Newsletter 12/02/23

Posted on by timflesher

Afternoon All

Many thanks to all who got to the Arts Centre early last Tuesday for the NZ competition! And, big thanks to Freda for the bacon butties!

I’ve had a lovely email from NZ thanking us for taking part, marvelling that it actually worked, not being too smug that they won (albeit by only 10 points) and lastly, they want to do it all again – sucker for punishment? Us or them? Answers on a postcard please!

Message from Paul

Baylight Festival – Morecambe Bay

Visit: https://exploremorecambebay.org.uk/whats-on/baylight-festival/

All info there! Might make a good trip out. Check it out!

Notices

Please don’t forget:

2 photographic trips suggested by Michael

  1. An ‘un-official’ small group onto Ainsdale Dunes
  2. Queen St Mill, Burnley; 3 hour shoot, cost (depending on numbers) roughly between £10 – £15 each.

If you are interested, please email as soon as, if you haven’t already, ‘cos we need to organise.

L&CPU

As per Lewis’s input last Wednesday if you are interested in taking part, please submit your entries by Saturday 18th February.

When sending in your entries please order them numerically in order of preference.

Please also remember if you are a new member you will need to register using the following web address:

https://lcpu.org

Once you have opened the website click on Information Portal

It then says:

Important Information.

To access these services, you will require an ‘approved’ individual personal account. Shared Club accounts are no longer permitted.

As login is now via a personal account, we would strongly advise against the use of generic email addresses (eg.secretary@someclub.co.uk).

To access Club competitions and Club services, you will need to be registered as an Individual and Registered and Approved as a Club officer.

If you had an ‘individual’ account on the previous system, your existing credentials (email address and password) will still work on this website.

Club Logins using a Club Code and Password do not work on this website. Please Register a new user account.

Please use this button (PROCEED) to login, register a new account, recover a lost password, or ask for support.

Summary below:

  • Only doing the 2 PDI sections, prints get more involved with delivery etc.
  • PDI (Projected Digital Images) must be within 1600 px (horizontal) x 1200 px (vertical) in jpeg format, in sRGB colour space (including mono)
  • The entry system will not accept a file size of more than 2mb.
  • PDI: there are two categories in this section – Open (which includes colour and monochrome) and Nature.
  • Entries: a) PDI – Open = up to 16 images from not less than 5 photographers; no photographer may enter more than 4 images in the Open.
  • Entries: b) PDI – Nature = up to 8 images from not less than 5 photographers; no photographer may enter more than 2 images in the Nature.
  • Composite images are not accepted in the Nature sections
  • Club members may only enter images for one club.

Please don’t forget we need a minimum of 5 members to take part or we can’t submit any entries.

Up and coming programme events:

  • Wednesday 15th February: Presentation ‘Live’ in the Arts Centre by Martin Jump on ‘Lancashire landscapes, flora and fauna.
  • Wednesday 15th February: Humanity Cup: Last day for entry (prints and DPIs).
  • Wednesday 22nd February: Members evening including:
  • Talk by Michael on ‘Extracting Video Stills’.
  • Talk by Stan on ‘Exporting from Lightroom using different Colour Space settings for both DPI and DSCL Prints, Mono and Colour.’
  • Talk by Lewis on filters.
  • Up date on Topaz Photo AI – lots of updates since last time we looked at it.

If any other member would like to give a talk/presentation PLEASE get in touch.

  • Wednesday March 1st: Talk by Adrian and Sue using ‘AV Presentation’
  • Wednesday March 8th: Judging of the ‘Humanity Competition’, arbitrated by Steve Proctor DPAGB BPE5*

Minimalist challenge

Following on from the minimalistic images shown last Wednesday we are setting up a challenge! Oh no, I hear you cry!

We are inviting members to send in 6 (ish) minimalist images by Tuesday April 4th and I’ll put them in a PowerPoint presentation. These can then be shown in the usual way and you can either comment on them from ‘the floor’ if you like or from the front.

Just to remind you, if it helps, there were 12 categories, listed below, to give you a guide; but the challenge is ‘open’ so you may want to submit images that aren’t in those groups. 

Categories were: Abstract, Aerial, Architecture, Conceptual, Fine Art, Landscape, Long Exposure, Night, Open, Photomanipulation, Portrait and Street.

I can send a copy of the minimalistic presentation out to anyone who wants to look at it, possibly again – it may help with composition ideas. If you missed the last meeting I can, of course, send you the presentation; just the images not the commentary!

The images could be ‘one-offs’ or in a series – your choice.

Anyway, there it is – please have a go; good, bad or ugly it’s all good practice!

Any questions just email in or chat to us at the next meeting.

That’s all folks Mike and Lewis