Club Night

AI Vs Visiting judge  –  an examination of critique programs online

AI Vs Visiting judge – an examination of critique programs online

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...

Post processing — A look at the latest tools and techniques

Post processing — A look at the latest tools and techniques

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

Brian -My LRPS, and Paul – London Life

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

Open PDI Competition No 1,  judged by Rob Bonfield

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

Smartphone Photography Challenge No 1

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

Welcome back for the Photocraft New Season

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

A FAR FROM MONOTONOUS MONOCHROME EVENING

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...

Open PDI Competition No.  4,  judged by David Lloyd LRPS

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...

Editing your images for monochrome, a talk by Brian

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?!

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...

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