Our first club meeting following the Easter break was an informal walk with our cameras around The Grove in Carshalton, meeting at the bridge crossing the outflow from the ponds. Around a dozen members attended as sunset approached. Blossom, by David M Spring blossom,...
Our club talk this week was a hands-on experience, set up and run by Stephen Crawley. We have had a number of talks and other guidance from Stephen in recent years; and indeed he has been instrumental in showing us the benefits of moving our evenings into the St...
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...
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...
IT’S CHRISTMAS!
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...
Our talk and demonstration this evening was again a session in the hall delivered by Joe F, providing us with further insights into the minimum equipment needed to achieve effective portrait lighting. This is the third portrait session provided by Joe, the other two...
Top Tips Session - A relaxed portrait photography evening This week we held a club internal evening session in the hall, dedicated to coaching some of the skills required for a successful evening of portrait photography, under the skilful and enthusiastic...
This week a group of members (and one guest) gathered at the War Memorial beside Carshalton Ponds for a Photo Walk as the sun was setting, followed by a brief visit to the Cryer Centre after dusk fell. The evening began with stalking the Herons and the Egyptian...
Yes, here we are again and welcome all to our 2022/23 season at Photocraft. Our opening evening was simply a run through the planned events of the season and to highlight that we have a distinct, separate period over the winter months when we will be online via Zoom...