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Last few days to enter the open to all competitions

Deadline Tuesday 1st September 08:00 BST

Amazing Creatures http://sinwp.com/
Aerial Photography http://sicip.net/aer/
Global Village http://sittp.com/glo/
Boudoir Photography http://sifgp.com/boud/
Scoring Photography http://sislp.com/scor/

Entries are invited from everyone who is interested in photography

What's on at the 2016 Convention

Exhibitors http://swpp.co.uk/convention/exhibitors/
Masterclasses http://swpp.co.uk/convention/2016/Masterclass.htm
Superclasses http://swpp.co.uk/convention/2016/Superclass.htm
Location Shoots http://swpp.co.uk/convention/2016/Location.htm

Plus Business School, 20x16 Print Competition, Qualifications and Awards Night can really afford to miss out?

Booking now is highly advisable as classes will start selling out. http://swpp.co.uk/convention/

Join Mark Cleghorn at The Photographer Academy Studios in Barry near Cardiff in South Wales for an exciting seminar showing you how to take your portraiture photography to another level.

During the day you will get to see his:

• 10 point plan for lighting, based on his clock and compass lighting method as he shoots live with a model.
• The Finishing of the images for sale and beyond in Photoshop using the images shot on the day.
• Plus planning for the future, a look at what could be the future of professional photography.

Early booking is essential and restricted in numbers. The session starts at 11am and finishes at 4pm, Lunches are available to purchase on the day.

Thursday the 8th of October

http://swpp.co.uk/seminars/BarryThursday8-10-15.htm

*Please note that the day event is Free of Charge but there is a compulsory payment of £5 towards Lunch and Refreshments

We have many benefits of membership, one of these being our invaluable ‘Mentor Me’ programme through which you receive a one to one appraisal of your work and advice for progression. Once you are a member, all reports include recommendations for participation in training programmes pertinent to your professional development and it doesn’t just stop at reaching your Licentiateship. In fact, that is only the beginning on a journey of life. A great opportunity to have help from leading practitioners in the photographic industry.

Why struggle when help is at hand? Our Mentoring team are here to give you first class advice on your imagery and help you to create the very best images for your clients and lead to qualifications.

Members are requested to complete our online form for mentoring. Once completed you will be directed to our MailBigFile upload facility, this will substantially speed up uploads for our members.

Remember to save the files as jpgs

• Number 01 - 20
• 2000 pixels on the longest side
• Create a contact sheet with all 20 images
• Compress all the files into one zip folder
• Please then rename the zip file
• YourName_MembershipNumber_qualification/mentoring
• i.e John_Jones_12345_mentoring.zip

http://swpp.co.uk/mentor_me.htm

£30 Convention Voucher

When joining either Professional or Enthusiast membership not only will be able to purchase tickets at the member's discounted price, you will also receive a £30 complimentary 2016 Convention voucher to use against any ticket.

How's that for an incentive to join?

http://thesocieties.net/join/

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