Tues Sept 3rd 2024 Welcome Meeting and Share an Image
7.30pm United Reformed Church Hall, Oldfield Drive, Vicars Cross, CH3 5LL
Bring along images to show what you have been doing or come along and see what other members have been shooting. Images can be in any format, digital or print. Guests most welcome – £4 on the door.
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Tues 10th September 2024 Colin Jarvis with MONO MOODS
7.30pm over ZOOM
Colin Jarvis is a professional landscape photographer based in the North West of England:
Mono moods: is a digital mono presentation showing a large selection of my mono photography. It runs through my techniques, and covers long exposure, Infrared architecture and landscape. I also demonstrate some Photoshop techniques to show a ‘before’ and ‘after’ of one of the images from the raw file to the finished image. The presentation includes a large selection of my monochrome work including long exposure coastal minimalism, architecture, landscape and infrared photography.
I have worked as a photographer and educator for many years and my experience as a teacher brings together my passion, skills and love of photography with the ability to easily communicate and teach photography at every level in my workshops, whether the client is a beginner or more experienced practitioner.
My work has been featured in books and magazines as well as exhibited in London, Liverpool and Manchester. I am a skilled practitioner in both digital and large format film photography and have taught Photography in both colleges and schools and lectured at Photographic Societies. I hold a Master of Arts in Photography and I am an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. I have appeared in the Landscape Photographer of the Year book and subsequent exhibition as well as in a number of photography journals.
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Tues 17th September 2024 ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY PRACTICAL SESSION
7.30pm United Reformed Church Hall, Oldfield Drive, Vicars Cross, CH3 5LL
Bring your camera and items to photograph – have a look round the house / shed / garden to see what you can find. Look for textures, colour and shape. Glass, old metal, fabric, paper etc etc. We will set up tables with lighting.
Guests most welcome – £4 on the door
PLEASE NOTE – Tonight is also the Hand In for the first of the Two part OPEN Competition.
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Tues 24th September 2024 – TOM LEE with GESTALT
7.30pm United Reformed Church Hall, Oldfield Drive, Vicars Cross, CH3 5LL
Guests most welcome £4 on the door
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Tuesday 1st October 2024 – First OPEN Competition Judging
7.30pm United Reformed Church Hall, Oldfield Drive, Vicars Cross, CH3 5LL
An opportunity to hear the judges comments about Prints and Digital Images. Guests most welcome – £4 on the door.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024 – LIGHTROOM Follow-Up with Robin Whalley of Lenscraft.
7.30pm over ZOOM
This session is a follow-up to the Lightroom introduction from last season and as time allows may include (some of the newer) features in Lightroom such as :
Colour Mixer and Colour Grading tools
Defringe tools
Denoise
Lens Blur
Snapshots.
The Print module including soft proofing
Through his company Lenscraft, Robin, a landscape photographer, has an ambition, “I want to help 1 million photographers improve their photo editing through my tutorials, YouTube videos, books, and courses. I also want to do this whilst charging realistic and affordable prices. Why should the benefits of photo editing skills be restricted to those with the deepest pockets? Knowing how to improve an image should be open to everyone who loves and is passionate about creating great photography.”
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Tuesday 22nd October 2024 – Street Photography with Peter Merry
7.30pm over Zoom
Peter Merry is a street photographer based in London. His photography explores the urban; looking at how people live and interact with their surroundings. His images often capture poetic and dreamlike elements of the city and rarely include identifiable people (other than during demonstrations and events). Most of his photography is presented in triptych or project form, preferring collections to single images.
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Tuesday 29th October 2024– Judging of the 2nd Open Print and DPI Competition
7.30pm United Reformed Church Hall, Vicars Cross
Visitors most welcome, £4 Pay on the door.
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Tuesday 05th November 2024 – Introduction to Still Life with Denis O’Reilly
7.30pm over Zoom
Based in Kilkenny, Ireland, Denis specialises in Fine Art Flower and Still Life Photography. He is an Associate of the Irish Photographic Federation (AIPF), the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS)and a member of Kilkenny Photographic Society.
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Tuesday 12th November 2024
Mobile Phone Practical Photography evening with Ian Southerin.
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Ian is a Professional photographer who will lead a practical evening – so don’t forget to bring along your mobile phones.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 19th November 2024 –Tracy Lund returns with Wildlife Photography Part 4.
7.30pm over Zoom.
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Tuesday 26th November 2024
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Judging of the Nature Prints and Digital Projected Images.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 03rd December 2024 – A learning Curve with Justin Minns
Over the last few years, I have become increasingly absorbed by landscape photography. This presentation aims to pass along some of the things I have learnt during that time, illustrated by plenty of images.
7.30pm over Zoom.
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Tuesday 10th December 2024 – PORTRAIT Practical Evening
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Bring along your cameras. We will provide lighting. We will have a model but would also encourage members to take a turn posing to allow everyone to try out the various lighting set-ups. Wear different hats etc – let’s be creative !
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 17th December 2024 – Christmas Mobile Phone Image and Social Evening
Last year we held a novelty vegetable competition when members voted for their favourite image.
This time we would like everyone to bring along a Christmas themed DPI taken on a Mobile Phone and a small contribution to the buffet – the last meeting of the year.
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Tuesday 07th January 2025
Michael Berkeley
An Introduction to Sport and Music Photography
This talk explains how to get started in sport and music photography, highlighting key lessons by bringing out what works and what doesn’t. It reveals what it’s like working in an environment where anything can happen at a moment’s notice and where lighting is outside your control.
The first half of the talk sets out the key principles, using examples from football and cricket, as well as photographing at The Joiners music venue in Southampton. The second half covers some case studies, including photographing at a music festival, a cycling event, and a basketball match.
The talk is profusely illustrated and the metadata is provided for each of the images, which means that there is something for everyone. The aim is to enthuse those who have not taken sport and music photographs before to go out and give it a try – and feel that they have the knowledge and skills to do so successfully.
Talk 7.30pm over Zoom
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Tuesday 14th January 2025
Judging of the Monochrome Prints and DPI’s
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 21st January 2024
7.30pm over Zoom.
Robin Whalley returns with a demonstration of Photoshop techniques:
1. Adjustments and selection tools in Adobe Camera RAW, starting with a RAW file.
2. Using the transform tools to change the perspective of a landscape.
3. Dodging and Burning using Luminosity Masks – I will probably use either TK Actions or Lumenzia (Photoshop Plugins) to produce the Luminosity Masks, but I can also demonstrate a manual method as well.
4. Painting with colour through a luminosity mask. This will make use of blending modes as will the Dodging and Burning above.
5. I’ll demonstrate my version of the Orton Effect using a frequency Separation generated in TK Actions.
I plan to demonstrate these techniques using several different images.
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Tuesday 28th January 2024
Photoshop Q & A session based on Robin Whalley’s talk.
We are hoping to go over the basics of using Layers, Luminosity Masks and making selections.
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 4th February
Award Winning Photographer Tony North ABPE MPAGB brings us his new talk Scapes 2-Urban & Creative
7.30pm over Zoom.
Scapes 2: Urban and Creative
In this talk I cover my cityscapes and other urban images, and also my creative work mainly involving multiple exposures. You can view my landscapes here and some of my award winning shots here.
As with Scapes 1 I share some tips and techniques, as well as anecdotes about the locations and experiences of shooting the scenes. I also mention some of my inspirations, including Sandra Bartocha and Pep Ventosa.
As we go along I will discuss some important themes in these genres of photography, such as when to convert to mono and when to go with colour. We will also look at when images benefit from the presence of people.
The talk is structured as follows:
1. Introduction and gear used
2. Urban landscapes, from locations including Manchester, London, Italy and India. Images include traditional cityscapes, night shots and light trails, and street photography.
3. Creative images – multiple exposures and ICM shots of the urban environment, some including people.
4. Live demo of how I create one of my urban creative images
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Tuesday 11th February
Judging of the Abstract Prints & DPI’s
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 18th February
More Than Meets the Eye with Andy Phillips
Andy Phillips is well-known as a professional Photographer, Teacher &
Lecturer.
He specialises in Landscape and Smallscape photography and Adobe
Photoshop.
Trained by master of Landscape Photography, Paul Gallagher of Aspect2i.
He has an easy-going manner and people just relax in his company, thus
paving the way for learning.
7.30pm over Zoom.
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Tuesday 25th February 2025– Judging of the PEOPLE Print and DPI Competition
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 4th March 2025
Selections in Adobe Photoshop with Keith Fitzpatrick
Zoom 7.30pm
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Tuesday 11th March 2025
Camera – Practical Q & A Session
Bring in your cameras !
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
This is also the hand in night for entries to the President’s Theme Competition – “Moonlight”
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 18th March 2025
Architectural Photography with Thomas Peck
Zoom 7.30pm
Architectural Photography
Images of buildings, particularly black & white, long exposure, ‘fine art’ photographs of modern architecture, have become very popular recently. This talk will take us through image making techniques and processing tips to create spectacular photographs of buildings, with examples from London, Paris, Venice & York, whether using a high end DSLR or just a mobile phone.
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Tuesday 25th March 2025
Judging of the Moonlight Competition
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 1st April 2025 – Please note this has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. NO meeting this evening
The Seeing Eye with Paul Mitchell
Paul talks about looking beyond the obvious and includes exploring details,
textures and shapes found in both nature and man made objects. He will
also explain various creative techniques such as intentional camera
movement, multiple exposures through to the use of creative lenses and
filters.
Biography
Born in Yorkshire, Paul’s interest in photography started in his teens with a
simple 35mm rangefinder camera, gaining a more formal education in
photography whilst studying Graphic Design at Art College. His career in
Graphic Design spanned some 45 years, running his own design business
for the past 35 years. Over the last decade his photography has gained
momentum and now devotes most of his time lecturing and running
photography workshops.
Paul has had numerous exhibitions in the UK and has had articles and
images published in many photography magazines. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Photographic Society, he is currently the Chair of the Landscape
distinctions panel and also sits on the Visual Art and Photobooks panels.
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Guests welcome – £4 pay on the door.
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Tuesday 15th April 2025
United Reformed Church Hall, Vicar’s Cross at 7.30pm.
Annual General Meeting , Social Evening & Fun Competition “APRIL SHOWERS”
Bring a contribution to the Buffet and an image.
Chester Photographic Society 