Kelso Camera Club

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.

Workshop: working on your images
2015-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Based on concepts introduced in the previous meeting, working on your images using Camera RAW, Photoshop and Elements. More experienced members will be on hand to answer queries and guide you through the processes.
Bring your laptop and some images to work on. A good opportunity to work with RAW image files if you haven’t done too much of that so far.
We will be following the work flow introduced in our new tutorial: From camera to picture: a standard work flow

Workshop: Introduction to Camera RAW
2015-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Introduction to Camera RAW
Covering basic processing concepts to make the most of your travel (and other) photographs
Bring your laptop to get the most from this session.
You can find an overview of a suggested raw to picture work flow in this article:From camera to picture a standard work flow. We intend this to be the first of a series of tutorials on processing images.

Out and About
2015-09-24 07:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Out and about, looking at your town through the eyes of a tourist.
We’ll meet at Abbey Row Community Centre. Splitting into informal small groups, we’ll go round Kelso taking photographs trying to see the town through news eyes as a tourist might. We usually meet at the Cross Keys for coffee later on when we’ve had enough.
Bring your camera and tripod with you. There are usually more experienced members on hand to offer guidance if needed.

Theme introduction: Travel
2015-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
General introduction to the Travel theme. Led by Norman and Ian.
Read more about this theme on the dedicated travel theme page.

Speaker: Will Nicholls - talk on wildlife photography
2015-09-10 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
We’re delighted to welcome Will Nicholls, a young wildlife photographer from Northumberland.
Will says: “The natural world fascinates me in its entirety, and I am studying Zoology at the University of Exeter. My favourite mammal to photograph is the red squirrel, due to their playful natures and individual characters. This talk features a large selection of my images of British wildlife. I tell the story behind each image, the build up required to getting the shots, and some information about the wildlife itself”.
You can find Will’s website here.

Show and Tell - Our Summer Pictures
2015-09-03 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Abbey Row Community Centre, The Knowes,, Kelso, Roxburghshire, TD5 7BJ, United Kingdom
Welcome back to the new session!
For our first Thursday meeting why not come prepared to talk about some of your images from your summer travels (max 3 per member), what, why, where, etc. Image files on a memory stick for this one.
We’ll also be running a “Camera Refresh” session – really getting to know your camera (please bring your camera and the handbook).
