Salt Flat (ICM) © Mark B
Internal club evening The week we held an evening dedicated to creative and experimental photography, and talked about the images submitted for this session. With an evening operating under this remit, as expected we had a very broad spread of styles and...
Philip Bedford LRPS shares with us his knowledge and locations for making the best photography in the Sussex landscape
My interest in photography started in my teens using film cameras, developing and printing - ‘Old School’, I suppose. However, I took to digital because you could see your pictures straightaway and taking them didn’t cost anything. Cameras, image processing and...
Our Open PDI Competition this week was judged by Don Morley, visiting our new venue at the recently completed St. Patrick’s Centre for the first time. Don has been a long time visitor to the club as a speaker and a judge during many previous visits to our former...
At last, here we were at our new venue, the spanking new Community Centre at St Patrick’s Church. What a contrast to the sombre, draughty echo-chamber of St Elpheges. I took a few snaps at the start and you can see how quickly everyone felt comfortable and at home...
Our second, and final, monochrome PDI competition of the season was held over Zoom on Wednesday 11 January 2023. The competition was judged by David Eastley LRPS, on his first ‘visit’ to our club. We had five Advisory Class (unscored) images for review...
IT’S CHRISTMAS!
This, the last competition for 2022, was judged by Eddie Hyde FRPS. I don’t remember Eddie judging any of our past competitions and I wonder why. I thought his comments were pretty much on the ball, constructive, relevant and his marking was consistent with his...
The meeting this evening, held via Zoom, was included in our programme to offer members an opportunity to discuss the various merits of colour versus monochrome images. The intent was to better understand the types of image that work well in monochrome, and to...
On Wednesday night, 30th November, we welcomed Faith Lee as our judge for the above. Faith is a member of the Camping and Caravan Club – Photography Division, I presume, as I missed the opening exchanges between her and our fine host for the evening, Alfred C. From...
If like me you leave your camera set to aperture priority nearly all the time letting the camera figure out what shutter speed it needs, having to think instead of what shutter speed is best for my previsualised image feels like a topsy-turvy universe. So Paul’s...
We held a Smartphone image competition on the 16 November 2022, over Zoom, where submitted images could only be taken and edited on a Smartphone or tablet. This competition was inspired by the enthusiastic reception to the talk given to the club by...