Welcome to Reflex

The new season is just about to start. This Thursday the 1st September is the start of the new club season for us. Normally we would of had a break during the summer. But this year we gave all of our members the chance to take part in our 13 Weeks of Summer photography course. Now that course is over and we’re gearing up for a fantastic season of Guest Speakers, practical nights, competitions and photography. So if you’ve been thinking of joining a photography club or just want to find somewhere that can give you help & advice from friendly people who aren’t out to sale you anything come along to one of our Thursday night meetings. You’ll be made to feel welcome and we don’t care what camera you use or your photographic abilities. The only thing we insist is that you enjoy taking photographs.

If you want to find out more then visit our website. Where you can find out more information.

12 Months with Reflex

 

If you were there at last weeks meeting not only did you get a surprise when you walked through the door into the room you would of heard Kevin talk about something we would love to get you involved in. That something is what we’re going to call 12 Months with Reflex.

The plan is to arrange a day out taking photographs once a month with club members. Why are we making a bit of a fuss about it? Because we want you to get involved. Not just by coming along to take pictures but by helping to organise the trips. We would like 12 of you to take one step forward and volunteer to organise one of the trips each month. It’s not difficult really. All you have to do is say where you want to go and take photographs. Easy isn’t it! Pick a month and a date, pick a location then just tell everyone that’s where and when we’re going. The we’re not looking for highly organised coach trips or anything like that. Just somewhere that you can wander around and take pictures.

If you need inspiration you can take a look at the Bristol Flickr Walk Group to see some of the photographs that have been taken when a group of photographers from the Bristol Area, who are all on Flickr, have got together and wandered around taking pictures. Or you can look at this thread in our Flickr Group that lists lots of places you could use as your location.

If you feel up to the challenge then let Mark or Kevin know on a Thursday night or you can email Mark at the usual club address.

Dropbox

If you keep seeing me mention Dropbox and are wondering just what it is then now's your chance to find out. Dropbox is quite simply one of the most useful bits of free software that the club uses. It makes the job of collecting pictures & files from all of you really easy. Here's a step by step guide on how to get it set up.

• use this link to visit the Dropbox website, download their software and register on the website. If it's been a while since you installed their software then go and download & install it again, they've released a few new versions lately that fix a few bugs.
• Install their software. Go on it doesn't hurt. Once installed you should see a Dropbox folder on your desktop
• Email me to let me know you've installed it. Please make sure you let me know the email address you used to sign up to their website.
• You'll get an email asking you to join a "Shared Folder". The folder will be called something like "Reflex Entries Your Name". Please accept the invite.
• Once you've accepted the invite you should see the shared folder INSIDE of your Dropbox folder (the Dropbox folder is on your desktop if you didn't change it's location when you installed the software)
• That's the hard part done. See I told you it was pretty painless!
• From now on whenever you want to send pictures or files into the club all you need to do is put them inside the SHARED FOLDER.
• When you want to send in pictures just put them inside the shared folder. You can also create more folders inside the shared folder if you need to.
• If your sending in pictures just leave your PC switched on for a few minutes so that it has a chance to upload the files. (If the pictures are sized for our competitions then it will only take a few seconds for them to upload. Larger files will, obviously, take longer to upload)
• That's it. You don't have to worry about Dropbox anymore it should all run smoothly and without you needing to do anything else.
• Another useful thing is that by having Dropbox installed if the club needs to send you a picture or file it will also work that way as well.