In our first meeting in the hall, we'll review this season's programme - all the competitions, speakers, workshops and outings lined up so far. We always welcome ideas, especially those with a volunteer attached. Tony will share the plans for our new 'Development Portfolio' competition, running throughout the year and culminating in reviews on 28 [ Read More .. ]
Please bring a friend along for our first meeting of the 2025-26 season. We already have some guests joining us, including those recruited at our public workshops in May. We'll convene at the Elephant and Castle near Wheathamstead for a two-part gathering: From about 5.30pm A walk from the pub through the woods to Nomansland [ Read More .. ]
Members of the club are hosting many photography outings over the summer holiday. Please contact us if you'd like to know more.
Join us to rejoice at the formal end of our 2024-25 season at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, another of the many oldest pubs in the country. It's just down the hill from the Abbey. We have a space reserved for 'St Albans Camera Club' in the restaurant from 7pm, and we've assumed that not everyone [ Read More .. ]
We'll review some numbers, consider successes and make plans for the future. After tea we'll review top scoring competition entries, including at least one image from every club member, and select our 'image of the year'.
There's no meeting this week, although teamwork is always encouraged. The Challenge: Use a single focal length for a day - let’s say 50mm. Choose your subject(s) and try it. You can either use a prime lens or tape down a zoom lens. As a reminder, please shoot the 50mm full-frame equivalent for your camera, [ Read More .. ]
Welcoming our external judge, Steven Galvin. This is an open competition so images in any theme, genre, in colour or black & white will be accepted.
We will be in the hall for a Zoom session with Peter Cosgrove presenting live from his observatory in New York state. Like many of his peers, Peter has had to overcome many technical obstacles to get to a point where has taken award winning and published images. Just like in the camera world, the [ Read More .. ]
Part 1: Geoff Clinton will demonstrate his use of Lightroom for image editing and DXO PhotoRaw 4 for de-noise and lens correction. Part 2: Trip to Cambridge, Ely, and Wicken Fen. Part 3: Initial review of our workshops at the St Albans Visual Arts Festival.
Due to popular demand, we'll run this second light painting workshop. A fabulous opportunity to get creative: use lights we'll provide, in our darkened temporary studio, to make patterns and draw images, perhaps combined with ghostly portraits. You'll get opportunities to watch us try it out and have a go yourselves. Bring your own camera [ Read More .. ]