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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.
Second Digital Trophy Evening
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- Written by TomH
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We had our second DPI competition of the year on 12th January and as far as competitions go, this one was cracker! Up for grabs was the Bronze Statuette for Novice followed by the D.Bates Trophy for best all-rounder.
The all-rounders feature 4 images in different categories, and marked individually. The person with the highest mark from all four of their images, wins. The Bronze Statuette was the best individual image overall.
Auction Action
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- Written by TomH
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So that's how they do it! Rais and I, aided and abetted by my wife Annette, witnessed the sale of the BPS archive material in 25 lots at Tennants in Leyburn on 4th January. It was a fascinating process for the uninitiated (myself) involving telephone bids and internet bids as well as waves and twitches from people in the room. And so quick! Also there were all sorts of interesting and unusual things on sale too - e.g. a signed second edition of the Origins of the Species by Charles Darwin.
Party, Party!
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
On 15 December a select band of members and partners gathered at Aagrah Midway for our annual Christmas Meal. It is certainly a popular venue - most of us could not get into their carpark at 7pm. Fortunately there is plenty of overflow parking.
Christopher Pratt, Photographer
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- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
What a gem of a talk! On 8 December, David Pratt treated us to an illustrated talk about the photographic exploits of his father, Christopher Pratt - yes, that Christopher Pratt of furniture fame. David followed the story outlined in his book entitled 'Christopher Pratt, Photographer', which is out of print but held in the Bradford Library, embellished with personal recollections of his father.
Bingley Battle
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
We hosted the Christmas-time traditional battle with Bingley Camera Club on 1 December this year. There was a change in format requiring 30 digital images from each club (instead of the usual 15 prints and 15 DPIs). As a result there was no official 'who is leading at the half way stage' announcement at the tea break and all the drama was kept to the end.
Changing Faces and Other Places
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The 24th November saw a most unusual talk that was very well attended. Richard Hardcastle the Chief Anaplastologist at St Luke's hospital treated us to a talk on the subject of cosmetic prosthetics.
Night Photography in Sunbridge Wells
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On 17 November a collection of intrepid members braved the weather to visit the nearly-complete Sunbridge Wells development in (actually under) central Bradford. Graham Hall, who masterminded the project, showed us round the whole intricate layout. With its seven themed bars and numerous shops connected by beautifully restored tunnels it is enhanced with an extraordinary selection of historic and imaginative objects some leant by local museums.
First Print Competition + Pinhole Introduction
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
The meeting on 10 November was re-formatted at short notice as our Greenwood Trophy for Novices could not run for lack of entries. However there were plenty of entries for the Norman Stow Trophy for Architectural Record prints. David Hopkinson won with his 'West Window, Ripon Cathedral' (see below) . Graham Mitchell came second with 'Historic Houses, Freudenburg, Germany' and David's 'Atlas Fountain, Castle Howard' was third. Continuing to stalk the winner, Graeme's 'Architectural Detail, Allianz Stadium, Munich' was highly commended. Our judge, Colin Williams, gave clear and constructive comments as well as scores. Our thanks to him for a very successful competition.
Training Evening - Model Photography
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- Written by TomH
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On 3 November our training session led by Andy Holland at Opus Studios attracted fourteen members. Our model was Lizzie Farrar who contributed a lot to the shots we got by using her experience to produce great poses and responding well to individual's ideas.
Andy set out to demonstrate the use of four studio lights and a white background to produce for different effects. First we tried the high-key set-up with a white background, then a grey background followed by a dark background and finally a artistic rim-lit effect. Everyone had a turn using their camera with the studio flash, posing the model and choosing their shots.
First Digital Projected Image Competition Evening
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- Written by TomH
- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
This Thursday 27th. saw the first of this year's competitions. Being contested were the Tom Scatchard Memorial Trophy for Record photography, the Norfolk Trophy, Nature, and the J.F.Mather Trophy, Pictorial images. All three competitions were for DPI images and there was a very respectable entry of 91 images from 11 society members.
The Judge for the evening was Tony Caunt LRPS of Bradford Camera Club who’s previous visits had been so appreciated that he had merited a recall (something not extended to all judges and speakers).
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Welcome Evening 2016-17
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- Category: Report of Bradford Photographic Society Meetings
Thursday 1 September saw the first meeting of the new session. An impressive fourteen members altogether showed their work. So, with most submitting ten photographs, commentary on each was necessarily brief. It is always fascinating to hear the story behind an image. Some seriously stunning work was on show and we will no doubt see many of these images again in our competitions.
Treasurer Mathew was gainfully employed taking subscriptions with his impressive pre-printed receipts.
Along with a nice catch-up chat, it was a great start to the 2016-17 year!
Welcome to the BPS
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- Written by Peter Sykes
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Our friendly and informative meetings run from September to June, and are normally held at the Upper Bolton Conservative Club (Idle Road, Bradford, BD2 4JN) on Thursday evenings from 7.30pm until approximately 9.30pm.
You can find our syllabus for the year under the BPS Events section. Prospective members are welcome to attend a meeting free of charge before (hopefully) deciding to join us.
Our members have a wide range of photographic interests, experience, and equipment. You can see examples of our photography in the Gallery section. We look forward to meeting you!
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
