Speaker - Janey Lazenby - Inspired By Art 23/06/21

We welcomed back tonight, the talented, Artist, Teacher and Equine Photographer Janey Lazenby.

Janey explained that her art background always comes to the fore when producing images, whether they be for her own use, clients or for competition work.

When looking for a project or certain look then Janey turns to her Art books, whether it be for a style of lighting, composition, colour, clothes.

Many Artists have inspired Janey’s work, her particular favourites are Caravaggio, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Edgar Degas, George Stubbs and the Pre Raphaelites.

Janey took us through each Artist, a brief background to their work and works that they are famous for and what it was about that particular artist that inspired, from whether it be the chiaroscuro effect, composition, rich colours of the clothes, the emotional state or the dynamic storytelling.

Janey showed her fantastic images each created a story on its own and the detailed elements such position of hands, fingers, reference to the particular period, Baroque, Dutch masters, Pre-Raphaelite to name a few.

In the second half Janey took us through the process of creating an image first in the Rembrandt style and then in Degas style using Photoshop. Janey produces her own textures and went through each step on how to achieve this.

HPIC Annual Competition - Oscars Night 16/06/21

Wednesday night was Oscars night and what a night it was. The annual prize giving evening is always a real highlight of the year for our members. We awarded our photographers trophies and certificates for their winning and runner up images in our upcoming Annual Exhibition.

Unlike previous awards evenings, this year was once again run virtually, so members supplied their own wine and nibbles as we perused the finalists' images. Although virtual, the evening was still full of excitement and anticipation as those shortlisted members waited to hear if they had won a coveted trophy or had their work recognised with a certificate.

Tony led the proceedings and we were lucky enough to also be joined by guests in the form of some of our judges, which was great to see.

The first half of the evening took us through each of the individual categories and prize giving. Then, after the break, we revisited the winning images with each author taking us through a brief description of how they had captured their image and what had inspired their creative process in editing and producing the final piece of work.

All in all the evening was an excellent precursor to our upcoming exhibition which will commence in Huddersfield on Thursday 8th July to Saturday 14th August. We hope to see you all there as we share our work with the wider public.

Competition - Ted Coleman Digital Image Knockout 01/06/21

19 clubs took part in digital image knockout run by Rochdale Camera Club on 1st June 2021. HPIC entered this long-standing knock-out competition after a break of several years. It is run in memory of former Rochdale CC club member, Ted Colman, and this year 19 clubs took part including 3 from Yorkshire.

Our 13 images had been selected from those which had done well in external competitions and salons. The four for the first round were identified in advance with the aim of ensuring we progressed to the second round. Experienced judge, Richard Speirs from Northern Counties, gave a critique of each image and scored them out of 20.

After the first round we surprised ourselves by being in pole position. The HPIC team (Richard Fulcher, Harry Wentworth and Alan Stopher) entered their own ‘break out room’ to determine which images should be put into rounds 2 and 3.

We got into the third round by two points, coming 6th out of the 13 clubs then remaining. In the final round we came a creditable 6th and were the last of the four Yorkshire Clubs in the competition.

The play off for first was between Chorley PS and Bury PS and Chorley ran out the winners. Particular credit goes to them for choosing 13 images from 13 different authors. That’s strength in depth for you.

Our highest scoring images were Richard Fulcher’s Jetting in and Paul Campbell’s The Dancer, each with 19. Well done to them.