Creative Shots

I'll kick things off with a couple of theme ideas 1) Churches. I do love a good church and there are some fantastic ones around our county so should be possible for all. 2) On the water. This gives a wide range of possibilities when you think about it. 3) Food. Taking the idea from Phil's 'soup art'...

Fantastic shots Ian.
Thank you Phil and Ed for your kind comments. Hopefully this is kind of what you had in mind Phil

Cheers Richie. Also looking forward to seeing other people's shots. Did look out for you but extremely hard to spot people ...... especially in hats/coats/masks etc.

Thanks Trev. Very very colourful as you can see. Fantastic event.

Just thought I'd share a few shots from last night to inspire those yet to go . All taken handheld. Settings are f/4 to f/5 and ISO was 2500 to 3200, high but gave me shutter speeds of between 1/3 and 1/10. Oh....and these are straight off camera.
All CC always welcome

Hi Lisa. Fantastic idea. I think I have a couple I shared at a meeting before you took over displaying the images, I'll send them over.

Thanks Trev.

Nice Ed. Love the screaming oak. My contribution taken in Yorkshire last year

Nice edit Trev. Got to be said though.... geographically impossible to get but nice and it's shows what's capable in the digital world today. We truly can make the impossible possible.

Thanks for all the positive comments guys. The only thing that could of improved my favourite shot was the fly fisherman who was there but he was in the wrong place (quite inconsiderate I thought....lol)

A few shots from our week away in the Lake District. My post title comes from a walk we did up Helm Crag out of Grasmere. At the top are two rock formations that people go to see, The Howitzer and The Lion and Lamb Unfortunately the weather was against us this day 🌧️ but off we went anyway. Just bef...

Great shots Phil. I agree with both Ed and Trev, love the statue and the Cloister vaulting.

Hi Lisa.
Unfortunately I will have to sit this one out (despite really wanting to go). I'm off to the sunny (or probably not ) Lake District on the 3rd and return the 10th. Have fun though and enjoy.

Hi Lisa. Definitely interested in Bures Dragon. I have been (with Ian one evening) and he is mighty impressive but unfortunately St Stephens Chapel was closed at the time. I vowed I must return when its open as it looks very interesting inside. I did comment to Ian that it was Lisa's kind of place 🤣...

Fantastic Trev, I particularly like the last 2 images. I'm sure she will be back for more

Here's another remote control telescope site. Only looked briefly but it looks as though you have a lot more control over exposure times, number of exposures etc. It's not free and as yet I'm unsure of what the cost of credits is, might be worth investigating though.

https://telescope.live/

Hi all. Following Nik's highly impressive talk last night I thought I'd look at something he mentioned....remote access to observatories. I found a website that has micro observatories across the U.S that you can access for free. I've put my request in for a 60 second exposure of the milky way (ther...

Hi all. I'd been waiting to hear from my man Danny Kench about his astro photography workshop. Unfortunately the first date he gave me was 14th/15th August which straight away I could not do so he's looking to send more dates over to set it up. What we will all need is an Intervelometer. Apparently ...

Very nice Phil, very well set up shot as well.

Will do Ian

Excellent Michelle. I'll let you know when I find out more details

Hi all Next month we are (hopefully) due to have a talk about astro photography and looking at the program we are then due to show astro images in November. I have a guy local to myself on Halstead who I've got to know from another club on social media who is thinking of hosting a workshop one night...

Love the black grass shot Phil, great eye
Unfortunately I will not be able to make the shoot (have messaged Richie). It would be a hard push to get to Alresford after being at work and having to come from Halstead. Looking forward to seeing some great shots tho.

Thank you Ed and Trev.
Yes Trev I was made up by your glowing feedback via email, coming from yourself I consider it high praise indeed. Thank you

Hi everyone. I am currently doing an online photography course and one of the modules was macro photography. Being a firm favourite of mine I enjoyed reading (and researching a bit more) about lens coupling. Keen to give it a go I purchased a coupling ring and found a willing model (a poor bee that ...