Bird Photography Simplified | 12 January 2021 |
This presentation was a first for Devizes Camera Club, we welcomed a photographer from overseas to our Zoom! meeting. Glenn Bartley joined us from Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada.
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Projected Image League | 5 January 2021 |
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Christmas Lights 2020 | |
![]() A few club members went out recently and took photos of the Christmas lights in their area and added them to an Album on the DCC Facebook. Mostly festive street scenes, but some members came up with a few different ideas as well. ![]() Another photo was a rather topical 'sign of the times' by Bridget Codrington showing the Social Distancing sign and all the clutter in the lit up Marlborough High Street. left Other images in the album were by Helena Chambers, Richard Blackbourne, Pam Mullings, Jennifer Skjoldbro and you can see them all by going to our DCC Facebook. |
Christmas Knock-out Competition | 15 December 2020 |
The club’s usual Christmas Knock-out looked a little different this year but nevertheless we were still able to have Santa as Master of Ceremonies as usual even though we were all sitting in our own homes to see him! |
Photoshop Clinic | 8 December 2020 |
The club was pleased to welcome back a former club member, Ray Grace ARPS DPAGB to give members advice about solving Photoshop problems and demonstrating new techniques. |
Projected Image Competition (Print 1) | 1 December 2020 |
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'Show and Tell' | 24 November 2020 |
Images: Westwoods by Megan Boardman Elterwater by Tony Leach Kimmeredge Bay, Dorset by Gerald Clarke |
From Camera to Print | 17 November 2020 |
In our latest Zoom! meeting, Tim Jones from Fotospeed gave us a presentation entitled From Camera to Print. Tim started by telling us a bit about his photographic journey, including working with hard rock bands around Europe followed by many years doing assignments involving schools, weddings, portraiture and product placement. He then explained that he wanted to talk about the 3 foundations of printing - the camera, the computer and the printer. |
Open Projected Image Competition No 2 | 10 November 2020 |
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Up Your Photography | 3 November 2020 |
Club members had a very entertaining and informative evening when Phil Savoie gave us an excellent presentation on how to get the very best out of your photographs. See Phil's website for amazing images |
Smartphone photography - more than just a camera on a phone | 27th October 2020 |
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Nature Competition 2020 | 20 October 2020 |
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Photographing Wiltshire | 13 October 2020 |
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Following the Herds | 7 October 2020 |
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Competition 1 Open Projected Images | 29 September 2020 |
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Sports Photography | 22 September 2020 |
Nicki Douglas-Lee is a professional photographer based in Devizes and gave the club a Zoom presentation showing the various sports events that she photographs both locally and further afield. |
Southern Iceland | 15 September 2020 |
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Working with Textures | 8 September 2020 |
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Seeing the Light – 25 Years of Landscape and Nature Photography Techniques | 1 September 2020 |
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Summer Social Event | 29 August 2020 |
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Nature and Macro - 'Show and Tell' | 25 August 2020 |
"This is my favorite image from the Lockdown months, not because it is photographically brilliant, but for it's therapeutic value at the time of taking it. One month into Lockdown, and I heard we could drive a short distance to go for a local walk, so I went to a local wood to catch the end of the bluebell season. I re-live the overwhelming sense of freedom tranquility and peace I experienced when I look at this photo, after 4 weeks of solitary living, and walking the streets for exercise. Everything was wrong about it! I had the macro lens on, 45mm, on F5.6, so depth of field was too narrow, the composition was tricky as there was so much going on, and hard to pinpoint a subject, and the light was poor as it was overcast and dull. I spent 2 glorious hours there before returning to my confinement, but happy in the knowledge I could return here every day if I so wished. "
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The Southampton International Exhibition 2020 | 11 August 2020 |
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The Art of Travel Photography by Chris Upton | 28 July 2020 |
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'The Power of Personal Projects' | 14 July 2020 |
On 14th July, Glyn Dewis joined us on Zoom! to give his presentation on The Power of Personal Projects. |
Polina Plotnikova FRPS EFIAP – 'Starting from a Blank Canvas' | 30 June 2020 |
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Mark Pain - Award Winning Sports Photography at the Olympics and Beyond | 16 June 2020 |
In the second of our Zoom! Summer Programme, Devizes Camera Club welcomed Mark Pain to deliver a presentation on Sports Photography. A Nikon Ambassador, Mark is a multi-award winning sports photographer, having won the Sports Photographer of the Year Awards in 2005 and 2011. He covers a wide range of sports including football and rugby World Cups, golf Ryder Cups and athletics World Championships. He has also been involved in 4 Olympic Games, winning the Olympic Photographer of the Year award from British Airways in 2012. |
An evening of Photoshop Tuition with Clive and Joan Ryder Rathband | 2 June 2020 |
Members thanked Clive and Joan for showing them how their images could be brought to life using the tools in Photoshop 2000. |
Annual General Meeting | 19 May 2020 |
The club AGM was rather different this year as members could not actually meet face to face as usual but had to meet up in a rather different 'virtual' world. |
A win for the Ladies - again! | 12 May 2020 |
Almost the end of the 2019-2020 season and the last competition was a ‘battle’ between the ladies and the gents of the club. Billed as a ‘fun’ event, nonetheless members do take it very seriously and both genders are all out to win! |
Print & Projected Image of the Year 2019-2020 | 5 May 2020 |
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'What Aperture for Antarctica' | 28 April 2020 |
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‘The Sea and Me’ | 21 April 2020 |
In a first for Devizes Camera Club, on Tuesday 21st April we used the Cloud Meetings App, Zoom!, to host Roger Crocombe ARPS and his presentation entitled 'The Sea and Me' as the Coronavirus lockdown prevents us all from travelling. |
AV Competition & Outdoor Photography under Lockdown | 14 April |
Again the club was able to have a ‘virtual meeting’ to show the sequences entered in the club Audio-Visual competition. Postponed from earlier members were able to view and hear the comments of the judge Tony Byram ARPS DPAGB APAGB. |
Open PI Competition 3 - results | 7 April 2020 |
The Open PI Completion 3 turned out to be a new experience as because of the lockdown it had to be judged remotely but due to the wizardry of the internet members could view the images and hear the judges comments from their own homes. |
Quad Battle Results | 17th March 2020 |
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Creative Competition 2020 |
![]() Kindly the judge Beryl Heaton ARPS, EFIAP, CPAGB has sent her comments and given the awards. ![]() The trophy was presented to the club in 2011 to encourage more creative images which are so popular with many clubs and are often the winners in the National & International competitions. Maybe next year members might find a bit more creativity!! The 9 creative images and the judges comments will be shown below. Anyway we have the results – in first place was ‘Bolt from the Blue’ by Pam Mullings. The judge liked the scared look on the models face, the hair standing on end and the way the lightning streamed down. In second place was ‘Nesting Time’ by Pam Mullings – described by the judge as a fun image. She said that she enjoyed the model’s expression with the eyes looking up in the direction of the ‘hat’ and the pigeon. The hat has been expertly constructed to resemble a nest. The judge commented that she didn’t normally pick out images in the same genre for awards like this but felt that these two portraits were first class. In third place was ‘Knock Knock’ by David Eagle. The judge said it was a nice idea with well-chosen elements showing all types of doors from modern to old fashioned with different colours. The woodpecker using the knocker is fantastic. ![]() Well done everyone who entered and at least had a go! A very special thanks to the judge for sending her comments. Thanks to the competition secretaries who have had so much to do sorting out these cancelled meetings and changes of judges. The results of the Audio Visual competition which was also changed should be with us after the next competition. Keep smiling and maybe try a bit of creativity if you have some spare time on your hands! PM All the entries and the judges comments Awarded Image Gallery
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