Five presentations last month took up the whole evening, showing a variety of images. It was good to see new and some experimental images which keep members photographic skills fresh. 

 

John Hudson never misses a chance to photograph dance companies at Sadler's Wells theatre under difficult lighting conditions to capture some superb images. His other passion for drone photography took him closer to Bristol to photograph the Victorian viaduct at Pensford from the air. A few of John’s images of a muscular male model taken at a photoshoot showed him proudly displaying his sixpack, enhanced by well positioned lighting and also full figure studies in monochrome. 

 

Derwood Pamphilon’s interest in the difficult genre of figure photography takes him around the country and has won many awards including one silver medal for his image of ‘Xenia’ reproduced here. To make a successful image requires a lot of planning and communication skills on top of the usual technical skills to create an image. His other interest in dance photography is still strong with the images taken in both theatre and studio environments. 

 

Xenia by Derwood Pamphilon

 

David Alderson was somewhere in Somerset at a medieval period re-enactment. His images included some action shots of jousting and hand to hand fighting with swords, hopefully without bloodshed. I am sure some of those pictures taken at the re-enactment have a great potential for creative work and we may well see them in future club competitions. 

 

The next DI group meeting is on Monday 12 June. The meeting is open to all BPS members. This is a gentle reminder to all members that it is an ideal opportunity to share your images with fellow members. It’s an opportunity to get a second opinion at the DI meeting from your fellow members or you might just enjoy showing off your work and experiments in an informal atmosphere. You are free to ask questions on digital imaging. 

 

When you are ready, please email your images for presentation to reach me by 6pm-ish  Sunday 14 May. Images: JPG format, sRGB colour space, 1600 x 1200 pixels (same as competitions but not strict). If you wish to show them in a specific order, please prefix filenames with 01, 02, 03 etc. Email attachment size - max 20Mb per email, as many as necessary. You may also use WeTransfer or Dropbox if convenient, but I am not equipped to receive by direct transfers from Google or Apple Mac systems.