Monthly Challenge 7 – Print - Rotting vegetables or fruit 8/11/23

Whilst the number of A4 prints was small at 9,  this was more than made up for by the quality and thought that had gone into the entries.

One of our members had a wrinkled nose throughout in response to the smell which was almost coming through each print.

Mike Hey and Carla Lloyd shared the critique drawing out their thoughts on each of the prints on the easel and they invited addition al comments from the audience as well as information from each author about how each image had been taken.

When it came to the scores the top two were only a point apart. Congratulations to the three members who submitted the images shown here – Alan Stopher, Graham Sykes and Carole Haigh  and well done to all who entered.

This annual competition for the Monthly Challenge trophy is hotting up with just one round more to come.

3rd - Rotting Pepper - Carole Haigh

2nd - Rotting Rosehips - Graham Sykes

1st - Apples in the Compost - Alan Stopher

Monthly Challenge 6 – PDIs – Double or multiple exposures 18/10/23

This session on Zoom involved members submitting a digital image demonstrating multiple exposure. This could be either using ‘in camera’ processing or layering of images in post-processing. There was a good selection of images on view using both techniques. George Fewster and Alan Stopher rose to the challenge of critiquing each image and discussing the images with the authors before the scores were declared.

You can see from the three highest scoring images that the standard was high. Well done to them.

Vice Presidents’ Evening – 11/10/23

This was a new initiative which our Vice-President, Brian Eastwood, targeted at helping less experienced members understand how to critique images and select the best for our club to enter in external competitions.

James Gibson had selected a number of images from our back catalogue and Brian asked us to arrange ourselves in groups at five tables. Each table had a specially chosen ‘Experienced photographer’ to facilitate discussion and draw out the views of the others.

After the designated time for discussion of an image, the experienced photographers rotated to another table to take part in the discussion the next image and so the evening carried on.

Each table designated someone to give feedback in turn and the wide range of critique involving everyone certainly helped to meet the objective of the evening.  Thanks Brian for setting us the challenge.