Peter Weaver from Hanham Camera Club will present his new lecture “My Kind of People”. These will be  images of all kinds of people covering several genres including studio photography, outdoor, formal, candid and events.

As always non-members are welcome to come along to St Thomas’s church hall at 7:30.

This Thursday’s meeting will be a members evening at which Kevin Crosbie will give a presentation and demonstration on water drop photography, and then Rob Dyer will hold a workshop on basic editing with Photoshop. If members have any specific editing issues please email Rob (printsec@trowbridgecc.uk) with details and/or images to edit on the night.

Non members are welcome to come along to the hall (see map) and see what we do as a club.

In preparation for our Triptych print competition (print submission date 2nd March), here is our definition of Triptych, which can also be found in the member section of the website.

Each club member has two entries, one colour one mono (not a mixture).
One participation point for entering each set as normal.
A set comprises 3 normal print competition size mounts (see competition rules), clearly marked with the normal label and 1, 2, and 3 on the back so the judge knows the sequence that the images are in to tell their story. Use a title for the set.
The triptychs will be presented as three separate mounted images which will be placed side by side on the display stand.
The usual points will be awarded for commended, highly commended, 3rd, 2nd or 1st.
Those awarded points will then add to their score in colour or mono.

Here is an additional description of what the images should try to achieve visually:

“Three images of equal or differing sizes which aim to work together in order to demonstrate their worth as being greater than the sum of their parts”

Example:

This Thursday’s meeting is a chance for members to display their images taken from the photoshoot of Companions Of The Longbow back in December. Members can either send DPI images from the night to projsec@trowbridgecc.uk before Thursday or bring them along on the evening. Alternatively mounted prints can be brought along and displayed on the print stand.

The Companions Of The Longbow have been invited, but it is unclear at this stage if anyone will be available. If they do we will ask them to vote for their favourite image.

Non-members are welcome to come along and see what what we do as a club – see map for the hall location.

Our judge for this Thursday’s architecture print competition is Tim Beale LRPS. Tim also judged our last print competition back in 2019 so we are looking forward to welcoming him back. As a taster the image below was the overall winner of our Wiltshire Architecture DPI competition last year.

As always new members are always welcomed. We meet at St Thomas’s church hall on Thursdays at 7:30pm.

Our next DPI competition has a closing date of 2 February with judging on 16 February. The theme of the competition is “Working Title”. The following is some guidance on the kind of images we’re looking for and the same briefing will be given to the judge so that we all know what to expect.

OK, so this competition is definitely entering new ground for the club. We hope it’s going to stretch our members and it’s also intended to maybe not be taken as seriously as some of our more traditionally themed competitions – but we’re still looking for stunning images! Your images should illustrate either the title of a book, a film, a song or a music album. Here is an example called Electric Avenue.

This a competition that is necessarily going to be taking liberties so your images can as well. This is not a landscape competition, digital trickery is definitely not going to be frowned upon.

We want images whose titles suit the image, images that fit the title and possibly be clever, inventive or funny at the same time. Put your thinking caps on!

This week is the Trowbridge Camera Club Annual General Meeting. There will be time for an open discussion so this is your opportunity to have your say and participate in shaping the future of the club.

In addition to the AGM, Rob Dyer our print secretary, has prepared a tutoring session on Adobe Photoshop. He will be covering:

Basic editing of RAW & JPG images

Content Aware Fill & Clone Stamp tool

Cropping/resizing images and changing file size for competitions.

If members have any specific editing technique they would like help with he will try to assist. You can bring images along on a flash drive to be edited, or send them by email to  printsecretary@trowbridgecc.co.uk.

As always new members are welcome. See you all on Thursday in the hall.

Happy New Year everyone. Our first meeting of 2023 starts with a trip to the Kingdom of the Ice Bear. This was an expedition on an historic icebreaker by Eddy and Pam Lane. The presentation will show us images of frozen landscapes and close encounters with polar bears and walruses and includes some unusual short video clips.

The meeting will be in St Thomas’s Hall and as always new members are always welcome.

Thursday is also the deadline for submissions for the Architecture print competition. If you cannot make Thursday’s meeting to hand in your prints please contact Rob Dyer (programmesecretary@trowbridgecc.co.uk) to make alternative arrangements.

This week is the judging for our second DPI Competition – the category is Street. The meeting will be in the hall and as always new members are welcome. The judge will be Ralph Snook ARPS, EFIAP/b, DPAGB.

Once again there have a good number of entries in the both groups so well done everyone and good luck.

Adventure photography is a challenging niche at the best of times, working in often dangerous conditions to capture the perfect shot whilst ensuring you and your companions don’t end up injured or dead in the process is usually par for the course. When these pursuits are taken from the caves and mountains and into the cities, factories and infrastructure that keeps modern life ticking over, the added overhead of keeping yourself unseen and out of trouble makes for an unique and understandably, rarely talked about form of photographic process.

In this talk, Max will take you on a tour of his global adventures and photography. From the catacombs of Odessa to the abandoned stations of the London Underground. From the lost Soviet outposts in the high arctic to the freight train hobos of North America. From secret tunnels behind the Niagara Falls, to the wonders of the ancient world and a lot humourless men with kalashnikovs thrown in for good measure.

Max is coming to the hall to deliver this.

As always new members are welcome.