WEDNESDAY 27th November 2024 On this Wednesday, we welcomed Penny and Spike Piddock (both DPAGB & EFIAP). They hail from Wyke Regis, between Weymouth and Portland. Both are members of Dorchester Camera Club and the British Society of Underwater Photographers. It...
Now where did my notes go .. ?!?!?
So I need to kick this week’s blog off with an apology: ironically for someone whose profession is within IT, I seem to have lost all of the (copious) notes that I took on Wednesday .. oops .. I’ll blame my iPad I think! The downside of this situation for...
AI Vs Visiting judge – an examination of critique programs online
Brian C opened this club meeting by introducing us to various ‘critique factories’ available online, each offering to pass comment on photographs or other artwork. Brian used images from club members galleries or used in past competitions as his image, and submitted...
Open Print Competition 1
Our judge this evening was David Smith LRPS CPAGB BPE1* of Woking Camera Club fresh from his stint as one of the three judges on last Saturday’s SPA Individual Competition. He had a good number of prints to exercise his critical faculties on - 6 in the Standard Class...
Post processing — A look at the latest tools and techniques
This evening was an in-house meeting looking at some of the software programmes used by members in the post processing of their images, with particular emphasis on the recent changes to the more commonly used applications. Our evening began with Mark B showing us some...
Street and Documentary Photography – a talk by Cameron Scott CPAGB EFIAP
Cameron’s interest in photography started when he joined the camera club at school and was introduced to the joys of wet processing in their darkroom. The idea of being able to freeze an instant in time appealed to him, particularly the ability to capture the...
Mono Madness!
This week’s evening was one full of firsts: our first print competition of the season, our first monochrome evening of the season, and (most interestingly) our first ever hybrid evening, during which we got to enjoy both print and projected images on the same night!...
Brian -My LRPS, and Paul – London Life
Two blogs for the price of one this week you lucky people, so bear with..What a marvellous evening it was too, entertained as we were by two of our most experienced members. And what a contrast in styles!First up was Brian who went over in detail what he had to go...
178 YEARS OF PHOTOSHOPPING BY SUE GRAY LRPS CPAGB AWPF
Us humans can’t help ourselves. Show us something new and it is pretty much guaranteed that, not long after, we will be trying our best to find a way to use it for something other than its original intent. Tonight we welcomed Sue Gray LRPS CPAGB AWPF to the club, via...
Open PDI Competition No 1, judged by Rob Bonfield
This week we welcomed Rob Bonfield back to Photocraft for the first Open PDI Competition of the club year. Rob is an SPA judge and a member of the Woking Photographic Society, and has visited us to judge several times before. This is his first trip to our new home...
Smartphone Photography Challenge No 1
Judged by club members Our meeting this week was held via Zoom, and involved members’ images that had been both taken and then edited on either a Smartphone or a tablet. No more powerful or spacious laptop or desktop computers allowed (apart from a final...
Welcome back for the Photocraft New Season
After Alfred cordially invited members back, Brian gave us a quick run through of the programme of events that have been prepared for us to enjoy in our new season at Photocraft. Having been programme secretary for a number of years in the past, I know how much time...