Ripon City Photographic Society

RPS Programme 2009-10 v2A

2009-04-07T16:26:00.002+01:00

Autumn
2009

June 27th Saturday	Annual BBQ	At Diane’s. Salad and deserts provided. BYO meat and drink
September 19th Saturday	Exhibition	10 – 4pm Allhallowgate Methodist Church Hall
September 22nd Tuesday	Photo Exchange	The Gallery, Middlesbrough As many members as possible go to support the speakers
September 28th	Lecture Farming in Harmony at Givendale Yorkshire Wildlife	Richard Fuller
October 5th	Practical	Exposure - Apertures, shutter speeds and ISO numbers Bryan Oxley
October 12th	Photo Exchange	Berwick
October 19th	Competition	Pictorial - The seasons
October 26th	Lecture Windowlight Photography - creating simple but effective lighting at minimal expense. Also some tips on posing	John and Brian from the Gallery, Middlesbrough
November 2nd	Workshop - Portraits	DIY – bring your camera and take photos.
November 9th	PAGB	The club selects entries for the competition
November 16th	Competition	Sport and Photo-journalism
November 23rd	Lecture A Photographic Journey	Chris Ceaser
November 30th	Practical How to process Raw files	Andrew Linscott
December 7th	Competition	Portraits
December 14th	Its Party time!!!	Quiz, lush food and lots of fun!!
December 21st	No meeting
December 28th	No meeting

Spring
2010

January 4th	Lecture	John Webster – Northallerton Seasons of Mist
January 11th	Practical Table Top Macro Photography using simple and affordable lighting	John Potter
January 18th	Workshop - Still Life/Macro	DIY – bring your cameras
January 19th Tuesday	Photo competition	A friendly battle with Garforth and Wetherby
January 25th	Competition	Christmas Time
February 1st	Lecture Flowers in Focus	Nigel Harrison
February 8th	Photo Competition - the fight back!	This time the battle is on home turf with Wetherby.
February 15th	Hall unavailable
February 27th Saturday	Anniversary Speaker Laurie Campbell www.lauriecampbell.com	One of Scotland’s leading natural history and landscape photographers See his wonderful photos on his web site
March 1st	Practical	Lecturettes
March 8th	Lecture Nosterfield	Simon Warwick
March 15th	Competition	Natural History
March 22nd	AGM
March 29th	ANNUAL DINNER & PRIZE PRESENTATION	TBA

2009-04-04T17:25:00.001+01:00

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High speed photography by Alan Sailer

2009-04-02T08:19:00.001+01:00

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2009-03-26T17:19:00.001+00:00

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AGM 2009 Report

2009-03-26T11:36:00.002+00:00

Ripon Photographic Society A G M 2009

In her opening address our President Sarah Harrison felt that we had had a very successful year. Membership was slightly up, The tutorials and lectures had been informative, and interesting. The Exhibition in the new venue had been excellent with maximum print entry of high quality.

She introduced our treasurer Andrew Liscott, who said the club was in a sound financial position.

The two Programme secretaries outlined some of the years successes and were positive next year would be even better. Paul Bullock said competition entries had been so high a limit may have to be imposed..

The YPU representative David Morland resigned from the committee after 19 years, his experience and enthusiasm will be sadly missed.

Sarah then proposed Diane Bowes as our next president who in turn proposed Kathryn Carter as vice president, both were accepted enthusiastically by members.

In closing Sarah noted that next year the club will have it's 60 year anniversary, and some major events are planned.

In the disposable camera competition Keith Wagner won the print prize and Denise Carrigan and Kathryn Carter were joint winners of the sheet prize.

Summer is nigh

2009-03-26T07:58:00.002+00:00

Hello...For your imformation,all our summer events
--
Jim

Ripon City Photographic Society – Summer Events 2009

Event	Details	Date
BBQ	Venue Diane's home, address below bring your own meat & drinks, salad and puds will be provided rsvp by 13^th June to Diane	Sat 27^th June 6pm
Exhibition Posters	We need a poster to publicise the club exhibition. It should include the venue details (see below) and reference to the club's 60^th year. Please e-mail/deliver your work to Paul for review at the BBQ (or bring it with you on the day) There will be a prize!	Sat 27^th June
Exhibition Prints	We require lots of prints for the exhibition If each member supplies 10 prints (prefereably not shown at a club exhibition before) that should ample. Each print mounted on card, minimum size A4, with your name and a title written on the back Deliver to: Diane, Kathryn or Paul	Fri 31^st July
The Exhibition	Venue: Allhallowgate Methodist Church Hall, Victoria Grove, Ripon Volunteers needed between 9am and 5pm. If you can give 2 hours at some point during the day to help set-up, take down, serve tea or escort visitors that'd be a big help. Contact: Diane, Kathryn or Paul	Sat 19^th Sept 10am-4pm
The Gallery	Your opportunity to take your work "on tour". We need volunteers to travel to Middlesborough to present their work to The Gallery club. Six 10 minute presentations or twelve 5 minute ones … We also need people to come along and add their support Contact: Paul	Tues 22^nd Sept
First Meeting	New season starts See you all then!	Mon 28^th Sept

Questionnaire

2009-03-06T10:32:00.001+00:00

Dear Members

Please see attached questionnaire. I know a lot of you took a copy home
the other week but just in case you have lost it.....

Could you bring the completed questionnaire back this Monday so the
committee especially Di and myself can get an idea of what you would
like to do and see and hopefully incorporate it in the new programme.
If you forget we really need it by the night of the AGM.

Alternatively, please email it to me at either this email address or

kathrynh@waitrose.com

Thanks

Kathryn

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XnView v1.96 RC1

2009-02-18T08:40:00.001+00:00

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Photography rights: Snappers to descend on Scotland Yard

2009-02-13T11:29:00.002+00:00

Photography rights: Snappers to descend on Scotland Yard

via The Register on 12/02/09

Papping the police shouldn't mean a pop to prison

Comment The individual right to take photographs is being threatened, and distrust of police and government motives in respect of photography is growing. On Monday, the issue will be defiantly, peacefully raised as a mass demonstration, supported by comedian Mark Thomas, converges on New Scotland Yard to assert the right of snappers to take pictures.…

Paul Miguel Updates

2009-02-09T14:47:00.000+00:00

Got this from Paul Miguel,

Good afternoon,

To increase my presence on the internet, and keep people up to date with
new projects and workshops, I have added an extra page to my website
which can be viewed from this link
www.paulmiguel.com/Paul%20Miguel/news.htm

I now also have a blog at wwwpaulmiguel.blogspot.com/ which will be
updated at least once a month. This blog is mainly a chance for me to
talk about photography, discuss what I've been up to, and also gives
people a bit of an insight into the life of a professional nature
photographer - in short; it gives me room to ramble a little about
everything... from techniques to field craft... from wildlife issues to
the age of digital photography...

You can biew the blog at any time, or sign up to follow and post
comments etc.

All the best,

Paul

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PhotoPerfect Tweaks Your Pictures with Presets [Downloads]

2009-02-06T09:37:00.002+00:00

PhotoPerfect Tweaks Your Pictures with Presets [Downloads]

via Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick on 2/4/09

Windows only: PhotoPerfect Express is a free, powerful image optimization tool that covers a wide range of photo enhancement scenarios, and can provide casual photographers with great results.

While nothing can compare to getting your hands dirty with a detailed photo editing application like Photoshop, the majority of casual digi-cam shooters won't need or want to invest that kind of time into snazzing up their snap shots. PhotoPerfect Express comes bundled with five pre-set photo enhancement methods—each of which can be further fine-tuned if you desire. There's batch processing options, especially handy if you realize after tweaking the first few photos in a series that you're seeing the same issues throughout the set. If you're having trouble deciding which optimization is yielding the most pleasing result, press the A key while tweaking to display the original next to all five optimization algorithms for easy comparison—a nice fix for those with photo-fixing self-doubt. PhotoPerfect Express is freeware, Windows only.

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New Law in the UK May Make it Illegal to Photograph the Police After February

2009-02-06T09:20:00.001+00:00

New Law in the UK May Make it Illegal to Photograph the Police After February 16th

via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on 1/30/09

I was disappointed to read a post that Paul Buchheit posted on FriendFeed today regarding recently passed legislation in the UK which might make it illegal to photograph the police there. The article, from Prison Planet, cites the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 as containing the relevant legislation:

From Prison Planet:

"According to the British Journal of Photography, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, which is set to become law on February 16, "allows for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'." The punishment for this offense is imprisonment for up to ten years and a fine.

However, even before the passage of the legislation, police in Britain have already been harassing and arresting fully accredited press photographers merely for taking pictures of them at rallies and protests."

In the UK, the section of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 that deals with this is in section 76, where it states that it will now be a crime to "elicit, publish or communicate" information about members of armed forces etc.

From the legislation:

"(1) A person commits an offence who—

(a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been—

(i) a member of Her Majesty's forces,

(ii) a member of any of the intelligence services, or

(iii) a constable,"

While I'm still not exactly 100% sure what "ellicting and publishing information" about members of the police might entail, I could certainly see the issue being raised where an officer was identifiable, perhaps even with their name on their uniform. In any event, it certainly would seem to give the police more ammunition, so to speak, to be able to use when asking photographers not to photograph them.

This legislation would appear to be yet another chilling move by the UK in encouraging harassment of photographers. Last year you might remember that the London Metropolitan Police launched a very public advertising campaign asking people to turn in "odd" looking photographers.

Retaining our rights to photograph the police is important. Whether the Rodney King case or the more recent case of BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle's killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, it is important that as citizens we be allowed to record the day to day activities of our police officers. Police officers wield an incredible amount of power over the general citizenry in our day to day lives. Being able to record their activities (as certainly they record ours) is an important right and power in ensuring that they handle their own power with the responsibility with which they should.

This law in the UK is unfortunate. It further muddies the water for what photographers can and can't photograph with regards to the police and further paves the way for police officers to harass photographers. While the law seems to be targeted towards people who would photograph the police with the intention of using it for terrorism, I could easily see how it could be used by any police officer to try and stop photographers from photographing them. I would much rather have seen wording in this legislation that specifically said that regular citizens have every and all rights to photograph the police at any time.

I've taken a lot of photographs of the police here in the U.S. You can see my photoset "Cops" here.

50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

2009-02-05T12:19:00.002+00:00

50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

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If you've got an idea (or concept) but find it hard to present on your artwork because the drawings just don't add up, try Photoshop Brushes. Brushes are designers best friend, particularly web designers who don't illustrate graphics much.

Adobe Photoshop does comes with a basic package of brushes but it has not been updated by folks at Adobe for quite some time. Thanks to the great community of designers out there who constantly distributing and sharing their brushes, you can almost find brushes of any patterns these days. Whether you are working on a nature-related artwork looking for floral and wood graphics, or merely adding some torn, burned and cracked effects to your artwork - there's a free brush pack out there and all you need to do is Google.

In today's post, we attempt to present you some of the high quality and good ones, those we thought would be generally useful in many occasion and definitely worth checking out and bookmark. Here's our hand-picked of 50 Free and High Quality Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark. Full list after jump.

Some useful Photoshop related entries we've previously written:

Metal Brushes

9 metal texture brush set.
2Bit-Twilight Brushes

A set of 12 abstract pixel brushes for Photoshop. Compatible with Photoshop 8+ / Photoshop Elements 3+.
8 fantasy butterfly brushes

8 really beautiful and fantasy butterfly brushes to spice up your painting.
A3D Pieces of Tape Brushes

Thirty-seven brushes from various torn, wrinkled, pieces of tape brushes made in Photoshop 7.0
Abstract Brushset XIII

13 awesome abstract brushes.
Astral Flora

Pack contains 8 brushes, including 2 different sized leaves, 1 astral rose, 1 astral flowerbud, 1 astral butterfly, an assortment of whispy, starspangled curves.
Barbed wire brush

Two barbed wire brushes.
Brush Stroke Brushes

Made with thick black poster colours. Just great for those pieces needing brush strokes with hard bristles.
Butterflies with Flowers
Zelink's Cataclysm Brushset

Can be used for grunge, stars abstract and smoke/forg effects. This set was based upon the stars of the heavens. This set, cataclysm, was designed to bring violent destruction upon the use of other sets. It has many uses and works very well for sigs.
Cracks and cuts brushes

This pack includes around 80 brushes, all cracks, chips and cuts.
Demolished.Cracks

Demolished.Cracks pack contains 12 brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!
Fractal Brushes

There are ten of fractal brushes in total.
CS4 Brushes

New style of CS4 brushes.
Glow Part I

There are 11 big brushes made with Photoshop 7.0
Floral Frame Brushes

Now with these wonderful brushes all you need is Photoshop and the brush tool selected, you'll create floral frame brushes so awesome that you will love.
Drop Brushes

A set of brushes for photoshop (created in CS3) with sizes range from about 700px to 1600px.
5 Checkered PS Brushes
Label Brushes

The pack contains the the letters of the alphabet, numbers and some extras. Theres a piece of tape and some marks which could be used in white and added to the labels once they're done to make them look authentic and cool.
TI Graphic Pack 152 Ps Brushes

152 Photoshop brushes made on Ps CS4.
Metal Mesh Brush

Metal Mesh Brush by =SocioBunneh.
Hyper Brushes - PS7
10 Very Big Brushes No.30
MOON BRUSHES for PS7 v.2

45 moon brushes for ps7, ps8, ps9, ps10.
25 Tiny Text Brushes 02

It includes 25 tiny text brushes for icons. The .zip contains an .abr file compatible with Photoshop 7.0 and up.
20 high-res-stamp brushes

20 high-resolution stamp brushes.
122 Brushes
Camera-Stuff

8 brushes for lens, film and camera.
Architectual ornaments
Crack Brushes I
Echolalie-stock 32

The package contains 15 different brushes made of different wall pictures. You will find cracks, scratches and dirty brushes.
Floral brushes

8 large floral brushes, for use on headers and wallpapers.
7 100×100 floral brushes, for use on icons.
Holes, Holes, Holes

These hole brushes are higher res so would be good for higher res projects as well.
Girl Brushes
Andantonius' Pencil Brush

With this pencil brush and sketch paper action, you can quickly and easily create natural-looking pencil sketches, without the pencil! The brush takes advantage of both pen pressure and tilt to create a very natural feel and look.
Old brushes 8

Oldies set (8 brushes) for photoshop cs-cs2
Barcodes
Line Brushes

A pack of solid and dotted lines.
My Sweet Diary Brushes

The pack contains 70 cute brushes for lines, random scribbles and drawings, animals and a lot of hearts!
Photography Brushes for PSP

A set of high quality (200dpi scans) 42 photoshop brushes about photography. They are more like illustrations and blueprints of various cameras and photography related processes.
Rainy
Scribbles 4: Musical Notes

20 handdrawn musical note scribble brushes.
Rock Star Brushes
Smoke Brushes Vol II

There are just 3 smokes per vol. All of them are more than 1300 px.
The Krako "Tags brushes"
Smudge Brushes
Syringe

Several different variations and sizes of syringes.
Ischarm Pen Brushes

A set of 7 pen brushes.
Spider Webs
Industrial Brushes

2nd Feb Meeting Cancelled due to snow

2009-02-02T13:17:00.000+00:00

All,

In view of the weather forecast for this afternoon and evening, we have decided to call off tonights Camera Club meeting... hopefully we'll be able to reschedule Paul's talk for another evening.

I am trying to ensure that the message reaches everyone in advance of the meeting, so please pass on to everyone you are in contact with.

Thanks very much, see you next week...

Sarah

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Is Your Digital Camera Literally Freezing? [Qotd]

2009-01-29T14:20:00.001+00:00

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Is Your Digital Camera Literally Freezing? [Qotd]

via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on 28/01/09

I thought consumer digital cameras had enough temperature operational margin to handle most situations this side of being stationed in Antarctica. Apparently, I was wrong, because I keep hearing reports on problems at low temperatures.

Case in point: A friend of mine bought a Nikon compact digital camera here in Spain, just before going back to Poland for Xmas. When she arrived to Cracow, she tried to make photos but discovered that all of them came up blurred. When she was at her family's home or in any other heated building, the camera would return to normal after some minutes, then take fine pictures.

But whenever she took it out on the streets, it would literally freeze. Not the glass outside, which was clean and shiny. Something inside was getting frozen and the resulting photos looked as if they were being taken through a frosted glass.

When I asked around to other friends in Sweden, they told me the same. Some cameras just do that. Our very own Andi had the same problem with her Canon Powershot in Canada. And her cousin had even worse problems with her cute—but useless under low temperatures—pink point-n-shoot.

Is this another result of the damn product beta culture? Have you experienced the same problem with your digital camera?

[Image above is simulated—because all my friends are shy to post their photos here—but that's the effect these users are experiencing]

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Presidents competition 2009 Results

2009-01-28T10:36:00.005+00:00

Well done to the winners of the Presidents competition 2009

The theme was "movement" to be submitted in a 3 prints panel.

And the winners were,

Digital Entry

1st Won by a mile Paul Bullock

2nd Training Shirley Wildsmith

3rd Grasstrack Racers David Morland

HC Water Flows 2 Whitfield Benson

HC Military 2 step Shirley Wildsmith

HC Freezing Water Ian Whittaker

Print Entry

1st Flowing and Frozen David Morland Best Overall

2nd First Steps Richard Littlefair

3rd Splashing Time Norma Clark

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Paul Miguel, professional wildlife and landscape photographer.

2009-01-26T14:10:00.000+00:00

Paul Miguel is a professional wildlife and landscape photographer.
He has visited out club as both a guest lecturer and a competition judge.

Please have a look at his excellent website.
http://www.paulmiguel.com/

Update
He also is running some workshops
All the courses for this year are on the web page: Click here for details.
There is a mixture of landscape and wildlife workshops throughout the year.

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2007/2008 Season Competitions Results Round Up

2009-01-16T10:18:00.002+00:00

Here is a round up of the winners of the competitions in the 2007/2008 season.
Click here to see the winners

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Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker

2009-01-07T16:12:00.001+00:00

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Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker

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Tilt-shifting, that spiffy photo effect that makes real people and objects look like part of a tiny toy set, has become really popular lately.

Tilt-shift time lapse videos by Keith Loutit were recently featured all over the Internet, inspiring others to figure out how to achieve the effect in their own photos. You could Google a step-by-step tutorial, or you could save yourself the trouble and use Tiltshiftmaker.

Pop a photo into Tiltshiftmaker, move the sliders around to choose the area you want to focus on, and that's all there is to it. It seems to work best with photos that are shot from above and from a distance. If you need some inspiration, there's also Tiltshiftmaker's gallery you can check out and add your own photos to.

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Take a 6-month exposure photo

2009-01-06T10:08:00.000+00:00

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Take a 6-month exposure photo

via Hackszine.com by Jason Striegel on 1/5/09

Pocket-Sized sent in a link to this article about the photography of Justin Quinnell. Using a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can, Justin was able to take super-long exposure, 160 degree angle photos over a 6 month period. The photo above was exposed from the 2007 winter solstice to the following summer solstice.

In the photos, you can clearly see the path taken by the sun each day, marking the passage of time. Justin has dedicated the project to his father, who passed away on the 116th sunrise that was captured.

You can make your own pinhole camera to take long exposure shots like this. Justin put together a howto that documents his own method. The hardest part is finding a good solid place to mount the camera where it won't be disturbed for months at a time.

One interesting thing that he mentions is scanning the film at high-res without even developing it. I've never heard of doing this, but I presume that if it works, it's a one time shot. Does anyone have experience with this that would care to comment?

Pinhole Photography By Justin Quinnell
How To Create 6 Month Exposures

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How To Handle Cold Weather Photography

2008-12-29T11:20:00.001+00:00

How To Handle Cold Weather Photography

via Copy of Photography How-To on 12/28/08

Cold weather presents a few unique challenges to digital photographers. In this post, Peter Carey offers some suggestions to keep you photographing when the mercury drops.

When the weather outside turns cold, there are a few precautions every digital photographer should take.

First, give your camera time to acclimate!

This one is very important and it's a two way street. If you're heading outside from a nice warm house, or if you're coming back in from a shoot out in the cold, give your camera lens time to adjust to the temperature change. Going either direction will fog up your lens and viewfinder. Leave your lens cap on when going either direction and give your camera plenty of time to adjust to the temps. The amount of time depends on the the difference in temperatures from inside to outside. The larger the difference, the more time you should allow. 15 minutes is usually fine but more may be needed depending on how humid each environment is. You want a slow, gradual change so if you can, leave your camera in a camera bag as it gets used to the change. While this may take a bit longer, it does help ensure condensation won't become a problem.

Next, you'll want to protect your batteries.

Besides the lens of your camera (even worse, your sensor) getting fogged over, batteries are the lifeline for digital photography. Unlike traditional film (with another set of cold weather challenges), digital cameras obviously rely on working batteries. The problem is cold saps batteries of energy even when they aren't in the camera. Carry spare batteries in pant pockets where they are close to your body. The warmer the battery, the better it performs. Even when your camera indicates a battery is dead, warming it up in a pocket (especially one with a hand warmer!) can bring it back to life for a few dozen more shots. Get used to rotating batteries in this manner and you'll be able to stay out shooting longer.

Let's not forget your hands!

Once your camera has adapted to the cold, holding it for long periods of time can cause frost bitten fingers. Just having your hands exposed to subfreezing temperatures for more than a few minutes can make your digits fumble and feel quite painful. Obviously gloves are a requirement for outdoor photography, but what works well? You'll need both the warmth of a puffy winter mitten but the dexterity and tactile feel of a thin, thin layer. Enter the Mountain Hardwear Power Stretch Glove! I've found these gloves to provide the best warmth while still maintaining all the feel of the camera I need. They keep the wind out and while they are no extreme winter glove, they get the job done.

Lastly, keep your camera out of the elements

While the snow may be falling and seem so much better than a rainy day behind the lens, be aware that snow can cause just as much damage. Carry a soft, water absorbent cloth to help dry off your camera while out and about. Also consider investing in a rain hood for your camera if it's a DSLR, which allows you to keep shooting in the heaviest of downpours. In a pinch, wrapping a towel around your camera will keep the snow off.

There's no reason to let the cold weather keep you inside or away from your camera. With a little preparation you can ensure great photo opportunities don't pass you by this winter!

Are you looking for daily photographic inspiration? Peter hosts a Photo Of The Day RSS/Atom/email feed on his site, The Carey Adventures. Get inspiring photos from the world of travel and adventure delivered daily to your mailbox!

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Polaroid: R.I.P. in 14 Days :(

2008-12-18T12:26:00.001+00:00

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Polaroid: R.I.P. in 14 Days :(

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Orders placed in the Photojojo Shop today will arrive for Christmas
In stock items to the U.S. only, choose flat-rate $6 Priority Mail shipping at checkout
(Or choose 2-Day shipping by 12/21 or Next Day by 12/22)

Photojojo Store goodies have been on Boing Boing, Wired, Gizmodo, and Digg in the last two weeks!

Best-sellingstocking stuffers that will ship in time for Christmas!

Bottle Cap Tripods
1 for $10, 3 for $27
Magnetic Photo Ropes
5 new colors, starts at $12
Wall Decal Photo Frames$20 for 8 frames!
110pc Fotoclips
1 for $10, 3 for $27

More photo goodies that will
ship in time for Christmas!

Flickr T-shirts
For any Flickr fan on your list
Eye-Fi
Give any camera Wi-Fi and Geolocation!
Striped Hoodie Camera Case
Carry that new cam in style
Gorillapod Original and SLR
Bendy versatile pocket tripod

and more…

Well gang, we fought the good fight, but it's official: Polaroid isn't making any more film after December 31st, 2008.

Sad though we are, we've found a few bits of good news scattered amid the wreckage.

1) The New Instant Camera
Fuji's instant camera, the Instax, is now available in the United States. The photos are rectangular instead of the old familiar square format, but it's the next-best-thing to our beloved Polaroid cameras.

Have a look at the Flickr Instax pool to see what the photos look like.

2) There's Still Some Film Left
Unsaleable, our favorite source for Polaroid goodness, has morphed into Polapremium. You can still buy film there, sorted by camera type or film type, along with books, accessories and stuff like that. (The name's no lie: it's quite pricey now that supplies are limited.)

Polaroid no longer sells film on its website, but it lists sources including Calumet, Amazon, and B&H.

3) Fuji Makes Substitutes
Fuji makes versions of Type 100 and 4×5 Polaroid film. That means if you use a medium-format Polaroid back, a Polaroid pinhole or Holga camera, or a 4×5 view camera, you can still get film.

4) New Zink Technology
Instead of making film, Polaroid's branching out with the portable digital PoGo printer. We were a little disappointed when we tried it, because it's basically just a tiny printer. It doesn't feel the same as having instant photos magically pop out of your camera. Sigh.

We have higher hopes for the TOMY xiao, which combines the camera and printer in one, but so far that's only available in Asia.

5) You Can Take Action
If you refuse to go down without a fight, get an action pack from Save Polaroid. It includes pre-printed postcards to send to the powers-that-be at Polaroid. It's worth a shot, right?

6) There's Still Time to Play
While you can still scrounge up some film, you can still mess around with it. Try double exposures or manipulating the emulsion, especially if the film's already expired. What have you got to lose?

7) There's Always Poladroid
If all else fails and there is no more film, at least there's Poladroid. It's a free application that's as close to real thing as it gets. You can drag & drop your photos into Poladroid to make them look like Polaroids. You can even shake the picture while it develops. Aaaahhh, that's nice.

Bye Polaroid! We still love you! Please sell the 600 and Type 80 rights to another manufacturer so we can have them back! Pretty pretty please?

Save Polaroid
News, information, and hope for the lovelorn Polaroid fan.

p.s. We've teamed up with our superpals at Vimeo for a contest for the best Stop-Motion Video! Three winners get gift certificates to the Photojojo Store, and 1st place gets their video printed in our upcoming book! Go read all the details and enter. (Already on Vimeo? Just tag your video "PhotojojoBook" to enter.)

p.p.s. Check out some fun Photojojo photo projects in December's issue of Macworld magazine!

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Travel and transportation Competition

2008-12-11T19:43:00.002+00:00

Ripon City Photographic Society Main Page Google Groups
Gordon Quinn, our judge for the competition gently chastised us for wandering from the title suject. He suggested various cropping methods to bring our photographs up to more acceptable standards.
But the ladies took the lead with 8 out of the 13 placings going to them. But the queen for the night was undoutably shirley Wildsmith with no less than 5 placements.
Print winners...1, Denise Carrigan, 2, Paul Bullock, 3 Ian Whittaker, Highly commended, Tim Nichols,Ian Whittaker, Shirley Wildsmith, And again Shirley Wildsmith.
Digital winners...1 Shirley Wildsmith, 2 Angie Willis 3 Shirley again.. higly commended...Paul Bullock, Shirley again WOW Cathryn carter.

15th December Meeting, Christmas Party Night

2008-12-09T00:00:00.000+00:00

15th December Meeting

Come along to our Christmas party, food and fun quiz on the cards.

Meeting 15th December at 7:30pm at the HUGH RIPLEY HALL RIPON (Upstairs)

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Guidelines to help photographers

2008-12-02T12:41:00.001+00:00

Revised stop and search policy is released - The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) have released the revised practise advice on stop and search policies.

The guidelines which may stop some of the problems photographers have had when photographing in the street may be put to an end as the NPIA have finally released their new policy.

"The guidance has been circulated to forces for final comment. As with all guidance, following consultation, it will require formal endorsement by ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers), when it meets in the next couple of weeks," said Peter Mandich the NPIA's Press and PR Manager.

The policy clearly states that: "The Terrorism Act 2000 does not prohibit people from taking photographs or digital images in an area where an authority under section 44 is in place. Officers should not prevent people taking photographs unless they are in an area where photography is prevented by other legislation."

It does say if a police officer suspects that the photographs are being taken as part of hostile terrorist reconnaissance, a search under section 43 of the Terrorism Act 2000 or an arrest should be considered. The document then goes onto explain in detail how this should be carried out.

The policy can be downloaded from the NPIA's website and the section relevant to photographers is section 2.8.

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RPS Programme 2009-10 v2A

At Diane’s. Salad and deserts provided. BYO meat and drink

10 – 4pm

The Gallery, Middlesbrough

Richard Fuller

Exposure - Apertures, shutter speeds and ISO numbers

Bryan Oxley

DIY – bring your camera and take photos.

Competition

Lecture

Chris Ceaser

Spring2010

Lecture

John Webster – Northallerton

This time the battle is on home turf with Wetherby.

Lecturettes

Simon Warwick

High speed photography by Alan Sailer

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AGM 2009 Report

Summer is nigh

Questionnaire

XnView v1.96 RC1

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Photography rights: Snappers to descend on Scotland Yard

Papping the police shouldn't mean a pop to prison

Paul Miguel Updates

PhotoPerfect Tweaks Your Pictures with Presets [Downloads]

New Law in the UK May Make it Illegal to Photograph the Police After February

50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets You Should Bookmark

2nd Feb Meeting Cancelled due to snow

Is Your Digital Camera Literally Freezing? [Qotd]

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Presidents competition 2009 Results

Paul Miguel, professional wildlife and landscape photographer.

2007/2008 Season Competitions Results Round Up

Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker

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Take a 6-month exposure photo

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How To Handle Cold Weather Photography

First, give your camera time to acclimate!

Next, you'll want to protect your batteries.

Let's not forget your hands!

Lastly, keep your camera out of the elements

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Polaroid: R.I.P. in 14 Days :(

Travel and transportation Competition

15th December Meeting, Christmas Party Night

Guidelines to help photographers

At
Diane’s. Salad and deserts provided. BYO meat and drink

10
– 4pm

The
Gallery, Middlesbrough

Richard
Fuller

Exposure
- Apertures,
shutter speeds and ISO numbers

DIY
– bring your camera and take photos.

Spring
2010

This time the battle is on home
turf with Wetherby.