The season is drawing to a close at Ribblesdale Camera Club with the conclusion of the Annual competitions for Prints and Digitally Projected Images. It’s been a very enjoyable year and a season in which I have put many new images into the various internal competitions. The images that were ‘Placed’ in the two annual…
The season has ended at Chorley Photo Society with the conclusion of the Annual competitions for Prints and Digitally Projected Images. It’s been a very enjoyable year and one that I have thrown myself into, pushing myself to create better images. I have represented Chorley PS in both national and regional competitions and feel that…
Chorley Photo Society has won all three of the categories in the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union’s annual club competition in 2018. There are the usual Colour, Mono and Nature categories and the club finished top of all of them, claiming the overall winner too as a result. As a result, Chorley PS will go…
Very happy to share my results from the 2018 South Birmingham BPE Exhibition. I seem to be typically achieving around 50% acceptance at the moment in these national exhibitions so was stunned to get my report card showing nine out of ten images accepted – wow 90%. Included in the nine were two Ribbons; a…
A second shoot with the Ragged Victorians produced some interesting images full of personality, character and no shortage of mischief. This small set focuses on the teenage miscreants who were always looking for an opportunity to present itself. The Ragged Victorians are a group of period enactors / educators and can be found online at…
In my last blog I talked briefly about developing your Digital Workflow and finished it with a mention of backing up your precious files. This time I will urge you to think about how safe your images are, probably stored on a hard drive inside your PC / Mac. These devices can fail mechanically or…
Lately a few people have asked about how to do bits of processing or work on digital images and how I save and back-up files. I have also recently noticed people doing things a semi-random manner whereas I, as an ex-engineer with allegedly a touch of OCD, have a fairly rigorous workflow that I adhere…
One of my camera clubs has just been crowned the best nature photography club in Great Britain in a close fought competition. The standard of nature photography is outstanding in the uk and particularly in Chorley PS so I count myself fortunate in having an image included in this winning panel. Follow this link to…
Just had a quick shoot with ‘Pip the Gentleman’ and wanted to share the results. Pip has quite a unique look about him and has a range of quality suits that make him stand out from the crowd. He is also heavily tattooed so offers a range of opportunities. The lighting set-up was fairly simple…
It seems like at this time of year everybody is reviewing the year that was so I thought I’d join in. Below are my six favourite images of 2017, not necessarily the most successful but the ones that I like the most… First up is a simple portrait of Carla Monaco from the last shoot…
I had a studio shoot with Carla Monaco at the beginning of December and have been slowly working through the images since. I shot against black / white / grey walls with the intention of compositing the images into a different scene. I have used a range of textures, overlays and scenes to create these…
I’ve just had a selection of images chosen for a couple of 2018 calendars, so if you see the Dugdales or Ragged Victorians calendars you may well come across a few familiar images. The chosen few are shown below…
