e-news of the PAGB issue 53

Click on this link to see Issue 53 of e-news from the PAGB: http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en53532911APM-RuleBreaks.pdf

IN ISSUE 53:

Awards for Photographic Merit – November 2012

Awards for Photographic Merit – Audio Visual

Breach of Rules

Notices

Fotospeed Advert

Take a View Landscape Winner

Illustrations & Advert

e-news editor, Rod Wheelans, also says,

“The GB Cup Open, the GB Cup Small Clubs and the GB Cup Nature, which closes for entries on the 9th January 2012, has been previously announced with an entry fee of £12 for each GB Cup entered but it is now FREE! Each participating club receives a CD of all the best images entered, sufficient to happily fill an evening in your programme. These AV shows have been very well received and we have had many favourable comments about both the content and the quality of the production.”

Durham PS will be entering the 2012 GB Cup. Joe Grabham will be organising our entry with his team of selectors.

Rod adds, “Can I also draw your attention to this Harman Best of Britain competition. There is a great prize and, so far, very few entries !!!”

http://harmanexpress.com/page/91/PAGB-Competition-2011.htm

The editor of e-news of the PAGB is Rod Wheelans, MPAGB, FRPS, FIPF, MFIAP who makes a welcome return to Durham PS to judge the prestige Valente Cup competition, December 8^th. This is most definitely not one to miss!

Any Durham PS member can register for free e-news from the PAGB at www.pagbnews.co.uk

News: Bishop Justin Installed

It was standing room only as a packed Durham Cathedral shared in the special inauguration service for Bishop Justin Welby on Saturday 26 November.

Durham Photographic Society’s John Attle was on hand to document the momentous occasion and one of his pictures was selected to appear in the Church of England in the Diocese of Durham web site report.

http://www.durham.anglican.org/news-and-events/news-article.aspx?id=214

UPDATES to the NCPF WEB SITE

The following update has been made to our web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:-

www.ncpf.org.uk

1. Diary:-

22^nd January; a chance provided by the RPS to see a number of recently successful Fellowship Panels.

A poster is attached on Club Secretaries copies for posting on your club’s notice board please.

2. News Items:-

Results from the recent South Tyne Area PDI Interclub Battle.

 

Dave Coates
(NCPF Webmaster)

NEWS: 10 FELLOWSHIP PANELS TO BE ON VIEW

RPS Northern Region has announced a unique opportunity to view 10 recently successful Fellowship Panels from four Categories – Visual Art, Nature, Travel, Professional and Applied. It will be at the Duke of Wellington, Kenton Lane, Gosforth, NE3 3BQ on Sunday 22 January 2012 at 2.00pm and presented by Roy Robertson Hon FRPS and Sandy Cleland FRPS from the Distinctions Advisory Board.

Jane Black said, “10 F panels is unheard of all at one time”.

Cost £10 including tea/coffee/biscuits. Please book with Treasurer Brian Pearson ARPS

Send a cheque made out to RPS Northern Region to 2, Waterloo Place, North Shields. NE29 0NA

Food is available all day from 12.00pm at the Duke of Wellington. There is parking at the back of the building

CLUB NIGHT NEWS 24.11.11

NEXT CLUB NIGHT, 1^st December

As previously reported, in a change of programme due to Lumiere Festival, this will be our 2011 AGM - a golden opportunity to hear the officers of the Society reporting to the members and the chance to have your say.

ASSIGNMENT TANFIELD RAILWAY

Tanfield here we come! Just in time for Santa’s North Polar Express which will be running with lot’s of children and parents enjoying the trip to see Santa. Saturday 10^th December, meeting in the car park at 10.00 a.m. Special challenge, Close-up and Interesting

BIRDS OF PREY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Members who have put their name down can pay the incredibly modest fee of £15, exclusive to DPS, from next week. We will also attempt to organise car sharing. Guidelines from Jed as to equipment etc is on the notice board

MINI EXHIBITION, NEWTON HALL LIBRARY

Organised by Hon Life Vice President, Don Bennett, members’ prints will be on show from Tuesday 29th November.

The Story Behind the Picture: All at Ease

All at Ease won first prize in the DPS 2011 2^nd Progress Print competition for Ian Stafford and was well received on the Folio Forum, i-witness.

“I had to laugh a little when this picture was featured in the Durham Times recently, the capture ended with ‘Do you have memorable pictures of the North-East?’, Hah…..it was taken in Brugge!

Just like the Netherlands, the Belgians love to use bicycles and Brugge is full of them. I watched many go up and down the road in which our hotel was situated and decided that, as I had never shot using the ‘panning’ technique, this was an excellent opportunity to try. I pre-visualised the image of a woman in pastel coloured clothing going past a brick building without any distracting features/posters/signs etc and didn’t have to walk far from the hotel to position myself.

I stood on the opposite side of the road and pre-focused a little way off the kerb. With my feet parallel and facing directly towards where I hoped to capture the shot, I turned my body to the right and smoothly followed cyclists, continuing to pan after pressing the shutter as in a golf swing (see,reading all those ‘how-to’ articles does come in handy sometimes!). Two cyclists fitted the scene as intended and I managed to get what I thought were pretty good attempts, beginners luck! Looking back, I’d have preferred the cyclist captured in between the windows.

The shot was taken using a Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 at 62mm, f10 @ 1/60 (generally you would use a slightly slower speed than this for panning). Very little was done post capture, the usual levels and sharpening, a slight desaturation and a light vignette to pull you into the picture using Lightroom.”

Ian Stafford

UPDATES to the NCPF WEB SITE

The following update has been made to our web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:-

www.ncpf.org.uk

1. PAGB ‘e-news’ No.52:-

The latest PAGB ‘e-news’ has been posted, including Connah’s Quay Results, PLI Insurance rates, and sad news re Colin Smith FRPS.

2. Diary:-

Entry on 6^th December re Gosforth hosting the RPS International Exhibition has been deleted.  This was in fact held on 25^th October.

Additionally there are numerous new entries for the remainder of 2011 through 2012 and into 2013.

3. News Items:-

There are THREE new news items this week;

i) firstly a number of our members are deserving of our congratulations,

ii) secondly results and pictures from the Western Area Battle and finally

iii) a report from the NCPF Awards Presentations.

Dave Coates
(NCPF Webmaster)

LATEST UPDATES – Keep up to Speed!

New feature for DPS web site

Award winning webmaster John Brown has created a new feature for the hugely popular Durham Photographic Society web site. It’s called Latest Updates and keeps our world-wide visitors to the site up to date with new additions and changes. It was started 14^th October 2011 and there are 8 updates as at 19^th November. Latest Updates can be found on the home page or via this link:

http://www.d-p-s.org.uk/updates.htm

ASSIGNMENT SUNDERLAND GALLERY NOW OPEN

To see over 100 images taken by members on the Assignment Sunderland recent outing, click on the Assignments link on the home page of the DPS website or find here: http://www.d-p-s.org.uk/assignment10.htm

The trip was centred on the National Glass Centre and lower banks of the Wear. The special challenge was “Blue and yellow”. A good time was had by all.

John Clarke said, “I thoroughly enjoyed the Sunderland assignment outing and seeing prints and listening to members’ comments at the review meeting. It’s a good way to get to know people too”.

Next up is Assignment Tanfield Railway, Saturday 10^th December meeting at 10am in or near the car park. The challenge set by Colin is to take a couple of shots showing CLOSE UP AND INTERESTING

The Story Behind the Picture: Beyond the Storm

This image is by Christine Oliphant who won the print and digital Progress competitions in 2011

This image was taken at D’Amado, on the Alentejo coast of Portugal. Dark rain filled clouds threatened to end any aspirations of getting a decent sunset shot, but undeterred I thought if by any chance the sky played ball I needed to be in position. As D’Amado is on the west coast I knew that if the sun did make an appearance I would be shooting into it and the rock formations would be silhouetted against the sky. The tide was going out, but I counted that every 7^th wave was a big one and would come further up the beach than the others, so found a rather nice stone in a rock pool to use as my foreground interest, and waited for the 7th wave. A few gaps started appearing in the threatening clouds, just enough to show some sunset colour, and choosing a slowish shutter speed to get some movement in the incoming wave, I waited for my next big 7^th wave and pressed the shutter button. When doing long exposures it is always hit and miss as to the patterning in the water, but I was delighted when I saw that I had managed to capture the water movement behind the rock but had timed it so that the rock pool was still very still and clear in front of the rock. Pure luck and fortuity in that respect!!

Shot in RAW, white balance corrected in Adobe Camera Raw, slight rotation to straighten a wonky horizon ( tripod sinking in wet sand). Nikon D300s, Sigma 10mm – 20 mm wide angle lens, Lee 0.9 hard grad filter. Aperture f13, shutter speed 0.5 s.

Chris Oliphant

LUMIERE: Durham Transformed

The City becomes a shimmering outdoor gallery

Huge crowds gathered to see the opening parade and no less than 35 installations. Lord Londonderry never looked like this before! Encapsulated in a snow dome for Jacques Rival's I Love Durham. Check out the website for more information and you can sign up to receive news of the festival.

http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/

LUMIERE, Durham

17 - 20 November, 2011

6pm – 11pm

   

IMPORTANT REMINDER – NO CLUB MEETING TONIGHT!

Due to the Lumiere Festival opening night, and the inevitable congestion and parking problems, the November17 meeting is cancelled. The AGM will now be on December 1.

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2011, Durham & Sunderland

The cathedral was full to capacity, and large crowds gathered at the laying of wreaths at the DLI Memorial and for the parade through the City to the march past at Market Place.

Once again, Durham Photographic Society members were on hand to photograph the momentous and moving events for the DLI veterans.

In Sunderland, the biggest parade outside London, member Ian Stafford was on hand to record the day.

LINK to Ian’s photos

Link to John’s photos

LINK to Tony’s photos

LUMIERE FESTIVAL

Getting ready to glow

The City is buzzing with construction work taking place in preparation for the fabulous Lumiere Festival in Durham, last seen in 2009. This year’s festival runs from Thursday 17^th to Sunday 20^th November, 6.00 to 11.00 p.m. each evening. It will feature a fire garden in and around Durham Cathedral, an equestrian snowdome in Market Square, Ove Arup's favourite bridge turned into a waterfall: a city transformed by the art of light.

There will be a whole range of installations, talks and events. The festival guide can be picked up in the Town Hall, Market Place (check out the DPS exhibition, “Autumn” while you are there) and other outlets. Also on line here:

http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/

Remember it will be extremely busy (the reason we had to cancel our club night meeting on Thursday) and you will need to plan travel and parking carefully. Some useful general tips are here:

http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/visitor-info/top-tips/

PHOTOGRAPHY: there will be opportunities galore. We have also received a couple of requests for pictures:

Marcia at St Cuthbert’s Hospice would love to have some good Lumiere images of Durham for the St Cuthbert’s Hospice 2013 calendar and Christmas cards.

Lewis Wilkinson, secretary for a local youth street band called jazz in my pants, who will be playing in the opening ceremony of Durham's Lumiere festival on Thursday 17th November was wondering if anyone from the society would like to take photos of the band, who will be marching from the Gala Theatre to Durham Cathedral in full costume, starting at 6:00pm.

These are two good causes that would benefit from our support. Tony G has the contact details.

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e-news of the PAGB issue 52

Click on this link to see Issue 52 of e-news from the PAGB:

http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en52131111PrintChampAPMAV.pdf

IN THIS ISSUE:

Inter-Club Print Championship 2011

Inter-Federation PDI Competition 2011

Awards for Photographic Merit in Audio Visual

Featured Federation Photographer & Notices

Public Liability Insurance + Next Issue

THE RULES FOR THE 2012 GB CUP ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT

http://www.pagb-photography-uk.co.uk/misc-pdfs/issue_16.1_gb_cup_general_and_digital_rules_10_11.pdf

Best practice for registering for e-news is to use the link below.

Register for free e-news from the PAGB at www.pagbnews.co.uk

The editor of e-news of the PAGB is Rod Wheelans, MPAGB, FRPS, FIPF, MFIAP who makes a welcome return to Durham PS to judge the prestige Valente Cup competition, December 8^th. This is most definitely not one to miss!

UPDATES to the NCPF WEB SITE

The following update has been made to our web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:-

www.ncpf.org.uk

1. News Items:-

The results of the Wear Area DPI Battle (and the winning image).

2. About the Federation/Executive Minutes:-

The minutes of the August and October Meetings have been added to the page.

3. About the Federation/Executive Members:-

Details of our new Acting General Secretary and Club Championship Officer added

4. Competitions/Club Championship:-

The page has been updated with an outline description of the rules for the 2012 event. Full details and entry forms will be added once our new incumbent gets his feet under the table so to speak.

5. Directory Updates:-

Consequential amendments, plus one more regarding Executive Members.

6. Links

Minor updates to this page, including a new grouping listing NCPF sponsors.

Dave Coates
(NCPF Webmaster)

News: Armistice Day, Durham

11.11.11.11, Market Place

A large gathering of people paying their respects attended a simple, moving Armistice Day ceremony and 2 minute silence at 11 oclock today in the Market Place.

 

East end, Cathedral Unveiled

Just a few minutes walk away at the newly unveiled east end of the Cathedral another ceremony took place. This was officiated by the reverend David Sudron with the pupils of the Chorister School taking part.

 

CLUB NIGHT NEWS 3.11.11

WEAR AREA BATTLE

Joe Grabham presented to the club the Wear Area trophy that we won at the Wear Area Battle as previously reported. Christine Oliphant was presented with the medal for best picture with The Conversation. See October Blog, The Story behind the Picture: The Conversation

TOWN HALL EXHIBITION: Autumn

Members’ prints are now on show in the Durham Town Hall entrance gallery until the end of November. Dennis Hardingham said, “This show is a joy - simply yet beautifully curated”.

CLUB NIGHT 18^th November

As previously reported, this meeting has been cancelled due to the expected travel and parking problems in the City due to the start of the Lumiere festival. The AGM will now be 1^st December

ASSIGNMENT NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE, SUNDERLAND RIVERSIDE

The review meeting to look at and discuss prints of pictures taken (one of the many enjoyable aspects of assignments), will be Tuesday, 15^th November, County Hall, 7.00 to 9.00 p.m

BIRDS OF PREY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Enough members have signed up for the 15^th and 17^th of December so the workshops will go ahead. Please let us know straight away if you have to drop out for any reason. Guidelines from Jed as to equipment etc is on the notice board

Digital Trophy,Judge Stephen Byard DPAGB

1st Place Neil Maughan

2nd Place Stephen Bell

3rd Place Ian Stafford

++IMPORTANT NOTICE++ Annual General Meeting

November 17th

The meeting on November 17th has been cancelled due to the expected parking problems as it is the start of the Lumiere.

The AGM will now take place on December 1st.

From the Front Line of: Whitby Goth Weekend

From our Roving PhotoFest Reporter

The Goth weekend has always been a favourite for photographers trying to capture the characters who parade the streets in their fantastic costumes and make up. This year was no exception despite the weather forecast!

The rain did put a few off as the crowds and Goths were decidedly thin on the ground in the morning and most stayed either in the pavilion or the leisure centre or, as we did, had a look around the American ‘muscle car’ exhibition, an interesting change from the normal course of events. We immediately thought, “Lilian Blot would love this!”.

By the afternoon though, as the rain eased, everyone came out and the steady flow up to St Mary’s churchyard was seen. Most people were aware of the ban on posing on tombstones and as far as we could see everybody supported this without grumbles. The light was good for portraits with none of the high contrast sunny conditions you often get and photographers made use of it shooting well into the dark.

Overall it was another great day out, bacon butties, fish and chips Yorkshire tea and happy re-unions included. We were slightly worried about Stephen becoming ‘frightened’ again after his terrifying experience with the Durham Zombies last week but he held his nerve like a true professional.

On a final note it looks like the two organisations who held rival event have again become one which should strengthen the event for next year.

Ian Stafford

http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/new_dawn_for_a_united_event_1_3937337