Forum - Review That Image 02/02/22

Following on from the two evenings we held last November, this was the last opportunity for members considering entering prints or DPIs into the annual competition to receive feedback from James and Alan.

Unfortunately, Alan was unable to be at the meeting at the Parish centre, which left James to review and give advice on all 34 images that were submitted by members.

All different genres were covered and even some images were definitely ones a little out of the ordinary, usual things to look at were spotted and a few marmite images, the judges would like or not like.

This was the second time that we had held a hybrid meeting, successfully joining those at home and in the hall, with 17 members online and 19 in person.

Monthly Challenge - The Country Show 19/01/22

Congratulations to the three authors who secured sufficient points to come in the top three of this first challenge of the season which bought a hint of the promise of summer to the cold winter’s evening. Twenty three members submitted entries of a high standard.

Richard Fulcher came first with 23 points for his image entitled Limousin.

Barbara Sheldrake came second with her image Hamsome Guy.

And finally, Peter Thornton securing third place with Washed, Groomed and Ready For Show.

Commentary was provided by George Fewster and Alan Stopher, who had bravely volunteered. Their comments were useful, thorough and informative 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 16th of March.

Speaker - Jeanette Lendon – Smartphone photography 12/01/22

Well our first evening of 2022 and it did not disappoint. Our speaker

Jeanette gave us a thoroughly enjoyable evening with all members

looking at their smartphones in a different way.

Jeanette began by giving us an introduction that included a little about

herself, her career as a teacher for 12 years and about setting up her

business as a photographer.

Her inspiration to use a smartphone entirely came from an exhibition she

saw at Waddlesdon Manor by fashion photographer Nick Knight titled

“Exhibition of Roses” taken from his garden in which all images that

were 14’ were taken entirely on his phone. 

She went on to explain how she had begun to work with Smartphones

and to tell us that famous photographers began to work with their

smartphones even Rankin had changed his mind regarding using a

smartphone camera.

Jeanette gave a humorous and informative talk with a several

demonstrations on how to use a Smartphone and how to edit your

images using an app called Snapseed.

She explained how to access and control exposure, how to use portrait

and macro, turning your phone upside down, on using mirror sheets to

get good reflections and if you didn’t have any mirror sheets, using

puddles of water as an alternative or even carrying your own water bottle

and making your own.

The whole presentation was supported by wonderful pictures she had

taken mostly in London including St Paul’s from Tate Modern and a

group of images called “Lock Down London” showing the empty streets

and transportation.