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The Dick & Dave Show
Sounds cheesy but in fact a most entertaining evening. Dick Williams and Dave Wilcox are both members of the Essex A/V Group and Dick is actually the ‘Chair’ member. They both begin the evening with some back ground on their careers and explain the contrast of the equipment they worked with then to now. Good [...]
FCC Workshop: Sensor Cleaning DIY
This week FCC held a sensor cleaning workshop (for the brave), here’s a shot before any cleaning started. You can do this by setting to the smallest aperture (F22 in this case) and shooting against a pure white back drop.
I used a blower on the sensor which provided some improvements as seen in this image.
But [...]
Welcome Back Evening & 10’s Competition
Todays session centered on an an array of opening club tasks that include preparation of work for club competition, subscription fee payments etc. But, most interesting was the rundown of last seasons 10’s competition. 85 images were voted to the last 10 before again selecting the final 3rd, 2nd and 1st place. Basil our chair [...]
Festival of Arts - Critique Evening
The evening of the 7th May saw the Farnborough Festival of Arts photographic competition critique evening – our judge (seen below) made comment on all the entries and explain his selection of prize winners. A superb evening as the audience challenged his decisions (all in good taste). The winners were outstanding pieces of work as [...]
Panel Competition - 2 Themed Panels of 3
Update: The results from this competition have now been updated on the Farnborough Camera Club website for 2009
This was new this Print Panel Competition (2 themed panels of 3 prints), almost triptych like…the club displayed a selection of superb themed images most were exceptional. I had seen some of the images before, so members had [...]
Digital Image Inter-Club Match Farnborough v Ludshott
Well the gloves were off for this knuckle dusting performance between the two photo clubs, I think last time these clubs met Farnborough took the winings so this time Ludshott Photo Club came in blasting and went home the victors. Our judge repeated several times throughout the evening “there’s some good quality photography here” and [...]
Creating Order out of Chaos
Creating Order out of Chaos
Chris who attended and presented to the club gave a wonderful insight into his own personal favourite images. These images he stated were not for competition, not for the satisfaction of award, but rather for the taking away of the viewer, from ‘looking’ to ’seeing’ Doing a search on the net [...]
Annual Slide & Digital Image Competitions
The Annual Slide & Annual Digital Image Competitions just passed on Thursday (2 slides, 2 digital images). The digital entries totalled 41 for the club, a hugh amount to go through, comment and then rate in order of 3rd, 2nd and 1st including highly commended. I entered two into the digital category and got blown [...]
Studio Session: Adv/Basic
This is Emma, she served as one of three superb models for us at the club session. Ken brought around his white background and Basil our session leader set it up with a couple of additional flash units to give that blown out white background.
I managed to get a few goodies for the evening, but [...]
Annual Print Competition
The club annual print competition was held this week on the 2nd April 2009. All members were allowed to enter (2 open, 1 portrait and 1 creative print). Our judge for the event would be Tony Riley LBIPP
An interesting event indeed Tony never held back any punches telling it exactly how it was and how [...]