Just for the record...... COMPLETED SESSIONS
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2023/24 Season
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May's meeting on the 7th
WWW - A Website Wonders Workshop.
A club expert will navigate us through the Club's new website, which has successfully conveyed our message and content this past year.
Come along on the 7th May if you want from-scratch instruction,points clarified, snags resolved or to make suggestions for summer recess updates.
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April's meeting on the 2nd.
Janice and Karin will be running an interactive session on the ins and outs of nature photography - amply illustrated with their fine work to be sure.
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March's meeting on the 5th.
Unfortunately Paul, who several of you met when he came as guest at January's FTG, can no longer lead this session. but there will be a substitute presenter. Hwever the aim, of showing how to take portraits with a single light source, is unchanged.
Attendees will be taking the pictures right from the outset. Experienced model Joanna, who some have met before, will aid the presentation and help keep those shutters clicking.
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February's meeting on the 6th.
A catching up with the flow of Richard Jefferies' River Severn project.
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December meeting on the 5th
NOTE THIS WILL BE IN THE VICTORY CLUB DINING ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR OPPOSITE THE BAR.
Panels & PechaKucha!
Led by John Clare.
The focus on single images is a frustration for many camera club members.
This evening examines two ways of overcoming this:
Part 1 focuses on panels, including triptychs and diptychs. With a contribution from Colin Trow-Poole FRPS FIPF
who gave such a great talk at CCC in October
Part 2 introduces PechaKucha - a great way of telling a story: 20 photos, 20 secs each.
With a guest appearance by Mike Taylor, whose PechKucha presentation was one of the highlights of the
Northern Eye Festival in Wales in October.
An unmissable evening!
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January 2024 meeting on the 9th - actually the 2nd second Tuesday (for obvious reasons.)
We will again be meeting in the roomier ground floor dining room of The Victory Club (opposite the bar) in anticipation of an enthusiastic crowd to join with Richard McCleery in exploring the mysteries and options for both on and off camera flash'. Along the way Richard will explain the fundamental importance of light and lighting in photography. Not to be missed - bring along your camera, and flash-gun (AKA speedlight) if you have one.
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December meeting on the 5th
Panels & PechaKucha!
Led by John Clare.
The focus on single images is a frustration for many camera club members.
This evening examines two ways of overcoming this:
Part 1 focuses on panels, including triptychs and diptychs. With a contribution from Colin Trow-Poole FRPS FIPF
who gave such a great talk at CCC in October
Part 2 introduces PechaKucha - a great way of telling a story: 20 photos, 20 secs each.
With a guest appearance by Mike Taylor, whose PechKucha presentation was one of the highlights of the
Northern Eye Festival in Wales in October.
An unmissable evening!
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Tuesday 3rd October
Andy Buckley demonstrates Photoshop Techniques including masking and background editing with his unique style
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Tuesday 12th September. (Actually the 2nd Tuesday for the first month of the new season)
We will have a chat to build on the previous 7 o'clock on AI, the statements from RPS etc and our WhatsApp chats. Then Andy Roberts will give a demonstration of his recent work with AI
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November meeting on the 7th
A hands on evening assembling personal momentoes into a sort-of-but-not-quite still life emulating the style and techniques of Nettie Edwards who gave us a presentation a few seasons ago. Nettie is local, but is appreciated nationally and internationally, often under her working name Lumilyon - including on Instagram and website.
Nettie's website is https://www.lumilyon.co.uk/ For a bit of inspiration have her look at the sections titled 'grave goods', 'the fabric of photography' and 'taken from memory'.
Several of us will be bringing tripods along, in case you don't have one, and there will be sufficient lights (possibly photographic LEDs) for you to be able to take your photographs after you have completed your arrangement. Part of the process is likely to be discussing your aims with other members and hopefully picking up helpful hints. Small arrangements could need a close up filter, extension tubes or a macro lens.
A bit of repetition here , bear with me, in some extra notes made after a long telephone chat with Nettie. She cannot be with us unfortunately, as she is contributing to a Photographic Convention in Paris, but she is very interested in our results - so no poessure then!
Nettie sees us as ‘Explorers of the World’, but here we take a narrower view and explore personal and family memories through photogenic arrangements of mementoes. It’s a bit of a wrench from usual club subject matter. But a bit of effort, helped along by chat amongst us, will surely reap rewards. Nettie suggest enhancement by printing out on unconventional material - but not all printer allow that. However, she stresses making it fun and not too melancholic.
So bring along those bits & pieces, bills, letters, tickets and other stuff, plus some background if be relevant . Think about textures. And think about A4-ish as the overall size.