Phoenix Group of Photographers Programme 2017-2018 Chairman John Gamblin Tel 07748206682 country.fox@hotmail.co.uk Secretary Ray McIntosh Tel 01884 855464 raymcintosh29@gmail.com Web Site www.pgop.org.uk 1
Phoenix Group of Photographers Affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain through the Western Counties Photographic Federation. Headquarters West Monkton Village Hall Monkton Heathfield, Nr Taunton, Somerset, TA2 8NE Telephone 01823 412068 Meetings:- Monday evenings 7.30pm (September to May) Subscriptions payable by the end of September 2017 Membership ------------------------ 25.00 Evening Charges ( depending on speaker) Members 3/ 4.00....Visitors 3/ 4.00 Refreshments included Note Programme items highlighted in Red members provide either Digital or print images and Items in Blue are for member s participation. Sizing Digital web & projected image Ref. Page 9 2
Programme for 2017-2018 September 2017 4 th John Crabb 'Natural History' www.johncrabb.co.uk 11 th Print Critique. 3 Mounted prints per member. 18 th David Boag Photographing nature creatively http://naturalfocus.co.uk/ 25 th Out and About, Night Photography in a group. (The hall is not available). October 2 nd Rod Fry Art and Photography 9 th Vicki Boulter 'Digital Art' www.vickiboulter.com/ Latest Hand in date for Library Exhibition 16 th Robert Harvey www.robertharvey.net 23 th Linda Wevill Landscape Photography https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2015/07/lindawevill-landscape-photographer/ Latest hand in of digital images for Critique 3
30 st Digital Critique 3 images per member No images accepted on the evening November 6 th Paul Naylor Colourful animals close to home; photographing UK marine life http://marinephoto.co.uk/ 13 th Tony Raymond Still life evening Practical evening bring your camera and take images. 4 tables set up. And put images up for others to see. 20 th Print Critique 3 images per member outside critique 27 th Colin Harrison FRPS FBPE FIPF MPSA MPAGB MFIAP APAGB EFIAP/p www.colinharrisonphotography.uk December 4 th Bob Bishop Yet More Images 11 th Christmas Dinner 18 th Digital Critique 3 images per member none accepted on the evening 25 th No Meeting 4
January 2018 1 st No Meeting 8 th Peter Triggs Somerset Towns and Villages. 15 th Andrew Parslow An interactive workshop with 'Shiny' 22 nd Chris Mowthorpe '7 Shades of Grey' 29 th John Perriam DPAGB AFIAP Is there such a thing as a straight shot? February 5 th Print Critique 3 mounted Prints per member 12 th The London Salon Always controversial. 19 th Christopher Marsham Lightroom 26 th Brian Pettit The return of the much admired Brian with his Large Screen High Definition wild life show. wwwnaturespicturesworldwide.com March 5 th Portrait evening 5
The club will provide a model and lighting and we can see how we get on with using set ups we have learned 12 th Print Critique 3 Images per member 19 th Paul & Rachel Carter Journeys to the 7 th continent 26 th WCPF Travelling Critique. Prints entered for the Members Exhibition which did not appear in the Main Exhibition (all prints have scored over 11 points). April 2 rd Easter Bank Holiday 9 th Bristol Salon Hand in date for Digital Critique 16 th AGM Your chance to have your say or join the Committee. 23 rd Digital Critique 3 images per member 6
30 th Eddy & Pam Lane Kingdom of the Ice Bear. May 7 th Bank Holiday 14 th Nick Cable Somerset Photographer 21 st Social and review of our images / prints 28 th Spring Bank Holiday Summer Season The Summer Programme is Member Driven. Come up with an idea for an evening out, Mondays are usual but a Saturday or Sunday during the day is fine. If you know someone who has something worth visiting then arrange a visit for us, let David Beer know and he will put it on the Website. davidfbeer@gmail.com Digital Images for Web Site Technical Aspects Images to be supplied at resolution of 72 pixels per inch in the format of 600 pixels on the longest 7
length. Files must be Jpegs compressed so the each file does not exceed 300K. Image files must be named using a 2 digit number followed by a space then a short title finishing with an underscore (_) and the Photographers name. eg: 01 The Beginning John Smith (Please note the only keyboard characters to be used in the title are: numbers between 0 and 9 and the letters A to Z - ie no hyphens, quotes, commas etc, (with the exception of the underscore before the Photographers name). Send to davidfbeer@gmail.com 8
Digital Image Standards Technical aspects. Please note - 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high is the native resolution of the projector, so these dimensions will give optimum viewing. landscape images dimension no more than 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high. Portrait images no more than 1050 pixels high (thus the width will vary) All images must be flattened 8-bit RGB JPG files with no selections. Image files must be named using a 2 digit number followed by a space then a short title finishing with an underscore (_) and the Photographers name. eg: 01 The Beginning John Smith. (Please note the only keyboard characters to be used in the title are: numbers between 0 and 9 and letters A to Z ie: no hyphens, quotes, commas etc with the exception of the underscore before the Photographers name). These standards are now the same as those set by the PAGB and WCPF so if you produce your images for the Club Digital Critiques in this style you will not need to alter them for any competitions. Send to tonysue4247@gmail.com 9
Dates for your diary 2017/2018 Taunton Library- Our Exhibition of Prints. Monday 25/10/2017-6/11/2017 Maximum 3 Prints per member and hand in to Ray McIntosh by the latest 9 th October 2017 Kingswood Salver (Club Entry) Competition date 18 th November 2017 at - Clyst St Mary. 5 prints to make a panel Hand in to Ray McIntosh by 14 th October 2017 WCPF Digital Projected Image Competition. (Club Entry). Note New Sizes 1600pix x 1200pix Competition 5th February 2018 at - the Corn Exchange Exeter. Hand in date January 2018. Audio-visual Competition Hand in date February 2018 www.wcpf.org.uk/ Competition 11th April 2018 Knightshayes Trophy. The subject is Formation 2 prints per photographer. Must be taken in last 2 years. Hand in date 5/2/2018. Competition 3rd March 2018. WCPF Members Exhibition 2018. Hand in date usually March 2018 check www.wcpf.org.uk/ Members Digital Projected Image Competition. Hand in March 20 th Competition April 2018. Check wcpf.org.uk 10
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PHOENIX GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHERS Committee Members President Bob Rhodes Chairman John Vice Chairman Tony Raymond Tel 01823 275200 Secretary Ray McIntosh & Sue Raymond Treasurer Sue Raymond Programme Secretary/Webmaster David Beer Tel 01823 274950 Equipment Officer Lawrence Gregg Exhibition Secretary Ray McIntosh Public Relations Peter Mossman Committee Chris Mowthorpe 12