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Archive for October, 2009

Print appreciation evening No.1

On Tuesday 27th October we held the first of the two ‘print appreciation’ meetings scheduled for the current season.  The meeting was hosted by Brian Winkle, one of our more senior and experienced members.  Such meetings are relatively new to us but they are designed to provide an opportunity for members to bring along prints […]

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Getting (a bit) Teknical

I generally use the histogram to confirm, or otherwise, a shot exposure. The histograms available on my camera are a nice big luminance display and alternatively a set of three smaller channel (RG&B) histograms plus a small luminance.
Guess which I use!
Well I have just read a detailed technical handbook on my camera (‘Complete guide to […]

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Updating the Showcase Gallery

We are well into the new season and we have already completed our first Points Cup.
I have recently uploaded the high scoring DPI’s in the gallery and if anybody has digital copies of high scoring prints or slides I or Keith would be happy to put them in the album.
So how about refreshing your pictures […]

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Studio lighting demonstration, etc.

On Tuesday 20th October we had an interesting and helpful evening when Colin Cross demonstrated the use of flash lighting for studio use.  The primary motivation for this tutorial was our acquisition of a sophisticated set of such lighting equipment purchased with a grant obtained from the ‘Awards for All’ scheme.  This equipment was used […]

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SAPA All v All Print Battle

This event was held at Kinson C.C. last evening when the judge was Terrick Meakin.  Thirteen clubs entered with six prints each from six different workers and, with marks out of ten for each, the winning club would be that with the highest aggregate score.  Now last year members will recall that we won this […]

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3D photography

On Tuesday 13th October Harry Blake, together with his wife Pam, from Parkstone C.C. came along to give us ‘An evening of 3D photography’, in which slide sequences were presented via a battery of projectors whilst club members viewed with fascination the amazing 3D effects through the appropriate heavy-rimmed and tinted spectacles.  Viewed from the […]

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