Photo clubs

[owen]

Hey guys. Who goes to a local photo club and do you find it helpful or insightful?

I do, quite a few members have d70's too, and from what I have seen they produce the best results out of all the shots that get displayed.

[Atorie]

I've been along to a few, but they weren't for me.... D70users.com is my camera club

[Raydar]

Makes two of us!!!!The last meeting I went to all the people were film users & weren’t to enthusiastic when coming over to have a talk.
About the only thing I had going for me is, I had a Nikon!! I had some PS tricks up my sleave thay had no idea about "& still don't"

Cheers
Ray

[petermmc]

Hi Owen

I havent been to my local camera club for 19 yrs. My experience was that when I joined I had so much to learn about taking good photos that I concentrated on that rather than the gear. A lot of the members were much older than me and had a lot of wisdom. I learnt nearly everything from them.

The other part that I really enjoyed was the feedback. I believe that true learnig and development of the art takes place with good feedback of your efforts. Having to submit, as I did, on a regular basis in B&W, which was my medium of choice, improved my photography amazingly. I went from looking at B&W's from other members in awe, to finding out all I needed to know and winnning the B&W of the year for that year.

Camera clubs can help you improve your photography irrespective of equipment and irrespective of whether it is digital or film. The 'art' itself is what a good camera club focuses on.

I wish you well.

Peter Mc

[the foto fanatic]

I was involved in camera clubs for many years, even being president of one for quite a while. I learned such a lot about photography - it was really valuable.

But that was years ago. Almost prehistoric in terms of equipment and technology.

Whilst I wouldn't want to devalue their worth, I think that the internet and sites like this fulfil many (not all!) of the functions I enjoyed then.

But when you couple the D70Users.com site with mini-meets, I think there is very little that would be missing.

Whichever way you choose (real time or via cyberspace), I think it is great to get together with others to discuss photography.