Brian C opened this club meeting by introducing us to various ‘critique factories’ available online, each offering to pass comment on photographs or other artwork. Brian used images from club members galleries or used in past competitions as his image, and submitted...
Club Night
Post processing — A look at the latest tools and techniques
Oct 30, 2024 | 1 Comment
This evening was an in-house meeting looking at some of the software programmes used by members in the post processing of their images, with particular emphasis on the recent changes to the more commonly used applications. Our evening began with Mark B showing us some...
Brian -My LRPS, and Paul – London Life
Oct 5, 2024 | 0 Comments
Two blogs for the price of one this week you lucky people, so bear with..What a marvellous evening it was too, entertained as we were by two of our most experienced members. And what a contrast in styles!First up was Brian who went over in detail what he had to go...
Open PDI Competition No 1, judged by Rob Bonfield
Sep 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
This week we welcomed Rob Bonfield back to Photocraft for the first Open PDI Competition of the club year. Rob is an SPA judge and a member of the Woking Photographic Society, and has visited us to judge several times before. This is his first trip to our new home...
Smartphone Photography Challenge No 1
Sep 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
Judged by club members Our meeting this week was held via Zoom, and involved members’ images that had been both taken and then edited on either a Smartphone or a tablet. No more powerful or spacious laptop or desktop computers allowed (apart from a final...
Welcome back for the Photocraft New Season
Sep 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
After Alfred cordially invited members back, Brian gave us a quick run through of the programme of events that have been prepared for us to enjoy in our new season at Photocraft. Having been programme secretary for a number of years in the past, I know how much time...
A FAR FROM MONOTONOUS MONOCHROME EVENING
May 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
And so to the last of our Monochrome themed evenings for this season. Having enjoyed a guest speaker, put up with a rather disjointed editing session and shown off our PDI work, tonight it was all about the prints. David A was our entertaining host, channelling his...
FIVE TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE CITY OF LONDON – WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH 2024
Apr 1, 2024 | 2 Comments
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...
Open PDI Competition No. 4, judged by David Lloyd LRPS
Mar 20, 2024 | 0 Comments
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...
Open Print Competition Number 3, judged by Ann Healey FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE4
Feb 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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
Feb 17, 2024 | 0 Comments
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?!
Feb 12, 2024 | 0 Comments
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...