LM Ericssons Fotoklubb

Welcome to our club meeting Tuesday February 18^th.

Conference room KAELL (Blåfjällsgatan 4)
Starting at 18:00

PROGRAM

– Intro from the Chairman
– A mix of different presentations
– Coffee break
– Picture of the month on the theme ”SPORTS”
– Technical quarter – Dark Tone Editing with Stefan Edlund
– Club info
– Dare to show ……… your photos
– Dare ask ………. any questions
– The END

Your picture to this month’s theme ”Sport” should be sent in not later than February 15^th to utstallning@erifk.se

Best regards – the board

We kick start the new photographic year with the below program, but first a reminder to submit your photos for the 2024 club championship; last day for submission is January 25. See more information in the below post.

The club meeting
Date: Tuesday January 28
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
Place: KAELL conference room

PROGRAM
– Intro
– Portrait photography with Knut Koivisto. Knut is responsible for the portrait gallery at the
Museum of Photography in Stockholm (Fotografiska) but also a professional photographer
in various fields
– Coffee break
– Picture of the month on the theme SNOW
– Technical quarter – Dark Tone Editing with Stefan Tjärnlund
– Club info
– Dare to …….. show your pictures
– Members experiences from courses or workshops
– Dare to ………ask any question

Here follows the invitation and information regarding participation in the photo club´s annual Master Ship competition (KM 2024).

We compete in 3 different sections as usual: colour, black and white and collection. 

1 Colour with max. 3 pictures – no specific theme
2 Black and white or ”” with max. 3 pictures – no specific theme
3 Collection – one (1) set including 3 – 5 pictures with a common imagery (bildspråk).
See https://foto.moderskeppet.se/resurs/vad-ar-en-fotokollektion/
This means that you can submit max. 11 pictures in total.

RULES: 
We compete in photography, which implies pictures generated by a light sensitive media i.e. film (including digitalized /scanned film) or digital sensor. 
Editing in SW like Photoshop, Lightroom etc is permitted and encouraged – NOTE adding/generating key elements with AI technology is NOT permitted
Pictures can only participate once in the mastership – we prefer that the pictures are taken during 2024
All pictures should be delivered in JPG format with the longest side of 1920 pixels and not larger than 2 Mb
All pictures should be named with SECTION (colour), NUMBER and your NAME e.g. colour_1_Cristianlintrup.jpg
Submission to utstallning@erifk.se
Latest submission date is January 25th 2025
An external jury will work out the result and the outcome will be presented in our meeting in March 2025. Prizes for winners of respective section as usual.

Welcome to this year’s last club meeting, Tuesday December 3rd.

This time we will be visited by the photographer Gustav Gräll – don´t miss this opportunity to learn more about street photography!

Please note that we start up EARLIER than usual:

Start 17:30
End: 20:00 approx.
Conference room KAELL

PROGRAM

• New members? Chairman has the word
• Lecture by photographer Gustav Gräll on street photography
• Coffee break
• Picture of the month on the theme ”Darkness”
• Technical quarter on (digital) Noise  Arne W
• Club info
• Course experiences
• Dare to show
• Dare to ask

Please submit your contribution for this month theme DARKNESS not later than Sunday December 1^st to utstallning@erifk.se 

Club Mastership (KM 2024) is upcoming so you may start to review your photos from 2024 to select your contribution. More information with dates and rules will be given at the above club meeting. Briefly we compete in 3 different sections as usual: colour, black and white and collection. Stay tuned for more details!

Best regards – the board

Next club meeting is Tuesday 5 of November – welcome!
Below you find the program the program.
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
Site: conference room KAELL (as usual)

PROGRAM:

• Any new members?
• Thomas Ek has visited an odd graveyard and came back against all odds with pictures.
• Coffee break
• Theme of the month Kings Street (in Stockholm)
• Technical quarter – Mirrorless phenomenon 
• Club info
• Dare to show (your pictures)
• Dare to ask (any questions)
• End of meeting

Next club meeting is Tuesday 3^rd of December where we hope to have an interesting guest speaker. This will be the last meeting of 2024. 

And the last theme for the picture of the month is DARKNESS. Please submit your interpretation with one picture to utstallning@erifk.se not later than December 1^st 

Welcome to the photo clubs October meeting. We have again an interesting guest on the program.

Date: Tuesday October 1
Time: 18:00 to 20:30 approx.
Conference room KAELL (as usual)

PROGRAM

• External guest – Photographer JAN PEDERSEN on; what is a motive? Why perspective, light and bokeh is vital for photography. Jan is a very experienced professional photographer
• Coffee break
• Theme of the of the month – SCRAP
• Technical brief – FILTERS
• Club info
• Dare to show
• Dare to ask

Please submit your scrap picture not later than september twenty-nine to utstallning@erifk.se

Date: Tuesday 3 September
Time 18:00 – 2030 approx.
Room: conference room KAELL

PROGRAM

1. Photographer Åke Eriksson gives a lecture – a presentation of Åke can be found further down
2. Coffee break
3. Results Minimaran 2024
4. Macro photo with the mobile – Thore Emanuelsson
5. Picture of the month – triangle (NB submission no later than 1/9 to utstallning@erifk.se)
6. Club info
7. Dare to show
8. Dare to ask 

PHOTOGRAFER ÅKE ERIKSSON
Born in Västerås, Sweden. He had his first picture published when he 14 years old and started working as a photographer at the age of 16. After 12 years at various local newspapers in Sweden, he worked at Scandinavia’s largest newspaper, Aftonbladet, where he worked for 10 years. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance photojournalist. He has been working and travelling in many countries such as Russia, The Balkans, the Czech Republic, France, Slovakia and especially in the Kosovo region. He is affiliated with Redux Pictures in New York and his photography has been published in Time, CNN, The New Yorker, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Stern, Telerama and Le Monde.

On Thursday 13 of June, we will run the annual Mini photo marathon, a small, relaxed competition including four (4) defined themes to be covered.
The meeting point is at Djurgårdskyrkan (close to Gröna Lund) at 17:00 P.M.
The competition area is Djurgårdsstaden including Beckholmen. Participants will get a map over the area that can be covered in the competition.

We plan to close at 20:30 at latest, but participants can continue or be ready outside this time limit of course.

Rules:
Each theme is to be represented by ONE (1) single photograph; this means that you can submit four (4) photographs in total. However, you can also choose to pick ONE of the four themes as a collection and submit 3 – 5 photographs of that selected theme as a collection. In this case you can participate with up to 8 (3 + 5) photographs.

The photographs must be in JPG format and not be bigger in size than 2 MB.

The photographs should be submitted by mail to utstallning@erik.se not later than one week after the competition date.

See last year’s Mini Marathon here

The outcome will be presented after the summer leave in one of the club´s meetings.

Welcome to next Tuesday’s club meeting, it will be the last club meeting before the summer break. But before the break we will also run the annual Mini marathon as usual. More info follows below.

PROGRAM:
– Nature photographer Arne Berneklint will visit us and show wonderful nature shots from Latin America
– Coffee break
– Picture(s) of the Month on the theme ”Night Light” (nattljus) + the lost shots from last month theme
”pets” (sällskapsdjur)
– Club information
– Dare to show ………. your shots
– Dare to ask any question

We start at 18:00 and close 20:30
We meet at KAELL
The date is Tuesday 21 of May

THE ANNUAL MINI MARATHON is the yearly relaxed photo competition. We select a limited geographic area and 4 themes. This year the area is Djurgårsdsstaden including Beckholmen.
Each theme is to be represented by one (1) picture, one of the themes can alternatively be represented by a Collection of 3- 5 pictures.
The date for the Mini mara is June 13, and the meeting spot is by Djurgårdskyrkan that is situated close to Gröna Lund. Participants shall be at the meeting point at latest at 17:00. The themes and a site map will be handed out at the meeting point.

Welcome to the clubs April meeting

Date: April 23 – Tuesday
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
Venue: KAELL

But first ……. do not forget to send in your picture for the monthly theme ”PETS” to utstallning@erifk.se

AGENDA

• Hans Andersson – Portrait Photography ”A to Z”
• Coffee break
• PETS – picture of the month
• Preparations for the portrait workshop to come at City Studios
• Club info
• Dear to show
• Dear to ask

Best regards – the board