One of our esteemed members has posted this event in the local community and in these increasingly difficult times we would like to support and offer any help we can. So if you can, please help this worthy cause.
Below you will find the full text of the appeal.
Hello everyone.
Re. “WILLOWBROOK HOSPICE”
Two of our Grandchildren (Chloe and Kyla) are using this lockdown period to try and raise much needed funds for our local hospice, “WillowBrook”. This will help towards the current losses due to the shops being shut.
To do this they are going for a run/walk every day for at least 1 mile per day.
Would you be so kind, as to pledge whatever you can afford to sponsor them? All monies donated, will go directly via their “Just Giving” page to the hospice.
Obviously hospices are always looking for additional support/funding, however with the hospice shops being closed, the situation is much more dramatic.
With the ongoing situation regarding the Covid-19 virus we have decided to cease any meetings with immediate effect. We feel its our duty to protect both the members of the club and the members of the public who may visit.
However we are constantly updateing our assesment of the situation and will keep everyone informed as to when its is safe and prudent to commence our meetings.
Thank you to all our Judges, members and our allied friends who we wish to thank for their services this year and we do look forward to seeing you all again before very long.
We are still an active club and our internal facebook page is still alive and thriving so to all members of the club, please log in to see some of our great content and in place of your competitions perhaps showing your talent on our group will help to pass the time.
So until we meet once more, stay safe, stay well and see you all soon .
The first in an occasional series showcasing our members portfolio’s, these stunning images are from Gavin Wallace one of our accomplished photographers who has a wide interest in the Art.
All images are copyright Gavin Wallace, all rights reserved.
Maybe after viewing all our members pictures you would like to see the real thing up close. We are proud to be in association with The World Of Glass in hosting our Annual exhibiton where you can view at your leasure all our members printed work, framed and presented in Gallery format. There is nothing quite like viewing a photographic print at close range to see every detail and the care and craftsmanship which goes in to every picture.
Over the past few months we have been runnning several workshops and learning days for our members in the World of Glass
( www.worldofglass.com )
Due to high demand we have arranged to open our latest learning day to the general public. This will allow anyone who has an interest in photography to come along and meet our members.
On the day we will have expert advice on how to set up your camera, use a variety of software packages to edit your photographs and advice on printing your finished photos.
In addition we have a lighting and portrature workshop available to all.
Sheridans Photography will be demonstrating lighting and posing methods enabling you can get the most out of taking pictures of people.
We are pleased to welcome Ms Kat Lockwood as our guest model for the workshop there will be an oppertunity to put into practise everything you have learned whilst you shoot with Ms Lockwood on the day. Stephen Sheridan will be on hand to provide expert help and guidance as you shoot.
Please come along and experience our camera club and all we have to offer in this great hobby of Photography the event will run from 10 a.m to around 4 p.m with the workshop scheduled to start around 12 noon.
Please note there will be a admitance charge of £5 on the day, which include the workshop and model shoot.
We are once more holding one of our Summer learning days on Wednesday 17th of June. This is for members of St Helens Camera Club and invited guests only. We will be once more covering a variety of things, all photography related, there will be an oppertunity to take part in a lighting workshop, so bring along your camera, full studio lighting will be provided.
We will also be providing a tutorial about how to teather shoot in studio and using Capture One, Affinity Photo and On1 Photo Raw how to get your most efficient workflow from Camera to Print.
We are also looking to open out our next learning day to the public, should the interest be shown in the event. this will be a full lighting workshop with Model and the oppertunity to take your own photographs and have critique given on how best to improve your pictures.
The day will be arranged as a workshop with lighting and backgrounds as well as plenty of club members available to help and advise.
We will also have advice on Lightroom and Photoshop so that any questions or problems can be answered.
We will also be running a Portraiture Workshop with Stephen Sheridan taking us through studio lighting, use of modifiers and advice on creative solutions to your portraits. There will be opportunities for you to take your own portrait shots.
With our friends at the World of Glass we held an open day to demonstrate all aspects of Photography, from still life and commercial photography to portraiture and lighting.
We demonstrated taking the picture from the camera to the final print and beyond.
Members were available to answer any and all questions about the art and were able to demonstrate many aspects of producing a picture worthy on winning a competition.
Here is a small video taken late in the day of just what we get up to and how we produce all our competition winning images.
St Helens Camera club open day
Our thanks also go out to Ron who was a magnificent model whilst we demonstrated portraiture, these stunning images were taken by Eric Mercer one of our accomplished and competition winning photographers.
The results from Monday’s competition are as follows
Print – Atherton 181 – St Helens CC 176
PDI – Atherton 183 – St Helens CC 183
Total – Atherton 364 – St Helens CC 359
As you can see it was a very close competition.
The judge, Ken Geddes from Ribbleton CC, has been judging for over 40 years and after the competition he said he found this competition was hard to judge as in all that time he has never seen a competition where all the entries were of such a high quality, so congratulations to all those who had entries. Thanks also to those that attended.
Here are the results in full thank you to everyone for all their hard work and dedication to the competition, see you all next year.
