It’s that time of year again and our Annual Exhibition is set to take place in the Welcome Centre next to St Mary’s Church.
The exhibition is the opportunity for members of the society to showcase their work they have taken in the preceding year.
There will be a great diversity of work being shown (both prints and digital) which reflects the diverse nature of the members and their interests. Whatever your taste in art there will be something you will like in the exhibition.
The exhibition runs from Monday 26th October 2015 to Saturday the 31st October 2015.
Weekdays the exhibition is open between 7pm and 10pm each evening, and on Saturday from 10.30am until 8pm.
On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a couple of external competitions between other photographic societies/camera clubs in a side room to the exhibition.
On the Friday from 8pm there will be the annual prize giving of the Society for competitions ran throughout the year, and ran during the exhibition itself.
The exhibition is free and is wheelchair accessible. There is also a car park which is a bonus due to parking restrictions in Walthamstow Village.
Each society or camera club has to submit 15 prints for judging. The judge will critique the prints and award a score out of 20 to each print. The society or club with the highest aggregate score will be the winner.
This is a great opportunity to see the work of other clubs and will be really interesting.
If you have never seen a judge critiquing images it will be an interesting experience and likely to improve your photography.
RESULTS UPDATE
Congratulations to Muswell Hill for such a clear and decisive win, we look forward to challenging you for the shield in 2017. A big thank you to Dunmow for making the effort to come all the way down to Walthamstow to take part.
Dunmow Camera Club 229 points
Muswell Hill Photographic Society 261 points
Walthamstow & District Photographic Society 254 points
It’s that time of year again and the Society are exhibiting in the Winns Gallery.
Thirty two members are showing their work and over seventy prints are being shown.
Whatever your taste I’m sure there will be work that you love as there is a wide diversity of styles being shown which reflect the diversity of the Society.
This year for the first time we are asking visitors to vote for their favourite photo in the exhibition.
Members of the Society will be in attendance during opening times, so if you would like more information about the Society pop along and have a chat.
The exhibition is open every day until, and including August Bank Holiday Monday – the 31st, between 11am and 5pm.
WinnsGallery is located within Lloyd Park in the complex with the cafe and artist studios. The entrance is opposite the bowling greens.
The E17 Art Trail runs from the 30th May until the 14th June 2015 and we are pleased to announce that the Walthamstow & District Photographic Society will again be supporting the festival.
The Trail is a great community led art event with over 250 exhibitions and events taking place over the two weeks the trail is running.
After a number of years the WDPS have moved location from the Central Library and are now exhibiting in the Rose and Crown on Hoe Street.
Our exhibition is situated to the rear of the pub on the right hand side towards the ‘Red Room’. We are displaying 22 photos from 20 members of the Society which reflect the diverse styles of photography members enjoy. There is sure to be something of interest to all visitors.
The Rose and Crown has 8 other artists showing their work in the venue – check them out by clicking this link – there is some great work on show – including some other photography.
The first round of the Walker Trophy (Projected) competition will soon be upon us.
There are 3 rounds to the competition with the winner being the person with the highest aggregate score over the three rounds.
Points are awarded depending upon the number of entries as per the following table;
Number of entries
Places and Points Awarded
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
1 – 15
9
7
5
Nil
16-26
10
8
6
Nil
27 & over
12
10
8
6
In addition to the above, every competitor’s first two entries in each monthly competition will each receive one point.
Each member can enter up to four images. The number that will be shown will be dependent upon how many entries that are received.
In 2013 only 3 images were allowed in Round 1, but in Rounds 2 & 3 members were able to show 4 images.
Resolution of images submitted
The new laptop that has recently been purchased allows us to connect to the projector by HDMI cable.
The use of the HDMI cable means that we can take advantage of the full resolution of the projector.
The maximum resolution is now 1920 (horizontal) x 1080 (vertical).
Just to clarify, your image won’t be stretched to fit this size, so;
Example #1
If you submit an image 1920 (h) x 700 (v) this is the resolution it will be shown.
Example #2
If you submit an image of 1920 (h) x 2160 (v) it will be shown as 960 (h) x 1080 (v). This is because the vertical resolution needs to be halved and therefore the horizontal resolution will be to keep the aspect ratio correct.
Files will be shown as submitted and will not be resized by the competition secretary. Last year Matt needed to resize a great number of images.
Should you have issues with resizing images please speak to Philip Atkinson or John Cross for advice.
Number – this will be either 01, 02, 03 or 04. This is the order of priority of your images should there be too many entries for the competition.
So, if it turns out that only two images of each person can be shown these will be those starting with 01 and 02.
Name – we need to know who you are. This is the only means we have for this once the images have been downloaded.
Title – this will be shown on the screen for 5 seconds when the image is first displayed.
It’s all about the UNDERSCORES!
The use of underscores is vital. We have set up the software toidentify these and split the file name into the 3 component parts of NUMBER_YOUR NAME_TITLE OF IMAGE.
If underscores aren’t used correctly then the images won’t display correctly.
The underscore is on the key to the right of 0 (zero) and is accessed by pressing along with the SHIFT key.
If you are having issues with the naming of images please highlight this when submitting your images, or speak to John Cross or Philip Atkinson.
Submission of Images
The simplest way to submit images is by email.
The e-mail address for images is;
competition@wdps.org
The mailbox is being monitored by John Cross. John will send a simple acknowledgement to the sender.
Images can also be given via CD, DVD, USB drive or file transfer service such as Dropbox or We Transfer. Please don’t use a transfer service where the recipient needs to sign up for an account, eg. Skydrive.
The deadline for submission is 5pm on the Sunday prior to the competition.
If you wish to ‘break’ the deadline you must get agreement from John Cross.
I trust that this e-mail fully explains the process of submitting images for the Walker Trophy.
Should you have any queries please ask John Cross or Philip Atkinson or email to;
The software we use allows us to shuffle the images prior to the competition and we will do this. Your images will therefore be shown in a random order.
The chart is intended to be a summary of the competitions and exhibitions we will be taking part in, in the coming year.
For internal competitions the ‘Last entry by’ is the latest date that your entries must be with the competition secretary (John Cross).
For projected images this date is the Sunday before the Monday of the competition. (competition@wdps.org) •
For Printed images this is the Monday preceding the date of the competition.
If you need your images printed and mounted then this needs to be done in plenty of time to meet the ‘Last entry by’ date.
Ian (fatcatprinting@hotmail.co.uk) Waterman can print and mount these for you but can’t do them all at the last minute! Late submissions may not be admitted!
For external competitions (marked with a ‘*’) the date is earlier as a selection committee will need to meet beforehand to decide which images will be entered Images for internal, projected competitions should be no larger than 1920 pixels on the long side and named as follows: NN_Jane Doe_ A print title.jpg, Where NN is a number (01, 02, 03 ETC.) and ‘_’ is an underscore
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