Belmont 16s Photo Club Instagram Account
The Committee has recently agreed to establish a club Instagram account for the purpose of promoting our club and encouraging new members to join. A number of other photography and camera clubs use social media in this way to showcase their members’ work and encourage new members.
For those who do not use Instagram, it is a social media site that is used to share photographs and videos, and a large number of amateur and professional photographers use this site to showcase their work and promote themselves by sharing their awards and achievements. Others use it to get feedback and acknowledgement of their great work. Instagram is also a great place to view images from across the world and to get ideas for future shoots.
It is proposed that members with winning entries will be contacted each month to seek their consent to post their images on Instagram, and if they wish, they can then provide a low resolution copy of the image via return email. You can also add a watermark or signature to your image for copyright purposes if you wish. If you already have an Instagram account, you can provide your username so that it can be tagged in the image. If necessary, the image will be be resized to fit the standard Instagram image sizes so that it appears nicely on the site (please see standard Instagram image sizes below).
There are terms and conditions of use attached to Instagram, and if members have any concerns they can access these at: https://help.instagram.com/1215086795543252. Our Instagram account will have a clear statement about ownership and copyright of images which will be viewable by any other user that views the account, but this statement will not be applied to individual images as they are posted. Australian copyright laws provide protection over images, however, this may not be the case internationally. Whilst Instagram does have terms and conditions, these do not ensure complete protection for image theft. Images that are posted to Instagram are very low resolution which does make it difficult for them to be used for other purposes.
If you wish to have any of your past winning images posted on the clubs Instagram account to help promote the club – you can email these to belmont16sphoto.insta@gmail.com, noting any award (within the club or external to the club) that it has won and the image title. All images posted will contain the name of the image, the name of the author (for copyright purposes) and the award it received (if applicable).
Instagram Image Sizes 2021;
Social media image type Dimensions in pixels
Instagram Post 1080 x 1080 (1:1 ratio)
Instagram Landscape Photo 1080 X 608 (1.91:1 ratio)
Instagram Portrait 1080 x 1350 (4:5 ratio)
Carol McGrath has kindly agreed to manage our club account in this effort to promote and grow our club. I encourage all members to get behind this initiative.
Many thanks Carol.
by Dennis Archibald, October 15, 2021
Lightroom Chat on today
Our LR chat session will be on again today Tuesday 12th at the usual time of 2pm. Zoom in for a discussion of anything Lightroom and pickup some tips and tricks. See u there.
by Greg Carruthers, October 12, 2021
October Zoom Workshop
Our next Zoom workshop is on this Wednesday October 13th with Bill Chambers. Bill will take us on a fascinating journey into the world of “Extreme Macro Photography” Login from 6.45pm for a 7pm start. See you there!
by Greg Carruthers, October 11, 2021
Congratulations Roy Killen
The Photographic Society of America has awarded Roy the Large Club Representative of the Year 2021 and he was honoured with the Society’s Fallon Membership Award.
The Fallon Membership Award is presented annually to a member who has served the Society by increasing membership. The emphasis of this award is service in promoting membership.
The Fallon Membership Award is given to any PSA member who has been devoted to promoting and sustaining membership in the Society through recruitment and the creation and implementation of membership activities and programs.
by Diane Schofield, October 8, 2021
October Raw Image Challenge
The challenge is on again for October. To get involved go to the Oct RIC entry site and download the raw file. Now use your favourite editing program and then upload your edited file before the end of the month.
Want to take a look at last months entries follow the blue scoring tab next to Sept RIC and while you are there give the images a rank from 1 to 5. Scoring is available for all members.
by Greg Carruthers, October 4, 2021
