Club Syllabus 2008-2009
1 Sept – Opening Night – Assignment Night – “Bridges”
Bring along 4 photos on the theme 'Bridges' (in any format) for
discussion with the other members
8 Sept – Digital
Workshop 1 - Mark Woodfin
Mark will demonstrate image adjustment & the use of
layer masks
PLUS Hand in date for Knock Out Competition
15 Sept – Digital Workshop
2 – Eddie Cairns
Eddie will teach us about file management, archiving &
retrieval of images, and profiling.
PLUS Hand in date for Open I Competition
22 Sept – Knock-Out Competition
–
This year using digital images (up to 6 per member) -
Judging by club members
29 Sept – Workshop – Allan Gawthorpe & Martin Sim
Martin will demonstrate print mounting & Allan will
teach us about lenses and their uses, depth of field
&filters
6 Oct – 88th Scottish Salon 2007
View the acceptances from this International
exhibition in a
tape / slide presentation
13 Oct – Open I
Competition
Judge: John Chapman
MPAGB
PLUS Hand in date for Open II Competition
20 Oct –
“River of Light” – Stan Farrow, ARPS -
www.stanfarrow.com
Stan is President of St. Andrews Photographic Society.
He has held successful exhibitions and will show his
prints & digital images and tell us how he achieved some
of his effects.
PLUS Hand in date for prints for Aberdeen Camera Club
exchange
27 Oct – Question Time
Ask about anything you want to know – other members
will provide the answers!
Sunday
2 November - Treasure Hunt
This is a fun day, with members put into mixed ability
teams, following a set route and taking pictures of
specified subjects. The winning team is decided at the
competition in February. Where will we be going this
year?
3 Nov
- SPF Projected Image
Portfolio
See the best projected images from Scottish clubs
PLUS Hand in date for 'Smile' themed Competition, and
for Grampian Cup
10 Nov – Open II
Competition
Judge:
Douglas L. Anderson LRPS
17 Nov – “Mountain
Photography - My Influences”
– Alex Milne, ARPS,
www.mountain-photography.net
Alex is a petroleum
geologist from Aberdeen. He uses large & medium format,
35mm and digital cameras. He will show his work from
both home and abroad and talk about the influences on
his photography and the guidance he has been given along
the way, mainly from the RPS
24 Nov – Grampian Cup – Mearns v Bon Accord
Judge: Kevin
McIntosh
1 Dec – Set Subject Competition – “A Smile”
Judge:
Sandy Porter
8 Dec – Best of British Photographers –
Ben Hall – “Moments in Nature”.
Click
here
for
poster
and ticket details.
Mike Reid has provisionally booked the large room
upstairs in the Community Centre, as St. Leonard’s Hotel
has been sold
15 Dec
– Christmas Meal
–
venue to be arranged
PLUS Hand in date for Open III Competition
22 Dec – No Meeting
29 Dec - No Meeting
5 Jan 2009 – Workshop: Motion Photography & Low Light
Techniques –
Mike Ogden
Club member, Mike, will teach us how to tackle these
tricky subjects
12 Jan – Grampian Cup –
Mearns v Peterhead
Judge: David Pickford
PLUS Hand in date for images from Treasure Hunt
Competition
19 Jan - Open III
Competition
Judge:
Howard M. Kennedy
PLUS Hand in date for 'Something Old, Something New'
themed Competition
26 Jan –
“The
Way I See It”
– Al Buntin, ARPS
When Al gave us a presentation in February 2008, there
was much discussion about how he achieved the results he
did. Now Al has agreed to demonstrate his technique for
us!
PLUS Hand in date for prints for Brechin Print
Exchange
2 Feb – Treasure Hunt Competition judging
Which team will win this year? – Judging by club
members
9 Feb – Print Exchange with Brechin Photographic Society
Give your views on prints from Brechin’s members –
They will do the same with ours tomorrow!
16 Feb
– Set Subject Competition - “Something Old, Something
New”
Judge: Ian M. McCurrach
PLUS Hand in date for 'Social Comment' themed
Competition
23 Feb –
“Photography My Way” – Peter Paterson, ARPS,
DPAGB, EFIAP
Peter is from Tullibody and his work is very
successful in salons & exhibitions. He will be showing
his prints.
He is sponsored by Photospeed and will be bringing along
samples of their paper and (although not selling it) let
us know how we can buy it from Photospeed at a discount
and also how the Club can benefit financially from
sales.
PLUS Hand in date for prints/slides for Angus Cup
2 March - Studio Photography – David Gold
Club member, David, is back by popular demand to
follow on from his workshop last year!
9 Mar – SPF Print Portfolio
See the best prints from Scottish clubs in this digital
presentation
16 Mar – Set Subject Competition – “Social Comment”
Judge:
Mike Hall LRPS
23 Mar – “The
Rights Stuff - commercial art buying from the design
brief to sourcing, costing and purchasing images from
photo libraries for commercial use”
– Lynne Forsyth
Lynne lives in Stonehaven and runs a picture-searching
agency. She will talk to us about sourcing images,
working with picture libraries, copyright and how to get
images into picture libraries.
30 Mar - Portfolio Evening
Bring along 5 images (in any format) on a topic of
your choice to show and discuss with the other members
6 April – AGM
13 April – Awards
& Social Evening
Venue to be arranged
Away
Competitions
Tuesday 3 March 2009 -
Grampian Cup – Aberdeen v Mearns
Tuesday 17 March
2009 - Angus Cup- at Brechin –
Judge: Malcolm McBeath ARPS
(new
venue - to be confirmed)
Friday 17th April - Grampian Cup Final (at Banff)
Enquiries are welcome. Please
contact us using the details on the
'Contact' page.
