Paul came to talk to us last Tuesday about his Northern Portraits. His talk was entertaining as he took us through his thinking behind his approach to his pictures. Paul primarily uses a Hasselblad 500C/M film camera.He also occasionally uses a Canon. Most of his pictures are taken with an 85mm lens and he uses
The next L&CPU PDI Club Knock-Out competition will be held on 19th November 2016. The venue for the evening is the Albany Academy, Chorley.Judge for the night is: Mr. Peter Gennard MFIAP, EFIAP. This is a fun competition night with a serious side. Meet old friends, make new. The winning club and, author of the winning
Please welcome Mike Robinson to North Cheshire PS. Here's a few words and a photo from Mike: Having tinkered with cameras for a while I began taking it more seriously in 2012 when I started combining photography with diving and taking pictures under water. Having recently moved to Cheshire I have hung up my fins
Hi folks, If any of you has a Canon printer that uses 570PGBK XL and/or 571 GY XL cartridges I have one of each opened, but unused, having discovered that my printer uses the 55.......homologues. The folk at Cartridge People understandably enough agreed to take back the unopened ones, but not these. Free to good
Roger Evans judged our 1st print competition of the season. Although a new judge for LCPU, he is an experienced judge elsewhere. A member of Chester PS, his interests as a photographer are sport, landscape & wildlife although his nature shots are more macro, rather than birds or mammals. He has been taking photographs for
The first of our Big Night Speakers – acclaimed Wildlife Photographer Mark Hamblin is coming on 22nd November. An excellent evening is guaranteed. £8 entry - all welcome
Hi everyone Sale Photographic have kindly alerted us to an evening they are hosting - details as follows: alex-hyde-at-sale-photographic-society_2016
The PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship was held on Sunday 6th November. Federations each nominate two Clubs to take part alongside the Finalists from the previous year. In our case this is the L&CPU and NCPS was successful in being selected because we did well in the L&CPU Print Competition. Trophies and PAGB medals are awarded to
Members were invited to bring along images either prints or pdi's on Tuesday for an image assessment evening. Each table had a leader to encourage members to give their opinions, assess & critique each image shown. After period of time members moved clockwise to the next table & leaders moved anti-clockwise. A very enjoyable evening
A handful of members took part in Tuesday's Practical Demonstration Evening. Julie showed us various Apps for photographers, these were very useful & although most were for iPhones similar could be found for android. Rob gave us a Depth of Field Explanation, which some of us failed miserably at when trying to calculate, and ended