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2016-17 Programme & New Calendar

Details of the 2016-17 programme are available here

The programme is now displayed in a new calendar format which displays more information in an accessible way

  • You can ‘subscribe’ to the calendar and have it downloaded and updated in your phone or desktop calendar
  • You can see different views of the calendar via the drop down option on the top right. The default view is stream but try the others for alternative views. The agenda view for example is neat and also printable.
  • Clicking on an entry will display all the event details on its own page
  • You can filter the calendar using the drop down on the top left. You can toggle the different categories on and off (so you can restrict the list to one or more categories of event).
    • Competition entry dates are shown as a separate category
    • In the future we will likely add more events in different categories – such as Challenge Group, Club Outings, Photo Opportunities
    • The different categories have their own ‘logo’ and colour code
  • We can add extra text against an event to provide a more detailed description. We haven’t had the time to do this yet but as an example there is extra detail on the Photo Journalism event on 5th October. The text isn’t always visible initially – if not there are various ways to show it. Hover over or click on an event in Posterboard or Month view or click ‘+’ in Agenda.

So give it a go and look round  the various options to get familiar – hopefully you’ll find it a useful new addition to the site.

Printed programmes will be available at the first meeting.

High Speed Flash practical evening

Last Wednesday was an excellent practical evening at the Guild Photographic Society. George Franks came along and set up 4 tables with various setups to practice some high speed flash techniques.  George started with a brief introductory talk and then demonstrated each setup and helped the members take some high speed flash photos.  Two of the setups involved dropping objects into water with the water splashes appearing frozen, one had water dripping into a cocktail glass creating droplets (with images in the droplet) as well as it splashing into the glass and the fourth had wisps of smoke rising from a joystick.

The flash, mostly off-camera, with a remote trigger created the freezing effect. The initial settings were: camera on manual with a synch speed of 1/125, ISO 100-400, F8 and the flash set to 1/32 of power.  However, these settings would need to be experimented with to get the perfect shot.

Focusing was set initially by autofocus and then the focussing turned to manual. The object could then be dropped (always in the same vertical plane, knowing the focussing wouldn’t change).

A great fun evening of hands-on experience, with George giving us plenty of know-how and members coming away with knowledge about the technique and those who tried the technique on the night getting some good shots. So DO TRY THIS AT HOME.

George demonstrating
George demonstrating

an example result

the smoke setup

the smoke rising

 

water droplets

lemon into a glass

 

 

Change of Programme

This coming Wednesday 16th March will now be dedicated to portrait photography.  Alan Angel will demonstrate portrait photography using studio flash; members can then then try out our own studio flash kit, which can be borrowed for a small fee.

The inter-club DPI competition has been cancelled.

Second Theme Competition

The format of Competition #5 is that it has 2 parts:

  • Part 1: DPI Open mono
  • Part 2: DPI Theme.  The theme for the 2nd theme comp is “Close Up” – interpret this any way you like.  DPI images for this can be colour or mono.
  • The hand-in date for Competition #5 is Wednesday 16th March

Comp #2 (Jan 6 2016) Results Published (CORRECTION)

The results of the recent print competition are available here.

Another selection of quality entries (and winners) from both new and established members.

As a number of members have notified us the colour print results were initially incorrect (due to an error early in the list which had a knock on effect down the list). Apologies. These have been corrected and the results  now reflect the scores awarded on the night.  (On the plus side it’s encouraging to know that we have so many visitors to the site!)

Please can the winners upload a DPI of their prints so that we can make them available for use in external comps. The print upload portal is here 

First Theme Competition “Part of the Body”

The format of Competition #3 is that it has 2 parts:

  • Part 1: DPI Open colour
  • Part 2: DPI Theme, can be mono or colour, author’s choice.

    The theme for that first themed competition is ‘part of the body’.  This can be anybody’s body, any animal’s body or anything’s body. i.e. as long as it has a body you can photograph it, but it must only be part of the body, not the whole thing.

  • The hand-in date for Competition #3 is Wednesday 27th January

Annual DPI Competition Results

Results from the Annual DPI competition are now available here. Another set of quality entries. Congratulations to the winners. Apologies for the delay in posting these – a small and unusual glitch in our carefully structured and finely honed processing methodology!

Winning photos will be added to the gallery and made available for external competitions.

(If you had a winning print entry and haven’t yet uploaded it we’d be grateful if you would … here.)

November Monthly Comp #1 Results

A slew of quality images in our November DPI competition. Interestingly a high number of mono entries this month (44) relative to colour (54). Congratulations to David Royle with a first in mono and second in colour. Results in detail here.

The gallery has been updated with some of the winning images from this competition and the annual (more to be added soon).

New Season starts September 16th

Join us on Wednesday September 16th at 7.30 as we kick off the new season of talks, competitions and practical sessions.

New members are always welcome and you are invited to come  for a few trial sessions (£2 per session) before deciding to join as a full member.

You can view the programme here.

Photographic Exhibition in July 2015

As part of the Wilmslow Guild’s “Guild on View” our club will be holding an exhibition of a selection of members’ photographs.  Some of the pictures will be for sale.

The exhibition is open Friday on 3rd July 1:30pm to 3:30pm & 7:30pm till 9:00pm; and on Saturday 4th July 10:00am till 3:30pm.

Location is the Wilmslow Guild.

Come along and see some of pictures!

 

Last Meeting of the 2014-15 Season

Wednesday was our last meeting until September and there was a rare display of members’ cameras!

As a ‘chat and play’ meeting people were trying out various cameras, including some old but good manual lenses supplied by Bill.  We also played with the club’s studio lighting kit.

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And Dave demonstrated his “not looking through the viewfinder” street photography expertise:

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