Among the opening announcements at Thursday nights meeting Club President Bob Black summarised some of the recent achievements by F.C.C. photographers on the International Salon of Photography circuit and elsewhere. The summary follows and a full list is under the Information tab then Achievements > Individual Member Successes.
Nancy MacArthur ARPS CPAGB
4 Acceptances in the Princess Photo Contest in Bulgaria. Aliens was awarded an IAAP Ribbon and Sublime received a Judges Choice award. Smiling Lily and Modern Monet were the other two Acceptances. Also, 2 images accepted to the Royal Photographic Society Digital Imaging Group PDI exhibition and 1 Print accepted to the Royal Photographic Society Digital Imaging Group PDI exhibition.
Agnes Clark LRPS
2 Acceptances in the Dingwall National Exhibition. Muscari On China was successful in the Monochrome section and Dicentra was successful in the Colour section. Also, 2 images accepted to the Royal Photographic Society Digital Imaging Group PDI exhibition.
Geof Longstaff CPAGB
21 Acceptances in the 6 Salons of the Layers Of Passion circuit in India. Also, 10 Acceptances in the 3 Salons of the Focal Point Circuit in Serbia.
Janet Hoggan
3 Acceptances in the Southampton International Exhibition of Photography
Charles Woodford
Made the shortlist in both the Reflection theme and Portrait theme sections of the Motif Collection Monthly Competition.
Arlehne Stewart
Image featured on BBC Scotland’s Pictures Of Scotland website.
Operating from his studio in Bridge of Weir Andy Stark lives and breathes portraiture, and last Thursday night he visited Falkirk and proved he also has the gift of concisely explaining every practical and technical aspect of the process leaving his audience well equipped to enter this field.
Andy started by explaining the different types of electronic flash which are available and the type of results they produce. He started with built-in camera flash, moved on to hot-shoe mounted electronic flash, and on to stand-mounted studio flash. He then set up a demonstration studio while detailing a number of safety factors such as dealing with loose cables and discharging unused power in a flash head.
Using Club members as subjects, Andy then demonstrated the effect resulting from fitting different types of reflector on the flash head, then the effect of flash umbrellas and soft boxes. His camera was tethered to a laptop with each demonstration image then projected on to a screen within seconds. A lively question & answer section followed and we are indebted to `Andy for sharing his expertise, and for the considerable amount of time and effort he expended at our club.
Looking ahead, there is a Club photo-walk planned for Edinburgh in December. Members can get details from the co-ordinator. Next week we welcome award winning Commercial and Landscape photographer David Queenan.