Shadows in PhotoShop
During a recent Member’s Minis Andy gave a presentation on how to add drop shadows into your images using PhotoShop. During his presentation Andy demonstrated adding simple drop shadows as… Read more »
Category Archives: How to Shoot
Introduction to Competition Printing
For our first tutorial night of the season Andy gave a presentation on printing for competitions. As Andy explained in his introduction… Within the club we’ve know that competitions are… Read more »
Drip! Drip! Drip!
Many of us have wondered how Steve Granger produced his stunning water based photographs with items frozen at the moment of immersion in water. Steve was good enough to share… Read more »
Camera Craft #3
At the most recent “Our Members Present” evening Andy Hyde presented the first half part of a presentation called “Camera Craft #3”. This presentation is one of a series where Andy talks… Read more »
Why Use Photoshop
A presentation at the recent “Members Present” evening by Tony Maynard-Smith, aimed at explaining what Photoshop will do that other tools such as Lightroom or Picasa won’t, and to outline… Read more »
Interesting Links
If you were inspired by the earlier Architecture Competition, then this article from The Guardian will help in exploring this subject further: The Guardian Martin Parr is recognised by many… Read more »
Photographing Still Life 9th November 2017
PHOTOGRAPHING STILL LIFE, Photos and Tutorial – Andy Hyde, Notes – Tony James Andy emphasised that photographing still life is not predominantly about having expensive equipment and demonstrated that the combination of… Read more »
Light Painting Tutorial and Practical
This week’s “Our members present” brought 2 very different presentations; in the first half of the evening our Chairman Andy Hyde presented another in the series of tutorials he’s been running… Read more »
High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Why High Dynamic Range? HDR is a technique for combining two (or more) shots of the same high contrast subject in order to obtain good reproduction of both the highlights… Read more »
Back Button Focusing
While shooting some portraits recently, there was a discussion about camera controls and different people’s preferences for how they set-up and use their camera. One major subject of discussion was… Read more »