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Summerschool on Basic Portrait Lighting
Gavin led a summerschool workshop last week exploring how changing lighting angles and strength will affect the final image. Our model for the night, Alaine, did a wonderful job, over and above the call of duty, holding up the reflector and happily creating different poses. Gavin also showed the effect of modifyers like soft-boxes, beauty […]
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Diffraction Blur – in practice
How it affects your camera: Diffraction blur occurs naturally in every camera no matter how expensive the lens. How much blurring of the image depends on the aperture, specifically the f-number. It is not affected by the focal length of the lens; a 100mm lens at f/16 will produce the same “size” blur on the […]
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The Composite Challenge
“Composite photography can take your photographs to a world where the limits are your own imagination!” Hi Folks. Last week, Eddie presented the creative photomontage challenge with lots of inspiring images to whet your appetite. We are covering many of the subjects that you need to help you to get started, on our facebook creative photography […]
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HDR in Lightroom and Photoshop
To support the tutorial I did at OPS a couple of weeks ago, here is a tutorial I found on YouTube. Chris
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Photographic Alliance of GB Awards for Photographic Merit
Following Oldham PS member Christine Widdall’s success in achieving the MPAGB recently, it was suggested that a Blog on the subject would be appropriate. Photographic Distinctions are nothing new…the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) have a long history of awarding personal distinctions in this vein, the LRPS, ARPS and FRPS. These three levels of distinction require […]
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Colour Managed Workflow – a Primer
These tutorials are aimed at beginners in making prints. First Steps: Calibrate your monitor – if your monitor is not correct, your prints will probably not be the right colour and your projected images will also not look correct. The club has a Spyder calibrator which you can borrow – speak to the Treasurer. Basically […]
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