Morning All

A warm sunny day beckons – time to get that camera out, dust it down, charge the battery, take some photographs and then possibly send them to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk ready for Stan to critique – see below!

Don’t forget, autumn is creeping in as well – more opportunities!

From Michael: Amazon – Tuesday 10^th and Wednesday 11^th, big prime day discounts on cameras and goods; maybe interesting!

Notices

Image Critiquing

Image critiquing for the ‘members evening’ on 25th October.

Stan is ‘in-the-chair’ this time and will look and give his thoughts and opinions.

Theme is ‘Open;’ any image taken recently if poss; if not historical ones can be submitted.

3 ish images per member.

All images submitted and shown will be anonymous.

Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 18th October.

If the images have been edited, if possible, please send in the original unedited image – no problems if you cannot.”

Please send your images to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject – Image Feedback.

Or if the images exceed the email limit, please send them via Wetransfer.

Great to see that some members have already sent in some images! But more needed; don’t be shy!

Website – Members Galleries

We are now asking members to submit up to 6 images of their own that they wish to be shown under the ‘members galleries’.

You can submit up to 6 images and please send them directly to Tim at timflesher@btinternet.com

All images to be jpeg, in sRGB colour space with a maximum image size of 1600 pixels (wide) x 1200 pixels (high), maximum file size 2 MB; no more than 2MB as this will help keep website storage down.

Thanks to those members who have managed to send some photographs in and many thanks to Tim for putting them on our website.

New Project

The idea is for each member to develop a photographic ‘theme’ over the next 11 months and present their ‘findings’ – good, bad or ugly (what went right and what didn’t!), – at the first meeting in 2024 which will be on September 4th.

Now, we fully appreciate that not everyone likes to present from the front and chat about their topic so you would be more than welcome to put everything on a USB stick and chat from the ‘floor’ so to speak!

Ok, so what theme? Well, that’s completely up to you! A few ideas below to get you thinking and maybe spark an idea! The idea is to pick a theme and experiment from there!

One thought could be that you team up with another member and work together and produce a joint project – only an idea.

Possible themes/ideas/suggestions – usage of a tripod and/or handheld:

• Getting to grips with your camera; shooting on automatic, then aperture priority, then shutter speed priority, then even on manual, collecting examples as you go along. Experimenting with depth of field, focus and exposure compensation.
• Flowers/Forest/Woodland – perhaps, woodland scenes (Bluebells) and detailed shots.
• Water and reflective photography – canals, rivers, sea, puddles! – using long exposure?
• Food
• Landscapes and seascapes – possibly to include sun rises and sets; again, using long exposure?
• Weather, storms, clouds, rainbows
• Travel
• Macro
• Monochrome
• Cityscapes/Urban life
• Architecture
• Sports
• Nature and wildlife
• Minimalistic
• Mobile only images

These are just a few ideas; you may, of course, develop you own theme or combine some together, your choice!

The whole idea is for everyone to have a go and develop ‘what you want to get out of photography,’ learn from the experience and hopefully learn from others!

Please have a chat with us over the next couple of meetings and ask any questions. Please don’t forget this is your club to experiment, learn and most importantly have FUN!

We hope you will join in and, don’t forget, if everything goes pear-shaped – that’s learning!

Up and coming programme of events

• October 11th – Garry Cook – ‘Street Photography and a project in Israel.
• October 18th – Events Cup Competition, judged by Nicki Greenwood
• October 25th – Members Evening – Image feedback from Stan – see above – plus Stan will present the 20 images chosen for the 4 Way Battle; plus, other images!
• November 1^st – Boyd Harris – ‘Failure & success in the Himalayas.
• November 1^st – Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – last date for entry.
• November 8^th – Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image’.

That’s all Folks

Mike and Lewis