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Welcome
Blown Away by John Pengilley
Plymstock Camera Club is a friendly well established club with a thriving membership. The club always welcomes newcomers whether experienced photographers or complete beginners. We offer a broad range of improvement, how-to and practical evenings, internal and inter-club competitions, critique evenings, lectures and instruction by experienced photographers as well as inspirational speakers.
As a club we seek to faciltate what the membership wants as well as educate and broaden everyones skills.
For the 2018-2019 season we will meet every Tuesday 7.45pm-10pm from September through to March at:
Plymstock United Church, Plymstock Road, Plymouth PL9 7PB.
(Located 1/3 of the way between the Dean Cross traffic lights at Plymstock Broadway and the waterfront at Oreston). Membership
Royal William Yard by Matthew Curtin
Membership fees for next season Sept 2018 - April 2019 inclusive: (Reduced membership post Christmas) Single £20 Student/Junior Reduced rate £12.50
On the evening all members and visitors £2.50 inclusive of draw ticket, tea & biscuit with an additional charge for visitors for selected speakers.
New members are particularly welcome at the start of our season and throughout the year.
You will be able to attend the club on two occasions as a trial with a paid membership required on the third evening.
Larkin About by Paul Fitzsimmons
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Latest News
Tuesday 26th March
Members and any guests will be invited to view, discuss and appraise the 2018 WCPF Members Exhibition Digital Images.
Tuesday 19th March Wildlife Print and Landscape/Seascape DPI Trophies
Judge Pedro Landers visited and gave his very informed and constructive appraisal of what proved to be a very high standard of photography in both trophy competitions and the delighted winners were handed their certificates and applauded by all those present.
Tuesday 22nd January Print Competition 3 - Up Close & Own Choice
Plymstock Camera Club continues the second half of its season with the third Print League competition with a main subject of 'Up Close' as well as the usual any subject qualifies Own Choice sections. If last weeks DPI (digitally projected image) competitions' entries are matched then we should have a stupendous entry. Print competitions are always popular with the members (who get to vote for the winners) and potential members thinking of visiting certainly would enjoy their evening.
Plymouth Hoe - Matt Curtin
Newsflash!!
Please note that the seasons' Programme has been updated as of 28/11/2018. Take a look at the top of the page to view online as well as download a PDF version for printing.
Plymstock Camera Club gets a FACEBOOK page click here
Tuesday 16th October - Alan Davey presents his Sporting Images
This Tuesday Alan Davey the Chairman of Ivybridge and District Camera Club visits us at Plymstock CC to present some of his sporting images. These will include Alans' images of MotoX, British Super Bikes and Thundercat racing so a very exciting evening is anticipated. As usual visitors are welcome and I am sure you will enjoy the evening.
Tuesday 9th October - DPI1 Blue Object(s) & Own Choice
After last weeks very successful laptop practical on the use of layers in photography by Ann Owens and an introduction to Affinity Photo by Roger Woodward we come to our first league DPI (digitally projected image) competition with the subject of "Blue Object(s)" as well as an "Own Choice" where any subject matter goes.
Saturday 6th October - Plymstock Library
Plymstock Camera Club again this year supported the "Fun Palace" taking place at Plymstock Library with an exhibition of club members prints. Thanks to all those that enabled this event and those that went along to support it.
Tuesday 2nd October - A Skills Evening - Bring your laptops
An evening intending to re-inforce the earlier evening (18th September - Layers Don't Bite) with members that have editing software that supports layers bringing their laptops for some practice!
Tuesday 25th September - Print League Competition - PC1
What a fantastic night for our first print competition of the season. Well done to everyone that took part. There was a great entry of 33 prints in "Modes of Transport" and 27 in the "Own Choice" category. Besides this the overall quality was high.
Winners of "Modes of transport":
Winners of "Own choice":
Tuesday 18th September - Skills Evening
"Layers don't bite" by Ann Owens and Affinity Photo Software Demo by Roger Woodward
The evening of Tuesday 18th September is presented by Ann Owens and Roger Woodward. Ann has kindly volunteered to educate and enlighten Plymstock Camera Club members (for those not already using layers) on the benefits and opportunities when using 'layers' when editing or creating an image. Roger Woodward will be presenting an overview and demo of the new Affinity Photo software (by Serif) that offers most of the advantages of Adobe Photoshop at a bargain price and unlike Creative Cloud you only pay once for a licence.
Diane Fifield "My Photographic Journey - L Panel to Present"
We all had a great evening on Tuesday 11th September when Diane Fifield presented her images in a talk to Plymstock Camera Club titled "My Photographic Journey - L Panel to Present". You can preview some of Dianes' work on her website at www.dianefifieldphotography.co.uk It was an entertaining and interesting evening especially for those interested in both flowers and macro/close-up photography as well as those aspiring to RPS Distinctions. Those attending got the opportunity to view Dianes L Panel in print.
Plymstock Camera Club at the Plymstock Fair
Saturday September 1st saw Plymstock Camera Club committee and members setting up a fantastic print and rolling digital display of images at the annual Plymstock Fair which had not taken place last year. Many visitors to the fair took time to view and discuss the images with members that were present. The display looked great. One ex-member who visited stated the standard had indeed gone up!
The above image shows a few of the visitors clearly very interested in what was on display.
Watch out in the local South Hams Gazette as one of their contributing photographers took a press photo of a few of the memebers attending.
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