Some news in case you missed it on Thursday:

• Ken Sharp has now received the notes that Libby Smith said she would send to us. If you would like a copy, please email Ken at the email address on the front of the syllabus. This copy is for you own use. Please do not share it outside the club or publish it.
• The presentation I gave last week is now available on the web site.
• We are also looking for some volunteers to present their work at the Members Evening on 10th November. Please let Ken know if you have some interesting photographs to show us. Perhaps you have been on a recent holiday, visited a special event or have tried something new?
• Next week is Photo Advice Night.
  • Please bring along a print you would like to share – perhaps something interesting or something you would like feedback on? The print doesn’t need to be mounted (although you can mount it if you’d like feedback on the mounting).
  • If you would like feedback from everybody in the room (rather than just the people sharing your table), please write a title on the back of your print. We’ll use the titles to identify the prints and write down the feedback.
• The submission date for the Colour Print competition is 13th October 2016. Please remember this time you need to provide 3 digital JPEG copies in addition to the prints.

See you on Thursday,

Steven.

Here are some up and coming events in the coming week which might offer some photographic opportunities:

• 24-25 September: The Edinburgh Doors Open Day is taking place this weekend. About 120 different buildings will be opened to the public (see the web site for details). As part of this event, the Royal Observatory Edinburgh will be open from 10am-5pm on both days.
• 25 September: Services Race Day taking place at Musselburgh Race Course from 12pm to 5:15pm.
• 28 September: A homecoming parade for Scotland’s Olympians is taking place in Festival Square in Edinburgh at 3pm.

Other news:

• If you haven’t yet sent your images for the “Transport” set subject competition to George, please do so now.
• Our first competition of the year (Digital Projected Images) takes place next week on 29th September. I look forward to seeing you there.

Steven.

Hello everyone. If you just entered your email into the “Follow” box on the club web site and have received this message, congratulations, you are now on the Musselburgh Camera Club web mailing list.

My “Competition Requirements” presentation is now available on the web site as a downloadable or viewable PDF. You can find it in my “Chairman’s Comments” page.

Some news from our meeting:

• The maximum size for a digital projected image will be changing from 1400 to 1500 pixels in the near future. George will let us know when this happens. For now, our club competitions will still be using 1400.
• There is Caledonian Brewery Race Day happening at Musselburgh Race Course as I write this, Saturday, 10th September 2016.
• The Battle Of Dunbar reenactment takes place at Dunbar 17th-18th September 2016.
• The Scottish Half Marathon takes place on Sunday, 18th September 2016.
• The Edinburgh Charity Kiltwalk also takes place on Sunday, 18th September 2016.

Next Thursday we have our first speaker of the session. Libby Smith will be talking to us about Black and White photography. The last time we invited her to the club she gave a fascinating presentation of her work, and a long list of useful hints and tips, so I am looking forward to it. See you there.

Steven.

Please see below a message we have received from Beeslack Camera Club advertising their evening with Colin Prior on Thursday, 3rd November 2016. Musselburgh Camera Club members will be able to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the public. Thursday, 3rd November is also our Colour Print Competition night.

Also please remember to send your 3 images for this year’s Digital Projected Images to George Todd (georgetodd1957@me.com) by this Thursday, 8th September. Our competitions start earlier than usual this year.

I hope to see you this Thursday, when we can talk about the club competitions. If you don’t know how to resize your digital images, bring them along on Thursday and we’ll resize them on the night.

All the best,

Steven.

Dear friends

Beeslack Penicuik Camera Club warmly invites you to an evening with renowned landscape photographer Colin Prior, on the 3^rd of November 2016 at Penicuik North Kirk from 7.30pm.

Tickets for this event will go on general release in the next couple of weeks, however, we are opening our invite to fellow camera clubs first to give you a degree of priority. Audience numbers will be limited to 200, and although tickets will be available at the door on the night, our ticket sales are based on a first come first served basis.

Tickets can be purchased online via our secure payment facility at www.bpcc.photography/events

We look forward to welcoming you at this exciting event.

Kind regards

Stephen Ball, LRPS

Vice President

Email: vice.president@bpcc.photography

Web: www.bpcc.photography | Facebook: / beeslackpenicuikcameraclub.co.uk

Address: Edinburgh Road, Penicuik, Midlothian. EH26 0QF

There are a number of events happening this weekend which members might be interested in (especially as we have a “transport” competition coming up soon):

1. Mike Clark is organising a trip to the 2016 Scottish Air Show in Ayrshire on Saturday 3rd September. Please contact Mike if you are interested.
2. Simon Wilkinson has drawn my attention to the 2016 Bo’ness Hill Climb event, which takes place this Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September, which includes a classic car show.
3. There is a Roman battle re-enactment taking place at Hadrians Wall on Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September.
4. A kite festival is taking place at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune on Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September.

It’s all happening at once this weekend. See you at the club opening night this evening.

Steven

Our club sessions restart in just one week! I look forward to seeing everyone again, and perhaps welcoming some new members along? If you missed our exhibition at the Riding of the Marches last month, there will be another chance to see it on opening night.

Our competitions start earlier than usual this year. The submission date for the Digital Projected Images competition is 8th September 2016, just 2 weeks away. Time to select your images.

We don’t yet have enough images to be able to enter this year’s SPF Digital Championship. If you haven’t yet sent George your two best digital images please do so. We need a minimum bank of 20 images from 10 members.

See you next Thursday.

Steven.

This Thursday, 14th April 2016, we will view and select the images to be included in our exhibition for the 2016 Musselburgh Riding Of The Marches. Please bring along a CD or a USB data stick containing up to 10 of your best or most interesting images of Musselburgh or Fisherrow. The size of the exhibition space has not been finalized yet, but it’s likely we will need up to 40 images. We can show the images in the same way we did for the Pechakucha night and select the best by public vote as we did for the knockout competition.

We also need to prepare our entry for the 2016 SPF Digital Championship. The closing date hasn’t been announced on the SPF web site yet, but we need to have the images ready to go when the upload page opens. Please send your two all time best digital images to George Todd before the AGM.

Information about the Laurie Campbell nature workshops at Edinburgh Zoo can be found here:

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/photography

For those asking me about the “AAOGlimpse” program I used last week to show photographs as a 3-D surface, it can be obtained from this web page:

http://203.15.109.22/local/www/ks/AAOGlimpse.html

This free software was developed by my colleague Keith Shortridge at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Please acknowledge Keith if you use images generated by this program.

Some members have been asking me about what is going to happen at our next club meeting on 7th April, entitled “Photoshop Advice”. The evening will begin with a presentation about digital photography and its relationship with Photoshop, aided and abetted by a number of props :). Come along if you are curious to know how a digital camera works, and how to get the best from it (even if you don’t use Photoshop). The presentation should (I hope) be useful for both beginners and more advanced users. I am planning to show some Photoshop demonstrations at the end, but this won’t be a 90 minute long workshop. I will be happy to run some Photoshop workshops during the summer for club members who would like to find out more about specific topics, or would like to try some of the techniques on their own images.

By the way, we need volunteers to make the tea this Thursday. Please can whoever arrives first set up the mugs and put the kettle on. If you are planning to bring some milk please let me know, otherwise I’ll bring some myself.

See you on Thursday.

Steven.

For anyone who wasn’t at last Thursday’s meeting and didn’t hear the announcement, the Evening With Musselburgh Art Club will now take place on Thursday, 31st March 2016 in the large upstairs hall at Fisherrow. My Photoshop presentation will now take place on 7th April 2016.

Coming up this Thursday, 17th March 2016, we have our last speaker of the season. Jo McIntyre will talk to us about wildlife photography.

http://www.jomcintyrephotography.co.uk/

http://www.jgwildlifephotography.co.uk/

See you on Thursday,

Steven.

This Thursday, 10th March, will be our PechaKucha Night. The evening was suggested by Jane Renton last year. Jane is unable to take part, due to rehearsals, but she referred me to this web site for information:

http://www.pechakucha.org/   There is a description of how the format works here.

Jane describes it as a “members night with a twist”. If you would like to join in, please bring 20 images that you would like to show and talk about. The key ingredient isn’t the images themselves but the story you have to tell about them. They don’t need to be good images, and they don’t need to be your work (as long as you acknowledge who created them). Examples might include:

• The story of a holiday, special occasion, sporting event or an interesting place.
• A project you are working on.
• A “how I did it” presentation showing how you created a special effect or a special image.
• A set of images with a common theme.
• Images from your family album and/or images of your ancestors.
• Images from a photographer whose work you admire and would like to emulate.
• Something else…?

There are two ways in which you can bring your images:

1. Save your images to a folder (using a name you will recognise) and copy that folder to a USB data stick. Make sure to name your files so the images will display in the correct order when run as a slide show.
2. Create a Powerpoint presentation containing 20 slides and add each of your images to a new slide. Bring your presentation on a USB data stick (again with a memorable file name). If you can programme the presentation to change slides every 20 seconds, so much the better.

20 images x 20 seconds is 6 minutes 40 seconds. If we can change over within 1 minute, there should be enough time for between 10 and 12 presentations. We have never tried this before, so it might be slightly chaotic, but it should be a lot of fun.