At this week’s meeting we viewed all the prints in the latest L&CPU Folio. Since PDIs of the prints had been asked for the presentation of the accompanying AV was very good and improved our enjoyment of the prints. After the break we had member Paul Hill talk to us. He had not publicised what […]
What makes a good monochrome print?
This is Peter Hrebien’s photograph of Martin Simpson. It shone out in our last competition for sheer print quality. What constitutes a fine monochrome print is something which all the old hands profess to know but nobody quite likes to commit themselves to define. You won’t quite see it here because this is small digital […]
Mike Sharples ARPS MPAGB EFIAP BPE4* – 12 November
Mike showed us his successful competition pictures which featured people in costume at Blists’ Hill, the Black Country Museum, Whitby and various other sites together with landscapes from the Hebrides, the Dingle peninsular and Anglesey. There were shots of intriguing decrepitude too, a derelict cottage that Mike and his colleagues from Smethwick came across. Mike […]
Print 1 2016 – (Front Page 2/11/15)
When we hold a competition the pictures are judged by someone from outside the club, who is, of course, unaware of who has taken them, consequently progress by members in the quality and nature of their work goes unremarked. This week, however, we will be putting that to rights by taking a second look at […]
Meeting 5 November 2015 – A look at our work and t
This week we spent some time looking more closely at the work submitted for the last print competition. Members valued being able to examine the work closely and some very thoughtful comments could be heard around the room. We then moved on with Ian McNab to look at visual design and the work of some […]
Front Page: 26 October 2015
There are few photographers of the stature of Salgado and his Genesis exhibition has been touring the World recently. This time he concentrates on Nature rather than people (as he did on “Workers” and “Migrations”). All his photographs are black and white, not the default, the obvious, colour. Salgado certainly made me think again about using […]
George Franks: High Speed Flash Photography
Your electronic flash duration can be as short as 1/30,000th of a second, though more usually nearer to 1/1000th, so if the flash is providing most of the light it can stop fast action. This is the technique behind getting those marvellous shots of splashing water frozen into fascinating shapes. Using the shortest shutter speed you […]
Print 1 2015-16 – The winners
The front page this week features the print which won the Nature section on Thursday (October 22 2015). Here are the winners of the Mono and Colour Sections. There will be a gallery of the top 4 images added later – see Results.
Front Page October 19 2015
This week we featured the work of our student member, Morgan Griffiths on the front page. Although this shot didn’t figure in the leaderboard in our first PDI of the season it is a very note-worthy shot; brave, bold, sharp and depicting our busy urban life. It is the kind of work we are growing […]
Print 1 2016 Judged by Brian Law ARPS CPAGB
Very probably the best League print entry we have had. It wasn’t just the number, though 86 was impressive enough, it was the ever increasing quality, variety and, yes, courage displayed in those entries. I really wish I could have lead a discussion about the prints with the judge because I knew exactly how the authors […]