Taunton Camera Club meetings are (as of September 2023) held fortnightly in the United Reformed Church Hall, Paul Street, Taunton TA1 3PF, and are also available on Zoom.
The Club also holds informal meetings in the intervening weeks, usually on Monday nights.
Meetings start at 7:30pm, the URC hall/Zoom session is usually open from 7pm before the meeting starts.
Directions to the United Reformed Church Hall, where the in-person meetings are held, can be found on our How to Find Us page.
Any changes to the programme will be highlighted in red.
September 2023
4th Seeing Nature in a Creative Light – Lisa Rendal
Presentation will show macro insects, wildlife, plants, flowers,
landscapes etc in a creative light and show how I combine
photography with animal healing Reiki, plus how I love to break
the rules of photography as a free spirit.
Last submission date for entries into DPIC 1
Hall and Zoom meeting
11th Informal Event
This Monday, 11th September 2023 will be our first informal meeting. We plan to meet in the Hankridge Arms, Hankridge Way, Riverside, Taunton TA1 2LR at 7.30pm.
Map: The Hankridge Arms – Taunton | Visit
A good time to renew friendships, make new ones and discuss anything photography. If you want to discuss any of your images please bring them along print and/or digital. If you need any help with your camera please bring that along as well. We are here to help.
Also, it would be lovely to have suggestions as to where we can go on our photography outings and what we can do on informal evenings, Zoom or otherwise. So do think of those as well. Our members who are only on Zoom, please forward any suggestions we can have on informal evenings using Zoom that you would like.
18th DIGITAL IMAGE COMPETITION 1 (OPEN)
Last submission date for entries into Print Competition 1
Hall and Zoom meeting
25th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
OCTOBER 2023
2nd Sports Images with Impact 2
David Keep, ARPS, MPAGB, FBPE, EFIAP
It’s often difficult to capture powerful sports shots during
competitions, there’s just too much going on in the
background, so I use a mobile studio approach to photograph
iconic poses. In this talk I’ll show you how I go about it by using
“Behind the Scenes” videos and stories, plus I’ll show you a
processing example. Sports covered include; weightlifting, table
tennis, swimming, fencing, high board diving & several more.
Example video here – https://youtu.be/Peptf9Dyxc8
Hall and Zoom meeting
9th Macro Basics – John Bebbington FRPS
An introduction to the techniques of Macro photography.
Zoom meeting
16th PRINT COMPETITION 1 (OPEN)
Hall and Zoom meeting
23rd What’s so special about panels? – Julian Comrie FRPS
The uses of photography in story-telling, with particular
reference to, and advice on, creating panels.
Last submission date for entries into DPIC 2
Zoom meeting
30th Mobile Street Photography – Vicki Russel (speaker from USA)
Street photography, out and about in Paris.
Hall and Zoom meeting
November 2023
6th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
13th DIGITAL IMAGE COMPETITION 2 (ABSTRACT/ICM & OPEN)
Last submission date for entries into Print Competition 2
Hall and Zoom meeting
20th Knowing Your Camera, Knowing How To Photograph
– Terry Hewitt
Using live view, a demonstration of all the key settings
on a DSLR camera. In other words what effect do all the
adjustments you can make on your camera have? I show
what they do, what are the side effects, why do you need this
feature and most importantly when to use it. The talk finishes
off with the 40 things to do before you press the shutter.
Topics covered: Exposure; Depth of Field; White Balance; Spot
or Centre weighted exposure; Single point v multipoint Focus;
advantages of the 3 Manual Modes; ISO settings; Raw; Choice
of Lens (Prime v Zoom); Noise; Image Stabilisation;
Light Source; Flash.
Zoom meeting
27th Blackdown Hills and beyond – Pauline Rook
A Powerpoint presentation of 20 years of rural documentary
photography in the hidden world of the Blackdown Hills which
leads on to exploring the world in Infra-red.
Hall and Zoom meeting
December 2023
4th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
11th PRINT COMPETITION 2 (MONO & OPEN)
Last submission date for entries into the Panel Competition
Hall and Zoom meeting
18 Informal Event – To Be Determined.
25th No meeting – Christmas
January 2024
1st No Meeting – New Year’s Day
8th PANEL COMPETITION (OPEN – DPIC & PRINT)
Last submission date for entries into DPIC 3
Hall and Zoom meeting
15th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
22nd DIGITAL IMAGE COMPETITION 3 (IMAGES FROM A PHONE
& OPEN)
Last submission date for entries into Print Competition 3
Hall and Zoom meeting
29th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
February 2024
5th An informal chat with Emily Fairweather – BAFTA-winning
film maker and photographer.
How she started, working in the TV industry and transferring
into stills full time. Emily specialises in very natural portrait
and wedding photography and was voted Best Wedding
Photographer of the year in 2019 by BIPP SW.
Hall and Zoom meeting
12th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
19th PRINT COMPETITION 3 (OPEN)
Hall and Zoom meeting
26th Working with layers in Photoshop – Martin Sproul
Adobe certified trainer Martin will take us through the use of
layers from basic principles to more complex tasks.
Last submission date for entries into DPIC 4
Zoom meeting
March 2024
4th “London Streets: The Monopoly project” – Peter Merry
This talk explores a year-long photography project where I
visited the 40 Monopoly locations around London. The talk
covers why the project was started and my approach to taking,
editing and sequencing images. It also explores some of the
stories that unfolded during the project; from a drugs deal in
the West End to why there was a Czech Army tank just off the
Old Kent Road.
Hall and Zoom meeting
11th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
18th DIGITAL IMAGE COMPETITION 4 (MACRO/CLOSE UP and OPEN)
Last submission date for entries into Print Competition 4
An open class has been added to this competition
Hall and Zoom meeting
19th Bridgwater vs Taunton Battle (away)
Our annual competition with Bridgwater Photographic Society.
Details nearer the time
25th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
April 2024
1st No meeting – Easter Monday
8th “Extraordinary Ordinary” – Simon Caplan LRPS
Simon’s striking urban detail and abstract images reveal the
hidden beauty that can often be discovered and photographed
in everyday settings and mundane locations – if you just look
hard enough. He shares his unique approach and offers ideas
on how photographers can see and think differently and use
their camera as a creative tool to find unusual images where
they might otherwise least expect to do so.
Hall and Zoom meeting
15th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
22nd PRINT COMPETITION 4 (SCAPES & OPEN)
Hall and Zoom meeting
29th AGM and Social Evening
The committee will show some of their images if this isn’t a
physical meeting.
Last submission date for entries into Image of the Year
Competition
Hall and Zoom meeting
May 2024
6th No meeting – Public Holiday
13th IMAGE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION (DPIC AND PRINT)
Hall and Zoom meeting
20th Informal Event – To Be Determined.
27th No meeting – Spring Bank Holiday
End of season – summer events will be distributed by email to members.