Good Morning All!
Fine weather today – ready for (or started) the 7 in 7?
A few dates: March is a busy month!
March 2nd. Judging of the ‘Anything Goes Cup Competition’ by Will Stead, live in the Arts Centre.
March 9th. Workshop – members challenged to taking one photograph each day for seven consecutive days. It would be great if members could email us or chat this Wednesday, to say whether they are taking part so that we can judge the numbers involved. Like we have mentioned before you don’t have to stand up at the front you can ‘talk’ from your seat!
March 16th. Presentation by David Bibby entitled ‘My way with AV’.
March 19th – Saturday. The club is running a coffee morning at the Arts Centre. If anyone is willing to help out, they would be very welcome! Also, we will need some cakes/biscuits/or anything edible to sell! Please have a word with Mike or Lewis when we next meet.
March 23rd. Committee meeting
March 30th. Beginners ‘software editing’ session. Looking at Lightroom again and/or some Photoshop tools or you could bring in some images (preferably RAW), to be processed or process them yourself!
Talking of beginners, I’m starting to learn Photoshop! Having scoured the internet and come across some fairly good ‘tutorials’ I have finally found one that is very good. And, it’s FREE!
If you are interested, or just curious, the website is https://www.shutterevolve.com
It’s run by a guy called Jimmy McIntyre and when you log onto the site click ‘Free Stuff’ on the strap line at the top. You will then see ‘The Ultimate FREE Photoshop Bundle for Photographers’!
When you sign up (which is free) you’ll receive three products to download:
- The Easy Panel – FREE Luminosity Mask Panel for Photoshop.
- Our FREE Photoshop Beginner’s Course For Photographers.
- The Essential Guide to Luminosity Mask FREE download e-book.
The Photoshop beginners guide (part 2) is split into 3 parts:
- Photoshop beginners’ part 1
- Photoshop beginners’ part 2
- Photoshop beginners’ part 3 – this part is devoted to Camera RAW
Each part is literally crammed with ‘stuff’, but it’s all, in my ‘umble opinion, cracking material! You really need to watch several times to take it in. Anyway, give it a go if you are interested.
There are loads of things on his website and obviously he is trying to sell it, but having ‘signed-up’ I have had no problems with lots of emails asking me to buy – and you can always unsubscribe at any time. Give it a go?
L&CPU Annual Club Competition.
Members! Would you like us to put an entry together for this competition?
We would only enter the PDI sections, not prints.
For the ‘Open’ section the club can enter up to 16 images in total from a minimum of 5 photographers and a maximum of 4 entries per person.
For the ‘Nature’ section we can enter up to 8 images from a minimum of 5 photographers and a maximum of 2 entries per person.
We could put an entry into the ‘Open’ section using images from the recent PAGB competition. We had 5 people entered in that and the entries would be eligible. We would need to select the entries but Lewis would do this based mainly on the scores from the last competition. If anyone else wishes to enter or anyone wants to use a different photo that is good, no problem.
For the ‘Nature’ section we would need 2 more people to submit photos to put together an entry.
If we are to do it, we need entries by March 20th.
We will need to make a decision on Wednesday evening please.
First Exhibition: 9th April to 7th May
‘Open’; this is for any print that was not among the winners of any competition. Please label the print, on the back, with your title and name – thanks.
We need the prints in by March 9th PLEASE!
We still need 1 more volunteer please for the Friday 8th April in the afternoon for a couple of hours – please see Mike or Lewis.
Zoom invite
Lewis Thompson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Garstang Camera Club Anything Goes Competition Judge Will Stead EFIAP CPAGB PSA3
Time: Mar 2, 2022 07:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82631809180?pwd=UlNzSmhjTWdrY2ppbFZoejkrbjVzUT09
Meeting ID: 826 3180 9180
Passcode: 683045
That’s all folks
Mike and Lewis
Garstang Camera Club 