My career in photojournalism
Andrew Hasson has been a photojournalist for about 30 years and in this period he has seen a huge change in his professional field. In the early days photojournalists earned good money and most working for newspapers were salaried and their expense claims were never...
World Zombie Day
In aid of St Mungo’s Homeless Charity – where the ‘Undead’ walk the streets of London. The experience was both fun and terrifying in equal measures. I have never taken any ‘street’ portraits – so this was a perfect walk for me, with many, many ‘people’ happily posing...
Mono Print Competition 1
The first Mono Print Club competition of the season, with our judge for the evening Helene Rogers FRPS. There were a large number of entries in each of the three categories tonight – with an even larger variety of subject matter. Helene commented several times during...
Judging Images
Tips on Judging, critiquing and self-assessing photographs In a photographic competition what does a judge look for in an image? Graeme Wales LRPS led the evening. He is a great photographer and member of the Cheam Camera Club. He trained as a judge with Surrey...
Snap Happiness
An evening with Gavin Hoey Gavin has been a photographer for 25 years and is well known for his enthusiastic YouTube videos on photography. For the last three years he has been demonstrating various photographic techniques and gear on the Adorama channel. He is well...
Colour Print Competition 1
Last night we had our first colour competition and it was great to see a good number of prints submitted under Standard, Intermediate and Advanced category. Judge Roger Mendham, of Surrey Photographic Association, spent more time in his critique of the Standard group...
Photographer of the year award
Photographer of the year 2015 in prints Colour prints: Penny Anderson Mono prints: Margot Baker Congratulations, Penny and Margot and to those who were selected by the judge as second and third and for commendation. Photographer of the year 2015 in projected digital...
Smartphone photography
By Nishi Sharma They say that the best camera is the one that you have with you. I have been taking images with my Sony Erickson Arc S for some years, only for fun. The small sensor’s poor dynamic range had prevented me from taking mobile photography seriously. Last...
Stills and movies
Last night we explored what goes in to shooting movies. There is a growing trend in the States to mix still images with movies. We watched a short movie clip that we all found very moving, which was filmed by just a Canon 7D DSLR camera fitted with a 50mm lens and a...
Annual Exhibition 2015
2015 ANNUAL EXHIBITION - GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Judged by Walter Benzie ARPS (SPA) WINNING ENTRIES (PDI) 1st: Holiday job by Marian Guess 2nd: Borage flower and buds by Kevin Austin 3rd:The Causeway by Colin Churcher Highly...
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