This was the last meeting of the season. Newly-elected Chairman, Diana Wynn, gave a brief summary of the outcome of the AGM. This was followed by Secretary, Steve Eckhardt, giving a presentation and tutorials on photo-editing. A short recording of a tutorial on use of layers in Photoshop was followed by Steve demonstrating the use […]
Evenings
Visits or speechers
Glenys Garnett: Creative Techniques – 21 May 2021
We were pleased to welcome Glenys Garnett for her presentation on creative techniques. Glenys defined creativity as looking differently at the subject matter. She demonstrated how different effects can be achieved in-camera using landscapes, nature, flora, macro and abstract images as examples. Use of different lenses was advocated to achieve vignette and softness styles, and […]
DPIC 2021 Images – 7 May 2021
At this evening’s meeting, the opportunity was taken to view images from this year’s WCPF’S annual DPIC competition. The images from the top scoring clubs were viewed in the first half of the evening. This was followed by the competition’s top-scoring and award-winning images in the second half. As expected, there was a considerable amount […]
Club Competition – 23 April 2021
This was our final club competition of the season. The set subject was “Spring is Here”, together with Open entries, with members voting. First to be shown were the 37 Open entries, covering a wide variety of subjects. The winner was Justin Harris with his stunning image of “Ladram Sunrise”. This was followed by the […]
“The dragon in monochrome” – Margaret Salisbury – 9 April 2021
Margaret, who is a tutor for the Open University, gave a brief background to her introduction and interest in photography before showing an impressive selection of her monochrome images, which covered landscapes, animals and people taken in a wide variety of countries, from her native Wales to New Zealand, together with a number of creative […]