Why it Won – 12th Dec 2007

Sorry, I am not able to post and comment on the winner of the 35mm slide competition as we have not yet scanned the slide. 

Winner of the digitally projected image competition  on 12th December 2007.

MORNING MIST by Jerry Wheeler

A restful pastoral landscape with a great feeling of mood and calm. The mist is very well caught and gives good recession through the layers of the picture. The colours are warm and harmonious. The horse in the foreground is classically, but well placed to give interest without dominating the picture.

The judge on the evening, Helen Taylor, did suggest a crop to the top of the picture to remove the brighter part of the sky in order to deepen and enrich the rest of the picture; what do you think?

Well done Jerry,
/Graham

Note: This post is open for comments.

Open Aggregate Digitally Projected Images and Slide Competitions – 12th Dec 2007

On Wednesday, 12th December 2007 Aggregate Open Digitally Projected Images and Slide Competitions were held. There was a large and excellent entry on a variety of subjects in both competitions.

The judge for the evening was Helen Taylor ARPS, BPE2* and the results were as follows:

Digitally Projected Images
20 points: Don Lester and Jerry Wheeler
19 points: Ian Howard and Nigel May
18 points: John Bowsher (2), June Hill (2), Vivienne Lavender and Nigel May

Slide
20 points: Clive Boreham, Tony Catt and June Hill
19 points: John Harrop and Ruth Jennings
18 points: Tony Catt, Hubert Evans and June Hill

Report by Marion Holness
Publicity Officer

Old friend gets in touch

Many of you know Clive Boreham well and remember the significant contribution he has made to club over the years.

I was really pleased to hear from Clive via the feedback email address (ddccadmin@googlemail.com) of this website. He gave his ha’pennorth on Competition Scoring as well as passing on his seasonal best wishes.

To read Clive’s remarks have a quick look at the On Your Marks posting. This posting was originally made in November but I have re-posted it today.

Graham (Chair)

Views from the Pews: On your marks!

Re-posted from November 6, 2007

What are club competitions for?
How should the judges mark?
What should the judges look for?
What ranges of marks should be used?
Should marks be against an absolute standard or relative to the other entries on the day?

These are just some of the questions that usually come up in discussions about club competitions and the marking thereof.

To kick off a discussion thread I though I’d post a potentially controversial opinion from one of our members.

Note, to avoid this being thought of as being an issue with a particular judge I have edited the remarks slightly so as to conceal the competition in question.

I would ask that all contributions to the discussion be honest, but temperate. Remember this is a public blog viewed by potential new members.

Thanks
/Graham

Print Appraisal Evening – 5th Dec 2007

Our penultimate meeting of the year was a very enjoyable home-brew evening with Tony Catt (our esteemed Treasurer) leading the print appraisal and doing a good job not only of providing his own ideas and comments but also generating input and participation from the floor.

Members had brought along a wide variety of prints most of which triggered a constructive discussion. I hope everyone found the comments made about their work as helpful as I did. It was good to get the chance to follow-up for more detail from the commenters after the meeting.

We need to continue to try and strike the correct balance between the structured business of the evening and providing the time for people chat and ask for help and advice from each other. If you have an opinion about this please share your thoughts with me or any other committee member.

Thanks again Tony for leading this very successful evening.

Graham Robinson
Club Chairman

Lecture/Presentation by David Silk – 28th Nov. 2007

On Wednesday, 28th November Dave Silk of the Isle of Thanet Photographic Society visited the club.
He gave an excellent presentation where he showed examples of prints he had taken using old cameras – one of which was a Kodak 620 Box Brownie, he also showed many of his collection of old photographs which he collects, some dating back to 1860. He told amusing tales of standing next to fellow photographers who were using the latest digital equipment and he was using one of the old simple cameras. A very enjoyable and interesting evening was enjoyed by all members present.

Marion Holness
Publicity Officer

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I could not agree more Marion. It was quite a refreshing evening.

We got to see some of the results of playing with good old-fashioned basic cameras; the enjoyment of making pictures with that kind of kit is still there.

He reminded us that you don’t always have to play by the rules that the manufacturer provides. Some of the tricks and fun he has got upto with Polaroid materials was a clear example of this.

Another reminder was that there was much pleasure to be got in the chase as the kill. I was very much interested in his tale of tracking down and re-photographing Lee Frost’s picture of a Tuscan building.

Dave, being a collector of old photographs (with examples from 1860 onwards), brought home the message that photographs can become extremely interesting social records and documents. He also gave some tips on where to get good information on dating and deciphering such pictures that are often mindlessly and carelessly discarded.

It was a bit of a shame that the evening was not better attended.

Graham Robinson
Chairman