Why not join us this week in the hall for an incredible talk by Andy Sands on macro photography.

It's always a joy to have real speakers in the hall as it allows you to fully immerse yourself in the captivating visuals and interact with the speaker and other club members.

We will not be zooming this talk live from the hall, so don't miss out on a great evening. Come and join us!

Oh and P.S. don't forget you prints (see below)

A Gentle Reminder...
We have the round 2 of our Print League upcoming. The hand-in is this Thursday 30th of November, so bring them along to the Hall, please

It was a real joy to see the quality of the printed work H2 members produced for round 1 so round 2 promises to be an exciting prospect.

In the meantime, his website is well worth a look at.

H2's very own correspondent, Cameron Trypodd, writes an article for the Much Hadham Parish Magazine every month. Here is the December article:

A Time For Reflection

At this time of year, it is sometimes opportune to look back at the year. Reflect on the successes; the non-successes (trying to be positive here). Indeed, it is sometimes more helpful to reflect on the non-successes - it can be an opportunity to learn and develop. It has been seen in many walks of life that too much success can lead to becoming blasé, apathetic. Or worse, unrealistic. 

Here at H2 it has been so encouraging to witness many of our members improve their skills and creativity noticeably. Indeed, this season, our club has a sense of purpose, the feel of an educational establishment almost. We now have in place established lessons in Photographic Essentials, teaching the importance of understanding “the photographic trilogy” of shutter speed versus aperture versus “film” speed. 

We also have a regular workshop for members to learn Affinity Photo, a powerful image manipulation software; along with several of our members who are experienced and adept users of Photoshop and Lightroom, two of the best known manipulation softwares.

Throughout our season we have several practical evenings covering such photographic genres as macro, portrait, light-painting and street-photography. As a club we have consolidated and improved upon our use of modern technology. And this can only continue in the future with the step-changes being made through generative artificial intelligence (genAI). 

We as a club are keeping up with how genAI will impact the art world, both in general terms and photography in particular. Given that any art form is created to communicate ideas and appeal to senses or mind, if genAI is used creatively (and for the positive good of our world!), it will be another motivational element to be added to all the others.

Yes, there are the genAI detractors - those who will say it’s not “proper photography”. But there have always been those comments made for any new development in art ever since Henry Fox-Talbot discovered salted paper and calotype processes in the 1840s.

Here at H2 we take a more positive, forward-thinking view.

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H2 members who would like to upload their best work to our H2 Flickr page (may be viewed only by club members) and need some assistance, do ask one of the our committee members by emailing committee@h2photo.org.uk or request on our H2 club WhatsApp group.

H2 operates a hybrid programme with meetings in the hall on weeks 1,3 & 5 of the month whereas 2 & 4 are on Zoom.

 

The club website features our programme and rules for any competitions.  
Plus details of the committee and constitution.
At some point we hope to have a learning zone on there full of tips & tricks.