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Photography News Issue 27 absolutephoto.com
Tell us your club’s latest news, email: clubnews@photography-news.co.uk
Clubs
Camera club news If your club has any news that you want to share with the rest of the world, this is the page for it. Your story might be about your club’s success in a contest, or a member’s personal achievement; it could be about a group outing you had recently or when the annual exhibition is on show. Any news is eligible for inclusion, so club publicity officers please take note of the submission guidelines and get your stories in
How to submit
Deadline for the next issue: 7 January 2016
We need words and pictures by 7 January for the next issue of Photography News , which will be available from 19 January. Write your story in a Word document (400 words maximum). Please include contact details of the club, exhibition or event – website, meeting times, opening times, whatever is relevant. Images should be JPEGs, 2000 pixels on the longest dimension, any colour space, and image credits should be included. If the story is an exhibition or event, please send a picture from the exhibition (not the publicity poster) or
one from the event. If it includes people please identify them. Attach the Word document and JPEGs to an email and send to clubnews@photography-news.co.uk.
TheDavidNoton experience Camera Club of the Year 2014-15 winners Amersham PS recently enjoyed a day with David Noton, as part of their prize. Club chairman John Caton tells us about the experience
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“It had been raining for days. We kept looking at the weather forecast, but there was just a small window of possibility for a decent afternoon. So the brave and hardy 23 from Amersham Photographic Society assembled at one o’clock in drizzle at Ivinghoe Beacon car park, awaiting the arrival of David Noton, landscape photographer extraordinaire to begin the field workshop that we had won. “The rain was still tipping down so we headed for the woods looking for some autumn colour. David began his tutorial with some words of wisdom on exposure, using the histogram on his camera to expose as far to the right as possible. Then he moved on to a bit of tripod theory and explained his use of filters for trees on a rainy day. “Suddenly it was looking much brighter and we decided to head for the hills. “It was a 20-minute walk to Beacon Hill. When we got to the top, it was blowing a howling gale, but not raining. In fact, the sky had turned into a thing of awesome beauty with a massive black cloud filling most of it, but the sun was winning the battle and those
much-maligned weather forecasters may have actually got it right. “We moved on in the direction of Whipsnade. David explained his use of filters on landscapes to us. He only uses three types and, specifically, only Lee Filters. The sun had now taken control and it had become a beautiful fine late afternoon. “We all set up our tripods and carefully took shots of thelandscape.TheviewtowardsWhipsnadehadbecome quite wonderful and the constant trickle of walkers made a good focal point in our images. David talked to each of us individually, giving each of us the benefit of his experience. “An excellent day was coming to an end. In small groups, we headed back to the car park, most of us still shooting all the way back as the low light was playing marvellous tricks on individual trees and bushes. “Thank you, David Noton. Thank you, Photography News . We had a splendid day!”
Our winners of the Camera Club of the Year 2014-15 competition, Amersham PS, won a day out with David Noton as part of their prize. The Club also won a Canon XEED WUX450 top-end projector worth £3000. That prize came in especially handy as the Club’s own projector was not behaving itself and was due for replacement. Also part of the prize was 25 free year-long subscriptions to Canon’s Irista. The usual cost of this is £45. Irista lets you manage, store and share your pictures online. It is not brand specific so any camera user can benefit from its features which includes 50GB of storage. For more details on Irista, click on irista.com. This year’s overall winners will scoop a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 A2 printer. We’ll be testing this fabulous machine in the next issue of Photography News .
Could your club be this year’s Camera Club of the Year? Turn to page 18 for more details.
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