13 January 2022 ~ H2 Photographic Society

13 January 2022

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H2 NEWSLETTER

Happy New Year to members and friends of
H2 Photographic Society

H2 now operates on a hybrid model with meetings alternating between Zoom & in the hall. Please check the calendar below for where the meeting is and the zoom invite/location details.
(Please note that we have suspended face-to-face meetings until February due to Omicron - everyone's welcome to join us on our virtual Zoom meetings)

Balancing Act by Jeff Sinclair
(see Water Practical article below)

This Week: Converting to Mono

Hello Members and Friends of H2; a very Happy New Year to you all.

Now, January is "Mono Month": our programme is filled with mono-mastery. There's a fascinating presentation on black & white photography by Kylie-Ann Martin on 27 Jan (check-out her website); and the following week we have our Mono Competition independently judged by Marilyn Steward.

But to kick off, this week we are showing how to convert your images to mono...using three different softwares: Lightroom, Photoshop and Affinity. If time permits, we will also run through the how to use the 'plugin' software, Silver Efex Pro, part of the Nik collection of plugins.

Dungeness by Night by Warren Martin

Peace by Paul Tatman

Last Week's Water Practical
(It certainly made a splash :)

Prior to Omicron's impact, last week's meeting was to be in-person at the Village Hall. Huge thanks therefore go to Jeff (Sinclair) who put together an educational and entertaining virtual evening. Combining YouTube videos along with his own home setup Jeff stimulated and inspired us.

Of the many informative data we learnt, we were reminded what a superb resource Flickr can be for helping expand our creativity; there are literally millions of images to search (and research) on every genre imaginable. To whet the interest, a couple of Flickr page links from Jeff's talk are shown below.

Well done, Jeff!

Water and liquid art Flickr pages: Carol Cohn & Helene Caillaud

Corner Reflection by Maurice King

Elf on a shelf by Leslie Hughes

The Twelve 'Days of Christmas' Photo Hunt

Yes, we know that Christmas has been and gone...but our "Christmas" photo hunt continues.

The challenge to H2 members is "hunt" and then capture images on a dozen different titles & topics.

The assignment is designed to encourage our creativity and our planning of images.

So here are the twelve titles/topics - (members, do take a look at our H2 Flickr page as there are some brilliant images already uploaded):

1. Creative
2. Ice
3. Fruit/veg
4. Textures
5. Hands
6. My mind's eye
7. Christmas bokeh
8. Mirrors
9. Eyes
10. Looking up
11. Inside (or What's inside)
12. Movement

And on Thursday 20 January we shall have a club-critique of our work

Thinking caps on, guys

(Please email us your images on or before 23.00hrs Tuesday 18 Jan - we'll remind you in next week's Newsletter)

Buachaille Etive Mor 6 by Paul Simpkin

Rose by Dave Hobbs

H2 Meetings and Omicron

Please note, as the Omicron variant continues its high infection rate, the committee has taken the decision to move our meetings onto zoom until February. We may be Zoom-only for longer than that; as we all know now, our planning in a Covid world has to be quite flexible!

Well done and thank you to members Warren, Geoff and Jonathan for regularly updating our H2 SHOWCASE page on Flickr.

This is where our club shows its work "to the world" and allows non-members to see H2's work.

Do take a look by clicking here

Red Smudge by Jo Cleall

Clearing Clouds by John Thompson

Much Hadham Parish Magazine Needs Our Images

The Editor of our local Parish Magazine would love to see more of our images of Much Hadham and its environs to go on this year's front pages. Images can be as straightforward or as creative as we like to make them.

There are two constraints however: firstly the images need to be in colour and, secondly, they need to be portrait format. It's a great opportunity to see our images in print.

Please email images - file size, 5MB or larger - to Paul (Major) on this address

We Saw Three Ships... by Jonathan Saull

Storytime by Marie King

The Zoom invitation for all our meetings is below, all are welcome to come along; members & non-members alike.

Zoom Invite

Topic: H2 Club Evening
Time: "Doors" open at 07:30 PM for 7:45 Start
Every week on a Thursday

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82906584413?pwd=dnFuRG9LUzBzU0hlSFZ3NDAzYkluQT09

Meeting ID: 829 0658 4413
Password: 927576

Elgol Dusk by Heather Clarke

Hot Coffee by Graham Woolmer

Physical Meetings
(The less-good news is that our face-to-face meetings are suspended until February due to Omicron variant of Covid. Sorry.
However, the good news is that you are more than welcome to join us on our Zoom meetings - see the meeting ID and password above. "Doors" open at 7.30pm)

Thinking of joining? Feel free to pop along for a warm welcome

Meetings are Thursday evenings 7.45p.m. to 9.45p.m.

Much Hadham Village Hall
Oudle Ln
Much Hadham
SG10 6DQ
United Kingdom

There is a carpark and entrance at the back of the hall.
(Note: do check our programme - we now run a hybrid model with meetings at the hall alternating with virtual Zoom meetings)

Google Maps

What 3 Words: reward.code.bumps

Entrance Fees

£3	Members
£5	Couples
£4	Guests

Do Join Us For Our 2022 Season

Our packed programme has already started with a mixture of fun activities, talks, practices and competitions. Whether you enjoy photography as a hobby and wish to improve, or you are more advanced, we would love you to join us. Take a look at our programme by clicking here.

And do get in touch

To contact H2PS click here

H2 Programme

Here is our programme for the next few weeks.

Programme as Google Calendar

Date	Location	Activity

13-Jan-22	Zoom	B&W conversions tutorial 18-Jan-2022 - Hand In For Photohunt critique
20-Jan-22	Zoom	Photohunt critique 24-Jan-2022 Hand In For Mono Competition (dpi)
27-Jan-22	Zoom	B&W Speaker Speaker: Kylie-ann Martin
03-Feb-22	Zoom	Mono Competition (dpi) Judge: Marilyn Steward 7-Feb-2022 - Hand in for Guess What this is
10-Feb-22	Zoom	Guess what this is
17-Feb-22	In Hall	Macro practical
24-Feb-22	Zoom	Taming the Chaos Speaker: Kieran Metcalfe BPE1*
03-Mar-22	In Hall	Flowers Practical
10-Mar-22	Zoom	Photographing Wildlife in your Garden Speaker: Roger Hance FRPS AFIAP DPAGB BPE5*
17-Mar-22	In Hall	My Top 10 14-Mar-2022 - Hand In For League Competition Round 3
24-Mar-22	Zoom	League Competition Round 3 Judge: Sally Sallett ARPS CPAGB AFIAP BPE3*
31-Mar-22	In Hall	Disposable camera challenge 28-Mar-2022 - Hand In For Natural History Competition
07-Apr-22	Zoom	Natural History Competition Judge: Peter Jones ARPS DPAGB BPE3*
14-Apr-22	In Hall	Smartphone Photography Speaker: Jeanette Lendon 11-Apr-2022 - Hand In For Panel Comp
21-Apr-22	Zoom	Panel Comp Judge: Lorraine Robins
28-Apr-22	In Hall	Smartphone Photography Practical Hand In For Disposable Camera Challenge
05-May-22	Zoom	AGM
12-May-22	Zoom	Creative Composites Speaker: Glenys Garnet
19-May-22	In Hall	Disposable camera Challenge reults 16-May-2022 - Hand In For League Competion Round 4
26-May-22	Zoom	League Competion Round 4 Judge: Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE*5 23-May-2022 - Hand In For Smartphone Critique
02-Jun-22	In Hall	Smartphone Critique
09-Jun-22	Zoom	People in the Landscape and Outdoor Activities Speaker: Nigel Forster
16-Jun-22	In Hall	Whats In The Bag 13-Jun-2022 - Hand In For DPI of the year critique
23-Jun-22	Zoom	DPI of the year critique
30-Jun-22	In Hall	Outdoor Practical 27-Jun-2022 - Hand In For DPI of the year
07-Jul-22	Zoom	DPI of the year Judge: Kylie-ann Martin EFIAP, BPE2,CPAGB, LDPS

Committee Minutes

If you want to keep up with what our committee is discussing you can find all the details here.

Rules for Competition entries

Prints need to be handed in a week before the competition (but as we meet every other week it is actually 2 weeks in advance), a digital copy of the image must also be submitted via email.

Digital Images need to be submitted 10 days before via email

How to Submit Images via Email

First prepare images following the guidelines for projected images.
Create a new email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk
Set the Subject of the email to the name of the competition from the lists below.
Attach your files and send them

You should get a reply within a few minutes telling you if your entry has been successful.

Example
To enter the Portrait competition we send an email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk with the subject Portrait with our pictures attached to it.

Email Subject	Competition Description	Last Entry Date	Type
Still Life	Still Life DPI Competition	12/12/2021	DPI
PhotoHunt	Photo Hunt Challenge	10/01/2022	DPI
Mono	Mono Competition	24/01/2022	DPI
Guess	Guess What this is	07/02/2022	DPI
LeagueComp3	League Competition 3	14/03/2022	DPI
Panel	Panel Competition	11/04/2022	DPI
LeagueComp4	League Competition 4	16/05/2022	DPI
Phone	Smartphone Critique	23/05/2022	DPI
DpiCritique	Dpi Of The Year Critique	13/06/2022	DPI
DpiOfTheYear	Dpi Of The Year	27/06/2022	DPI

Any problems please drop me a mail: chris@shepherdpics.com