Shepton Mallet Photography Club

What does the Shepton Mallet photography club get up to in Somerset?

If you live in or around the area of Shepton Mallet and are attracted to taking photographs then you should come along to the Shepton Mallet photography club.

At the Shepton Mallet photography club we will talk and talk photography until we are blue in the face! We will discuss photographs that you have taken and other members of the club have taken. We will obviously take images and improve on images using a variety of software packages such as Photoshop, Auto FX, and Microsoft Photo Editor . You will discover how to take better photographs and use your photographic apparatus to construct a better photograph. You will be introduced to similar minded people who have an probing eye for detail and a fondness for photography.

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

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

By joining a club it should vastly enrich 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 Shepton Mallet photography club will have it's own website with links to your website which can assist your web traffic no end as well as perhaps get you new clients 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 Shepton Mallet camera club.

You are more than welcome.