Author name: David Jellie

Another successful model night last Tuesday, with a variety of outfits from the ever-reliable Elise and her friend Vic. It was well attended and I know for quite a few new members it was their first experience of shooting models. I hope everyone had a good time – please remember to send the models an […]

Well, by all accounts I missed another cracking evening last Tuesday. The feedback from members (and the feedback from the presenter which Jan has forwarded) was unanimously positive, with the word “inspirational” appearing more than once. For the sake of anyone that missed it (like me), I hope Jan will be able to arrange another

A fantastic result for BPS in the competition on Tuesday night, with teams from Bromsgrove taking the top two places! Seriously, congratulations to the “girls” team for a VERY strong performance in the annual “Boys vs Girls” competition. Looks like us Boys are going to have to seriously up our game to compete next year.

Just back from my hols in time to write another Vocal Point. I’m sorry to have missed the presentation by Darron Matthews last Tuesday – if the photos he showed were anything like the ones on his website it must have been a cracking evening. Coming up this week we have the biggest competition of the

Another busy week at BPS. On Tuesday, we started with an early session, presented by me, talking about lenses and their characteristics. Hopefully some of you found it useful. There are some notes I made when preparing for the talk at https://www.richardkchapman.co.uk/characteristics-of-lenses/ which go into a bit more detail. The main session was the selection process for

Another great evening at the club last Tuesday. The early session was very well attended and rightly so – a fine presentation on an interesting subject, as Ian Bowes first told us everything we needed to know about HOW to shoot “Intentional Camera Movement” (ICM) photographs, and then treated us to a gallery of some

A great evening at the club on Tuesday, with a great atmosphere (and a very full house) for the third annual “Bromsgrove Battle” inter-club competition.  A very high quality selection of images from all five clubs, with a very fair and thoughtful judge giving good feedback on all the images, together with some great cakes

What a great evening we had last Tuesday. The early session from David J was very well attended and contained a wealth of information on how to take a flat image straight from the camera and transform it into something with much more pop and presence, with just a few simple changes that can be