John & Margaret Sixsmith
Nature Photography courses

Following their recent successful presentation at our club,
here are details of their nature photography courses for 2012.

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NEW RESIZING ACTION (PHOTOSHOP)

Revised version of the 1920 x 1080 resizing Action
with the addition of conversion to sRGB colour space.

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APERTURE 2nd DEC - 2011
editor: Jake Cuff

The latest edition of 'Aperture'.

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APERTURE Sept-2011
editor: Jake Cuff

The latest edition of 'Aperture'.

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LSAPS SYLLABUS 2011/2012

The current lsaps syllabus.

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Members Photo-Gallery Board

Just a reminder of the required dimensions for personal portraits to be added to the new Members Photo-Gallery Board. If you wish to provide your own portrait (recommended) then please provide a print of the dimensions shown on the left.
Inclusion on the board is not compulsory.

"Sunrise Serenity"
by Emma Vann
Beginners Section

The Final Scores & Results
for this year's round of PRINT COMPETITONS
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THE FINAL SCORES & RESULTS
for this year's SET SUBJECT COMPETITIONS
"Woodwork" + "Metalwork" + "Triptych"

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SET SUBJECT RESULTS.pdf     (42KB)

Below:- The winners of round two of the Set Subject Competition
"TRIPTYCH"
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PRINTS ~ SLIDES ~ DIGITAL

PHOTOSHOW 2011 ENTRY FORM & RULES

To download a copy of this years' Photoshow Entry Form and rules,
('Entry Form 2011 vers14.doc'' ( 55K))
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For the purposes of inspiring LSAPS members towards the production of more 'Creative' images.

Paul has kindly provided us with 20 examples of his successful 'Creative Images', each with a brief (in-a-nutshell) description of the techniques he's used. Several of the images were generated in the darkroom, using conventional (wet) technology, the balance were manipulated 'Digitally'.
Paul hopes that these images will encourage you to 'have-a-go', and extend beyond 'what-the-camera-saw', but only if you want to !?

The first part of our SET SUBJECTS competition ('METALWORK' and 'WOODWORK') was judged on Thursday 17th March.

The competition, across all the three media, is open to all LSAPS members, without regard to their grade, who may enter up to two images per section.

"The Trawlermans Rusted Memories"
by Sam Rowell

"Locked"
by Alison Greenwood

Our annual projected image knockout competition was held on Thursday 27th January. This competition is open to all LSAPS members, without regard to their grade, who enter three images, plus an extra one in case of a tie.

The judge (who in this instance judged cold) previewed all 111 images first, before going through them in sequential rounds, progressively knocking out the weaker images as he thought appropriate.

Images that were eliminated in the first round scored 1 point, those eliminated in the second round scored 2 points, etc. There were six rounds in total, with the final winning image scoring 7 points.

There was also an award for the accumulative winner; the person whose combined score, for all three images, gained the most points.

The single image scoring top marks on the night was
Ian Gray with “Fisherman Landed” (7 points) (image on left)

The accumulative winner was Terry Clark with
“Going For The Jack” 3 points
“But You Said Tomorrow” 4 points
and “Macaw” 6 points. (images on left)

The judge for the event was
Glyn Davies, President of Chorley PS

Terry Clark

(1st) WINTER SLIDE COMPETITION

Part one of our Winter Slide Competition was held on Thursday the 20th Jan.

Unfortunately the beginners section was not supported
(a sign of the digital times ?)

The winner of the intermediate section was
Sam Rowell with “Crib Goch Wind Pump” (image on left)

The winner of the advanced section was
Mike Stanley with “Black Darter” (image not supplied)

The judge for the competition was Norman Thompson DPAGB LBIPP

Recent concerns, and actual instances of plagiarism, within L&CPU and PAGB circles, have given rise to an article being written by Christine Widdall AFIAP DPAGB BPE3* (the current president of the L&CPU) entitled:-
"Plagiarism in Photography ~ Towards a Code of Conduct".

If you are in any doubt whatsoever, as to what constitutes 'plagiarism' within the context of Club, L&CPU & PAGB competition images, then this is a worthwhile read.

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The pictures displayed here are the images that scored the maximum marks (of 20) in our first winter PRINT competition, judged on Thursday the 9th December 2010.
Please note: these thumbnails are all re-photographed copies of the original prints and as such have suffered in quality.

In the Beginners section.
"GHOST LIGHT" by Emma Vann

AUDIO VISUAL COMPETITION

At the Great Northern AV Festival yesterday 4th December,
at Wilmslow Guild,
our secretary Keith Storey won a medal for the Best New Entrant!

He won the Pollock Medal, presented by the RPS AV Group, given originally by George and Doreen Pollock, good friends of LSAPS.

Through the medium of song, the sequence told the story of a letter from
the war poet Wilfrid Owen to his mother. Keith is comparatively new to AV.
There was stiff competition and we are all thrilled for him.

David and I, Anthony Hull and Dave and Joan Webster, went to the Albany Science College, Chorley on Saturday night, 20th November to support Lytham in this competition.

There were well over 100 people there and a super atmosphere. Chris Widdall, L&CPU President compèred and the judge was John Cartlidge, EFIAPg from the Midlands, he was very good humoured and I have to admit that I agreed with most of his choices, particularly the last ones.

As there were 39 clubs entered they only used 4 from each club - we had all submitted 8. We didn't do badly on the whole! My Clownfish went out in the first round which was a bit of a shock to my system but you can't win 'em all! Sorry about that folks!

In the next round we lost Alan Cadman's Performing Snails, another image which has done very well in other comps. However, both Alison Greenwood's Locks and Lashes and Janice Finestone's Street Performer stayed in for two more rounds - it was nitty-gritty time by then - and we ended up 11th equal.

The competition was stiff and varied and we saw some super images. We must congratulate Poulton club for tying third with Birkenhead; Wigan 10 were 'only' second - that's a rarity!. The winners on this occasion were North Cheshire.
All the scores are on the website. (www.lcpu.org) .
In third place was an artistic image of Tango Dancers, second was a stunning polar bear eating a fish with gulls around in the snow and the winner was 'Enemy At The Door' by Tony Glover of St.Helens, a wonderful shadowy mono picture of an old woman on the inside of a frosted glass door with a 'hoodie' on the outside - you could feel her fear - dare she open the door? What does she do?! It goes to show that for a photograph to have 'Wow' factor it must make you FEEL something!

Julie England