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SPS Digital Group Pages

Syllabus & Reports

'TIMELESS' by Mike L Pollitt ARPS

This is the first Digital Image by a member of SPS
to be accepted in the SPS Open Exhibition (1999)
(Only the watch face is a photograph, the other elements
of the image, were all scanned on a flatbed scanner)

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This page has been 'tidied up' with some of the older reports taken off
but some old pictures of past speakers etc. remain.
Information is now all on one page. MP

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Southport Photographic Society
CREATIVE DIGITAL IMAGING GROUP
The New Hall, Emmanuel Church, Cambridge Road,
Southport
Meetings start at 7.45pm

SPS Members £2 Non Members £4
There will be a charge for refreshments

Creative Digital Group Committee Members
Chair: Bernard Longley ARPS (01704 574249)
Sue Dewhurst; Mike Pollitt ARPS; Jim Wright; Arthur Williams

-: Events :-

Sat 10th May 2008 at 8pm
'A BIT OF A DO' bring a plate and a bottle, 72 Burnley Rd, Ainsdale, in the Studio
for anyone who has attended the creative group or came on the Portmeriontrip

Sun 8th June 2008
Coach trip to Black Country Living Museum £20-00
We must have at least 30 people

Sun 7th Sept 2008
Kirkby Lonsdale Fair £18-00

** If you are interstsed og going on our coach trips please email Jim Wright
to confirm your booking and to make sure we have the numbers **
wright@jimwright.demon.co.uk

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New Syllabus
2008

Wed 17th Sept
Barry J Colquhoun. More Photoshop.

Wed 15th Oct
Christine Widdall. Black & white Digital

Wed 19th Nov
* David Rowley. Photoshop Top Tips *

Wed 17th Dec
Harry Bosworth. First steps in Photoshop

2009

Wed 21st Jan
David Butler. Have travel will Camera

Wed 18th Feb
* Ben Hall. Creative Nature *

Wed 18th Mar
showing of Digital Images Open Exhibition.

Wed 15th April
Creative comp Prints & Projected image &
Nicky McQueen Trophy and AGM

*Members £3-00 *
*Non Members £5-00*
For further info email Bernard at
PenguinsBern@aol.com

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2008

Wednesday 19th September
Creative Photography
with Dianne Owen

Wednesday17th October
1. Digital Files to Slides, Part 1
see how to make slides from your digital files
2. Pictures to EXE with Keith Fisher, ARPS, DPAGB
how to make digital slide shows

Wednesday 21st November
Photoshop Tips with Mike Lawrence, DPAGB
part 1 for Beginners and part 2 for Advanced workers

Wednesday19th December
'Imagination in your Photography'
with Gwen & Phil Charnock, FRPS, EFIAP
THE two top photographers in the North

2008

Wednesday 16th January
Digital Files to Slides, Part 2
follow on from 17th October, see how they turned out!

Wednesday 13th February
'Photoshop CS3 for Beginners'
with Barry Colquhoun FRPS

Wednesday 19th March
'The Southport Open & Members' Digital Exhibitions'
See all the accepted images
&
The International Triangular Panel Competition
with Peter Pauwels, CPAGB.

Saturday 5th April
Trip out to 'The Prisoner Weekend'
at PORTMEIRION
Coach 18 pounds

Wednesday 16th April
1, 'The Nicky McQueen Trophy'
'Newcomers' Print & Digital File Competition
See Notice Board for Rules
2, Creative Print Competition
Creative Digital File Competition
Judge: David Butler, MFIAP, ARPS

Beginners' Digital Competition
RULES
Eligibility:
This competition is open to SPS members who do not fall into any of the following categories:
Members of the 'A' League
Members of the 'B' League who have previously gained a 1st, 2nd , or 3rd placing in one of our club competitions.
Club members who have achieved similar status / success elsewhere.
Members who have achieved distinctions of LRPS, CPAGB or higher.
Members who have had images accepted for National/International Exhibitions.
Entries:
Participants may enter up to 3 images in each of the following categories (subject to a maximum of 6 in total): Prints and or Digital Files
*If, on the night, the judges consider that too many images have been entered it may be necessary to reduce this to 2 images in each category (Entrantries should be numbered 1.2.3)
All prints must be mounted (mount size not important). The title and number must be written on the back but the author's name should not feature anywhere.
Print entries should have the authors name attached to the packaging or on an easily removable label to assist the collators
Digital files must not exceed 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high and must be presented on CD. The individual files should be named "title01.jpg, title02.jpg, title03.jpg ", and the author's name should be clearly written on to the CD. Please do not apply sticky labels to the CDs because these can cause damage in the computer.
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The judge is David Butler MFIAP ARPS
Images will be judged for technical merit, and presentation as well as artistic merit.

Also
we will hold our 'informal AGM' so that your views can be
put to Council.

T B A
'A bit of a do!'
End of season bash
(Venue to be announced)

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The 'Newcomers' Print & Digital File Competition for the new 'The Nicky McQueen Trophy'
and the Creative Print & Digital File Competition expertly judged by David Butler, MFIAP, ARPS
was held on Wednesday 16 April. Thank you to all who entered, we had a really good turn out!

The

'The Nicky McQueen Trophy'

was won by

Dave Marchbank with this print.......

'Taj-Mahal in early morning mist'
by Dave Marchbank

CREATIVE DIGITAL
PRINT
COMPETITION

1st 'Pink Veil'
by Dianne Owen ARPS

2nd 'Three's a Crowd'
by Dianne Owen ARPS

3rd 'Orchid Dream'
by Garry Parker

1st 'Cathedral Chatting'
by Mike Pollitt ARPS

CREATIVE PROJECTED
IMAGE
COMPETITION

=2nd 'Dolly needs a wash'
by Mike Pollitt ARPS

=2nd 'Final Destination'
by Keith Fisher ARPS DPAGB

Webmasters choise for the most humerous image of the evening goes to.........

'River Mers Eye' a projected image by Keith Fisher ARPS, DPAGB

It certainly made me laugh!!!!!!!!

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CONVERSION OF COLOUR IMAGE TO TONED MONOCHROME IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP
(with thanks to Simon Allen EFIAP MPAGB)

1. Open colour image of your choice in Photoshop.

2. Select Image/Mode/Lab Color.

3. Open Channels palette: Window/Channels.

4. Click on lightness channel. The lab, a and b channels will be switched off.

5. Select Image/Mode/Grayscale. This will leave only a gray channel in the open palette.

6. Holding down control (Ctrl on your keyboard), click on the thumbnail image in the channels palette.
This will select all pixels between white and mid gray. If you have a version of Photoshop with a Histogram palette,
this will be clearly shown.

7. However, we wish to select those pixels representing black to mid gray. Therefore go to Select/Inverse.

8. Open the layers palette: Window/Layers.

9. Change image back to colour file: Image/Mode/RGB Color.

10. Select Layer/New Fill Layer/Solid Color. A New Layer box will open, click OK. This will open the Color Picker.
Click on a colour of your choice. The exact colour is unimportant at this stage but, if you desire a warm tone,
click on a red part of the spectrum or, if you prefer a cool tone, select a blue part of the spectrum. Once a colour is selected click OK.
Your image will probably look rather washed out at this stage – don’t worry.

11. On the Layers palette, click on the little downward facing arrow in the blending mode window.
This is the box at the top left of the palette which will presently be at ‘normal’.
Click on Multiply from the drop down menu.

12. You now have a toned monochrome image.

13. If you are unhappy with the colour, contrast or tonal quality of the image (or simply wish to experiment),
these can easily be altered.

14. Double click on the coloured thumbnail shown in the uppermost of the two layers in the Layers palette.
This will re-open the Colour Picker. Simply click anywhere on either the large graded colour box
or on the vertical strip spectrum until you achieve the desired result. Click OK.

Voila!.....Thanks, Simon

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We are here to help YOU. Let us know what YOU want and we will try to do it!

Our first event is the Groups 'day out' which will in fact be an evening out on Wednesday 16 May, 7:45
meeting at Lydiate Priory which is on the A5147 next to the Scotch Piper pub where we will adjurn to after our shoot.
If you put L31 4HD into Google Earth you will see the ruins next to the pub

A picture taken on a past SPS 'Painting with light' shoot at St Kathrines

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Workshop Group Annual Competition 2007: theme 'Artistry'

This years competition was won by Peter Pauwels CPAGB with his print
'Rusting Away'

2nd was 'Vine Spirit' from Bernard Morris, and a Peter Pauwels digital file, 'Sentinels' was 3rd.

Our President and judge for the evening
presents Peter with the Trophy

Peter's winning print

'Rusting Away'
"This was a shot of one of the Gormley statues at "Another Place" at Crosby. I made several copies of the main image enlarging, blurring and displacing each and varying the layer opacity to give the impression of the statue gradually wasting away. The top layer was treated with the posterise edges filter to emphasise the rust. A circular gradient radiating from the top left hand corner was also added." Peter

2nd 'Vine Spirit'
by Bernard Morris
"This image was retrieved from a photograph taken under difficult
lighting conditions, strong shadow.
The subject was moving.
The camera was a Canon powershot
pro 1.(1/125 sec @ f3.5)" Bernard

3rd 'Sentinels'
by Peter Pauwels

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Martin Avery Competition 2006

After another brilliant selection of digital images in the Martin Avery Competition
at the South Liverpool club, expertly judged by David Butler of Wigan 10, Southport PS
again came out on top. Amongst our winning score we had 1x20pt, 2x19pt and 3x18pt images.
Out top scoring print was 'Scottish Crested Tit' by Derek Openshaw ARPS.

South Liverpool.....................175pts
North Cheshire......................181
St. Helens...............................190
SLIC.........................................198
Southport................................203pts

Next years competition will be held at North Cheshire, let's have a good turn out and win it again!

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Wednesday 10 May 2006

MEMBERS' ANNUAL COMPETITION (open subjects)

The Members' Annual Competition of the Southport Photographic Society Digital
Group took place on the evening of Wednesday 10th May 2006. Many varied subjects, as both printed images and digital slides, were entered into this Open
Subjects Competition which was judged by Mr. Tony Myers, FRPS.

With a good all round standard the Judge needed all his experience and skills
to arrive at an outright winner.

The "Digital Creative Competition" Trophy
was awarded to Dianne Owen for her print titled "Incapsulated" which the Judge
determined demonstrated a creative, imaginative and personal use of the digital
photographic medium. Diane had skilfully expressed her individual vision of the
subject to create an image with impact that fully engages the viewer."

Anthony Wray

Dianne Owen receives the trophy from the judge for the evening, Tony Myers FRPS

1st 'Incapsulated'
by Dianne Owen

Incapsulated
This is one of the more complex images created from the set of images that was inspired by The Antony Gormly Sculpture. I didn't plan the image, it evolved. There are several images that preceed Incapsulated that help create what you see as a final image. The background was created but using motion blur on the beach removing the man first. I cut out the man & saved him to his own layer, then created several layers putting the man in various triangles and ended up with the man in the triangle you now see. The first version was a single man. I later want back to the image and cut the background into more triangles to create the diagonal background to fit round the three man triangles. I used the darker lines to produce a clear distinction between the background and the focus in the image. Added an adjustment layer to slightly alter the colour tones in the image. Printed on gloss paper.

2nd 'Guardians'
by Dianne Owen

3rd 'New Lock'
by Mike Pollitt ARPS

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Wednesday , 11 May 2005

MEMBERS' ANNUAL COMPETITION (open subjects)

1st 'Sunset Derwent Water' by Sol Photiou

2nd 'Redundant'
by Kathryn Scorah LRPS CPAGB BPE 2*

3rd 'A corner of the Cathedral'
by Mike Pollitt ARPS

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Wednesday, 12th January 2005
COMPETITION NIGHT

Winner of the Digital Files Comp.

'Jamberoo'
by Bernard Morris

Winner of the Prints Comp.

'Winter Lights'
by Mike Pollitt ARPS

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January 14, The 2004, Creative Competition

'Pike Howe'
by Cliff Martin ARPS DPAGB

Our 'Leader' presenting the
Trophy to Cliff Martin

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December 10 - ‘A Different Perspective’

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO YOU ALL

JOYEUX NOEL

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November 26 -'Photographic Imaging at it's very best'

It's rude to point Bob

Your pointing again!
(to the Nodal Point)

The 'Master' explains a point

Taking the 360 degree shot
of SPS. Can't wait to see
the print!

Bob proved that he is more than an excellent photographer, exhibitor and judge.
He is trail-blazer! Where he goes today, we all follow tomorrow!
Kathryn.

Bob has kindly let us have his Panorama shot, GREAT!

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October 29 - Vin Hey & Bernard Longley ‘Sound Ideas’

Bernard and Vin with one of Vin's technial slides

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Sept 17th - Eb Swarbrick DPAGB ‘Eb’s Dabbles’

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October 15th - AV Extravaganza, Richard Tucker FRPS

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Before we close our season, let us remember the passing of one of the regions
top digital workers and a good friend to our group and our Society, Martin Avery.
Martin died of a heart attack last month and below is a picture of Martin out on a day
of photography with a group of like minded people in a 3D theater in Wales.
(you may recognise the one behind Martin!)

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