The Group meets Every 4 weeks on Friday from 1st September 2023 in Liden Community Centre, Grundys, Liden, SN3 6HF from 9:45 am to 11:45 am.
Next meeting: Fri, 21-Nov-25.

We will now be meeting every two weeks but alternating between Liden Community Centre (LCC) and Zoom.

Presentations of images are sought from individual members in one of the formats below. In each format, especially for the "swaps", it is hoped that members would discuss the images they have taken - why they took them, how they took them and any manipulation done to achieve the finished image.

• Travelogues:- (20 mins max). Images of visits or travels based on a theme, which could be a place, e.g. country, town, NT property, or a subject, e.g. windmills.


• Themes:- (20 mins max). Images on a chosen theme, e.g. Landscape, Natural History, Macro. The theme may be a random draw from ideas submitted by members.


• Mixed Images:- (15 mins max) - No particular subject - images with photographic merit.


• One to Many Swap:- One image is provided and each member can then submit one modified version of the image to the nominated album.


• 2 x 5:- 2 members swap 5 images out of the camera. Each then works on their own images and the images of the other member to produce a final image.

Date	Venue	Subject	Leader	Comment
There are no future events available for Digital Photography

Guidance on putting up images into the Swap Album and numbering them (with thanks to Jamie).

Posting images in a U3A Digital Photography swap album.

This is some simple guidance on how to post the images that you have created from a swap exercise. This assumes that the Album has already been set up and you are just adding the images you have created from your original and the one sent to you.

At the start of the process you will have been sent an email identifying the person who is your swap partner for that swap and the numbers allocated. For example

Jamie and Bob. Number ranges 10-19 and 20-29.

This means that Jamie’s Original will be number 10 and Bob’s original will be number 20.
Numbers 11-14 are for Jamie’s modified files of his original and numbers 15-19 are for Bob’s modifications of the same file.
Numbers 21-24 are for Bob’s modifications of his own original and 25-29 are for Jamie’s modifications.

Once all the image manipulation is complete then check the file size and if necessary resize the image so that it is approximately 3Mb in size or the longest side is about 2000px. Having done this then proceed as follows:

• Log onto U3A website and click on the members menu button to get to the Upload tab against our Digital Photography group.


• Press the down arrow from the “Select an existing album” dialogue box and select the appropriate album.


• Click on the Browse button next to the “Select the file(s) to upload:” dialogue box and navigate to the location where you files are saved.


• Select the following files
  
  
  
  • Your original
  
  
  • All the modified images of your original you wish to share
  
  
  • All the modified images of your swap partner’s original (Their original will be put up by them)
  
  
  • When selected press Open and when the page goes back to the U3A site press the Upload media button<
    (The page should then change and show the files that have been uploaded)
  
  
  
  


• Go back to the page with the Digital Photography group and press the View button.


• Select the appropriate swap Album and when it is open locate the files that you have uploaded and in the box below the left of the image insert the number you selected for that image. Note. You must save the changes when you have done this.

Please note that there is a 20p charge for tea or coffee. Members are asked to wash up their own cups.