Carr-Gomm Photography Society

Exhibition at the Guild Hall, Arcade Preston

2010-10-23T15:59:00.000+01:00

Last week saw the exhibition of the work that everyone produced during the project. It was great to see it all on the walls and we got some lovely comments in the visitor book. Please feel free to leave your comments........

Here are a few of of the comments made on the day:-

“ A brilliant display of photography good show”

Samantha Blackburn Preston City Council Guild Team

“Well done everybody.

I love thinking about what the photographers might be thinking when they took the shot.

Really well exhibited. Inspired me to take photo’s again”.

Jan Robinson

Project Director, Prescap

“What a wonderful collection of photos- Very talented photographers. I liked the seagull in the sun photo best “

“Thanks Very much to everyone who organised and got involved in the group. I can see that a lot of people got a lot of different, really positive things from taking part. I’m really impressed with the end results – the exhibition and look forward to the group continuing !

Thanks “

John Surtes

“Such wonderful creativity

Expression made possible by people who care

Courage to express made possible by brave hearts”

Susan Riley

Here are some pictures from the day

Blackpool!!

2010-04-23T16:41:00.000+01:00

We enjoyed a great trip to Blackpool this week, here are some pic's of us in action

David's new camera!

Faye stalking a pigeon.......

Watch out.......

David making sure he got the shot!

waiting for the tram back to the station....

Happy, Strong and Sad

2010-04-16T09:28:00.001+01:00

This week we had a go at taking photographs that represented different feeling or made altered the way we feel. We chose HAPPY, SAD and STRONG. Here are our results...let us know what you think.

Happy

These flowers just looked bright and happy.

The berries and leaves gave Liza a interesting pattern to look at the more that you looked at it the more that she could see, the different colours of green and the hidden berries. The rest of the group agreed.

Josh felt that this house looked like it had lots of love and attention

This photo of David's was like a mini garden - with the Wendy House at the front. I just love the juxtaposition position of the different objects and shapes.

Sad

This was Josh's photo and he felt that it just looked sad because it was such a mess. Although David thought that is represented an opportunity to do something with it and make it better!

Josh thought that this photo looked good but he knows how stressful doing block paving can be and how long it takes. David thought that it was sad because nothing could grow there now.

David took this photo because he thought that it looked sad all in the shadow and wanted to bring it out into the sunshine

Liza thought the twisted tree made this picture look sad - she felt sorry for it.

Strong

This branch must be strong to hold all the weight of the berries.

First Session Back in Preston

2010-04-11T09:12:00.002+01:00

Hi, We had a good first session in the garden at Lower Bank Road. It was great to welcome some new people to the group and catch up with others. We reviewed past work and then took advantage of the sunny weather and the large garden to get used to the cameras and start taking some photographs. Here are some of our favourites.

Please click on comment at the bottom of the page to comment we would love to hear what you think of our photo's.

James' photograph

We liked the abstract shapes

Here are Liza's Photographs

Check out the shadows - can you tell who they are?

Gemma's photographs

We really liked the colour's in the still life and the spooky tree

Josh's Photographs

we all loved the Butterfly

Trevor's Photographs

As usual Trevor's photographs have strong lines and structure

David's Photographs

Last session in Lancaster

2010-02-13T17:15:00.001Z

Faye and I had a good session this week getting to grips with the digital SLR camera, learning how to control the shutter speed and ISO to photograph moving things, we also experimented with the different focusing modes. See the difference as Faye froze flying birds in action.

We took some things that weren't moving too!

David's Portrait Project

2010-01-27T15:07:00.002Z

David's Project

My project is on portraits of people at work. As I have found out there are different emotions in different places, some people like their jobs and some don't

This was taken at the dukes playhouse, were i found a photo gallery

i like this photo because the dukes had a nice atmosphere. This woman said that she had the best job in the world.

He didn't like his job as much, he seamed a bit depressed

I like this one becasue of the cheeses, it was a nice stall, next time I will get some cheese and olives

He was nice and friendly and he had some nice

local produce

What can I say but this is Bill's burgers and his burgers

are the best. Better and cheaper than MC Donaldls

Bannana man

Where's wally............there he is

No Photographs this week!

2010-01-25T19:51:00.004Z

This week we had a great time photographing street traders in Lancaster for David's project. Then we wandered down to the Dukes to look at the exhibition of photographs by Richard Davis, follow the link to get more details.
http://www.dukes-lancaster.org/event/lancaster-2009

We have not put our pictures up this week as we are getting more choosy and want to wait til we have had time to edit them. They should be on my next Wednesday evening.

2010-01-18T12:21:00.000Z

Hi first week back after the break and we are meeting in Lancaster for the next 5 weeks. Today we welcomed new member Jason to the group. We headed out to the canal to take some photographs of the snow and wildlife. After all getting very cold in the snow we headed back to base for tea a biccys. We then when through our pictures and chose our favourites (picks).

We are also starting to prepare for our personal projects - we are still looking for a venue to hold our exhibition in either Preston or Lancaster - any suggestions are welcome.

Below are the some of our photographs - we have put our comments underneath but would love to hear what you think.

Here are some of Faye's picks.

Everyone just loved the detail in this picture of the swans feet.

We liked this photo because it looked like a something has run out into the canal but in fact it was a bag

The light dark divide is why we liked this one

This next pictures were taken by Jason

Jason picked this photo because of the strong shapes and the white spots on the dark background, when you look closely you can see that they are in fact snow falling. It looks like soft blobs because it is out of focus..

This looks like birds nests in the tree but isn't

This photo has such a strong composition, the eye is lead into the house, but the trees lead down the hill like a roller-coaster

. The swan is the subject but Jason liked the way the field made a arch over the detail ion the foreground.

2010-01-01T19:06:00.002Z

More pictures by Faye, this time taken in Morecambe...when have we ever seen the prom like this? Brilliant

2010-01-01T19:01:00.000Z

Faye has been busy in the snow taking these great pictures of lancaster canal in the snow...keep them comming

2009-12-07T09:58:00.000Z

This week was the last session of this this block of meetings. We start up again on the 13th January at Carr-gomm Lancaster.

We spent the session sorting though the work of the last 5 weeks and doing some editing and manipulation in photoshop.

Here is David's all time favourite photo.

And here are a couple of his manipulated images

Faye spend time during the week working on her personal project - along the canal in Lancaster

2009-12-02T10:38:00.001Z

Hi
Sorry I am a bit late with this post but I thought that I would put up the details of the photographers that we looked at last week in case you want to investigate them further. They were:-

Catherine Opie

Dave Clark

We looked at his book A little English City - A documentary of the Lancaster and Morecambe District

We also looked at the work of Japanese street fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki particularly his book Fruits

The week before we looked at the work of Joel Meyerowitz in particular his street photographs from New York

2009-11-25T14:49:00.000Z

Meet the group

2009-11-23T13:08:00.000Z

Hi -don't forget we meet next week at Prescaps building - 5 Walton's Parade at 1pm - see you there

2009-11-23T13:03:00.000Z

Hi. This week we struggled a little with the weather - rain- which doesn't make ideal conditions for taking photographs. As Trevor had missed last weeks session and we welcomed Nat to the group, we decided to head out to the centre of Preston to take some more street photographs although we quickly decided to head inside to the Harris museum and art gallery - it was not raining in there. We were presented with more difficult lighting as it was very dull and we had to use flash which gave us all some challenges. But as always there is something to learn and techiques were adapted to suit the conditions.

As always we had a dicussion when we got back to base.

Here are Nat's pictures, she particularly likes the patterns in this first picture

Here are Trevors photographs

Session Two - Street Photography

2009-11-15T16:15:00.001Z

This weeks session we decided to take photographs in the Preston city Centre as a contrast to the park and natural environment which we photographed last week. Before hitting the streets we looked at the work of Joel Meyerowitz particularly his street photographs of New York in the 60's and 70's

Here are Faye's photographs

Faye likes the details, angles and shading on this photograph

This photograph was chosen because it stands out particularly because of all the different things to look at.

This was chosen because of the detail in the cloud and smoke in the sky

Faye likes this picture due to the colour blending in from the tree

Here are some of David's photographs

Colour Light and shade

David just likes it!!

He looks like he doesn't like his job

where's wally

Yummy

2009-11-02T15:01:00.001Z

The first group started meeting last wednesday and will continue for 4 weeks from the 11th November.
We set off thinking about how photographs are framed by the edges of the rectangle, and how it is the photographer who decides the content and nature of their image by how they frame their picture, and what they include and leave out. We also thought about the vantage point of the photographer and how this influences the picture.
We headed to the park to put this into practise and take some picture.

Below are Faye's pictures

And here are Trevor's

2009-10-27T14:14:00.004Z

Here are some pictures from the first drop-in meeting of the project. These pictures were taken the garden at Latham Street. Luckily we had a sunny day so the light in the garden was very interesting and we produced some stunning photographs. We experimented with different coloured borders to enhance the images.