Tuesday 24th October – Digital Open Competition

We welcomed David Saunders to our meeting tonight to judge the first competition of the year. David is not a stranger to the club and we appreciated his constructive comments; many of which focussed on the quality of light in the images. 
This was the first evening with only two classes, Members and Members Advanced. In all there were over 80 images. Thanks to everyone who entered and to those who came along on the night.The high scoring ones are shown below. 

Footsteps by Jan Murphy 20/20

Turning Back the Clock by Graham Frost 20/20

Hand Sling by Mick Ladner 20/20

Door Latch by Reg Barber 19/20

Over the Bench by Geoff Lingwood 19/20

A Dogs Dinner by Roy Scrivener 19/20

So I said to her by Christine Frost 19/20

Electric Blue by Heather Ryder 19/20

Fragility by Jack Mitchell 19/20

Steps by Bob Flemming 19/20

Blackbourne and Pugh Maximum Effort by Keith Mountford 19/20

Film Noir by Chris Kot 19/20

Heron and Quarry by Andy Lowe 19/20

Snetterton Track Day - Friday 13th October

This was our first club event of the new season and it certainly provided a challenging photographic opportunity.  Plenty of action to test your high speed photographic and panning skills!

Many thanks to Keith for passing on his knowledge of the circuit and explaining where we could and couldn't go and where we might obtain the best chance of capturing some of the action.  He also provided very helpful technical advice for those of us less experienced in this genre of photography.

You can see some of our images from Snetterton below:-

by Francesca Shearcroft

by Diana Graham

by Fred Thompson

by Jim McConnell

by Tom Thurston

by Andy Caws

by Di Jackson

by Keith Mountford

by Jim McConnell

by Diana Graham

by Fred Thompson

by Tom Thurston

by Andy Caws

by Keith Mountford

by Keith Mountford 

by Di Jackson

Tuesday 10th October "People Pictures"

The meeting this week we welcomed David Steel as the first of our speakers for this year. His talk was entitled "People Pictures", which in essence was a journey through his photographic career showing many varied pictures of people in their environment and in the studio. They clearly demonstrated how David has improved and what he did to make that improvement. David was keen to ensure that all members, whatever their standard, would learn something from his talk. This was certainly achieved as he gave hints and tips along the way which could be applied to many different genres.
He repeatedly stressed the need to take pictures for oneself and also for club competitions. Invariable these were not the same type of images!!
David illustrated his talk with a wide variety of prints, many in monochrome. Many of these can be viewed on his website at minds-eye.org.uk.
Thank you David for a great evening.

Tuesday 3rd October – It's Open to Interpretation

After the winners of the Summer Challenge had been announced, for images see last week's blog entry, several members kindly demonstrated the use of different software to edit images. Different people edited the same image, and as they did so they talked through their thought process of what they were doing and why. Thanks go to Jan, Mick, Jack and Robin for sharing their knowledge. Always a bit daunting doing this on the large screen.
Most members learnt something and hopefully, this will be evident in their future editing. I think all of us were amazed how good On1 was and I feel sure there will be many more members using this software in the months to come.

Tuesday 26th September – Summer Challenge

This week saw three judges who kindly came along to judge the Summer Challenge. 30 members had submitted 6 images each, on a subject of their choosing. The only restriction being that the pictures had to be taken between 12th July and 12th September. Thanks to Mark Bunning, Bill Pound and Andy Swain who had the task of scoring 180 images.
Some stunning images this year. So well done to all entrants.

The 2017 Summer Challenge Champion is Christine Alcock with her images of Helenium.

In second place was Andy Lowe with Staycation Macro Images.

And in third place was Jack Mitchell with A glimpse of Winged Insects.