Good Morning Photosoc,
Just a quick bit of news for you all. The committee and I have been in contact with Ilford in the past few weeks and as a result we have been given sponsorship from Harman Technologies, the company who trade as Ilford in the UK. You can read more about them on their website here: http://www.harmantechnology.com/dotnetnuke/
This deal will allow us to offer you Ilford branded products (Film, paper, chemicals), as well as Harman and Hahnemühle digital papers, at the lowest price available anywhere in the UK from our shop.
On top of this, when you join photosoc this year you will also receive a discount card for use on the Harman web store. This card will give you 10% discount off any mono items, 25% discount off Inkjet and a 15% discount off lab services, meaning that as a photosoc member you will be able to get your hands on ilford products at the best price around at any time of the year.
In other news, the Photosoc website has had a bit of an update thank to Greg, have a look here: http://www.photosoc.com/
Finally, don’t forget about the Banner competition, which ends on Monday 23rd August. Details can be found on the website, we’ve had quite a lot of entries so far, looking forward to recieving some more.
Hope you are having a good day and the sun is shining where you are, it’s sunny in Northern Ireland for the first time since June, I’m a happy man.
Thanks for reading,
Jonathan Hamilton
Hello Photosoc members,
It’s now August and things are starting to heat up backstage at Photosoc HQ trying to get things sorted for Fresher’s week and the first semester of activities.
We have decided that this year, at the Fresher’s fair, we’re going to have a brand new banner for our stall, and to show off the talent of our members we’ve decided to hold a competition to allow YOU to have your photo displayed on it for years to come.
The banner will consist of four photographs from four different styles of photography: Landscape, Portrait, Wildlife/Nature and Cityscape, covering the talents of the vast majority of our members.
The details of the completion can be found below:
Start Date – Monday 2nd August
Closing Date – Monday 23rd August. This give you 3 weeks to get your entries in.
You can enter ONE photograph for EACH of the four categories.
The categories are:
- Landscape
- Portrait/Fashion
- Wildlife/Nature
- Cityscape
The photos can be from any time, so long as they were taken by you, and must be of a high resolution (i.e. no less than 6 megapixels) as we will be printing your photos with the society’s large format printer, so that we can demonstrate the quality of our equipment at the fresher’s fair.
Photos can be either Portrait or Landscape format, and can be digital or film (so long as scanned to high resolution).
You can enter the competition in TWO ways:
- Send your photo along with your name to photosoc.ed@googlemail.com
- Add a link to your photo to the Photosoc flickr group discussion thread, which I will create now. If you have not already joined the flickr group, you can do so by going to this address: http://www.flickr.com/groups/edinburgh_photosoc/
The photos from each category will be judged by the Photosoc committee and the winners will be contacted.
Remember, the winner from each category will have their photograph shown on the Photosoc banner for years to come.
P.S. Although the photos can be from any time, you should take this opportunity as an excuse to get out there and start taking some new photos.
Finally, if you’re in Edinburgh this Summer and are interested in taking some portraits for a website, read on.
I am a composer in the middle of setting up my website, and I would like some professional and artistic portrait shots for it.
I wonder if any of your photographers would be interested in helping me out? This could be an exciting project as I’m keen for artistic input on the shots.
The photographer will get full credit on the website!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Luci Holland
If interested, email lilyluci@gmail.com
That’s all for now, hope you’re all having a nice summer, and looking forward to Photosoc this year, and remember to enter the competition!
Jonathan Hamilton
Hello soccers,
Final newsletter from me – I’m off to pastures new (the inside of exam halls) and have handed over the fame, responsibility and, sadly, the chequebook. We have:
- AGM Results
- Final Darkroom/Printing tutorials
- Slideshow of the year
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Hi Soccers,
Here’s the announcement for our final event of this year, the Annual General Meeting. If you’ve been reading the emails at all you’ll know that this is where we get together to look back over the past year and put in place the people who’ll be running Photosoc next year. To make things a bit more… sociable, we’ve decided to lay on some free wine and pizza for you – best get there early, I tend to be hungry on a Tuesday :)
We’ll also be presenting the winner of the Photosoc Awards with his very special trophy (if you’ve not voted, send your candidate for biggest contribution to Photosoc to me at atjbramley@hotmail.com), as well as giving out a few other prizes to those deemed ‘deserving’. And because we spoil you, there’ll be a raffle, with prizes including magazine subscriptions, print & slide film, photographic kit, memberships, print credit, a date with the darkroom girls… Not to be missed.
The AGM will be in the normal room (Pentland) at 7pm this Tuesday. Please remember to bring your membership cards if you’re voting – saves us a lot of hassle checking whether you paid up or not…
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In other news, ALL KIT MUST BE RETURNED by Tuesday. There’s a silver Manfrotto lightstand that’s knocking about somewhere, please bring it back :)
The darkrooms and printer will still be accesible over the holidays and there might be an impromptu event or two, so keep your eyes on the email. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll see you Tues :)
Adam
Hi all,
Unfortunately Thom is feeling ill today so he’s had to cancel his insane kite aerial photography stunt. This is probably for the best – pretty sure he’d have written off anything he strapped to that thing. If you want to do any rentals or just have a general photographic play then the room’ll be open from 7 – maybe a chance to have a mess around with the new backdrop holder? Nothing official planned anymore though – sorry!
Couple of other things that have made their way into the photosoc inbox:
- AGM! Tues 23rd March
- Job offer from BBC food magazine ‘Olive’
- Photosoc Awards
- Roundup of this week’s tutorials
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I’m still not sure how he’s managing it, but Adam has once again shirked the responsibility of newsletter writing. So you’re putting up with me today.
This week:
- Tuesday’s Meadows extravaganza
- Photos of the week
- Very important AGM info
- Printing/darkroom tutorials
- Oban & Mull Trip- Photosoc Award 09/10
Hi Soccers,
Aha, I’ve wrested the newsletter back from those wannabees. Recovered from yesterday yet? Best photosoc event ever? Alonso is an absolute leg, we had landscapes and seascapes and bridgescapes and FIRE and we basically spent next year’s budget on this:
Preeeety sweet. Anyway, I’m only pres for another 3 weeks, so while I attempt to spend that massive EUSA grant that we just got our hands on in double quick fashion, here’s a newsletter for you:
- Tuesday 9th March – Photosoc Pub Quiz (with a special round on Chinese photography in 1976)
- Instructions for Senior Committee Candidates
- Photosoc Awards 2009/2010
- Open committee meeting this Thurs
- Photos of the week!
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Hello All,
Just a reminder that the wonderful Photosoc exhibition is now almost here. Please do come along!
Double Dutch cafe – you buy drinks upstairs and then head down to the basement to view our exciting work.
See you then!
