Entries for Portrait, Sport & Photo Journalism for 26/11/07

Just a reminder that enteries for the Portrait, Sport & Photo Journalism competitions are required by Mondy 26th November at the latest.

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Photography Law and the pitfalls of the internet

If you think understanding photography law can be a nightmare, try dealing with the horrors that can happen when you don’t understand it.

Or when publishers choose to ignore it, stock agencies hide behind it or subjects try to use it to restrict the use of images.

Here are five photography court cases that should scare the bejesus out of photographers.

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Reminder: 2008, Third Sharow Open Photographic Competition (for charity)

We have received details (see below) on the next Sharow Photographic competition.

Details of the Third Sharow Photographic Competition in April 2008 can now be found on their website: www.sharowphotocomp.co.uk

This next year's competition is in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

An information poster is also available to print out from the website, for notice boards, as a handout or to email to your membership.

http://www.sharowphotocomp.co.uk/poster.php

Why not enter now? no need to wait! - we are ready to receive your entries any time at your convenience.

http://www.sharowphotocomp.co.uk/entryforms.php

They are challenging categories for this next year's event.

http://www.sharowphotocomp.co.uk/categories.php

Special Category (10-19 years old) for school/students (or maybe grandchildren!)

http://www.sharowphotocomp.co.uk/schools.php

Signed: David Page Chairman Sharow Photographic Competition

(The second competition in April 2007 was very successful and built on the success of the first in September 2006. Thanks to your support this national competition will now be a regular prestigious charity event (the only one of its kind in the UK) in April each year - we are proud of our success).

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Digital Camera Tutorial: Cold Weather Care

For those of us living north of the equator, autumn is just about over and winter is getting started. Here in the UK that means even more rain and grey skies than we've had for most of this year, and for everyone it means lower temperatures. Like most electronic devices, digital cameras can be affected by the cold, which is a bit of a problem at this time of year because most people like to use their camera outdoors....read More


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Macro Tutorial

Virtually all digital cameras, from the humblest compacts to the most advanced super-zoom cameras, have a Macro setting, usually denoted by a symbol that looks like a flower, this article helps you use it successfully. Read more http://tinyurl.com/yq5bb3

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Upcoming events 12th November 2007, Pratical Night

We have a Photoshop pratical night on Monday 12th November.
David will be showing us how to create your own Christmas Cards/Calendars using your digital images.

Bring your own laptop if you have one to work along with the tutorial.

As usual will start at 7.30pm in the Hugh Ripley Hall in Ripon, click for map.
Visitors welcome (small £2 charge).

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Meeting 5th November 2007

At the meeting last night, Patrick Couzens judged entries for the Creative Competition,20 print and 19 digital entries gave him a sore head but he bravely tackled the job well.

Picture shows our overall Champion for the night, Kathryn Carter being congratulated by The Judge.. very well done Kathryn, looking on with glee are the other winners, Alastair Montgomery, Paul Bullock, and our esteemed President Michael Voice.

Patrick lives in York, has been a photographer since short pants days. he combines this talent with his enthusiasm for Amateur Theatricals. He not only takes the advertising stills and portraits but also actualy acts on the stage...good practice for Judging....

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Edit Your Images Online With Splashup

Edit your images on the fly online with Splashup, a web-based image editor that integrates with Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Splashup offers up a surprising array of image editing tools, far beyond the usual crop of resize and contrast— you can also edit multiple images, play with filters and layers, use a variety of brushes, and more. Splashup is one of the best image editors in a long line of image editors; i.e., Picnik, Pixoh, and Resizr, to name just a few.

Splashup [via eHub]

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Wifi Memory Card

Photos shouldn’t be trapped in your camera. Set them free.

The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site.

No cables, no waiting, no hassles.

To learn more, press the play button to the right.

Read more at http://www.eye.fi/

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