Active Groups
We are a friendly mixture of people with varying photographic knowledge and experience, but with one common aim. To explore the photographic process and to learn and enjoy ourselves along the way.
So, do you look at your photos and feel they are somehow not showing what you saw and wish there was help to improve your photography?
Perhaps you have wondered what those camera settings P,A,S & M are there for?
Maybe you want to have the confidence and knowledge to venture beyond a “factory” manipulated, in-camera, image to using a RAW image file, i.e. a digital negative
or maybe you wish you could learn how to make your own adjustments to a digital image to produce a satisfying and very personal result?
....if the answer to any of these is YES, then keep reading.
We recognise that the camera always was and still is just the first stage in a journey towards a final image. To achieve this end, we help each other to understand our cameras and to get the best from them. Then we can help each other to take our images to the second stage with modern digital software used in phones and computers.
We meet monthly, when indoors usually for a two hour meeting and three times a year for field trips which can last for most of the day.
We can also meet on a more informal basis and in smaller numbers for photo-walks in a variety of locations.
Our indoor meetings provide an opportunity to view and discuss the images we have taken. These will be small portfolios of images either on a chosen subject or taken on a field trip. We also have sessions led by our members to share techniques, hints and tips.
These might be:
⁃¤⁃ Photo composition techniques;
⁃¤⁃ Using lens filters to achieve a specific result;
⁃¤⁃ Understanding basic digital camera controls, e.g. Shutter speed, Aperture, ISO, White balance and their use in differing circumstances;
⁃¤⁃ Using basic photo software to make mainly light touch enhancements to an image such as cropping or lightening or darkening an exposure;
⁃¤⁃ Removing unwanted distractions from an image.
• These techniques and many others are not recent innovations as a result of the digital revolution but have been used in the field and in darkrooms since photography began in the nineteenth century!
What we are not is specialists in any particular photographic genre, such as wild animals, long exposure landscapes, star/astro photography, macro photography, sports or racetrack photography and so on.
We can describe the basics of these interests. We may even feature one of them in a learning session if there is enough group interest, but you will not find that it is our central purpose.
Contact our Group Coordinator for further details Mike Tyler (01743) 860408, or view more information at https://u3adp1.wixsite.com/website