Free software guys

Have a look at this onone is offer a free photo suite normally £100,

http://thenextweb.com/creativity/2014/05/07/onone-offers-100-perfect-effects-8-photo-software-free/

Cheers

Deano

Welcome back

Guys this is where the latest info on the Photoclub will be posted.

Well done to our 2 Flickr winners,

Mike Nevard

And Norman Hunt

Well done guys...

October Meeting Notes

October 2011

Before I start I just wanted to point out that on Monday 10^th October it's 3 years since our first meeting, and I am so impressed with where we have gone in that time, I am very proud of your images.......

Welcome to this months meeting where I wanted to demonstrate a couple of software tweaks to have fun with,

The first is Tilt Shift (and actually the last, my HDR effort failed, the free software was absolutely rubbish!! So what is Tilt Shift?

Its a way of faking miniatures, ie making something that’s large in real life seem tiny,

So how does it work? It works by fooling our minds into think something must be small, which in some cases the fooling part is very easy. No but really the way it works is a very small area in focus, with the other areas front and, maybe back, out of focus.

It's very easy to do using the free software listed on this sheet, so have a bit of fun and maybe next year we could maybe include in a competition?

If you have any suggestions or ideas for meetings let me or Paul know, also if anybody wants to host an evening, talking about your favourite images or anything please let us know, it would be more fun than listening to my dulsed tones.

We also have our processing test I see some of you have already said about where you want to process, if you can upload any images that you think may be suitable to flickr and add to our group with the TAG ptest then we can get this going.

Can you please start thinking about ideas for next years competitions.

Lastly if you couldn't hear the video, I have stupidly uploaded it to youtube link below.

Oh and you can get all this info from our Blog, once again link below.

Tilt Shift Links

My Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsF4NGIbWg4

Tilt Shift Generator Software

http://www.pcworld.com/article/171047/use_a_tiltshift_image_editor_to_simulate_miniatures.html

This article has links to the web version, Adobe Air and the downloadable version as used in demo.

Picasa

http://picasa.google.com/

Photoshop Tutorial

http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php

Processing Test

Guys,

As you may be aware we have been discussing about doing a test to see the difference in quality between different processors.

So now's the time to get involved, What we'd like you to do is upload an image you think would be suitable, we want lots of different 

styles, shades colours etc.

Just upload to flickr with the tag ptask and add to our group.

Me and Paul will then select a few of them (5 i think should do)

Then on the arts flickr page just add a comment to the Processing Test discussion and tell us where you will get the images developed (7 by 5),

please don't duplicate, we want as many different companies to compare.

I'll chat more about at the meeting,

Oh and remember the cutoff for images for this months landscape comp is a week today, 30th October, that's also the date for the flickr comp,,,

Good Luck

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Cheers

Dean 

Meeting Notes September 2011

Welcome to this months notes,

To start I would like to invite you to join me a the Worldwide Photowalk,
It takes place on 1st October from around 12 till 2 or 3 we shall see.


You can sign up here
Photo walk Norwich

Next up the web has some great sites for learning and getting inspiration from here's a few of my fav,,

Mentioned Links
Photoshop Express

National Geographic

Duck Duck Go Search Engine

Others Links

Chase Jarvis - A Very Cool Self Taught Photographer

Digital pro talk David Ziser wedding

Photo answers - a UK site from a magazine

Links end

Videos
Some of these sites also do great tutorials here's a couple to get you going,
An easy way to find videos about photography is YouTube and Vimeo.

Demo'd Video links

Rick Salmons Top Ten Tips

Photo walk with Thomas hawk

Other Places/Links

Twit.tv - my fav tech shows, this is there photography show

Kelby TV shows
You may not realize but these online shows are extremely professionally produced. From Kelby a good general one is DTown about general photography.

But to be honest there are loads of videos online to help with your photography, oh and if you find one why not let the other guys know.

Lastly here's the links for the picassa one click uploader,

First download the uploader software

Flickr uploader

Once complete install and run,

Then sign in with you flickr account and allow the app to access your account.

Next download the picassa2flickr button,

Picassa2flickr

Follow the instructions and you are done,

Oh and lastly here's the dates for the open comp

Sunday 27th November lunchtime Images to be put up. Volunteers required, if you can't come and help out please have you images in by Friday 25th

Saturday 3rd December lunchtime images moved for party (tbc might have to be the firday?)

Sunday 4th December lunchtime images back up again (volunteers please won't need to many hopefully)

Thursday 8th December Voting closes (Volunteers for voting count please)

Friday 9th December final meeting and presentation of open winner and photographer of the year.

Cheers
Dean

Get Creative

Guys,

Yes I been a bit on the quiet side, but here's a little update and some info from last months meeting,,,,,

If you were at the meeting you will know that I feel you really have grasped the rules and idea of the comp's

and now i want you to start thinking about breaking some, not all the time but, be creative,

Also if you see an image entered into the comp's that maybe break the rules decide first is it creatively breaking the rules?

Oh and me and Paul will be giving out prizes for images we feel are pushing boundaries, even if you don't win the monthly comp

Here's a couple of links to give some ideas,

First up is photographer Chase Jarvis, he is one of my favorite photographers self taught and not afraid to experiment,

http://www.chasejarvis.com/#s=2&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&p=15&a=0&at=0

This really breaks the rules of thirds but, It works!

http://www.chasejarvis.com/#s=9&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&p=14&a=0&at=0

This one so out of focus but it has something so creative about it.

http://andreaandmike.federerphotography.com/Engagement/slides/AndreaAndMike_Engagement-027.jpg

This one chop of the gents head but he's not the subject and once again it works,

Have a search on the web and you find loads of info on breaking the rules, so once you've captured the perfect image of you subject trying a few creative ones,

They won't all work but have fun....

Now onto our photographer of the year comp, the current positions are below and trust me it's so so close :-)

Name	Position
Roy Hubbard	= 1st
Martin Jones	= 1st
Mike Nevard	2nd
Paul Macro	=3rd
Pauline Nevard	=3rd
Jeremy Smith	4th
Patrick Baxter	5th
Pete Boddy	6th
Sandy	7th
Helen Watkins	=8th
Bethany Macro	=8th
Martin Laurie	=8th
N Hunt	=9th
Clive Hember	=9th
Amanda Gabrielsen	=9th
Bob O’Hara	=9th
N Gooch	=10th
John Rushmer	=10th

Some lovely late Spring colour for you all