Workshop - Score That Image! 09/03/22

This was the first time in a long while that we have seen prints in club for members to look at and discuss.

Led by James with advice from Alan, an audience of 21 members were shown prints from recent competitions and asked to comment on each print.

There was a variety of prints from Nature to Open categories, although only two categories the range of genres in the open category ranged from Portrait, Landscapes, Creative, street photography to still life.

Graham had brought the print stand with him and James described the print, commenting on the type of paper, composition, lighting, colour, texture the scene in front of him as most prints the people sitting at the back would have difficulty seeing the finer details.

Discussion followed and members were invited to give a score out of 15, did they match the judges score? In most cases they did, sometimes they were generous with their scores!

All in all, an enjoyable evening.

Practical evening - Infinity boards & How to mount your own print 02/03/22

Our second practical evening in a month saw us spread over two rooms. Graham Sykes gave a demonstration in the committee room of how to mount your own prints. We pride ourselves on being a club which encourages printing so this was really helpful for those who had not cut their own mounts before. In the main club room James and Sue had set up a number of table top arrangements with an array of props. Members were able to frame their own set-ups against white and black backgrounds and try out macro techniques with cacti and dandelion seed and trial different lighting approaches.

Experimenting with a macro set up

Graham presents his tutorial

Mobile phone photography in a studio setting

Monthly challenge - Leading Lines 16/02/22

Congratulations to the four authors who secured sufficient points to come in the top four of this second challenge of the season which was designed to put us all on the right lines (get it!). Twenty-one members submitted entries, all of a high standard.

Kamul Samanta came first with 20 points for his image entitled Rebounced. George Fewster

came second with his image Shadows In The Snow with Mike Hey and Richard Fulcher secured third equal placements with their images, Where's That Train? and an untitled beach scene respectively.

Rebounced - Kamal Semanta

Shadows In The Snow - George Fewster

Where's That Train? - Mike Hey

Untitled Beach Scene - Richard Fulcher

Commentary was provided by Carla and Kevin Lloyd who had bravely volunteered. Their comments were thorough, incisive and useful, and for the 40 or so members in the audience were well timed, enabling us all to take the lessons learnt and apply them to our entries to the HPIC exhibition entries for which will close on the 16 th of March.

Other News

An Extraordinary General Meeting preceded the challenge. The outcome of which, was the unanimous approval of the Committee recommended subscription rate for 2022/3, of £60 for full membership with effect from the 1 st April 2022.