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Shaftesbury Camera Club

September 2011 Newsletterwww.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk

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WELCOME to our second year. We hope the sum-mer break was happy and ‘photographically pro-ductive’. We look forward to welcoming even more members to a new season of competitions, talks, workshops and socialising. We have a full and var-ied programme which you can view or download from our website, and printed copies will be avail-able at meetings.*

Please note club subscriptions for the new season are now due and are unchanged at £25 per person. Karen will be pleased to receive cash or cheques (payable to Shaftesbury Camera Club) at the first meetings.

News

AGM & PRIZE GIVING 12th May 2011 – Our AGM was a great success with nearly a full house. You can read a short report in the Members Area of the website. Kelvin Shuffell said he felt privileged to present some well earned Certificates to the Win-ners of our Club’s first year:

Photographer of the Year (over two rounds) Large Print - David Lampard; Small Print - Helen Wildey; PDI - Andy NewtonPhotograph of the Year Large Print “Model Maker Nic” - Kelvin Shuffell; Small Print “Three O’clock” - Karen Green; PDI “Cat Nap” - Andy Newton.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION in August in the Library. Exhibiting our very own members’ photographic work, which has helped advertise our club and show what we can produce.

Looking a head

Thurs 15th September 2011.- The start of the new season. We welcome members new and old for wine and nibbles. There will be discussion of the season’s programme and forth-coming events including possible ad hoc workshops. We also hope to have short presenta-tions on Digital Imaging Software and simple techniques for improving your photos.

Thurs 29th September - Guest speaker: Leo Rich, ARPS - “Ramblings with the Idle Rich.” Leo Rich joined his first camera club nearly forty years ago and during this time he has amassed a considerable amount of expertise both as a photographer and judge both at home and abroad.

Meeting Dates – 2011

Thurs 15th SeptemberStart of the new season (See main item below)

Thurs 29th SeptemberGuest speaker: Leo Rich ARPS “Ram-

blings with the Idle Rich.”

Thurs 13th OctoberIn house critique evening:

Thurs 27th October1st. PY “Photographer of the Year” Com-

petition: Subject: Open.Judge: Martin Edge.

Thurs 10th NovemberA practical Audio Visual

Thurs 24th NovemberGuest Speaker: Sid Jones

“My Favourite Pictures”

Thurs 1st DecemberInternal competition:

Ladies v Gents! PDIs only.Subject: Open Judge: Jackie Poynter.

Thurs 15th DecemberChristmas Soiree for Members & Guests.

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Competitions- Dates and Subjects (further details in Programme or on web)

Photographer of the Year (PY) for Large Print, Small Print, and PDI over two rounds. 27th October (Subject Open with judge Martin Edge) and 12 th January (Subject Water with judge Peter Wright)Photograph of the Year (PofY)– a single competition for best Large Print, Small Print and PDI: 12th April 2012 (Subject Open with judge Norman Carey).Fun Competition “Ladies versus Gents PDI’s” on 1st December (Subject Open with judge Jackie Poynter)External Club “friendlies” with Fordingbridge (Open), Gillingham (Water), Wincanton (Low Light Outdoors) and Pimperne (Open)

Star Night

We also have a STAR NIGHT with Jeremy Walker on 26th April 2012 when we hope to fill the hall with all our members and lots of visitors!

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- Newbury Camera Club have an all day of talks and practical demonstrations by Gavin Hoey on 9th October. Tickets are just £12 – take your own lunch! Details from Simon Rains [email protected] www.gavinhoeyphotography.co.uk

- Dorchester Camera Club have Andy Rouse the internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer presenting stunning projected images on Friday 25 th November Tickets £10 from Mary Cantile 01308 897798

- Summer Outings – we hope there were a few outings, but as yet have not had any feed-back from anyone who ventured out. There have been quite a few Summer Exhibitions around Dorset, Wilts and Devon – we hope members and like-minded photographers have been able to visit.

- Blackmore Vale Magazine and Western Gazette – we try to submit reports of each meeting to the local press and they are asking for these to contain outstanding PDIs where possible so we will be asking everyone on their subscription forms to signify agreement to this (Individual pictures and portraits can be excluded)

www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits any input for the website. 01963 370900

* If anyone can help us advertise or distribute programmes as a means of promoting the club and increasing the membership please speak to Chris

Babs Johnson [email protected] or tel: 01747 854765

_________________________________________________________________ PDI – Projected Digital Image as jpg file in 1400x1050 pixels. Some clubs call PDI’s DPI’s! See web for details or ask!

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The first couple of meetings have kicked off our new season well and we were pleased to welcome several prospective new members and visitors.

The web site is now fully updated and photo-active with some of last years winning shots. At present these are limited to pdi's but if you care to email jpg's of your successful prints, we can add those too. The web also has more local photo links.

Club subscriptions for the new season are now due and are unchanged at £25 per person. Karen will be pleased to receive cash or cheques (payable to Shaftesbury Camera Club) at the next meeting. Please note that only paid-up members can enter competitions! Saxons at the top of Gold Hill now keep printed copies of our programme – please tell your friends!

Recent Meetings:Leo Rich ARPS was our guest speaker last Thursday evening with the title of “Ramblings with the Idle Rich”. A good turn-out heard Leo explain there is far more to photography than just continually looking for a competition-winning shot. Starting with our own neighbourhood, he showed there are often better and more interesting wildlife opportunities than you might find in some of the more exotic places where people visit in search of that unique picture.

However Leo travels extensively and showed how even routine shots of everyday life can tell a compelling story when viewed in a more complete context. His travels to Turkey, Chile, Cuba and India included some wonderful portraits that together with added detail about them, their locality and their changes during successive visits made for a very enjoyable evening.

Our first meeting of the season was a social event with wine and nibbles to welcome old members, new ones, and several visitors. Bill Norman gave an overview of our forthcoming talks and competitions. The competitions will include internal ones (including a “Ladies v. Gents”) as well as several challenges against neighbouring clubs. There was also interest in some possible extras to the published programme with hands-on workshops and visits.

Looking a head

In-house critique evening Thursday 13th October. This will be an informal review of mem-ber's photos in either print or PDI format. Bring along a couple of photographs that you would like to discuss, perhaps for ideas for improvement either artistically or technically: problem shots welcome! Bring prints (unmounted is fine) on the night and please email PDI's to Chris at the address below by the preceding Tuesday as usual.


Thurs 13th OctoberIn house critique evening:

Member's Prints and PDI's for discussion

Thurs 27th OctoberPhotographer of the Year Round 1Judge=Martin Edge Subject = Open

Email Print titles & PDI jpg's to [email protected] by

the preceding Tuesday

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Thurs 15th December

We also have a STAR NIGHT with Jeremy Walker on 26th April 2012 when we hope to fill the hall with all our members and lots of visitors!



Abbotsbury Sub-tropical Gardens will be open and floodlit for two weeks during October. Brian Tarling will lead a club visit encompassing afternoon and evening low light photography on either the 15th or 22nd October depending on weather forecasts. More details and ex-pressions of interest please during our next meeting when Brian will give a short introduction to low light techniques. This could be a really great experience!

First round of Photographer of the Year Competition, 27th October. Our judge for this will be Martin Edge and the subject is open. There are three classes: members can enter up to two images in each class... small prints (image less than 7.5 x 5 inches), large prints and pdi's. Prints should be mounted and titles given to Helen (Tel 01963 370900 or [email protected]) by Tuesday beforehand. PDI's (1400x1050 and named 01_title.jpg) to Chris on same email address. See web for full details.

Preparing images for Competitions: Projecting your PDI's: A hands-on workshop on how to resize, name and email your jpg's using Windows or Macs, free programmes or Photoshop family. We will also demonstrate the capabilities of the projector and how to best prepare im-ages for projecting with our competition software. We are planning an extra Thursday work-shop either in Buckhorn Weston or Shaftesbury, depending on numbers. Helen will co-ordin-ate everyone's potential interest to firm up dates and venue.

Competition Summary -

Photographer of the Year (PY) 27th October (Subject Open) & 12th January (Water)Photograph of the Year (PofY)– 12th April 2012 (Subject Open)“Ladies versus Gents PDI’s” 1st December (Subject Open)External Club “friendlies”: Fordingbridge (Open); Gillingham (Water); Wincanton (Low Light Outdoors); Pimperne (Open)

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• David Hansford is staging his first exhibition at Pythouse Kitchen Gardens, Tisbury Thursday's to Monday's during October.

• Dorchester Camera Club have Andy Rouse the internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer presenting stunning projected images on Friday 25 th November Tickets £10 from Mary Cantile 01308 897798

• David Noton will be giving a “Christmas Special” Roadshow talk on 14 th December at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton with £15 tickets available from www.davidnoton.com. This is bound to be popular so book now!

• Picture Frames of Shaftesbury (on the Wincombe Industrial Estate) are offering club members a £5 voucher on orders through their national website www.pictureframes.co.uk. See our web for details or ask Chris W.

Chris Wildey [email protected] or tel: 01963 370900

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November 2011 NewsletterEmail [email protected] www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk


WELCOME again to the season. The weather is turning fresh now and the lighting and autumnal colours will de-light those photographers who can brave the outside world with the change in temperature.

Our ‘in house’ critique evening was a great success with input from our members who became very vocal and active.Viewing and discussing members’ images with the more experienced photographers giving helpful comments and suggestions was an excellent idea. We all gleaned a great deal and will now be able to improve our prints and digital images.

1st PY Photographer of the Year competition was judged by Martin Edge from Wimborne who is an underwater photographer. He is one of the very few pro-fessionals globaly specializing in underwater which provides him with a unique market for his books and photos. The outcome of Martin’s judging was as follows: Small print winner was Aga Sandrowicz with 'Old Harry Rocks'. Large print winners were Norman Good with ‘Latch’, Rob Howard with ‘Sombrero’ & ‘Sand, Shadows, Spots and Stripes’ and Brian Tarling with ‘Reflecting on Sydney’ - all produced some excellent work. The winners of the PDI section receiving top marks were Brian Tarling with 'Blea Tarn', David Townley with 'Acer', Bill Norman with 'Towards Sunset', Aga Sandrowicz with 'Speed of Light', Norman Good with 'The Gardener' and Rob Howard with 'Hand on Henge'. Wonderful selection of PDIs – keep it up but don’t forget prints either!

Programme Changes: Please note that the 24th November meeting will now be a practical even-ing with Brian Tarling, so bring your cameras (and tripods if you have one). Brian will be describing techniques needed for taking studio portraits using equipment which most of us have in our homes. It is hoped a selection of models will be on hand – sounds exciting! This replaces Sid Jones who will now be with us on the 1st March talking about “My Favourite Pictures”. This means that the Members Evening with their presentations will now be 23rd February, one week earlier than previously sched-uled. The downloadable programmes and other information on our web site will be updated in a few days time.

Finally, please remember our raffle at the next meeting – can you find a suitable prize to donate? We hope it’s not too late to remind you all to try and get some firework photos this weekend for our future “low light” competition!

Looking ahead

• Bonfire Night – Please try some night shots for our future competition against Wincanton.

• Raffle prizes needed for Thursday 10th November – please see what you can bring. Any sur-plus prizes will be carried forward for the Christmas Soiree raffle.

• Remember your cameras – and tripods on Thursday 24th November

Meeting Dates – November

Thurs 10th NovemberA practical Audio Visual demonstration

P L U S R A F F L E

PLEASE BRING DONATE A PRIZE!

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Thurs 24th NovemberProgramme changed!!!

Practical Evening with Brian TarlingPlease bring cameras and a tripod if you have one! See below for more details.



• Ladies v Gents PDIs competition on 1st December

Can all members please send at last ONE and up to FIVE PDI's to Chris Wildey by SUNDAY 20th NOVEMBER who will then forward them to the two team's selectors. More details about the selection process and rules will be given in the November meetings but Chris needs the PDI’s for selection!

• Our Annual Christmas Photographic Soirée for Members & GuestsAn evening of pleasant discourse, wine, food etc on 15th December for members, their guests plus some specially invited guests. Members should bring one print of their own work (any size, no need for mounts) for the Chairman’s Champagne Challenge. Please make sure the authors name is not on the front!

Competitions coming up in 2012…

• Thurs 12th January 2012 - 2nd. PY Competition. Subject: Water. Judge: Peter Wright.

• Thurs 26th January -An evening for all members to participate in the selection of prints and PDIs for the coming external competitions. Brian Tarling will be on hand to offer his critical and helpful observations.

• Thurs 9th February - Friendly competition with Fordingbridge at home. Subject: Open with Judge: Bill Aven.

• Thurs 15th March - Competition with Gillingham at home. Subject: Water with Judge: Anne Mahany.

• Wed 4th April - Competition away with Wincanton. Subject: Low Light Outdoors.

• Thurs. 12th April - Print and digital image of the year competition. Subject Open with Judge: Norman Carey.

• Thurs 26th April - “Star Night” - Guest Speaker: Jeremy Walker.

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• Our contact email address is now always given in the header of the first page of the newsletter: hopefully this will stop us typing it in wrongly ever again!

• 12th November – Salisbury Cathedral Architectural Photography course: Please email/ring Chris for more details (01963 370900).

• Guy Edwardes at Bournemouth School for Girls, Wed 7th December: This evening event is organised by the Bournemouth Electric Light Camera Club and tickets are just £5. Further details are available from Chris.

• David Noton at Sturminster Newton, 14th December: Don’t forget to book your tickets via www.davidnoton.com £15 per person.

• If you’ve already got your 2012 diaries or calenders, please reserve 26th April as a “must-come” event – it’s our first ever “STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker.

◦ Jeremy is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in ‘quality is everything’, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

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December 2011 NewsletterEmail [email protected] www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk


As the first half of our season draws to a close, we would like to welcome all those who have joined us since September. We hope you already feel at home in the club and if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments please do let one of the committee know. We will shortly have a “rogues gallery” on the notice board so you can identify the committee.

Now Christmas is approaching fast, our December meetings should help get us in the festive mood. Our 1st December meeting will be a fun competition between the Ladies and the Gents. As it is the first time we're run such a competition, we're not sure of all the pitfalls but we have a full list of entries, an excellent external judge in Jackie Poynter and we already know there will be some good natured rivalry!

The second December meeting on the 15th is our annual social event where we hope to welcome not only our reg-ular members but also partners, past members and other photographic friends. There will be the “Champagne Challenge” where all members are asked to bring one print so everyone can vote using 50p coins for their fa-vorites. The winner gets a bottle of bubbly from the Chairman and the club gets the 50p's! There will also be a raffle with excellent prizes and light refreshments.

Our November meetings both had a practical slant with an introductory session on Audio-Visual presentations and a practical session on Portraiture.

Jim Eastaugh from Wincanton Camera Club introduced us to PicturesToExe with a simple on-screen how-to-do-it approach. Those of us who have never contemplated attempting AV at least now know where to begin and what can be done. This software made synchronisation of images and audio tracks very intuitive and Jim also showed how he used Audacity, a free open source pro-gramme, to edit sound tracks. After the break Jim showed us an excellent example of his own work featur-ing spring flowers in the French Alps. David, our chair-man, showed a presentation he had created using Pro Show Gold as a record of an Berwick Amateur Dramatic production. As a third alternative, Karen introduced the process available with Microsoft Windows, Movie Maker. Details of the programmes we discussed are now on our website filed under News.

Brian Tarling gave us some ideas on how to make portraits using ready-to-hand accessories for both back-drops and lighting. He gave tips on how to make your subject relax so that a session was suc-cessful for both the photographer as well as the subject. Brian demonstrated his techniques on David and other Committee members before introducing Chris, a local young hairdresser, who he had per-suaded to come along as a model. After the break, many of us participated with our own cameras and it will be interesting to see the results at a later meeting. In particular, we ask members who

Meeting Dates – December

Thurs 1st December

Ladies v GentsJudge: Jackie Poynter

BABS AND KAREN ARE THE LADIES CAPTAINS, WITH BRIAN AND DAVID FOR THE GENTS.

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Thurs 15th December

Christmas Soiree for Members & Guests

plus

Chairman’s Champagne Challenge for Members

Members -- please bring...• a plate of finger food to share

• a print: it need not be mounted.



took availed themselves of this opportunity to print out one or two of your best or most interesting shots of our model Chris so Brian can give them to him as a thankyou. If you can't print them easily, please email jpgs to [email protected]. Finally, Brian has written some notes on portraiture which are on the web under our “Pixels” virtual digital workshop tab.

Photo Clippings...

• David Noton at Sturminster Newton, 14th December: There's still time to book your tickets via www.davidnoton.com £15 per person. He is a local photographer who presents his road shows around the UK but you'll never find one closer to us!

• New series of Stamps are 1st Class! The new Royal Mail series of stamps feature images of some of Britain's most famous landmarks by two local photographers, Charlie Waite and David Noton.

• If you’ve already got your 2012 diaries or calenders, please reserve 26th April as a “must-come” event – it’s our first ever “STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker.

◦ Jeremy is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in ‘quality is everything’, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

Competitions coming up in 2012…

• Thurs 12th January 2012 - 2nd. PY Competition. Subject: Water. Judge: Peter Wright.

• Thurs 26th January -An evening for all members to participate in the selection of prints and PDIs for the coming external competitions. Brian Tarling will be on hand to offer his critical and helpful observations.

• Thurs 9th February - Friendly competition with Fordingbridge at home. Subject: Open with Judge: Bill Aven.

• Thurs 15th March - Competition with Gillingham at home. Subject: Water with Judge: Anne Mahany.


• Thurs. 12th April - Print and digital image of the year competition. Subject Open with Judge: Norman Carey.

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January 2012 Newsletter

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Happy New YearHappy New YearHappy New YearHappy New Year - we hope you all enjoyed the festivities that

Christmas brought you and your families, and look forward to seeing any new photographic equipment or cameras that you might have received this Christmas! We also look forward to the return of members, now reaching an extremely encouraging total of 30 for this season. New members are very welcome to join in January. At our Christmas party in December we celebrated the purchase of a laptop and case - Samsung 15.6 inch screen with 6GB memory and 750GB hard drive with an Intel dual core processor and 3 USB ports. Samsung RV520-A04UK This unit is in the PC Pro "A" list as their 15.6 inch Value Laptop and has also been reviewed by ‘Which’ gaining a "Best Buy". Greatest thanks to members’ donations towards the laptop and case; the balance made at our Christmas social amounted to £107?. an excellent sum. We look forward to our first competition using our new Samsung laptop on Thursday 12

th January, 2012.

Our competition “Ladies versus Gentlemen” on 1

st December was

great fun and bravely judged by Jackie Poynter. There was a good spread of subjects from each team, the entries having been chosen by the respective team captains, Karen G and Babs J for the Ladies with Brian T and David L for the Gents. The Gents were somewhat unchivalrously awarded a score of 213, with the Ladies scoring 198. Thanks to everyone for entering so wholeheartedly into the spirit of the evening. The full results can be found under competition results on our web site. Please note that the PDI entries for our PY “Water” competition should be emailed to [email protected] by Sunday 8

th January as it will be the first time Andy has compiled the

competition using our Dicentra software. Large and/or small print titles to Helen by email (to the same email address) or phone (01963 370900) as usual by Tuesday 10

th please.

Photo Clippings...

• “STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker. Don’t forget to reserve 26th April as a “must-come” event –Jeremy is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in ‘quality is everything’, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

• Colin Varndell, a professional photographer based in West Dorset near Bridport, is running photodays and weekend workshop courses for bird and other natural history subjects. Please see www.colinvarndell.co.uk for more details.


Thurs 12th January 2

nd PY Competition

Subject: Water Judge: Peter Wright

Please send in your PDI entries by Sunday 8

th January.

Thurs 26th January An evening for all members to

participate in the selection of prints and PDIs for the coming external

competitions. Brian Tarling will be on hand to offer his critical and helpful

observations.

Looking ahead into 2012

• Thurs 9th February - Friendly competition with Fordingbridge at home. Subject: Open - Judge: Bill Aven.

• Thurs 23rd February - Evening of presentation by members: We are inviting some members to give a short PDI or Audio Visual presentation (up to 15 minutes) showing their favourite images.

• Thurs 1st March - Guest Speaker: Sid Jones. “My Favourite Pictures”

• Thurs 15th March - Competition with Gillingham at home. Subject: Water - Judge: Anne Mahany.

• Thurs. 22nd. March - Guest Speaker: Anthony Blake. Subject: To be advised. Anthony (or Tony) is a landscape photographer. He and his wife live in the shadow of the spectacular Iron Age hill fort, Hambledon Hill. As a freelance photographer Tony has a versatile approach to his photography and undertakes a wide range of commissions for business and personal clients, although he loves nothing better than capturing atmospheric sunrises and sunsets on the spectacular Jurassic coast.


• Thurs. 12th April - Print and digital image of the year competition. Subject Open - Judge: Norman Carey.

• Thurs 26th April - “Star Night” - Guest Speaker: Jeremy Walker. Jeremy Walker is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in ‘quality is everything’, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

• Thurs 10th May - AGM Followed by prize giving, members’ reflections on the season, suggestions for the next season, wine and nibbles.

www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits any suggestions for the website.



February 2012 Newsletter


Our first competition this year where we welcomed members

back from Christmas and the New Year break with their 2nd PY, set subject being 'Water'. Our judge for the evening was Peter Wright who judged Large Prints and PDIs, whilst Brian Tarling judged the Small Prints. Brian's judging was descriptive and helpful with ideas for composition giving top marks in the Small Prints to Karen Green for 'Chasing the Photograph', seconded by Jeremy Jones with 'Reflections'. Peter Wright commented Water being a hard enough subject to photograph and the judging even harder! Large Print winner was Rob Howard with 'WWW' and five members came second with their prints. The PDIs produced a very good selection for Peter Wright to judge - an excellent usage of Water and more imagination. The PDI winner was Andy Newton with 'Hastings Storm' and again five members came second. Peter involved members to comment after he had announced the mark which was helpful to the authors. He wished us good luck and advised us to concentrate on the competition and let the camera take the photo! Southern Federation of Photographers produced some stunning photographs in the Salisbury Library, we hope you were able to visit and choose your „perfect picture‟. There were a few very good „water‟ photographs which should have been of interest to our members! A very successful evening for all members to participate in the selection of prints and PDIs for the coming external competitions, which Brian Tarling was on hand to offer his critical and helpful observations and make the final choices. This proved to be extremely helpful to members of various stages of their photography. Photo Clippings...

Raffle prizes needed for Thursday 9th

February, 2012 – please see what you can bring.

Thursday 23rd

February - Volunteer Members needed to present a short PDI or Audio Visual presentation of up to 15 minutes showing your favourite images.

NB - Members might like to start trying some low light photography while we still have dark mornings and evenings in preparation for our competition against Wincanton in April.

Charlie Waite will be speaking at the Shaftesbury Art Centre Friday 17

th February ‟12. As you will

probably know, Charlie Waite is widely regarded as the doyen of English landscape photographers. His style combines graphic finesse with an almost spiritual quality of calm and serenity. His distinctive treatment of historic Mediterranean landscapes in particular is instantly recognisable. Charlie is also an absolutely inspirational public speaker, who combines an actor's training with his passion for landscape and photography. His reputation means his work is in demand worldwide. Charlie never fails to inspire and encourage the participants in his photographic workshops. (www.lightandland.co.uk).

Moore Valley will exhibit some stunning wildlife photography from some of the best photographers in the UK; on display daily in the Visitor Centre from 27

th January to 4

th March, 2012. The British Wildlife

Photography Awards were established in 2009 and aim to recognise the talents of photographers practicing in the UK and highlighting the diversity of Britain‟s natural history.


Thurs 9th February Friendly competition with

Fordingbridge at home Subject: Open

Judge: Bill Aven Raffle prizes needed for Thursday 9

th –

please see what you can bring.

Thurs 23rd February Presentations by members:

We are inviting some members to give a short PDI or Audio Visual presentation

(up to 15 minutes) showing their favourite images.

Bird Photography workshop on Friday 24th February with Colin Varndell, a professional photographer

based in West Dorset near Bridport. Colin is running photo days and weekend workshop courses for bird and other natural history subjects (book early as places are limited). Please see www.colinvarndell.co.uk for more details.

“STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker Reminder to reserve 26th April as a “must-come” event – Jeremy is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in „quality is everything‟, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well. Members should purchase their own tickets £5 per person plus their guests, between 9th February to 1

st March, after which tickets will be available to all. To reserve/purchase tickets please phone 01747

853771 or email to reserve or enquire about tickets to [email protected] Cheques payable to Shaftesbury Camera Club. Looking ahead into 2012

Thurs 1st March - Guest Speaker: Sid Jones “My Favourite Pictures

Thurs 15th March - Competition with Gillingham at home. Subject: Water - Judge: Anne Mahany.

Thurs. 22nd. March - Guest Speaker: Anthony Blake. Subject: To be advised. Anthony (or Tony) is a landscape photographer. He and his wife live in the shadow of the spectacular Iron Age hill fort, Hambledon Hill. As a freelance photographer Tony has a versatile approach to his photography and undertakes a wide range of commissions for business and personal clients, although he loves nothing better than capturing atmospheric sunrises and sunsets on the spectacular Jurassic coast.

Wed 4th April - Competition away with Wincanton. Subject: Low Light Outdoors.

Thurs. 12th April - Print and digital image of the year competition. Subject Open - Judge: Norman Carey.

Thurs 26th April - “Star Night” - Guest Speaker: Jeremy Walker. Jeremy Walker is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in „quality is everything‟, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

Thurs 10th May - AGM Followed by prize giving, members‟ reflections on the season, suggestions for the next season, wine and nibbles.

ww esbu meraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits any suggestions for the website.






March 2012 Newsletter


Our friendly competition with Fordingbridge at home on 9th

February (subject ‘Open’) was judged by Bill Aven LRPS who was very complimentary towards the excellent photography he was presented with. This was the first time we have hosted an inter-club friendly, and we trust we gave Fordingbridge and our judge a warm welcome. After defeating us soundly with their stunning prints (including two 10′s), our PDI’s fared slightly better by only losing this section by 6 marks even though Fordingbridge scored five 10′s. Overall, we lost by twenty one points but we should certainly not be discouraged as Fordingbridge are a well established club with a long string of exhibition successes. They are organised into “General” and “Advanced” sections so they are not used to taking prisoners, with most of their entries by members sporting RPS and other awards after their name. Their prints were bitingly sharp and benefited from most being professionally printed and taken with full or half frame cameras. They also showed skillful and very artistic use of photoshop. The fact that the evening got chillier was not due to us losing but the white covering of snow that fell during the evening, and we hope they and our judge all got home safely.

The brave members who gave a short PDI or Audio Visual presentation on 23

rd February showing their favourite images were

very well received - producing a successful evening where much was gleaned. David Townley showed a wonderfully sharp video from his camera of a Sparrowhawk enjoying a pigeon in his hedge – an ornithologist’s delight. He followed with an audio visual of an Expedition on the Glacial Express around Europe with Pauline using the Proshow Gold application which was excellently arranged and finishing with the InstaDicky accessory which gave us an humorous insight of how to insert a focal point to a boring picture!

Karen Green presented a selection of images which she had manipulated into more favourable pictures and confidently answered questions about her ‘hide’ in the garden and how to build one. Brian Tarling created ‘Up Up and Away’, processing a selection of shots showing a Hot Air Balloon lift off and flight to give us a sense of freedom, followed by some aerial photography over Dorset showing various angles and acrobatics done in a Tiger Moth and another light aircraft. Brian then showed a collation of an interesting and at times exciting journey he pursued by himself around West North America. Brian ended with a night video of ‘Fairies’ at Kingston Lacey. Brian found using the Windows 7 “Windows Live Movie Maker”

1 very enlightening for his new

visual adventures - sighs from the rest of us of ‘why didn’t I do something like that’.

PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE THREE SESSIONS IN MARCH – Thursday 1st March being an excellent evening with out guest speaker Sid Jones.

Other news:-

• Antony Blake, our scheduled speaker for 22nd

March, is unfortunately unwell and so will not be able to join us. However Bill is making alternative arrangements which we will post on the web as soon as possible. We hope Antony will be able to come at another time and we wise him a speedy recovery.

• Moore Valley’s stunning wildlife photography from some of the best photographers in the UK was a successful event and will close on 4

th March, 2012

1 You can download Movie Maker for free if it is not installed with your

Windows 7: see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/movie-maker. You can also find

details of other software from our meeting in November 2011 on our web site – search using “audio visual”


Thurs 1st March

Guest Speaker: Sid Jones “My Favourite Pictures”

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Thurs 15th March Competition with Gillingham

at home Subject: Water

Judge: Anne Mahany

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Thurs. 22nd March To be advised

(see below)

• Colin Varndell is still running photo days and weekend workshop courses for bird and other natural history subjects (book early as places are limited). Please see www.colinvarndell.co.uk for more details.

• Our web site is continuing to grow and always has the very latest club news, past editions of our newsletter, etc. Chris has added a new short item on “Depth of Field” which explains how to use the “Hyperfocal Distance” to control depth of focus. If you have any questions or comments, ask him! You will need to log in to access some items: either use you own log-in, or use the generic user name and password that is always in the top banner of this newsletter.

• Bill is already working hard on our next season’s programme, so if you have any suggestions or comments, don’t keep it to yourself but please let us know!

• We are hoping to arrange a public Club Exhibition at the beginning of next season in Shaftesbury. We will need display panels so if you know where we might be able to borrow, beg or buy some, please let David L know as soon as possible.

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• Our first “STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker A reminder to all members to reserve 26th April

as a “must-come” event Jeremy is a professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high quality landscape and location photography from around the world for use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in ‘quality is everything’, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients well.

We hope Members have by now purchased their own tickets £5 per person plus their guests as tickets will now be available to the public and other clubs. To reserve, purchase or enquire about tickets please phone Karen 01747 853771 or email [email protected] . Cheques payable to Shaftesbury Camera Club please.

• Stourhead will be holding two photography exhibitions this year. The first “Reflections” will run from Saturday 17th March until Sunday 31st followed by “What a Great Day” from Saturday 14th July until Sunday 22nd. Last year the emphasis was more on selling but this year their aim is to promote better photography and to enable clubs or individuals to promote themselves to the public. The cost for individuals with up to 4 items is £10 per item with a minimum fee £20. Full details and an online entry form are available from www.first-view.co.uk

• ‘Low light outdoor’ photography. Members, please don’t forget our competition against Wincanton in early April so we will need to select some winning prints and PDI’s during March. Get busy!

• CALENDAR COMPETITION - Shaftesbury Team of churches invites all amateur photographers of any age to submit original digital photographs to be judged for a calendar for 2013. Full details, eligibility and application forms may be obtained from the Shaftesbury Team Office, 5 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury SP7 8JW [email protected] or downloaded from stmin.org.uk. Final date for entries is 1st July. Looking ahead


• Thurs. 12th April - Print and digital image of the year competition. Subject Open - Judge: Norman Carey

• Wed 18th April – Competition away with Pimperne. Subject: Open

• Thurs 26th April “Star Night” - Guest Speaker: Jeremy Walker. See above for ticket details

• Thurs 10th May - AGM Followed by prize giving, members’ reflections on the season, suggestions for the next season, wine and nibbles.

www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits your suggestions for the website.



April 2012 Newsletter


We invited Sid Jones a landscape and wedding photographer and an active member of the Dorchester Camera Club to give an illustrated talk entitled "A Brief History of Photography" whereupon he looked at some of the pioneers of a creative process we all now take for granted. Showing us the first ever photograph in 1827 using a camera obscure by the Frenchman Joseph Niepce; then in 1838 Louis Dageurre who put the solution behind the lens creating the Daguerre-type which could only produce one photo at a time - the French were so impressed they gave him a pension for life – the Daguerre-type became popular in the USA. Then in 1839 our very own William Henry Fox-Talbot copied the French invention. After 1890 photography became people‟s so everyone took photos. This all came about when Sid retired and wanted to learn more about the history so took „A‟ level theory of photography at night school feeding his love of history and early times. He also talked about seminal photographers of the 20th Century including Ansel Adams who travelled as a concert pianist but spied digital photograph - always composing his pictures in the frame and never cropping - using the zone system and working in colour and advertising. Cartier-Bresson a frustrated artist who did not want to be a photographer, nevertheless his pictures were natural and enjoyed by people and Elliot Erwitt among others. The evening was completed by Sid Jones showing some of his own photographs taken around the world; Spring in New Zealand – capturing light and emotion, experimenting on moving his camera, clear and colourful pictures of the Dorset coast – always using a tripod. Exquisite night shots in Ireland of landscape and of Singapore and some cloning with an Eagle using 400 F 5.6 lens. Amusing and informative evening with a very good humoured Sid.

Shaftesbury Camera Club invited Anne Mahany ARPS to judge our Competition with Gillingham Camera Club at home and the subject was 'Water'. Not everyone‟s favourite subject and very difficult to judge, but Anne gave some good marks and authors gleaned new ideas and seemed happy with the outcome. Gillingham scored 86 to our 84 in the prints but we scored 85 to their 81.5 in the PDIs. Well done Shaftesbury in their 1.5 lead – we hope to return the competition next year at Gillingham. One 10 in the Prints was Norman Good's Wavering Reeds, 9s for Chris Wildey and David Lampard. Gillingham had one 9.5 and one 9. In the PDIs Gillingham had a 10 and a 9 while Bill Norman and Rob scored 9.5 and Jenny Jones got 9. Peter May of Gillingham thanked Shaftesbury for the evening which was very amicable and entertaining. Sadly Anthony Blake was not able to show us his atmospheric sunrises and sunsets – especially the Jurassic coast. So Penny Piddock AFIAP DPAGB was invited from Dorchester to present a fascinating talk on her favourite subject 'What is creative photography'? Penny is also a judge and has known a wealth of famous photographers, whereupon she shared their pictures with us. The fun loving Penny with her creative mind started researching creative photography - making a personal statement, by altering reality she emphasises the reality and the photograph. She has travelled through various ideas and beliefs of the USA and Australia. Penny quizzed us over a few photos regarding what section they should be placed - creativeness, deciding whether photo journalism should be spontaneous, and whether travel and nature should be reality based? She recreates reality explaining how her underwater prints were made by joining two pictures together forming a complete picture. To help us prepare for her talk, she provided us with this image to experiment with. So members brought in some of their creations of Penny's original Transformer photograph and


Wed 4th April Competition away with Wincanton.

Subject: Low Light Outdoors ----------------

Print/PDI entries for ‘Print & Digital Image of the Year’

to [email protected]

by 8th April - please -----------------

Thurs. 12th April Print and digital image of the year

Subject: Open Competition Judge: Norman Carey

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Thurs 26th April

“Star Night”

Guest Speaker: Jeremy Walker. A professional photographer with many years experience specialising in high

quality landscape and location photography from around the world for

use by advertising, design and corporate clients. A belief in „quality is

everything‟, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy

and his clients well.

Karen was the overall winner producing a lovely eye catching transformed print by various

Photoshop manipulations FROM TO Penny concluded by showing us finalists in Paris, from an Argentinian salon, from all over the world of steam punk and outlandish pictures – people have been executing creative work for years; which started in the Dark Room and now on to Computer digitalisation. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!! **It is a shame some members missed out on the good meetings – very inspiring, thanks to Bill Norman’s excellent programme choice**

Last minute reminders….

Invitation to join Brian Tarling on a „Low light shoot‟ on Easter Friday 6

th April. Meet at the Asda car

park in West Quay Road, Poole, BH15 1JQ at 1830 – sunset at 1946 – full moon rise 1955. Contact Brian at: [email protected] or mobile: 07710337487 for further information.

NB Please remember print titles and PDI entries to [email protected] (a maximum of

2 per class) for the Print & Digital Image of the Year competition have to be submitted by 8th April.

Competition 21st April at Hinton Martel Village Hall judge Bella West Categories: people/portrait, nature/pets, landscape, still life and travel. Groups: U10s, 10-15 year old and adults. Contact: Deni Frost 07974784711 who is organizing the Competition

or Bella 01747 854509 / email: [email protected] for further information

“STAR NIGHT” with Jeremy Walker

LAST Reminder to reserve 26th April as a “must-come” event. TICKETS are £5 per person.

To reserve/purchase tickets please phone 01747 853771 or email to reserve or enquire about tickets to [email protected] Cheques payable to Shaftesbury Camera Club.

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Talk 18

th April by Colin Varndell – „Scenes of local Wildlife’ at 7.30 pm, Village Hall, Fontmell

Magna SP7 0JU £1.50 pp – all welcome. Don‟t forget Colin Varndell is still running photo days and weekend workshop courses for bird and other natural history subjects (book early as places are limited). Please see www.colinvarndell.co.uk.

Stourhead second photography exhibition - “What a Great Day” from Saturday 14th July until

Sunday 22nd

promoting better photography and enabling exhibitors to promote themselves to the public.

CALENDAR COMPETITION - Shaftesbury Team of churches invites all amateur photographers of any age to submit original digital photographs to be judged for a calendar for 2013. Full details and application forms may be obtained from the Shaftesbury Team Office, 5 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury SP7 8JW [email protected] or downloaded from stmin.org.uk. Final date for entries 1st July. Looking ahead into 2012/2013

Thursday 10th May - AGM Followed by prize giving, members‟ reflections on the season, suggestions for the next season, wine and nibbles.

Thursday 14th

September – Start of a new season for Shaftesbury Camera Club

ww esbu meraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits any suggestions for the website.








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May 2012 Newsletter


Our last Newsletter of the second year of the Club. We wish you all a happy summer and look forward to the new season in September with members old and new members. All at the Camera Club send their sincere condolences to Eileen Slamaker and will remember Chris as a very supportive member who helped us get established and obviously enjoyed his photography. We were very pleased to have him join us for the short time that he was able to Our wishes also go to Kelvin who will be in Salisbury and we look forward to seeing him in September

The Competition away with Wincanton on the subject of ‘Low Light Outdoors’ was very successful for Shaftesbury who won by one mark. Brian Tarling on a ‘Low light shoot’ on Easter Friday 6

th April.

Members met at the Asda car park in West Quay Road, Poole, at 1830 – sunset at 1946 – full moon rise 1955. Karen and Chris met at the Asda car park at the appointed time of 1830 to find themselves well outnumbered with around a dozen other tripod-wielding snappers all looking for Brian! The others were from other clubs, including Blandford, Pimperne and Weymouth so it turned out to be quite a good social evening as well! Unfortunately it was overcast with no sunset opportunity so they immediately retired for coffees to make a plan of action. They made our way to the quay where various groups with tripods entertained the locals - much easier in a

largish group so no one bothered us! After an hour or so trying to become familiar with your camera mounted high up on a tripod and trying to use live view while not being able to see buttons or dials, we migrated towards the new Twin Sails Bridge. It appears the bridge was not working that night, at least according to the published schedule of lifts. The bridge has been beset with problems since being formally opened by various dignitaries and royalty and had only been carrying road traffic for a few days - did they have yet more problems? Earlier in the evening, they had all the red traffic lights flashing away while traffic continued to happily drive over it. Even so, there were various photo opportunities with the bridge down and well lit by the road lighting: rather too bright for photographic purposes. All in all, a useful evening, many thanks to Brian T for leading it. Our ‘Print and digital image of the year’ Subject: Open Competition was judged by Norman Carey from Blandford. Norman enjoyed each and every print and PDI and with his quiet sense of humour he captured the mood of each picture by giving helpful and constructive comments with fair points. The winner of the Small Prints was Kees van der Zwan with 'Heaven's Gate', seconded by Bill Norman with 'Lost in Books' and third place to Chris Wildey with 'Morning Mist'. Large Print winner was Chris Wildey with 'Under the Stairs', seconded by Rob Howard with 'WWW.' and third with 'Incoming Tide'. The winner of the PDIs was David Townley with 'Wasp', seconded by Pauline Townley with 'Eyes in the Sky' and third place to Bill Norman with 'White Water Adventure'. David Townley’s Wasp was brilliant – every little hair and blemish was picked out by this shot. Norman Carey is a true friend of Shaftesbury Camera Club and we have always enjoyed his sense of humour and professional approach in his judgement. Well done Shaftesbury winning both sections of the competition between Pimperne and thank you Pimperne for your hospitality. A full house for our STAR NIGHT with Jeremy Walker giving us a very comprehensive talk about his considerable experiences in both the commercial and private spheres of photographic interest. He covered the background to his career, the development of his business and his style; he gave some striking examples of landscape and portraiture (a protégé of Peter Lowry) from around the world. Giving us amusing descriptions of his ventures, especially the ‘shoe’ business – his shoes were made for walking.


Thursday 10th May AGM

Followed by prize giving, members’ reflections on the season,

suggestions for the next season. Wine & Nibbles.

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2012/2013 Season Begins

Thursday 13th

September NEW SEASON

Start of a new season for Shaftesbury Camera Club

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Working for stock libraries as he did not have a studio so started in the kitchen – stock photograph shots need to have a punchy message to make money – a necessity for survival. When he discovered his ‘front door’ he started photographing landscapes, which he very much enjoys. He likes simplicity and clean lines. Visualise the shot before you take it and be aware of your surroundings when shooting a subject, if the photo does not work in colour use black and white. Jeremy enjoys photographing buildings and is happy with converging verticals, no need to straighten the architectural line in his view. Jeremy does a lot of stitching, three images together for landscapes, certainly very pleasing to the eye. Loves his Nikon and Novaflex tripod and never leaves home without his .9 Grad filter. A belief in ‘quality’ is everything, a meticulous approach and a far-reaching vision and style serve Jeremy and his clients wellNN.. Jeremy is thinking of doing a workshop in Iceland in October – start savingNN. A message from Bill Norman from Jeremy....“”Really enjoyed talking to Shaftsebury Camera Club last night. If I can be of help in the future do not hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes, Jeremy””

Reminders to all Members+.

• Thursday 10th May, 2012 - Shaftesbury Camera Club AGM will be followed by prize

giving for this year’s winning photographers, after which wine and nibbles will be available.

• NEW SEASON 2012/13 begins on Thursday 13th September. We hope all Members will come.

• Pending SCC Exhibition in the Shaftesbury Museum in October – members start getting some work together to exhibit!!

Photo Clippings...

• CALENDAR COMPETITION - Shaftesbury Team of churches invites all amateur photographers of any age to submit original digital photographs to be judged for a calendar for 2013. Full details and application forms may be obtained from the Shaftesbury Team Office, 5 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury SP7 8JW [email protected] or downloaded from stmin.org.uk. Final date for entries 1st July.

• Stourhead second photography exhibition - “What a Great Day” from Saturday 14th July until

Sunday 22nd

promoting better photography and enabling exhibitors to promote themselves to the public.

• Don’t forget Colin Varndell is still running photo days and weekend workshop courses for bird and other natural history subjects (book early as places are limited). Please see www.colinvarndell.co.uk.

Looking ahead into 2012/2013

Revised Competition Rules

At the AGM it is recommended by the Committee that the following changes are made to the Photographer of the Year Competition: 1. The three classes of the Photographer of the Year Competition are to be re-named “The Shuffell Trophy”. 2. The two print classes are to be re-categorised as Advanced and Intermediate Prints, with no restrictions on size for either class (except for the existing overall maximum including the mount of 20 inches x 16 inches). 3. Members may choose which class of prints they enter in each season, but may only enter one of the print classes in the same season. 4. The winner of the Intermediate class will only be allowed to enter the Advanced class in the following season. 5. The current requirement for the competition to be Open as regards the subject is to be removed.

At the AGM it is further recommended by the Committee that the following changes are made to the Print of the Year Competitions: 1. The two print classes are to be re-categorised as Advanced and Intermediate Prints, with no restrictions on size for either class (except for the existing overall maximum including the mount of 20 inches x 16 inches). 2. Members may choose which class of prints they enter in each season, but may only enter one of the print classes in the same season. (The aim of these changes is to encourage less-experienced Members, whilst recognising that some Members are producing small prints of a quality that matches that of large prints. Judging of the Intermediate class should take account of the lesser experience).

www.shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Chris eagerly awaits any news / suggestions for the website.


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