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Following the AGM decision to revise the format of competitions for next season you can download the schedule from here

The upload portal has been updated to reflect the new format.

Following last week’s tense announcements of the results of the WGPS 2015-16 Photographer of the Year Competition (based on accumulated scores throughout the season):

– the full results are posted here and the results of Competition 6 are also available here.

Last Wednesday was an excellent practical evening at the Guild Photographic Society. George Franks came along and set up 4 tables with various setups to practice some high speed flash techniques.  George started with a brief introductory talk and then demonstrated each setup and helped the members take some high speed flash photos.  Two of the setups involved dropping objects into water with the water splashes appearing frozen, one had water dripping into a cocktail glass creating droplets (with images in the droplet) as well as it splashing into the glass and the fourth had wisps of smoke rising from a joystick.

The flash, mostly off-camera, with a remote trigger created the freezing effect. The initial settings were: camera on manual with a synch speed of 1/125, ISO 100-400, F8 and the flash set to 1/32 of power.  However, these settings would need to be experimented with to get the perfect shot.

Focusing was set initially by autofocus and then the focussing turned to manual. The object could then be dropped (always in the same vertical plane, knowing the focussing wouldn’t change).

A great fun evening of hands-on experience, with George giving us plenty of know-how and members coming away with knowledge about the technique and those who tried the technique on the night getting some good shots. So DO TRY THIS AT HOME.

Apologies, but the session on Thursday 5th May has been postponed.

Results from the Open DPI and the ‘Close Up’ theme are available here

See how WGPS has done in the L&CPU’s annual print and digital image competitions; click on the LCPU website link here.

This coming Wednesday 16th March will now be dedicated to portrait photography.  Alan Angel will demonstrate portrait photography using studio flash; members can then then try out our own studio flash kit, which can be borrowed for a small fee.

The inter-club DPI competition has been cancelled.

The results of last night’s Open Print competition and the latest POTY results are now available via the results page.

A reminder to the Winners – please post DPIs of your winning prints via the upload portal so that Dave has them available for external competition entries.

Following a brilliant display of the new technique of ‘speed judging’ (thanks Christine – great job!) the results are now available here

and the Photographer of the Year table is here

Last Friday some of our members went on a night-time walk around Wilmslow.  This was one of our semi-regular Friday meetings.

Here’s a picture from Roger Hand:

The format of Competition #5 is that it has 2 parts:

• Part 1: DPI Open mono
• Part 2: DPI Theme.  The theme for the 2nd theme comp is “Close Up” – interpret this any way you like.  DPI images for this can be colour or mono.
• The hand-in date for Competition #5 is Wednesday 16th March

Please note that the Members Meeting scheduled for  April 27 will now be on May 11 …

George Franks High Speed Flash meeting scheduled for May 11 will be on April 27

The results of the recent print competition are available here.

Another selection of quality entries (and winners) from both new and established members.

As a number of members have notified us the colour print results were initially incorrect (due to an error early in the list which had a knock on effect down the list). Apologies. These have been corrected and the results  now reflect the scores awarded on the night.  (On the plus side it’s encouraging to know that we have so many visitors to the site!)

Please can the winners upload a DPI of their prints so that we can make them available for use in external comps. The print upload portal is here 

The format of Competition #3 is that it has 2 parts:

• Part 1: DPI Open colour
• Part 2: DPI Theme, can be mono or colour, author’s choice.

  The theme for that first themed competition is ‘part of the body’.  This can be anybody’s body, any animal’s body or anything’s body. i.e. as long as it has a body you can photograph it, but it must only be part of the body, not the whole thing.

• The hand-in date for Competition #3 is Wednesday 27^th January

Results from the Annual DPI competition are now available here. Another set of quality entries. Congratulations to the winners. Apologies for the delay in posting these – a small and unusual glitch in our carefully structured and finely honed processing methodology!

Winning photos will be added to the gallery and made available for external competitions.

(If you had a winning print entry and haven’t yet uploaded it we’d be grateful if you would … here.)

A slew of quality images in our November DPI competition. Interestingly a high number of mono entries this month (44) relative to colour (54). Congratulations to David Royle with a first in mono and second in colour. Results in detail here.

The gallery has been updated with some of the winning images from this competition and the annual (more to be added soon).

Following the judge’s review last week the complete results of the 2015 annual print competition are posted on the results page … here

The DPI entries will be reviewed by a judge on 11 Nov and the full results posted on the site a week or so later.

Many thanks to Landscapedays and The Feathery Folk for organising the great day out our club had photographing birds of prey yesterday. We had a great time with some very patient birds. Below are some photos of us enjoying ourselves at the event. There will be a 2nd post with photos of the birds too – not just of ourselves having fun!

Join us on Wednesday September 16th at 7.30 as we kick off the new season of talks, competitions and practical sessions.

New members are always welcome and you are invited to come  for a few trial sessions (£2 per session) before deciding to join as a full member.

You can view the programme here.

No meetings now till September, but all the members will be eating ice cream, reading the Beano, and taking great photographs to share next season.  In the meanwhile, you can see what people are up to on our Facebook page.

As part of the Wilmslow Guild’s “Guild on View” our club will be holding an exhibition of a selection of members’ photographs.  Some of the pictures will be for sale.

The exhibition is open Friday on 3rd July 1:30pm to 3:30pm & 7:30pm till 9:00pm; and on Saturday 4th July 10:00am till 3:30pm.

Location is the Wilmslow Guild.

Come along and see some of pictures!

Wednesday was our last meeting until September and there was a rare display of members’ cameras!

As a ‘chat and play’ meeting people were trying out various cameras, including some old but good manual lenses supplied by Bill.  We also played with the club’s studio lighting kit.

And Dave demonstrated his “not looking through the viewfinder” street photography expertise:

With our season just ending on Wednesday, our new programme for the 2015-2016 season starting in September has been published.

See here for details.