Yes, it is a promotion but I’m sure many of you will enjoy watching the very well produced video by landscape photographer Elia Locardi as he talks about shooting in Iceland and then takes you though an introduction to his method of processing his photographs. He starts with Lightroom to make some basic adjustments and […]
Ian Whiston EFIAP
We all know that in our midst we have an extremely successful club photographer; Ian Whiston. He has now gained his EFIAP, which needs 250 acceptances in competitions in 20 different countries and 30 salons using 50 different images. This is a career-long achievement for many but Ian has achieved it in just a few […]
The Ron Smith Cup 2016
Ron Smith is an honorary member of ours who had a long career in teaching photography in London before moving into our area to retire. He continued to teach an extremely popular U3A class until ill-health forced him to stop but he can claim to have taught photography for over 60 years. In the 1970s he […]
Paul Gallagher at RPS DIG 1/5/16
Some of us went to talks by Paul Gallagher on processing and printing. Here are some notes I made during the two talks, which I thought might be of interest. Paul uses Adobe Camera Raw (ADR) and Photoshop (Ps). ACR is functionally the same as Lightroom. He works largely in mono. Starting in ACR…. Don’t […]
L&CPU Annual Individuals’ Competition 2016
The L&CU competition which we entered in February was the CLUB ANNUAL, but next we have the ANNUAL INDIVIDUALS’ competition where you as members select your own work to enter. It is a chance to see how your work does in front of three PAGB judges compared to work entered by members of all the […]
Repairing Old Photographs – George Steele LRPS CPA
Family photographs, lovingly passed around, kept in wallets, displayed in bright light, often end up in a parlous state, faded, cracked, creased and stained. Digital photography of course provides the possibility of recovery and repair, and with patience and skill they can even look better that they did originally. George has acquired great skill over […]
Crewe PS Take A Bath – 21 Jan 2016 – Peter Robinso
Crewe PS are pleased to support the local history societies by helping with their photography and today two of us were recording some details of Crewe Swimming Pool, known to all as the Baths, which is shortly to be supplanted by the Life Style Centre. There was much civic pride in the Baths when they […]
Tough Mudder Event
Here is a shot of our club members after a meeting! Well, OK, maybe not. Member Bob Brown last year presented us with a real winner entitled “Official Photographer” taken at the Tough Mudders race held at Cholmondeley Castle. The photo above, he tells us, is a team shot taken after the event. The team […]
Shooting Eventing by Martin McGing
One of the benefits of being a member of a photographic club is you have the opportunity to see a wide variety of work which can inspire you to venture out and try something new. Over the past two seasons I have seen some excellent eventing images and earlier this year I decided that I […]
Beautiful Bokeh
Bob’s picture illustrates very well how a blurred background can help to make your subject “stand out”; it is a favourite technique of nature and portrait photographers especially. A lens which produces a lovely even background blurring is said to have “good bokeh” (we didn’t have a word for it, so borrowed from the Japanese). […]