Do you have what it takes to past muster and win the ‘All Island Picture or Print Of The Year’? 

Once again Isle of Wight photography club members can take the plunge within the inter-club competition circuit and if lucky enough get on the winning podium to gain individual credit for their photography. 

There is an established photographic culture on the Isle of Wight, with several camera/photography clubs; unfortunately photography club websites are scarce and not up to date in advertising events such as this. Continue Reading »

The official week to get online in 2010 has begun. Regular visitors to this website will know the Isle of Wight Digital Imaging Group have been running Get Online events promoting web and computer use since the beginning of October.

We have already exceeded the halfway target, and bridged the digital divide to get in excess of 50 people online.  We are really pleased to be on the map as one of only three events taking place across the Isle of Wight. Continue Reading »

“Monochrome Miscellany”, as the title suggests, covers a variety of subjects from portraits through to landscapes and winter trees. Using a number of techniques and cameras Isle of Wight Digital Imaging Group photographers managed to capture “something for everyone”.

An open invitation to the launch and artists reception at Ventnor Winter Gardens on Thursday 28th October 7:00 p.m in the Balmoral Gallery.  The exhibition is free to view and will run between 28th October till 25th November 2010. 

With a tight deadline and the brief to capture, select, print and frame this exhibition in just two weeks the IWDIG takes great pleasure in presenting the outcome of this photographic challenge. 

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Sculptures and beach features across the West Wight were snapped over the summer for the West Wight Landscape Partnership Pebble People photography competition. 

Congratulations to IWDIG man of the moment Francis Chambers (pictured) for winning the landscape category.

It was thanks to Francis who proposed we ‘Get Stoned at Dimbola’ that we discovered news of the photography competition on our doorstep.  A free exhibition of entries will held at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater from Saturday 23rd to Friday 29th October 2010. Continue Reading »

This week the famous American Photographer Annie Leibovitz was spotted on the Isle of Wight, when she visited Dimbola Lodge, the former home of Julia Margaret Cameron and where we hold our IWDIG meetings every week. 

Annie Leibovitz (pictured), whose most famous cover photos often involve nudity, has established herself as an astute observer of American popular culture and has published seven books, including the uniquely personal, A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005, with photos of her close companion and mentor, author Susan Sontag.

Why would  the famous portrait photographer visit Dimbola Lodge? 

Julia Margaret Cameron, the reputed first lady of British photography holds a special connection for Annie, as when she gave birth to her first child, she named her Sarah Cameron Leibovitz, in honor of the pioneering photographer. Continue Reading »

New research into some of the world’s oldest photographs which reside at the National Media Museum in Bradford, has revealed a previously undiscovered method of image making dating to the 1820s.

Recent technical analysis by scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles show three of the photographic plates created by the world’s first photographer, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (pictured), demonstrate a range of different photographic experiments.

All the plates, from the Museum’s Royal Photographic Society Collection, were previously believed to have been created using the same method, however the ground-breaking research shows one of the plates illustrated Niépce’s skill in copying prints of the day and included deep etching, done by the photographer, to enhance the original image. Continue Reading »

The Isle of Wight Digital Imaging Group is pleased to be participating in our biggest digital inclusion event to date. Throughout October the IWDIG are celebrating Get Online Week 2010 and everyone is invited to participate at not one but four events.

The main focus of the IWDIG Get Online introduction is a fun online game called ‘Splash and Grab’   New and old users to the internet can practice basic computer skills and get a chance to win some fabulous prizes including, an Apple iPad in the Get Online prize draw!  Continue Reading »