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.

Speaker - Janey Lazenby 'Brush Magic' 20/09/23

Following on from Janey’s last visit to us and a request, Janey gave her new talk

‘Brush Magic’, to demonstrate the art of creating your own brushes, adding to your

own skills in the post processing of images.

Janey took us through from where to find brushes in photoshop, making your own

bespoke brushes to comply with competition rules.

A bespoke brush is whatever you make it, from Celtic crosses, buildings,

monuments, materials using seeds, leaves, grasses, twigs, wallpaper pattern,

glitter, cracked paint, flour, the list of what you can use is endless depending on

your imagination and quick to do.

Janey then gave a gallery of a wide range of images covering different genres

explaining how she had used the brushes and textures in each image.

We then had a practical demonstration from Janey on making different brushes

incorporating different techniques from your own logo to clouds, trees, birds, hair,

how to save them and how not lose all your hard work.

Janey then used these in processing images that she had taken before and

transforming them into a pleasing image.

A really useful, informative and interactive talk that Janey delivered at a pace that

everyone could understand.

The 'Oscars' - Trophy Presentation Evening

HPIC recently held its much-awaited ‘Oscars’ presentation evening, awarding prizes to winners of the club's annual competition.

More than 30 members and guests gathered at the Parish Centre, with the evening also streamed online to members both in the UK and overseas, all eagerly waiting to find out who had been successful this year.

As is tradition, we worked through each category, with all shortlisted images being displayed in turn before the winner of each was announced. Our president, Carla Lloyd, handed out the gongs, even collecting one herself this year in the Travel Print category.

In all, trophies were handed out to the winners of 16 different categories across print and digitally projected images. Additional certificates were also awarded for the highest combined score by a single author for a panel of 4 prints and the same for DPI. A full run down of the winners of each category and their images can be seen here.

For the runners-up, certificates were awarded to high scoring images were deemed by our judges to be either Commended or Highly Commended.

Winners present on the night who collected trophies are shown below.

As ever, it was a most enjoyable evening, finished off with wine, nibbles and a chance for members to socialise.

From 6 July to 12 August members of the public are invited to come along and take a look at a wide selection of images that were entered this year. Details of where to find us are shown below.