Annual Competition – 3rd week of judging 05/05/21

Tonight, was our first print judging for the annual competition. Our judge being Stephen Dean LRPS, APAGB from our own Federation, YPU.

Stephen started off by thanking the club in their endeavors in enabling print categories to be entered and for his invitation to judge all the prints. Stephen explained that he was judging the print and not the digital images shown on screen.

Our experienced members work was judged tonight and Stephen had a variety of genres and different images from the following categories: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Record, Portrait, People and Figure Studies and as in previous weeks was asked to spread the marks and to hold images back for the Oscars.

Steven gave detailed comments on each print and again we have a judge who gave our authors plenty to think about their work. We had a variety of different authors who had images held back and look forward to the Oscar night in June.

We have the last evening in the print judging in the next few weeks.

Annual competition - 2nd week of judging 28/04/21

Judging continued this week for the club’s annual competition and once again our pivot to remote meetings allowed us to engage the services of a judge outside our federation. This time, despite the distance from Huddersfield, we benefitted from the experience and wisdom of Barnstaple Camera Club's Peter Fry ARPS DPAGB BPE4*. A long way from his usual territory in the Western Counties Photographic Federation, we hopefully presented him with some fresh subjects. On the is occasion his skills as a judge were put to the test with DPIs in the Architecture & Record, People, Portraiture & Figure Study, Scapes and Intermediate categories. As with the first week of judging, Peter was asked to spread marks over a wide range, providing a real split between the most successful images and those that didn't quite make the grade. Comments were detailed and insightful and gave authors plenty to think about with how they might approach shots in future when they return to the field. With the inclusion of Intermediate this week we were treated to work from some of the club's newer members. Several were making their debut in our club's competition this and at least one first time event was successful in getting one or more images shortlisted for a prize at the club's 'Oscars' presentation that will take place later in the year. In the coming weeks we'll look forward to further judging for the club's print work.

Annual Competition – 1st week of judging 21/04/21

This week we began our first week of judging for this year’s annual competition. Due to

the power of zoom we had a judge outside our federation.

We welcomed David Kissman CPAGB BPE 2* from North & East Midlands

Photographic Federation, who was given the following genres Nature, Beginners, Open

and Sports Action and Photojournalism to judge.

David demonstrated his knowledge and his judging was very detailed, through in

explaining his marking, giving advice on how to improve images, depth of field,

composition, lighting, shape and processing which the author might have missed in the

execution of the image.

All in all, David was a pleasant judge and it was pleasing to hear his comments. For the images that were held back we will have to wait for the ‘Oscars’ presentation

later this year.