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Last week’s meeting – Two journeys towards ARPS with Habip Kocak and Ian Bray   Ian (myself – apologies for writing in the third person) ran through his journey to an ARPS which started unknowingly with producing calendars for family and friends over several years. Then 11 months ago he put in a panel of […]

Last week’s meeting – Smart Shooting Part 2 – From the Ordinary to the extraordinary – Bob Brind-Surch This was a fascinating talk even though it was somewhat heavy on numbers and the science. Essentially Bob was explaining the difference between an exposure strategy for film and digital. This was summed up in the differing

Last week’s meeting – Members’ meetings – tips tricks and transparencies   Dave Atkinson gave us an interesting look at Topaz DeNoise AI software focusing on its latest upgrade allowing the software to deal with, and save RAW files. Previous versions of DeNoise did not allow files to be saved as RAW. Now that can

Chris is very much a camera club contrarian, but very much in a good, and entertaining, way. He is passionately against photographic cliches, such as sunsets shots and selfies and social media likes, which he says leads to ‘dopamine or despair’. “If you do everything others like, if you set store on ‘likes’ then you’ll

Ivor showed us photographs he had taken over the past seven years, and many in the last few weeks, all within 20 minutes ride from his home in Eynsham. Some 120 of the photos he showed were taken in his garden.   He gave away his secret of how he gets those stunning shots of

Darren is based in the Moroccan coastal city of Essaouira and was ‘zooming in’ from there. He split his talk into two sections: landscapes/portraits and themes that develop into a project. Landscapes: Darren said he is inspired by the work of British photographer Dave Ward whose images show expert use of balancing elements in the

David loves all forms of photography and confesses that he even loves competitions. He sees himself as an ‘image-maker’ rather than a ‘photographer’. For David taking a photograph is only the start of the image making process and he quoted Ansel Adams: “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” He said his ‘Project Based

For Leo lockdown came earlier than most, as after a long-haul flight he had been diagnosed with deep veined thrombosis and was told he could not fly long-haul again for 18 months. This started him thinking about his photography and the presentation was about his self-confessed ponderings on photography with several references to what camera

Last meeting: A Day in the Life with Dave Atkinson   Dave gave us an illustrated tour of a day in the life of the inhabitants of the Zimanga private game reserve which lies north of Durban in South Africa. The reserve is 70 square kilometres of bush veld and fever tree forest and is

Wildlife talk second part with Tracey Lund   Tracey started her talk with the good news that she has just been awarded first prize (Wildlife Golden Camera) in the wildlife section of the Federation of European Photographers Awards 2021 for her shots of underwater gannets, penguin and young and Dalmatian pelican.   Her talk was