Summary of 2024-25 club activities
24 October 2024 - A live presentation by Dave Brooker - (A little bit of everything). Before he moved from Cranleigh David was one of our former club chairmen and is an accomplished photographer. David took us on a series of audio visual journeys with stunning landscapes and iconic architecture he had photographed in the UK and around the world. He also gave a quick demonstration of how he built the AVs using software. A thoroughly enjoyable evening and certainly not one to have been missed.
See below for a sample of David's images (less audio) shown during his presentation:
Budapest Parliament and Cuckmere
Taj Mahal and Valencia Opera House
17 October 2024 - 1st open Colour prints competition judged by Peter Merry LRPS. 41 images were entered and after a well balanced critique he awarded Julian Hall, Ron Boon and Pete Baldrey the maximum score of 10 points for their images which can be seen below.
Just chillin by Pete Baldrey and Lake district by Ron Boon
Brothers in the wild and Sunset in San Francisco by Julian Hall
10 October 2024 - An evening to review members' images taken in response to the challenge set by the programme secretary on 19 September, namely churches or anything associated with religion. Each member was asked to submit up to 4 PDIs for discussion.
A small sample of the many images submitted for the challenge gives a flavour of the evening and is shown below.
3 October 2024 - Tutorial workshop / around the tables. The aim was to provide members with the opportunity to further develop their photographic skills and techniques by sharing their knowledge with each other with. During the evening members were free to move around the room and join a number of tutorials being led by experienced members. The topics ranged from taking images with your mobile to editing with different software, the benefits of a prime lenses and even buying and selling camera equipment. The members conducting the tutorials were:
- Pete Baldrey - Nik silver effex
- Ron Boon - Phone photography
- Phil Copestick - Keylines
- Miles Thompson - Prime lenses
- Mike Guy - Buying and selling photographic equipment.
26 September 2024 - A bring your camera for a walkabout challenge. Members met at the church hall for a briefing on the set task before proceeding on the walk into the village with the aim of taking 4 images, in the space of 30 minutes. On their return to the church hall members uploaded their images to the club's computer for reviewing the results.
19 September - Our first club meeting after the summer break was informal and an opportunity to welcome and introduce two new members to the club, Ken and Yvonne Lindup. As is usual at the first meeting, the Programme Secretary Angela Karney provided us with details of the new season's programme and also announced that churches is the theme for this 1 month challenge ie anything to do with churches or religion. We will review the results of the challenge at the 10 October meeting - up to 4 PDI images from each member. Phil Copestick had also put together a slide presentation showing images created by some members during the summer break which used various creative filters in their making. We eventually broke for refreshments and time for socialising as well as discussing a number of prints brought along by members which demonstrated some of their recent work.