This is fairly new Battle and we have fared reasonably in the past. Hopefully we can come out victorious again.

All Prints and Digital Images are judged at each of the 3 Venues. The overall winner will be the aggregate score

Tonight, Julian will visiting from France to give us a talk on Architectural Photography in support of this season’s Gloucester Cup

Check out his work - https://www.julianelliottphotography.com/architecture-photos/

Hand-in for Round 4 of our annual competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

Our 2nd internal Photo Critique evening of the season

As before, we critique any images ourselves. Feel free to pass comment suggesting ideas for improvement etc.

Images will be obtained from the Photo-Entry system so get your images uploaded in plenty of time.

A new venue for us this year at the Fountain Inn in Westgate Street, Gloucester

We have been unable to book Misters again so this year’s venue will be the Fountain Inn.

The deadline for confirmation is mid November so we need to gather names, deposits and food choices quite quickly. The Fountain Inn comes with a very good reputation for it’s food. Details will be sent out separately.

Our 3rd round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

Judging for our Panel Competition both in Print and PDI formats

Good luck to all who have entered

Back by popular demand it seems! Lee will be zooming in to critique our images. Consider entering both your edited images and your original out of camera versions as Lee will also do some demo edits

Hand-in for Round 3 of our annual competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

Mike is a very active member of Bristol Photographic Society, he lectures on the BPS Intro To Photography course, he organises the Bristol Photographers With Disabilities group and is also the studio manager at BPS.

This talk charts his journey into creative portraits, discussing how to get started, the value of collaboration with others, thoughts composition and style, the importance of shooting for yourself, all illustrated with prints on Fotospeed papers and inks prints.  Images are accompanied with a description of the processing in an attempt to de-mystify and to encourage members of the audience to become more adventurous and have a go themselves. If time permits (rarely does) I show how I made some of the creative images, including 'before and after' shots.

To see more of Mike’s work, check out his website…

https://www.mikemartinphotography.co.uk/

Hand-In for the Panels Competition

Peter is a long time friend of Gloucester Camera Club, first visiting the club as a judge way back in 1990 and this will be his 20th visit over the years either as a judge or as a speaker

One of only 30 or so photographers in the UK to hold that very prestigious MFIAP distinction, we can expect to see work of the very highest quality.

For a brief preview of his work, take a look at his portfolio on the Smethwick PS website

https://smethwickps.co.uk/member-galleries/member-galleries-by-subject/monochrome/peter-gennard/

Our 2nd round of Judging out of 6

Good luck to all that have entered

We require a few of us to prepare a 15 minutes (max) presentation to present to Hereford Camera Club. More details to follow

We welcome Phil, (who judged Round 5 of our Annual Competition last season,) back to the club to present some of his work.

Phil says he has been an Art lover from an early age, with a particular interest in Surrealism & Expressionism. His portfolio contains classic shots of Landscapes, Nature etc. but his passion is creating "other worldly" composites from as many as 1,000 of my photographs, that give a glimpse into worlds that don't exist.

These images take many hours, sometime months, to create.

To take a look at his work, his website is:

https://philcooling.zenfolio.com/

This evening we will have 3 professional models at the club for us to photograph.

Space will be limited but we should be able to photograph Portraits

We will have Studio Lights and Remote Flash Triggers

Probably some chaos but it will be fun and informative

Hand-in for Round 2 for our Annual Competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

This is a lecture on my personal view of what judges look for in the composition of a good picture using my own photographs to illustrate. There are lots of my pictures in this lecture which I hope would be of interest to photographers of all levels of experience and include some audio-visual sequences.

Peter says that he has spent most of his life taking photographs and have been an active member of Beacon Camera Club for over 25 years. He gained his LRPS and ARPS in Visual Art and then a second ARPS in MultiMedia. He has a full range of photographic styles, turning his hand to most things, and have had success in club and regional competitions and have served as a judge for many years. His current photographic interest is in creating audio-visual sequences.

Our first of our regular round of 6 throughout the year. Let’s see if we can beat the regulars this season.

Good luck to all who have entered.

Tonight, Inaki will be zooming in from Ireland to give us a talk on Architectural Photography in support of this season’s Gloucester Cup

Inaki is a Fellow of both the RPS and the Irish Photographic Federation so you can expect to see some work of the very highest standards… To see some more of his work, check out his website - https://www.ihlphotography.com/

An introduction to Panels.

A panel is a series of normally 5 images that all balance and complement each other.

The rules for panels will be covered by Jay in the first half of this evening

An introduction to Studio Lighting

After the break we shall be setting and testing our Studio Lighting equipment. An ideal opportunity to see how it all works. Much of our equipment has not been tested since we acquired it. This is partially in preparation for the 3 Models shoot coming up very soon.

Bring your camera laong. There may be an opportunity to use it this evening

Hand-in for Round 1 of our Annual Competition

Please ensure your entries are ordered - if necessary we will cull the second image

In support of the Chairman’s Challenge Cup (Gloucester) as well as the Gloucester Cup challenge (Architecture)

We will meet in Gloucester City Centre at The Cross from 18.30pm. Some will be arriving later. We can then split into groups and look for photo-worthy shots. The approach of darkness will add an extra dimension to your photography. Bring a Tripod or some form of camera Support.

At the end we can meet in the Fountain Inn in Westgate Street from 20.45pm for a cup of tea and to discuss how we got on.

Our first Photo Critique evening of the season

As before, we critique any images ourselves. Feel free to pass comment suggesting ideas for improvement etc.

Images will be obtained from the Photo-Entry system so get your images uploaded in plenty of time.

A welcome to the new season.

A welcome to any new members

An introduction to what we have coming up this coming season

Please bring along a USB stick containing some images that you have taken over the summer months and give us a small presentation

Hand-in for Photo Critique next week

Max 10 entries. Enter in importance order. Latter entries may need to be culled if we have too many in total