Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Newsletter 9 2024/25 7 January 2025

Happy New Year!

This Friday, 10 January, Van Greaves FRPS will judge the 2nd Merit PDI competition 

On Friday 17 we have a Zoom talk at the club room “Working with Textures” by Jane Lazenby BA(Hons), ASEA, SAAPA, QTFE2, UKCPS. LRPS, BPE5*, DPAGB, EFIAP/b FMPA. The talk will be split into 2 halves. In the first part, Jane will answer all the What and How questions when she will go through sorting and creating textures, how to use blend modes and then show 3 different methods of applying textures to an image.

After the break Jane will do a live edit of images submitted by club members using textures to create final pieces. Jane says she will travel slowly through the technical aspects and repeat steps if requested.

If you would like Jane to work on one of your images then please send a jpeg of around 5MB to Calvin  calvin.downes@btinternet.com by Sunday 12 January.

Non club members are welcome to join the event via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-textures-with-jane-lazenby-tickets-1132539438949?aff=oddtdtcreator for £4

Finally British Journal of Photography presents “Portrait of Britain” https://www.1854.photography/2025/01/portrait-of-britain-100-stories-light-up-the-nation/ where you can see 100 stories light up the nation at JCDecaux advertising screens across the nation including Telford Shopping Centre.

You can also see the images here https://pob7winners.1854.photography If the images don’t appear when you open the link, then click on any of the blue question marks on that page.

Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Newsletter 23 2023/24 17 July 2024

This Friday, 19 July, Calvin will lead a workshop about using layers in Photoshop. The workshop will be informal and interactive with demonstrations, explanations and discussions. You might find it useful to take a pen and notebook to jot down information to use later. 

Then on 26 July there will a second Photoshop on masks.

Both these workshops will be free to members and Tea and biscuits will be available to buy. This is your chance to get to grips with basic concepts of Photoshop and become a more proficient user. There are a number of tutorials on the club website https://wrekinartspc.com/useful-tutorials covering a wide range of photography topics that you may find useful.

The season will finish after the Photoshop Workshop on 26 July. The club room will be closed over the summer but there might be practical workshops arranged. I will send out information when available or you can keep an eye on the website.

The 2024/25 Season will open on Friday 20 September with an Open Evening and Exhibition of members prints.

Membership fees were increased at the AGM on 5 July for the 2024/25 season. The new fees are: Single Membership £40; Joint Membership £60; OAP £35; Joint OAP £55. The weekly fee will be £4 or £5 for a non member but this will include a hot drink. 

Finally, if you have any ideas about a subject or a speaker for the club programme then let me know.