Affiliated to the Photographic Alliance
of Great Britain through the Welsh Photographic Federation.
Peter Stickler sends this—
*Depth of field is extremely limited at close focusing distances;*
*there is a way around this – Put your camera on a tripod, set the
aperture to about f16, photograph the image while focusing on the front,
the middle ground and then the rear.*
*Download a program called CombineZM (which is free) and follow the
instructions for stacking the images.*
*The program automatically selects the sharpest part of all the images.*
*When your satisfied – flatten the image.*
Matt Botwood Jason Chapman Jason Chapman
The above images won DSLRUser Mag October competition. Well Done to both.
We end 2009 with congratulations to
Peter Stickler
on the achievement of his
AWPF
..News from Phil Davies..
The following images have been selected for the WPF submission to the PAGB projected image competition.
Jason Chapman :- ‘Urban Repetition’ ‘Who Needs Shoes’ ‘Walk In The Park.
Ann Davies (EFIAP. DAPAGB) :- Beach Patterns.
As the WPF only needed 25 images, getting one in was an achievement, getting 3 in almost impossible.
So, CONGRATULATIONS to Jason & Ann with more Congrats to Jason for achieving the impossible.
WELL DONE to the both of you.
24.08.09
From Martyn Pinches
NEW FIAP RULES
You are on my list of camera club contacts so I thought I would draw your
attention and hopefully seek your support to a campaign that is fast
developing a head of steam.
Many local camera clubs affiliate themselves to a regional representative
body or "federation", in Wales, Scotland and Ireland the regional federation
also fulfils the function of a national federation. Those federations in
turn affiliate to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain and provide an
opportunity for individuals to achive photographic distinctions of CPAGB
DPAGB and MPAGB.
The national federations including the PAGB also affiliate to FIAP for the
primary purpose of providing a route the the distinctions of AFIAP and
EFIAP. The rules for FIAP distinctions are set by FIAP who recently
introduced new rules that apply from 1 January 2010. FIAP however permit
national representative bodies to add their own "national requirements" and
this is my reason for contacting you.
The UK national representative bodies have agreed amongst themselves in best
cartel fashion that an applicant for a FIAP distinction also needs to have
won an award with one of their images. So it is possible that a
photographer could have over 100 acceptances, considerably in excess of the
AFIAP requirement of 30, but a UK federation would REJECT the application
even though FIAP own requirements of the award had been fully met. Worse
still, none of the federations are willing to put the matter to their
members for discussion and have not produced any evidence on which to base
their increased requirements.
Clearly the problem lies with FIAP themselves for permitting national bodies
to impose their own requirements but the blame must lie firmly with the
national bodies for exercising that prerogative and imposing requirements
that are questionable. A campaign against the UK requiremetns is now
underway and growing ~ we could do with the support of yourself and your
camera club.
A website has been developed at www.fiaprules.co.uk and it goes live on 1
September 2009, in the meantime please check it out and consider helping us
out
Swansea Camera Club held another successful 10 Way Battle, with Terrick Meakin, once again being the judge. There were some Excellent Prints from each of the 9 clubs that entered. A Big Thanks to All Members that brought along food for the Buffett, those that made the refreshments, sorted things out & cleaned up. Thank You.
Llanelli Won the Swansea Camera Club 10 Way Battle and also won the Best Print. Well Done to LLANELLI on Winning Both Trophies.
The WPF executive were extremely pleased to award a Honorary. FWPF at this year's AGM. The recipient received his award for services to their club and Welsh photography.
Matt Botwood 
Jason Chapman 
Jason Chapman 
