January 26th
TENBY CAMERA CLUB NEWS
Tenby Camera Club has enjoyed the last 2 weeks starting with an excellent talk on the 17th January . Graham Harries of “gphotography” visited the club to deliver his talk “What I Do”. Graham who is from Llanelli, has good experience photographing weddings, concerts, sports, food and all sorts of events . He sells his work to magazines, agencies and as stock photos. He is a member of the Llanelli Photographic Society.
Though the years he has photographed many household names including Girls Aloud, Meatloaf, Bry-an Ferry & Lesley Garrett. He & his wife have been shortlisted as one of the top 5 Wedding Photogra-phers in West Wales at the Welsh National Wedding Awards.
Running through a wide range of photographs, Graham emphasised you must develop your own style, try not to take photos in a particular way just to enter competitions. He wanted to inspire us to do something different. Graham has an interest in derelict buildings, particularly from World War 2. There were many shots of unusual ruins taken in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
Also covered was his style of Urban Photography, honed well from entering the London based “photo 24” competition. This is a continuous 24 hour photo marathon with hourly challenges.
His new interest is drone photography . It was great to see images of familiar locations with a different aspect.
Two short videos were shown at the end, of Iceland and of Chernobyl. Graham tried to encourage us to use video more to capture movement and sound . He had authorised access to the Chernobyl area so the video of that was very thought provoking ….but this will be a future talk !
On the 24th January we held an internal mini competition . Members can enter 4 digital images on the chosen subject Portraiture . The audience then score the images to place the first 5 images, There was a full range of subjects , children, dogs, gritty male faces, soft looking beautiful women and a cat to name a few !
The results were,in first place Cheryl Hewitt with “Face of Memories” , a local army veteran from the second World War taken at Wings over Carew. Second was “Lara” by Jo Wakeman a very pretty child and third was Dave Bolton with a beautifully exposed image of a dog . Other placings were Jo Wakeman in 4th , Cheryl Hewitt in 5th and Al Rees and Ray Hornett sharing joint 6th.
We were then lucky to have a session of comments from member & WPF judge Harry Gardiner . He chose several images from the entries to explain why it may have done well, how it could be improved . Images which provoked emotion did well with a mixed audience. We also had member Gill MacKay advising on post production work which may help an image . We were fortunate to have 2 experienced members helping with the development of skills . Many thanks to them both.
Next week on the 31st January, we have Gill MacKay giving her maiden talk about Ironman photog-raphy , panning and Street Photography .
Tenby Camera Club has enjoyed the last 2 weeks starting with an excellent talk on the 17th January . Graham Harries of “gphotography” visited the club to deliver his talk “What I Do”. Graham who is from Llanelli, has good experience photographing weddings, concerts, sports, food and all sorts of events . He sells his work to magazines, agencies and as stock photos. He is a member of the Llanelli Photographic Society.
Though the years he has photographed many household names including Girls Aloud, Meatloaf, Bry-an Ferry & Lesley Garrett. He & his wife have been shortlisted as one of the top 5 Wedding Photogra-phers in West Wales at the Welsh National Wedding Awards.
Running through a wide range of photographs, Graham emphasised you must develop your own style, try not to take photos in a particular way just to enter competitions. He wanted to inspire us to do something different. Graham has an interest in derelict buildings, particularly from World War 2. There were many shots of unusual ruins taken in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
Also covered was his style of Urban Photography, honed well from entering the London based “photo 24” competition. This is a continuous 24 hour photo marathon with hourly challenges.
His new interest is drone photography . It was great to see images of familiar locations with a different aspect.
Two short videos were shown at the end, of Iceland and of Chernobyl. Graham tried to encourage us to use video more to capture movement and sound . He had authorised access to the Chernobyl area so the video of that was very thought provoking ….but this will be a future talk !
On the 24th January we held an internal mini competition . Members can enter 4 digital images on the chosen subject Portraiture . The audience then score the images to place the first 5 images, There was a full range of subjects , children, dogs, gritty male faces, soft looking beautiful women and a cat to name a few !
The results were,in first place Cheryl Hewitt with “Face of Memories” , a local army veteran from the second World War taken at Wings over Carew. Second was “Lara” by Jo Wakeman a very pretty child and third was Dave Bolton with a beautifully exposed image of a dog . Other placings were Jo Wakeman in 4th , Cheryl Hewitt in 5th and Al Rees and Ray Hornett sharing joint 6th.
We were then lucky to have a session of comments from member & WPF judge Harry Gardiner . He chose several images from the entries to explain why it may have done well, how it could be improved . Images which provoked emotion did well with a mixed audience. We also had member Gill MacKay advising on post production work which may help an image . We were fortunate to have 2 experienced members helping with the development of skills . Many thanks to them both.
Next week on the 31st January, we have Gill MacKay giving her maiden talk about Ironman photog-raphy , panning and Street Photography .