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...
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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...
SIZE IS NOT IMPORTANT…IT’S HOW YOU USE IT (AND WHAT YOU’RE PHOTOGRAPHING.)
Feb 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
A LOOK AT VARIOUS PHOTO EQUIPMENT – WEDNESDAY 31st JANUARY 2024. Us photographers are great ones for comparing our equipment with others, be it the cameras, lenses, bags, tripods, filters…the list is endless. Tonight, our club members brought along various...
SHOW AND TELL – AN INSIGHT INTO OUR EDITING PROCESSES – 8th NOVEMBER 2023
Nov 11, 2023 | 0 Comments
There is so much editing/post processing software out there for us photographers to play with…or not, as the case may be. Our online meeting on 8th November saw six members demonstrate their tips, tricks, thoughts and styles whilst editing random images from fellow members. As a bonus (😊) all six were also given the same image to edit and that did produce some very different outcomes.
Studio Portrait Night 4 with Joe Franklin
Nov 1, 2023 | 0 Comments
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...
THE MONOPOLY PROJECT – A TALK BY PETER MERRY – 3RD MAY 2023
May 7, 2023 | 0 Comments
A variety of different and fresh images of London life as Peter Merry takes us around the famous London Monopoly Board.
TABLE TOP PHOTOGRAPHY a guided practical session provided by Stephen Crawley
Mar 15, 2023 | 0 Comments
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...
TOOLS NOT RULES – A TALK BY CAROLINE PREECE
Oct 23, 2022 | 0 Comments
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...
Top Tips Session – A relaxed portrait photography evening
Oct 5, 2022 | 0 Comments
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...
Making the Most of Smartphone Photography – 28th Sept 2022
Oct 2, 2022 | 0 Comments
WE USED TO HAVE PHONES THAT TOOK PHOTOS. WE NOW HAVE CAMERAS THAT MAKE PHONE CALLS. We welcomed Jeanette Lendon (Jet) along to Photocraft on 28th September 2022. Jet runs Jet Black Squares https://www.jetblacksquares. After a career in teaching, when she had her own...
Writing Posts on the New Website
May 9, 2021 | 0 Comments
As a blogger you will have access to the Admin tool bar when logged-in to the website. The thin tool bar across the top of the page. To start a new blog, on the tool bar click on new and select post. Setting up your post environment The first time the post editor...
Resize an Image with Microsoft Paint
Feb 1, 2020 | 0 Comments