By Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers Members night “Camera Skills” – 29th October A well attended evening and the first outing for the club’s studio lights which proved to be a really good investment. The evening was divided into two totally different sessions to give the widest appeal possible; creative
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Print Competition 1 – 22nd of October
By Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers Ken Hudson came to judge the second competition of the year, which was the first of the print competitions. Peter Wilkes, our competition secretary, continues to work extremely hard on our behalf to ensure that all of the digitally projected images are ordered according
Phil Cooling FRPS “Weird & Wonderful-ish” – 15th of October
By Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers Phil Cooling suggests that there are three types of photographer, the ones who know exactly what they want to photograph and limit themselves to that subject, the ones who photograph anything and everything and become diverse in skills and taste and the ones who
Reptile Night – 1st of October
Article Written by Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers The opportunity for club members to indulge in taking macro photographs caused a good deal of excitement. Hayley, from Reptiles and Aquatics Ltd brought a big range of reptiles and spiders including a Royal Python, a Bearded Dragon, tarantulas, Madagascan Hissing Cockroach,
DPI 1 – 8th October
Article Written by Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers The competition year got off to a good start with 87 entries into the first DPI event. The judge Robert Falconer provided a valuable critique of all entries giving members excellent advice on how best to improve their images for entry to
Salford Quays – 28th September
Article Written by Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers An excellent Saturday event with Tony Dudley. The workshop started at four o’clock, took in the architecture and neon lights of Salford Quays. The late afternoon and early evening light presented a huge variety of colour, shapes and atmosphere to challenge the
Member’s Evening – 10th September
Article Written by Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers How to resize print/DPI Images in Photoshop and Lightroom – Jane Rowbottom A really useful session especially for people like me who are inept around the digital world, so thank you Jane. The very idea of navigating my way around either Photoshop
New Members Night – 27th August
Article written by Karis Benn and Roisin Chambers As a result of the 5 exhibitions and word of mouth invitations, the “new members night”, was a relaxed and successful event. The Chairman’s presentation provoked good humoured banter and got the event off to a good start. The photographs on display
On the Exhibition Road Trip
Article Written by Karis Benn & Roisin Chambers Holmcroft Library “Always a very high standard. Last year and the year before was the same.” The librarian at Holmcroft Library was extremely complimentary about our exhibition. Thank you Alan! The Library users had their favourite photographs, some brought back memories of