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Next week we will have a presentation by Andrew Fusek- Peters from Shropshire. The following from Andrew, sets the scene for the evening:
Wilderland – Wildlife and wonder from the Shropshire Borders, an entertaining and informative evening by Andrew Fusek-Peters
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Since picking up a camera six years ago, after 25 years as a children’s author, Andrew’s work has quickly been recognised in the media, with his photos appearing regularly in the national papers, including his 2016 supermoon shot, which made the front of the Times and sold to 4 other national papers. For the last three years he has been under commission to the National Trust and Natural England delving deep into the flora and fauna of the Long Mynd and Stiperstones. He writes regular features and provides cover shots for Amateur Photographer, Digital Camera, BBC Wildlife, EOS Magazine and the Countryman. His books include Wilderland inspiring – Amateur Photographer, a delight Outdoor Photographer and Upland ‘Upland is my kind of book. |
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A passionately written and lavishly illustrated account of the natural history of one of Britain’s best kept secrets by a man who understands his subject. Andrew Fusek-Peters has thrown his heart and soul into this book, and it shows.’ Iolo Williams. As well as sharing his stunning wildlife and landscape photos and the stories behind them, he will talk about his work with press agencies and how he has managed to sell over 100 photos/feature stories to the nationals in the last 3 years.
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All members of the BPS are welcome to the next Digital Group meeting on Monday 8 October. As usual we will take a look at the presentations brought by members either as prints or projected images, these can be for just showing off what you have been doing or inviting criticism or praise from others or to raise questions on photographic problems you may be struggling with. Please bring projected images in jpg format (size does not matter but sRGB colour profile to get the colours projected correctly) on a flash drive in a folder of your name.
We will also take a look at image processing using Adobe Camera Raw software. Most cameras manufactured in the last ten years or so are capable of taking pictures in both JPG and Raw format simultaneously and it is vital to know that Raw format offers much better scope for enhancing an image than JPG. Adobe has five video tutorials, five minutes each, on the subject and I hope you will look through them before the meeting (your homework!) to get some idea or just refresh your skills. We can take a look at a couple of them at the meeting and supplement them with a short talk by our well experienced member Pete McCloskey who will walk through the typical process.
Downloading the list of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom CC tutorials.
If you have not already downloaded the lists from the links published a couple of week ago in this newsletter, the following new Dropbox links will take you to the two web pages I have created. They must be downloaded (click on the Download button in top right corner) and saved as files on the desktop or an easily accessible place on your computer, these can then be opened in a web browser. No-one needs to subscribe to Dropbox to download these pages. I have spot checked the links on the pages but cannot guarantee there are no glitches, please let me know if you find any.
When clicking on the two download links above, you may find that you are presented with a page of gobbledygook. However, in the top right-hand corner of your screen you will see the Download link, click it!
If you are having problems, please email me ( a.chauhan@blueyonder.co.uk ) to send you the lists directly or see me at the DI meeting.
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The next meeting of the Studio Group will be on Monday 22 October and will be for beginners in studio work.
The model will be a circus performer with a range of costumes. There will be a limit of 6 photographers for a 2 hr session starting at 10.30am. The cost will be between £10 and £15. If this beginners' session is oversubscribed there will be a second beginners' session in the afternoon. If numbers permit, the afternoon will be open to advanced photographers.
To sign up for this please visit the doodle poll here. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and Nick will close the poll when enough photographers have signed up. It is important that once you have signed up for the event that you add a comment to include your email address and mobile number, so that Nick can contact you to make final arrangements.
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Digital Projected Image - Permanent Collection
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The following is from Pete McCloskey:
As you know Gordon Stirrat manages our Print Permanent collection. We do have some transparencies in our archive, however we have now decided for form an archive of DPIs.
We already have an image bank of DPIs which achieved HC or higher from our bi-monthly competitions which we use as a base from which we select our entry for inter-club competitions.
The aim of the Permanent Collection is to have copies of the Society’s better work together with representative work from our longstanding members.
Barry Mead and I have made a selection from these images which will form the basis of our PDI collection. Currently they are in 1400 pixel JPEG format.
However for our archive we would like to store them as TIFF files. TIFF files form a better record and it will enable the Society to produce prints from the files at some future date if required.
The work will be stored on two hard discs, held at different secure locations, not at the Clubrooms.
Therefore we will approach members for copies of files in TIFF format. If members do not wish to supply TIFF files we still have the JPEGS.
Obviously some work we hold is from people who are no longer members of the Society, so we will make do with the JPEG files.
Peter McCloskey
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Do you need some print boxes?
As our prints accumulate from time to time each of us needs to buy some more print boxes. The supplier is Nomad Cases (www.nomadcases.co.uk) and there is a discount of 10% if we order 10-24. The cost of carriage is the same whatever the size of the order so each of us saves on that too.
The print boxes usually used by the club are Nomad Heavy Duty 21x17x4 inches that, before any discount, cost £27.00 each plus £3.00 for a pair of webbing handles (all incl. VAT). If you wish to join in a bulk purchase please contact me at g.m.stirrat@gmail.com or speak to me at the club next Wednesday stating which boxes you wish to buy and how many. You can view them on the web site.
Gordon Stirrat
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Last chance - Will members who have not already picked up their copy of the new 2018-2019 BPS Handbook please collect them from the computer desk at the rear of the main meeting room. When taking your copy, would you please make sure that you tick your name off on the list provided.
Download a copy:
If you would like to download a pdf copy of the handbook to keep on your mobile device, you can do this by following this link.
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Issue 215 of the PAGB eNews is available by clicking here.
Download Issue 59 of Photography News here. |
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This weekend
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Castle Combe - Autumn Classic Historic Racing Festival. Full details at autumnclassic.co.uk |
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9-13 Oct
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Bath Photographic Society are holding their Annual Exhibition at St Michael's Church, Broad St, Bath, from 9 - 13 October, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily. Over 120 prints, a slide show and a special video presentation as well. |
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11 Oct
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Backwell Camera Club will be hosting a presentation by the renowned fine art landscape photographer Rachael Talibart on Thursday 11 October. Rachael doesn’t often present her work in this part of the country, so an invitation is being thrown open to BPS members. The meeting is at Backwell WI Hall at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and the entrance fee for guests is £3. Would any members wishing to attend please email sarahrobbins.bcc@virginmedia.com by Sunday 7 October so that they can ensure that we cater for the right number of people. |
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13 Oct
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Bath Photo & Optics Show - The Ballroom, Guildhall, Bath. Organised by London Camera Exchange, the show will include many trade stands and a series of five seminars throughout the day. Entry is free, full details can be found here. |
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There are a couple of exhibitions on at the Photographers Gallery in London, one by Alex Prager - Silver Lake Drive and the other Tish Murtha - Works 1976-1991. The Tish Murtha one is particularly recommended by BPS member, Dave Lawlan. Full details here. |
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15 - 19 Oct
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Wildscreen Festival at various venues in the city. The world's biggest gathering of natural world story-tellers, when over 900 wildlife film-makers, photographers and broadcasters from over 40 countries will gather to provide a five day programme of more than 100 events. For full details, tickets etc, visit the official website: wildscreen.org |
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16 Oct
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Invitation by Bristol Film & Video Society. On 16 October, former BBC Film Producer, Keith Sheather will be giving a talk called "Making Documentaries". Keith will show us how to make documentaries with particular reference to dramatised/reconstructions etc. Members with fond memories of the BBC series, “The Victorian Kitchen Garden” will realise we will be in good hands. Keith Sheather joined the BBC in London in 1964 as a trainee film editor. Graduated to full editor until transferring to Bristol as an assistant producer with Points West and BBC West. Moved to General Features in Bristol as producer and executive producer, making a variety of documentaries (Great Collectors, Victorian Kitchen Garden, War Walks). Retired from BBC 2001 and set up company to produce local history documentaries. Now produces, shoot and edits own films as well as writing prolifically. BFVS on 16th October 2018, 7:30pm, for details, please click here. venue, |
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20 Oct
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018, at M Shed. The acclaimed wildlife photography exhibition from the Natural History Museum is back with 100 stunning images. From breathtaking animal portraits and dramatic landscapes, to bizarre species and endangered habitats, this exhibition showcases the most arresting and spectacular images of our natural world.
The competition celebrates biodiversity, promotes conservation and champions ethical photography. Whether young, old, professional or amateur, the photographers featured raise awareness of the beauty and fragility of the world around us.
For further details, please visit the M Shed website.
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Bristol Cathedral: At The Going Down of the Sun – Photographic exhibition by Marko Dutka – An exhibition of nocturnal images about the Bristol, Bath and WSM region’s response to conflict over the last 104 years. Open Weekdays 8am to 5pm Weekends 8am to 3pm |
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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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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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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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Please note, we can only carry adverts for items to sell if those items actually belong to the member advertising them.
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. |
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 special events, exhibitions, photographic hints and tricks, etc. please let me know at bpsnewsletter@bristolphoto.org.uk
PLEASE NOTE: ALL COPY TO BE WITH THE EDITOR BY MIDNIGHT THURSDAY TO ALLOW FOR PUBLICATION (HOPEFULLY) ON FRIDAY MORNING.
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To view past editions of this Newsletter, please click on the following link and then select the date(s) you are looking for - BPS Newsletter Archive
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BPS Website - Members' Area "Log in"
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To enter the Members' Area of the BPS website you will need the following:
User Name - chatroom Password - pixels
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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