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Flash workshop

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Introduction
The last of this season's workshops was held on Sat 22nd July, led by Anthony Baines and Martin Till. Katrina's brother, Alistair, kindly offered us access to his farm for the afternoon, with the ponds and woodland providing a beautiful backdrop.

We split into two groups (Nikon and Canon) so we could make use of compatible off-camera flash arrangements, working with ambient light in traditional fill-flash and also high speed sync modes.  Martin's group Below, you can see Martin acting as 'model' for Alex. Avril is holding a speedlite with a CTO (Colour Temperature Orange) filter in place. Behind Alex, at a low level, is another speedlight set to a lower power with no filter, to balance the lighting.

Here's one of the images from Alex's sequence: Manual exposure, 1/160th at f/6.3, ISO 100, 50mm focal length. Exposure compensation was set to -2 to darken the background and flash exposure compensation was used with each speedlite in its own group…
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APS at the PAGB Inter-club PDI Championship

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Saturday 15th July saw Ashford and Malling Photographic Societies represent the KCPA at the PAGB Inter-club PDI Championship at Warwick University. Chairman Philip Hinton and External Competition Secretary Graeme Andrews made the lengthy journey up for the day, together with members Sue Marcoz and Avril Christensen - keen to see national standard images.  Along with the 37 other clubs, we watched with anticipation as judging of the first round of our eight images unfolded. Well, after some 340 images, Ashford scored 89 with Smethwick leading with 109! Having witnessed what the three judges were favouring, Philip and Graeme chose the next 8 images for round two. It was apparent that neither Monochrome or highly manipulated images were in vogue this year. Ashford scored 1 less in round two with 88, totaling 177, equaling Malling's total! Smethwick scored 110 this time so were the highest after the two rounds. The top eight clubs then battled it out, whilst we joined the Pl…
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End of season awards

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We were pleased to extend a ward welcome Tracy Hughes CPAGB LRPS, KCPA Senior Vice President, as our guest for our end of season awards evening.

The evening started with an informal buffet, with a selection of dishes prepared provided by members. Following this, Tracey gave a talk, outlining her photographic journey, showing a selection of her work, in particular her very emotive portraiture.

The evening ended with the presentation of awards, as follows:


TrophyAwarded toThe Douglas Weaver Trophy for EndeavourGeorge PearsonThe Colourscope Cameras Overall Winners TrophyAnthony WrightThe A(K)CC Challenge Trophy for Division 1 PrintsKyle TallettThe Projected Digital Images Division 1 TrophyGarry ShorterThe Kenhire Shield for Division 2 PrintsMike RoutleyThe Projected Digital Images Division 2 TrophyGraeme AndrewsThe John Heritage Shield for Division 3 PrintsAvril ChristensenThe Projected Digital Images Trophy for Division 3Avril ChristensenThe John Wigmore Rural Landscape CupAvril Christen…
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Report on the Annual Exhibition competition

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On Friday 12th May 17, Ray Bridges LRPS CPAGB ADPS BPE3* of Maidstone and Tenterden Camera Clubs judged our Annual Exhibition, the final competition of this season when we put our best of the season on display. Because of the very high quality of all images entered, Ray had to be quite critical when commenting, looking for reasons to choose between the good and the very good, pointing out areas where he would have done things differently had he been the photographer. He was looking for creativity, mood, atmosphere and a story, questioning what was happening, and how people were involved, and always stressing that when choosing from such strong images it was sometimes down to the judges own personal preference. When commenting upon Stephen Creek’s winning image he said it had been captured at just the right moment, was full of atmosphere, and was just a superb picture – one of the best he had ever seen of animal behaviour. Overall, he said, it was a wonderful collection of work.
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