Peter Gafney
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Profile: I moved to Dorset from Berkshire with my wife two years ago and have been a member of Blandford Forum Camera Club for a little over two years. Prior to that, I was a member of Bracknell and Yately Camera clubs in Berkshire and North Hampshire respectively. My LRPS was awarded after a City & Guilds course back in 1990. My first foray into photography came at the age of eleven. When I was armed with a Box Brownie just one film and sent on my first school journey to the Isle of Wight. The resulting eight pictures much admired at least by my parents. Later, I was involved with my school photographic society, which taught me the rudiments of dark room work. My camera, was a dreadful “Koroll Bencini” sold by Boots. After school, there was a very long period when as a penniless student and young family man, I did no photography at all. Then In 1967, I went to work in Australia buying myself a Yashica rangefinder camera on the way. I was then hooked all over again. This camera was later changed for an Olympus OM 2n system, a Rolleiflex and later still a Bronica SQA medium format. Now, having been retired for several years and established myself in a new county, house and garden: More time for photography is available. My work is now all digitally based . I started to embrace the digital age in 1996 using the Olympus and Bronica film cameras with scanners. At that time work allowed me very little time for learning Photoshop, (3 at the time). However, I am now on CS3 and still learning. I enjoy studio portraiture, preferably pretty girls, (keen amateur models required). I was once privileged to photograph the late, great and totally manic Kenny Everett; this, in a hastily improvised studio. I also derive great personal satisfaction from the digital manipulation of images, but in such a way, that the end result is totally believable. If you can see the “join”, it is a failure. The remainder of my work tends to be anything that takes my fancy. My immediate aims are to: Further improve my proficiency and become more imaginative with my imaging. Up to now my work has been rather traditional in nature, competent rather than inspiring. Despite this handicap, I have enjoyed some competition and publication success. These days, I use a Canon: EOS 20D camera, together with: 10-22, 17-85, 70-300 mm zoom lenses as well as a 50mm f2.8 macro lens. A Canon i9100 provides the prints.
