If you love taking pictures of birds then we invite you to enter the SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 Competition and help raise vital funds for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Calling all photographers! Enter your best bird images into...
I remember having to sit through a whole evening of nothing but pictures of autumn leaves and wishing, by the end of it, the damn things would just get on with it, drop off and disintegrate for the winter. So some thought is needed for a set subject competition and we...
In the spirit of Blue Peter ('Here's one I made earlier'), tonight's judge flourished two strips of cardboard - a great tool for deciding whether images would be better cropped. As she said, cropping can be very helpful - except when you cut off a vital piece of the...
When we had our first Image Swap evening, it went very well and from memory, we had many rather different takes on what the members involved had provided. Our second evening was held on 3rd March and from where I was sitting, our eight members who stepped forward to...
An in-house introduction to audio-visual (AV) presentations and their production methods and styles, prepared by club members, showing interesting and dynamic examples of their work. together with descriptions of the processes involved. The evening was initiated by...
We've heard a lot recently about photographic competitions and judging. Rosemary Wilman gave us a wonderful insight into the many aspects recently and for all our members as individuals, there was much to encourage us to get involved. Meanwhile, as a club, Photocraft...
“What's that, Daddy?” My first of two experiences of the Aurora Borealis was the shimmering backdrop to a childrens' puppet show on black and white TV in the 1950s called ‘Meet the Penguins’. I never got a satisfactory answer from my Dad, and anyway, at that tender...
“We was robbed!” people sometimes grumble at the end of a club competition night, if the judge has been especially tough – or, to put it another way, entrants haven’t received the marks they thought they deserved! It can be tough having your images publicly critiqued,...
Well, we at Photocraft seem to have been on a monster monochrome binge of late and it was time to see if these previous January evenings had paid off and given us some good work to enjoy as we held our 2nd Monochrome PDI of the season. We welcomed back our good...
Our talk this week was given by Joe Houghton, via Zoom, on the use of Lightroom for image processing. Joe Houghton is an Adobe Certified Expert with both Lightroom and Photoshop. He told us that he has been using Lightroom since he first saw it at a pre-production...
Very few of us have any formal training in image editing. We choose our editing software according to what was fashionable at the time and our budget, and learnt how to use it in a fairly haphazard manner, probably picking up poor habits in the process. We finish up...
Standards of entry to photo competitions have been slipping during the lockdowns, according to tonight's judge, Rob Bonfield. At least that had been his experience when judging at other clubs recently. By contrast, he felt that Photocraft had mustered a good set of...