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Club News Members’ News & Images Did you hear…? Competitions & Exhibitions MCPF News Diary 1 Contents 08|AUG|2016| WCC NEWS Worcestershire Camera Club Editor: [email protected] Martin's sunning himself in France and he's asked me to organise and run the Digital Group on Thursday, 18th August. The evening will be in two sec- tions. I'll run through several of the artistic methods I use to pro- duce painterly images. This will include both manual methods and plug-ins. The session will also feature imag- es from members including those about which advice and ideas are sought. I'll be offering suggestions and demonstrations to help every- one. Clive Haynes Header image: Gordon Lycett FRPS EFIAP Next Week Digital Group We meet NEXT week on Thurs- day, 18 th August at 7.30pm at the Claines Royal British Legion , Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester WR3 7RL. See details above. Until now photo trips have been publicised by word of mouth, email or newsletter and it is very easy to miss an opportunity. Now these can be published directly on the mem- bers' area of the website. They are called ad hoc Events These photo-trips will always be available for review in a single place. Less chance of missed oppor- tunities. No scrabbling about to find an email, or phoning the organiser to check on times and dates. Any member may publish such an event. Members can subscribe to each event so everyone can see who is interested in attending - an aid to car sharing. Douglas Gregor Club Trips Deux Hommes, Funfair and Forgotten Splinters by Clive Haynes FRPS NB There will be NO newsletter next Monday.

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Club News

Members’ News & Images

Did you hear…?

Competitions & Exhibitions

MCPF News

Diary

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Contents

08|AUG|2016|

WCC NEWSWorcestershire Camera Club Editor: [email protected]

Martin's sunning himself in France

and he's asked me to organise and

run the Digital Group on Thursday,

18th August.

The evening will be in two sec-

tions. I'll run through several of

the artistic methods I use to pro-

duce painterly images. This will

include both manual methods and

plug-ins.

The session will also feature imag-

es from members including those

about which advice and ideas are

sought. I'll be offering suggestions

and demonstrations to help every-

one.

Clive Haynes

Header image: Gordon Lycett FRPS EFIAP

Next Week

Digital Group

We meet NEXT week on Thurs-

day, 18th August at 7.30pm at the

Claines Royal British Legion,

Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester

WR3 7RL. See details above.

Until now photo trips have been

publicised by word of mouth, email

or newsletter and it is very easy to

miss an opportunity. Now these can

be published directly on the mem-

bers' area of the website. They are

called ad hoc Events

These photo-trips will always be

available for review in a single

place. Less chance of missed oppor-

tunities. No scrabbling about to find

an email, or phoning the organiser

to check on times and dates.

Any member may publish such an

event. Members can subscribe toeach event so everyone can see who

is interested in attending - an aid to

car sharing.

Douglas Gregor

Club Trips

Deux Hommes, Funfair and Forgotten Splinters

by Clive Haynes FRPS

NB There will be NO newsletter next Monday.

Congratulations!

Bob Tunstall DPAGB BPE4* has had two acceptances in the Midland Salon (Fox Cub & Male Kestrel Take Off)

and one in the Winchester Photography Exhibition (Bottlenose Dolphin). The Winchester exhibition will be

viewable via Winchester Photographic Society's website galleries page, 14 September to 31 December 2016.

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Members’ News & Images

Janet Stott ARPS has created a photo-book of a recent exhi-

bition. Take a look at the online version…

Here are three more of Clive’s ‘painterly’ images to enjoy. ..

St Eulalie, Easter Market (Worcester) & Fair Crowd.

Spotted! Another of Henry Tomsett’s images

on the main Croome website.

“Three Wise Men” (Images: Douglas Gregor)

Alan Yeates writes:- It is generally accepted that display equipment, monitors and projectors, should be calibrated

regularly, so the display profile reproduces accurate colour.

Our club policy is to profile the projectors during the summer break.  Richard Wood, Douglas Gregor, Paul Dewdney, and

Alan Yeates spent two and a half hours last week calibrating the projectors using the Spyder3 equipment.

This entailed setting up Bishop Allenby hall as dark as possible, as for a normal club night. Although the process is

automated using the Spyder software, each projector was profiled 2 or 3 times to ensure consistency.  A set of standard

images from Kodak, courtesy of Richard, was used to check the results.

(Just one of the many ‘invisible’ & invaluable jobs undertaken by the technical team for the Club, thank you! Ed.)

Members’ News & Images (cont)

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Members’ News & Images (cont)

Ironbridge is one of my favourite locations; the river is always different, (last week very low, you could almost paddle in the middle), the bridge is always

interesting, and there's a great tea room. I had a play with infra-red, one of the attached is a 20-second IR exposure, works quite well I think. As well as the

IR and IR pano, there's a colour pano and a mono version. I hadn't used filters with IR in the past, however with a couple of hours to kill I had time to

experiment, and I like the water at 20 seconds, smoothes out the wind ripples.

These were taken with a Nikon D80 ir conversion, a Fuji XT 1 and a Nikon D800 for good measure. What do you think? Les Bailey

Amazing Insects - open to all. Closes 31 August. 3 free entries.

Lovable Pets - open to all. Closes 31 August. 3 free entries.

Also All Sports - as above.

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 Submissions close 31 August.

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MCPF News

MCPF News for Augustnow available.

Competitions & Exhibitions

Hanbury Hall garden photocomp reminder…

Image by James Boardman-Woodend, taken near Inkberrow.

I wonder if any of you

nature enthusiasts can

help with this?

Here’s some info on the

corn bunting including

the song. Please let Dom

know if you hear - or

have heard - these little

chaps…

Did you hear…?

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DiaryMidland Salon 6th-14th August. Why not pop along?

The Perseid meteor shower peaks this Friday and Saturday night. Best time

around midnight on these nights, after moonset (for extra darkness).

Meteors from this shower can be seen anywhere but will appear to radiate

from the constellation of Perseus, currently in the North-East at midnight.

More info.

Advisory days RPS:-

21st August (Creative/Pictorial) LRPS or ARPS at Smethwick.

18th September LRPS & ARPS in Contemporary & Conceptual and NaturalHistory. Whatton, Notts. Spectators welcome. For more details and to book.1st November RPS Central Region Distinctions Advisory Workshop LRPS andARPS (Creative/Pictorial) Smethwick

Grayson Perry at Croome. The ‘Vanity of Small Differences’, six remarkable tapestries and 'Spirit Jar' are

exhibited at Croome until 11 September. (You may recall Tessa’s well observed pictures last week.)

Embroiderers’ Guild exhibition in the Temple Greenhouse through to October.

31st August Avoncroft 1.30pm on the Guesten Hall field, an exclusive open

air  concert  by West Midlands Fire Service band, taking inspiration from the

World War 100 Project with music that would have been played 'Back in Blighty'.

26th – 29th August Lincoln, AsylumSteampunk Festival. The largest and

longest running steampunk festival in the

World, attracting participants from around

the globe. Full timetable here.

Kidderminster Arts Festival - runs through August.

August 13th & 14th Steam on the Road From steamrollers, traction engines and steam wagons, to steam trains

running on the Railway, take a trip back to the glory years at Kidderminster station.

Heading north? Book a Collection tour at the National Media Museum…

13 August Heathland wildlife: day course at Devil’s Spittleful.

17-21 August TPA Creativity exhibition, Bracknell. (Alex & Ruth have

images in). Check here for latest exhibition timetable (subject to

change). 10-14 August No Briton is an Island, Birmingham.

Images: Ruth Bourne LRPS