syllabus / programme
Programme of Meetings 2021-2022 season
Meetings are held weekly on Friday evenings at 8:00pm, either at St John's Hall, Churchfields, Hertford SG13 8AF (near All Saints Church: approach from London Road), or online.
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This season our meetings are held both in the Hall H and online O on alternate weeks. Click HERE for joining information. We're currently meeting online only. To visit an online meeting click its VISITOR button. Show meetings |
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| September 2021 | |
10 |
Chairman’s Evening and competition for Projected Image of the Year (the Malcolm Unwin trophy) d |
17 |
meeting ‘Highlights of my photographic year’ A series of mini presentations by club members. d |
24 |
lecture A Tale of Two Bears Robin Claydon DPAGB ARPS BPE3* Robin retraces the footsteps of his journeys to two very different wild environments to photograph two different bears. First the Polar Bears in Churchill, Canada, a harsh habitat where they gather on the shore of Hudson bay to hunt for seals. Then the Alaskan Brown Bears that spend just a few months in Silver Salmon Creek in Alaska, to feed on migrating salmon to provide nourishment for their cubs. d |
| October 2021 | |
1 |
Club competition No 1: open PDI¹ Judge: Malcolm Rapier ARPS CPAGB BPE5* EFIAP/g |
8 |
practical evening Night Photography An opportunity to create images for Assignment #1, with some demonstrations and a chance to learn new skills. |
15 |
lecture Winter Wonderland Dr Keith Snell EFIAP EPSA LRPS Winter Wonderland showcases the unique landscape and animal species of Yellowstone National Park in the winter. d |
22 |
Club competition No 2: open prints¹ Judge: Martin Patten LRPS CPAG BPE2* |
29 |
lecture 100 Strangers Steve Myall EFIAP BPE4* Steve will give us an insight into his ‘100 Strangers’ project to take portraits of 100 unknown people, including the idea behind it, how he chooses his subjects, and his approach to asking them to pose for him. It's street photography with permission! He is now working on his third set of 100 Strangers. With plenty of tips on how to approach people and the camera techniques to use. |
| November 2021 | |
5 |
assignment #1 Night Photography Show and discuss your nighttime images, including results and feedback from the practical evening on 8 October. |
12 |
Club competition No 3: open PDI¹ Judge: Paul Radden DPAGB EFIAP/s PSA4* |
19 |
lecture A Grand Tour The story of a five-week journey by train through Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland, visiting towns and cities with classical music connections, including Salzburg and Vienna, Prague and Leipzig. In this copiously illustrated presentation John will show and talk about the highlights of the trip, both musical and otherwise, plus some of the practical issues of photo-touring. d |
26 |
lecture The Wider World of Photography Ashley Franklin ARPS ABPPA APAGB BPE1* As part of our 70th Anniversary thread we look back at the development of some of the major photographic genres, as Ashley tells the story of Portrait, Fashion, Industrial, War and Social Documentary photography. |
| December 2021 | |
3 |
Club competition No 4: open prints¹ Judge: Lloyd Moore CPAGB BPE3* |
10 |
The Elsden Trophy: The Spirit of Hertford Competition for images of Hertford, to be added to the archive at Hertford Museum. Entries should ideally include people as this provides better archive material. The images will be reviewed in historical context by Hon Member Cllr Peter Ruffles on 25 February. PDI only. d Judged by a curator from Hertford Museum. |
17 |
Christmas Social Evening Our hall is not available this evening and we will therefore socialise onlne programme change |
24 |
no meeting |
31 |
no meeting |
| January 2022 | |
7 |
Brains Trust Please submit your questions in advance for answers by selected experts from the club. |
14 |
Club competition No 5: open PDI¹ Judge: Barbie Lindsay MPAGB FBPE EFIAP/s AWPF |
21 |
lecture Closeup and Macro Flower Photography programme change Ken Payne Ken will discuss his techniques for close-up flower photography, from simple interior and exterior camera setups through to image processing and the use of focus stacking. He will also talk about framing, composition and choice of shooting angle, and the importance of not always going for the obvious shot. |
28 |
lecture Cathedrals, Parish Churches and Other Churches Clive Tanner MPAGB FRPS APAGB Clive takes us to cathedrals, parish churches and ‘churches in retirement’ across England, and particularly in the south east. |
| February 2022 | |
4 |
lecture Looking Local Chris Shepherd As photographers we often suffer from “Locational Myopia”, constantly wishing we were in some exotic location with the best possible equipment. In this talk Chris details his fight with this photographer’s condition and suggests ways to overcome it as well as describing his personal journey to become a leading landscape photographer. D |
11 |
lecture There Be Dragons Mark and Judy Buckley-Sharp A documentary on the geography, history, culture and language of Turkey. Mark and Judy take a series of topics based on their extensive research and illustrate them using photographs taken across many visits. In Part 2 they tour the Bosphorus: up and down and side to side to the various villages. |
18 |
inter-club competition 3-way ‘Match-a-DPI’ battle v Hoddesdon and Ware Judge: David Steel DPAGB |
25 |
The Elsden Trophy: a review of the club’s images Cllr Peter Ruffles MBE Peter will review the club’s historic entries to the Elsden Trophy competition in the context of the 100-year-old record of Hertford by Arthur Elsden and his son, photographers in Hertford between 1859 and 1926. Some 250 of their glass slides were given to the Club early in its life for safe keeping, and are now held in the County Archive. |
| March 2022 | |
4 |
lecture Japan at Cherry Blossom Time Robert Snarey Robert will talk about photography and culture from a trip to Japan that he undertook in April 2018. d |
11 |
Club competition No 7: open PDI¹ Judge: Marilyn Steward ARPS,DPAGB, BPE4*, EFIAP/b |
18 |
practical evening How Do You Do That? Hands-on discussions and demonstrations of camera gear, settings, shooting techniques and post processing. |
25 |
lecture Chasing The Light Kieran Metcalfe BPE1* An exploration of photographing the landscape in different lighting conditions, the challenges presented and Kieran’s approaches to them. |
| April 2022 | |
1 |
Club competition No 8: open prints¹ Judge: Tom Peck |
8 |
assignment #2 I Did It! Images relating to the practical evening on 18 March. |
15 |
Good Friday, no meeting |
22 |
Small Print Competition: picture area 300 sq cm max Judge: Peter Prosser APAGB |
29 |
Set Subject Competition: ‘Abstracts’ Judge: Colin Southgate FRPS D |
| May 2022 | |
6 |
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING followed by a photographic presentation. |
10 |
tuesday inter-club competition 2-way PDI battle at Southgate Judge: Malcolm Rapier ARPS CPAGB BPE5* EFIAP/g |
13 |
lecture Architecture: Exposure to Edit Richard O'Brien What to look for when shooting both internal and external architecture. Richard will start by talking about the gear he uses and why he uses it, then cover some simple tricks he uses to help him ‘get the shot’ especially in crowded locations. In the second half of the talk he will do a live demonstration of editing some of the images using a combination of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CC, with questions welcome. |
20 |
Club Images Through the Decades A review of some of the club’s best work from the last 70 years, with monochrome and colour prints from the darkroom and original colour slides, alongside our recent digital work. D P Comments by Colin Strong LRPS CPAGB |
27 |
CLUB DINNER: a celebration of 70 years of Hertford Camera Club with presentation of end of season trophies |
¹ Competition entries are due the week before each competition.
² The dates of weekend outings may change if weather conditions dictate.
d Projected Digital Images evening.
p Print evening.
