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Studio Model

We have the opportunity to do some studio photography with a model. The date we have available is Sunday the 29th of July, 9am till 2pm.

We need to hire the Ploughman Hall to be able to do this, so there would be a cost of £6.00 per member attending. Once we know how many members are interested we an draw up a time table, we are looking at up to 3 members to attend at one time per hour.

If you are interested then please email me by return as we need to book the model and the venue.

Anita (alsalmon@ntlworld.com)

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Feast Exhibition 2012

Willingham Feast weekend is the 6th and 7th October.

We are hoping that we can run another exhibition this year. The library was being refurbished to enable self service last year so we were unable to use it as a venue. This year it is available again, so the exhibition will be returning there. This  means that we will need to wait for the library to close on the Saturday morning before we can set up.

We will be asking for volunteers to help with setting up and dismantling the exhibition, as well as members to be available to answer any questions that visitors to the exhibition may have. There will be a sign up sheet closer to the date.

We request that each member supply 2 photographs:

  • 1 photograph from our categories over the past year,
  • 1 photograph to be your free choice.

These need to be supplied by the Club Meeting on the 20th of August.

We need to get them printed so please crop your photos to 12 x 16 inches at 240 DPI resolution. If you don’t know how to change DPI then please just send them and Stephen will change this for you.

Please email them to art@mindakart.co.uk along with a title for the image, your name, telephone number and email address.

Anita

 

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Newsletter

We would like to introduce ourselves, the new Gang of Four: Chris Talbet, Keith Tedstone, Chris Cross and Anita Salmon.

[List of Meetings and Subjects are in the calendar.]

We are hoping that there may be time during the second part of our meetings to have some technical instruction & advice from Stephen and Francis. If there is something you would like them to cover there is a questionnaire attached, please could you complete it and either email it to Anita (via webmaster@willinghamPhotoClub.org.uk) or hand it to one of the current Gang of Four at the May meeting.

We are also trying to arrange a portrait session with a model, this will more than likely be on a Saturday. Date and venue to be confirmed.

Willingham Feast is in October, and as a Camera club we would like to run an exhibition. This will be our 3rd year of doing this. Last year the venue we used was Willingham school but we hope to use Willingham library again this year, as in our first exhibition.

As you can imagine this takes quite a lot of work behind the scenes: from cutting mount boards to collecting the display panels, also bodies on site during the 2 afternoons we will be open.  There will be a sign up list available closer to the feast.

This can only be a success with your help!

We ask that each member supply 2 photographs for the exhibition: 1 from the subjects we have covered as a club for the past year, the second a free choice. They need to be supplied by the 20th August (club meeting).

We need to get them printed, so please crop your photos to 12 x 16 inch at 240 DPI resolution. Bring your files along to the any meeting or email art@mindakart.co.uk – please supply name, telephone number and email address.

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Improve Your Photography

Thanks to Francis for his presentation about how to Improve your Photography by Using Simple Camera Settings and Techniques. For those who missed the meeting, or anybody who wants an on-screen version of the handouts, the PDF can be downloaded here.

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March Meeting

Unfortunately, the Baptist Church remains unavailable for our March meeting. This is upsetting because we have already advertised the meeting as an introductory evening for new members. We are searching for a new venue, and will publicise it here (and at the door of the Baptist’s on Monday) as soon as we find one.

The assignment for April follows the introductory theme: take pictures with basic equipment – compact or phone cameras.

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Change of Plans

Unfortunately, the New Members Evening scheduled for February 20th has had to be postponed until March 19th because of building work at the Baptist Church.

We have yet to finalise revised plans for the February meeting. We will probably, of necessity, arrange some kind of Field Trip – possibly involving beer. Watch this site for updates.

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Photo File Names

We decided at the last meeting that it would be very useful when showing photographs if everybody names their files consistently.

The format is NAME TITLE NUMBER where TITLE is the assignment title:
e.g. John Smith Autumn Colours 1.jpg

We also thought that it would be simpler if the photos collected and shown at the meeting were posted to a gallery on the website by me. To keep things manageable, only your first 3 numbered photos will be added to the gallery – so bear that in mind when numbering.

If you don’t want some (or any) of your photographs on display, please indicate in the file name by adding NOSHOW or something similar after the number:
e.g. John Smith Autumn Colours 3 noshow.jpg