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…
Derek Doar – Modern conversion of digital files to monochrome images using Nik SilverEfex
The objective for the evening was very clear – quality conversion of digital image files into monochrome. I’ve been using a very much slimmed down version of Silver Efex that is integral to Nikon’s CNX2 software for many years and, more recently, the Photoshop plug-in with my Canon files. When Google purchased Nik they did a ‘free complete suite if you have previously purchased one of their plug-ins’. I had the Colour Efex Pro 3 plug-in for CNX2 and therefore qualified for the complete package…
Roger on the panel – Roger Hague DPAGB
It has been quite a few years since we last had a ‘panel of’ competition at the club. With the return of a competition round on the 10th March 2014 that is dedicated to panels Roger was invited to share his thoughts and experience. Before Roger started I let him know that my using a ‘phone during his presentation was to make notes that would form the basis for this blog post. He was openly happy for people to be taking notes. So, here is…
Practical workshop 30/09/13
Following the questionnaire at the end of last season showing that members wanted more on close-up and macro photography, this session was aimed at those areas. There were four setups, two flash and two with Lupo HMI lights. Various objects and sets were available for members including items that they brought with them. Unusually for me I did not actually take any photographs on the night, too busy with the setups and helping people. I did however take a few earlier in the day when…