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.

BLACK & White comp

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB Despite the brilliance of modern digital cameras and the stunningly life like colour they can give, black and white images are as popular as ever. Why? Who Knows! Maybe their classic looks reminds us of a simpler age, maybe paradoxically they convey honesty when their true colours are removed, or maybe things just look better in black and white. Judging took place at the club meeting on Thursday 14th November when Roy Thomas a member of the Neath Camera Club travelled the M4 corridor to judge the black and white print and digital images. Roy was critical of the title of images he was judging as some images were mono and some even with a sepia tone. What ever the reason, if you want to work in black and white you need to know how best to achieve these effects. Whether you are shooting in black and white or converting your full colour pictures into black and white. Roy went onto say what pictures work in black and white or mono? Because black and white makes your pictures look more worthy, try setting yourself a photo project, like shooting your town or village. A mono conversion can turn mundane, everyday pictures into a timeless comment on your works. Because black and white images can have their lighting worked a lot harder than colour ones, it’s possible to shoot in virtually any light and still end up with an atmospheric picture. If you have bad weather – just think mono. Roy’s judging of the 23 print images awarded 1st place to Roy Packer, 2nd place Bob Lineker and 3rd place Charlie Kidd. From the 34 digital images submitted Roy awarded 1st place to Roy Packer, 2nd place Paul Richards and 3rd Place Gill McKay. 28th November – Talk by Graham Harries – Location lighting