Kelso Camera Club

Theme Introduction: Minimalist
2016-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Theme Introduction: Minimalist
Led by Alex.
Read more about the Minimalist theme here.
Further preparation for the Exhibition so bring images and your laptop.
Deadline for submission of finished images for the Club Exhibition is today. Images should stored in the Club Image Bank.

Workshop: Preparation for Exhibition
2016-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop: Preparation for Exhibition
Help and support getting images ready with more experienced members on hand to offer advice. Bring your images and your laptop for this session.
Movement Theme end competition. Remember to bring your chosen image on a memory stick to be judged.

Out and about with movement in mind
2016-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop: Out and about with movement in mind. We’ll meet up at Abbey Row as usual and, weather permitting, we’ll get out with our cameras and tripods looking for suitable subjects for the Movement Theme.
As usual more experienced club member s will be on hand to offer advice and guidance if its needed.

Holiday
2016-04-14, 2016-04-07

Theme Introduction: Movement
2016-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Theme Introduction: Movement led by Nick
We’ll look at different ways of capturing movement in a photograph from classic panning techniques to more radical camera manipulation methods.
Read more about the Movement theme here.

Critique Night
2016-03-24 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Critique Night – Open Theme so bring any of your images.
Bring a selection (up to 5) of your own photographs to our critique night.
Remember critique is not supposed to mean “critical”! Critique is about identifying good points and areas for possible improvement. You’ll get most value from a critique if you can say a few words about what your were trying to do with your pictures, and if possible, what sort of advice you would like from members.
You might like to refer to our Criteria for Image Critique V4 Feb 16 to get into the swing of things. Try reviewing one or two of your own pictures in the light of the Criteria. You can see a worked example of a couple of critiques using the Criteria here.

Workshop: Software Techniques
2016-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop: Software Techniques
This session we are planning to wrap up the work flow techniques we have been discussing this winter. So, as well as revising the work flow itself, we’ll also cover in a bit more detail how to handle noise in your images, as well as techniques with the camera to help avoid capturing loads of noise in the first place. We’ll leave plenty of time for hands on practice so bring your computer as usual; you might like also to bring your camera to try out some of the practical ways of improving your raw image capture.

Speaker: Sandy Cleland FRPS "Both Sides of the Coin"
2016-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Sandy Cleland will be giving us a talk entitled “Both Sides of the Coin“. He’ll be showing digital images as well bringing some prints withn him.
Sandy say: “Natural history has always been and still is my main interest but I enjoy all types of photography, especially subjects such as landscape and the more creative aspects of image making. I have always since my very early childhood been interested in nature but it was really the television programmes such as ‘Look’ with Peter Scott and the ‘On Safari’ series with Armand and Michaela Dennis which kindled my passion to record nature on film. My first venture into photography was when I was 13 with standard 8mm Cine film.”
You can find Sandy’s website here
Sandy will also judge our Long Exposure Theme End competition so remember to bring your chosen Long Exposure image on a memory stick for the competition.

Workshop: Long Exposure
2016-03-03 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop: Long Exposure
This could be either inside or outside. Meet at the Abbey Row Centre as usual. Bring your camera, tripod and any other long exposure gadgets you may have such as neutral density filters or pinhole lenses. More experienced club members will be on hand for advice and guidance as required. Wrap up warm; you could be standing around for a little while in this workshop for obvious reasons!
If the weather’s good, we’ll be outside and probably end up at the Cross Keys to warm up again. If unclement,we’ll go inside and maybe have the opportunity to try pinholes again, experiment with other indoor long exposure stuff, or just have a coffee and talk photography!

Ask the Panel
2016-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
The return of Ask the Panel.
Have you a photography question? Either bring it with you on the night or even better to allow our panel members half a chance to come up with something sensible for once, how about sending in your question using this form:

Practical Pinhole Photography
2016-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Nick Prior – talk and practical workshop on Pinhole Photography. We’ll hear a little of the history of pinhole photography. Then learn how to make your own pinhole lens. If you have a Nikon or Canon DSLR bring it along together with a tripod to take some photos through some pinholes “I made earlier”.
You can find some useful web links on pinhole photography here:

Theme Introduction: Long Exposure Photography
2016-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Theme Introduction: Long Exposure Photography led by Norman.
We’ll be looking at different types of long exposure photographs and the different effects you can create with them. We’ll also look at some of the techniques you can use on your computer to enhance those long exposures.
Read more about the Long Exposure theme here.
Norman will also judge the Still Life End-of-theme competition.
Last night for submission of images for the Borders Digital Challenge. Images should be saved in the Image Bank to take part in the selection process.

Three-way Challenge: Hawick/Kelso/Liddesdale
2016-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Three-way Challenge: Hawick/Kelso/Liddesdale
We are hosting this event this year.
You can find the rules for the Three Way Challenges here.

Workshop: Software Refresh
2016-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Software refresh and some new buttons to press. Led by Bill and Graeme.

Three-way Challenge - Kelso/Earlston/Galashiels
2016-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Three-way Challenge – Kelso/Earlston/Galashiels
We are hosting this event.
You can find the rules for the Three Way Challenges here.

Workshop: Still Life
2016-01-14 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop: Still Life. Bring cameras, tripods and some materials to photograph.

Theme Introduction: Still Life and Table-top Photography
2016-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Theme Introduction: Still Life and Table-top Photography.
Read more about the Still Life and Table-top Photography theme.
We’ll also present our entries for the two 3-way club competitions.

Holiday
2015-12-31, 2015-12-24
No Thursday meeting this week.

Christmas Night Out
2015-12-17 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Christmas Night Out – venue tbc

Susan and Jean's Quiz Night
2015-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Susan and Jeans’ fun Quiz Night.
We’ll also be judging images in the seasonal Christmas theme.
Tonight is the deadline for getting your images into the Image Bank for selection for the two Three Way Challenge competitions.

Discussion: Photo copyright - issues and strategies
2015-12-03 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Following interest during a recent Ask the Panel, here’s a session covering the ins and outs of photographic copyright. We’ll include social media, and the use of different types of watermarking.
We’ll also kick off the Christmas Theme today.

Speaker: Peter Paterson FRPS on Landscape: Iceland and Alaska
2015-11-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Peter Paterson FRPS is joining us to speak on Landscape photography, showing us images from on Iceland and Alaska.
Peter says: “I have been taking photographs for over 50 years starting mostly in monochrome which I processed in the darkroom. During this time I have gained the Fellowship distinction from the Royal Photographic Society and also gained the MFIAP award.and the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Distinction MPAGB.
My main subject interests are Landscape, Still Life and Abstract, both in colour and mono”.
You find Peter’s website here
Peter will also be judging our Landscape theme-end competition. Please bring your image with you on a memory stick for entry into this competition.

Member's Night: Tom McGovern on "The Sky at Night"
2015-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Tom McGovern’s telescopePhoto: Tom McGovern
Member’s Night: Tom McGovern on “The Sky at Night”
Tom will be talking about his experiences of photographing the stars. Tom says: “I’ve not been at this for too long so it’s mostly going to be about the learning experience and equipment”.
Just the job if you ever fancied finding out how to take pictures of the Moon, planets and stars.

Workshop: Improving your landscape photographs
2015-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Workshop on Improving your landscape photographs using Photoshop and Elements.
Bring your laptop and a selection of images to work on.
We’ll start the evening with a short demonstration of the standard work flow we discussed a while ago, this time using Elements. There will be the usual array of experienced members on hand to offer advice and guidance where needed.

Critique Night
2015-11-05 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Bring a selection (up to 5) of your own photographs on a USB stick to our critique night.
Remember critique is not supposed to mean “critical”! Critique is about identifying good points and areas for possible improvement, and then assessing whether or not the picture met your objectives for it. You’ll get most value from a critique if you can say a few words about what you were trying to do with your pictures, and if possible, what sort of advice you would like from other members.

How to organise your photos, followed by Ask The Panel
2015-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Organising your Photos – a guide to file storage. Are you all at sea when it comes to finding one of your pictures? We’ll help by providing some strategies for keeping your pictures in their place.
Ask the Panel – Have you a photography question you want an answer to? If you have, now’s your chance! If you want to give the panel half a chance and think about their answers, why not send in your query ahead of time using this form?

Theme Introduction: Landscape
2015-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Introduction to Landscape Photography led by Nick and Norman
Expect to take away the top 5 exciting tips to boost your landscape photographs!
Read more about the Landscape Theme activities here.

Speaker: James Frost FRPS and Hazel Frost FRPS on Travel Photography
2015-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Speakers: James and Hazel Frost on Travel
James says: “My main photographic interest is travel, where I can immerse myself in a culture and try to record my impressions”.
Hazel says: “My husband and I have been travelling throughout the world and photographing for many years. My particular interest is documenting the minority peoples of South East Asia and Africa in particular, portraits and detail of dress”.
James’ website
Hazel’s website
As well as speaking about their Travel photography, James and Hazel will also be judging the Travel Theme-end competition. Please bring with you on a memory stick the one image you want to enter in this competition.
