Archive of meetings held Sept 2018 - Aug 2019
Thursday 27th September 2018 at 2pm: The meeting will start with a short discussion about the future aims and plans of the Group. This will be followed by a talk by Kris Frank on Cartier-Bresson and the photography of the Decisive Moment, in which Kris will be looking at what we can all learn from an old master. In the last part, we will share and discuss our photos, bearing in mind our summer theme 'Motion photography and shutter speed'. (Please look at our pages about Photo Sharing.)
Thursday 25th October 2018 at 2pm: There will be a talk by Mike Gillan on "Two-and-a-half thousand years of history in Sicily", based on photos that he took in Palermo, Taormina and Siracusa this summer. In addition to showing what a beautiful place Sicily is, Mike will comment on how he went about taking some of the photos. We will also be sharing and discussing our photos on the theme "Reflections" (see the photo-sharing page for more information about this theme).
Thursday 22nd November 2018 at 2pm: Kris Frank will give a talk on "Editing: how to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary". He will be outlining some of the basic techniques of editing photos, and pointing us towards a few of the commonly used editing programs.
Kris has provided a pdf file of notes from his talk.
Thursday 27th December 2018: no meeting
Thursday 24th January 2019 at 2pm: Phil Slater will give a talk based on photos that he took on his travels in Vietnam and Cambodia. We will be sharing our photos on the two themes "Editing - before and after" and "Winter weather".
Thursday 28th February 2019 at 2pm: Kris Frank will give a short talk about "intentional camera movement", and there will be a discussion about the possibility of organising photo-walks and any other issues that members would like to discuss. This will be followed by photo-sharing on the theme of "ecclesiastic".
Thursday 28th March 2019 at 2pm: Mike Gillan will give a talk about "depth of field". After defining what DoF means, Mike will talk about the various factors that determine it, how you can estimate it before you press the shutter, and how you can use it creatively to draw attention to the subject of your photo. We will be sharing our photos on the two themes of "intentional camera movement" and "boats".
Thursday 25th April 2019 at 2pm: Peter Barwell will give a talk about the Affinity photo-editing suite: "Editing photos with Affinity Photo". We will also be sharing our photos on the two themes of "Depth of field" and "Street".
Thursday 23rd May 2019 at 2pm: Please note that this meeting will be held in the Main Hall at the Mint, and not in the Wesley Room. Rita Watson will give a short talk about a recent workshop that she attended on "Capturing water on camera", and Mary Swain will show us photos that she took on her recent cruise up the coast of Norway, including some images of the Northern Lights. If time allows, Mike Gillan will show a few photos that he took on his recent trip to Costa Rica. Photo-sharing will be on the themes of "transport" and "sparkling".
Thursday 27th June 2019 at 2pm: Dave Parsons will give a talk on "Camera sensors".
Thursday 25th July 2019 at 2pm: Kris Frank will give a talk about
"Some Great CHEAP Photo Shooting apps for Smart Phones & Tablets &
The BEST FREE Photo Editing Apps for Smart Phones".
If you have a smartphone, whether iPhone or Android, and you don’t just want to shoot on the fully Auto camera app that came with your phone, there are a myriad of shooting apps that enable more manual control of shutter speed, ISO and can shoot in RAW or JPEG and which boast rave reviews and squillions of users. After a forensic study, there are a few that stand out from the hype and (paid for) eulogies. Kris explores 3 of them and explains why he chose them from the pack and how they compare up close and personal and what they do well and not so well.
It is always best to upload your photos to your computer and edit them on a big screen, but if you are in a tearing hurry to send a photo by email or post on social media and don’t have time for the transfer or can’t access your laptop or desktop, then which photo Editor is the best? Kris looks at 3 FREE of the best Smart phone & Tablet photo-editors and what they can do and how they do it all differently - and he will also mention a few other useful zappy apps.
If you can’t afford a brand new smart phone, but can afford a secondhand smart phone that will be able to use these apps, you might also pick up some clues as to which older phones or tablets should support them. Some phones will shoot or process RAW and others can still use the apps but operating in JPEG format. Come along and find out what you need to know.
Kris has provided two sets of notes: one on Photo Shooting apps for smart phones, and the other on Photo Editing apps for smart phones.
August 2019: Please note that there will be NO meeting of the U3A Photography Group in August. We will start our meetings again in September.