Mold Camera Club

Established 1963

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Contacts

Meetings Mondays 7.30pm

Winter : The Daniel Owen Centre (CH7 1AP) from 10th January 1011.

Summer meetings: Butcher’s Arms

See map

 

Contact:

Telephone or email Bob on 07971 040411 between 6.00pm and 7.30pm Monday nights only.

Webmaster : Phil Parsons - DelfrynDesign  tel: 01352 741089.

Membership:

Membership starts at the first meeting of the year in September and cost from £15.00, (2010-11).

 

The new committee elected at the AGM on 9th May are as follows:

Chairman & Internal Competitions Secretary – Chris Noble

Vice-Chair & Honorary Treasurer – Jonathan Frings

Honorary Secretary & Forum Administrator– Ann-Marie Metcalfe

Deputy NWPA Representative - John Hoogerwerf

Membership Secretary & Critique Circles Co-ordinator – Mike Catania

Programme Secretary – Bob Morgan

Assistant Programme Secretary - John Bell

Internal Competition Secretary – Chris Noble

Assistant Internal Competitions Secretary - Ian Parker

External Competitions Secretary & NWPA Representative – Andy Polakowski

Exhibition Secretary – Rishi Sharma

Publicity Officer – David Allen

Social Secretary – Janet M. Davies

Social - Elaine Williams

Catering Secretary – Steve Jones

Catering & Newsletter - Ang Jones

Ordinary Member – John Bell

Ordinary Member – Ian Parker

Forum - Gary Jones

Webmaster - Phil Parsons.

Links to Photography Related Sites

 

Galleries.

 

BBC Wales / North East

Contributors send in their photos. Photos submitted by local camera clubs, but not Mold?

Boo’s Digital Photography

All of the scenery shots are taken within the north west of England, largely in Lancashire and Cumbria. Useful tutorials.

Colin’s Photography

Stock photography from a quality Photographer. Photographic prints for sale online

Earthbound Light   Superb photos and tips to improve your photography!

Flickr   Store Search and share your photos.

In Still Life

A collection of photographic works by Adrian Briscoe.

Jon Mold

The gallery of Jon Mold  an amateur photographer with some interesting work.

Luminous Landscapes

Comprehensive site devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital as well as traditional image processing techniques. Tutorials & Product reviews.

Magnum

Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members.

Rod Evans  portrait work that could inspire

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world - the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution.

 

Goods, Materials, Processing

 

Cotswold Mounts   A large range of ready made mounts, high quality at reasonable prices.

Digital Camera Review    Reviews of cameras and accessories.

Lets Go Digital  Online magazine for digital imaging, product reviews.

Trusted Reviews  Tested and evaluated, just about every type of IT product from hard disks to cameras & LCD monitors

Photo Freeware Net  Great  source of free editing software

Cambrianphoto  http://www.cambrianphoto.co.uk/

 

Printing

 

Fujifilm’s new printing service  offers great quality at just 55p for 12x8” or 110p for 12x18” prints. Check it out!

Loxley Roes   High quality printing in a vast range of sizes, finishes etc. at a reasonable price.

Photobox   Real photo prints from the UK's first online lab.

ProAm Imaging (Bradford)

www.dscolourlabs.co.uk

Canvas: The Big Photo Shop (Betws-y-Rhos)

Photo Paper: Fotospeed  Permajet

 

Software

 

Need photo editing software for free? Try try GIMP  or  Splashup .

Video playing: Forget Windows Media Player. VLC is small and does exactly what you want in a video player: it opens quickly and handles almost anything, from DVD disks to obscure video formats. No ‘skins’, no fuss and free.

Interested in trying some special effects? Take a look at Dumpr - Lots of it comes for free!

Calculating sunrise etc. There is an excellent piece of free software for PC called The Photographers Ephemeris  http://stephentrainor.com/tools

An app is available for Calculating sunrise etc.( iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad)Calculating sunrise etc. at The Photographer's Ephemeris

 

Tutorials etc.

 

Digital Photo Secrets. Audio Interview with David Peterson and Amy Renfrey. Starts with the basics and progresses to more advanced stuff.  Click the icon:

A new interview with David Petersen & Amy Renfrey with lots of good tips from January 2012.  

Digital photography guides from Adobe

ExplorePhotography  was formed to offer a unique reference point on taking, editing and displaying your photos. Whatever level you are at we show you the best ways to stage, take, display, manipulate and store your photographs.

Geoff Lawrence  This free digital photography tutorial site is designed to show you how to take better photographs. Well worth a look for the less experienced like me!

Light and Land  Landscape and Wildlife photographic tutorial tours.

 

Steven Lewis is a regular teacher of landscape photography. You can find information on his web site at http://www.landscapesofwales.co.uk/

 

Photoshop Tutorials   Watch and Learn Photoshop is a source of quality video Photoshop Tutorials. Each week they release a free video tutorial, here I am going to list all the free video tutorials they provide for your Photoshopping pleasure.

 

Photoshop Support

 

Photoshop TV    An American TV programme featuring Photo Shop tutorials. You can watch recent programmes on line.

 

OCA courses.  If you would like to find out more the web site is http://www.oca-uk.com/  They are just starting to develop a series of free tutorials on the web. There a couple aimed at amongst others photographers. One is exercises on composition and the other has some basic exercises in colour.

 

Stuart Lawrie Images   http://www.stuartlawrieimages.co.uk/

 

If you are not a reader of David Peterson’s Newsletters I can recommend them as a great place for learning. Take at look at:

http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/

 

The UK Photographers Rights Guide  A short UK guide to the main legal restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to publish photographs that have been taken.

 

ColourConfidence  check out their web site!

 

Royalty free music

Incompetech  Free to use music for your AVs, but do read the “terms & conditions”.  

Amy_Renfrey_Audio_Interview.mp3