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.

You would be welcome to come along as our guest to see if we are the club for you.

 

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).

Copyright for the images on this site are held and retained by the individual photographers.

 

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

 

 

Newsflash!!

 

Plymstock Camera Club gets a FACEBOOK page click here

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The New Season Approaches!

 

 

September 4th will see the start of the 2018/19 Season for Plymstock Camera Club and its members and already the Chair, Secretary and committee has put in much work to make it a great one!  Following the 2017/18 season Membership Survey results and feedback from the AGM further improvements are being made to make this season even more exciting.  

While some clubs are shrinking back Plymstock grew in membership so something must be going right.  Hopefully more new members will be attracted to us and we will be very pleased to welcome them.

The club is hoping to have more practical sessions and a more learning focus in addition to our usual image viewing and discussion and gifted and inspirational speakers.  Many members have indicated they are prepared to help the committee implement these changes for the benefit of us all.