Preston Photographic Society

6th Monthly competition results.

Andrew — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:49:52 +0000

We had another great competition last night, and the judge, Dave Bibby provided a great set of comments which were well thought out and well reasoned.

The podium finishes for the 6th monthly competition were:

Fox Talbot

1st Derek Clarkson – Stairz
2nd Philip Wilcock – The hidden staircase
3rd Clive Foster – The Fulling mill and cathedral

Open monochrome

1st Colin Jarvis – Imperial war museum North – Abstract
2nd Roman Bullock – Singing with passion
3rd Robert Tulley – Contemporary dancers

Open Colour

1st Ian Wells – Doha Towers
2nd Colin Jarvis Urban non-space
3rd ian Wells Udine town hall

Beginners Projected

1st Robert Turley Woman with the bowler hat
2nd Dave Cope – A foggy day
3rd Lee sutton – Lone walker

Open projected

1st Paul Iddon – Damselfly on Iris leaf
2nd Ian wells – The diving platform
3rd Sue Burton – Foundry Worker

Theme competition

1st David Simmons – Lunch Break
2nd Lee Sutton – Dalton Beauty
3rd Alf Myers – And he painted

Thanks

Sue
Sue Burton LRPS

Studio Night: 9th April 2013

Andrew — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:52:57 +0000

Last night (9th April) saw a group of photographers assemble at PPS for an evening of studio based photography. Due to a number of issues getting models, the evening was changed to a lighting demonstration based on product photography.

Peter, Yvonne, Carl, Geoff, Bernie and Andrew attended and the start of the evening was an introduction and re-cap into studio based photography. Andrew demonstrated a couple of principles with regards to light, showing the different effects small relatively hard lights produce compared to much larger “soft” lights.

The above photo shows club member Peter Batty taking a photo of a wine bottle and glasses, using backlighting to reveal the shape of the bottle. We later added a big diffusion panel which made the light softer and more wrapping.

Overall a great night was had by all. If you’d like to come along to our next portrait/studio night please put your name down on the form on the notice board.

Andrew

Tom Mackie Lecture Thursday 8th November

Andrew — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:39:09 +0000

Thursday the 8th November was a special day for Preston Photographic society. We had world renowned landscape photographer Tom Mackie with us providing a great lecture about his landscape work.

We saw a huge selection of amazing landscapes ranging from places as far afield as Iceland, the Lake District and several of the big parks in America (Bryce Canyon etc etc).

This was all delivered in Tom’s usual highly engrossing style, with plenty of humour too.

Tom had been to Preston Photographic Society as couple of years ago and we had a sell out crowd then. Thursday was no different with the room being packed – it’s surely one of the highlights of the year so far, and something which our newer members seemed to really appreciate.

Winter PhotoWalks announced.

Andrew — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:42:28 +0000

Our new winter PhotoWalks have been announced by Outdoor Events Co-Ordinator, Peter Batty. Our first winter PhotoWalk is to Delamere forrest and is on Sunday 4th November 2012.

You can find out more information by visiting our PhotoWalks page here.

Members evening: Thursday 25th October 2012.

Andrew — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:29:47 +0000

Thursday 25th October saw the first members evening of the season. We had a great night with members showcasing their work and providing an insight into their thoughts and motives behind their work.

We had excellent presentations from Phil Wilcock, Pam Guy, Melvin Nicholson, Nancy Barrett, Ian Wells, Tony Higginson, Paul Iddon Geoff Clarke and Andrew Woodhouse.

It was a great opportunity to see the different types of work going on it the club, from Phil’s excellent black and white fox talbot work, through to Mel’s urban exploration images, seeing examples of portrait photography from Tony, landscape photography from Pam Nancy and Ian, macro focus stacking techniques from Paul and commercial photography from Andrew. Geoff provided an excellent insight to a variety of subjects including wildlife with a couple of stunning examples of Kingfishers.

Overall it was a fun evening and the feedback so far has been extremely positive. We look forward to holding more of these events throughout the year and seeing other members’ work.

Next week (1st November) is our second monthly competition. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Wilkinson Digital Splash Exhibition | Preston Photographic Society

Carmit Erez — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:55 +0000

On 14 October 2012, Preston Photographic Society held an exhibition at the University of Central Lancashire, as part of Wilkinson Cameras Digital Splash. The event featured top photo brands and a series of talks, including a keynote from Charlie Hamilton James and talks by Will Cheung, editor of Advanced Photographer magazine, and John Clements.

The exhibition featured winning entries from Preston Photographic Society competitions held over the past year, as well as a DVD display with selected images by society members, and was admired by many visitors. Will Cheung also dropped in for a look and chatted with several members of the society that were in attendance about the magazine’s current portfolio interests.

The society is planning a number of exciting exhibitions in the coming months. Be sure to visit our website for details of upcoming events.

2011/2012 Competition Winners

Andrew — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:25:15 +0000

Our club competitions continue to be really well supported. We’ve already had a strong entry for the first competition of the 2012/2013 season and the second monthly comp is looking very promising indeed.

For reference, here’s a list of overall winner from last season…

League Comps:

Prints:

Fox Talbot: Derek Clarkson
Open Mono: Derek Clarkson
Open Colour: Maxwell Knowles

PDI

Open PDI: Vic Wardle
Themed: Mike Freeman
Beginners: Tim Gilbert

Three on a Theme: Ian Wells

Opening night: Print: Colin Jarvis
PDI: Andrew Wilcox

AudioVisual: Gwynn Robinson.

Print of the Year: Ian Wells
PDI of the year: Maxwell Knowles

Photowalks

Winners

Prints: Ian Wells
Pdi: Vic Wardle

Hand in for second monthly competitions, Thursday 18th October.

Andrew — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:56:26 +0000

This coming Thursday (18th October) is the hand in date for our next monthly competition. As always there are 6 categories, Fox Talbot (traditional black and white prints), Open Colour Print, Open Mono Print, Beginners Projected, Open Projected and the Monthly Theme projected.

The theme for this month’s entries is “Something New”.

Please bring your prints along on Thursday evening, with your member number, image title, month of competition (e.g. month 2) and category on the top left of the back of the print.

Good luck!

Preston Guild Photography Competition.

Andrew — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:27:06 +0000

Due to our close working relationship with the City Council and to help get the message out they have asked that we provide a link to the following competition.

The task is to take an image which strongly features the letter G. They have a great prize up for grabs(an Apple iPad 3rd generation – the latest one).

It is open to anyone and the link is as follows:

http://www.prestonguild2012.com/g-photo

I think it’s quie an interesting one to enter, the creative possibilities are numerous.

March Forum Competition: Winner Announced.

Andrew — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:07:22 +0000

The voting is now closed for March’s forum competition, and I’m pleased to announce that the winner is Joe Hargreaves with his image titled : “Spring”.

Congratulations to Joe.