Landscape competition and AV competition 2018
Just a reminder that we restart on January 8th 2018. The Landscape / Seascape competition is the following week so entries need to be in on the 8th. The AV competition is on 29th January so finishing touches, or, in my case, earnest creation, needs to be underway. One of mine has the working title of ‘Merlin to broomsticks via St Petersburg’. Another involves me doing some cooking !. WillVice-chairman and ‘Webmaster’ with a preference for photography involving drama, stories and people. http://www.willsphotoimaging.co.uk
Practical evening 6th November 2017
The sessions that we have planned for the evening are outlined below. There will also be space for informal discussion of whatever is concerning you, photographically of course. Session 1: a) Open image critique with George – Bring along images for helpful critique. Images do not need to be mounted. b) Initial image file processing – Converting images from raw and making initial modifications / corrections. c) Colour management – Managing your colour options from camera to print. Knowing how to access the colour settings…
Digital night – 6th September
This is now back on. After finding that Ken was still going to be away it had been cancelled but it is now back on with Wendy taking the helm. WillVice-chairman and ‘Webmaster’ with a preference for photography involving drama, stories and people. http://www.willsphotoimaging.co.uk
Digital evening Wednesday 6th September
The programme originally had that there would be a digital evening on this day. This has changed. THERE IS NO DIGITAL EVENING ON 6th September. WillVice-chairman and ‘Webmaster’ with a preference for photography involving drama, stories and people. http://www.willsphotoimaging.co.uk
Archive – Programme 2016-2017
September 2016 5th Chairman’s Night 12th Roger Parry ARPS,MPAGB,HonPAGB,EFIAP and Judith Parry DPAGB,HonPAGB,AFIAP An evening with Roger and Judith Supported by Permajet 19th 1st Competition PRINT Best of the Rest from Previous Season PRINT Open to images that were not placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the 2015 – 2016 season. 26th Practical/Workshop 1 October 2016 3rd Derek Doar DPAGB Passion for Printing #5(inc Panoramas) Sponsored by Fotospeed 10th Robert Shaw Inter-Club Competition Hosted by Blythe Bridge Camera Club 17th 2nd Competition PDI OPEN…
Richard Weston – Top professional tips and tricks
This was not Richard’s first visit to the club and, hopefully it won’t be his last. Richard is an active Professional photographer and director of Weston Digital Imaging and Media. Their work involves a wide variety including corporate and catalogue work. Increasingly they are also working with video as well as stills. The wedding side is kept separate – One fine day – where the target market is the high end, £4K + spent by the couple on their photography. Quite a different background to…
Practical night – Tabletop photography with Mark Wilbrey
Mark Wilbrey was back at the club to delver another session, this time table top photography. He started off by telling us about some of the things that he finds useful to have around for table top photography: Bulldog clips Laminate flooring fitting wedges Matt spray, clear – dulls down reflective surfaces – spray on, wipe off – probably best used outdoors given the fumes. White balance target to set an in-camera custom WB He prefers to use a macro lens for this type of photography.…
Looking after your camera gear
Lehmann’s – camera maintenance Two of the staff from Lehmann’s came along to the club one evening to talk about looking after and getting the most out of our camera gear. 247-249 London Road, Stoke, ST4 5AA Telephone: 01782 413611 Website: www.hlehmann.co.uk E-mail: service@hlehmann.co.uk They have been in the camera repair business in Stoke for 40 years, primarily Canon and Nikon Authorised service centre. They also now house Stoke Photo Centre producing prints with a Fuji Frontier and a large format A0 printer. Care and…
Mach Loop – some additional information
I thought that the name came from Mach 1, Mach 2 etc – supersonic flight speeds. I didn’t realise that the ‘Mach Loop’ was named after a town that I’ve visited numerous times since 1973 – Machynlleth. At one time I applied for a job at a school there. The application form was all in Welsh. I didn’t fill it in. Since then though I have made an effort every so often to learn some Welsh. This has helped me when interpreting the landscape I’m walking through.…
Richard Weston – portrait session practical night
Richard Weston – was invited to the club to provide a presentation on portrait lighting and posing on a practical night. Richard’s business is photography based, Weston Digital Imaging. To help with this he brought along Annabel, a model from SoT. As has been a recent trend for me, here are a few notes on the session with some added detail input from myself. The starting point with any portrait photo is to consider gender, age and intended style. Each of these can influence the lighting…