Monday 23 February 2009

Free Exhibition

There is a free exhibition located in The Mall Galleries , The Mall and will be displaying images from this years Digital Camera Magazine's Photographer of the Year competition . It run's until Feb 28th and is free

Friday 20 February 2009

TUESDAY 24 FEB - 3RD INTERNAL PRINTS COMP

Next Tuesdays print competition will be judged by Len Johnson LRPS of Uckfield CC.

Thanks go to Dave Mason for arranging this at such short notice.

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Federation Finals Day 2009

This event will take place on 25th April 2008 at All Saints Church Hall, Onslow Gardens, Sanderstead starting at 2.30PM with doors opening at 1PM for a print and slide show exhibition. Tickets cost £5 inc tea or coffee and biscuits!

You can enter 2 mono prints, 2 colour prints and 2 slides (!) and entry costs £1 per print or slide.

Photographs that have gained a certificate of merit in the 2008-09 season gain free entry.

If you would like to enter please bring your prints to the next Aperture meeting on Tuesday 24th Feb which is out print competition night. Maximum mount size is 40 x 50cm (16"x20")

Any questions please contact stu or marshall who will be happy to help

stumayhew@aol.com
marshall.pinsent@talktalk.net

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Next week and last week!

GUEST SPEAKER
17th February: our speaker is Jack Bates FRPS who will be showing prints and talking about his work. You can see some of his photography here.

... and here!

SNOW SHOW
Congratulations to Andy Linden who won last Tuesday's 'Snow Show' mini-comp with this superb image:


(the top 4 photos will be uploaded on the club website competition pages later this week)

Finally, our special thanks go to Elaine who kindly donated a bottle of Moet Chandon Champaign as our 1st prize!

Wednesday 4 February 2009

10th Feb Meeting

I hope this snow hasn't created too many problems for you. Going by the pictures appearing in our Flickr pool it's clear many of us have made the most of the unusual conditions by getting out and about with our cameras.

So change of plan this week; instead of mini-talks we thought we'd use the Tuesday meeting to show these winter wonders while they are still hot (or cold!) and maybe build in a little comp with a bottle of plonk awarded for the best pic of the evening.

So if you want to show your snowy pics please send your Jpegs to me by Sunday night (not to Dave this time as he's in Berlin!) this is an informal thing so there is no limit on the number of pics you send - the only stipulation is the photographs must have been taken this week.

Size: the usual 768 pixels on the longest edge.


Cheers,
Marshall
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Monday 2 February 2009

NIGHT SHOOT - CANCELLED!

The general consensus is that due to the weather and ongoing transport problems we should cancel tomorrow nights London shoot.

IF the weather improves enough, a few people may try to make it to the Bull pub (Top of Shooter's Hill) for around 8pm.

The good news is that all this snow is inspiring some wonderful photos, so please post yours to our Flickr pool!

Sunday 1 February 2009

A Selection of Photographic Websites and Links

I thought I might share a few photographic based websites with you:

Some great night shots of our fair City

General Photography Interest

Royal Photographic Society

A great resource for various photographic related events

Online Photoshop video tutorials

If you get snowed in I hope these give you something to do!

stu

FLICKR FACTS & FEARS!

Flickr is a fantastic on-line photo community and a great way to share your images with the world, however 'sharing' should not be confused with stealing! Sadly the theft of images from Flickr is on the increase, often by commercial companies who use software designed to search the image database and download your pictures. To avoid this you can do several things:

1 - Stop uploading large image files! Make them no bigger than club digital projection size (768 pixels at the longest edge).

2 - Change the 'Privacy & Permissions' settings in your Flickr account. This gives you control over who can download your pictures (my comments in brackets):

Only you (obviously OK!)

Your Friends and/or Family (your choice, probably fine for most people)

Your contacts (again up to you, but check people who make you a contact carefully before accepting them)

Any Flickr user (unwise)

Anyone (Astonishingly, Flick actually recommend this option (!) but most Flickr users would say it is most definitely NOT recommended!)

Go through the other Privacy & Permissions settings carefully to make sure you are happy with them.

The Aperture Woolwich blog - If your Flickr photo is tagged with 'Aperture Woolwich' it will appear in the little flickr slideshow window on our blog. However if you change your Flickr 'Who can blog your pictures' permissions from 'Any flickr member' to any of the other options, your images won't appear on our blog or anyone else's.

Finally, a new item has recently appeared in the Flickr Privacy & Permissions settings:

Make your photos eligible for invitation by Getty Images?

Flickr have cut a deal with the Getty stock image library business to allow them to scour the database for images they can offer for sale. Currently there is a lot of controversy about this and much confusion over copyright and how much control you will have over the use of your images if you sign a contract with Getty. So, at least until this issue is clarified it is advisable to opt out of this by changing the setting from the default 'YES' (naughty of them eh!) by clicking edit and un-ticking the box.

Related links that may be of interest:

A Flickr members personal decision: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jann/3233283114/

Getty & Flickr: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/07/getty-and-flick.html

Flickr member who's images was stolen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63263430@N00/3184792040