In Derek’s absence I’m giving a brief blog on this evenings club night. Our guest presenters for the evening were Kingsley and his wife Amy from KUKU Media, based in Milton Keynes. The evening was to be split in two halves, the first in the hall and then a practical outside. As instructed everyone came …
Hi Folks, Last night was titled ‘blast from the past’ where members could show images of memories of the past which had special meanings to them. Lawrence made an announcement before hand to inform members of the coming Christmas social evening and to put one’s name on the list and tick any dietary requirements required …
Hi Folks, Tuesday night Micki Aston came along to give us a talk on why we should enter competitions, what the judges are looking for and the art of monochrome photography. Micki has been doing photography for 50 years and it is her passion and Micki first ask us the question why do we enter …
Hi Folks, Last night was an evening of learning about the various lighting set ups and being able to use the set ups to take pictures of models. Before the evening started Brian Worley set up the lighting equipment with several helpers. We had four models to photograph with two lighting set ups which involved …
Hi Folks, Tuesday night was a presentation of things that have taken the interest of our club members during this year. This is just a snapshot of the evening and what took place. The first to give a talk was John Timbrell. John first talked about Somerset house that was showing pictures taken by the …
Hi Folks, Tuesday night was a presentation of images taken using the the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings after the talk on the subject by Chris two weeks ago. However, during the first part of the evening Kathy brought along the Rosebowl trophy for all to see and Chenxi did a talk about next …
Hi Folks, Last Tuesday night was the first of the ‘winner of the night’ competitions for the new season. There was a massive 72 images presented for the competition and the judge for the evening was Paul Burwood from Field End PS. Paul had a run through all the images first The first image to …
Hi Folks, Tuesday night Chris and Chenxi did a talk on preparing images for entering club competitions. Chris said, entering competitions is not all about winning but more about competing against yourself, to see if you can improve your photography. Chris explained the scores can go up and down as any person’s choice is subjective …