Diss & District Camera Club Blog
2010-2012 Season
17/01/12
Chairman's Notices
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Alan welcomed 4 new members and 1 returning member (Catherine Greenhough).
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The Golf Club meeting is set for the 31st of January at the Golf Club.
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Next Tuesday (24th Jan) is an extra meeting where Alan will demonstrate some aspects of Layers and Masks in PHOTOSHOP. No need to bring your laptops as this will be tutorial format
22/12/11
15/11/11
Speed Dating Meets Photography
A good number of members
were present for the nights meeting which saw 4 club
members do a 15 minute presentation on a subject of
their choice. Mike Favager demonstrated
the use of neutral density and polarising filters. Margaret showed us how
to produce creative designs for christmas cards using
Photoshop artistic filters. Vivien showed a step by step
guide to producing a film, using a selection of photos,
a music sound track,
and Microsoft Movie Maker. Charles explained shooting in
RAW.
Also many thanks to John Crisp for the selection of
food!
Each member gave a very good presentation
and all members agreed it was
a very enjoyable evening as the presentation subjects
were so varied.
Chairman's Notices
Alan announced that
the date for the event at the Golf Club would move to
the new year.
Potential dates are Tuesday 10/01 or 31/01 and Sunday
22/01. Alan will be reviewing the images taken for the
project during next week - John H will assist.
Members were reminded
to contact Tina, if they were interested in attending
the Photoshop training day.
Leading on from her
Microsoft Movie Maker presentation tonight,
Viv reminded members that they would have the
opportunity to present
their own film shows at the meeting on the 17th of
January.
Guideline length for each film is 2 minutes 15 seconds
max.
01/11/11
Portrait Night
Host: Barry Austin
31/10/11
18/10/11
Project with Invited Judge:
Industrial (including docks & harbours)
Alan S welcomed 4 new potential members to the club.
The club members also welcomed Roger Preston - our judge for the evening.
We thank Roger for taking the time to provide a detailed critique for all the project entries.
(Alan made good use of the time to compile a list of useful phrases and adjectives
that Roger used throughout the evening - we now have an increased vocabulary
for future club nights!).
Roger chose photos from Bob, Charles & John D as his favourites of the evening, but
also praised the general standard of the entries.
20/09/11
Light and Lighting – Small Subjects
and Basic Portrait Lighting
A very good number of members were
present for Mike Favager's excellent talk 'Light and lighting-
small subjects and basic portrait lighting'. Mike began with a
power point presentation into the science of light in
photography, explaining colour temperature and the family of
angles. He then demonstrated how various light sources and
materials can produce differing results when photographing wine
glasses and a little porcelain dog!
After a short break Mike then demonstrated some basic portrait
lighting, explaining the use of light diffusers with Mike W as
his 'glamorous' model.
Throughout the evening members put their names down to take part
in the Golf club project, organised by Alan.
The exhibition committee are meeting at Redgrave fen Thursday
night to construct the club exhibition ready for Friday nights
preview evening.
Next meeting 4th October 2011:
East Coast Resorts
Guests: Rosemary & Peter Salt
06/09/11
Welcome back – Holiday Snaps
Nearly all the club members were
present for the 1st meeting of the new season.
Indeed it was good to welcome back 'old' members Mike & Mark.
There were some 'new season' agenda items to discuss.
No excuses now for not remembering names, as all members were
wearing
the new name badges.
Hayley volunteered for the Club Publicity Secretary role for
this season.
Alan described a new potential project, and an extra club night
on the
24th January 2012 was agreed, with the topic being "Photoshop -
beginners"
This was followed by many of the
members 'showing and telling' about
snaps from their holiday. In time-honoured tradition the
enthusiasm of
most members led to the 1 snap per member rule being broken
(web editor the worst offender)! The subject matter varied
enormously
from a Tunisian highway seemingly stretching to infinity,
through to a chicken-wire horse,
camera courses, Diss mere etc. etc. and even a plate of
sandwiches on the Isle of White!
Next meeting 20th September 2011:
Light and Lighting – Small Subjects
and Basic Portrait Lighting
Speaker: Mike Favager