Programme
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last updated 11th February 2013 |
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The programme is available in the following electronic formats: · On Bookham Camera Club’s website (this document). · In your own calendar application (updates with iCal). |
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September 2012 |
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Opening night |
Members show their summer pictures Bring along your prints, PDIs, and stories to share. |
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Club evening |
Round tables The club frequently get requests for evenings where members can get peer and ‘expert’ criticism of their works. We also know that members want help and training on photographing tools and techniques. This evening has the goal of fulfilling both those needs. The room will be laid out into tables, each of which will have a host - a judge or expert in some tool or technique. You can choose to visit as many tables as you like during the evening to pick and choose from the advice and training. Image feedback tables A chance to have your images critiqued and discussed by fellow club members, chaired and steered by an accredited judge. An opportunity to get 1:1 feedback from judges, and fellow club members. It is to be expected that the judge would give their ‘official’ opinion, with maybe the score they would give it if a competition. Everyone round the table will be encouraged to discuss the image and compare and contrast their views and opinions. Bring prints or PDIs on a USB stick or your own computer. Tools and technique tables A chance to ask questions about photographic fundamentals or image processing tools:
Composition discussion A general, hosted, discussion on image composition. |
20 |
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Trevor Gellard FRPS |
In praise of panels |
27 |
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Competition |
Open Judge: Ian Brash |
4 |
October 2012 |
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Martin Halley |
Close-Up and Macro Tonight we will be looking at close-up, macro and extreme macro photography exploring the practical difficulties and their solutions. The evening will start off with a short introduction to the technical elements (dispelling some entrenched myths on the way) then quickly moving on to the practical aspects using everyday cameras and equipment with plenty of examples to demonstrate the most common pitfalls and their avoidance. A short examination of how digital techniques now allow anyone to produce super-macro images that were impossible just a few years ago will be followed by an open discussion and critique of a gallery of images, both good and bad. |
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Walter Benzie ARPS |
Getting your LRPS |
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Competition |
Open Judge: Tony Charters Chairman and president of the SPA, Tony has been a member of Woking Photographic Society for 27 years, served two terms as President and one as Treasurer plus many years on the committee in the position of Exhibition Secretary. He has been an SPA judge for over 20 years and still enjoys it. |
25 |
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Club evening |
Club outing presentation Over the past year members of the club have got together to make visits of a few days to parts of the country including Weymouth and Cornwall. Tonight we present a show of pictures taken on those trips. |
27 (Saturday) |
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External event |
Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Inter-Fed Print Championship The SPA will choose two clubs to represent Surrey in this PAGB competition. Last year we were one of the lucky ones. Deeside College, Connah's Quay, Flintshire. See the PAGB’s website. |
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November 2012 |
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Terry Pullen |
Managing your library of digital images Terry Pullen is a retired electrical engineer with long standing interests in photography and computing and has been offering digital image management/editing courses with the WEA and others for the past 6 years. An early adopter of digital photography the tutor said ‘goodbye’ to his conventional ‘wet’ darkroom and has been using Photoshop and more recently Photoshop Elements for many years. |
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Practical |
Close-Up and Macro Bring your cameras, lighting, and props for an interactive practical session taking close-up and macro pictures. |
10 (Saturday) |
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External event |
SPA All Comers PDI Competition As an experiment, the SPA is introducing a new competition to be held in conjunction with the AGM in November this year – the All Comers Individual Print and PDI Competition. This is a competition for individual club members who will submit their entries directly without the need for club involvement. There will be 4 classes – Open and Nature Prints and Open and Nature PDI’s. Entrants, who must be present on the day, will be able to enter a single image in any or all classes. Images entered in this competition must not have been entered in any previous SPA competition but will be eligible for use in subsequent SPA competitions. Judging will be silent with 3 SPA judges scoring 2 to 5 – the as the main InterClub competitions. Judges will not be permitted to enter any class that they are judging. At East Horsley village hall. |
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Mike Deverell |
Behind the image - The making of a nature image What makes an interesting nature image? How is it conceived? How is it executed? This presentation will show the background to the making of such an image, pre-visualisation, how to take control of your thoughts and make YOUR image. I will take you through the process, tools of the trade, planning, what is required, execution to the final image. This lecture will be of benefit for those wishing to take control of their photography. You'll learn how to take YOUR image, the one that YOU have pre-visualised. About Mike: After gaining a broad grounding in general photography through the City & Guilds course, Mike soon began to channel his energy and passion into nature photography. Being born and bred in the beautiful and unspoilt county of Somerset, his love of the natural world has been a part of him since his childhood and this shines through in his work. See more at his website. |
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Competition |
Set subject: Buildings Judge: Steve Lawrenson APAGB What is acceptable for this competition? See the competition notes on the web site’s documents page. |
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Graham Diprose ABIPP |
London's Changing Riverscape plus photography tips In 1937 the Port of London Authority commissioned a continuous photographic panorama of both riverbanks of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich which survived in the PLA archive and became part of their collection in the Museum of London. In 1997, London's Found Riverscape Partnership of Graham Diprose, Mike Seaborne and Charles Craig made a new panorama using 6cm x 17cm colour transparency film and also shot on 5” x 4” Black and white sheet film because of concerns about the long term archival durability and permanence of colour film. In 2007 LFRP were invited to make a new Digital version of the panorama to be shown in the Museum of London’s new City Galleries opening in 2011. The Port of London Authority sponsored LFRP to make the new panorama as part of their Centenary Celebrations for March 2009, Frances Lincoln agreed to publish a new hardback book ‘Londons Changing Riverscape’ and we also made an exact ink jet replica of the 1937 original to go into archive at MoL alongside it. After tea: 'Tips from the Textbook' - a presentation based round Grahams book Photography: 'The New Basics' |
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December 2012 |
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Competition |
Open Judge: Bob Webzell ARPS AFIAP |
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Club evening |
Night Photography - Bookham late night shopping Tonight is Bookham’s annual late night shopping evening – the streets will be thronged with people munching food samples whilst tiddly on free mulled wine. This is an opportunity to practice street, reportage, and candid photography. Fodder for the ‘Decisive moment’ competition on the 24th January? |
20 |
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No meeting |
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27 |
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No meeting |
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January 2013 |
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No meeting |
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10 |
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Chris Hutchinson |
A closer look at England Chris Hutchinson: “It often seems that travel photographs get better the further you travel and the more expensive your airline ticket is. However, someone once said that a true explorer is one who knows his neighbour’s back garden. In this talk I will try to look at things in the landscape under our own noses that we might have overlooked.” Chris is a mature photographer now living in Yateley, Hampshire, and has some photos on Flickr. |
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Dinner |
New-Year dinner |
24 |
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Competition |
Set subject: The Decisive Moment Judge: Former Guardian Newspaper staff photographer Don Morley What is a ‘Decisive Moment’? See the competition notes on the web site’s documents page. |
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Monica Weller FRPS |
Composition: The Forensics A tutorial identifying, understanding and critical examination of composition and style. Monica Weller FRPS is an international photographic judge and a member of the Royal Photographic Society’s Licentiateship panel. Monica has a new book: 'Hebrideans' The Photographs of Monica Weller. (+ Photo Treasure Hunt briefing) |
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February 2013 |
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Ann Beauchamp |
Paris to Honfleur The talk is a slide presentation of a River Trip down on Seine from Paris to Honfleur stopping off at various places on the way |
9 (Saturday) |
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External event |
Deadline for entries to Surrey Advertiser Rosebowl Our entry will consist of 5 PDIs from 5 different photographers |
14 |
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Club evening |
New Members show their images If you are a new member please being some of your images on a USB stick on the night. Come and tell us your photographic journey & aspirations, and show us some of your favourite images. |
21 |
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Competition |
Open Judge: Bob Turner FRPS |
23 (Saturday) |
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External event |
Surrey Advertiser Rosebowl PDI competition More information on Woking Photographic Society’s web site. 19:00-22:30 - Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Brewery Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 4LH |
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Geoffery Lee |
Air to Air Fast Jet Photography Geoffrey Lee, Planefocus brings you a presentation on how and what goes into organizing Air-Air aircraft photography Geoffrey Lee, Planefocus Ltd is one of the world’s top air-air aircraft photographers and for the last 30 years has been photographing military and civil aircraft around the world for BAE Systems (formerly Hawker Siddeley Aviation and British Aerospace) Eurofighter GmbH and the RAF. His photographs have appeared in all of the world’s top Defence and Aerospace magazines. Geoffrey informally talks about how and what preparation and planning goes into getting dramatic photographs of aircraft in flight. He discusses which equipment he uses for each type of sortie as well the final presentation to the client. He talks about some of his memorable and difficult sorties as well as some failures. The talk includes a short video and a photographer’s view on “24hrs in the life of Eurofighter Typhoon”. At the end of the presentation Geoffrey will be happy to answer any questions and there will also be copies of the Tornado F3 book, which he is co-author, will be available for sale which he will be happy to sign. |
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March 2013 |
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Adrian Davies ARPS FBIPP |
Photographing plants A look at all aspects of plant photography, from simple portraits to time lapse, high speed and panoramic imaging. Adrian is currently writing a book on Photographing plants. Adrian Davies is a natural history, wildlife and horticultural photographer, writer and lecturer, who has been "in the business" for over 25 years. He has published 9 books, and is currently working on his 10th, “Digital Plant Photography”. You can see some of Adrian’s work on his web site here. |
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Keith Hughes |
Treasure Hunt images and answers Plus images from Bookham Late Night Shopping. You have until the 7th of March to gather photographic answers to the clues below and submit them to the usual competition address. · The clues relate to places within about five miles of the hall where we meet. · You may consider working as individuals or as teams. · Entries will be judged on the basis of the best set of photographic solutions. · Points will be awarded for finding the right answer, with bonus points for the best photograph. · There will be a small prize for the winners.
Clues · Which lane is a combination of red, yellow, and blue? · Where would you find a ship up high? · This famous name may be preceded by beef or nobility · I doubt if royalty visit this establishment · They serve foreign food not far from where we normally meet · Where would you expect to find Alan Jenkins on a Sunday? · Equestrian on the move · Where water birds could meet · This castle is not for foreigners · Where could you buy tack? · A pair of "royal boozers": two pictures required for the answer · These boots are not for wearing.
How to submit your answers Send your images to the usual competition address by the 7th March. Use the following naming convention: TH_Name_Cn.jpg where: · TH – for Treasure Hunt · Name – either your initials or the team name if you have created one · Cn – Clue Number, eg C2 for your image for Clue number 2 E.G. TH RM C8.jpg for Clue 8 – Where Waterbirds could meet. |
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Competition |
Open Judge: David Smith What is acceptable for this competition? See the competition notes on the web site’s documents page. |
28 |
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No meeting |
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April 2013 |
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No meeting |
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11 |
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Dr Cathy Corbishley Michel |
Cyanotype on Fabric and the Shackleton Endurance Project Cathy is a Diagnostic Histopathologist who prints on fabric from photographic negatives using Frank Hurley images from the 1914-17 Shackleton Endurance expedition (with permission of the Scott Polar Research Institute and Royal Geographical Society). She uses the 19th century Hershel Cyanotype process, but with digital negatives and readily available laboratory chemicals in her disused darkroom and a £25 sunbed from Ebay. She makes large quilted prize winning textiles which have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been recently been published in Digital Images on Fabric by Ruth Brown and also as cover art on Medical Journals. Cathy will explain the process and how you can achieve it yourself - both on fabrics and paper and how to make modified colours (such as sepia) by bleaching, tea dying and overpainting. Messy, only mildly toxic, but fun You can see some images on our news page here, and at the end of the presentation here. Cathy is a Senior Lecturer for the University of London, teaching cancer pathology. |
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Club evening |
SPA PDI selection presentation In May the SPA will hold their annual Inter-Club PDI competition; tonight is the presentation of the images chosen to represent our club. Members of our club who are accredited judges will have previously selected the images from previous internal PDI competition entries. On this evening they will present the chosen images along with some that they rejected and share their reasoning. |
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Competition |
Set subject: Close-Up and Macro Judge: Johan J Ingles-Le Nobel What is acceptable for this competition? See the competition notes on the web site’s documents page. |
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May 2013 |
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Ian Brash |
The Story So Far Ian says: "My presentation entitled 'The Story So Far' goes back to my earliest dabbling with monochrome dark room printing very quickly passing onto the new age of light room printing, I.E. the world of digital manipulation and printing. This is where I am now most at home with and it's given me like many the chance to produce home produced colour images. I like to engage the audience in my presentation to get their views and comments not only on my work but discuss photography in general. In this way I hope to make the evening entertaining give the audience something to think about and maybe give them a few ideas. I can promise you it will be different! I have been a member of Selsdon C.C. for about 25 years and external Competition Sec for the last 10 years. I enjoy all genres of photography which has helped I think with my appreciation of the work I now judge around the various clubs in Surrey and SE London. I am also a member of 'Release'; a three member group that go away together on trips to enjoy not only getting that decisive image but also to enjoy a friendship built up throughout love of the hobby. See my gallery on Release here." |
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Competition |
Open Judge: Mike Dales ARPS |
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Ann Smith ARPS |
Ice Hotel Experience |
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AGM |
AGM and presentation of awards |
30 |
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Dinner |
End of season Barbecue or Cheese and Wine |
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June 2013 |
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Village day |
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