Annual Exhibition 2015

Annual Exhibition 2015

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.

Norell @ The Warrant OfficerCAR WASH Eat Me London Skyline mudflat Off the Kicker Photographer Rose of London at Pride Sue's Legs WaterfrontAt the end of the day Atlantic puffin with sand eels Autumn Angel Still Waters Thorpeness Waterfront

The Bert Whittern Shield – 2015

As part of the WDPS Annual Exhibition we hold two competitions with external clubs.

The first of these is the Bert Whittern Shield which is a print competition between WDPS, Muswell Hill Photographic Society and Dunmow Camera Club.

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

Summer Exhibition 2015 – Winns Gallery

Summer Exhibition 2015 – Winns Gallery

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.

Winns Gallery is located within Lloyd Park in the complex with the cafe and artist studios. The entrance is opposite the bowling greens.

E17 Art Trail 2015

E17 Art Trail 2015

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.

If you are interested in our Summer Photography Course in Walthamstow you can pick up flyers for this in the venue.

We hope you can visit our exhibition, and please remember to sign our guest book.

 

Walker Trophy – Entry Details (projected)

Walker Trophy – Entry Details (projected)

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.

Alternatively, check out these YouTube videos;

Photoshop Elements – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJuKCnw0DI0

Photoshop CS5 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pTCipNR8zM

Picasa – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8F0rF5eQek

Naming of your images

It is important that files are named correctly.

The format is;

Number_Your Name_Title of Image
for example;
02_John Cross_A Mountain
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 to identify 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.

Summary of 2015 Competitions

Summary of 2015 Competitions

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

 

 

Competition/Exhibitions Date Last entries by Image type Location Judge
Autumn & Winter 05/Jan/2015 On the night Projected Greenleaf Road Members vote
Walker projected 1 26/Jan/2015 25/Jan/2015 Projected Greenleaf road Mark Edwards
Slide battle with Chingford 16/Feb/2015 09/Feb/2015* Projected Chingford TBA
Basildon Trophy 23/Feb/2015 16/Feb/2015* B&W Prints Greenleaf Road Ken Payne
Walker projected 2 02/Mar/2015 01/Mar/2015 Projected Greenleaf road Dave Wilcox
Camera craft cup March/2015? * Projected Enfield, Gentleman’s Row
Walker projected 3 23/March/2015 22/March/2015 Projected Greenleaf road David James
Chigwell 4 way April/2015? Projected Chigwell Camera club
Walker prints 1 20/April/2015 13/April/2015 Prints Greenleaf road
Match a print 27/April/2015? On the Night! Prints Greenleaf Road Internal
The Barking Colour cup May/2015? Prints Eastbury Manor, Barking
Walker prints 2 18/May/2015 11/May/2014 Prints Greenleaf road
E17 arts trail May-June? Prints Library foyer (High St, Walthamstow) n/a
Movement 08/June/2015 07/June/2015 Projected Greenleaf Road Members vote
Walker print 3 15/June/2015 08/June/2015 Prints Greenleaf road
Waterworks exhibition July/2015? Prints & projected Lea Bridge road n/a
Winns gallery Aug 2015? Prints Lloyds park n/a
Albert Bale 28/Sept/2015 21/Sept/2015 Portrait prints Greenleaf road
Ware 8 way Oct/2015? Prints Muswell Hill TBA
Centenary cup 05/Oct/2015 28/Sept/2015 A/V show (Max 5 mins) Greenleaf road
Goddard trophy 12/Oct/2015 05/Oct/2015 Panel of 4 prints Greenleaf road
Alan Coleman Trophy Oct/2015? B&W prints Eastbury Manor, Barking TBA
Annual exhibition 26/Oct-31/Oct 12/Oct/2015* Prints & projected Welcome centre
Bert Whittern Shield 28/Oct/2015 29/Oct/2015* Prints Welcome Centre
Grainger Trophy 29/Oct/2015 20/Oct/2015* Projected Welcome Centre
In the style of 16/Nov/2015 15/Nov/2015 Projected Greenleaf Road Members vote
Print battle with Chingford 23/Nov/2015 09/Nov/2015* Prints Greenleaf road

 

 

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