Hi Folks, Photography Appraisal Night, Tuesday 7th March Last night, members had the opportunity to bring along their images on a memory stick to ask for guidance and help from our club’s experienced photographers and our own judges. There were four work stations set up each with a laptop and members could join in with …
Hi Folks, Open Print Competition, 28th February Last night was the clubs open print competition, also on the same night was the 3rd round of Rosebowl competition taking place at Wantage and may well have reduced the number of entries in the print competition. There were only 24 prints but the standard was very high. …
Hi Folks, A Demo and Talk on Photography and Post Processing by Glyn Dewis, Tuesday 22nd February Quite a pleasing crowd at the club last night with many welcome guests and it was difficult to get into the car park. Glyn opened the evening by telling us he originally went on assignment shoots taking …
Hi Folks, I didn’t attend last night’s talk on TV news photography but I understand from Brian it was one of the best talks given at the club. I can’t really add a blog on the evening. I thought instead, having read some blogs from the judges on their points of view on judging competitions. …
Hi Folks, Club Championship Water Theme and Open 3rd Round Tuesday 7th February Speaking with a friend before the competition who normally just takes holiday photographs I said, tonight we have a competition on the theme of water. “Well that sounds a strange subject, just plain old water”, he replied. Well not really, I said, …
Hi Folks, ‘Post Processing’ course, part one, Tuesday 31st January. Last night Chris & Brian ran the first of the two sessions on ‘Post Processing’ of photograph images. Chris opened the evening by telling us that when he is taking pictures he would prefer to make sure that the image is correct in the first …
Hi Folks, Winner on the night ‘open print’ competition, Tuesday 17th January. Last night was the winner on the night competition and there were well over 30 or more entries. The Judge for the night was Martin Patten from Watford CC. I had a Google this week and found Martin has a website and …
Hi Folks, Practical Candlelit Photography night, Tuesday 10th January Last night was a practical night on how to photograph in candle light. Brian gave a chat on the things to attempt like raising the ISO levels on the camera, he personally prefers a sharp photograph with noise rather than one that is blurred. The candle …