“You have 60 minutes in which to take 60 photos with the following titles. . . no more than one frame per title.” It was sunny, reasonably warm and we were in a picturesque spot – West Bay with its harbour and many kiosks serving food and ice cream – but it remained a tall order. The titles were in three columns, B, G and R (with blue, green and red as bonus attributes for an image in each column of titles); that was simple enough, but at the rate of one a minute? Bald,

That was the message when Andrew Mills came to the club on 18 th March After a talk densely packed with illustration and detail we came away with two main messages: “Club competitions do not produce the best photography”, and “Where is the light coming from? Light is the single most important element in photography” We also learned not to accept free drinks whilst engaged in a commercial shoot for a brewery. Andrew is a professional photographer with many years’ experience i

Graham Herbert’s home studio, 11 March 2026 Photography’s been part of your life for as long as you can remember. The outdoors and landscape your thing. So, what do you do when Covid comes along and we’re all locked inside? You could photograph the walls of your prison or point your lens wistfully out the window; you might buy or borrow a dog to photograph and/or provide an excuse for a limited outside meander each day; or you could, like club member Graham Herbert, build

It's just not possible to discuss night photography without first considering the Night Hawks by Edward Hopper ... and that's exactly where we started at the club this week. Many many pages have been dedicated to studying this vignette of American nightlife ... but not so many people are aware of Martin Lewis , one time teacher of Hopper. His etchings are full of everything that makes an image at night sucsessful ... the play of light and shadows can give can give the benign

The German fashion photographer Chris von Wangenheim said "I thought we were selling dreams - not clothes" ... Phil Penman has sold both ... A local lad from the Weymouth stable ... there must be something in the water down there! How can such a small place turn out so many good photographers? Peter Dench , Si Jubb, Iain McKell to name a few, and other than the funny water, the thing that binds them is that their images are all about the story. I guess that when you spend yo

That's a quote from Paul Hill regarding the rather odd behaviour of lots of photographers who like to catergorise genres with endless sub divisions thrown in for good measure. In fact, the move away from this is already underway ... watch out for big changes at the RPS. That said, here we are, going against the grain and trying to define what Abstract Photography is ... but ... we're not doing it for the sake of it ... we are attempting to define a brief so that we can all go

It all started with a SupaSnaps Snappit and a work trip to West Africa where our current club chair, Andrew Crawford, took pictures that were important ... important because in the days of film, and more particularly, in the hands of an amateur with only twenty or thirty frames available for the whole trip, you really thought about what you pointed the camera at. You took photographs that meant something to you, or that were going to be used to help describe the place or even

Stan delivered an interesting talk to the club on Abstract Photography ... a difficult thing to define but Stan started off by delivering us this 'dictionary' definition. "Art in which the portrayal of elements from the visible world plays little or no part" Picasso went further and said "you must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality" Stan showed us a lot of images with different themes, using a whole host of different techniques, and f

The last two events at the club have been sessions where members brought their cameras along for a play ... both events went someway to exploring one of this season's themes ... night. We started off by inviting a few old friends back to the club ... After a long haitus, Mr. Skeleton came along to help out our old friends Penny and Spike with their box of tricks. There were plenty of things in the box that lit up in all kinds of different ways to give members the opportunity

Following the excellent talk from Michael Wilson at the club , a few of us went up to London to meet Michael , aka @atikus , and walk some of of his favourite haunts. Photo: Katie Sivier We met up in the early evening at The Picturehouse Central on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue. Site of

We are going to have an evening coming up at the club where we will be invited to present some of our own pictures that take three photography rules, then break them ... but first we're going to decide which rules we're going to break. Intially, it was going to be ten but after a discussion night we settled on eleven because one just kept on coming up and it would be churlish to leave the list at ten ... after all, they're not commandments! 1 ... Never Shoot into the Sun 2 ..

There is a term in the film industry called 'wet down'... it's where you hose down the ground in a low light situation ... it creates contrast, reflections and texture ... If you don't have your own water bowser then us photographers have to wait for the rain, and when it does, you'll find Michael Wilson aka @atikus , standing in the middle of the road! He'll be trying to catch a reflection in the damp tarmac, or in the paintwork of a passing car. He'll be chasing shadows an

Below are a few quick tips to processing your autumn woodland images. The techniques below relate to Lightroom • The first thing to do is correct the exposure if needed and use the shadow and highlight sliders to correct any detail lost within these areas. • Whilst still in the basic development panel I usually set either the Texture or clarity slider to about -27. This has a pleasant 'softening' effect which is ideal for woodlands. Don’t overdo it as it will go all mushy! •

In one way, you weren't really in for much of a surprise as club members knew they were going ... What was a surprise was just how much advice and encouragement was on offer when discovering 'woodland ways' with photographer Paul Mitchell ... a professional landscape photographer, who runs courses in uk and Franc e and specialises in making atmospheric images of trees and woodland. Club Member, Paul Barrow was particularly pleased to come home with this one ... A review of ev

If Paul Mitchell did bumper stickers ... that's what it would say ... and whilst Autumn itself is so photogenic that Paul subdivides it into Early, Mid & Late, each with their own nuance, he doesn't neglect the dull, damp atmosphere of Winter that lends itself to sculptural images of the woodland, the hoare frosts of the promise of snow. Nor does he neglect Spring with the guarantee of new growth, blossom and a wealth of bluebells ... or summer, lush and full where the green

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Every town should have one, and Bridport does ... Roger Snook, a man that has birthed all kinds of madcap stuff over the years but the...