Camera Club

Camera Club at the Festival

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n an effort to increase membership of the camera club, I organised our attendance at the opening day of the Letchworth Festival.

Normally, this event is well attended, there are stands and stalls around the Broadway which usually has bands playing on a large stage.

Unfortunately, the weather was awful, it rained all day long. Sadly the number of people attending the event was drastically reduced. We did manage to get a few people expressing an interest in joining the club.

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Around the Cinema

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hese shots are all taken within a few yards of the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth town centre.

The Town Lodge is opposite. These two shots were taken with one of the iPhone HDR apps. Then there are two hots of the Broadway itself, one of the entrance and the other of one of the iconic windows.

The sign is opposite the cinema beside the Town Hall, it forms a saying as you walk around the small square it is beside.

Letchworth at Night

Letchworth at Night

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ne thing the phone cameras have never really excelled at is low light photography.

The sensor is just so tiny that getting a good dynamic range without any noise in low light is near impossible, which is why so many photos taken at night and uploaded onto Facebook look so awful.

I tried some low light stuff one evening on my usual walk into town.

Letchworth

Harsh B & W

Iaux_dropcap]’m always taking shots when I go around the town centre.

It’s interesting photographing the same scenes and buildings and trying to get a different aspect or result.

These were taken with the ‘Provoke’ monochrome app on the most contrasty setting.

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Cycle Ride through the Farm

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went out on a bike ride today. I started off in the town centre and took a few photos of the fountain in the Broadway, and one of my favourite Letchworth buildings, the Nexus Building. Then I headed out into the countryside.

I managed to find about the most waterlogged, boggy field system in the whole of Hertfordshire, but managed my way through it and came out by a farm on the A507 from Baldock to Cottered.

Naturally, I stopped off for a few shots on the phone around the farm yard.

The shots displayed here have been processed in the Painteresque App, apart from the last one which was done in Popsicolor.

Letchworth Car Show

Letchworth Car Show

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here was a mini car show in the town centre today.

Unfortunately it was raining but this meant there were less people crowded round the cars, so it made it easier to get a few shots.

Also, the raindrops on the highly polished metal surfaces can make for some interesting shots.