A reminder that we have two club meetings this week:

1) On Monday, 4th December 2017 we are meeting at 7:30pm at Edinburgh Photographic Society, 68 Great King, Street in Edinburgh to take part the 4-way digital interclub competition between Musselburgh, Edinburgh, Stirling and Kirkaldy. Here is a map of the location:

https://goo.gl/maps/mqwzsfGTatP2

There is free parking in the area after 6:30pm, but you might need to hunt for a space.

2) On Thursday, 7th December 2017 we are having an extra club meeting at the Fisherrow Centre at the usual time of 7:30pm. Bring along some digital images or prints you would like to discuss with members. We’ll make it an informal members evening, and a chance to meet up before the Christmas social evening.

Hi is anybody going to beeslack tonight that can give me a lift.? Cheers Mike Clark  no. Is 07722887278

A reminder that we are not meeting at the Fisherrow Centre this Thursday, 30th November. Instead, we are meeting at 7:30pm at Beeslack Penicuik Camera Club, Beeslack Penicuik High School, Edinburgh Road, Penicuik. EH26 0QF. We will be joining Beeslack members for a talk by professional landscape photographer David Stout.

Click this link for a map.

Because there are so few club meetings at Fisherrow during December this year, we have decided to add an extra members’ club evening at the Fisherrow Centre on Thursday, 7th December at the usual time of 7:30pm. Please come along and bring a few interesting digital images to show other club members and spark a conversation. I look forward to seeing what you bring along.

A local man, whose father was a member of the club in the 1950’s, has been in touch with the club to offer his lighting equipment, for a reasonable (or unreasonable) offer. He has now retired from film and television lighting and would like his kit to go to a good home.

All gear is owner used and in good condition:

For anyone interested, here is the web site where I found the eclipse photography exposure guide. The site also contains some more information on eclipse photography.

http://www.mreclipse.com/SEphoto/SEphoto.html

Here are some sites where you can find other images of the eclipse, including some wide-angle images I didn’t get this time because of the broken camera. There are also some ultra-HDR images, showing what you can do if you manage to cram enough different exposures into the 2 minutes.

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/image-gallery

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/solar-eclipse-totality-at-oregon-state-fairgrounds

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/best-2017-solar-eclipse-pictures-from-our-readers/

If you want to try yourself, the next total eclipse of the sun in the USA happens on 8th April 2024. 🙂

Steven.

I have added a copy of the slides I showed for the “Basic Photo Techniques” presentation last week to the web site. You can obtain a copy by clicking on the following link:

MCCBasicPhotographyTechniques

Don’t forget to email your three “Circles and Squares” images to George Todd this week. If you can’t match the subject exactly, submit something anyway. Images with the most tenuous connection can often be the most entertaining on the night.

Best of luck,

Steven.

I have made a printable version of the competition information slides from last night and added it to the club website. You can obtain a copy by clicking this link:

MCCCompetitionInformation2017

Please send your 3 entries for the “Digital Projected Images” competition to George (georgetodd1957@me.com) this weekend. If you are beginner and you have some images would like to submit, please submit them even if you can’t match the SPF formatting and sizing rules. It’s better to get the feedback than not enter at all. If you don’t have Photoshop but you have an editing tool which has a “save for email” option, you can use that to reduce the file size to something George can manage.

Best of luck with your entries, and I’ll see you on Thursday.

Steven.

Our competition secretary, George, is going away on holiday and has asked for the submission deadline for the Digital Projected Images competition to be brought forward. Please can you send your three images to George (georgetodd1957@me.com) by SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17th (instead of the 21st September date printed in the syllabus).

The SPF rules for digital images have changed. Images must now be resized so the largest edge is no larger than 1600 pixels and the smallest edge must be no larger than 1200 pixels. This means that 4:3 ratio images can be submitted as 1600×1200 (landscape) or 1200×1600 (portrait), but a 1:1 square format image must be 1200×1200. Intermediate formats must fit within a 1600×1200 box. I will show how to do this at next week’s “Competition Requirements” presentation.

We have a very early inter-club competition this year (on 1st November, before most of our club competitions), so if you have any good digital images available now, please send them to George. The earlier we can collect these images the better.

See you next week.