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

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

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 ..

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! •

Hiroaki (Shotei) Takahashi 1871-1945 A landscape is not defined by it's format ... it can be shot in landscape, square, panoramic or...

In all the years I've been going to the club, we have never, as a group, explored what a landscape photograph actually is. It is very...

An outline of what the Chair expects as "mundane" for the Chair's Challenge competition at the AGM.

The Barnikel evening covered all of that and more but first ... we need to talk about David, David Barnikel. Founding member of the club...

We met at the Town Hall to discuss a sense of place ... we started of with a complicated graphic but, over the course of the evening, boiled it down to quite a simple statement. For a photograph to have A Sense of Place it has to convey what it 'feels' like to be there ... but you don't necessarily need to know where 'there' is ... Essentially, we decided that, in photography terms, this diagram provides examples of 'hooks' that help to convey a sense of place. If your photog

To be honest, I just like alliteration! A few weeks back we had a discussion evening about light in photography. It ranged wildly through...

How? Photorealistic montage, joiners, multi layered three dimensional photographic art, and old school ... The last two meetings, one on zoom and one at the hall, have been dedicated to the art of montage. And it is in the spirit of that visual reordering of things that we are going to start a sentence with 'and', then start our analysis in the middle ... with Stephen Wilkes. Thirty hours up a cherry picker, thousands of images, and half a lifetime on a computer stiching them

The Great Fire of London put an end to the Bubonic Plague that had blighted London for two years. It was still remembered in the...

This season for the Club’s Chair’s challenge, which I judge at the AGM in May 2025, I want you to make a record cover . Your photograph...

Or, how to capture the 'essence' of a place within a single image. It's the big competition coming up at the club this season. And just...

This coming season we have a competition based around the theme of light ... Photography literally means 'the study of light', it...

This coming season we have a competition based around our use of colour. We are surrounded by colour, most of our photography is in...

I've used images of Saul's, in talks, to illustrate 'compression' in a street photograph. In particular, the wonderful pictures he took...

We had an excellent talk by club member Shirley Swaine about her wildlife photography at the recent Barnikel evening ... but before we...

Printing Getting set up with a printer at home can be a complex and expensive prospect. But it is not necessary to print at home. Several...