Ipswich & District Photographic Society
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Photography Workshops

Contact Details - Ideas and Queries Stephen Harper : smharper2407@gmail.coHi All, The next Photography Workshop of the season will be held on Sunday 27 th September 2026 Meet – Duke Street Car Park, Duke Street, Ipswich. IP3 0AQ Time – 10am This will be a practical outdoor workshop, where we will spend the day at Ipswich Marina and surrounding area. This will give us the opportunity to try ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) and to use Filters, for which there is plenty of opportunity and subjects to try out and practice on. Please bring your camera, tripod and filters There are plenty of cafes and places for lunch and refreshments. There is no charge for this workshop.

Sunday 22nd November 2026 (led by Graham Wood) - will be a Portrait

and Beauty session with a full studio setup in the pavilion. The Charge

for this session will be £15

The day will commence at 10.00 for 10.15 start with an overview of the lighting equipment, how it works, and how to set up different configurations to achieve a variation of styles. We will focus on the Key Light, Fill Light, Rim Light and background lights to explore how different set ups can create very different results from high contrast to soft images and how to tailor the mood of your images by strobe placement, modifiers used and power settings. Our model Karolina will arrive at about 11am and we will explore how light and shadow can bring out the best in our models face. After the instructional period, it will be the turn of our members to take their images with the concepts learned (cont’d)
(cont’d) Please Bring your cameras, spare batteries etc. The meeting begins at 10.00 for a 10.15 start, we will be finished by 4pm. Please bring a packed lunch, tea and coffee will be available. I would be grateful if you would let me know if you intend to come along to the day. smharper2407@gmail.com Cash on the day The venue is The Pavilion, Martlesham near the Douglas Bader Pub,

Practical Evenings

Practical Evenings are held on the last Wednesday of the month (check Programme) by Zoom - 7.15 for 7.30 pm Requests for topics to be covered should be sent to smharper2407@gmail.com Topics that can be covered include Photoshop, Lightroom or Affinity use and/or any camera use or other photographic related query. Past evenings have dealt with Layers and sizing of images for example.
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