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...
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...
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...
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...
This week the club welcomed judge Simon Bedwell LRPS to the St Patrick’s Centre to judge our Open Print Competition No.2. Simon is a member of the Tandridge Photographic Society, and visits us for the first time this week. The entry of 26 images were all to be...
Club members enjoy an evening of work from fellow members and offer their comments and insights.
The meeting this evening, held online, was our third open projected digital image competition of the 2023/24 season, critiqued and judged by Royston Williamson. Royston last judged at the club in April of this year, and is on the SPA judges panel. We had...
We take a look at our local area with members bringing along some prints for an evening of conversation
It’s a nice sunny day and maybe, like me, you decide to sling your camera over your shoulder and take an amble through somewhere like Banstead Woods to grab a few woodland shots. The sunlight twinkling through the leaves makes getting the exposure right difficult...
So this week we tried something a bit different, with Chris R “volunteering” Brian C and Mark B (your blog author this week) to facilitate an evening of feedback on images submitted by members. Both Brian and I were somewhat nervous about this as we are not...
Our competition this evening was judged by Eddie Lord, visiting us from the Crawley Downs Camera club. We had 32 images entered into this competition, all in one class. It was clear during the evening that our judge was looking for impact from an image, and...
There is so much editing/post processing software out there for us photographers to play with…or not, as the case may be. Our online meeting on 8th November saw six members demonstrate their tips, tricks, thoughts and styles whilst editing random images from fellow members. As a bonus (😊) all six were also given the same image to edit and that did produce some very different outcomes.