This is the fourth open print competition of the year, and the final round of our season. With the results to date finely balanced the marks awarded tonight will decide the overall winners and runners up in this class for the club year. Images can be...
FIVE TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE CITY OF LONDON – WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH 2024
Well, whilst nobody brought along lashing of ginger beer, five club members did enjoy an excellent time in the London Bridge/Tower Bridge area on Wednesday 27th March. Chris R, Roshan, David M, Geoff and I met up and made the most of a cold but pleasant evening...
SEVEN SNAP BRIGHTON – CLUB DAY OUT SATURDAY 2nd MARCH 2024
A fine day of photography was enjoyed by club members who ventured to Brighton by train and car for a wander around the many varied areas of this fine city. In no particular order, we had Chris R, Mark B, Roshan, Paul, David A, David M and your blogger all present and...
Open PDI Competition No. 4, judged by David Lloyd LRPS
Open PDI Competition No. 4 was judged by David Lloyd LRPS. David travelled to us from the Dorking area and is a member of the United Postfolios of Great Britain organisation. He explained that this is a postal / online photographic organisation that...
On the move!
Last week we enjoyed our third critique evening of the season, this time with the optional theme of “movement”. As with similar evenings, members were encouraged to introduce their images (for example, describing where the image was taken, what attracted them to...
Monochrome PDI Members’ Competition
This represented a different style of members’ evening that included a competition and an opportunity to discuss those photos that were most highly rated by fellow members. Members could enter up to three monochrome PDIs which went through a two-stage voting system...
IT’S A LENS JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT – A TALK BY DAVE JORDAN FRPS – WEDNESDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2024
Tonight we welcomed award-winning garden photographer Dave Jordan FRPS. As well as keeping his own photography running, Dave is an assessor on the RPS Distinctions panel and involved in the Norwich & District Photographic Society. Before and After - Dave Jordan...
Open Print Competition Number 3, judged by Ann Healey FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE4
We had 27 prints submitted for the open print competition this week. Entries were received from nine members each submitting multiple prints. The competition was judged by Ann Healey, the current events and exhibitions chair from the Surrey Photographic Association....
Editing your images for monochrome, a talk by Brian
Brian took the reins for this one and a fast and furious evening it was too. If you were familiar with the latest versions of Lightroom (LR) and Photoshop (PS) you most probably went away having learnt a lot, but newcomers would have found it a struggle, as indeed I...
Better late than never?!
Well it seemed like an OK idea at the time when I agreed to take a turn on the blog rota two days before going away on holiday, but with hindsight that probably wasn’t so wise as I completely forgot I needed to write something until this morning! Oops! Sorry for...
SIZE IS NOT IMPORTANT…IT’S HOW YOU USE IT (AND WHAT YOU’RE PHOTOGRAPHING.)
A LOOK AT VARIOUS PHOTO EQUIPMENT – WEDNESDAY 31st JANUARY 2024. Us photographers are great ones for comparing our equipment with others, be it the cameras, lenses, bags, tripods, filters…the list is endless. Tonight, our club members brought along various...
‘Mono Moods’, a talk by Colin Jarvis MA ARPS
Not everyone thinks monochrome deserves a special status in photography. After all, the world is in colour, so isn’t monochrome just another genre like architecture or glamour? Not in my opinion. After all, the various genres of photography can be portrayed in colour...