Donna Crous visited Keyworth Camera Club on the evening of January 21st via Zoom. Donna gave us a presentation called The Art of Food Photography. All the food in Donna’s photographs is real and she uses natural light to illuminate her subjects, occasionally supplemented with a Rotalight which she can set to match the temperature…
Congratulations to club member David Kissman who has received notification that he has been awarded the credit level in The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain’s awards for photographic merit. This means he can use the letters CPAGB after his name. David submitted ten images (see below) that were scored by a panel of six judges…
On Thursday 14th January, we held our Winter Treasure Hunt evening. During December, club members had been taking images to fill the 10 categories. Given the changing restrictions, all of the images could be taken indoors or out. The categories were 10am, Candlelight, Food and/or Drink, ICM, Music, Red, Reflections, Shadows, Water and Weather. The…
Thursday January 7th was our Chairman’s Evening. Rob had to organize something for this night and he invited Keith Wilson, an aviation photographer, to give us a talk on his life of photographing aircraft. This proved to be a very entertaining evening. Keith’s air-to-air images were absolutely stunning. As well as a wide variety of…
Our final meeting of 2020 was a presentation by local photographer Derek Doar DPAGB. His show was called Shared Moments and December 17th was its first outing. Derek usually uses prints to illustrate his talks but kindly agreed to convert his images to pdi’s so he could show his images via Zoom. We were certainly…
Our Third Internal competition took place on the night of December 10th. This was a dpi round that had three sections, Colour, Monochrome and the theme of Candid. Daan Oliver FRPS EFIAP agreed to assess our images and these were sent to him in advance so he could view them without any quality loss that can be caused by viewing just via Zoom….
Thursday December 3rd saw Keyworth Camera Club visited by Bill Ward via Zoom. Bill gave us his excellent presentation ‘In Search of…’. With Bill’s blessing we were joined by Nottingham Outlaws Photographic Society and many guests making this our most attended evening so far this season. Bill began by telling us about his background which…
Congratulations to Keyworth Camera Club member Sue Hall as her beautiful image of the Grantham Canal has been selected for the Rushcliffe Borough Councils charity Christmas Card this year.
On November 26th we held a member’s night that saw four volunteers from Keyworth Camera Club give us how-to presentations. These were either live demonstrations or sequences of photographs that included behind-the-scenes images. Their commentaries were both revealing and educational and allowed plenty of time for questions. First was Pete who explored the free open…
On the evening of November 19th KCC was visited, via Zoom, by Louise Walton (Langley) CPAGB to give her presentation ‘Me and Mr. Grumpy’. This is actually a joint talk with her husband Gary Langley DPAGB. This talk contained photographs covering a wide range of subject matter, so there really was something for everybody. Themes…