Nottingham Outlaws Photographic Society

Lots of photos up on flickr of this year’s (rather damp) trip to Wales!

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Two short slideshows of last year’s trip are now available in the about section. Thanks again to Chris for putting these together. If you like castles and sunrises it’s well worth a watch!
Click here to take a look

The third projected competition of the year saw Scott take first place in the open section for his photo, “Survival of the Fittest”

Winner of the themed section, which this month was “Monochrome” and overall winner on the night was a very pleased Stella Newman with her photo titled “Attitude”.

Congratulations to all who entered, another top competition with some very good entries. Keep it up!

Nottingham Outlaws Photo Soc. needs your participation in upcoming events!

On 22 July we will have a mini lecture evening. An opportunity for you to show us your pics. Anything is acceptable- your favourite shots- your trip to Blackpool-your portraits-your urban shots- your anything. Come on let’s see them. Prints or projected images. We want to see it!

On 5 August we have a tips and tricks evening. We already have requests for explanations of how to photograph water drops, slices of lemon falling in a glass, fast moving subjects (cars etc.) and a request for a back to basics session covering such stuff as

• Fieldcraft-setting up the shot/composition/lens choice etc
• Using a filter system-basic intro to using filters
• Setting up the camera, which settings to use?
• Breaking the rules, thirds/over or under exposure etc

If you want to add your vote for any of the above topics or if you want to request another topic to be covered please email John or leave a comment below!

The third print competition of the year featured the usual open section and a themed section of “Flight”.

Winner of the open section and overall winner on the night was Sue with her photo, “Chinese Lantern”.

The themed section was topped by Chris Rickels with his skateboarding photo titled “In Flight”

Thanks to everyone who entered. Good to hear another judge surprised at how good we are for a small club!

Click here for the full results

Keep it up!

The second Nottingham Outlaws Portrait evening of the year was a great chance to learn a bit more about using off camera flash. Specifically balancing the ambient light with flash to make portraits really “pop”.

Many thanks to Steve and model Katherine for their advice and inspiration ( and patience! )

Some of the results of the night can be seen below.

Some of you might have met Steve who was a guest at the last club competition. He is actually a photography lecturer specialising in studio and portrait work.  We have invited him to give us a tutorial session on June 3rd, he will be bringing kit and a model, also some money off offers at Calumet.  The idea being that he does a half hour talk, then we move onto shooting the model.

This should be an excellent opportunity to work with studio lights/flash with expert guidance available.

There were lots of very interesting entries for both sections in the Nottingham Outlaws’ second projected photography competition of the year.

Winner of the themed section, “reflections” was Scott with his photo ‘Peace’.  Top of the open section and overall winner on the night was Les with his image ‘vogue58′

Congratulations to everyone who entered, the winning images can be seen below.

The latest competition results can be seen here.

Last Thursday’s no meeting night was the perfect chance for an evening outing to catch a sunset over Rutland Water.

A good Outlaws turnout saw a pleasant, but not stunning, sunset in a beautiful tranquil setting. The church provided a perfect chance to grab a last minute ‘reflections’ photo for next week’s competition theme!

The photos are starting to pop up on flickr, here are a few of them.

A thrilling Richard Balter Challenge, hosted by Rushcliffe Photographic Society, saw 11 clubs from across the East Midlands – from Arnold to North East Lincs – battle it out under the rapid fire scrutiny of seasoned NEMPF judge Tony Pioli, who cast a critical eye over images from 55 different photographers.

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