Afternoon All

Heatwave comes to an end today, at lunchtime, according to the BBC; so, a little late today ‘cos I’ve been gardening! Thunder now rumbling around here in Forton. I have noticed lately that there are quite a few fallen leaves on the ground – signs of the approaching autumn.

Many thanks to all members who managed to put together 12 – in – 12 and show them during our last meeting – great effort; a new ’12 month mission’ for members is under development/construction – news soon! If you have an ideas, please let us know!

Internal competitions

Many thanks to Lewis for his reminder on how to enter images for our 5 internal competitions, the Projected Digital Images – PDI’s.

A few gentle reminders:

• In each of the Club competitions a member may submit up to a maximum of nine entries, with no more than three entries allowed in any one section.

• There are 4 sections: (a) Colour Prints (b) Monochrome Prints (c) Colour Projected Digital Images (d) Monochrome Projected Digital Images.

• In order to ensure that images are projected properly by the club’s equipment, DPI entries to the clubs’ competitions must be supplied in jpeg format and in sRGB colour space.

• The maximum dimensions of the image must be 1600 pixels (horizontal) x 1200 pixels (vertical).

• Digital images should be submitted on a USB stick (which will be returned) and members should create a new folder for each competition, with the folder name being your name followed by the competition name and date.

• For example: Mike Jenner Events Cup 2023 Monochrome

• For example: Mike Jenner Events Cup 2023 Colour

• So, in the above 2 examples, I’ve created 2 folders because I’m entering some monochrome PDI’s and some colour PDI’s.

• Filenames must be a maximum of 40 characters and contain a title and your competition number. Please use a capital letter at the start of each title word and insert an underscore between the title and your competition number.

• Example: Lytham Pier_123.jpg (where 123 is your competition number).

If you are still unsure/confused PLEASE email in or chat to us at the next meeting. We are here to help you and we want every member to understand the ‘system’ and enjoy the competitions. Don’t be afraid or be put off!

If you do make a mistake, we will help you for next time.

This is a club for everyone!

All the competition rules are on our website – click on Information and then look under Club competition information and then click on Competition rules.

Notices

Photo competition which we discussed on Wednesday evening; this will be a competition for 11 – 16yr olds and the theme of the competition will be, “Garstang: through your eyes”.

Images can only be captured during the half term break, Mon 12th Feb – Friday 16th Feb 2024. All images must be captured with a mobile phone.

Michael, who is organising this, is still looking for 2/3 volunteers to help out. As we said we don’t think it will be an arduous task and should be fun; if you are interested PLESAE get in touch on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk

The Bob Robinson Trophy – attached are then rules, as a reminder.

Any member interested please send in a maximum of 3 entries for consideration.

Some images have been sent in but we need more please – deadline date is Thursday 14^th September; please send to  info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject is RB Trophy – cheers.

Project/Development/Challenge! – Feedback on an image

There are 2 x Member’s evenings – 27th September and 25th October coming up.

For 27th September:

The idea is for any club member to submit a maximum of 3 images for a constructive critique by John and he will guarantee that at least 1, if not 2 images, from each member, will be critiqued.

Theme = ‘Open;’ images taken in the last 5/6 months if poss.

All images submitted and shown will be anonymous.

How to send them in:

• In an ideal world please send the images in the form of a DNG file
• OR, send them in as a TIFF file
• OR if you are struggling send in as a JPEG file, that will be fine.

If members are using Lightroom then in the Export Panel, under File Settings, the image format can be changed to DNG or Tiff.

Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 20th September.

JPEG Images can be sent to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk  and the subject – Image Feedback.

DNG and TIFF files must be sent in via Wetransfer.

If you are struggling then please ask during next week’s meeting or phone Mike on 07340 314408

Exhibition

September Exhibition; winners, HC and C – by next week please; 13^th September. PLEASE – on the back of each print, label it with the title, your name, which competition and the prize. This is a great help to Maurice!

Up and coming programme of events

September 13th – Brian Law ARPS CPAGB – ‘Realising Your Potential’.

September 20th – Geoff Reader – Snowdonia & The Peak District. PLUS, last date for your entries to the Events Competition. That’s Projected Digital Images (PDI’s) and prints.

September 27th – Members Evening – see above

October 4th – Harry Emmett – Towards CPAGB (The Credit award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) – Prints

October 11th – Garry Cook – Street photography and a project in Israel

October 18th – Events Cup Competition: Judged by Nicki Greenwood CPAGB

October 25th – Member’s Evening

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis