Many thanks to our judge for our B&W Competition last Wednesday - Andrew Miller. He seemed to be well organised and had something to say about each photo. Based on some of what he said we'll try organise a couple of RAW nights (that's photo talk that is!) as a lot of us are comfortable just taking JPEGs and don't really understand RAW (me included). It'll be interesting to see how it'll improve our work.
Next Wednesday 31st we have the second part of our A-Z so make sure to bring your fully charged cameras and clean cards. You will be given 13 letters (everyone gets the same) and then you will have three quarters of an hour to go out where ever you want either on your own or with someone else and take subjects beginning with each letter e.g. for 'W' you could photograph a wheel, window, wool, water, watch etc. The same image cannot be used for a multitude of letters e.g. if you took a photo of a window you cannot use the same image to use for 'G' for glass. Letters do not have to be taken in order. This exercise is to get your minds going - see things differently and quickly - and remember it's getting darker sooner now so maybe subjects at a distance wouldn't be a great idea unless you have a super dooper flash. When you get back someone will put them in the laptop for you and you can all have a look at them then and see what interesting things everyone has come up with..
The Manipulation Competition will be the last Wednesday in September - 28th. For those of you saying you don't have Photoshop and therefore think you can't manipulate your images I'm telling you you don't need Photoshop. I'll give a lesson on the 7th on how you can manipulate to your hearts content in Picasa.
On the 7th we start our Photo school with introductions from Paul. Lessons will run for 6 weeks 8.30pm-9.30pm. After the six weeks I’ll do two nights on Picasa (I'm hoping that by then we will be in a position to use a computer room so everyone can work away at the same time) and we’re also in the process of organising some Photoshop classes as well so plenty to learn and as members there’s no extra charge.
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