Seaford Photographic Society

Just in case you are thinking of turning up to one of our meetings to see what it’s all about (which you are most welcome to do) it is worth noting that we meet in person, at Seaford’s Con Club, only on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month. Every other Friday we get together on-line, via Zoom – drop us an email if you would like an invite to one of these.

October started with a talk by Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE5* on Fine Art Flower Photography. We had an excellent turnout for this inspiring talk, including one new member and two who had turned up for the first time to see what we do. Cherry’s talk was full of creative ideas and she had also brought along a selection of prints for us to see close-up. It was useful to hear how she created some of her fabulous images and there were some good hints on using layers and blending modes in Photoshop. The first two set-subject competitions of the season were for ‘Macro’ and ‘Triptych’, judged by Erica Oram CPAGB AFIAP BPE3*. The 20 entries for the Macro competition inevitably included a lot of nature images and it was one of these, Chris Dawson’s photo of a Bee Wolf Wasp (photo far left), which took first place. There were some very creative entries for the Triptych competition and Colin Mitchell took first place with another nature themed entry entitled Gone Fishing (photo bottom), from on his recent trip to Alaska.

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The second round of the Print League was judged by a regular guest at SPS, Malcolm Bull from Steyning Camera Club. There were 32 prints in total for him to comment on. Stephen Day scored the only 20/20 in the Standard Group. In the advanced group three prints made it to the final selection, scoring the maximum 20/20. These three were very different styles and featured a monochrome ‘being in the right place at the right time’ image from Chris Dawson taken at Tide Mills (photo top) a superb wildlife shot of a short-eared Owl hunting from Colin Mitchell (photo 2nd from top), and a creative flower photo from Thelma Long (photo above right), possibly influenced by our recent talk by Cherry Larcombe.

The month was completed by another excellent talk by Jane Lazenby on advanced Photoshop techniques using textures to create artistic images. This built on the popular talk she gave us a year ago on the same subject.

You can see larger versions of all the photos on this page on our website www.seafordps.org, which is updated weekly. It also contains information about the club and our programme of events.