RPS Digital Imaging

We run various projects and competitions for you to meet other members and see what people are doing:

• A digital image competition, with three classes and a final round to choose the winners.
• A print portfolio to select a showcase of the breadth of members' work, with printed copies for all entrants.
• A monthly fun competition from January 2025.
• Talk-Walk-Talk (in association with the Landscape Group) - a themed talk, member-led walks and a round-up session to discuss results.
• From Seed to Bloom - plant and flower photography workshops and events.
• Books and Zines - create a publication to showcase your images.
• New projects starting in 2025: Alternative Reality and Mono.

The DI Group offers you a number of opportunities to learn about photography, at various levels according to your needs:

• Online webinars ↗ with well-known photographers, on Saturday afternoons, plus occasional extra events. Click the link to book (or see below for an introduction).
• A wide range of workshops and tutorials from our expert tutors.
• Peer support groups run by members: online e-circle discussions and postal print circles.
• An LRPS support group to mentor you on your way to your first distinction.
• The DIGIT archive: charting the development of digital technology and techniques.
• Pulse: a monthly listing of What's On at DI, with links to join workshops etc.
• Online resources including our AI Hub and Youtube channel.

Communication is a two-way process. You can engage with the DI Group in various ways:

• Read and contribute articles to our publications: DIGIT magazine, DI Online newsletter, and Accolade magazine.
• Contact our volunteers with queries or suggestions.
• Volunteer to help the committee with defined tasks.
• Attend our annual AGM and day of events in February.
• Join our Facebook group for critique and chat.
• If you live nearby, we have a Southern Centre based in the Ringwood area. Visit their web page to find out more about the events they organise.
• Find out about photobooks and zines our members have produced, and perhaps buy copies.

This event was started by the Rotary Club of Ringwood with Ringwood School. For the 5th year the Royal Photographic Society Digital Imaging Group have been delighted to be one of the sponsors and to be involved in the selection of the images accepted to be printed for the exhibition.

This year the subject of the competition was ‘LAYERS’ and there were more than 900 entries from 32 schools across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. Selected in three age categories from Primary up to Year 13, with an additional adult category for parents and teachers.

Simon Hill HonFRPS began taking photographs at the age of three and held a burning ambition from his school days to become a professional photographer. He joined the RPS at 16, and his photographic journey has taken him from schoolboy amateur through art college to becoming an award-winning professional photographer. The RPS has been an ever-present feature of Simon's photographic journey - punctuated by gaining his LRPS at 18, ARPS at 21, and FRPS at 27. Along the way, Simon's journey as a photographer has taken some entirely unexpected turns, perhaps the most unexpected of which occurred in 2021 when he was elected President of the RPS. In this talk to the RPS Digital Imaging Group, Simon will describe some of the highlights of his photographic journey and will provide some personal insight into how the RPS will evolve over the next few years.

This intriguingly-titled webinar is somewhat different to most photography talks. Doug won't be focusing on a procession through his images or talking about the 'how's?' of what he does. Rather he will be delving in to the 'why's?' of what we do. He will explore what abstraction and expressionistic photography is and why many find it difficult - both to create and to understand - with a view to helping us get better at both. He will help us 'see' abstractly and compose in the field as well as how to understand where we can take our work when we return home with the images to make truly compelling abstract work.

Doug has worked as a full-time professional photographer for the last 20 years.  He has been described as a 'pivotal artist who has redefined the creative photographic landscape'.