Shuttleworth Flying Festival Sunday 2 June 2019
Bedford Camera Club member Chris Barclay has forwarded the following information on what he believes will be a fabulous day and a great photoshoot opportunity.
Social Evening – Tuesday 7 May 19
Greensand Country Project
On our Social Evening, Bedford Camera Club is pleased to welcome
Eloise Markwick, Projects and Conservation Officer for the Greensand Country Landscape Partnership.
Creating HDR images Using Adobe
Summer is here and that tends to mean high contrast for sunny, midday, outdoor pictures.
Bracketing your shots and combining them into one HDR image can help mitigate some loss of burnt highlights and blocked shadows.
Canine Photos Wanted
The Easter Photo-op Summer Event suggested by Bruce, the Canine Show at Keysoe on April 22nd, was a great place for both dog and people photographs (I rather think the people shots were as interesting as the dogs)
The Members’ photo album for the event is here https://adobe.ly/2UQeGa5
Any member who went to this event may submit images to be added to the event album
Instructions on how to submit images are on the foot of the Gallery page, but in brief send no more than 10 JPGs, sRGB, max 1600×1200 with the filename of “your name – image title”, e.g. Jane Smith – Keysoe 1234.jpg. Email them as attachments (or zip file or via WeTransfer.com) to eventpics@bedfordcameraclub.co.uk
Ian Whiting
Photo Op: Canine Show
Great Photo Opportunity
Dunstable & District Canine Society
On Easter Monday 22nd April at the Keysoe Equestrian Centre (Keysoe is between Bedford Kimbolton, follow the signs) there is a Canine Show.
From past experience there is plenty of opportunity for candid shots of dogs and their owners.
Free entry
Bruce Deacon
Mounts
Further to Paul’s announcement at the club last night…
I have contacted a firm called Frith @ co who supply mounts, backing boards, tape and picture frames. If we register as a club they will offer a discount of 15% on all orders of £300 or more. On smaller orders we may be able to get a smaller discount.
I have been in touch with the company. They will send me some samples which I can put out for you to look at.
Any questions please contact me at the next meeting.
Paul Curtis
Macro Photography
Following on from Dave Smith’s excellent and very impressive demonstration of macro photography last night (2nd April.)
Dave demonstrated using the Olympus mirrorless camera with built in focus stacking software. The Olympus has two types, which I will call the automated max-8-shot mode and the full-stack mode. Dave was using the full-stack mode which can take hundreds of RAW or JPG images in one stack.
Other mirrorless cameras have a similar full-stack mode, e.g. the Fuji X-T2/3 allows up to 999 frames at 1 to 10 steps at 0-10 second intervals.
I have used focus stacking techniques for several years but I don’t do a lot of it and certainly not at the microscopic level that Dave does.
However I thought I would just add something that might not have been too clearly understood last night.
4-Way Inter Club 2019
Bedford Camera Club 4-way Inter Club 2019
This year Bedford hosted the 4 way Challenge between New City, Shillington, Kempston and Bedford.
Each club has to submit 8 prints and 8 PDIs which are all scored out of 20.
Central Challenge 2019
Bedford Camera Club Central Challenge 2019
The last external event of the season was the Central Challenge which is hosted by New City Camera Club.
For this event we have to submit 6 images each from a different author and 9 clubs took part this year.
Philip Lepper Trophy
Something Unusual
That is the theme for our next competition, for the Philip Lepper Trophy, being held on Tuesday 26th March.
You can enter up to 3 PDIs – no prints in this event. Get them logged into photoentry by Tuesday next, 19th March.
We look forward to a good number of entries showing us something creative or unusual so now is the time to get going.