The online friendly photographic society
Thursday club evenings are now taking place as live video conferences and are open to all members to join. See either the newsletter or the website blog for details of what’s happening each week.
To simplify joining the online Zoom meetings, all future Thursday club evenings will use the same reoccurring link which is available in the Members Only area
Unfortunate the Corona Virus situation has affected the club as our Community Centre has closed in accordance with the government guidelines.
In addition the Committee has taken the decision to suspend all club portrait events until further notice.
However the good news is we’re moving our Thursday club evenings online!
We’ll be using the “Zoom” video conference service, which is very easy to use. The Committee used it earlier in the week and it worked very well indeed across both Windows and Apple devices.
We’ll have to see how it works in practice, but as of now we intend to hold the published programme events as-is, except virtually instead of in the Community Centre.
Cat’s latest newsletter has the connection and setup arrangement for our first online club meeting this Thursday:. Read it here.
This Thursday Stuart is leading our first online workshop – Portrait of Britain – You be the Judge – Click this link to join!
Looking forward seeing you all there.
George
We are thrilled to announce that model & dancer, ‘BOou’ will be joining us for our next advanced studio day. Working in pre-booked hour long slots, you will create your own lighting, choose Bou’s outfits and direct her accordingly. Be confident, be bold and create something unique!
Not sure about the cost? Buddy up with a pal and share a slot, max 2 photographers per slot.
NB: Techincal support available throughout the day.
Location: West Herts College
Available Spaces: 6 slots available, 2 hours MAX booking subject to availability. Time slots will only be released when spaces are filled.
Cost: £65:00 per hour (Payment is needed in advance to secure your place)
Contact: anthonyhighet@hotmail.co.uk
Huge thanks to everyone that joined us for our recent studio session, especially the very talented Beth Christie who donned her dance gear and provided us with some terrific images such as the one below. Everyone will agree that Beth did a wonderful job!
And our next studio session has been confirmed for 18th February – . Intro to Studio – Session Five – The Character Study.
Details in the website’s event list.
Intro Session Four – ‘The Dancer’
Our very own Beth Christie steps in front of the camera as we explore a more advanced lighting set up to capture striking dance poses and movement.
Date: 21/01/2020
Spaces available: 5 remaining
Cost: £15 per person
Contact Anthony for more information: anthonyhighet@hotmail.co.uk
I’ve added a new League Tables page to the website’s top menu. As requested by the membership I’ve made it password protected. I’ll ask Cat to send an email with the details.
To set expectations, this is just a screen grab of the scores spreadsheet, so it’s not particularly clear. Will think of a better presentation going forward, but wanted to get this out now as people have been asking for it!
George
Please take a moment to complete the Member’s Survey.
The results will be published on December 12th at the Member’s Forum night.
Thanks – Steve, John, Cat, Stuart, Ant, Rod, Vanessa & George
This week Ant held the second of the beginners sessions on studio portraiture at West Herts College. Ant demonstrated using a “Beauty Dish” modifier to create evenly lit head and shoulder shots of our model for the evening Emily Miller
Gordon surprised as all by producing a violin at the end of the session to create some wonderfully creative images with Emily. Of course we could resist having a play on it and sadly I confirm there were no natural violinists amongst us!
A well attended and enjoyable evening and our thanks again to Ant for another superbly organised session.
Please speak to Ant or John if you would like to attend any of these session.
Thursday 14th November Creative Lighting Workshop
Bring your camera and strange lights as we experiment with unorthodox lighting and colour. Special guest to be revealed on the night!
Location: Croxley Community Centre
Available Spaces: Unlimited / Cost: Free
Tuesday 19th November CroxFotoFest Studio Session
This session will make the most of a very simple light set up allowing beginners to try their hand at high fashion with the brilliant Emily Miller.
Location: West Herts College
Available Spaces: 6-8 / Cost: £15:00
Saturday 23rd November Advanced Studio Session
You take control of your studio session. Working in pre-booked hour long slots, our photographers will create their own studio lighting, choose the model’s outfits and direct them accordingly. Be confident, be bold and create something unique! Joining us for this session is the very talented and versatile French model & actress, Miyala Caldin www.minyala.com. Not sure about the cost? Buddy up with a pal and share a slot, max 2 photographers per slot.NB: Technical support available throughout the day.
Location: West Herts College
Available Spaces: 6 slots available, 2 hours MAX booking.
Cost: £60:00 per hour (Payment is needed in advance to secure your place)
Tuesday 26th November Intro to Studio Session at West Herts College – Session Two: The Beauty Magazine Shoot
This week we use 2 lights to shoot magazine quality beauty headshots with Emily Miller
.Location: West Herts College
Available Spaces: 6-8 / Cost: £15:00
Tuesday 10th December Intro to Studio Session at West Herts College – Session Three: That 90’s Calvin Klein shoot
The fabulous Rayne Swan makes her debut at Croxley Camera Club as we aim to recreate Calvin Klein’s iconic images of the 1990’s.
Location: West Herts College
Available Spaces: 6-8 / Cost: £15:00
I’ve added the latest the Competition Handbook to the website. Apologies, I should have been done at the start of the season.
Find it here or under the “About” tab on the front page.
George