royal Photographic Society

Fenton House, 122 Wells Road, Bath BA2 3AH, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1225 325733 Email Website RPS Forum YouTube Reg Charity no. 1107831

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Photography News

The club gets some copies each month but never enough for all members. However, there is an on-line version that you can get easily just by click on the LINK
So go and see the latest issue no 33 now if you have not yet seen a copy.

Thursday, 7 July 2016

SCPF Inter Fed selections

SCPF selected images to represent our Federation in the forthcoming Inter Federation competition. The following members of our club had images selected.
This is a good percentage compared to many other clubs and shows the strength of Salisbury Camera Club member's work.

Open PDI:
Peter Read LRPS,DPAGB "Socialising"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Three Wheels on my wagon"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* " Horsepower"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Guard Duty"

Open Prints:
John Barton "Salisbury Cathedral Choirstalls"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows"

Mono Prints:
Mandy Herridge "Newcastle Railway Station"
Tony Oliver ARPS.CPAGB,BPE2* "Whitby by Night"

This selection was done a few weeks ago and we should know soon which
(if any) images were successful in subsequent selection for the PAGB
Exhibition.
Thanks, Tony
Click on the images to see a larger version.