Small prints results night and Mr Iain Rollo presented on photographing the Aurora.

 Many thanks to Hugh Hamilton for judging the small prints in the first half of last night. The results of which were
1st place Dafydd Walters
2nd place Margaret Black
3rd place Paul McGrath.
Full results available Here
During the second half of last night’s session we were treated to a very informative talk on photographing the aurora by Iain Rollo. Thank you Iain.

Club Night-Painting with Light and First Digital Image

Good Evening everyone!
 
Thank you to Michael and Tommy for their first half introduction to light painting, we hope you all enjoyed their efforts.
 
In the second half we received the results to the first round of the digital competition entries. The results I’m happy to share below.
 
1st place Lenny Smith
2nd place Willie Horsburgh
3rd place Angus Rothnie
 
All imagines and results are available here
 
Just a little reminder that the second round of small prints need to be handed in next week Tuesday 02 Nov 21.
 

Club Night 12 Oct 21 – Presentation from Bill Rennie on his Licentiate Panel

Tonight saw one of our club members giving a presentation on his successful Society of Photographers Licentiate panel, Bill explained the process he went through to achieve his qualification and then showed his final panel to the group whilst also including all equipment used and an insight into each image.

After the break we had a quick guide around the features of our speysidephotographygroup.co.uk website to try and encourage members to use more of its features.

Club Night 05 Oct 21 – How to make digital borders in Photoshop & How to capture water droplets.

Another good attendance for club night. In the first half of the evening Lenny gave an in depth demonstration on how to create a digital mount in photoshop. After a small break and in preparation for the studio 8 competition, our very own Mr Thomas Thain gave a practical demonstration of how to freeze water droplets. A fantastic demo which gave some insightful knowledge to the club members. Hopefully see you all again next week.

  

Lenny Smith – How to present images for Competitions. Club Night 28 Sept 21

Had a great night last night at the club. Good attendance and some more new members, nearly at our maximum of 40. Lenny did a very interesting and educational talk on cropping images, monochrome images and presenting images for competitions. Full committee meeting tonight so hopefully we will have a syllabus that will be just about ready to print.
Thanks to all the members for supporting this great club and re-joining after being in a bit of turmoil for a while. Great to see a new energetic committee with some new and fresh ideas. Looks like a very exciting year for SPG.

Important Notice

So at long last we have a date for our first meeting since February last year.
Speyside Photography Group will meet in the Elgin Library on Tuesday 7th September at 7pm and every Tuesday up to the end of March with the exception of 21st and 28th of December.
Our first meeting will be to appoint a new committee so that we can move forward and get the club up and running again. Please put your names forward to join the committee or unfortunately there will be no club. Bill, Michael and myself will still be the backbone of the club until March at least. Hopefully a new committee will then be in place with the same enthusiasm and determination as we have shown to take this very successful club to the next level.
If you have something to say, a question to ask or want to be on the committee then please come early as the library will only allow 40 people due to covid restrictions.
It has been a very difficult time this last one and a half years for everybody but hopefully we can now see some light at the end of the tunnel and can look forward to our Tuesday nights once more.

Lenny
President