PANELS comp

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB Once again the club welcomed the ever popular Leigh Woolford AWPF, EFIAP a member of the Gwynfa Camera club. Leigh travelled from his home in Pontypridd to judge the evening of ‘Panels’, he explained to members what was required by the Welsh Photographic Federation for acceptance; and that judging is very subjective, which is why selection panels comprise of three people, you sometimes get disagreements among the panel, with one selector giving 2 and another awarding a top score of 5. Distinctions are normally judged by a panel of five assessors and a chairman. From is own experiences he told members that some images won’t do very well with certain judges and do better with others. It’s always going to be like that. In his judging of the 7 print panels, Leigh again explained that judges needed to give a feel of what the photographer intended and then pointed out that it’s a personal opinion. Positive criticism was given to all images, helping the person to improve their work. The topic of images ranged from Lions in Africa, to surfing at Manorbier, garden flowers to hot rods at Pendine, but the winning panel for the print section was Roy Packer’s ‘Dalmation Pelicans’ – a strong panel, interesting subject, beautiful colours and top quality W.P.F standard, Paul Richards in second place with ‘Life of the Hare’ and Liz Wallace 3rd Place with ‘Eagles in Norway’. Following a coffee break Leigh continued judging the eight digital projected images. He went on to say that panels can sometimes be quite poor and you know your going to disappoint the photographer, but you have to know there is room for improvement. The standard of the photography and the overall technical standard of images were good, and he gave advice on how to improve your success rate. First place was awarded to Roy Packer with his monochrome panel titled ‘Kids of Gambia’ in second place Gary Jenkins ‘Kingfishers’ and third place Paul Richards ‘Mellow Yellow’. 28th November – Location Lighting – talk by Graham Harries 5th December – Mini competition – Macro.