DIG News - July 2018
‘Misty Beach’ by David Pearson ARPS Winner of the DIG monthly competition for June.
DIG ANNUAL PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION
For full information go to http://www.rps.org/special-interest-groups/digital-imaging/about/050projected-image-competition
MONTHLY COMPETITION Congrats to our monthly winners. It was a close run thing in this months voting with the top places changing right up to the last minute. However we did have one overall winner, as seen on the front cover, and three in joint second place. Here’s what David has to say about his ‘Misty Beach’. You will also find we have featured his gallery this month so more misty beach shots there to enjoy too. Not being one who finds it easy to get up early, I rarely manage to find any decent light for landscape photography. I'm usually found looking for high key, minimalist images indoors. So I was in my element when I came across this beach with thick mist rolling in from the sea. I just loved the way it masked all the detail, subdued all the colours and was changing all the time. It was 2:30 in the afternoon and I took about 60 shots before I was dragged away to complete our walk along the coast. David Pearson ARPS
Three joint second placed images….
Howzat! By Michael Berkeley LRPS
Sadness by Eileen Wilkinson ARPS
Noor by Ashish Chalapuram
DIG DISTINCTIONS Thanks to the HQ Distinctions team we can share with you some DIG Distinction successes this past month. Congratulations to all. We look forward to seeing your work in DIG Accolade.
James Kirkland LRPS Richard Lavery LRPS Robin Shaw LRPS Robert Taylor LRPS
London France Winchester Wooler
Stuart Chapman ARPS John Penberthy ARPS A Baverstock ARPS
Fine Art Fine Art Fine Art
Torquay Richmond Littlehampton
Wendy Allard FRPS
REAP
Camborne
DIG MEMBER GALLERIES Two very different galleries to enjoy this month, with thanks to the photographers.
Click on the images to take you to the galleries.
SoFoBoMo REMINDER Month before last we bought to your attention this fun idea of a 30 day challenge. As it starts in July it seemed a good idea to remind you all. If some of you do decide to do this challenge then please let us know and give us your book urls. Then when you finish perhaps in the September DIG News we will link out to all your online books so members can enjoy your work. www.sofobomo.com
Note – the immediate text above is a screen grab from SoFoBoMo so is not active. Our link in the upper text is an active web link.
TRAINING VIDEOS New from Ken this past month. First an interesting discovery he made about NIK – we shared this on the DIG Facebook page but thought that perhaps some of you will have missed it there, so will reprint here. Greetings Members if you downloaded the free Nik Collection Filters from DxO you would have had to submit your email address. This was so they could send you info about their DxO Raw Collection Suite. Like me you will now receive an email about their new Nik Collection of filters for an introductory price of £39.99 if ordered before the 1st July. Out of curiosity I downloaded the Nik Filters and installed on a 30 day trial thinking they would be a lot different. Well, they weren’t, so do not waste your money and stick with your free version they are exactly the same set. The only disadvantage with the free version is you have to open them from FILE > AUTOMATE > NIK COLLECTION FILTERS. Opening them from FILTERS > NIK COLLECTION will crash out Photoshop CC 2018 and Elements 2018. The other disadvantage is there is no plugin for Lightroom, which is in the paid version. This is not a problem as you use Photoshop CC instead. Until DxO come up with something better I am sticking with the free version of Nik Filters. Best regards Ken.
This is a short video I made today to show you how to correct colour using curves. Never think an image is correct in colour until you check out the numbers. This only applies to normal lighting conditions and not neccessarly sunsets or sunrises as values here would be much warmer.
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And a tutorial that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t from Ken but one we thought you might find useful. This shows you how to remove anything from a photo using Photoshop.
Click on the images to connect to the YouTube video tutorials.
DIG CENTRES All DIG Centre meetings are open to everyone. Each puts on a minimum of 4 meetings p.a., offering varied and inspiring content. All welcome to every DIG meeting; members and nonMembers alike. By clicking on any of the Ads it will take you to the RPS Events pages where more information can be found about the meetings.
Thames Valley Centre
S.E. Centre
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DIGIT Issue 77 Your next copy of our flagship quarterly magazine, plus the Print Exhibition catalogue, will hit your door mats around the second week of July. Emails will go out to our Online members so that you can read online. If you are new to the group or a member of the public you can view some samples of our Group publications HERE
WELCOME to our new members this month… Christine Langford LRPS Roger Crocombe ARPS David Jones David Rosen Brian Titchiner Alison Swinburne Rudi Theunis Paul Joyce Rhys Jones
- Pwllheli - Bognor Regis - Ellon - London - Sth Ockenden - High Wycombe - Benelux - Germany - Sth Wales
Michael Flook LRPS Kyle Tallett ARPS Christopher Pike LRPS Teofilo Moreno Stephen Allen Paul Grimwood Trevor Simpson Lisa Bukalders David Hughes
- Mansfield - Ashford - Stevenage - USA - Sheffield - Sheffield - Benelux - Dorset - Hampshire
SIG LINK RPS AV notice… The Festival will be open for entries from 1 August, with the closing date on 24 August. More information can be found here http://rps.org/special-interest-
groups/audio-visual/about/2016-festival-results
click on the ad to go direct to the event page for more information
AN OVERSEAS MEMBER This month we have some beautiful work to show you from a member, Pat Brennen LRPS, who lives in Ballyragget, Kilkenny. …… I discovered digital photography later in my life and in 2007 joined Kilkenny Photographic Society (KPS) which is my local camera club in the “sunny” southeast of Ireland. In 2011 I worked toward and got my Licentiateship with the Irish Photographic Federation LIPF and followed that in 2013 when I got my LRPS. Digital photography has given me a greater appreciation of the outdoors and nature. It takes me to a place where time flies and what has been hours seem only like minutes have passed as I search for insects as in ‘Snacktime’ or waiting for the sunset/sunrise as in ‘Stepping Stones’. Creating a still life your mind can run free as in ‘Wilting for a sweet’. Recently I have found a new challenge and enjoyment in photographing people as in ‘Mischka’,
Snack Time I am now a member of Portlaoise Camera Club as well as KPS. The two clubs give me further opportunity to meet new people and scout new places to continue my photography journey. Club membership gives exciting challenges completing assignments, mastering technical aspects and of course the comradery among the wonderful friends, that I have made through photography. More recently I received a AFIAP award, which I found very satisfying as I perceived it as recognition for a hobby which I thoroughly enjoy doing. Into the future I look forward to many more years of enjoying photography .
Pat Brennen LRPS
Stepping Stones
Wilting for a Sweet
Mischka We hope you will be entering your work in the DIG PI Comp Pat. www.rps.org/DIGPIComp
A UK MEMBER Mary Thompson is a DIG Member living in Cumbria so too far for her to go to DIG meetings, so we invited her to contribute to DIG News and show us some of her work. I was 65 when I got my first digital compact and discovered I loved taking and making pictures. When I got my first DSLR in 2010 my photographic journey began in earnest. This year I changed my beloved Canon for a smaller lighter Fuji XT20.
One of my treasured books sums up my photography – “The Tao of Photography - Seeing beyond Seeing" (Philippe Gross and S.I. Shapiro: 2001). For me, photographing means quietude, peaceful absorption in seeing and, in making my picture, experiencing a meditative presence in the ‘now'. I taught myself through curiosity and lots of mistakes. By 2015 I realised that my skills were haphazard and my ‘solo' photography rather dilettante. I found an online OU/RPS course but then I broke my back and spent a year literally finding my feet. In Autumn 2016 I embarked on the 10 challenging, rich weekly sessions. In addition to practical skills, I learned to slow down and exercise self-discipline! My EMA mark encouraged me to begin working for LRPS, which I am finding demanding but exhilarating. My first advisory day was a nourishing experience, listening, looking, and realising I wanted to be part of a group. I joined Copeland Photographic Society, a small, friendly group with whom I have learned a lot.
Railway Lamp, Haverthwaite
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.â&#x20AC;? Garry Winogrand. I tend to notice small things (with the exception of urban architecture and cathedrals!). I am drawn to dusty dereliction, details, and to pattern, form, and structure. Now, through preparation for LRPS, I am expanding my view and broadening my focus. Mary Thompson West Cumbria June 2018
Shepton Mallet Prison
Raindrops on Tulip
Timeless
Should Have Gone To Specsavers
ALL OF THE MONTHLY COMP You have already seen the winners for this past months competition but we thought it might be useful to show you all the entries as there was some particularly good work that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get on to the winners rostrum this month but deserve to be seen. New members are having a go â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so why not YOU? It is really simple to enter. You just send an image of the correct size to our web editor and he does the rest for you. For full information go to http://www.rps.org/special-interest-groups/digitalimaging/about/monthly-competition
Everyone can vote at the end of each month, whether you send in an image or not. Around the 24th of the month go to the above web page and decide on your 1st, 2nd, 3rd placed images and click the voting link to tick the boxes.
Acer by Paul Bather
Corner by Rex Waygood
Burlesque Postcard by Rhys Jones
Dragonfly by Andre Bergmans
Ledro Panorama by Mike Cowdrey
Silver Surfers by John Moore
Man in the Mirror by Chas Hockin
Pelargonium buds by Ian McIntosh
Shadows by John Bull
Standon Barns by Diana Wynn
Rose by Tom Lloyd
Past its Best by Jenni Cheesman
I Did That by Janet Haines
Summer Flowers by Janice Payne
Your next issue of DIGIT will be with you very shortly. Thanks to our editorial team for all their hard work. If you have a contribution to make, or an idea for a really interesting article, then do get in touch with digiteditor@rps.org
Have you prepared your images for the DIG PI Comp yet? Page 2 of this publication gives you all the links you need and we have online tutorials to help you through the process.
And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to give yourself that summer challenge and join in the SoFoBoMo. Regards
Janet
Janet Haines ARPS DIG Chair digchair@rps.org