Est: 1891. Serving photography in Wakefield and District for 131 years.
Members and guests we treated to a fascinating evening with David Garthwaite a Leeds based photographer. During the evening David shared his tips and tricks, from RAW to finished image, of how he edits his fine art architecture images. A two hour session where David walked members step by step through his workflow …
On Monday evening we turned over the microphone and zoom controls to two of our members the second of these was Richard. Richard is a self-confessed people watcher and, whilst not a “street” photographer himself, it is one of his favorite visual mediums. He told of a personal set of circumstances meaning genres he himself thrives best at, both professionally …
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On Monday evening we turned over the microphone and zoom controls to two of our members the first of these was Steve Womack who gave a us trip around the coast and inland areas of Northumberland. It is clear that Northumberland is an area that Steve loves to explore and photograph. We started …
Hopefully all our members and guests had eaten before pulling up a chair for an evening with Donna Crous. Donna is an award winning blogger and food photographer and when she is not busy creating her next tasty masterpiece she host food photography talks for camera clubs throughout the UK and even occasionally …
Members were excited to welcome Jane Lazenby back to their screens for a Fine Art Composite workshop. Jane is a member of Wakefield Camera Club and her workshop evenings are great to watch and there is always something to learn. To start members were given a choice of two image types, an underwater …
The 2021 syllabus includes a number of evenings where we handover the controls to a club member for them to present on a topic of their choosing. The first of these was our club Secretary, Nigel Hazell. Nigel is a very experienced photographer who regularly features highly in our competitions so we knew …
Members, along with guests from a number of local clubs were stacked up on Zoom to spend the evening with Ken Payne. Ken enjoys taking close-up images of flowers from his garden using various focus-stacking and image processing techniques. Ken explained that whilst a macro lens is very useful for this type of …
This week members and guests were gathered with their wellies on for a wonderful trip along the coasts of Northumberland and Yorkshire with Alison Taylor from York. Alison first took us to Saltwick Bay then after a short break we travelled down from Bamburgh to Fraisthorpe. For Saltwick Bay wellies are essential but …
Members and guests were excited to welcome Lee Sutton. His journey did not start with a camera as a child but just 8 short years ago when he retired after 19-years as a bouncer. What Lee has achieved in just 8-years is quite remarkable, an inspiration for us all. Just take a look …
Members had waited many months for this evenings guest speaker, our very own Sara Cremer. They were not disappointed, the evening was a great success and thoroughly enjoyable. Sara took us on a journey starting from simple beginnings on ‘auto’ to making that step into the world of ‘manual’ that allowed her to …