27th January 2026 On Tuesday evening Chris Andrews and Brian Worley set up a system to be able to guide us using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop software. Previously at The Good, The Bad and The Maybes evening, our members had viewed some images and in groups decided what would improve these images. With our suggestions …
13th January 2026 Our evening was split into two parts last night. What can be done with the club lighting kit? In the first half of the evening Brian explained very clearly how we used our club lighting. The club lighting can be borrowed by any member to use at home. He demonstrated how each …
Tuesday 10th December 2024 On Tuesday five stations were set up with laptops for five kind volunteer members to demonstrate techniques on different software. We could choose a station to visit and then move on after twenty -five minutes to the next one. Steve worked on High -Key and Low- key presentations and how to …
Recently I have found many photographers in the club and beyond who are not making use of the higher ISO capability of modern cameras. So stop getting blurred photos, start using higher ISO values and faster shutter speed. I’m going to be controversial, and say that there’s only two kinds of photos; blurred and sharp …
On Tuesday evening a good number of members turned up with cameras in hand to photograph food bought in by Sally Kilpin, Sherron Razey and Christal Barlow-Bates. Huge thanks for the hard work to prepare this for us to photograph. Sally Kilpin led the practical evening of food photography. There were set-ups with flash, studio …
I found a great short video created by the Cooperative of Photography that features the amazing work of Steve McCurry to illustrate how his pictures follow nine popular “rules” of composition. Here’s the video, it’s well worth a watch and only just over three minutes long. Since we’re talking composition, SLR Lounge also have a look …
What is a plugin? At the recent winners review night several of the folks who kindly told the stories of their pictures mentioned plugins. I’m pretty sure that there are people out there who wonder what on earth a plugin is? A while back when photo manipulation software was still supplied on floppy disks there was …
Craft & Vision is the brainchild of David DuChemin, and in recent times Craft & Vision has grown to publish way more than David’s great work. In what they call a random act of kindness the latest Craft & Vision II – More great ways to make stronger photographs a 45 page electronic book (PDF) is …