Category Archives: beginner

Photobooks and Calendars

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Geoff Shaw

Introduction Making photobooks or calendars for the first time can be daunting. There are many suppliers, all with their own systems, usually either a desktop computer application that you download, or an online web-based system. In my experience these systems … Continue reading →

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DIY water drop apparatus

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Geoff Shaw

Here is a simple DIY project, a DIY water drop apparatus to get photos of splashes. I devised it for a workshop I gave to our camera club and decided to document what I did. Of course you could buy … Continue reading →

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Ewen Bell’s Judging Comments (ICM) and helpful links.

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Ewen broke the mould with his judging for our monthly competition (set subject ICM), turning it into a very educational presentation highlighting concepts that he illustrated using a selection of the entries. His presentation slides can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nai1n0ug2rui0qsmiuk7t/WCC-ICM-2024.pdf?rlkey=4rouxml3h3vh11x8fc3wlgnp6&dl=0 … Continue reading →

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Creative Photography Workshop by Suellen Saidee Cook

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Our Creative SIG presentation 09 April 2024 was by Suellen Saidee Cook, who joined us by Zoom from her home in Tasmania. She creates imaginative composites with strong narratives. Cook’s style is mysterious, enchanting, whimsical and emotive, with threads of … Continue reading →

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WCC Creative 2024

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

This is the home for the WCC Creative SIG in 2024. It will be updated as new material becomes available. Meeting schedule February A recording of the Feb zoom meeting is available via youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZde0Rc5XU. The February meeting included … Continue reading →

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Creating Composites Workshop by Sharon and Rob Prenton Jones

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Geoff Shaw

Overview We had a fantastic day-long workshop on Jan 7th 2024, presented by Sharon and Rob Prenton Jones https://www.prentonjonesphotography.co.uk/news/live-workshop-in-australia/. They covered a range of topics including (apologies if I have forgotten any major topics – a lot was covered): Links … Continue reading →

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Equivalence – sensor crop factors and more

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Geoff Shaw

How do you take similar photos using two different cameras? For example consider an image I might take with my Canon R5 (full frame, 45 MPx) an image with a 50 mm lens. To get the same field of view … Continue reading →

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Lens Diffraction – all you ever wanted to know, and a lot more besides.

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Geoff Shaw

You have probably heard of lens diffraction and its effects of softening your images when the lens is set to a small aperture (large f-number). The image above illustrates diffraction effects (Click on the image to see an enlarged image … Continue reading →

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Depth of field – a simulator …

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Geoff Shaw

Here is a useful resource to help you get your head around depth of field and how it changes depending on aperture, focal length, focal distance and sensor format. You can see the effect of changing any of these parameters … Continue reading →

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Geoff’s Photo Doodler

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Geoff Shaw

The notes below should help get you started using my “Photo Doodler” program. First there is some background on what got me started on this project, then I give some examples, and then some brief instructions. Programming credits are at … Continue reading →

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