Kevin Pack will be running a this month's meet about table top photography.
He will be covering the following:-

    1) Introduction to table top photography
    2) Kit - both commercial and from raiding the cupboards
    3) Benefits of using both tethered shooting (hopefully both wired and wireless) and live view
    4) The three main types of small product photography (high key, low key and in-situ)
    5) Lighting and reflections

He is going to have a few different setups for people to try their hand at, so please bring your camera along. A regular lens is fine for most purposes, but a macro lens may be beneficial.

For a change, we will be meeting at Kev's at Edgelely, SK3 9EG.

Please contact me for details if you are interested in coming.

Lisa

This year's 120:20 Vision Challenge. Different location same challenge.

Meet in Chester under the Eastgate Clock at 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start.

You have 2 hours (120 minutes) to take exactly 20 photographs of the location. No more, no less, no retakes! You cannot delete any and you must show all 20 photos on flickr! It is not as easy as it sounds and it certainly makes you think about each and every shot you take.

Future Events

Saturday 11th September 2010 TBC - Architecture Photography

Monday 16th October 2010 - Water Droplet Photography

Friday 5th November 2010 - Firework and Bonfire - Stockport

Monday 22nd November 2010 - In Car Photography

Monday 13th December 2010 - Photo Critique and Christmas Party

4th - 28th February 2010

FREE ENTRY

Love is the greatest and grandest of subjects. Love drives us, controls us, it’s our passion, our obsession. Love can lift us up where we belong or it can tear us apart. Yet love is ordinary, mundane even. It’s found in the slightest of smiles, the smallest of thoughtful gestures. It hovers in the background of our lives, it’s shown in every meal prepared and school shirt ironed. It’s in every gift created with care. It’s in our work when we love what we do. It’s in the places and faces we know.

For this exhibition, to be held at Broadstone Mill, the C3 Stockport photography group have compiled images that mean love to them. It’s the first time the group will have exhibited and they’ll be showing a combination of their favourite photographs and images taken especially for the exhibition on the theme of love.

The exhibition is open throughout February but we would like to invite you to two special events to celebrate both the opening of the exhibition and St Valentine's day.

• Opening Evening - Thursday 4th february, 7:30pm

• Love in the Afternoon - Sunday 14th February, 12:00-4:00pm

  An afternoon of activities for all the family. Tea and St valentine's day themed cakes.

The Gallery at Broadstone, Upper Ground Floor, Broadstone Mill, Broadstone Road, Houldsworth Village, Stockport SK5 7DL.

Christmas Critiques
Monday 21st December 2009, 7.30pm,
2 Tennyson Close, Heaton Mersey, Stockport, SK4 2ED

Fellow Photographers,
In this newsletter: Details of our Christmas Critiques get-together, more details of our forthcoming photography exhibition, and an update to some of the 2010 events. 

Our Next Event

Monday 21st December - Christmas Social and Photo Critique (Please note the change of date) 7.30pm @ 2 Tennyson Close, SK4 2ED.

Our annual Christmas get together to show and critique photos we have taken in the previous 12 months. Have a drink, a mince pie and some nibbles as we look back on 2009 from a photographic perspective. We invite you to bring a handful of photos taken in 2009 to show and talk about. These can be either prints or digital files which we will view on a laptop and video projector.

As ever please let me know if you are coming to this. If anyone is able/willing to contribute a few Christmassy nibbles and/or drinks it would be appreciated.

Exhibition

C3 Photography Exhibition in conjunction with Open Studio, Broadstone Mill, Reddish
Date - 4th Feb 2010 to 28th Feb 2010
Cost - £10 (hanging fee)

We can now give you more details of our exhibition. Lisa Brown writes:

"We are looking for around photographers who are interested in exhibiting their work. Each photographer will have their own area, accompanied with a statement. Also we would like to have a C3 section where each photographer will contribute one photo to entitled "Expressions of Love". For this to work, we do need everyone to contribute.

The photographs should be presented in a manner where it could be sold to customers (if you wish to of course!) I suggest the size should A3 minimum as the exhibition space is large, so it doesn't feel too lost.

The open studio's manager, Catherine, suggests that having small items like notepads, post cards, small reprints, cards, bags, etc for sale are popular with the visitors/customers. Also she suggests having some business cards/details available too if people want to contact you directly for sales or commissions.

We plan to have a launch party on 4th Feb at 7:30pm. Also C3 is planning a "Love In the Afternoon" event on 14th Feb with live music and crafts for the family. The mill also has a "Craft and Vintage Fair" on the 28th Feb.

This will be the first exhibition for me, so don't worry if you've never exhibited before. Please contact me, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information or confirm your interest.

Video of "Affordable Art Exhibition" at the gallery can be seen at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3EO54nKH6g "

Future Events

Monday 11th January 2010 - Camera Basics
7.30pm @ the home of Lisa Brown. (Note change of venue) Know anyone who's got a new camera for Christmas? Then this is the session to invite them to introduce them to the C3 Photography group. Group member Lisa Chan Brown will be leading this session explaining what all the different functions, and modes are on your camera. Aimed at beginners but I'm sure even some of us old hands will also benefit from a reminder to experiment with functions we don't always use.  

Thursday 4th February 2010, Exhibition launch party. New event on the calendar)
7.30pm at Broadstone Mill - launch party for the photography group exhibition. More details to follow  

Sunday 14th February 2010 - Love in the Afternoon. (New event on the calendar)
Special event in connection with our photographic exhibition at Broadstone Mill. Will include live music and crafts for all the family. More details to follow.  

Monday 1st March 2010 (Note change of date) - Product Photography
7.30pm @ 2 Tennyson Close, SK4 2ED. - In this practical session we will look at techniques for photographing products. We will be using different board games as our example products but the lesson learned can be easily transferred to other products. We are hoping to have a board games expert present at this event to help us understand the importance of setting up the product correctly. 

Sunday 7th March 2010 - Focus on Imaging 2010, NEC Birmingham.
A number of group members will be going off to the UK's largest photography exhibition. If you are interested in joining us please let us know and we can arrange to meet up or in some cases share transport. 

Saturday 27th March 2010 - Architecture Photography
We are hoping to arrange access into one of Manchester's most well known building to look round and photograph the architecture. We'll post the name of the location once we have confirmed with them that they are happy for a bunch of photographers to visit on this day.  

Monday 19th April 2010 - Setting up a home studio
7.30pm @ 2 Tennyson Close, SK4 2ED. In this session we will look at ways of setting up a workable studio in your own home. Just about any home will have sufficient space to do good portraiture, in a larger home you may even be able to set up a full-sized back drop. We will show you some of the techniques. The message of this session is most definitely… DO try this at home!  

Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May 2010 - Di Derbyshire Walk
After the success of last year's MacclesfieldForest outing, we have volunteered Di to lead another photo walk out in Derbyshire. More details of where nearer the time. 

Monday 17th May 2010 - 360degree Panoramas
7.30pm @ 2 Tennyson Close, SK4 2ED. Full details to be confirmed, but if all goes to plan this will be a simple basic introduction to producing 360 degree panoramas. 

Saturday 19th June 2010 - Birds of Prey (Provisional)
We are hoping to organise a trip to a bird of prey centre to photograph the birds. More details to follow. 

Saturday 10th July 2010 at 1.45pm - Third annual 120:20 Vision Challenge - Chester
This year's 120:20 Vision Challenge. Meet in Chester under the Eastgate Clock at 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start. Different location same challenge. You have 2 hours (120 minutes) to take exactly 20 photographs of the location. No more, no less, no retakes! You cannot delete any. and you must show all 20 photos on flickr! It is not as easy as it sounds and it certainly makes you think about each and every shot you take. 

Possible Events for the future:
Lotherton Hall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Kite Event
Macro Photography
Smoke patterns
Bullet-time demo
Night photography
In-Car photography

All the best,
Ian M Butterfield, ARPS
On behalf of the C3 Photography Group.