PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT WORKSHOP

The Southern Federation are holding a workshop for all those members who are interested in attaining a

PAGB Photographic Award.

• This will be held on 19th May 2013 at Copythorne Hall, Winsor, SO40 2NZ (New Forest). 
• You are able to attend as an observer or you can bring work along to be assessed. 
• Places for assessment is limited so please do not leave until the last minute to get your ticket.
• Forms and details of how to apply are on the Southern Federation website http://www.southernfed.org.uk/

Guildhall Exhibition 2013

Our Show is now up and running until Friday. So hurry along if you have not seen it yet. It is worth your while.
You can see some views of the Exhibition HERE

Tom Stoddart at Winchester 12 March

Dear All

Please see the poster attached from Winchester Photographic Society about a lecture by an accomplished photojournalist at the Discovery Centre on March 12th, cost £12.50.

Best wishes

Tom Stoddart.pdf 165K  Download

"Total Photography Workout" Jeff Morgan

This is an inspirational talk at Viewfinders Club on 5th February 2013 at the right time of the year when our creativity may have become jaded by the prolonged grey weather.

The cost for guests and visitors is only £3.
Jeff is a professional photographer who lives in Bath, England. He started his photography company, Elm Studio, in USA in 2002 and in the early days focused mostly on architectural and location photography. Lately Jeff’s love of teaching has resulted in his photographic tutorials being published extensively in PhotoPlus. His images and articles have also appeared in Practical Photoshop, Digital Camera, TechRadar and other photographic magazines in Europe, USA and China. 

As someone who is continually practicing his craft, Jeff finds it important to study and stay up-to date. Some of his recent assignments have included star trails, light painting, reenactments, time-lapse and low-level aerial photography. He enjoys sharing his photographic expertise with others and likes to blend a photographer’s technique with an artist’s creative hand. His workshops blend both creative and technical aspects of photography and provide the chance to explain complex technical concepts in ways that students easily grasp.

See Jeff's web site www.elmstudio.com.

Great British outdoors photographic competition

Please find attached information about a photographic competition being run by Ordnance Survey, celebrating the Great British outdoors

BUT Check out clause 14
14. Important: Entrants will retain copyright and moral rights in their submitted images and you will continue to be able to publish, sell, loan or otherwise use the photograph(s) in any way that you wish. By entering the Competition, you are granting Ordnance Survey a perpetual, non-revocable, royalty free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to publish or otherwise use the photograph(s) in any media including, but not limited to, the following:

14.1 publication of the photograph by Ordnance Survey on social media sites;

14.2 publication of the photograph on the Ordnance Survey websites and available for free download;

14.3 the photograph shall be included in Ordnance Survey’s stock set of cover photos for use on Custom Made maps sold through Ordnance Survey’s website.

Ordnance Survey may edit, crop, adjust or add its logo to your photograph(s). We will use reasonable endeavours to credit the photographer whenever the image is used and published by Ordnance Survey.

A New Year, and a New Name

A message from the President of the Southern Federation Glyn Edmunds

Many of you will be aware that our current name – i.e. the Southern Photographic Federation (SPF) causes quite a lot of confusion. At PAGB level we are the SF or Southern Federation and that is how we appear in the PAGB Handbook. The Scottish Photographic Federation is listed at the SPF. 

There are a number of federations around the country all of which feature ‘Counties’. As in :
Midland Counties Photographic Federation (MCPF)
Northern Counties Photographic Federation (NCPF)
Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF)
And finally :
Kent County Photographic Association (KCPA)
All of these roll nicely off the tongue in terms of initials.
It has been suggested that it would be a great idea to switch to Southern Counties Photographic Federation (SCPF). This would remove the confusion which currently exists vis a vis federations and the PAGB.
The Council have spent some time debating this matter, have decided it is a really good idea and will propose that the Reps are asked to ratify the change at the next meeting at Littleton on Tuesday 12th February. So clubs should discuss this before that date.
The timing is ideal as we would be just in time to reflect the new name in the 2014/15 PAGB Handbook which is due to be published in the autumn.
It would also be a great opportunity for a graphic designer in one of our clubs to come up with a new logo to reflect the new name. I think the Federation coffers could even stretch to a bottle of wine for the designer of the accepted design. So, please get thinking about this one.
If anyone has any queries about the proposed change then please get in touch with any member of the Council before 12th February.

An Evening With Matt Doggett at Kingsclere

Click HERE to see details

Venue: Sandford Springs Golf Club, Off the A339, Kingsclere, RG26 5RT

Date: Wednesday 6th March 2013

Time: 8pm start

Cost: £6.00 per person

Refreshments will be available to purchase at the Golf Club Bar.

Jeff Morgan at Viewfinders 5th Feb 2013

Jeff Morgan is coming along to Viewfinders of Romsey Camera Club on Tuesday 5 February at 7.30pm to present his popular Total Fitness Workout. As many of you will know, Jeff is an amusing and inspirational speaker, and his photographic workshops deservedly have an excellent reputation.

The Total Fitness Workout aims to inspire you to improve your image-making skills, by using exercises designed to expand your creativity and strengthen your skills. You will learn some techniques and procedures that will enable you to improve your pictures and communicate with greater visual impact.

Visitors are very welcome to join us for this event.

Location: Jubilee Hall, New Road, Timsbury
(see Viewfinders’ website for directions)

Admission: £3

In 2012 Photo Paper Direct supplied your members with an exclusive camera club 5% off discount code (we also used to appear on your links section...). We would like to offer your members the same discount in 2013 using the new discount code club2013

With the collapse of Jessops this week, Photo Paper Direct is now the UK's leading supplier of professional photo paper from specialised suppliers such as Ilfordhttp://www.photopaperdirect.com/brands/Ilford.html to branded papers such as Canonhttp://www.photopaperdirect.com/categories/Canon-Photo-Paper/ (and other brands of course)

We would also like to welcome your members to our Facebook page in which we regularly list weekly Facebook exclusive promotions. The Address is www.facebook.com/PhotoPaperDirectUK

We look forward to working with your members in 2013 and wish the club a productive year!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Ran
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Southampton CC 100th International Salon

SIE 2013 now open for entries

We are very proud to celebrate the centenary of our international salon!
Closing date: 27 January 2013.

The previous Southampton International Exhibition attracted over 11,000 entries from 60 countries around the world, confirming our position as one of the largest photographic salons in the United Kingdom. We are also one of the oldest camera clubs in the UK, having been founded in 1896.

See the Web Site HERE

PAGB News No 82

Please click on this link to see Issue 82 of e-news from the PAGB.

Click HERE

Photographers Work Day 27th Jan

Companies to attend:

Fotospeed - Clare Harvey-May

City Photographic - Mark Preston

Aperture Book – Michael Vine

Olympus Cameras

Do You have un-used Jessops Gift vouchers still?

On BBC Breakfast this morning 12 Jan 2013 they mentioned that if anyone has Jessops vouchers or gift cards and the person who bought them paid by Debit or Credit Card that the person can get their money back.

But there are time limits, so you will have to be quick.

Pass this information on if you know anyone who this could help

Residential Weekend Courses

www.residentialcourses.org.uk

PAGB AWARDS WORKSHOPS

There is information on the PAGB Awards Workshops via the link below on the PAGB website for those who are interested. 

Would recommend early booking as availability for these dates go quickly.

 http://www.pagb-photography-uk.co.uk/merit.htm

Regards
Sue Watts
Secretary, Southern Photographic Federation

Be inspired - Jurassic Coast Photographic Competition

Dear Club Members

Don't forget to enter the Jurassic Coast Award - Photography Competition with the chance of winning a great cash prize, closing date 25th February 2013. Be inspired by the gallery of images from photographers associated with the World Heritage Team who are ineligible to enter.

Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-20742929

For more information on the competition and how to enter go to www.jurassiccoast.org/award 

Regards

Jurassic Coast Award Administration

A Photographer's Lot

All set on Auto

with a camera that's astute

happy go lucky

with a simple

point and shoot -

Nothing to concern me

in the faintest bit

just zoom in….zoom out

compose the shot and 'click'

Got it in the bag

or NOT as it may be

a halo or a flare

or something odd I didn't see

Chromatic aberration

Pixelated

Focal range

Horizon all askew

Depth of field - very strange

Change of angle

if I dangle from

a different point of view….

Where’s my trusty tripod?

I haven’t got a clue!

Hand-held fast and slick

might just do the trick….but

another bites the dust

that Photoshop must fix!

Exposure

Contrast

Levels and curves

so this most amazing shot

draws the 'oohs' and 'aahhs' that it deserves!

But now I'm getting critical

the more that I explore

my camera potential

it opens up a door

to

take a new direction

gain more control

push boundaries and parameters

set challenges and goals

Portrait

Landscape

Wide Angle even Stitch

Macro detail -

shows the slightest glitch

Av

Tv

aperture v shutter speed?

manual choices

select just what I need

Daylight

Lowlight

Flash

F-stop

it takes some

juggling to learn about what's what!

In all the confusion

one thing is crystal clear -

I'm pleased as Punch

that come the crunch

Camera Club is here!

Happy Christmas to everyone and how about shooting from the hip in the New Year!

Robin

Bryce Bayer

From the Daily Telegraph
Bryce Bayer
Bryce Bayer, who has died aged 83, was a research scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour; patented in 1976, his Bayer filter is incorporated into nearly every digital camera, camcorder and smartphone sold today.

Bayer: lives on in every smartphone

7:11PM GMT 21 Dec 2012A digital camera uses a silicon chip sensor consisting of an array of millions of tiny light cavities, or “pixels”, to record an image. When a photograph is taken, each of these is uncovered to collect and store photons. The relative quantity of photons in each cavity is then sorted into various intensity levels. The trouble for scientists working on developing digital technology was that these light cavities are naturally colour-blind. Each of their millions of tiny photosensitive elements measures only the intensity of incoming light, not its wavelength — or colour.
Bayer had the elegant idea of arranging a series of microscopic red, blue and green colour filters into a chequerboard pattern over the sensor. Mimicking the way the human eye perceives colour, he included twice as many green as red and blue filters (the human eye has a higher sensitivity to green light). Due to the filter each pixel measures only one colour. The extent to which the camera then needs to adjust the raw data coming from a particular pixel to include the two other colours is then estimated using the eight surrounding pixels — a technique called Bayer “demosaicing”, or Bayer to RGB (red, green and blue) Conversion.
Bayer’s work helped pave the way for the development in 1977 (by two other Kodak researchers) of the first working digital camera. The camera was a black-and-white device that later incorporated the Bayer filter.
The alternative to the Bayer single-sensor filter would have required three separate sensors attached to a colour beam splitter — a solution that would have been cumbersome and expensive. The advantages of the Bayer filter included its relatively low cost and the fact that it enabled the development of smaller, sleeker digital devices.
Bryce Edward Bayer was born in Portland, Maine, on August 15 1929 and was fascinated by photography from an early age; at Deering High School, Portland, he spent much of his time in the school darkroom and processed all the photographs for his school yearbook.
After taking a degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Maine, in 1951 he began his career as a research scientist with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York State, and remained with the firm until his retirement in the mid-1990s. He took a Master’s degree in Industrial Statistics from the University of Rochester in 1960 and, as well as the Bayer Filter, developed processes for storing, improving and printing digital images.

In 2009 the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain presented Bayer with its Progress Award. Earlier this year he was awarded the first Camera Origination and Imaging Medal from the American Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

He married, in 1954, Joan Fitzgerald, a fellow researcher at Kodak, who survives him with their daughter and two sons.
Bryce Bayer, born August 15 1929, died November 13 2012

Southern Photographic Federation Newsletter December 2012

The final Newsletter of the year….how time flies! A little later than planned as I have had a total crash of my PC requiring a full recovery and reloading of all my programs (work in progress ! ).. fortunately I had all my data backed up so have not lost any. I can’t emphasise too much how important it is to back-up regularly; if you don’t already do this, make it a New Year resolution !

Now to SPF matters. The annual Exhibition opens in Salisbury Library with the Preview Evening on Friday 4th January at 6.30 pm, then runs until Saturday 26th January. Click on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/exhibition2013.htm to get the details on the SPF Web page. As usual, help is needed in both hanging and taking down the Exhibition. Because this year we are mounting all the prints in frames, two days ( 2nd and 3rd Jan) have been set aside to mount the exhibition, starting at 10.00 am. Help is also needed with stewarding the Exhibition; anything from an hour to a day would be great. If you can help with any of this please get in touch with George Walsh using the above link. This Exhibition is supported by a splendid full-colour Catalogue, with at least one image from every exhibiting club, so this will really enhance your visit !

The last Newsletter had a couple of incorrect dates for SPF Reps’ meetings…apologies from me. The agreed meetings were November and February (mid-week) and May ( week-end all-day meeting). Since then a complication has arisen, as we find that we already have a very full calendar of week-ends in May 2013 and it would be unreasonable to expect people to turn out three week-ends in a row. Accordingly it has been decided that the AGM will revert to an evening meeting on Wednesday 29th May,. and the new arrangements as voted for by the Reps will come into effect in 2014.

The PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit seem to be gaining in popularity; entry for next April is already full, and the November event will shortly be open for entries. Our Federation will be hosting the Awards in 2014, and in anticipation of this an Awards Workshop has been planned for Sunday 19th May 2013. Anyone thinking of applying for an Award would benefit greatly from attending the workshop, where you will be able to see examples of successful images from previous events, and also have your own work evaluated by, and get good advice from experienced APM judges. 

http://www.pagb-photography-uk.co.uk/index.htm

Full details of the recent AV Championships are now posted on the Web site . For details click on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/championshipsav.htm

The next date for print box orders will be posted on the Web site in the New Year. In future the ½” sizes will not be available, but this still leaves a large range of sizes. Keep an eye on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/printboxes.htm to check on the date.

An important date for judges is 17th March, when a Level 2/3 Judging Workshop will be held. Details are available on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/judging.htm

Already we need to be preparing for next year’s PAGB Print Exhibition ! Lynn Lambeth is asking everyone to put forward prints for consideration. Clubs can hand these in at the February Reps’ meeting. Images can also be handed in at the Print Championships in March, or up to the end of March you can hand them to any members of the SPF Council who belong to or who visit your club.

Next year sees the 50th Anniversary of the SPF’s foundation. Hopefully there has been some debate and discussion within your club as to appropriate ways to recognise this; the Council are looking for good feedback via the Club Reps. One thing which the Council is proposing ( subject to approval by the Clubs at the AGM) is that we should change the name of the Federation. There is a practical reason for this in that there is an unfortunate clash of abbreviations with the Scottish Photographic Federation, which was the SPF before our Federation was formed. We often have to be referred to as SF to avoid confusion. What is now proposed is that we change to Southern Counties Photographic Federation (SCPF), bringing us into line with a number of other Federations. We’d be interested in any feedback on this proposal which no doubt will be discussed at the February Reps’ meeting.

Southern Federation Print and PDI Championships will be held on Sunday 24th March 2013 at Knowle Hall, Fareham. Please read this important information regarding this competition:
In order to attract more entries and have a full and exciting day the Council have decided to have two sections:
The Open competition will be 15 images; it is anticipated that the clubs with a large number of members actively participating in competitions will enter this section. The top two clubs will be invited to represent the Federation at Warwick (PDI’s) and Connah’s Quay (Prints)
The Small Clubs competition will be 10 images; it is anticipated that the clubs with a smaller number of members actively participating in competitions will enter this section.
It will be up to clubs to choose which competition they feel their club best fits into.
The rules will be updated to reflect these changes and put on the web shortly after the Christmas period.

The Federation are also urgently looking for a club to organise this competition on the day (We do have someone to operate the projector / run the laptop). Please get in touch with Glyn Edmunds if you are willing to do this or if you require further information on what is involved.
The Judges for this competition will be : Roger Force FRPS DPAGB APAGB, Clive Tanner FRPS and Richard Walton FRPS EFIAP MPAGB. All three travel to us from the Kent Federation (KCPA)

That’s it till next year..... so here’s best wishes to you all from the Council for a great Christmas and New Year.
John Hodge

20th Jan RPS Digital Group - Janey Devine FRPS