BPS Newsletter - Issue 242 28 June 2017
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Next Wednesday is the date of the Garmston Bowl & President's Cup competitions, which this year are being judged by Barry Senior Hon FRPS APAGB. This is an evening to please both print and projected image workers. |
Would all holders of cups (awarded last year) please return them by next week. This is to allow time for engraving before presentation at the AGM.
Please hand them to Keith Wood.
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As mentioned in previous issues of the newsletter, the Studio Group Competition will be held after the AGM on 5 July. However, to date, there has only been one entry. The Society has spent many thousands of pounds to provide what are undoubtedly the best studio facilities in any club in the Country - so come on, show us that it was money well spent!
The competition will be for images taken during any of the studio group meetings that have taken place between 1 June 2016 and 31 May 2017. Any member who has attended these sessions can submit up to four images which they should rank in order of preference for being entered in the competition.
The images should be sent in an email with 'Studio Competition' in the subject line to: competitions@bristolphoto.org.uk by midnight on 30th June and should follow the normal rules for projected image competitions ie:
- If you do not receive a Submission Report, this may
mean your images have not been received.
- Submissions can only be made by email and are not
accepted on the night and cannot be made by CD, flash drive or memory
stick.
- Please be aware that the images are handled
automatically once loaded into the competition software and the software
will reject incorrect images (too large or wrong naming pattern)
- Images must not be greater than 1400 pixels wide and
1050 pixels high - Note that Portrait format images must not be more than
1050 pixels high.
- Save the images as a JPG using the highest quality.
(Other file types such as TIFF or PSD will not be accepted).
- The projector uses the sRGB colour space and hence you
should save the images using the sRGB colour profile. Other profiles (such
as Adobe98 or ProPhoto) may result in incorrect display of the image.
- Name each file you enter in the following
pattern. Eg:- 01_Alexandrea_296S.jpg
- 01, 02, 03, etc. to show order of preference.
- underscore (not a hyphen)
- Title of the image (which can contain spaces and
hyphens but must not contain underscore)
- underscore (not a hyphen)
- Your Membership Number (shown on this newsletter)
followed without a space by the letter S.
The images will be shown randomly in pairs at the following AGM on the 5th July 2016 and all present will vote on them on a knockout basis until we have an overall winner who will be presented with the studio trophy.
If you’ve enjoyed a studio group meeting please support this new competition, it is a great chance both for the experienced members and for those new to competitions to try their hand.
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Members who entered this year's Bristol Salon should by now have received a USB based catalogue. It has transpired that some of these USBs are faulty - if yours was faulty could you please let me know at the following address: chairman@bristolsalon.co.uk. Please detail which files, if any, are faulty.
If you haven't received your catalogue yet, it can be found on the control at the back of the meeting room.
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Members who were at last Wednesday's meeting couldn't have failed to notice the odd picture quality in the first half of the evening. This was put right during the interval when it was found that one of the projector settings had "mysteriously" changed. Would members please note that settings to the projector should not be altered at ANY time, a large amount of time is spent ensuring that the quality of the projected images is the best that we can get and that to change these settings will affect members' enjoyment of presentations.
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Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News here
Download issue 186 of the PAGB e-News Extra here - this includes details of recent FIAP awards
Download the latest edition of Photography News here.
Download Issue f11 Magazine here.
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1 & 2
July
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Cotswold Show and Food Festival at Cirencester Park. Full details can be found on the
official website.
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24-25 June
1-2 July
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SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY - KIDDERMINSTER. Step Back to the 1940s for these
special weekends. They are wonderful for photographers as everyone dresses
in 1940s clothes and they are only too pleased to let you photograph them.
There are special events at all the stations up and down the line and lots
of music and many look alikes, Churchill, Montgomery etc.. You can spend
all day riding up and down the Severn Valley line on beautifully restored
steam trains and the prices this year are:- Adults £27.50 Seniors £26.00.
If you pre-book it's cheaper, Adults £24.70 Seniors £23.70 and it's worth
every penny. Follow this link for more information.
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Sept
onwards
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Clifton Cameras & Swarovski are holding a nature walk at
Frampton on Severn and digiscoping classes in the Forest of Dean during
September. You can find details of these and other events organised by
Clifton Cameras by visiting their website - click here. Thanks to Mark Gilbert for this.
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23 Sept
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RPS Digital Imaging Group is holding a special event - DI
Expo 2017 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport (near the NEC) from 9am
to 5pm on Saturday 23 September. This event is open to all, but you will
need to book a ticket. For full information and tickets, please visit their website.
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11 Nov
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Devizes Camera Club is holding An Evening With
Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world's leading landscape
photographers. The event is at Wiltshire Music Centre at Bradford on Avon.
Full details can be found by following this link.
I'm told that tickets are selling fast, so you are advised to book now if
you are interested. |
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21 Oct
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will
premiere at the M Shed at the same time as the national opening at the
Natural History Museum in London, it will run from 21 October 2017- 08
April 2018.
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ITS NOT PARTICULARLY EASY FINDING "DATES FOR YOUR DIARY", SO I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF MEMBERS COULD LET ME KNOW OF ANY EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS OR PICTURE LOCATIONS THAT THEY THINK WOULD BE OF INTEREST. DATES AND WEB LINKS WOULD HELP
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Sue O'Connell has been awarded 2 medals in recent salons: PSA Photojournalism Silver Medal (Obsession of Light, Finland) and PSA Silver Photo Travel (Balearic Islands)
Salon acceptances: BPS photographers are now achieving large numbers of salon acceptances and constraints on time and space mean we can't include them all. So please only advise of awards or other milestones.
Contrary to popular belief, I do not possess psychic powers and need you to tell me if you've had successes. If you want to blow your own trumpet (or someone else's), then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include details in a future issue.
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If you have something photographic that you want to sell, let me have the details and I will circulate them to a captive audience of photographers through the Newsletter - send to the usual address.
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Would all members please note: before you plan your shoot and book your model, you should check whether the studio/clubroom will be free. This can be done easily and at any time by viewing the Clubroom Bookings calendar in the Members' Area of the BPS Website. Bookings can (and must) be made by contacting Mike Bigger at bookings@bristolphoto.org.uk.
Log in details to the Members' Area are at the end of this newsletter.
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For those of you who aren't sure what MPAGB, EFIAP/s and many more such seemingly random collections of letters mean, just click here to download the list.
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Please don't forget that if you change your
address (home or email), or gain additional photographic distinctions, it
would be appreciated if you could let the Membership Secretary know so that
she can keep her records up to date, this will also ensure that you continue
to receive your newsletters - please email all changes to membership@bristolphoto.org.uk
The distinctions we have on record are those
shown at the top of this newsletter, if they are wrong, please let Carol
know.
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If you have anything you think other members would like to know about, such as exhibitions, special events etc. please let me know at newsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
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If you have any problems getting into the Members' Area, please contact Carol, either by email: membership@bristolphoto.org.uk or by telephone: 0117 924 1338 |
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