Our final Open Print competition of the season, the night when those jostling for position near the top of the leader board learn their fate. It had all been pretty close and anything could happen. Our judge for the night was Pat Couder CPAGB, BPE1*, QPSA, a member of...
For this evening we gathered both online and in the hall to watch some of our members undertake image editing , taking a RAW image to final picture ready for display. Each image was provided by another photographer. The members volunteering for this task...
Guildford House Gallery is a 17th century Grade 1 Listed town house in Guildford High Street. It has been home of the SPA Biennial Exhibition for as long as I can remember and every 2 years, Photocraft members looked forward to competing for space on its walls against...
He’s not only a master of portrait photography, he also relishes doing street photography. Tonight, Photocraft member, Joe Franklin, shared what he looks for when he is out and about on the street with his camera. How does he engage with his subject? What catches his...
Our club evening of 6th April was all about triptychs. We had several members contribute to the evening, by both providing and/or demonstrating how to create these eye-catching images as well as discussions on what type of image(s) work best and what to think about...
This week was our final Open PDI competition of the club year, which was judged for us by David Smith. We had 6 entries in Standard Class, and 28 entries in the Advanced Class. In Standard Class our judge commented about the quality of the light captured in a number...
In tonight’s presentation, Paul gave us a very personal account of his progress in wildlife photography over the last 25 years. His interest started with a 2 day safari in Kenya to celebrate a wedding anniversary with a Canon EOS 500 film camera (and presumably his...
What a difference good lighting makes to portrait photography! This week St Elphege’s hall was transformed into a photographic studio, thanks to Joe F and his sidekick model, Vince. The lighting was controlled for us and all we had to do was to relax into the evening,...
As the season speeds towards a conclusion, we held our 2nd Monochrome PDI competition on Wednesday 9th March and welcomed a judge new to Photocraft in Steve Peel.
A talk by Elizabeth Jane Lazenby, BA(Hons) Fine Art LRPS DPAGB EFIAP BPE4* AMPA Our talk this week was delivered by Jane Lazenby, on a welcome return visit to the Club. The talk was delivered via Zoom. Jane has won many awards...
This evening we welcomed Darren Pullman CPAGB BPE3* EFIAP, an old friend from Carshalton CC, to judge our penultimate print competition. Another hybrid meeting, this time with more members venturing back to the hall than were watching on Zoom. Long may that continue....
It was awesome, though a trifle terrifying, to be staring right into the lion’s eyes. Thankfully, it all happened safely, via my computer screen. It was the photographer, Glyn Edmunds, who was taking the risks. He was just 10 feet from the lion, but taking his images...