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16 the advertizer t: 01505 613340 e: info@advertizer.co.uk PHOTOGRAPHY HINTS & TIPS ISO With The Studio Bridge Of Weir The ISO – often referred to as film speed, is a measure of how sensitive your film or chip is. The higher the ISO the less light you need to expose the image. With a Digital camera you have the ability to vary the ISO from shot to shot without having to change films. ISO – can range from 100 to 36,000. As you increase your ISO your images become more grainy as noise is introduced into the image. Turning up the ISO on a digital camera is similar to turning up the volume on a sound system amplifier, the higher you go the more distortion of the signal you get. Gryffe Camera Club Our Last Competition in 2015 was our league competition judged by Members. The winners were Rick Bolton (A Prints), Malcolm Martin (B Prints), Rick Bolton (Mono Prints), Roger Calvert (A Digital) with Callejo Harbour Lights and Malcolm Martin (B Digital) with Crested Tit. In your camera this shows itself as grainy images and odd colours in the shadow areas. At the extreme end the images are almost unusable. When to change ISO? If the subject is well lit or you are using a tripod and you are not concerned about shutter speed then choose the lowest ISO setting possible. If the subject is dimly lit or you are trying to achieve a faster shutter speed to capture some action then increase your ISO. You can leave your camera in AUTO ISO and it will choose the ISO for you, but you may get noisy pictures when you could have avoided them. Typically you need to use higher ISO when indoors, at concerts, if you are trying to capture some atmosphere etc. Also there are some churches and galleries where flash is not allowed so high ISO becomes essential. Every Month The STUDIO – Bridge of Weir (07904 419578) will bring you hints and tips to improve your photography - regardless of what kind of camera you have. More detail on each tip can be found on the Advertizer web page http://www.advertizer.co.uk/blog George Kennedy - Style and Speed Our first evening in 2016 was our league competition judged by Angus Campbell. The winners were Rick Bolton (A Prints), Malcolm Martin (B Prints), Rick Bolton (Mono Prints), George Kennedy (A Digital) with Style and Speed and Joe Gillick (B Digital) with Mum Me. Joe Gillick - Mum Me Duncan McEwan Showed us “The Games”, his photographic skills used during the Commonwealth Games. We have various competitions with other clubs during the coming weeks through February. Anyone interested can come along on Wednesday Club nights. Joining is now half price for the rest of the session before the end of May. Wedding Fayre Sunday 28 February from 1pm - 5pm at Paisley Town Hall, Paisley. Call 0141 258 3380 for further information. FREE Entry
www.advertizer.co.uk february 2016 17 17 Paisley Colour Photographic Club Borbasket Trophy 2015/16 Last month at the McMaster Centre in Renfrew, Paisley Colour Photographic Club’s annual competition for the Borbasket Memorial Trophy was held. For this competition entry consisted of three images judged as a set with the first image in each set either a table-top, a portrait or a still life photograph. Judging the competition were the last year’s winner of the trophy, Duncan McEwan and the winner of last season’s Henderson Trophy, Richard Bennett and they had the difficult task of having to rank the top three sets in a high quality and varied entry. In turn the judges gave a detailed critique of each image making encouraging comments and also making suggestions as to how an image could be improved either at the time of taking the image or at the processing stage. This year the award for the top set of images by a non-advanced member was made to Ken Dow for his set including close-up butterfly image “Meadow Brown”. For the main trophy, Duncan and Richard judged Mike Cruise’s set of images in third place. This set included “The Look”, “Boys and Their Toys” and “Morning Mist”. Bill McCance’s set of three beautiful studio portraits was awarded second place and this set included images “Reverie”, “Coy” and “Solo”. Langbank Camera Club The Borbasket Trophy for this year was awarded to a new member of the club Ken McArthur for his impressive set including “After Crita”, “Hands Touchin’ Hands” and the atmospheric and superbly composed image “Motorway”. For further details about PCPC and updated members galleries please view: www.paisleycolour.co.uk January’s print competition was “Waterscapes”. There were many entries of excellent and beautiful waterscapes. First place was awarded to Alf Todd for his early morning shot of the Zambezi River, above the Victoria Falls. Second place was awarded to Derrick McPherson for his image taken at the lagoon in Venice, looking towards the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Third place was awarded to Deborah Galloway for her striking image of Rathmullan Beach, County Donegal. This month’s lecture focused on the use of the camera’s aperture setting to demonstrate the difference and impact it can have on a photograph. The term used to describe this effect is called depth of field (DoF) which describes the degree of sharpness (focus) of the foreground and background in relation to main subject when it is in focus. Confused? Then come along to our meetings to find out more and potentially realise that inner photographer waiting to get out and about. Our PDI (digital meetings) which are held on the fourth Monday of the month (last meeting will be held in April) provides a different forum for our members where we showcase images on the big screen. We also provide many hints and tips on photo editing and things associated with digital photography. The February meeting will be held as usual on the second Monday of the month, 8th February at 7.30pm. The next PDI meeting will be held on 22nd February at 7.30pm. The print competition topic for February is “Glasgow”. Club meetings are held in Langbank Church Halls, Langbank. Visitors are always welcome at any of our evenings. Membership of the club is only £10 for the first year. If you wish to find out more about Langbank Camera Club please visit our website: www.langbankcameraclub. weebly.com or contact Derrick McPherson at langbankcc1@gmail.com with your enquiries.
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