Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year
13 Jan An Explanation of Inks and Colour in Printing:
By Gordon Jenkins of Chorley.
27 Jan Annual General Meeting and Syllabus Night:
Please submit your suggestions for the club’s syllabus for the coming months
10 Feb * L&CPU Folio: Nature and Illustrative Prints
24 Feb Preparing Digital Images for Projection:
By George Steele CPAGB. LRPS. This presentation will cover such tasks as sharpening, re-sizing, re-shaping, creating borders, etc. using Photoshop so that your digital images can be shown at their best. George is, by reputation, an excellent teacher and over the coming months we are hoping to arrange a series of talks by him on different topics – all helping us to get the most from our photos.
09 Mar Portrait night: Mark Watson will be explaining the use of studio flash to help us get the best from our portraits. Bring along your camera and a tripod if you have one. If you are using an SLR, bring whatever lenses you own.
23 Mar Frank’s Night: A digital presentation of Frank’s images with group discussion.
NB: This is only a 1 week gap between meetings to allow for Good Friday. After 30 March, meetings will continue on a fortnightly basis, the next meeting being Friday 13 April.
30 Mar Head and Shoulders Portrait Night: A further evening of portraiture with two lighting set ups. An opportunity to put into practice and refine what was learned in the first session with individual help for those who request it. Please bring cameras, tripods and where possible medium telephoto zoom lenses. The evening is principally aimed at owners of DSLR cameras but bring whatever camera you use. You do not need to have been present at the earlier session to take part. At a future meeting we will project and discuss members’ images from the two portrait sessions. If you are new to photography and need help with your camera’s controls, please also bring your instruction book. We will try to help where we can.
11 May Digital viewing of images taken by ‘The Beyond Group’ Following several excellent practical sessions over the last few weeks, tonight we will take a look at photos taken by members of The Beyond Group. We will be viewing digital images on screen so please join us for a sit down with a cuppa and some lively debate on the ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ of a variety of images.
25 May Evening Walk Our club is situated in such a beautiful area, it would be a pity not to make the most of the lighter evenings. We will meet at the church hall at 7:30pm (prompt please for an early get-away!). Wear stout footwear, clothing appropriate to the weather, and don’t forget your camera and any lenses you might need. If your main camera is a compact ‘point and shoot’ they’re great for close-ups!
Our syllabus for 2012 is based on suggestions and discussions put forward by members at our AGM in January. We will have a full programme of events with a strong emphasis on learning through both instruction/tutorials and practical sessions. As they say … watch this space!
NB: * The L & CPU is the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union – a group made up of many clubs throughout the North West of England. Their photography competitions are open for all club members to enter and the resulting images do a tour of the member-clubs for viewing.
