OPS People

OPS welcomes everyone with an interest in photography in any of its forms, and attracts photographers from all over the world. There is a good mix of interests, experience, background age and gender, and people come to the Society for all sorts of reasons. The diversity of interest and range of knowledge are such that someone is always available to help with even the most obscure photographic problems.

The Society has people who work with film and digital capture to produce both printed and projected images. There is a strong interest in traditional darkroom work using both modern and historic processes. Other people use the digital darkroom to produce modern or traditional effects in digital images as well as conventional prints and slides. Digital techniques are penetrating almost every aspect of photography, and at OPS it is possible find experts in most fields of digital endeavour. 

Subject matter is also diverse and includes studio and candid portraits, record and pictorial work, landscapes, travel, natural history, underwater work, infrared photography and so on. The Society consequently has a full range of photographic experience. It is equally proud to be associated with people who are just beginning to develop amateur photographic interests, and some of the best photographers in the country. All would agree that they still have plenty to learn about photography.

OPS prides itself on being a society which is interested in the finished image rather the equipment used to produce it.  OPS people work with cameras old and new - large format, medium format, 35mm, panoramic, compact and digital. Some even create pinhole images, direct scans and sun prints to produce images without a conventional camera.

New photographers are always made very welcome, so if you are interested have a good look through the pages of this web-site and begin using the facilities it offers.