Timelapse Evening

Another great evening at the Liskeard Camera Club! A full night including the final part to our internally judged competition, hand in for the 2 Nature Competitions, a presentation on timelapses and a look through Jon's images from Carlyon Bay... phew!

Firstly congratulations to Ruth for first place in the final of our four-part internal competition, with the title "patterns":

The overall winner of the four-part competition was our own chairman Richard, who managed a good showing at each of the four competitions netting him enough points for the overall win!

Next we had a talk on how to produce time-lapse videos, and being the brave souls we are we created a new time-lapse of the evening in a live demonstration!

Finally, Jon gave us a presentation on his images from Carlyon Bay with his own unique twist!

Harry Wiltshire Results!

The results are in for the Harry Wiltshire competition, congratulations to Andy for 1st place with his excellent set "Tulips", the winners are as follows:

Andy, "Tulips" (Centre)
Helen, "Bread" (Bottom Right)
Richard L, "A boy and his dog" (Middle Right)

This is a particularly tough competition as each "triptych" (or panel of three in plain English!) must work not only as an individual image, but also all three images must work harmoniously with each other to create one cohesive whole.

Here are all the winners and commended images:

Long Exposure Evening

Another fun-filled practical evening at the Liskeard Camera Club! This week we were taking a closer look at long-exposure photography, with a practical emphasis on using lights to create patterns within the scene... it was great seeing everyone getting stuck in and thinking how they could use the lights to create their own unique images.

It's amazing what you can achieve with some cheap finger-lights, combined with bits of string and a stick of bamboo!

David Chapman

Nice to see such a great turn out for David Chapman's talk on his 2016 wildlife and landscape images!

3D Images

A great tutorial last night by Richard showing how you can create 3D images with a standard camera and a little Photoshop knowledge, get your 3D glasses at the ready!

Winter Competition

We're at stage 3 of our new 4 stage in-house judged competition and this week it was the theme of "winter" and we had another cracking set of images!

It seemed to be a day for animals and children with these shots taking the 3 top places (images to follow).

The competition is still wide-open with 8 people who are still in contention for the top-spot, it's all to play for in the final "patterns" category!

Harvard Release Entire Photography Course Online

Harvard has decided to release an entire photography course online, just needing you to create a very simple account.

To read more see this article on fstoppers!

https://fstoppers.com/diy/harvard-release-entire-photography-course-online-retouching-lessons-too-161653

Monochrome Competition

Wow, what a selection of images tonight! 62 images, all of an outstanding quality... so much so that the judge felt it necessary to give 5 commended awards and 5 highly commended awards on top of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places!

3rd place goes to Helen with "zebras drinking"

2nd place goes to Peter with "Global Warming"

and taking the top-spot is Janet with "The Printer"

and finally, here's all the commended and highly-commended images together with the winners

Christmas Competition

Well, what a fantastic way to end the year, plenty of food and drink and plenty of banter when trying to earn a few extra points!

Even though it was a very close call, with 4 teams all coming within 3 points of each other, in the end their can be only one winner and it was Peter's team who edged ahead to take victory... well done to everyone who took part and well done to Richard and Andy for putting the quiz together... here's to next year!

Steel Wool Photographer Accidentally Burns Down Historic 1920s Landmark

While "steel wool" photos do look great, some people do tend to forget that you are literally playing with fire and after one photographer setting fire to the gorse bushes on Durdle Door recently, here's another case of someone burning down another landmark.

Be safe out there people, it's not worth risking your life for a picture!

http://www.knowlio.org/steel-wool-photographer-accidentally-burns-down-historic-1920s-landmark/