Are You a Loner?

phil1963 (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 10:22 AM

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ditto with above

JackAllTog (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 1:30 PM

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Quote:
I've never gone out and shot with other photographers and it's something I'd probably enjoy doing.

I actually find my local camera club far better than I expected - they are as bad as i am for just stopping to shoot. As they might be reading this i can't say more about their quirky habits - oops.

JackAllTog (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 1:41 PM

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Yeah i tried one like that, but found another nearby instead a year later.

DOGSBODY (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 2:30 PM

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Night photography was mentioned by devlin and I have to agree that that is one thing that I would be very wary about doing on my own. Even two people walking the streets at night with an expensive camera and accessories would be fair game for some of the less desirables out there.

And I agree with CB about some camera clubs. I am now getting to a rather venerable age myself and decided to look at my local club as it was on my doorstep and I would be able to walk to meetings. Unfortunately they do not have a digital projector (I stopped making prints about 3 years ago when I retired from the club lecture circuit and now have no use for them). They still have slide nights and just do not seem to be making a real effort to come onto the 21st century.

pulsar69 (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 3:57 PM

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Slide Nights - lmao ! Does this sort of thing really go on, now I know why i never look at camera clubs... but no honestly there must be some good ones out there ?

Ade_Osman (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 4:11 PM

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Quote: My local camera club is a bit, shall we say, static

One of the reasons I'm not a member of my local club, I visited them as a guest about 4-5 years ago and was positively looked down upon for asking if anyone were into digital at the time! I wouldn't like to know if they're still the same, but I wouldn't be surprised!

I'm not looking down on film users, hell I still have a lot of film kit in the attic.....But without doubt some of these clubs need to drag themselves into the 21st century.

Ade

Gaucho (e2 Member)

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23 Mar 2012 - 4:50 PM

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Never alone. Always with my dog. And he has the patience of a saint.

Dave_Canon

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23 Mar 2012 - 7:53 PM

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Quote: My local camera club is a bit, shall we say, static............ i.e. they don't seem to do outings. I think it's the average age of the membership - handling a camera and a zimmer at the same time is a tad challenging! They are still into 'slide battles' etc................ using slides from 40-50 years ago!

I must look further afield, I think. Photography is getting a bit too solitary!

Maybe you should try somewhere else. My Club stopped accepting slides 4 years ago it is prints and digitally projected only. We have two digital projectors and Laptops; the first was bought in 2005. The Club owns a copy of LR3, Elements 9, PS CS5, Pictures to exe and Photomatix which are used for demontrations and courses. Interesting there maybe a connection in that the average age at our Club has come down year by year for the last 7 years. However, we are a large club and thus have more money and resources than many small Clubs. As for outings, I organised one last year (there were several more organised by others as well) but the problem always seem to come down to the fact that only a small minority will organise events. We still have a couple of Battles with several local Clubs each year and these have also been prints and digitally projected for at least 3 years so as far as I can see all PAGB camera Clubs in Gloucestershire have been fully digital for many years which does confirm that your local Club is way behind. We have several members who travel far and wide judging and lecturing at other Clubs and they say that the majority of Club have benefited from the digital age which has led to significant expansion. However, they come across a few small Clubs that cling to the past and these tend to die eventually die out.

Out of interest, in the last two seasons before we stopped accepting slides, we ran slides along side digitally projected. This helped to kill off slides in that judges rarely picked any award from the slides. The fact is that those entering digitally had plenty of opportunity to improve their images which gave them a significant edge. While the quality of our first digital projector was not ideal, many slides were let down by their low dynamic range (lack of shadow detail).

Dave