Chester-le-Street Photography Club

What does the Chester-le-Street photography club get up to in County Durham?

If you live in or around the area of Chester-le-Street and are attracted to taking pictures then you should come down to the Chester-le-Street photography club.

At the Chester-le-Street photography club we will chat and chat photography until we are blue in the face! We will chat about photographs that you have taken and other members of the club have taken. We will obviously take images and improve on images using various software packages such as Photoshop, Auto FX, and Microsoft Photo Editor . You will gain knowledge of how to take better photographs and use your photographic tools to construct a better photograph. You will get together with similar minded people who have an questioning eye for detail and a love for photography.

There is a trivial fee for joining the club but competitions will be free for everyone to enter.

We repeatedly have competitions all through the year as seasons change and events happen all the way through the calendar year. We have a photographic exhibition every year to showcase our efforts.

By joining a club it ought to vastly increase your photography skills where you should be able to make a good livelihood from your hobby if this is what you would like to do in the future. Also the Chester-le-Street photography club will have it's own website with links to your own website which can help your web traffic no end as well as perhaps get you new customers if you have any products or services to offer.

It isn't essential if you don't have your own camera when you join - but it is expected - we can give you advice on choosing a camera, although you cannot go far wrong with this list of the top 10 digital cameras, in no particular order:

Fujifilm X100S
Olympus Tough TG-2 iHS
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100
Canon PowerShot Elph 330 HS
Canon EOS 6D
Nikon D7100
Nikon D5200
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Samsung NX300
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

So if you can afford it - buy one and join the Chester-le-Street camera club.

You are more than welcome.