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Articles
This is Bradford Photographic Society website's teaching and activities section, where you can find advice and stories from members.
Along with reports of our meetings.
We hope to eventually have a good collection of interesting and entertaining articles on different aspects of photography.
Star Shots
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
Our visit to the Bradford Astronomical Society's Observation Site at Sconce Lane on 2 November was not favoured with good weather. Contrary to the optimistic weather forecast, the cloud was almost continuous, allowing us only a few fleeting glances of the moon.
Rais at the Disabled Photographers Society
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- Written by TomH
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Rais Hasan LRPS LDPS has excelled himself in the Disabled Photographers' Society Annual Exhibition competitions on 4 October at the Calumet Photographic Gallery in London.
His Image 'Total Warrior', above, won the Advanced Open Print competition at their London Exhibition and was the overall Exhibition Winner considering both prints and DPIs.
How I Do It
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- Written by TomH
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An evening to get to know more about newer members, the session on 26 October brought out a fascinating array of talent and diverse interests.
Ian Thrilling started us off with his evangelical talk about film photography. No doubt about it, the old kit is fabulous - I had never laid hands on Haselblad before - but both the images and the arguments were impressive too.
1st DPI Competition
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- Written by Steve Swiszczowski
- Category: Competition Reports
Thursday 19 October saw the first BPS competition night of the season, for Digitally Projected Images. Our judge was Howard Tate (MA Phot ARPS AFIAP), one of our favourites. We had more images than usual, 159 altogether from 21 authors. We were all very pleased to see this amount of participation, if a little concerned about squeezing everything in.
There was a good turn out from members. Rais called order and got proceedings rolling quickly. Howard kept his comments succinct but full of valuable advice. He even managed to include useful tips for users of Photoshop and Lightroom. His criticisms were obviously not always agreed with but he gave them respectfully and constructively, drawing on his considerable depth of knowledge and wealth of experience. Members could be heard expressing their appreciation for what they had learned. And I learnt that a JCB is a Joe Cornish boulder in the foreground.
Cuba
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
12th October's meeting saw an interesting talk on the often lauded photographers paradise of Cuba. Ex-BPS president Paul Richards had entered a competition run by a leading UK photography magazine to win an all expenses paid photographer-led trip to Cuba.
Havana Harbour
Paul had long forgotten entering the competition when he got an email saying he had won a prize and giving a contact number. As would all sensible people, Paul put it straight into the trash bin fearing an obvious scam. Later a follow up phone call from a leading photography tour company convinced him that he had indeed won a fabulous trip to Cuba.
Photographic Perseverance
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- Written by TomH
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Imran Mirza was a member of our club some years ago. He has become an established professional photographer and was kind enough to come back on 5th October to describe his journey. It was a very frank, warts-and-all account leading to the title of his talk, of course.
Still Life Workshop
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- Written by Tom Heggie
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
Our first practical evening of the year was on 28 September when the club took on Still Life. With a total of five still life set-ups provided, there was a reasonable choice and space for everyone to have ago at each one.
Time-Lapse
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
21st September saw our first speaker of this session. Paul Richardson, whose work can be admired on YouTube, has been involved in time-lapse for some time, working professionally in the field for the last four years. He came all the way from Manchester to spread the time-lapse gospel to an eager Bradford PS audience.
The Devine Miss Aitch
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
Our second meeting of the new session, on 14 September, was held at the Silkwood Studios in Cleckheaton. Despite a good turn-out, with some discipline imposed, everyone had a fair go at photographing the model in each of her three outfits and set-ups using the studio lighting. Inevitably everyone tried available-light shots too.
Welcome Evening
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
'Rushpast' by Steve Swiss
Our first meeting of the new session, on 7 September, was very well attended. There was an impressive number of potential new members, a number of whom had brought their summer images to show.
Combined with the images already submitted by members into the Dropbox, we had about 200 images to show. Tom Heggie's suggestion of using half of each person's images was shouted down and we set out to show the lot!
President's Evening
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
Image of the Year - 'Honister Pass' by Graham Binns
On 29 June our President, Rais Hasan LRPS LDPS, had a very busy evening!
Before the main business of the evening, he acknowledged members' achievements in external competitions and qualifications during 2016-7:
· David Hopkinson won the Mabel Bruce Trophy for the best Architecture print from the YPU
· Graham Binns won a Certificate of Merit from the YPU
· Kyle Smith became a Qualified Member of the Guild of Photographers
· Rais, himself, was awarded the Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society
The club trophies were then presented.
The Trophies
June Project Results
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
'Plug Hole' by Graeme Mitchell
On 22nd June, we saw the results of our June Project. Of the five teams who started out on this project, four produced final results with imaginative sets of images for some very difficult topics. Each team explained their approach and the background to each image. After careful consideration by the members present, a vote gave a clear victory to Team 2 - Zulfi Ali and Graeme Mitchell for their set on the topic of 'Aperture'.
Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
The reports of the meetings held by Bradford Photographic Society
Exhibitions & talks
Reports of BPS Exhibitions and talks held by others
History of Bradford Photographic Society
Articles on the history of Bradford Photographic Society
Photo Shoots
Reports about Bradford Photographic Society photowalks and shoots
Tutorials
Articles on how to improve photographic techniques
General
Other articles about Bradford Photographic Society or photography in general
Competition Reports
Reports on the various competitions in which BPS is involved
Salons, Courses, etc
These are emails received into BPS from persons/companies offering photography related courses, competitions, exhibitions, etc.
