The North West Bristol Camera Club

Table Top Evening

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:13:23 +0000

Tonight’s meeting was a practical table top evening. There was a wide variety of items to photograph and just as many lighting setups being used. It was a lot less formal than normal but a good chance to learn some new skills and discuss the latest Nikon and Canon camera bodies.

Change to this weeks meeting

Patrick — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:27:33 +0000

According to the programme this weeks meeting was to be an evening out. The evening out has been postponed and instead tonights meeting will be the table top evening brought forward from March.

Here are some notes recently circulated by John about this evening:

It would be helpful if members taking part in the Table Top Photography evening next Wednesday 25th Jan could bring along the following:

Small desk lamps, preferably with flexible or articulated stem to direct the light.
Background paper or cloth and a means of holding it in place.
Small items to photograph such as ornaments, glassware, toys etc., fruit, veg, flowers etc. etc.
And of course cameras and tripods. Cameras with waist level finders are particularly convenient.

18th Jan: Battle of the Sexes

neville — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:45:28 +0000

There are more men than women in NWBCC, but the Battle of the Sexes competition was a close-run thing. The men won, helped by some excellent wildlife images from Ralph Snook. Our judge, Steph, is an artist not a photographer, which gave fresh insight into what makes a good image. As our chairman, Ray, said, we didn’t hear “the rule of thirds” or “not quite sharp” once all evening.

A number of images scored 20/20, some shown here. Ladies first, so the three upper images (In the waterfall, Petrel with wave, Waiting for lunch) are theirs. The lower images are the men’s (Reflections, Second Severn Crossing, Up with mum).

14th Dec: Quarterly Competition: Industry

neville — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:13 +0000

Peter Spearing suggested the topic (although unfortunately was not able to be there on the evening). “Industry” was obviously to the advantage of our President, Peter Ruck, as he bagged both 1st with Noughts and Crosses, and 3rd= with Fishing Industry. Sandie Cox was 2nd with Glass Making, and Neville Goodman’s Silos was 3rd=.

Image of the Year 2011

neville — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:37:34 +0000

Image of the Year 2011 was held on 7th December. Jason Eastham had many of his superb prints in the competition and duly won both mono and colour sections, with his colour “Cathedral” winning print of the year. Sandie Cox’s “Street football” was projected image of the year.

Mono Prints:

1st Jason Eastham – Purton Wrecks in infra red

2nd Jason Eastham – What kind of cheese was that

3rd Jason Eastham – Bristol Cathedral

Colour Prints:

1st and IoY Jason Eastham – Cathedral

2nd Neville Goodman Orange Ladder

3rd Jason Eastham Can I come in

Projected Images:

1st and IoY Sandie Cox – Street Football

2nd Pete Cannard – Oh

3rd Ralph Snook – Slow Crossing

Bleadon Battle 6th Dec

neville — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:33:46 +0000

On 6th December, the Club came a creditable second at a very enjoyable four-way battle hosted by Bleadon Photographic Group. We came second in all three rounds (mono prints, colour prints, and projected images), and scored 270 (out of a possible 300) to Thornbury’s 273.

Four of our images (see above) scored the maximum 20: Jason Eastham’s mono “To War”; Pete Farmer’s colour “Lily” and Neville Goodman’s “Smoo Cave”; and Ralph Snook’s projected “Laid back mum”. The judge commented that Laid back mum” might have been better more tightly cropped, which made us think Ralph could have scored 21 out of 20.

New look for the New Year

Patrick — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:55:06 +0000

At the time of writing there are just two more Wednesday meetings left this year. I hope everyone has filled their wish list with camera related equipment and will use the holidays as an excuse to get out there and take some pictures.

If you are a regular visitor here then you must have noticed the site is looking a little different. Well, I thought the old design had been around long enough, so I sat down and spent a couple of evenings trying to tidy it up a bit. I hope you like it, all the familiar content should still be here but if you do notice anything missing please let me know.

I have also made it easier for club members to contribute so hopefully you should see a bit more activity here in the coming months, so over to you NWBCC members.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Summer is over

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:57:00 +0000

Hope you had a good summer and took loads of photos. Wednesday meetings are starting up again and you can download the new programme from the link on the left. We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks, and don’t forget new members are always welcome.

One more thing, don’t forget to follow us on twitter at @nwbcc.

Club Competition Round 2

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:32:00 +0000

We recently held round 2 of our club competition, congratulations to the winners. The results were 1st ‘MacFly’, 2nd ‘Martial Flight’, 3rd ‘Slow Crossing’. Highly Commended was ‘Field Pattern’.

Do you use flickr?

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:27:00 +0000

This is just a quick reminder to anyone who is not registered with flickr. In case you don’t know, flickr is a photo sharing website, it is free to register and start uploading images. These images can then be viewed by millions of other users worldwide.

What’s more, the images can be sorted into groups. We at the NWBCC have two groups, the Members Gallery, as the name suggests, is for members of the club only. There are limits on the number of images that can be uploaded and those that are uploaded are not only displayed on flickr but also on the NWBCC website.

The NWBCC Group is open to anybody and currently has over 60 members and more than 400 images. You can add as many images as you like under any theme. We have contributors from all over the world. This is the place to put all the event images that you have from the Festival of Nature etc.

So give it a try.