30 Sept 2021 ~ H2 Photographic Society

30 Sept 2021

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H2 NEWSLETTER

A warm welcome to members and friends of
H2 Photographic Society

Please note 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.

Lean On Me (Bill Withers) by Chris Shepherd
Overall winner of the song title challenge

This Thursday...

...We have a really special practical evening, a chance to try your hand at some portraits.

Jeff Sinclair has kindly arranged an evening of shooting with some tuition, two models and a chance to try a few different setups. So don't forget your camera.

League Comp Round 1

Our league competition is about to start, this is an open competition so you may enter an image on any subject you like. The league consists of four rounds of competitions spread across the year, each judged by different judges and we encourage every member to enter images to get feedback on your work.

To enter the League Competition, please prepare up to 3 images in the normal way Then send an email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk with the subject LeagueComp1 with your pictures attached to it. Final entries for round 1 must be with us by 11pm on Monday 27th.

Lean On Me (Bill Withers) by John Thompson

Joint second in our song title challenge

Last Thursday...

We held our Song Title Challenge. This entailed showing our members' 50 entries that illustrated the various song titles given at the beginning of the challenge.

It was fascinating to hear the various and diverse comments of our members during the critique. Congratulations to overall winner Chris, and the joint second placers, John & Dave.

And huge thanks to all those members who entered their work

Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple) by Dave Hobbs

Joint second in our song title challenge

Physical Meetings

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

Meetings are 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.

Google Maps

What 3 Words: reward.code.bumps

Entrance Fees

£3	Members
£5	Couples
£4	Guests

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

Ready, Steady, Shoot...

H2 members, do take a look at our club Flickr page to see an amazing array of different and creative images that we have produced from the practical evening a couple of weeks ago.
We feature some in this newsletter.

Dicey by Leslie Hughes
(from our Ready, Steady, Shoot evening)

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
LeagueComp1	League Competition 1	27/09/2021	DPI
RawChallenge	Raw Challenge	18/10/2021	DPI
Portrait	Portrait Competition	01/11/2021	DPI
LeagueComp2	League Competition 2	29/11/2021	DPI
Still Life	Still Life Print Competition	02/12/2021	Print
PhotoHunt	Photo Hunt Challenge	10/01/2022	DPI
Mono	Mono Print Competition	20/01/2022	Print
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

H2 SHOWCASE is where our club shows its work "to the world".

New images created by our members are added regularly.

Do take a look by clicking here

Falling Dice by Graham Woolmer
(from our Ready, Steady, Shoot evening)

H2 Programme

Here is our programme for the next few weeks.

Programme as Google Calendar (finally updated)

Date	Location	Activity
30 September 2021	Zoom	Portrait Practical
07 October 2021	Zoom	League Competition Round 1 Judge: Cat Humphries
14 October 2021	Zoom	Portrait Talk Speaker: Lee Sutton
21 October 2021	In Hall	Halloween Practical 18-Oct-2021 - Hand In For Raw Challenge
28 October 2021	Zoom	Raw Challenge
31 October 2021	The Forest	Epping Forest Meet
04 November 2021	In Hall	Sparks & Smoke practical 01-Nov-2021 - Hand In For Portrait Competition
11 November 2021	Zoom	Portrait Competition Judge: Eileen McCausland
18 November 2021	In Hall	Edit My Image
25 November 2021	Zoom	"Starting from a blank canvas" (Still life) Speaker: Polina Plotnikova FRPS EFIAP
02 December 2021	In Hall	Still life Practical 29-Nov-2021 - Hand In For League Competition Round 2 Hand In For Still life comp (print)
09 December 2021	Zoom	League Competition Round 2 Judge: Kirsty Ralfs ARPS QGP
16 December 2021	In Hall	Still life comp (print) Judge: David Steele
23 December 2021	Zoom	Christmas Quiz & photo hunt setup

Glass Abstract by Jo Cleall
(from our Ready Steady, Shoot evening)

It is always good to see club members having success in getting their images used in publications. Chris has recently had 2 images of his used in the Epping Forest Annual Review. Well done Chris.

Meanwhile Paul has provided the cover for this month's Much Hadham Parish Magazine:

Members: Please let us know if your images are used anywhere, we love to celebrate your success.

Committee Minutes

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

Table top 1311 by John Morison
(from our Ready Steady, Shoot evening)

Do Join Us For Our 2021-2022 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

Domino Henge by Paul Simpkin
(from our Ready Steady, Shoot evening)