HPIC News 16/03/22

Thanks to the wonders of technology, it was possible for the club to

conduct two simultaneous Zoom session last night. One meeting covered

the third round of the Interclub event hosted by Hebden Bridge Camera

Club, live, with Sue Gibson taking a leading role there. Whilst, back at

base, James acted as compare for a session he had organised in which

some 20 members gave their scores for 50 images selected from a

previous Interclub competition.

The number of seats at the live event was limited to ten seats for each

participating club. However, Sue has written this account of the events at

Hebden Bridge Camera Club:-

The second of our evenings events was the Interclub 3 rd Round, hosted

via zoom by Hebden Bridge Camera Club.

The Judge for the evening was Stephen Dean LRPS, APAGB, who was

challenged to judge 50 images in several genres; Set subject – Abstract,

Set Theme Travel and General images.

There were high quality images from all clubs and the eight 20’s awarded

overall were from several clubs.

Stephen’s judging was concise, helpful and demonstrated his knowledge

and skill in judging several genres.

Suffice to say that we as a club was very surprised with our result on the

night of 96 points and for the final round on the 2 nd April it is very much to

play for in keeping the trophy!

Meanwhile back at the ranch HPIC members first reviewed the images

and, in teams in separate rooms, aggregated their scores with a view to

providing an average score for their top four. Time was against us and

technology limitations did not help on the night. James recorded the

teams’ average scores and then revealed how close we were to the

judge’s assessment. As expected, there were one or two occasions when

we wondered at the divergence of our scores and that of the judge.

Members seemed to enjoy the experience and the divergence of scores

stimulated interesting discussions.

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