Amersham Photographic Society

Here's a subsequent update from Tony; Thanks for the link. I have done some work and it really confirmed my expectations. You may want to share it:- 1) I took a RAW file through ACR at 720 PPI and its “size” was approximately 4in x 6 in. 2) I downsampled the 720 PPI file using bicubic sharper to 360...

Tony Kaye ASIS FRPS spoke to us on the subject of 'How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?'. Tony is Chairman of the RPS Imaging Science Group and spoke with great authority and insight. Tony's presentation slides may be found here and I hesitate to try to precis them! However I will try to pull out som...

NEWS The Lytro Field Camera offers the intruiging prospect of retrospective decisions on focussing. Although the camera is not yet available and precise details are vague, it's certainly a technology to watch for the future. dpReview is publishing some very interesting group reviews. Here are some t...

PRINTING We discussed photo printing with the beginners group and I promised to mention three online photo printing sites that members have recommended; - Photobox - BPD Photech - ProAm Imaging NEWS Many of us had seen the coverage in the newspapers of 'Rhein II' by Andreas Gursky. One of six prints...

A full house – and thanks for bringing your photos. IPHONE 4S I took delivery of an iPhone 4s this week and tried out the camera before anything else. An A3 print was passed around and everyone agreed that it was remarkable. Pin sharp corner to corner and certainly capable of competitive use. The sp...

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the first digital group of the 2011-12 season. The beginners’ lessons in Photoshop Elements / Photoshop will be as follows; Sept/Oct (this meeting) - Opening, Viewing, Saving and Organising Images Nov – Image Resolution and Quality Dec – Printing Jan – Tone and Colour Correct...

NEWS The latest version 6.4 of Adobe Camera Raw is out and includes the latest cameras and lenses. Use Help>Update in whatever version of Photoshop (or Lightroom) that you have. Samyang have been making lenses since the 1970’s but have recently started actively marketing in the UK and had a stand at...

NEWS dpreview has unveiled a comprehensive database of camera and lens features to enable different models to be compared side by side. This complements the excellent reviews, user forums and other information about digital photography available on the site. There is a revolution going on in the wor...

After a beginners tutorial on Selections, we discussed the assembly of images from component parts. This was prompted by the excellent talk by Barbie and Rusty Lindsay who use this technique quite often. Both of their websites are well worth a visit for more than just the photography but Rusty, in p...

As of January 2011 the Buzz Pro 3 is still available to download from here . Having explored Win 7 installation, here's a slight update on the advice above; The Buzz plug-in was designed for 32 bit versions of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements (Ver 9 and earlier) is a 32 bit program and so Buzz works OK...