Lacock Positive 3rd October

This evening was entirely given over to demonstrations of how to create audio visual presentations.

Although there are many and varied applications available to achieve this, Philip Male, of our own parish, showed us how to create an AV using software we (probably) already have, namely Lightroom.

Although there are a bewildering number of different options available, Philip navigated us through the important ones, showing how to select images, title text, cast shadows, change borders, set copyrights and finally choose a sound track.

He pointed out Lightroom (currently) doesn't let you choose different transitions between one image and the next - one method goes for the whole presentation and all images transition the same way.  There is also no means of zooming into, or out of, a particular image as part of the final result.

He then played the AV he had prepared.

The second presentation was from Danny Wooton who used iMovie (obviously mac only) to create a presentation.

With iMovie, stills and video can be merged, transitions for each and every image can be tailored and different soundtracks mixed.  On the other hand, there are no frames (you'd have to generate these for each image before importing), no standard text (again, this would have to be embeded in each image before importing) and no fancy shadows.

One thing possible in iMovie (which it isn't in Lightroom) is to add the Ken Burns effect to one or more images - something which is very popular with photographers who post on YouTube.

Danny then played his presentation so we could see the overall effects and it was interesting to see the contrast between the results created by these two entirely different software applications.

We then finished the evening watching a third AV from Rose Porfirio of images taken on a trip to Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust.

Our next meeting will be on the 17th October.

Lacock Positive 19th September

 We started this evening started with a review of submissions for the letter "L": 

Lefkas Marina Reflections © Amanda Gregory

Lookout © Anne Horne

Lifeboat © Caroline Howe

Landing Safely © Craig Purvis

Lighthouse © David Sage

Lighthouse © Derek Liversidge

Luna Eclipse (Partial) © Helen Day

Lichen © Julia Lloyd-Parks

Lloyds Building © Lesley Cadger

Lips © Pam Bamford

Long Tailed Tit © Philip Male

Longhorns © Rob Macklin

Lamp post © Roger Parry

Lanzarote Light © Sue Power

We then reviewed "images taken at three shutter speeds", which was one of the summer challenges.

Movement of water was a popular theme
Barbican Fountain, at 1/30th © Lesley Cadger

Barbican Fountain, at 1/60th © Lesley Cadger

Barbican Fountain, at 1/800th © Lesley Cadger

1/1250th second © Julia Lloyd-Parks

1/320th second © Julia Lloyd-Parks

1/30th second © Julia Lloyd-Parks

Brown Bear at 1/640th © Philip Male

Brown Bear at 1/100th © Philip Male

Brown Bear at 1/50th © Philip Male


Icarus, Sculptures by the Lakes on a windy day, at 1/50th © Tony Bamford

Icarus, Sculptures by the Lakes on a windy day, at 6 seconds © Tony Bamford

Icarus, Sculptures by the Lakes on a windy day, at 28 seconds © Tony Bamford

Finally we reviewed the results from the questionnaire all club members are encouraged to complete at the end of each year.

To summarise a very detailed presentation given by our club secretary, members are looking for:
  • Social interaction with like-minded people

  • Learning new things, including camera use, techniques, post production etc.

  • Learning from other members


Our next meeting will be on 3rd October. 

Lacock Positive 5th September

 In this first meeting of the '24-'25 year we reviewed images submitted for the "English Summer" challenge.

Summer Night © Caroline Howe

Summer Swallow © Craig Purvis

Summer 24-1 © David Sage

An English Summer - Derek Liversidge

English Summer © Helen Day

Beach is everywhere © Julia Lloyd-Parks

Blazing Birch Trees © Pam Bamford

Summer Lake © Phil Male

A summer aviation fan © Rose Porfirio

A fete worse than... © Sue Power

Leaf Spirit © Tony Bamford

Other than that, we all had a really good gossip as we mostly hadn't seen one another for a few months.

 

Lacock Positive 20th June

In this last meeting of the '23-'24 year, we held the AGM, which took up most of the meeting.  We then followed with a review of entries for the letter "K".

K is for Knight © Amanda Gregory
Kipping © Craig Purvis

Keeping a Lookout © Danny Wootton
Kipper © David Eagle

Kimono in Kanazawa © Sue Power

Started with a Kiss © Derek Liversidge

Knot © Amanda Gregory

Kettle © Ann Horne

Knight © David Sage

K is for Kelpies © Philip Male

K is for Knife © Roger Parry

King Arthur © Rose Porfirio

Kaleidoscope © Julia Lloyd-Parks
 

We were set three challenges for the summer:

  • Take a new photo for the blog header and facebook page
  • Take a photo representing English summer
  • Take images of the same subject at 3 very different shutter speeds

Members are reminded to please complete the club questionaire and send it to Lesley.

The next meeting will be on 5th September, when we will continue with the letters theme, with the letter "L" coming next.