Joe Houghton Zoom talk 16 July

Basingstoke Camera Club is having the photographer Joe Houghton give a virtual talk over Zoom on Thursday 16th July at 7:30 pm. We are inviting 40 members of other local camera clubs to join us. Feel free to forward this email to your members. There are 40 tickets available at £3.00 each, should your members wish to join the session. Tickets are available on a first come first served basis and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joe-houghton-my-journey-in-street-photography-tickets-108550144404 Once you have paid for the ticket, you will receive a confirmation email. Click on the ‘go to online event page’ button in order to see the zoom link and password so you can join the session.­ We will check that you are on our guest list in order to dodge party crashers. Check-in is between 7:15 and 7:30 for a prompt 7:30 start. You may need to wait a few minutes before you are able to enter the meeting room, but someone will check you in as soon as possible. Please ensure that the name on your Zoom account matches the name on your booking reference. Any question, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Kind regards, Sabine Tillie-Davidson LRPS Programme Secretary Basingstoke Camera Club www.basingstokecameraclub.co.uk

‘Introduction to Photography’ course for FREE

This site may be use to you. Check it out.
Karl Taylor Education free photography course:
https://www.karltayloreducation.com/free-photography-course/

Digital Photography Seminar - Wed 26th February 2020

Would you like to get more out of your Camera or Smart Phone? Whether or not you have a Web site to look after, this seminar will help you enjoy your photography more. The seminar is free, starts at 10:30am and lasts about 90 minutes. It is ideal for anyone involved with a web site or an interest in photography The topics covered include: * Choosing a camera * Composition * Correcting faults * Optimising for email or the Web * Photos for e-commerce * Lighting We'll also run a quick check to see if YOUR web site has large image files which can affect your position in Google and put off users. Book online: www.cravenplan.co.uk/seminar.htm or by phone: 01747 858000 Our office is located about half way between Salisbury and Shaftesbury, just off the A30. Directions can be found at www.cravenplan.co.uk/ct_direct.htm with a map at www.cravenplan.co.uk/ct_find.htm If you have any questions, or would like to see anything particular included, please call me direct on 01747 858007. If you know someone else who would benefit from attending, please pass on the seminar details. I look forward to seeing you soon, CHRIS STANBURY (Managing Director) Direct: 01747 858007 Twitter: Cravenplan_UK

Book now

Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000 for sale

Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000

Hardly used, like new, about 12 photos taken

• Lowepro Nova 160 AW Case
• Two batteries, Charger, 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Two Kenco Smart Filters, 
• Two USB Cables (one charging, one HDMI)
• Miranda TP-25 Tripod Stand
• Owners Original Receipt from 2016

Only selling due to bereavement of owner. 

£350 ono

Contact Dave 

07926557529

dr.fullmental@gmail.com

PermaJet Open Day 3rd NOV - PAGB Advisory and Amazing Raffle Prizes!

Join us at our open day on Sunday 3rd November 2019. 

It is that time of year again when we at  PermaJet are having our Annual Open Day, which this year is being held at a NEW larger  Venue   at the Bearley Village Hall, Bearley, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire.  (just down the road from our premises!!!)

As well as ourselves, we have various Photographic and Print Suppliers attending with AMAZING Raffle Prizes.

We would love to see you on the day  and whilst writing I would be grateful if you could all  send this email onto your Clubs/Societies so that your fellow Photographers can come and take  the opportunity of these wonderful “Prices & Prizes”!!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Kind regardsLouise Hill Sales & Customer Support

T 01789 739200D 01789 739207E louiseh@theimagingwarehouse.com

We are delighted to host Rod Wheelans MPAGB and Anne Greiner MPAGB to advise on your prints in relation to the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit. Rod is the Chairman of the Awards and Anne is a frequent Awards Adjudicator. You can bring unmounted prints, even at A4 size!

AND be in with a great chance to win one or more of these amazing prizes. All you have to do is attend our event and get 1 FREE ticket, if you spend £100 or more on the day you'll receive another raffle ticket to increase your chances of winning!

Click HERE to read lots more about this event.

RPS talk ‘Creative Photography’ and ‘A Feeling of Impressionism’

                                                   

 

Sunday February 11^th 2018

Lecture: ‘Creative Photography’ and ‘A Feeling of Impressionism’

by

Steven Le Prevost  FRPS MPAGB FIPF AFIAP

10.30 am to 3.30 pm

Doors open 10.00 pm

Greyfriars Community Centre

44 Christchurch Road

BH24 1DW

Steven is a renowned Creative Photographer and Digital Artist and will show many of his award winning prints from national and international photographic salons including creative prints with a definite leaning towards impressionist art. His presentations will also feature several new and unseen works.  

As well as showing his prints, Steven’s presentation will include a PDI presentation of images before and after processing.

Steven is a member of the RPS Fine Art Distinctions Panel and an invited member of the London Salon

​Web: stevenleprevost.com

All welcome: DIG Members £8. All others £10.00

Barry Senior HonFRPS
DIG Southern Centre
T: 01425 471489
E: digsouthern@rps.org

Tips & Tricks

On the SCC site under Extra Info > Tips and Tricks there are two new pages.

1. On how to make AVs. So for the Club Trophy night 30th Nov here are the instructions on how to proceed. Click HERE and Scroll way down.
2. To add to the short talk on the16th Nov on Infra Red there are some ideas HERE

New Photography School - Lacock, Wiltshire

Good afternoon,

My husband & I have just opened a new Photography Gallery & Photography training school in the historic village of Lacock, Wiltshire.

Students who attend our courses really appreciate the facilities we have here – it is an idyllic location and we have a fully pc equipped training room which make for an ideal photography learning environment. In addition, our tutors are all professionals who are experts in their field and have a real flare for delivering photography training.

I would be much obliged if you would pass on our details to your camera club members. We will be very pleased to offer your members a 10% discount on any of our training courses. Check out our new course schedule for 2012:

http://www.lacockphotography.com/training.html
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries or would like more information.
Kind regards
Fiona

Lacock Photography
The Old Clubhouse
1 Chapel Hill
Lacock
Wiltshire
SN15 2LA

Tel: 01249 730571
Mob: 0771 4255881
www.Lacockphotography.com

Sharpening Your photos correctly

The RPS had a talk from Mile MacNamee last November and he talked at length about how to sharpen your photos properly.  This article covers most of what he said and is well worth studying and implementing his suggestions. The link is HERE

Monochrome Photographs

I understand that from last Mondays's demo some of you would like the method put on line.  Well now it is. Just click HERE

How to size your images for Digital Projection

PDI Sizing notes can be seen via our site under Sundries > Digital Imaging Course.  There is a link at the bottom of the page. Or go via HERE

PAGB News No 16

Hi All

Welcome to Issue 16 of e-news.
Click here for a PDF version {Warning 1.5Mb size file!}
or see this normal web page text only HERE

I have now received 127 replies to my questionnaire and I thank you for
taking the time.

I will respond to your suggestions soon.

In the meantime can I mention again that I am very happy to publicise events and exhibitions and anything else which is of interest beyond your own Federation and can I remind PAGB EC members that I can notify anything you think is of interest.

Rod Whelans
PLEASE note that this Newsletter contains the latest PAGB recommended specification for Digitally Projected Images. This supercedes the earlier article based on the Ordinance Survey Camera Club specfication. So now we have a new projector it is worth while reading and taking note. Peter

Resizing Images for Projection

There is an article in the May issue if the SPF Newsletter that deals with this topic. It should help to remove some confusion. if any, for you. It was written for Ordinance Survey club members originally.
See it HERE

NOTE this notice is now superceded by two of the PAGB Newsletters nos. 16 and 17. So read these now.

Bits and Bytes

There is a link to a spreadsheet that resides in Google Docs [aka the Cloud] that shows the meanings of most of the manifestations of bits and bytes such as Megabyte. This is in very simple terms but almost everyone will find something they did know before.
LINK

Epson Print Academy

For your information there are classes in Digital Imaging in all its forms from Epson. Details can be seen
Epson%20Print%20Academy%20Seminars-%20Special%20Offer%20for%20Camera%20Club%20Members.eml

Photoshop Print Size

Have ever noticed that when you click on the Print Size button when
you have the Zoom tool selected that if you measure the screen the
dimensions are wrong?
Well I find this irritating sometimes. It would be nice to get this
correct. Recently on Ben Willmore's site I found out to put right
this Photoshop error. See the related part of his site on
http://www.digitalmastery.com/content/blogcategory/28/70/

First understand that Photoshop assumes that your monitor screen has a
resolution of 72ppi. Well this was the case years ago but now screens
are almost never like this. I found mine to be 91.64ppi for instance.

So how do we correct this?
1. Start by making a new file from File > New. Set the Width and
Height to say 7 inches each and the resolution to 72ppi. Other
settings do not matter. Click OK.

2. Now go to View > Actual Pixels.

3. Now hold up a ruler across the width of the screen and check what
it measures. Say 6.2 inches i.e. wrong.

4. Adjust the percentage setting shown in the lower left so that the
ruler reads correctly. To adjust the percentage just click on it and
type in a new number. Press Shift + Return or Enter. This allows the
percentage to stay highlighted to enable you to change it quickly and
easily.

5. Once you have done this use the percentage and multiply by 72. When
I did this on my screen I got 127%. When multiplied by 72 I got the
answer of 91.64 [i.e. 1.27x72].

6. Now so that all our photos show correctly open up the Units and
Rulers found under Edit > Preferences > Units and Rulers.

7. Set the Screen Resolution to the calculated number [91.64 for me]
and click OK.

8. Now measure the 7 inch square. Is it right? It is possible it
could still be wrong by a large amount. Now try select the Zoom Tool
and from the Options bar click on the Print Size button. Does this
make it correct? It should be right now. Any slight error could be
because of the difficulty of measuring with a ruler on a curved screen
and the thickness of the glass. But it will be much better than before.

9. There is a point to note that Photoshop has another error in that
the View > Print Size gives a different size to the Print Size button
for the Zoom Tool. This has been corrected in CS3 more or less. But
in general the Zoom Tool Print Size is the one to use for most
versions of Photoshop.

Peter Read

The Herd on the Beach

This image can be seen via the Gallery page and it is quite amazing. When you get there you will find that to see the page is pretty obvious. You can zoom in to an incredible degree.
Can you find the green bottle?

See from HERE

If you wish to show your images in this way just send me a disc.
This image is 17MB!
Peter
Since adding this I have added several more. I hope you like them.

Photoshop and Print Size

Have ever noticed that when you click on the Print Size button when you have the Zoom tool selected that if you measure the screen the dimensions are wrong?
Well I find this irritating sometimes. It would be nice to get this correct. Recently on Ben Willmore's site I found out to put right this Photoshop error.

First understand that Photoshop assumes that your monitor screen has a resolution of 72ppi. Well this was the case years ago but now screens are almost never like this. I found mine to be 91.64ppi for instance.

So how do we correct this?

1. Start by making a new file from File > New. Set the Width and Height to say 7 inches each and the resolution to 72ppi. Other settings do not matter. Click OK.

2. Now go to View > Actual Pixels.

3. Now hold up a ruler across the width of the screen and check what it measures. Say 6.2 inches i.e. wrong.

4. Adjust the percentage setting shown in the lower left so that the ruler reads correctly. To adjust the percentage just click on it and type in a new number. Press Shift + Return or Enter. This allows the percentage to stay highlighted to enable you to change it quickly and easily.

5. Once you have done this use the percentage and multiply by 72. When I did this on my screen I got 127%. When multiplied by 72 I got the answer of 91.64 [i.e. 1.27x72].

6. Now so that all our photos show correctly open up the Units and Rulers found under Edit > Preferences > Units and Rulers.

7. Set the Screen Resolution to the calculated number [91.64 for me] and click OK.

8. Now measure the 7 inch square. Is it right? It is possible it could still be wrong by a large amount. Now try select the Zoom Tool and from the Options bar click on the Print Size button. Does this make it correct? It should be right now. Any slight error could be because of the difficulty of measuring with a ruler on a curved screen and the thickness of the glass. But it will be much better than before.

9. There is a point to note that Photoshop has another error in that the View > Print Size gives a different size to the Print Size button for the Zoom Tool. This has been corrected in CS3 more or less. But in general the Zoom Tool Print Size is the one to use for most versions of Photoshop.

Peter Read

Digital Imaging Course

The Aims of the Course

So you want to know how to produce a satisfactory print from your film or digital camera?

The course is aimed primarily for people who want guidance in the control of digital images from the very start. Maybe you have just acquired a digital camera and wish to get successful results from it. Or perhaps you have lots of old prints, negatives or slides and want to know the right way to deal with these in the new world of Digital Imaging. The course will also be useful to people who have been conventional photographers and want to move into the digital domain.
We will not be showing you how to take photographs or how to use a camera be they of the digital or film variety.
This course will show you how to use the Lightroom (formerly a Darkroom!). We will explore how to load photographs into your computer and how to deal with them using Image Manipulating software. We shall be using the Adobe Photoshop Elements [2, 3, 4, 5 and/or 6] to co-ordinate the instructions. This is an interactive course in which you will use supplied images to learn various techniques as outlined in the units. You will then e-mail your results back to us for evaluation. Basic advice on equipment will be given.
The course will consist of an introductory unit and 8 units each covering various aspects of DI. They will be interdependent units so that what you learn in unit 1 will be needed for unit 8 for instance.
The Units
1. Getting Pictures into your computer.
How to save, size, sharpen and print your images. How to e-mail images.
2. The 4 C’s – Cropping, Cleaning, Cloning and Controlling your Image.
3. Essential Picture Correction – the use of Levels for Tonal and Colour Correction.
4. Further Colour Correction Ideas – the use of Colour Variations, Auto Colour Correction, Quick Fix and Hue & Saturation controls
5. Selections. The how and why.
6. Filters, Effects and Painting.
7. Why Layers and Blending Modes? Also putting Words onto your Picture.
8. Having Phun with Photos. Making Cards, Calendars and Montages.



To partake in this course you will need to have the following equipment;
1. A computer with Internet connection – obvious of course! Dial-Up or Broadband is OK. Your computer will need to have Windows 98/ 98SE or 2000 or XP or Vista or even a MAC. You should have a minimum of 16Mb of hard disk space. We think you will need a lot more than this however; say 1000 Mb or 1 Gb of memory.
2. A Printer – photo quality A4 minimum.
3. Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6.
4. Possibly a Scanner. Probably Flatbed scanner is sufficient.
Please take some time to read advice on buying computers, peripherals and software on the LINK below.
By kind permission the U3A (University of the Third Age) has agreed to allow us to run this course. The course is based on one written by us for the U3A.
If you join our course we are sure that you will enjoy it and will learn a lot. It will be great fun too!
The modest charge to take part on this course will go into the Club funds.
Ask Peter Read for further details.