This week we welcomed back Joe Franklin for a further studio based portrait photography session. Joe has been with us three times before to provide similar evenings, on those occasions using everything from large studio strobe lighting with soft boxes to achieve his...
Pedro, who now lives in Devon, spent 10 years in the US, part of that time in the Pacific Northwest, and part in New England in the Northeast. Being a very keen photographer, living there for this length of time gave him the opportunity to discover and photograph the...
Our first open projected digital image (PDI) competition of the club year was held this Wednesday 20th September, judged by John Nathan ARPS. John has been a judge or provided talks at our club on many occasions, but this was his first visit to our new home. A...
A photographic tour of areas of Argentina along with some interesting facts.
This week we had the pleasure of a visit (via Zoom) from Barbie Lindsay, describing and illustrating her trip to India around a decade ago. This talk was originally scheduled for the end of January this year, but had to be abandoned due to IT issues on the evening. ...
A variety of different and fresh images of London life as Peter Merry takes us around the famous London Monopoly Board.
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...
Photographers will often have many other interests and thus they can combine these into something that then becomes a passion; something to follow and investigate. David’s presentation of The Great Silk Road today was a fine example of that combination. From an...
Philip Bedford LRPS shares with us his knowledge and locations for making the best photography in the Sussex landscape
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...
You will gather from the title that Fred is a Londoner and proud of it, although you’ll notice that his Honours now read FRPS not ARPS. He is a member of Beckenham and Malden Camera Clubs. The Royal Photographic Society award three levels of distinction, each...
On Wednesday 19th October, we had a fascinating talk from Caroline Preece. In her own words… “The objective of the talk is to introduce to people a different way of thinking about photography and composition. The first part of the talk covers photography as a visual...