The third competition of our post Christmas pdi series was held on 17 March 2021 and for details of the results please Click Here

For this month’s meeting, we have arranged for Jonathan Vaines to demonstrate some key Photoshop techniques including the use of some of the blend modes for lightening, dodging and burning and halo removal.  Jonathan will then show how to use layers to add elements, apply textures, etc and how to use the ‘Blend If’ feature.  Blend modes are one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop, so the evening will be very instructive and there will be something for everyone to learn whatever type of photography they do. read more

The results of the second of our post – Christmas pdi series, held on 3 March 2021 are now available on our Competitions page or just Click Here

Due to the pandemic, St Ives have been unable to hold their annual Interprint competition in the usual way. To view the entries, please go to https://stives-photoclub.org.uk/interprint

Judging will take place at 6pm on Saturday 27 February 2021 and can be viewed via the above link.

Ely Photographic Club has now added both Twitter and Instagram accounts in addition to its existing public Facebook account, to give members and the public wider access to the clubs activities and images. Links to all of these social media pages can be found at the top of our ‘Home’ and ‘About Us’ pages on this website, so please have a look!

The first competition of our post Christmas PDI league, which is running in lieu of our normal seasons print competition league, was held on 10 February 2021 and was judged by Jim Bennett. For full details and results, please see the evenings competition results page 

John Harvey will be running this months APG as usual, and one of his topics this month will be famous photographers that members may like to investigate.  John has compiled a list of famous names which are available on the Help Page or by clicking here, so please have a look at their work if you are interested. The views of these photographers are their own, and may not necessarily represent those of the club.

EPC held its annual Ken Hitch Trophy competition on Wednesday 27 January 2021, and the themes for this year were “Water” for the colour section and “People” for the mono section. Two entries were required in each section, and the event was well supported with 18 members submitting entries. Therefore 72 images in total were critiqued and scored by Nick Akers. Congratulations to Kevin Pigney for scoring 78 points out of 80, and winning the competition!

Kevin’s winning images can be viewed below: read more

On Wednesday 27 January we have this years Ken Hitch Trophy competition. You may enter two colour and two mono images, and the themes this year are “Water” for the colour section and “People” for the mono section. The competition will be judged by Nick Akers. The first half of the evening will be used to judge the colour entries, with the mono images being judged in the second half.  All entries will be scored out of 20 as usual, with the highest aggregate score out of 80 being declared the winner. (Images from previous competitions may be entered if they scored 17 or less). read more

Colin will be giving us a presentation on Wednesday 20 January 2021 on “The Expressive Landscape”.  Colin runs 2-day workshops on this subject, based at West Mersea, and the talk will concentrate on how to introduce atmosphere and emotion into your photos.  Some of Colin’s work can be viewed here