| Some
twenty members of Ivybridge & District Camera Club
ventured out for the Club’s evening outing on
the last Tuesday of June and were pleasantly surprised
by a fine break in the weather. Members met at Bigbury
on Sea with the tide low leaving rock pools ideal for
reflections and scattered close-up opportunities. The
mounting wind saw wind surfers moving to the west beach,
ideal for some interesting silhouettes against a bright
but cloudy dramatic sky as the sun dropped.
Keith Mason and
Tony Clements experimented with colour filters while
several other members used graduated filters to enhance
the clouds and reduce the contrast range between bright
sky and foreground. Later, the scattered members re-joined
for a group photograph and, seeing as a mass of cloud
now threatened to spoil sunset, decided to retire to
a local tavern to compare notes and latent images waiting
to be retrieved from our memory cards and films.
On Tuesday 3rd July
the club was pleased to welcome four visitors to its
sixth practical evening for this year when David Rayner
covered some of Photoshop’s tools in more depth.
During a discussion about image repair, one of our visitors
was able to describe her many years of work retouching
prints and negatives in a professional studio using
special inks, pencils and incredibly fine paintbrushes.
After tea the group
took part in an interesting discussion that explored
the ever-increasing industry drive for more pixels and
asked if it necessarily meant better image quality.
The club is now
entering its summer break so the next evening meeting
will be a practical evening on September 4th. Visitors
are always welcome to our meetings held at the Community
Hall, Bittaford. This year’s programme, members’
photographs (including a series of photos from Bigbury)
and much more are all available elsewhere on this website.
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| Some
of the members of Ivybridge & District Camera
Club meet for an evening on the beach at Bigbury
on Sea. From the left: Clive Brown; Geoff Miller;
Keith Miller; Peter Pearce; Colin Lennox-Jones;
David Rayner; Geoff Brimblecombe; Angela Brimblecombe;
Margaret Martin; Allan Phillips; Graham Buckler;
Norman Simpson; Alan Davey; Keith Mason.
Photo: Keith Mason |
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