Enprint Competition

Lets begin with the current season's introduction and welcome of any new members.

Please bring along up to 5 Enprints (max 7x5", 18x13cm unmounted prints) on any subject for this ice breaker competition.

Remember next week we have a Photoshoot.

1

Photoshoot : West Bay

Your chance to smooth out the waves or photograph other coastal features. Early Evening Start

Please bring your camera gear

2

Guest Speaker : Sheila Haycox

ARPS, EFIAP, MPAGB-AV

Presenting her latest work including how to make AVs

Hand-In-date for Competition No.1 & Bradford Abbas Shield

Sheila is from Exmouth, and is a Master at producing award Wining Audio Visuals for both National and International competitions

3

Camera Skills

Using ISO to help with low light and faster shutter speeds.

Please bring your Camera Gear and Manual.

What is ISO, Auto ISO, adjusting exposure. What is ISO intolerance.

We take multiple copies of the same image with different ISO
settings to determine when grain becomes visible.

Use Lightroom and Photoshop to remove grain.

4

Competition No.1

Subject : Trees, Tree or part thereof

Judged by Members

5

WCPF Travelling Exhibition  

Your chance to critique in groups the prints from the travelling exhibition

6

Practical :

Table Top Photography using or arranging kitchen utensils

Please bring your Camera Gear, Lighting and Tripod

7

Guest Speaker : Martin Cooper

LRPS, Now you see it. Now you Don't

8

External Competition

Bradford Abbas Shield

Subject : Trees, one or more or parts thereof

9

Editing Skills

Removing anything from an image

Please bring your Laptop

We use Lightroom to remove sensor spots and very small objects.

Anything larger we use a range of Photoshop Tools to remove people and other objects from an image. Demo then Practice

10

Guest Speaker : Janet Miles

LRPS, CPAGB, BPE2*, AFIAP

Using exposure time creatively

Tonight we have Janet Miles from Mid Somerset Camera Club.
She an acomplished and passionate photographer and a long term friend.

11

Practical :

Portraiture On Location : Swan Theatre

Please bring your Camera Gear, Lighting and Tripod

Hand-In-date for Battle of Sedgemoor

12

Alex presents his Journey into Printing
plus Something Extra

13

Editing Skills

Changing the colour of anything

Please bring your Laptop

Hand-In-date for DPIC

We investigate how to change colour in Lightroom

In Photoshop we use various adjustment layers to change the colour of clothes and a car

14

External Competition

Battle of Sedgemoor :

Subject : Open

Hosted by Yeovil Camera Club

West Coker Village Hall, Yeovil,
Somerset BA22 9AL

15

16

Practical

Macro / Close Focusing

Photographing something small

Please bring your Camera Gear, Lighting and Tripod

16

Christmas Social

17

Editing Skills

Creating and using masks

Please bring your Laptop

Hand-In-date for Competition No.2

First half : Lightroom Masks and applying changes using the masks

Second Half : Photoshop layer masks, vector masks and clipping masks

18

Guest Speaker : Bob Bishop

EFIAP/p, BPE5*, LRPS

A Mix of Me Pics (with some image deconstruction)

19

Competition No.2

Subject : Rivers and Streams

An independent judge will be invited

20

Programme General Meeting

Please bring your ideas for next year's programme including competition subjects and your preferred locations for outdoor shoots.

In the Second Half we review any images for our monthly challenges and their future

21

Practical

Photographing Glass

Please bring your Camera Gear, Lighting and Tripod

Hand-In-date for Competition No.3

22

Camera Skills

Using Manual and White Balance for tricky lighting conditions

Please bring your Camera Gear and Manual

Assessing the colour of light
and setting the white balance

Using manual and exposure compensation for high-key and low-key images

Cover ETTR

23

Competition No.3

Subject : From Above or Below

An independent judge will be invited

24

Guest Speaker : Derwood Pamphilon

ARPS DPAGB EFIAP

My Photographic Journey:

Dance, Art Nude, Travel Photography

25

Guest Speaker : Kirsty Peake

LRPS, Yellowstone The World's First National Park

Hand-In-date for Competition No.4

26

Editing Skills

Creating selections and applying adjustments

Please bring your Laptop

We will be selecting objects and moving them to a new image

Attempting to use Photoshop's Pen tool

27

Competition No.4

Subject : Family (any)

An independent judge will be invited

28

Camera Skills

Using White Balance or ICM or Multiple Exposure for creative images

Please bring your Camera Gear and Manual

Try multiple exposures in-camera and choosing the White balance

Take multiple images of the same image on a tripod while the subject moves within the scene

How ICM can be achieved - lets try it!

29

Practical

Photographing your cake and eat it! : Creative Still Life

Please bring your Camera Gear, Lighting and Tripod and a cake to shoot

Please bring in some cake where we shoot it in interesting ways.

Creative still life. Perhaps bring in plates and cooking utensils and flower to scatter

Useful to have a black background.

30

AGM & Our look to the future !

Your chance to influence the direction
the Club is heading. Next Season's Programme is presented. If time allows, we review our challenge images

31

Guest Speaker : David Pike

ARPS, Photographing Bird

Hand-In-date for Competition No.5

32

Easter Monday Bank Holiday

No Meeting

Competition No.5

Subject : ICM and/or Multiple Exposure

An independent judge will be invited

33

Early May Bank Holiday

No Meeting

34

Photoshoot : Twine Works, West Coker, Yeovil

Photographing the Twine works.

All our images to be offered to the Twine Works Management

Please bring your camera gear
Early Evening Start

34

Summer Social

Suggestions greatfully received for a shoot location combined with a nearby public house to end the season in style

35

Spring Bank Holiday

No Meeting. Summer break begins

Start of the 2025-2026 Season

Meetings held at West Coker Village Hall,
West Coker, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 9AL