Storrington Camera Club

Storrington Camera Club meets on alternate Thursdays from September through to May at The Football Pavilion, Chanctonbury Leisure Centre, Spierbridge Road, Storrington, West Sussex, RH20 4PG at 7:30pm. All are welcome, most of our members are from Storrington, Pulborough, West Chiltington, Washington or Ashington.

Our Activities

Our programme covers various aspects of picture taking, presentations of high quality images, competitions and workshops. Our members are interested in making prints and projected images using digitial technology and film.

Derek Forss landscape photographer

Meeting Report

Derek ForssTonight we had a welcome return visit by Derek Forss. He has been a professional landscape photographer for many years working for, amongst many others, the National Trust and Ordinance Survey. Derek also teaches photography at Earnley (south of Chichester) and leads photographic walking holidays for HF holidays, who have a house locally - Abingworth  Hall at Thakeham. I have attended both locations and have been on a holiday in Yorkshire with Derek as tutor (not that he remembers that!). Derek showed us some of his books including a couple which are published on line with www.blurb.com where they can be obtained.

Firstly Derek went through all the Olympus camera gear that he uses for his work (he is sponsored by Olympus).

Derek's Picture Collection

Meeting Report

Derek and his MacThis evening's meeting kicked off with some of Derek's slide shows. We were shown several collections of images, starting with a couple of short ones. The longer sequence which followed contained an eclectic mix of pictures, I don't think I have ever seen the Eurofighter Tornado and mating damsel flies in the same sequence before. Derek then picked out some of the images and explained what they were and how he had gone about shooting them.

Derek is one of our top photographers and his camera skills were shown in the images he presented. He is a keen natural history photographer (something which I don't have the patience for) and showed us some remarkable images of birds and insects.

A thoroughly enjoyable presentation. Next time I must remember to ask him to take that name badge off before I photograph him.

Martin magic

Meeting Report

The second half of this evenings meeting was a very comprehensive instruction by Martin Tomes showing us how he deals with his digital images from downloading the camera's card to having it ready for printing. Sadly time did not allow him to show us fully final preparations for printing.

Martin downloads his images from a picture taking session into a folder in LlIGHTROOM  where he firstly converts all his raw files into DNG so that they can be read in future by all past and present manipulation programmes. The very latest version of say Photoshop CS4 is not necessarily able to read all files from the very latest cameras until they bring out conversion software which you can then download. All versions of Photoshop can read any DNG file.

Martin then showed us how he labels files with the date in year/month/day format. He also tags them with useful catagories such as location; subject; sunset; and then 'stacks' similar shots taken with different exposures for instance. He checks through and deletes any 'rubbish' shots,  (but Martin be aware that these shots could be competition winners!!)

Fifth Sharow Photographic Competition in June 2010

The Sharow Photographic Competition is a competition for photographers of all levels of ability - excluding full-time professional photographers. Entries are welcome from beginners as well as experienced photographers, on digital camera or film.

This year's competition is in support of Martin House Hospice.

New for 2010:

  • Online Entry for the major categories - simple, quick and secure

Click here for entry details

An Evening with Charlie Waite

Windlesham and Camberley Camera Club is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2010, and as part of this is hosting “An Evening with Charlie Waite” at High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley at 7:30pm on Saturday 6th March 2010.

Tickets are £10 each. Any Storrington Camera Club members who are interested in attending should get in touch with Martin Tomes.

Chichester Camera Club Advanced Workers Annual Exhibition

The Advanced members of Chichester Camera Club will be holding an exhibition of their work in the Village Hall, School Lane, North Mundham, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 1LA on Saturday, 23rd January 2010 from 10am-5pm. Entry is only £1 and refreshments will be available. Members will be there to chat about their images, the Club and what it does.

Many of our members have visited this exhibition in previous years and found it to be excellent. Go along to look at some prints and projected images and chat over a cup of tea, you are in for a treat.

[Download the flyer]

Tim Hulbert gets us into festive mood

Meeting Report

Our last meeting of 2009 found us with Christmas Fare - nuts crisps mince pies and mulled wine brought by some members (who I will not name as I do not know who they were sadly; but thank you)

We started the evening with the presentation of a cup by Paul to Chairman Peter which he won at the recent Sussex Fed P I competition for the Best Image_his study of 'Katie'.  Peter could not come to the competition as he was away and this all came as a complete surprise to him. Very well done Peter.

Next we had a quiz in which we had to identify camera club members from images taken of just our eyes by Tim last week. This was won by Daisy and Di Walker who both recognised all the images. One or two male members only got 2 or 3 and one did not even recognise his own wife!!  You can deduce from this who is watching who!?

The main business of the evening was the Mix and Match competition. The photography club had been divided into two teams led by Daisy and Di. One team put up an image - out of 50 PIs which had been pre-selected by the teams - and then the opposing team had to match the PI with one from their own bank. Tim was the judge and had to say whether this PI was a match or not  and which was the best image out of the two and award marks accordingly. This led to much loud banter from all and sundry as to whether they agreed or not.

Newsletter December 2010

Amazing, she only enters one, a first time for a print, and scoops the top position with a delightful posterised picture of a frolicking horse – very well done Ruth.

We did well at the Regnum Print Competition

Meeting Report

Chichester triumphed yet again! But enough of them, what about the team that came second? You guessed, it was us!

A great effort against the giants of the competition, we were ahead at the half way stage, but were pipped at the post with their last print which scored a 20, giving them victory by 2 points.

Star of our show was Derek with his “Golden Eagle with Kill” that won great praise from the judge Liz Boud.  Honourable mentions went to Daisy for “Upper Cast Neighbourhood” and Ian with “Male Broad Bodied Chaser”.

Unfortunately John Gauvin’s “Snowdrop” got marked down because it was not given its correct name of Amarillidaceae “Galanthus”.  Don’t make that mistake again John!!!

Anyway coming second out of nine clubs was a tremendous performance, and should give us encouragement for the rest of the season. I know we have some great prints for next year’s competition, which of course we will be hosting.

The scores achieved by our prints were as follows:

Syndicate content