Camera Rotation Photography
Here’s a technique you may not have come across before. The subject is chosen to fill only part of the image frame with the other part dark. Then the camera is rotated and a second image fills the missing portion – all in one long exposure with judicious use of the lens cap.
Village Hall Photo Competition
All details on their Facebook Page.
“Allied Westminster want this competition to celebrate village life and the vital role that village halls play in our communities. They want to champion the roles that these venue play in bringing all our communities together.
The Judges will be looking for photos that encapsulate that sense of village community and not just a pretty village image. So please get those camera out and start snapping the perfect picture for your community.”
52 Week Photography Challenge
Do you want even more photographic inspiration than the monthly photo club assignments? Here’s an interesting year-long challenge for you:
Dogwood 52 Week Photography Challenge
Each week, the weekly challenge will be in one of 3 categories:
- Story Telling: Good photographers can take beautiful images of something. Great photographers can tell a story with an image. In this category you will take a prompt and turn it into a photographic story.
- Compositional Eye: In past challenges we have explored the rules of composition. This year we push the rules even further by using them in specific ways to train your compositional eye.
- Inspiration: In this wide-open category, we start with a simple inspiration. Use this inspiration as creatively as you can. There are no rules so feel free to think outside of the box.
Fen Gallop
It’s the Fen Gallop 10k and 4mile race on Sunday and the organisers are looking for photos of the race. Perhaps an opportunity for the camera club members?
They are expecting race entrants to break through the 500 barrier so it should be quite a big event…with lots of interesting photo opportunities; use a wide angle at the start to add drama to the image or pick off individual runners, absolutely shattered, with a long lens? The choice is yours!
The race starts at 10.20am on Sunday at the Rec although it’ll be kicking off 30 minutes before. The top athletes will be back before 11am!
Holiday Photography Inspiration
Here are the winners in the Guardian’s Reader Travel photography competition, to inspire you when you take your camera on holiday this year.
Light Painting
Illustrated Photo Tricks
Some of these are tricks, others I would describe as merely techniques, but they are all fascinating and some are revealing.
http://www.boredpanda.com/truth-behind-photography-tricks/
And now you know why Francis gave up Wedding Photography!
Anglesey Abbey Winter Lights
Francis has pointed out that The Winter Lights at Anglesey Abbey and Gardens will be taking place at the end of November and early December – a great photo opportunity!
Experience the magical Anglesey Abbey gardens illuminated at night.
This years event is being held on 27, 28 & 29 November and 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 & 13 December. Tickets are £12.50 adults, Child £8.50 or Family Ticket (2 adults & up to 3 children) £40. It usually sells out.
This is a timed ticket event, and tickets are on sale now from the National Trust Box Office on 0844 249 1895 or online.
Street Photography vs Reality
Here’s an interesting article about whether to engage your subject when photographing people in the street: is it better to ask, and thus make them aware of the camera, or to indulge in “assault photography”?
Thought provoking. Street Photography vs Reality.