Photochrome Camera Club

The Photochrome Calendar 2012 is a work in progress but here it is, as it stands, so that you can mark up your planners for the year. As well as the pdf formatted document we have added all meetings to the calendar on this site; see the right-hand sidebar for more details. We will always try to keep the online information current and up to date so watch this space for more details as events become more imminent.

As you can see, our first meeting of the year is on the first Thursday in January and it will be an Open Subject night (previous called Open Pictorial), and a pick two on the theme of City Staircases. This pick 2 is in lieu of a field trip in December and we can’t wait to see what you’ve come up with.

Please also make note of our exploring photography meeting on January 19th when photographer James Martin will be presenting and showing images from his book, The Islands of San Francisco Bay. It promises to be a treat for the eyes.

Grill by Martin Taylor

For this meeting members are asked to shoot and submit images based on the theme “Grills and Headlights”. Members enter up to two images on this theme for Club discussion and critique.

Send your digital images by midnight Wednesday to: Photochromeprojectionist@gmail.com

Mark your images:

If you are one of the estimated 800 Million active Facebook members you can now follow Photochrome via our new Photochrome Facebook page. We’ll post the latest Photochrome news there so if you use Facebook you’ll be reminded of upcoming meetings and let you know when anything new has been added to the site. You will also see a new Facebook area in the sidebar.

Let us know what you think and we hope to see you there.

Back in 2005 ‘podcast’ was THE buzzword with the promise of a anyone being able to create radio-like content and distribute it. For a moment everyone was trying to be the internet’s answer to John Peel or Ira Glass in their own niche. The subject of photography was not neglected which is surprising since the accepted truth has always been that talking about photography is like dancing about architecture.

The problem with all this noise is that anyone with a DSLR and a microphone could claim expertise and establish themselves as THE expert. The accepted format for the longest time has been the TWiT format: two or more people sitting around a mic’ or connected via Skype wittering on for an hour with little clear direction and full of speculation and conjuncture rather than unique, informative content. Post-production seemed to involve slapping on some intro and outro music, adding a plea for sponsorship, donations or you to buy their book/DVD/training with no one even listening to the body of the piece before releasing it never mind actually editing it.

Once the novelty of listening to a ‘radio show’ about photography wore off the repetitious  and bombastic nature of these shows quickly became tiring. Perhaps you stopped listening to these kind or shows years ago; perhaps you never listened to any photography podcasts but it is a now a good time to tune in to some of the better photography shows that are well made and have worthwhile content and I’m here to share my favorites. A quick disclaimer, this short list is about photography podcasts, not camera podcasts: if you want to listen to people arguing about if Nikon or Canon is better or guessing what the new release from either will be capable of you should look elsewhere.
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