Secretary's Monthly Report

March 2022
Zoom Meeting Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Fellow members

Personally I was really sorry to miss the March meeting and my report has been compiled from notes kindly provided by Paul Millar...thanks Paul.
Fifteen members, including three of our new members, were present to give a warm welcome to the return of Libby Smith to give members her talk 'Taking Opportunities' which was a follow up to her 'Textures and Blending' presentation from last year's syllabus.
In her inimitable fashion Libby explained that the 'opportunities' in the title of her delivery referred to the seeing, photographing and cataloguing of various common subjects from everyday life ( using a camera or a mobile phone always in Raw mode!) for potential use in future 'composite' shots.
When working regularly on several projects at the same time, having access to her catalogue very often provides an additional suitable image to bring an idea to a satisfactory conclusion....an approach worth consideration by Circle members.
Libby moved on to provide some of her Photoshop processing tips on the use of horizontal and vertical blur tools together with layers, textures and blending modes.
Despite her hectic life in photography Libby emphasised that she still found it a lot of fun....a point to consider by all hobbyist photographers and a worthy way to sum up the evening.

Rob the Secy