'Still life' by Rita English.
Digi Group Meeting March 20th 2008
This special meeting began at 4.30pm in the large hall and members had the opportunity to take part in various workshops.
LIGHTING WORKSHOPS
Roger Bathard had set up the club's lighting and offered help to member's wishing to learn more about lighting techniques. Some of the images that were produced can be seen on the digi group wesite page. As well as portraits, Rita had set up two still life areas with the help of Howard Kendall and members could practice working with close up's too.
MOUNTING DEMONSTRATION
Mike Constable showed groups of people how to use the club's mount cutter to give professional results when mounting pictures for exhibition or judging. He explained how a good mount can make a big difference to how the picture appears to a viewer. Members were pleased to see that the cutter was easy to use, once they knew how!
SENSOR CLEANING
Ken Rippengale demonstrated how to perform this essential job in a regular and safe way. He had a variety of cleaning methods to show and explained the advantages of each. Although sensor cleaning is necessary, it is a job that needs to be done with extreme care and Ken's advice was warmly welcomed by members.
SETTING UP CAMERAS
Norman Atkinson was on hand to give advice to members on how to set up their cameras to get to best out of them. Norman is very knowledgable about Canon cameras, but was able to give advice about other makes of cameras too.
THE WORKSHOPS CLOSED AT 7.30 BUT THE EVENING CONTINUED WITH:-
1. The Ron Moores Cup Competition.
16 members had submitted pictures and those members who had entered the competition had judged all of the entries earlier in the evening, the result will be announced on April 9th.
2. Digi Group's AV's.
The selection of the 2008 Digi Group's Pro Show Gold A/V sequences was announced and sequences will be shown to the whole club on 9th April. Rita thanked everyone who had submitted sequences and felt sure that the new show would prove to be entertaining.
LIGHTROOM - Introduced by Rod Armstrong
Rod gave a most interesting talk about Lightroom, showing that it could help greatly with the processing of large numbers of pictures. Rod had recently returned from a photographic trip and said that his work processing his pictures had been made considerably easier and faster by using this program. Members had a number of questions for Rod which he was able to answer most helpfully.
CROUCH COMPETTION
Members were shown a DVD of all of the pictures entered in this competition, held on 12th March and enjoyed a lively debate about the scores that the judge had awarded. The digital presentation at the competition was organised by Cliff Carter from Steyning Camera Club and was admired for it's excellent format. We are very happy to say that Cliff will be coming to the next meeting of the Digi Group on April 17th, to talk to the group about Elements 6 and panoramas.
The meeting closed at 9.30pm.Copyright (c)2005 Ken Rippengale. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".