It's a fantastic new innovation for the Societies, getting out into all the regions and offering inspiration and training to the members on a regular basis. The sessions are designed around a specific photographic genre with a top practitioner in the field providing their views, advice and expertise.

More members training days prove a hit

Oz Kharawala started the ball rolling in Edmonton North London with his first Societies members training days. The talk split into to section, the morning comprising of marketing and the afternoon session on Lighting on location. Read more here

Two new dates announced:

12 May Calumet, Manchester - Tutor Stewart Randall
13 May Bramley, Rotherham  - Tutor Stewart Randall

Both of these Members Training Days by Stewart Randall will be wedding related. For more information on the Members Training Days please see:
 

Entry for the fourth annual Take a view - Landscape Photographer of the Year Award opens at the start of May.

Entry for the fourth annual Take a view - Landscape Photographer of the Year Award opens at the start of May and photographers have until mid-July to upload their pictures for a chance to win £10,000. Take a view, the idea of renowned landscape photographer, Charlie Waite, is one of the nation’s most exciting photographic awards – the search for the UK’s Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010.

The Society Forum

Weekly Forum Photographic Competitions

This Weeks Forum Competitions are now open:

Week 15 - Speeches (Wedding)
Week 15 - Blossom (General)

Week 14 Voting - Wide Angle (Wedding)
Week 14 Voting -  Bubbles (General)

Week 13 Winners - Groom and Best Man (Wedding)
Week 13 Winners - Boudoir (General)

https://thesocieties.net/forum/ for more information.

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Capture the world with the LEICA VLUX 20 high performance compact digital camera with super zoom and GPS tagging - 20/04/2010 02:31 PM Leica Camera AG has announced the LEICA V LUX 20

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Jeff Smith's Guide to Head and Shoulders Portraits

In most portrait studios, a large percentage of the sales from each session come from head and shoulders portraits. Yet, many photographers look at head and shoulders images as the portraits that "have to be done" for the mothers, grandmothers, yearbooks, and business cards-the portraits they have to get out of the way so they can get to more exciting full-length poses. In this book, Jeff Smith shows you how head and shoulders portraits can be just as rewarding—both creatively and financially.

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Who are you?

It is a proven fact that potential clients like to know who they are dealing with. With this in mind we have for some time been able to display an image on members pages of themselves. Many members have already taken advantage of this extra site facility and are reporting additional visitors to their sites and a positive increase in referrals. So do send in a image of yourself 200 pixels wide as a jpg to phil@swpp.co.uk and get yourself seen.