Author: Brian Osborne

Our Christmas Dinner

Hi Folks, The club had its Christmas Dinner last Saturday in the Urmston Hotel.  The meal was very nice indeed with a good choice from the Christmas menu.  I stuck with the soup, turkey and Christmas pud.  The night was…

Product Photography

Club night this week was very entertaining and illuminating – in every sense of the word.  For example I now know how to photograph a bottle of ice cold Lager, in a warm studio, in the middle of June and…

4 Way Battle

Yesterday – 22nd Nov., the club hosted an annual four club competition.  Our guests were members from Sale P.S., MAPS (Manchester Amateur P.S.), and Stockport P.S.  The judge for the evening was Keith Barber who, as judges go, had four…

Public Vote on our Exhibition

Visitors to our recent annual Photo Exhibition were invited to vote on what images on display they favoured the most.  The choice was made on a First choice Second choice  and Third choice voting slip. When all the votes were…

Bokeh

We did a practical evening this week on the blurry topic of Bokeh.  (Japanese term for soft focus) Differential Focus or Depth of Field are other terms  which describe the affect of using the focal sharpness range of a lens,…

Club Events Comp.

We held our annual ‘club events’ competition last Wednesday.  Here members can submit up to 3 prints and 3 digital projected images of images taken during organised club events.  To Judge this competition we had the well respected Brian Law,…

Weekend away 2017

Our club tries to get away for an annual club weekend together.  This year we went to a little town in Shropshire called Much Wenlock.  The area around is very rural and quintessentially English….Anglo Saxon almost.  And yet, paradoxically, here…