Mon 16 Dec 2024 - Christmas quiz and Fish and chip supper
The fabulous Barry will be running the Christmas quiz and fish and chips supper again this year.
More information To follow.
Mon 9 Dec 2024 - Internal Competition: Print Round 2 (Monochrome)
We welcome back judge Lloyd Moore to the club for our mono print competition.
Mon 2 Dec 2024 - Club night
Club night, more details to follow
**REMINDER**
Bring entries for the Mono print competition. PDI's to be uploaded to the website by Monday 2nd December at 10pm.
Mon 25 Nov 2024 - Passion for seascapes- landscape- long exposure- zoom lecture by Kevin Pigney
We welcome Kevin Pigney back for a zoom lecture
Mon 18 Nov 2024 - Nature Image of The Year (PDI)
We welcome judge Ben Pike back to the club for our Nature image of the year PDI competition.
Mon 11 Nov 2024 - Jon Gray: My Life Behind the Lens
We welcome Jon to the club for the first time.
Jon has been a professional Fashion, Advertising and Lifestyle photographer,
He has had over forty five year’s experience in the commercial world of the advertising. Commissioned by leading Agencies and clients; Saatchi and Saatchi, Vogue, Gucci, British Airways, Getty Images, The BBC, and a variety of E Commerce companies.
He has turned all his years of experience into teaching at Universities, Colleges and photographic associations, The RPS, The B.I.P.P.
Thu 7 Nov 2024 - External Comp: 4 way battle - hosts Letchworth GC
4 Way competition between Stevenage/H2/Welwyn GC/Letchworth GC
The Settlement, Nevells Rd, Letchworth Garden City SG6 4UB
Mon 4 Nov 2024 - Internal Competition: Print Round 1 (Open)
We welcome back judge Caroline Preece for our round 1 print competition.
Mon 28 Oct 2024 - External Competition: Beds Invitational
External competition, judged by Alison Jenkins.
More information to follow.
**REMINDER** Please bring entries for the round 1 print competition tonight and ensure PDI's are uploaded to the website by tonight at 10pm.
Mon 21 Oct 2024 - Internal Competition: PDI Round 1 (Open)
We welcome judge Andre Neves for the Open PDI (round 1) competition.
entries will need to have been submitted by Midnight on Wednesday 16th October to be included.
Mon 14 Oct 2024 - Macro Photography -Ken Payne
We are delighted for Ken Payne to return to the Stevenage Photographic Society to give a lecture about Macro Photography. His lecture will include a presentation showing the equipment he uses and how he uses daylight for the lighting. LED lights are used occasionally for the fill. Then there will be a video to show us from start to finish how he processes the images adding a new background for the final touch. Finally there will be another slide show presentation of flower shots.
**REMINDER- Please upload entries for the PDI round 1 competition by Wednesday 16th...
Mon 7 Oct 2024 - Studio night- Macro
Bring along your still life objects cameras and macro lenses (if you have one) for a night to practice some Macro/ still life Photography.
Mon 30 Sep 2024 - Chris Shepherd- looking local
We are pleased to be welcoming Chris Shepherd back to the club for his Lecture Looking Local.
"As photographers we often suffer from “Locational Myopia”, constantly wishing we were in some exotic location with the best possible equipment. In this talk, I detail my fight with locational Myopia and ways to overcome it as well as a personal journey to become a landscape photographer." Chris Shepherd
Mon 16 Sep 2024 - Prints and Mounting
Sharing hints and tips as a guide on how to prepare images for printing and mounting,
Will include:
Preparing image: image resizing, colour space, metadata, (Lightroom and Photoshop).
Preparing for printing: softproofing, commerical labs ie SimLab, personal printers, paper selection, mounting
Q&A of competitions including how we select for External Competitions
Mon 9 Sep 2024 - Welcome Back!
A welcome back for the new season. A look at what is ahead for the 2024-2025 season within the programme and competition updates. We will also have a look at images from the summer programme.