Tonight – Fireworks Photography
With Bonfire Night this Thursday, tonight we’re going to have a look at how to photograph fireworks – and, more importantly, how to come home with something better than a collection of blurry bright blobs against a black sky.
We’ll start upstairs at 8pm with a couple of short videos covering the basics and some suggested camera settings. We’ll also have a fireworks photography cheat sheet for you to take away, which will also be available on the members’ website.
Then we’ll head outside with a small selection of fireworks and put some of what we’ve learned into practice.
Please ask questions before we go outside, particularly if you’re unsure about the settings on your own camera. It’ll be much easier if we can all start with some sensible basic settings ready to go.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably managed to photograph fireworks successfully on occasion and failed spectacularly on others – without being entirely sure what you did differently! Hopefully, by the end of tonight, we’ll understand a little more about why.
Next week – Annual General Meeting
Next Tuesday is our AGM, which has been in the syllabus for some time.
If you’d like to become more involved in the Club, please make yourself known. We’d genuinely love to have more members helping out. The Club doesn’t run itself, and everything that happens is made possible by members giving some of their time on behalf of everyone else.
Please find attached a list of the Club officer positions which will be up for re-election at the meeting. I have taken the liberty of adding some nominations already. This will be on display at our meeting, and I’ll be asking for new names to be added. While there is space for two nominations for each position, more names are welcome; just let me know and we’ll make space for them. Elections at the AGM will be by a show of hands from the names nominated.
We want RDCC to be as welcoming, sociable and useful to its members as we possibly can, so please take a look at the available roles and consider whether you might like to get involved.
I’ll issue the full AGM agenda in the next couple of days.
17 November – Mick Ryan: A Fox’s Tale
The following week we welcome Mick Ryan to RDCC with his talk, A Fox’s Tale.
If you follow Mick on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll already have a pretty good idea of the quality of the photography we’re going to see.
And if you’ve heard Mick speak before, you’ll know just how good he is at entertaining a room full of photographers – talking about cameras, photography and life, and exchanging plenty of stories along the way.
It should be a great evening and one I’m very much looking forward to.
For now, though, get your cameras ready for tonight – and wrap up warm for the outdoor bit!
Until Tuesday night, you all have my very best wishes as always,
Phill.
Phill Connell
Chair, Rochdale & District Camera Club
