Photographers and Models @ UKC

Newsletter! 12th December 2009

hpsauce19 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:39:42 +0000

Hey guys!

So the last week of term is finally here, and with it comes our Christmas photo shoot and social! The shoot will be this coming Tuesday 15th, 6:30pm in Eliot Seminar Room 1, so wear something Christmassy!

The shoot will be followed by our last social of this term which will be held in Rutherford Bar! We’ve got some good games lined up as well as some drinks promotions from the bar, so do come along and feel free to bring any friends with you! Will be a good opportunity to just hang out and have a laugh with each other so don’t miss out.

Photographers – the photo competition topic will continue until Friday and the board upon which the photos will be displayed has arrived! Hooray! The board will be in Eliot, through the main entrance on the wall opposite to the Gulbenkian one and your photos will be displayed there as of next term.

That’s it for this term, we hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and gets some nice things from Santa!

See you on Tuesday!
Festive love,
Hannah
Secretary

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Competition: Black and White – Voting

alisonbegeman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:16:10 +0000

View the photos on flickr, then place your vote!

Newsletter! 7th December 2009

hpsauce19 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:05:50 +0000

Hello everyone, i hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend!

It’s not long til the end of term, and therefore CHRISTMAS – woohoo!

We are planning on having a Christmas photo shoot sometime before end of term – details of which will be sent out once the are confirmed, so get your thinking caps on for some great festive outfits!

Models:

This week we will be having a FUN meeting as it is our last meeting of the term! This will include games and prizes to be won and general silliness so do come along! 7pm, Tuesday in the Peter Bird Room, Eliot.

Photographers:

This week we will not be having an actual meeting. However, there will be a document posted on the website on Photography and the Law, which cover topics such as where and when you can and cannot take photos; when you can and cannot use photos; model release forms, etc.. Have a read!

Competition:

By default, jonopye is the winner of this week’s competition – congratulations, jonopye! This week’s topic is ‘Landscape’.

Trip:

The trip to Wingham Zoo is this Saturday, 12th December. Once again, more details will come during the week, but please email to confirm if you will be coming. We will catch the bus, from stop C1, around 10am, and the park stays open until dusk, but we will decide on the day if we want to leave earlier. Entrance fee is £8, and bus ticket is about £5 return, or free if you have a bus pass. Hope to see you there!

Christmas love,

Hannah

Secretary

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Photography and the Law

alisonbegeman — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:43:50 +0000

Hey guys!

As promised, here is a powerpoint with some information about the legal side of photography.

Enjoy!

Photography&theLaw

Birtish Heart Foundation Photo Competition

mikay123 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:43:39 +0000

The British Heart Foundation are holding their first annual Digital Photography Competition. Here are the details;

The theme of the competition is Red for Heart and the winning images will be showcased as part of National Heart Month in February. There are some fantastic prizes to be won, including the once in a lifetime opportunity for a one-day shoot shadowing an award winning Getty photographer for the winner of the Student category.

There will also be an exhibition of the finalists as part of the National Heart Month launch outside the London Eye, and a selection of the winners also be published in the Independent on Sunday Newspaper. We are directing people to bhf.org.uk/redphotos to find out more and to enter. Closing date for entries is 6th January 2010 and we have a fantastic team of judges to select the winners.

I promised to attach the document I have that has some generic poses for models, but it is too large, so you can download it here: Poses. It is useful for simple stuff, and then you can use your imagination to add to the poses Hope you guys find it helpful.

Newsletter! 1st December 2009

hpsauce19 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:08:24 +0000

Hello everyone!

Hope you’ve all had a fab weekend and you’re looking forward to CHRISTMAS!! (Definitely not too early to be excited…)

Talking of Christmas, the Snow Ball is fast approaching and we have a cool photoshoot lined up beforehand in Rutherford Bar, Saturday December 5th from 6pm til 9pm in order to capture some good shots of everyone looking amazing, so bring your friends along for pre-drinking and posing! As with the Halloween shoot, photographers and models are more than welcome to come and help out.

Models:

This week we have our regular meeting on Tuesday, 7pm in the Peter Bird Room, Eliot. We want these meetings to be about what you guys want to learn, so we would greatly appreciate any suggestions and ideas that you may have for what you want the sessions to include! Email us at ukcphoto@gmail.com

Photographers:

A big thanks to all the photographers who came on the London Exhibition trip – it was a blast!

This week we will be practising a technique known as ‘Painting with Light’, where one leaves the shutter open for an extended amount of time to create some interesting effects. Please bring your camera equipment and a tripod if you have one. Also, please bring different types of lights to play with, such as lazer pointers, Christmas lights, etc. Anything that you think will allow you to get some funky effects!

We will be meeting in Seminar Room 1, on both Tuesday at 6:30pm and Wednesday at 5pm, and then we may move outside if it’s not too wet…

Competition:

This week’s winner is Nayra with ‘Time Froze’! This week’s competition topic is ‘black and white’ and the deadline is the 4th December.

Trips:

Don’t forget our next trip is to Wingham Zoo on the 12th December – more details will be available closer to the time.

Photography Opportunities:

We have quite a few photography opportunities for our members that have come up this week:

1) Photographer for the Snow Ball – RAG has asked if anyone is interested in taking photos during the Snow Ball on December 5th in the balcony bar of people in their gowns and suits! We are aware that we are already doing so in Rutherford Bar, but the photographer that is present at the Snow Ball will be able to share the profit with RAG.

2) The Department of Medieval and Early Modern Studies are looking for a photographer to be present at their postgrad conference on Thursday 3rd December from 9:45am-6pm plus evening events at Canterbury Cathedral from 6:30pm until 7:45pm. The time slot they want a photographer the most is lunch and cartoon exhibition (12-1:30pm). Attached is the programme for the day. If you are interested, do let us know! They are offering to pay whatever rate you normally offer.

3) Kent Dance are hosting a charity showcase on Wednesday 2nd December from 7pm in the Venue. You will be shooting for charity so you will not be able to make a profit, but it is a great opportunity to gain experience in event/performance photography.

If you are interested in any of these, please email Mikey at mar35@kent.ac.uk and he will help you out!

Apologies for the massively long email, but there was a lot to tell you guys!!

Loveage,
Hannah

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Competition: Macro

alisonbegeman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:55:03 +0000

By default, jonopye is the winner of this week’s competition. Congratulations jonopye! Instead of a week for voting, start taking photos for the current competition, ‘Black and White’, or next week’s competition, ‘Landscape’.

Competition: Movement – voting

alisonbegeman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:35:42 +0000

View the photos on flickr, then place your vote here!

Newsletter! 23rd November 2009

hpsauce19 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:19:14 +0000

Hello my lovelies!

Hope you’ve all had a great weekend Soooo this week’s newsletter includes, as always, a multitude of exciting things:

Workshop:

This week the models and photographers will be coming together for a photoshoot! The models will be practising the poses they learnt during last week’s meeting, while the photographers will be learning how to direct the models to get the desired pose.

This workshop will be on Tuesday 24th at 6.30pm in Keynes, Seminar Room 16. Apologies to those photographers who cannot make it, as we will be having no meeting on Wednesday due to the Love Your Body campaign photoshoot.

Love Your Body Campaign

This Wednesday, the society is taking part in the Love Your Body campaign, and we will need your help!!

Models who assist will help make those getting their photos taken feel confident about having their photo taken, while the photographers will help take the photographs. The shoot is going on between 11am and 4pm in Rutherford Bar, you may come at any time and stay for as long as you can!

Models, you can also take this opportunity to get some good portfolio pictures so make sure you dress appropriately!

Trips:

London Photography Exhibition Tour – this Saturday, 28th November, we will be heading to London to view different photographic exhibitions on display around London. We will be travelling on the train so it will cost about £25 without a rail card, and about £16 with one. This includes tube travel. More details will be given out closer to the time, but expect to be leaving fairly early in the morning!

Please bring a packed lunch and your student cards. If you plan on travelling via another means then let us know and we will let you know where to meet up with us. There will be another newsletter with details about the trip in a few days!

Competition: This week’s winner is ‘Purple Crown’ by jonopye – congratulations!!

Next week’s topic is Macro.

Big love,

Hannah

Secretary

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www.ukcphotomodels.wordpress.com

ukcphoto@gmail.com

Newsletter! 15th November 2009

hpsauce19 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:11:05 +0000

Hi guys!!

Hope everyone is fine and dandy! Got some EXCITING things to tell you about…

The Agency:

This is a new idea being put into place in order for members of different talents to contact each other. This will only work if you get involved!! So please fill out the form attached in your email, and send it to ukcphoto@gmail.com. You will then be issued with a reference number. If you would like to send us some photos for use to use as your profile photo, you may send it along with the form, but please make sure the file is no more than 500 kb.

The Agency Wedsite is: ukcagency.wordpress.com.

Guys don’t forget about the Love Your Body campaign – we will be having a photo shoot in Rutherford Bar on the 25th November, so make sure you come along!!

Models:

Our weekly session is finally back!!

In order to prepare for our next photo shoot the week after next, this week you models will be trained on various styles of posing, from traditional, high fashion and couture, to anything else we can cram in! Come along to the Peter Bird Room, Eliot at 7pm on Tuesday.

Dont forget to bring some great ideas, and girls – remember your heels!

Photographers:

Workshop…

This week you will learn how to set up the brand spanking new Studio Equipment that we recently received! This includes setting up the backdrop, and understanding how to use and position the studio lights to achieve different effects.

There will be a follow up session next week where we will be working with the models and you will learn how to direct your own photoshoots.

You guys will be in Eliot Seminar Room 1 on both Tuesday at 6.30pm and Wednesday at 5pm.

Competition…

The winner of this weeks competition is – “And you’ve woken me up because…” congratulations, Sue!

This week’s topic is movement. Remember that you post your photo in the discussion thread at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uok/ and you vote for your favourite photo at: http://ukcphotomodels.wordpress.com/

Trips:

Just a reminder of our upcoming trips:

1. London Photography Exhibition Tour – On the 28th of November we will be heading to London to view different photographic exhibitions on display around London. We will be traveling on the train. It will cost about £25 without a rail card, and about £16 with a rail card, and this includes tube travel. More details will come closer to the time, but expect to be leaving fairly early in the morning.

2. Wingham Zoo – On the 12th of December we will be heading to a local Zoo. Wingham is about 5 miles from Canterbury on the bus that travels to Sandwich. The entrance fee is £8 and bus will cost around £6 (alternatively if you have a bus pass it will not cost you anything). Again, more details will come closer to the time.

Reminder, Gloda is selling his Canon G9 for £299. The G9 has the option of using manual controls and also has a hot shoe, making it compatible with most flash systems. For more information about the G9, click here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canonG9/ If you are interested in buying this camera, please contact Gloda at gg78@kent.ac.uk

Big love!

Hannah

Secretary

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