Photo Wholesalers Exhibition for August

The Club will be exhibiting prints at Photo Wholesalers for the month of August. Members are asked to bring prints to the meeting on Tuesday 29 July (or to a committee member over the weekend) for selection. We are looking for un-matted prints at A3, A4 and 5 by 7 to 8 by 10 inches, which may or may not have been judged favourably in our competitions. Please also provide the following details with the prints where you can: Your Name, Title, Make and model of camera, Lens Aperture (f stop), Shutter Speed. The exhibition will be chosen to be representative of the club's current and recent work (last couple of years). PW has a range of frame sizes available and the exhibition will also have to fit in with the available frames. Therefore it is preferred that you provide vertical and horizontal format prints to best use the available frames.

Digital Competition File naming convention

The file naming rules have been simplified for entries in digital competitions. To download the new guidelines, go to the News page on the Edwardstown Photography Club's website and look for the link.

Dare to be Different, 29th July

An idea for a club night that hasn't been tried before... breaking free from the "rules" of "normal" camera club competitions. Members may submit up to a total of 4 images, and they can be slides, prints or digital images. The images should NOT follow the usual "rules" such as using the rule of thirds, etc. This is to encourage people to look at capturing images in a different way, and is an opportunity to submit images they like but which may not score well in a normal competition.

Instead of having a judge to evaluate the images and give a score there will be a popular vote to determine the winning image. Further details and explanation will be given on July 8.

Photoshop and Digital camera workshop/tutorial reminder

On Tuesday 8th July there will be a workshop/tutorial on both digital camera basics and on some Photoshop techniques and tools commonly used when processing photographs for printing or entering competitions. The topics will include converting colour to monochrome, using the Curves tool, cropping, and darkening skies.