April Activity Night Challenge – be inspired by a painting
Cheryl has kindly selected five classic pieces of art to inspire us for our activity night next month. Below are a set of paintings numbered 1-5 with links to larger copies to download. You are invited to choose any one of these paintings as inspiration for a photograph. You are not asked to replicate the painting subject exactly but rather to draw on the painting’s visual elements, for example, its lighting, composition, colour, and/or approach to the subject. If you wish, you can create a separate response (photograph) to each one of the paintings. When you upload your photograph,...
Read MoreActivity night – Edit an image
On Tuesday 16th October, members brought along their edits of five images they had been given. It was interesting to see how people used different crops, adjustments and effects to correct problems in the original photo vary the focus and mood of their resulting image. Below are the five images showing the original and an animated gif showing some of the edits (unfortunately the gif creates banding on some of the images) Image 1 Original Processed Image 2 Original Processed Image 3 Original Processed Image 4 Original Processed Image 5 Original...
Read MoreTaking and Editing Photos on Your iPhone
The humble phone should not be dismissed as a tool for capturing beautiful images and memories. (As shown at the Club AGM on 17/7/2018 and with apologies to all of the other wonderful brands of phone that are not apple!) The iPhoneography School (iphonephotographyschool.com) has many tutorials on how to capture images with the iPhone. Below is a summary of information from that site and others about Apps for taking photos, editing photos and presenting them as a slideshow. Native iPhone Camera App Doesn’t have DSLR-like manual controls. For example, you can’t set the shutter speed, ISO or...
Read MoreInfrared Photography
Thanks to Matt Oliver for his presentation on infrared photography at this week’s activity night. Matt has been wowing us with the photos he’s created with his modified Lumix fixed lens camera. Here is an example: View his Infrared photography powerpoint and an inspiring flickr group These links have been added to our Resources menu so you can find them later.
Read MorePlease vote for our Club’s Quad Comp entries
It is time to choose the images we wish to represent our club in the forthcoming Quad Comp. We will vote on the print images at our next meeting on 18th July. To select our digital images we have picked images that have done well in our monthly competitions and would like you to vote online for your THREE choices. NOTE: You must log in to your bcc account to be able to view and vote in this poll. If you are no already logged in, please go to the Member menu and log in before clicking on this link. We would like as many members as possible to participate in the selection of entries for the...
Read MoreTutorial by Joel Bramley (June Activity Night)
Joel Bramley presented at the recent activity night on June 23rd. It was certainly cold, but many members attended sporting hats and puffer jackets, showing their passion to learn photography! Joel covered the basics of photography and led us on a walk around the lake and down into the creek to experiment with light painting, night photography with a spotlight and photographing the stars. He provided this pdf of the instructions Intro to DSLR Photography Joel also talked about calibrating your Diopter. Here is a link to some tips on that: ‘How to calibrate your Diopter’. Although the...
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