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Archive Notices 2017-2018
May 2018
Annual Exhibition - Saturday 9 June 2018
PUBLICITY
Darren has prepared information that is available on our website for downloading. Please 'spread the word'
RAFFLE
We are still in need of good quality raffle prizes (as new please) - please give to Pat or Ann
CAKES
Please contact Carole regarding cake donations and offers of help selling refreshments on the day
HELP WITH EXHIBITION
Saturday 9th: Please continue to send Ann your offers of help with welcoming visitors and selling raffle tickets for part of the time (please indicate the time of day)
SETTING UP THE EXHIBITION
This will be on Thursday 7th June at 2.30pm. You are all responsible for hanging your own panel or asking another member to hang it for you (you must provide them with a plan for your display)
TAKING DOWN EXHIBITION
5.00pm please come and help take down the display panels and place chairs back in the church. This is hard work if only a few members are present.
EXHIBITION DAY
Final setting up is from 9.00am ready for opening the doors at 10.00am The official opening and announcement of the winner of the best panel will be at 11.00am
This is a great opportunity for you, and your friends and family, to view the work of the club and talk to the authors
Click here to download the catalogue.
May 2018
Club Competitions Guidance
Some members are keen to try a second judge when they feel that their print/image has been 'misunderstood'. Prints can be expensive to produce and some authors like to use them on more than one occasion.
As an aside, it can be helpful to the competition sub-committee when an image/print has a good history. On that theme, history can be built up by entering external competitions such as the SPA and SLF individual competitions/exhibitions. Please contact Dave or I at any time if you have queries.
A print gaining 9 points and higher in an Open Subject League Print Competition is ineligible for further entry in this competition. Otherwise, the print is eligible for one further Open Subject League Print competition, which can be in the current League Competition season or in a subsequent season.
Please note that any prints used in the Open Subject League competitions (even those gaining a certificate) may still be used in later specifically designated mono, nature or portrait competitions (or vice versa) i.e. league competitions are regarded as separate from other competitions.
The one competition that has to be new work not seen in the club before is the Master Photographer. However, the images can subsequently be used for all other competitions under the rules set out above as 'new work'. Occasionally there are one-off competitions that ask for new work only but again will be eligible for all subsequent competitions.
The same rules apply for PDI competitions. Essentially the same or altered images.
An image, whether print or PDI, is ineligible for any further Open Subject league competition if it is essentially the same as an image previously entered.
'Essentially the same' in this context means a different picture but taken at the same time from a similar position or a previously entered image which has been processed in a different way. Examples of the latter include an image previously entered as colour, now being offered as mono, or an image where the processing has been improved following critique. There are two exceptions as follows:
It is allowable to enter such an image as a second entry provided the first scored 8.5 or less (in other words, it will be treated as the same image as the original entry).
It is allowable to enter the same or essentially the same image in both prints and PDIs, although not in the same season.
Prints or PDI entered into the mono, nature or portrait competitions cannot later be re-entered into the same competitions, just the League competitions.
Ann Rayers (Print Secretary)
ann@annjackman.uk
Click here to see the full rules.
March 2018
Safeguarding and GDPR
An overview of Club activities in preparing a ‘Safeguarding Policy for Children and Vulnerable Adults’ and becoming compliant with the ‘Data Protection Act 2018'. A presentation given by the Chairman immediately following the Club AGM, Monday 26 March, 2018.
Click here to download
March 2018
Match the Image Competition
On 21 March Carshalton, Photocraft and Cheam took part in a Match the Image competition hosted at Cheam Camera Club. The judge was Steve Lawrenson ARPS APAGB.
The final scores are:
Photocraft 63
Cheam Camera Club 62
Carshalton Camera Club 62
March 2018
Sutton Russian Circle
John Cheshire will be giving a 45 min presentation / slide show on Fri 16 March 2018 featuring his
photography from a trip to St Petersburg Russia last September. It will be
at Sutton Russian Circle at 7pm on Fri 16 March 2018. The talk is followed by an interval with lemon tea and various snacks. Guest fees are £8 but Carshalton Camera Club members are entitled to a 50% discount with this voucher:
http://suttonrussiancircle.org.uk/vouchers/16march2018-ccc.pdf
After the interval the main speaker will be Dr Marina Buvailo-Hammond, a
psychiatrist and well known Russian author, with a lecture "A True Story of
a Russian Doctor".
Directions etc on the website;
http://suttonrussiancircle.org.uk
John's talk is entitled "St Petersburg in Autumn colours" though it wil feature a bit more than just autumnal shots - a short video clip from
early morning in Palace Square with a surprise gathering of a couple of
hundred troops, 7min AV with photos set to russian music - with some
panning of panoramas, more autumn shots and night shots of the bridges.
Also features his visit to the beautiful old Lutheran church which Clive
Tanner FRPS gave 9 points for - he said it would be 10 points if he could
have a Lutheran priest on the stairs - a bit difficult with a 30 second
exposure and the only priest was the one who took a moment out of his
meeting to talk with me and give me permission to take photos - composite
always possible of course if he can find a suitlable priest photo to drop
in.
February 2018
SLF Open Day Open Competition Entries
This will take place on Saturday 21st April 2018 at St. John’s Church Hall, Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 3JN.
There will be 9 competitions, of which 3 are Open Competitions which may be entered by individual members of clubs in the SLF. You are invited, indeed encouraged to submit up to 2 entries in each of the Open Competitions which are:
Punch Bowl for Colour Prints
Retina Cup for Monochrome Prints
Jack’s Jug for PDIs.
The requirements/specifications are:
Print competitions
Prints can be any size but are to be on 40cm x 50cm mounts exactly - neither greater nor less than these dimensions – with a backing board which is fastened to the mount with mounting tape (not masking tape).
All prints must have on the back : Print title, photographer, club and club reference letter ( “C” in our case).
A digital file, ie PDI, (1400 x 1050 pixel resolution) must be supplied for each print. Note that the image on the digital file must be cropped to show only that part visible on the mounted print (ie within the window of the mount; must exclude any part hidden behind the mount)
PDI Competition
All PDIs to be submitted in 1400 x 1050 pixel resolution. Each PDI must be identifiable with Title, photographer’s name and Club.
Entry for these competitions is FREE. So please do enter, one, two or all three competitions. All entries will be displayed in an exhibition in a hall adjacent to where the competitions take place. The judges will, however only be able to pick up to a dozen to talk about for each competition.
Please let me have your entries - prints, their accompanying digital files, and PDIs - at the club meeting on Monday 19th February at the latest (digi files/PDIs on a usb memory stick please)
To check your images are elegible click here to check the SLF Rules.
Gerald Kitiyakara LRPS
December 2017
SPA Biennial Exhibition
Members wishing to enter print or PDI images for the SPA biennial exhibition should take note of the following points.
1) Members are required to upload a digital image of any submitted PRINTS directly to the SPA using the instructions in the Biennial Rules linked below
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/9e8dd26d0b299e38e5a5bf916/files/5965f5b1-becc-4545-9557-14fb722440b1/biennial2018_RulesrevC291117.pdf
2) members must upload PDI entries directly to the SPA using the instructions in the biennial rules linked above.
3) Members must print and complete Form B linked below and hand the completed form and payment to Ann Rayers by Monday 8th January.
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/9e8dd26d0b299e38e5a5bf916/files/5e80b7d7-93d5-4477-aa0c-d022fb47d905/Individual_entry_form_Form_B.doc
4) PRINTS must be handed to Ann Rayers by Monday 8th January 2018.
September 2017
Master Photographer Competition 2018
This season's event will be held on Monday, 15th January 2018 and judged by CLIVE TANNER FRPS MPAGB APAGB.
You must produce one picture to interpret each of FIVE out of SIX subjects.
This competition is for PRINTS ONLY. Each print must have the Title, Category and Photogrpher's name on the back. Please do not use Untitled or No Title or use the Category as the title.
The handing-in date for the prints is Monday 11th December 2017
The six categories for this year are:
1. Contre-jour (French for “against daylight”)
This technique, in which you shoot towards the source of light, produces backlighting of the subject. This effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes, perhaps a halo effect around the main subject and emphasizes lines and shapes. The main source of light may be natural sunlight or artificial light. Fill-in light may be used to illuminate and provide some detail on the side of the subject facing toward the camera.
[NB this should not be confused with side-lighting]
2. Interior
Can be of anything, eg buildings, containers, dense forest, vast desert etc
3. Vanishing Point
Used in art and technical illustrations to provide a sense of visual perspective, ie giving a 2-dimensional image a 3-dimensional feel, eg by arranging parallel lines to converge at a finite point in the distance, which is the vanishing point.
4. Diversity
You can illustrate this in diverse ways ! How imaginative are you?
5. Blue
Can you convey a mood, an atmosphere, or otherwise produce an image with plenty of blue.
6. Pictures of people taking pictures of people
Plenty of scope here, if you are keeping an eye on what other people are doing.
ALL WORK MUST BE NEW AND NOT BEEN SEEN IN THE CLUB BEFORE.
September 2017
Set Subject Competition 2017
The annual set subject competition is on 11th September 2017 and the set subject this season is:
COMPETITION
This competition is open to all members. Bring one print (mounted or unmounted) on the evening. Please let Mike Dales have the title of your entry by 4 September 2017.
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