Simon Wilkinson has drawn up a list of events that could be interesting and some are a real challenge – take care with the rallies.

SOME UPCOMING EVENTS

STREET/NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY:

Beltane Fire Festival at Calton  Hill 21.00hrs Tuesday 30^th April 2013

http://beltanefiresociety.wordpress.com/

STREET PHOTGRAPHY/DEMO:

99% AGAINST AUSTERITY – Protest against Government Austerity cuts, meeting at St Andrews Sq, Edin on 4^th May 2013 at 12.00hrs for demo and March. 2500 invited, Police estimate approx. 300 attendees. Can be found on Facebook if you have an account

MISC:

British Scooter Assoc meet at Kelso, Scottish Borders25-27^th May 2013 Large National meet with eclectic mix of characters and machines, might be worth a look if you’re in the area.

SPORTING/MISC/PEOPLE:

Edinburgh Marathon Festival, 26^th May 2013 a world class event attracting 20,00 people and finishing at Musselburgh 2^nd largest competitor  sport event outside the London Marathon, apparently!

http://www.edinburgh-marathon.com/

SPORTING EVENT:

Jim Clark Rally, Duns ,Scottish Borders 31^st May-2^nd June part of British Rally Championships several classes and locations around Berwickshire, worthwhile if you’re a petrol head!!

http://www.jimclarkrally.com/

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY/DEMO:

Scottish Defence League rally/march an unsavoury bunch with strong political feelings that attract counter demonstrators, who are just as opinionated  and can be just as unsavoury. Big Police commitment that can sometimes be a non-event. Venue and time T.B.C. scheduled for 1^st June 2013 due to council stalling on granting permission, (Democracy in Action!) Again web access through Facebook. Link to BBC coverage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18218128

ART/PEOPLE:

3 Harbours Festival at various venues in Prestonpans. Cockenzie & Port Seton from 1^st-5^th June 2013

http://www.3harbours.co.uk/events-day-by-day/

MISC/PEOPLE:

Royal Highland Show 20^th-26^th June 2013 at Ingleston lots of people and lots of cows, tractors to if that’s your thing!

http://royalhighlandshow.org/

SPORTING EVENT:

British Open Golf Championships at Muirfield, lots of people, lots of traffic, lots of men in strange outfits and costs lots of money. 14^th-21^st July 2013.

http://www.theopen.com/

Not sure if anyones attended to one of these open days before, if so what kind of job do they do on the free sensor clean?

It’s available on 3rd April as per their website http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/eng/pages/spring-open-days.cfm worth a visit for that alone

We are trying to raise awareness of the unique photographic opportunities for otters on the Island of Carna in Loch Sunart, Ardnamurchan on the West coast of Scotland. 
We have had successful groups of photographers visiting the island either independently or on guided trips and are trying to spread the word about this wonderful place.
I would be keen to come along give a presentation and talk to your club members about the island and it’s wildlife if you thought it might be of interest to your membership.
Would it be possible to forward this e mail to your members?
Please see our web site (address below) and facebook page for some excellent examples of otter pictures. 
Kind Regards
Andy Jackson
Ardnamurchan Charters Ltd.
www.west-scotland-marine.com
email: ardcharters@west-scotland-marine.com 
Tel 01972 500208
Fax 01972 500222
Mob 07799608199
post address

Andy Jackson
Ardnamurchan Charters Ltd.
Bruach Na Fearna
Laga Bay
Acharacle
Argyll
PH36 4JW

If anyonoe has time to spare over the next week and want some hardcore Photoshop tutorials, then get yourself in front of an internet connected device and watch some of the worlds best photoshop experts who will be showing on http://www.creativelive.com/ from Monday 25th February.

There will be different experts (known as Photoshop Evangelists!) showing live every day and once the live show is done for the day they start showing re-runs and continue to do so until the next days filming begins.

This will continue for the week so more or less any time of the day you can click in and see some great tips and tutorials.

I don’t have a list of the line-up to hand but you can garuntee they will be top notch instructors. This is a free set of workshops while the airing is live or during the reruns, at the end of the week you can purchase any of that weeks offerings as an any time download if you wish.

There’s no registration required, just click on the link and go to the Watch Live tab. There’s also Q&A’s invited via Twitter or through the shows online forum (for the forum you need to put in a username) so you could have your question answered and a demonstration shown by one of the very people that make PHotoshop!

It’s an American creation so bear in mind that the advertised show times will be local to the US and you’ll need to adjust for UK

Creative Live is fab, it’s touted as an online classroom and the classes are mainly photography based, last week had a week of wedding shoots which are filmed as it happened using models and top photographers on location who explained pretty much the full camera to album process, how to get good light, how to pose the subjects and via the forum you could ask questions of the ‘togs as they were posing and shooting, invaluable tips being passed out for free. Tonight there’s a rerun of a course thats been going for the past three days titled fundamentals of photography and learning your way around DSLR’s. If you’d just taken a DSLR out of the box or wanted to knwo how your particular camera worked then an expert was demonstrating and answering questions

It’s a great free resource and if you particularly want a download of one of the courses thats when you pay.

I need a wife and 2 kids to go along to this (as my own wont want to go). Sounds like it could be a great day out.
here is the link
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/edinburgh/The-Scottish-Deer-Centre/17872429?nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_52&a=21

I need a wife and 2 kids to go along to this. Sounds like it could be a great day out.
here is the link
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/edinburgh/The-Scottish-Deer-Centre/17872429?nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_52&a=21

I’ve put together an app that brings together some of the key parts of the website in one easily accessible place on your smartphone or tablet.

To install the app, open the following link on your device and follow the instructions.

http://myapp.is/Musselburgh%20Camera%20Club

John Scott

Adobe are giving away Photoshop CS2 free & legal ! I know it’s an older version but would be great for any beginners.Just click on this link,choose Mac or Windows version, copy down serial no.and download.easy peasy.http://www.wirefresh.com/adobe-giving-away-free-copies-of-cs2-softwareand-heres-the-download-links-for-photoshop-illustrator-premiere-pro-and-more/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adobe-giving-away-free-copies-of-cs2-softwareand-heres-the-download-links-for-photoshop-illustrator-premiere-pro-and-more

Dear All
 
I raised the issue of perhaps having some extra nights to try to deal 
with taking the images from the camera and then post processing them.  
I've only been at this around 15 months and it's clear to me that whilst 
you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear if the picture in camera 
is dreadful, the difference between a good photo and a great image comes 
from post processing.
 
On that basis I thought that perhaps other relative newcomers to the 
club ( and more established members) might be interested in getting 
together with me to help each other improve how we deal with post 
processing.  There appear to be loads of different ways of achieving 
similar things, some quick and easy, some complicated and some requiring 
a PhD in software engineering to understand but rather than muddle 
through individually we couold help each other.
 
There isn't a grand plan for it- it depends what we need but I had 
thought that we might cover
 
Adobe Camera Raw
Levels, cropping
Layers &blend modes
Layer masks
Sharpening choices
Dodging & Burning
Transformations
etc, etc
 
Some weeks might be a useful tutorial from some of the photo/ photoshop 
magazine discs with a trial.  Others might be a walk through from camera 
to finished image from someone and others working on the technique.  We 
might ask one of the club winners to talk through an image in detail 
sometimes as well.
 
There was talk about off camera flash whichmight be another type of area 
to cover.
 
My plan was for a Tuesday night at Musselburgh for 1.5-2 hrs once a 
month.  I understand that it might cost about £2-3 per month if ther are 
4/5 of us to cover room hire.
 
Can you let me know if you're interested in this type of workshop and 
the sort of things that you would like to get from it now. Email me at 
jt54mcc@gmail.com- can you put real names as well as your email address 
in any response.

Regards
 
Jim Tod