Good evening, everyone!

This will be my last newsletter to you all, and it fills me with sadness to have to hand down the reins what feels like so soon after taking them up!

1. Photosoc AGM – This Friday!

Every year we hold an AGM to hand over the committee roles onto new members of the society. It is in this way that the society can begin afresh each year and continue to grow!

This year’s AGM will be held at 7:30pm in the Highland Room at Pleasance. For the sake of fairness, it is ESSENTIAL that we get as many people involved with this meeting as possible. It is here that you can vote for your new committee and ensure the society is the best it can be for the following year!

If you wish to put your name forward to take on a role on the committee, you must attend this meeting and nominate yourself when the role you want is called. Those of you who wish to run for president of the society must have a small speech prepared to give to the rest of the membership. You need to sell yourself!

2. Photosoc Exhibition – 22nd March – 4th April

The entries from our latest competition will be hung around the walls of the fantastic Hula Cafe and smoothie bar during the next two weeks. I highly recommend you swing by, buy some soup and a milkshake, and admire the work put in by fellow members of your society! Feel free to head down at any time before 6pm and really get to enjoy the art!

3. Photo opportunities

daniel.foster@worxx.co.uk
  I am having a small wedding in Edinburgh at the start of June.
Would you know of anyone qualified or qualifying that might be interested in being our photographer for the afternoon?
Of course we would pay but given our budget, we can’t afford the prices being quoted currently.

Dan Foster

rosiemitchell21@hotmail.com
  I’m part of the committee organising the Chemistry Ball this year on March 27th. We are looking for a photographer to take photos at the ball and I was wondering if you have anyone who is interested?   The photographer will be paid (£50) but unfortunately will not be fed at the event. Please can you let me know how the procedure works to find someone who might be interested?

Best wishes,
Rosie Mitchell

4. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

5. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

6. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

That’s it for me! Thank you all so much for making this a great society once again. I leave you now with an image of a rather happy sheep:

Robin
El Presidenté (For now)

1. Competition Judging THIS FRIDAY!

This is an email I am sending out to those of you who replied with an interest in helping out with the photobank project.

I would like to hold a meeting this weekend to discuss what we would like to do, how we plan to do it, and a timeline.

Details:

Sunday, March 17 at 11:00am

Student Newspaper Office, The Pleasance

Enter through the non-gym entrance. If you enter on the left or right where there is a car park you will see a staircase that goes downstairs to a door. The office is in there. 

Ruth Hand from the Societies Oscars team asks:

I’m emailing on behalf of the Society Oscars team to ask if any of your members would be keen in taking part in our fantastic event on the 23rd of March! 

We are looking for 5-6 budding photographers to come along on the night, take some amasing photos of our spectacular event and then send them back to us so that we could upload them online!

We were thinking of having a few photographers around Teviot for the event, taking pictures of everyone in there masquerade glad rags and possibly also some kind of props that we would love to be included in some of the photos for one of the entertainment rooms! 

What would you get for this you may ask?

Well…

1. Free wrist band covering entry to the event at Teviot, entry to Potterrow and que jump before 12.

2 . Some possible advertising opportunities in the spaces we have provided for people/societies helping out on the night!

3. And of course, the all important CV boosting experience! 

If this sounds like something that anyone from Photo Soc might be interested in then please contact me at ruthhand91@hotmail.com

4. AGM

Photosoc’s AGM is coming up and we want nominees for next year’s committee! The AGM will be held on the 22nd March, so please think about this! The society can’t run without a committee and the bigger we get, the healthier our society can be. We will be hosting an open committee meeting tonight at 6pm in the New Amphion in Teviot. If you are considering a committee role, please come along to find out more!

5. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

6. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

7. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

Good afternoon, soccers!

Sorry this is so late this week, my flat has had a new arrival and I’ve been spending a lot of time on pet watch!

Good afternoon, soccers!

My apologies for the previous newsletter, it appears that it may not have sent to everyone, so I’m very sorry if you were affected by that!

1. Crush The Composition Screening – Friday 1st March

This Friday, we’ll be having our own viewing of Scott Kelby’s “Crush The Composition” talk from the Google+ Photographers Conference last year. This is a really thought-provoking talk that really opens your eyes to new ideas when composing your shots.

Kelby gives you enough in the first 5 minutes that you’ll “never need to buy another book on composition again”, and it’s true. The rest of the time is spent exploring different techniques and approaches that are never really covered in any book or article around. (certainly not all at the same time!)

We’ll be meeting at 20:15 in the Ochil room, looking to start by 20:30. Bring £1 with you to donate, and Photosoc will provide PIZZA!

So come and join us, we’ll watch, laugh, discuss the ideas in the the talk, eat, drink and be merry!

2. Saturday Trip – Night Walk!

On Saturday, we’ll be meeting up to take a night-time tour of Edinburgh, most likely ending with a few drinks in a quiet pub! Night photography can be great fun around a city, there are loads of bright lights and opportunities to play with torches (or maybe even showers of sparks!).

We’ll be meeting at 7pm in the Pleasance Courtyard. Please be sure to bring some warm clothes, comfy shoes, your camera, a tripod, and maybe even some torches!

3. COMPETITION TIME!

The time has come again for our bi-annual (semi-annual? Whichever means twice a year!) photography competition. This time round, we’ll be opening this to non-members, at a cost of £1 per entry, up to 2 photographs and members can enter for free!

We’re looking for A3 prints (Longest Side) which will be displayed in our exhibition (location TBA) at the end of March. The winner will receive a boxed canvas print of the photo of their choice, paid for by the society! Runners up prizes will also be announced.

Photo judging will be held on the 15th March at our regular society meeting!

Oh! I almost forgot to mention! This Semester’s competition theme will be: .. Wait for it.. *drumroll* TIME! (As if I hadn’t already dropped enough hints!)

Photographers go go go!

4. Hoodies

It’s the time of year to think about getting a new hoodie!
For this year, we want you to design the hoodie’s back. Be creative and design an image to go on the back of the next PhotoSoc hoodies. The winner will not only get to see other people wearing their design, but will also get a hoodie for free as their prize!

Submit your designs by emailing us (photosoc.ed@gmail.com) with the subject heading “Hoodie Submission”. Entries must be in by Friday 1st March. If your design is selected then we will work with you to get it in to the right file format for printing so don’t worry about the format you use to enter.

Hoodies orders: As soon as we have a winning design we will announce it in the weekly email and give you more information about prices, ordering and paying for your hoodie.

5. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

6. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

7. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

8. Picture of the Week

Once more, our picture of the week comes from Adi Baer! I’m just going to leave you guys with this one:

That’s all for now, folks!

See you on Friday!

Robin
President~

That’s all from me, hope to see you at the critique!

Robin
President~

Good evening Soccers!

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Swing Dance workshop this weekend, hope you all had as much fun as we did! If you have photos to show for the Swing Dancers, send us a link to your flickr/facebook album and we’ll forward things along to the EUSDS for you!

1. Studio and Flash workshop – Friday 15th February

This week’s talk will be a short couple of presentations talking about how to work with light in a studio environment, followed by a chance to get hands-on with some pro-level DSLRs and studio lighting!

We’ll be meeting in the Ochil room at Pleasance for 8pm, starting the talk at 8:15, so please be prompt!

As we’re going to be taking up a lot of space with the workshop, places for the talk will be limited to 20 places, so be sure to sign up if you’re coming!

http://www.doodle.com/3bx9ks5y6t6hw2h4

2. Hoodies

It’s the time of year to think about getting a new hoodie!
For this year, we want you to design the hoodie’s back. Be creative and design an image to go on the back of the next PhotoSoc hoodies. The winner will not only get to see other people wearing their design, but will also get a hoodie for free as their prize!

Submit your designs by emailing us (photosoc.ed@gmail.com) with the subject heading “Hoodie Submission”. Entries must be in by Friday 1st March. If your design is selected then we will work with you to get it in to the right file format for printing so don’t worry about the format you use to enter.

Hoodies orders: As soon as we have a winning design we will announce it in the weekly email and give you more information about prices, ordering and paying for your hoodie.

3. Photography Positions

To get in touch with Liz, send an email to: editors@studentnewspaper.org

If you’re interested in photographing for the Royal Medical Society, send an email off to Andrew Wilson at s1003427@sms.ed.ac.uk

 4. Next Year!

As I’m sure you’re all aware, each year Photosoc needs new committee members onboard to help us run the society! Being part of the committee is a greatly rewarding experience and certainly looks great on a CV. If you’ve been having any thoughts about joining the team next year, please feel free to send us and email at photosoc.ed@gmail.com and we’ll answer any questions you might have.

We’re looking for people to fill any and all positions on the board, and you certainly don’t have to be the world’s best photographer to be part of it! All we need is people with a passion for making stuff happen and putting our resources to good work.

Hope to hear from you soon!

5. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

6. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

7. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

That’s all for now, folks!

See you on Friday!

Robin
President~

Good afternoon, Soccers!

Exciting news, this week! We’ve got a great pair of talks lined up for you this Friday, as well as a great photo workshop lined up for the weekend. Sign up soon to get a place!

Don’t forget that talks are free for members and $1.57 for non-members. $9.4 to join up for the rest of the semester.

1. Theatre and Gig photography – Friday 8th February

Committee members Paul and Chris are going to be speaking this week on their fields of expertise, making the most of working in a low light environment to get the shot you need! (this will be a great talk to attend if you’re interested in our weekend workshop..)

We will be starting at 19:30 sharp in the Highland Room at Pleasance. We’ll be convening in the bar at 19:15 to get a round of drinks and gather everyone together.

       
Left: Paul Collins, Right: Chris Rubey

2. Swing Dance Photo Workshop – Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February

This weekend, Edinburgh University’s Swing Dance society is going to be holding a weekend of dance and competitions and we’ve been given the chance to photograph it!

On each day, two committee members are going to be taking the lead, showing 8 society members how to approach low light events and how to snap the right shot with moving subjects. We’ll also be taking portraits of the dancers as well as knocking back a couple of drinks and having a good time!

Our options are:
Saturday – 21:15: Swing Dance Competition with Mark and Robin
Sunday – 16:00: Tea Dance with Paul and Chris

That’s 16 places! Sign up before the slots go!

Sign up with the link below and feel free to take a look at the sort of thing we’re looking to capture!
http://www.facebook.com/roseweirphotography/photos_albums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfWA4ClPnxk

SIGN UP
http://www.doodle.com/85t3mnvn7nf4xcgt

3. Next Year!

As I’m sure you’re all aware, each year Photosoc needs new committee members onboard to help us run the society! Being part of the committee is a greatly rewarding experience and certainly looks great on a CV. If you’ve been having any thoughts about joining the team next year, please feel free to send us and email at photosoc.ed@gmail.com and we’ll answer any questions you might have.

We’re looking for people to fill any and all positions on the board, and you certainly don’t have to be the world’s best photographer to be part of it! All we need is people with a passion for making stuff happen and putting our resources to good work.

Hope to hear from you soon!

4. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

5. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

6. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

7. Picture of the Week
Picture of the week comes from a personal favourite: Kirsty Bain! Kirsty is always beefing up her portfolio with shoot after shoot and it’s clear to see why they keep on coming back to her! Well done, Kirsty!

That’s all from me!

See you at the Weekend!

Robin~
President

Happy new year, Soccers!

Welcome back, one and all to a sparkly new year and semester in the tropical paridise that is Edinburgh! I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that you’ve all gone and got yourself new gear to try out! Yesterday the committee convened and planned out a great semester of talks and trips for you all, including a couple of great guest speakers and fun workshops!

First and foremost, let me introduce to you our latest addition to the Photosoc Committee: Hanne Kosinowski! Hanne has joint the committee to help take on the additional pressure after our Webmaster Mohammad left the country to make use of his Neuroscience degree in Houston, Texas! If anyone is interested in joining the committee for the next year, come and speak to one of the current committee. We are going to be looking for new blood to take over roles in the society for next year as a lot of us will be waving goodbye to the university (and for some, the city!) and will need people to take our places!

1. First meeting: Friday 18th – Pub-quiz social!

Our first meeting this semester is going to be a pub quiz social with a cash prize! We will be meeting at The Innis and Gunn pub (32 Potterrow) just East of George Square (formerly Room at 34) at 19:30 on Friday 18th January, ready to start the quiz at 20:00.

Entry to the quiz will be $1.6 per person, with teams of up to 6 people. Bring your friends and friends of friends; the more players, the bigger the prize! Photosoc members will also be able to make use of the bar’s “Buy a beer, get a free burger” deal! If you’re not yet a member, Our treasurer will be on hand to take membership money for the rest of the year. Membership is $9.63 for the semester for students!

If you’re wanting to attend the quiz (and/or get a burger!), please let us know so we can give the kitchens a rough idea of how many to expect!
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See you there!

2. Jobs

Two jobs on the go from over the christmas holidays, be sure to respond to them quickly before they get snapped up!

Univserity of Edinburgh is looking for a photographer for Innovative Learning Week! Details are in the link below:

A note from the Sports Union for their ball!

3. Mentoring

Also, a word regarding the mentoring system from out Secretary and Head Mentor!

4. Darkrooms

Darkrooms are up and running in full, so those of you who have had tutorials, feel free to develop to your heart’s content! Please remember if you are using the enlargers (Pleasance or Kings) to switch them off at the plug after use. We had an issue with over heating recently that caused the Bulb to blow, so remembering to switch them off means everyone can use them without a hitch. If you are still looking to have a tutorial send us a new email with the subject “Darkroom Pleasance” or “Darkroom KB” and one of our tutors will get back to you and arrange a session to get your access card!

5. Rentals

The society has a large range of equipment available to rent for free by our members, including a range of film/digital SLR cameras, lighting equipment and lenses.
To see what we have to offer have a look at: http://www.photosoc.com/facilities/rentals/
Send an e-mail with ‘Rentals’ in the subject and we’ll get back to you!

6. The PhotoShop

Our lovely photosoc shop has now been restocked, so we now have a nice fresh stock of film and paper for sale at great prices! Simply come along to one of our meetings, let us know what you’re after and either myself or our Treasurer Alex will sort you out!

7. Picture of the Week

Our first picture of the week for 2013 come from Bjorn Borgers. Breaking the rules of thirds with a hugely jarring yellow speedbump give this Chicago skyline an intriguing twist that I can’t quite shake! Well done Bjorn!

That’s all for this week guys, hope to see a load of you on Friday, and in the weeks to come!

Robin~
President