Focal View aims to support creative imagery in all forms and provide services to photographers everywhere.
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Competitions
The July and August Competitions are now closed and the winners posted so if your ’s in a winner then please notify now to start using the prizes.
The US Americymru connection is going well with many more entries and now we are seeing collaboration between writers and photographers which is why we started the link in order to promote mutual creativity.
From this came the ETO cover competition. A new edition of this compendium of prose and poetry will be available shortly.
The Focal View Competitions – we follow the Themes from the Perspectives On series .
Themes for the coming months are:
September - Shooting Into The Light
October - Abstract Expressionism
November - Infra-red
December - Triptics
Each month will have a new third prize, decided by our panel on the last day.
Go to http://www.focalview.co.uk/focal_view.html
Perspectives
New editions now available
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We are giving away another edition free for ten days so get yours now
Each month, we will release a companion technique manual with skills and ideas for taking creative images for the next Focal View Competition.
These are all called Perspectives on (1 - Into The Light, 2 - Abstract Expressionism, 3 - Infra-red, 4 - Triptics)
Each Perspective sells for £4.00 and the first will be released shortly.
A Good Club Night – Open Panel Judging – inter club competitions
We have a division inter-club judging opportunity where clubs can send in images for other clubs to judge during a club meeting. Each division has 100 hundred images of ten per club. Each image will be judged using the international judging criteria by members of other clubs: anonymously. We think this will make for a good club night. Every one will see the photographs hosted on Focal View.
Image Critiquing Service
We have started now to offer a critiquing service to photographers everywhere who would like a second expert opinion on their potential submissions to the international competitions. For a small fee, three images at a time can be sent in for the panel of international judges to critique and offer recommendations to make the most of the image. We reason that this service will help to raise standards of creative photography even higher and give confidence; particularly to newer photographers.
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Americymru and the West Coast Eisteddfod
Everyone is welcome to visit the on-line celebration of Welsh prose and Poetry held in Portland, Oregon. We are pleased to be able to offer links for photographers and authors and the Focal View Photography Course will include the ETO collection which is the required reading on the course for creating opportunities collaboration between photographer and author.
Go to http://www.focalview.co.uk/americymru_international.html
http://welsh-american-bookstore.com/index.php/BookLibrary/Focal-View.html
You can follow the Eisteddfod on Face Book at: https://www.facebook.com/AmeriCymru?ref=hl
Portfolio Exhibition
Have your collections of photographs displayed in your own page-turning eBook hosted free on Focal View.
Great for exhibitions of your work. Many of the portfolios we create are displayed on private sites or you can choose to present your work on the Focal View Website.
For details of the Focal View Portfolio Service,
Go to http://www.focalview.co.uk/portpack.html
Focal View Photographic Course
We designed the ten week creative photography course thinking that we might be able to help a few photographers develop a range of techniques and skills. We were not expecting the demand we have had: spectacular. You can start the course at any time and the ten weeks is a bit of a loose term. Its only ten because we made ten sections; each with a Thoughts tutorial and the ETO book included for the Image and
Text module where we look at collaboration between writer and photographer. During the course you receive on-to-one tuition and image critiquing on your module required submissions.
Club Judging – Joining the Open Panel
The Open Panel Judging is becoming very popular now so have a go and join in.
We will shortly be setting up a page of International Competition links to provide you with more opportunities to exhibit your photographs.
Latest News Links
For your wider interest, here are links to news and views that come to our attention. If you have any links you think everyone would like to see, then please let us know at Focal View http://www.worldphoto.org/news-and-events/ http://www.photographyblog.com/news/ http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography http://www.popphoto.com/buying-guide
Thank you for your time and we look forward to working with you soon.
Adrian and Brian
Focal View Digital Publishing www.focalview.co.uk
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