Tuesday 25 February Competition. Theme Macro/Close up

OnTuesday we held our second digital competition on the theme of "macro/close up". We welcomed back Simon Ciappara not as a speaker but as a judge. There was a wide variety of subjects varying from flowers, sculpture, insects and animals.

Simon started out by commenting on all the positive aspect of all the images.  He then commented on ways that they could be improved before the image was taken, either by adjusting the aperture or trying a different angle and in post production by adjusting the tones and possibly the shadows to enhance the texture.

Judging the advance group he gave several images top scores of twenty and nineteen. For some of the images there was no hesitation in giving the top score.

During the coffee break Simon showed some of his images and explained how he had taken them using a lens reverser. He also suggested that members could try extension tubes or macro bellows. 

Below are the top scoring images.

                                              ADVANCE MEMBERS TOP SCORING IMAGES

                                                     AUSCHWITZ by Andrew Stringer 20

                                                                              

BANDED DEMOISELLE by Carol Martin 20

TARNISHED PLANT BUG by Francesca Shearcroft 20

  

BUBBLES ON THE BEACH by Roy Scrivener 20 

                                                                 

BLUE IGUANA by Jan Murphy 20

                                                                   

HEART OF THE TULIP by Roy Scrivener 20

                                                                                     

SOLDIER BEETLE by Geoff Lingwood   
                     
                                                                 

THE COMMON CRICKET by Jack Mitchell 20

                                                              

SOAPSUDS BUBBLE WORLDS by Jan Murphy 19

                                                                   

SHIELDBUG by Geoff Lingwood 19

                                                                     

NIGELLA by Pam Rutty 19

                                                                    

RESTING SWAN by Diana Graham 19

                                                              

VIBURNHAM LEAF BEETLE by Francesca Shearcroft 19

                                                 

                                                    
                                                    MEMBERS GROUP TOP SCORING IMAGES 
                                                              

BEE ON MUSCARI by Graham Jackson 20

                                                                    

MACRO by Tom Thurston 20

                                                          

DRAGONFLY by Daphne Lingwood 19

                                                         

                                                   CURVED EYE VIEW by Pat Weir 19