Photography

Time	-	14:30
Week	-	First
Day	-	Friday
Contact	-	email: u3aphotography@chiltern-u3a.org.uk
Venue	-	Large Barn Hall
Vacancies	-	46

Group Convenors

First Name	Surname
David	Pearson
Geoff	Walker
Tony	Wright

Events

Name	Date	Time
No events other than regular meetings

We meet in the Barn Hall at 2:30 on the first Friday of the month. If you would like to join us, just come along.

Our meetings usually start with a talk or tutorial on some aspect of photography. We cover both pictorial topics, such as composition and lighting, and digital imaging, looking at techniques and technologies to process images using variety of tools such as Photoshop. The meeting format is varied to appeal to all levels of expertise. Many of the talks are retained in an archive, which can be viewed by clicking here.

After a short break we share your images on a set subject, for which members are invited to submit four photographs. Over the last ten years we have accumulated around 10,000 images. They can all be seen by clicking here.

Whenever there is a fifth Friday in a month we go on a photoshoot as a group, the results of which are shown at a later meeting.

Expert assistance is always available to any Chiltern U3A member at each meeting. Please bring along your camera, user manual and current Chiltern U3A membership card.

There are links below to slide shows of some of our work. These are loaded on Flickr.com. As you click on the link, the photos will appear as a gallery. To view a slide show, look at the top right of the screen for a small square icon with an arrow inside. If you hover over this the message "toggle slide show" will appear - click on this and you will see the photos as a slide show.

The following notes from pictorial session meetings are available:

Iceland-Akureyri Video.mp4 & Iceland Presentation.pdf by Chris Little - November 2024
Cattle Market by Stephen Jones - August 2023

Visual AI - What's in it for us? by Tony Wright - July 2023
The Topaz AI Suite by David Pearson - July 2023
Photomicrography by Tony Leonard - May 2023

Garden photography by David Bender, April 2023
How to Take Better Photographs by Geoff Walker, October 2022
Computational Photography by Mike Hender, August 2022
Super Wide-angle by Stephen Jones
Tony's Tips by Tony Wright, May 2022
‘My switch to Olympus & raw software’ by Roger Leach.
Exposure by Tony Leonard, February 2022
Photography with a Purpose by David Pearson. January 2022
Notes of Guru's talk on Hampi. His photographs can be seen here. October 2021
The Hidden Meta-Data in your Images by Nigel Dorian, June 2021
The Adobe Create Colour Wheel by Tony Wright, June 2021
Marketing for U3A Day by Mike Hender, May 2021
What’s new in the world of smartphone photography? by Mike Hender, May 2021
High Resolution Images by Tony Wright, March 2021
Cloning to remove unwanted parts of an image - by John Allport, February 2021 (This is a video recording, and a large file, so be patient
A scanning Christmas - by Tony Wright, December 2020
What I want for Christmas - a film scanner by Stephen Jones, December 2020
Can full-fat Photoshop run on an iPad? by Mike Hender, November 2020.
Back Button Focussing by Nigel Dorian, September 2020. Nikon users also see here.
Digitising photos by Stephen Jones, August 2020
OCR and text by Tony Wright, August 2020
Bounce flash / Off camera flash by Stephen Jones, June 2020
Triptycs by Tony Wright, March 2020
London views 1903 - 2020 by Nigel Dorian, January 2020
Reducing noise in high ISO images by Nigel Dorian, January 2019
Hyperfocal distance versus focus stacking by Stephen Jones, June 2018
Focus stacking for macro by David Pearson, June 2018
Time lapse photography by Nigel Dorian, November 2017
Focus stacking by Stephen Jones, November 2017
Lomo photography and the Diana F+ by Geoff Walker, October 2017
A personal view of Yousef Karsh by Ian Hutt, October 2017
Common faults in images by David Pearson, August 2017
Jane Bown, photojournalist by Guru Guruswamy - July 2017
Lenses by Stephen Jones - June 2017
Digital exposure techniques by David Pearson - May 2017
Record photography by Tony Wright - April 2017
How are the mighty fallen - the sad tale of Eastman Kodak by Nigel Dorian - March 2017
Concert photography, by Guru Guruswamy and Tony Wright - January 2017
Annie Leibowitz, photographer, by Mike Hender, May 2016
How my camera works, by Roger Leach - November 2016
Trends at Photokina 2016 by Tony Wright - October 2016
Photographing butterflies and flowers by Stephen Jones - August 2016
How I cope with lots of images by Guru Guruswamy - June 2016
High dynamic range - February 2016
Fill-in flash - September 2015

The following notes from digital imaging session meetings are available:

Pop-Up Flash by Tony Wright, June 2020
Fun with Polar Coordinates by David Pearson, June 2020
Do you need layers? by Tony Wright, April 2020
Achieving consistent colour, by Geoff Walker, November 2019
Managing tone and colour, by Tony Wright, October 2019
Colour essentials, by Tony Wright, September 2019
Any questions session, August 2019
Photo Editing Course: Image Size Resolution and Quality, July 2019
PowerPoint tips and tricks by Nigel Dorian, June 2019. Click here to see Nigel's effects live.
PowerPoint Pointers by Tony Wright, June 2019
Thoughts on camera and sensor size by Stephen Jones, March 2019
Outline of the photo editing course, February 2019, and review of available software.
Eliminating Noise from High ISO Images, by Nigel Dorian, January 2019
Any questions session 2, September 2018
Any questions session, August 2018
Sensor size and image impact, by Tony Leonard, July 2018
Scene cleaning, by Nigel Dorian, June 2018
In PIxio photo-eraser by David Bender, June 2018
The future of the camera phone, by Mike Hender, April 2018 (This is a large file that will take a minute or more to download)
Beyond the photobook, by Tony Wright, February 2018
Using the Lightroom library module, by Stephen Jones, January 2018
How to transfer photos from camera to iPad, by John Billington, December 2017
Keeping on the straight and level, by Stephen Jones, December 2017
What is happening to Lightroom and Photoshop, November 2017
Photobooks and beyond, by Guru Guraswamy and Tony Wright - November 2017
Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CC by David Pearson - August 2017
Panoramas by Stephen Jones - July 2017
Nik Collection - Analog Efex Pro by Tony Leonard and Color Efex Pro by Mike Hender -May 2017
HDR revisited, by Nigel Dorian and How I use Faststone, by Guru Guruswamy - April 2017
Introduction to Lightroom and Lightroom on the Move - March 2017
Getting to grips with Photoshop by David Pearson - February 2017
Nik HDR (High Dynamic Range) Efex Pro, by Nigel Dorian - December 2016
Drone photography, by Tony Wright - November 2016
iPhone 7a camera and Adobe Lightroom Mobile, by Mike Hender -November 2016
Combining images, September 2016
The Lumia refocus app, July 2016
Curves and colour correction, May 2016
Flash - theory and practice, May 2016
Introduction to Lightroom, February 2016
Compact, bridge or SLR cameras, November 2015
More on compact, bridge or SPR cameras
Digitising and preserving family history, November 2015
Night photography, October 2015
Exposure, September 2015
Controlling movement, etc, August 2015
3D photography, etc (July 2015)
Adobe update, etc, June 2015
Image file properties, May 2015
How to control what is sharp in your picture, April 2015
Scanning slides, negatives and prints, March 2015
Looking after your images “From Camera to the Grave”, January 2015
Optimum resolution for various task, November 2014
Museum photography and Microsoft Digital Image Software, October 2014
Alternatives to Photoshop, September 2014
Prints and printing, August 2014
A brief history of colour slides, August 2014
Printing and printer settings, July 2014
Working at the high end - RAW format, June 2014

Click here to see galleries of photos taken on outings and as set subjects

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, October 2016
and more from Guru Guruswamy
Yoesdon Bank photoshoot, July 2016.
Fox Talbot exhibition and Bank of England photoshoot June 2016.
Windsor photoshoot, April 2016.
RAF Museum, Hendon, Photoshoot February 2016

We looked at the technical challenges of the exercise and several of the participants talked through their before and after images. Click here for a presentation from Mike Hender which captures some of these and his solution.

For those who want to see more of the museum, there are additional sets of this and previous visits from Tony and Guru at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timelapsed/albums/72157663570453550/show
https://www.flickr.com/photos/guru007/albums/72157653299965234/show https://www.flickr.com/photos/timelapsed/albums/72157636819372953/show

South Bank photoshoot, January 2016

Click here for a set of albums of photos taken by members on various occasions
Click here to see a selection of photos by J B Portway, a founder member of Ealing Photographic Society, in 1891

Click here for risk assessment for Photography Group outings.