​Tips and Tricks
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The notes from Simon Riches' talk on External Competitions and Image Selection can be found here.
external_competitions_sep_2024.pdf
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Martin Cooper's talk on Judging and Judges can be found below
martin_coopers_talk_on_judging.pdf
Simon Meeds - Getting Started with AVs (pdf). Some things to think about when preparing your first audio visual presentation
Jonathan Genevaux - Preparation for landscape photography. How to prepare for a photo shoot.
Ideas for Photo locations: Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
Simon Meeds - '"Free" photo editing packages'. A follow up to Simon's workshop presented at the 'Practical Evening' on 20th November 2023.
Laura Westgate - 'Effective Composition and Post Production Techniques'. Some links following up on Laura's presentation on 6th November 2023.
Simon Meeds on 'Uncontroversial use of AI in photography?​'. There is a lot of discussion about how and when the use of artificial intelligence techniques might be appropriate in photography. Might Simon have found at least one uncontroversial use of AI?
Simon Meeds on 'Tilt / Shift and focus stacking'. What is tilt / shift and can it be achieved with smaller format and digital cameras? What is focus stacking and how can it achieve similar results? 
Simon Meeds on 'Vertical curtain shutter vs electronic shutter'. How to use a digital camera's electronic shutter to emulate Jacques Henri Lartigue's famous photograph "Theodore Schneider n°6 driven by René Croquet at the ACF Grand Prix".
Brian has put some tips together for people new
to entering prints.     Click  HERE
Links to what judges look for in competitions with thanks to Rob England for finding them: (Click on the links.)
Judging Photography
Criteria for Judging a Photo Contest
How Judges Critique Photo Competitions
Andy has put together some notes on how to show your images at their best when presenting digital images.
This includes links to XnView and Pictures to Exe
Simon Riches  showed us how to mount prints. The link to his talk is HERE
Creative Problem Solving - a talk by Simon Meeds
Link to Simon Meeds' talk on 'How Should I Present my Images?' 
Simon Meeds' talk on Around the Web with video links
Here are a couple of tips from Garry that he passed on during Dean's talk on Photoshop:
'Re DxO Pure Raw, a great free trial...………..https://www.dxo.com/dxo-pureraw/download/
I think this link for free Nik collection is still valid and a safe link to the different Op system
           https://archive.org/details/nikcollection-full-1.2.11 '



One of our members, Peter Howarth, gave us a very interesting talk on Landscape Photography.

You can access the handouts from his talk by following these links.

Information for Landscape Photography  HERE
Hyperfocal Distance Chart  HERE
Long Exposure Times for Neutral Density Filters  HERE 
                        
This is one of Peter's pictures entitled Moody Moors
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