President's Piece September already, which of course means that we are all back at our weekly Club meetings and looking forward to the new seasons programmes – competitions - league battles - lectures and workshops. The latter has gained popularity in my own club Highcliffe & Infinity CC. We propose to run a workshop once every four weeks. More and more members are looking towards digital enhancements and the questions on how and why are constantly arising, so with a few members willing to share their own expertise we have embarked on that route, especially since we are now the proud owners of a digital projector and software etc thanks to the ‘Awards for All grant’. The next problem is how to use it ????? Insurance is another big question for Clubs now with expensive equipment, gone are the days when dear old Fred Brown looked after the projector at his home, it was worth about £160.00 and if it got lost or stolen???? - well not too much of a loss, but now when we are talking about £3000.00 plus, our House Insurance will cough at that for sure - so look into the Insurance carefully that your club has and see if it is enough. Who says nothing is new in Photography???? In the past few years, we have heard a lot about Reportage type photography. During the summer recess I went to the Isle of Wight and visited the Dimbola Lodge, the home for a few years, of Julia Margaret Cameron, remembered by a niece for wearing stained clothes and smelling of chemicals, was amongst the most enthusiastic of 19th century photographers producing striking pictures. Her subjects had to hold poses for as long as seven minutes on occasions. None of your 125th at F8 in those days. Yet she created striking pictures which by today’s standards would be classed as Reportage. One which strikes me was taken in 1864 - Mother with 2 children - a picture which projects, love, hope and perhaps some charity?? 143 years ago when this was taken, and even by today’s standards it would be a worthy inclusion into many a Club competition, infact this along with 90 odd other pictures of hers were auctioned in 1974 for $121,000.00. I know very many of you have visited Dimbola Lodge, and for those who haven’t, then take time out and visit, you will be amazed at the style and work put in to her craft all those years ago. No compact flash cards, or even film base in those days. I feel that our friends??, health and safety would love to get their hands involved and create a ban on some of the chemicals used then. Safety helmets, goggles, rubber gloves and clothes, rubber aprons. And that’s before you enter the darkroom!!!! What halcyon days they were! To end my ramblings, you will see further in this copy of the newsletter, Diary dates for you to remember, another Digital championship at Newbury again in March /April to be confirmed, and yes Chichester Camera Club have agreed to host the Print Championship. We are very grateful to these two Clubs for coming forward. You will also see a vacancy advertised, and with over 2000 members of clubs in the Southern Fed, there must be at least one who will apply for this vacancy????. I rest my case. Ian Bigg CPAGB. LRPS |
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Sharow Photographic Competition 2008 Details of the Third Sharow Photographic
Competition in April 2008 can now be found on our
website: Why not enter now? no need to wait!
- we are ready to receive your entries any time at
your convenience. They are challenging categories
for this next year’s event. Special Category (10-19 years old)
for school/students (or maybe grandchildren!) David Page Chairman Sharow Photographic Competition (The second competition in April 2007 was very successful and built on the success of the first in September 2006. Thanks to your support this national competition will now be a regular prestigious charity event (the only one of its kind in the UK) in April each year - we are proud of our success). |
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Editors Notes Another lovely summer is almost
over and I am sure that we all look good with that
golden glow covering our bodies! For some time now there has been a call for a shorter email address and web domain for the Southern Fed. Well, that is about to happen. Almost everyone refers to the Federation as the Southernfed, so that is what the new domain will be. In future, the website will be http://www.southernfed.org.uk and email ends with southernfed.org.uk The pages will also change over time as I am trying to set the pages in another format making it easier to navigate, but of course this all takes time. Please bear with me. As many of you have already seen
the ‘Online Photo’ competition has now
closed but was well supported this year. My thanks
go to all who took part and I hope that you will take
part again next year. Congratulations to the winners
and of course to the Judge for his selections. Another Digital Competition Manager has emerged as well as a programme for running the Club (see page 8). I wonder if there are any more!!! Don’t forget that the next Rep’s meeting is in November, See you there. Trevor |
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RPS Central Southern Digital Image Group Our next meeting is on Sunday, September 23rd when
Roger Maile ARPS will give an all-day presentation
entitled “Not a lot of people know that”.
Roger will be looking at some useful but less well-known
digital imaging technoques. Roger is a knowledgeable
speaker and was one time editor of Digital Photo Art
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PAGB Inter-Federation Print Competition - 2007 Monochrome Section Colour Section Federation Prints Accepted Average Total Colour Prints Accepted: 90 Winners of the Stirling Trophy: Midland Counties Photographic Federation The 2007 PAGB Inter-Federation Print Competition/Exhibition was organised by Midland Counties P.F. |
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AWARDS Best Monochrome Print PAGB Gold
Medal 103. Leaping Cat Bob Moore Hon FRPS Hon PAGB Arden Photo Group (MCPF) Judges Medals 24. The Barbers Shop Denise Kinch
ARPS Arden Photo Group (MCPF) PAGB Ribbons Monochrome Prints Colour Prints |
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Southern
Photographic Federation Standard Model – 21”
x 17” x 1 5/8ths”. PRICE - £14-75 Orders in writing and with cheques
payable to J. PEARSON The next order date is 28th September 2007. This is the final date, the order goes in the very next day. If you can get your orders in earlier it would be appreciated. Boxes to be collected at the November Reps. Meeting. Details of other sizes and costs: Jennie Pearson. Alton Camera
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Royal Photographic Society A short note received from the RPS with a few evenings in our area. Our Programme for the forthcoming season 2007 - 2008 is now fixed and details of all events, and booking forms, are to be found on our website : www.rps-southern.org.uk Here are a couple of tasters: 30th Sept 2007 21st Oct 2007
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PAGB AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT - ADVISORY DAY This Federation is running the April 2008 adjudication (26th/27th April) on behalf of the PAGB and this will be the last time it will be in this area for some while. If past experience is anything to go by the largest number of entries are received from the organizing Federation and, judging by the interest already being expressed, club photographers in the South will be maintaining that tradition. So, to cater for the anticipated demand we have arranged to hold a PAGB Awards Advisory Day. Date: Sunday 4th November, 2007.
Doors open 9.30am for 10am start. Finish around 4pm.
Admission by ticket only. We are delighted to have obtained the services of Andy Hanson ARPS, MPAGB, APAGB. Andy is currently the President of the East Anglian Federation and will be making a presentation about the awards using his wife’s Credit panel and his own Distinction and Master Panels as illustrations. If you bear in mind that less than 100 MPAGB’s have been granted since the scheme began you will appreciate he has been there, done it and got the badge and certificate (if not the T shirt). Andy has also agreed to stay on, in the afternoon, and join a couple of PAGB ranked judges who have sat on the adjudication panels to give advice to prospective applicants. The Cost: Applicants who wish to bring work
must be aware that this will be displayed in order
that all attending can obtain benefit from any advice
that is given. Time does not permit giving private,
individual, guidance. To: Leo Rich DPAGB, ARPS, EFIAP, APAGB 81, Hilltop Way, Castle Hill, Salisbury, SP1 3QQ. PAGB AWARDS ADVISORY DAY Name …………………………….. *Notes: |
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VACANCY Applications are invited for the
post of Applicants must have a great sense
of humour - likelyhood of becoming mad if not. Please apply now for a stress
free interview. |
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Three Photo Club Members Honoured Winchester Photographic Society is pleased to announce that David Taylor RPS has been made a life member with immediate effect, for “outstanding service to the Society”. This award recognises David’s unselfish dedication to the Society over a number of years. A member since 1988 he took office as Treasurer just a year later, a position he held until two years ago. As if this wasn’t enough, he created the Society’s website five years ago and has maintained it ever since. David’s contribution to photography extends beyond Winchester’s boundaries. For nineteen years he was Southern Regional Treasurer of the Royal Photographic Society and is an Associate member of that organisation. He also maintains their website. David was recently added to the Southern Photographic Federation roll of Honour for “exceptional service to clubs and the Federation, for at least ten years”. Two other club members have received awards. Mrs Anne Ruffell, the Society’s President in 2004/5, and Dr Zoe Hemsley were recently awarded the CPAGB Certificate, (Credit Photographic Winchester Photographic Society Three Photo Club Members Honoured Winchester Photographic Society is pleased to announce that David Taylor RPS has been made a life member with immediate effect, for “outstanding service to the Society”. This award recognises David’s unselfish dedication to the Society over a number of years. A member since 1988 he took office as Treasurer just a year later, a position he held until two years ago. As if this wasn’t enough, he created the Society’s website five years ago and has maintained it ever since. David’s contribution to photography extends beyond Winchester’s boundaries. For nineteen years he was Southern Regional Treasurer of the Royal Photographic Society and is an Associate member of that organisation. He also maintains their website. David was recently added to the Southern Photographic Federation roll of Honour for “exceptional service to clubs and the Federation, for at least ten years”. Two other club members have received awards. Mrs Anne Ruffell, the Society’s President in 2004/5, and Dr Zoe Hemsley were recently awarded the CPAGB Certificate, (Credit Photographic Alliance of Great Britain), having successfully submitted panels of ten images for adjudication. To achieve this award photographs or slides are awarded points by six judges in an open forum and must achieve a specified number of points to be successful. This prestigious award is only open to photographic club members who “consistently do well in club and inter-club competitions”. With the experience gained
preparing for this award Anne and Zoe are now helping
other club members to achieve the same distinction
and the Society is looking forward to announcing more
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SOUTHERN PHOTOGRAPHIC
FEDERATION General
Rules for all championships
1. All participating clubs must be paid up members of the SPF. 2. At least one representative from each participating club must attend the event. 3. Each author must own the copyright of every element of the image. Clip Art, copyright free material and fractals are not acceptable. 4. No image must have been entered in any previous SPF Championship in any format. No slide must have been shown in the PAGB Slide Championships, currently held at Warwick. 5. In the event of a tie for any of the awards a full count back will apply. 6. There will be 3 judges scoring electronically in a range of 2 – 5. 7. A natural history image depicts untamed animals and uncultivated plants in a natural habitat, geology and phenomena not produced by man. The accurate record of the subject and environment is the prime factor. Human content must be avoided. 8. The SPF cannot accept liability for the loss or damage of any image. 9. The Council reserve the right to amend the rules for any specific event and in any dispute the decision of the SPF Council will be final.
1. A bank of up to 30 prints, inclusive of round 1 prints, may be used. 2. The maximum size is 50cm x 40cm inclusive of any mount. There is no minimum size. All Velcro or any other fixings that may cause damage to other competitors’ prints must be removed. 3. Prints must be identified by title, author and club. 4. All work will be judged in random order. 5. All clubs
shall participate in round 1. 6. Clubs not competing in the Final round will compete for the Plate trophy. 7. Clubs entering either the Final or the Plate trophy will submit 10 prints of which 5 must be new work. 8. In any round
each club must submit:- 9. The winning club will be determined by the highest total scores of Round 1 + Final round and will receive the Pat Christiansen Memorial tankard. 10. The winning club for the Plate Trophy will be determined by the highest total scores of Round 1 + Plate round and will receive the Pat Christiansen Plate. 11. In the event of a tie for 1st place for either trophy, a full count back will apply. 12. There will be an award for the highest scoring club with fewer than 25 members providing a minimum of 3 clubs enter in this category. 13. There will be an award for the best individual print from those scoring 14 or 15 (dependent on number of images). 14. The 1st and 2nd place clubs in the Final round will be invited to represent the SPF in the PAGB Club Print Championship. 15. In the event
of a photographer being a member of both 1st and
2nd place clubs, they will only be able to represent
1 club. The photographer must therefore declare
which club they will represent, in accordance with
the PAGB rules. Specific instructions for the Slide Championship 1. A bank of 20 slides, inclusive of round 1 slides, may be used. 2. Slides to be 2 x 2 plastic mounts or similar. 3.3 Title, author
and club must be identified on slide mount. 4. All clubs
shall participate in rounds 1 and 2. 5. The 8 clubs
with the highest total scores after round 1 + round
2 will compete in the Final round. 6. Clubs not
competing in the Final round will compete for the
Link Goblet in round 3. 7. The winning club of the Final will be determined by highest total scores of round 1, 2 + Final and will receive the Championship Plate. 8. The winning club of the Link Goblet will be determined by highest total scores of round 1, 2 + 3 and will receive the Link Goblet trophy. 9. In the event of a tie for 1st place for either trophy a full count back will apply. (see section 5.1) 10. There will be an award for the highest scoring club with fewer than 25 members providing a minimum of 3 clubs enter in this category. 11. There will be an award for the best individual slide from those scoring 14 or 15 (dependent on number of images). 12. The 1st and 2nd place clubs in the Final round will be invited to represent the SPF in the PAGB Club Slide Championship. 13. In the event
of a photographer being a member of both 1st and
2nd place clubs they will only be able to represent
1 club. The photographer must therefore declare
which club they will represent, in accordance with
the PAGB rules. Specific instructions for the Digital Projection Championship
2. Entries must
be submitted on PC format CD-ROM and sent to the
organiser prior to the event. 3. Files must be submitted in JPEG format. 4. Image files
must be numbered using a 2 digit format; 01,02,03
etc and followed by your club reference number and
short title; 01 02 The Rose, 0202 The Ball, 0302
The Boat etc. 5. Images will be projected in 1024 x 768 pixels landscape format, which is the maximum dimension in landscape. Portrait images must be no larger the 768 pixels high. 6. The Championship will run as a straight battle between all participating clubs with all 20 images contributing to the final score. 7. The winning club will be determined by the highest total score and will receive the Gems Memorial trophy. 8. In the event of a tie the winner will be determined by the club with the highest number of scores of 15. If a tie still exists then full count back will apply. 9. There will be an award for the highest scoring club with fewer than 25 members providing a minimum of 3 clubs enter in this category. 10. There
will be an award for the best individual image from
those scoring 14 or 15 (dependent on number of images). Issued
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OBITUARY Dr. MIKE ASKEW FRCS ARPS It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael (Mike) Askew, FRCS, ARPS. Mike died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital on Monday 6th. August, as a result of a long-standing illness which he had faced stoically. Having served as a Medical Officer in the Royal Navy, Mike became well-known as a local doctor in the area of Alverstoke, but his quiet, friendly and helpful nature also brought him to prominence within the wider medical world, where his typical charm and efficiency were valuable qualities as a chairman and organiser of conferences and study groups. However, throughout his whole career, he also maintained a passionate love of photography and consistently produced work of the highest quality. I first met Mike at Southampton Camera Club, and was delighted when I became President in 2002 that he was elected Vice President. I highly valued his wider understanding and perspectives on the photographic world, always found his advice well-balanced and sound. He was a man one could work with very easily, and in running the club, we soon established a good relationship and friendship. When Mike became President he brought a delightfully dry sense of humour, a wealth of experience and many good initiatives. Like so many, I was devastated to learn of his illness, but admired him immensely for the openness and courage with which he dealt with it. Mike was always prepared to encourage new photographers or offer advice, always happy to share his experience and skills. He stuck most loyally to film and darkroom work despite having won a free copy of PhotoShop. However, he did later embrace the digital era, and succeeded in this too. Mike travelled widely in pursuit of Photography, often with Charlie Waite, with whom he was great friends, to locations as varied as Cuba, China, Venice and Namibia. It was while he was on his way to Cuba that an Iraqi diplomat became ill. It was Mike who answered the call “Is there a doctor on board”, then was credited with saving the patient’s life. Mike was a member of the Royal Photographic Society, Southampton and Gosport Camera Clubs. He loved to produce high quality prints covering a range of subjects. He held many exhibitions of his work, including for his local fine arts society.
Our sympathies go to his wife Jackie, who understood and supported his dedicated interest in photography over many years, and to all members of his closely-knit family. Mike will be sorely missed by his family, many friends, ex-colleagues and the wider photographic community. David Kessel, BA, LRPS,
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Online Photographic
Competition 2007 The competition
ended at the end of July having received a total
of 92 entries. The Highly Commended winners were Dave Filler of Farnborough, Mike Barton of Portsmouth and Terry Jamieson of Viewfinders. Congratulations. Your certificates will be with you shortly. Will you be taking part next year, can you persuade other members of your club to take part? Next years competition
will again start on January 1st and will run to
June 30th. Same rules as this year - a maximum of
500 pixels on the longest side and at 72dpi. You
may submit as many images as you wish and as often
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Letters
to the Editor I was interested to see in the May edition of Exposure that in your “Editor’s Notes” column you evaluated PicShowE, one of a number of software solutions available to clubs looking for a method of managing digital image competitions. Having read your conclusion that this was a “system to consider” at a really competitive price, I was then surprised to find a further page of the Newsletter given over to the marketing of this software, presumably written by Maurice Hammon, the software developer. While I can have no objection to your providing a review of the software, I do find it a little unfair of the Newsletter to favour one piece of software in the way it was done, when, as I have already said, there are a number of other software solutions out there. One could certainly gain the impression that the SPF has given PicShowE its blessing as the Federation’s officially-preferred software - indeed I have heard members of another club state that this is the case. Our Club Secretary has asked the question of a Council Member and received confirmation that the SPF does not have a stated preferred choice of software, but it would be good to have this clarified in the Newsletter. Having publicised one such software program, it would seem only fair for the SPF (Newsletter Editor) to evaluate and publicise others so that clubs have a better idea of the range of software available on the market. One such is a program called Digital Competition Presenter (DCP) which was developed by Hien Quan, a member of my own club, Farnborough CC. DCP has all the functionality necessary to run club and inter-club competitions in the same way as print and slide competitions are run, and it has been robustly tested in competitions at Farnborough for the past 3 years. Hien has recently decided to make his software available to other camera clubs at no cost, and it can be downloaded from his site by accessing this webpage: http://somefotos.com/dcp where you can read the list of features it contains and also download the user guide. I would finally add that when specifying the system functionality, we insisted that the program should be user-friendly and we believe that Hien has succeeded in providing this. I hope you will have a chance to look at DCP (see below) and would be most grateful if you could print this email in the next Newsletter. Terry Redman, Chairman, Farnborough Camera Club Editor: At the risk of opening
the floodgates, it was never my intention to endorse
any particular product, just to hopefully get some
interaction on the subject or even any other subject.
If a member of your club has come up with something
they think is of use to other clubs in the federation,
I will be only too happy to include something. It
helps me to fill a page. |
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Presenter by Hein Quan “Effortlessly Manage Your Digital Projection Competitions” The Digital Competition Presenter was designed with the collaborative efforts and knowledge of members of Farnborough Camera Club. The main objectives of the application are: * Ease of use - easy to setup,
operate and extract information. Digital Competition Presenter Feature List * Specifically designed for Camera
& Photography Clubs - based on existing processes,
as used to manage competitions in traditional formats,
with preview, marking and display of best/winning
images. Need more information? Ready to start managing your own
Digital Projection Competitions? Editor’s Road Test: There are many talented members in our clubs, so I am sure that there will be other programmes around, it is just a case of them letting you know about them - be they free or a nominal charge, links could be placed on the website to bring them to the attention of other Clubs. Maurice Hammon (May Newsletter)
also has a programme which he has built which may
be of interest for those running the Clubs. It will
list the members, contact details, membership payments
paid/due etc. |
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Diary
Details September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 |
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Southern Photographic Federation - Council email addresses Over recent weeks I have noticed
that many emails to Council members have been wrongly
addressed. The current addresses have been in force
for over a year now, but some of you must still have
old ones in your address book. President - Ian Bigg - president Anything else will be delivered to the SPF server and will get picked up eventually and possibly forwarded to the right person, but if you address it correctly to start with, there will be no delay. Thanking you in advance for your assistance in trying to improve communication between Council and Clubs. There are still a few Clubs who do not have an email contact, if your Club has not informed us of a contact and you have one, it would be appreciated to enable the Council to contact you in that way, thereby saving postage. Trevor - News Editor and
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Web Statistics During the past three months we have averaged over 16000 hits on the website with over 250 Mb of downloads, pages etc per month during that period. Most visitors come to the site between the hours of 10am and 11pm. Though another surprise is that we also got hits betwen 1am and 5am, must be insomniacs! As you would expect, the majority of the hits came from the UK with a 100 from the USA. There were also some Saudi Arabia, France, South Korea, Ukraine, Poland, Australia, China and several other places - worldwide fame. One interesting batch of visitors came from Israel. The most used page is the index page but after that comes the Latest News, League Results, Exposure Index, Member Clubs The majority of entry pages are
from bookmarks or direct entry other links from search
engines are mostly from Google with a few from MSN
and Yahoo. I hope to include more staistics in the next issue, so get your members using the site even more to increase the site numbers. |
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