Creative comp

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

The vice chairman Neil Thomas gave a warm welcome to Jan Cawley EFIAPS HON.FWPF who was the invited judge for the evening of the creative competition held on Thursday 6^th March at the St Florence community hall. Sadly only 10 prints and 13 digital images were entered in this competition, but nevertheless Jan gave an excellent critique, firstly on the prints with subjects ranging from the seaside, alphabet pasta, otters feeding, dogs heads photo shopped onto human bodies, all in the creative mode. The winning print was a monochrome image ‘Birkenau’ showing the railway lines that brought the Hungarian Jews to within a few yards of the gas chambers. The creative talent of Roy Packer who transformed the clouds into images of those pour souls was justly awarded 20 points, in second place Harry Gardiner with his beach print ‘Oh we do Like’ and third place Dave Bolton with his print ‘Who let the dogs out’.

Following a short break allowing members to view the prints, Jan continued her judging of digital images, once again the creative talents of members shone through. Again Roy Packer and his creative talent using Photoshop and Lightroom produced the winning image ‘Puppet Masters Wheelchair’ with Harry Gardiner receiving second place with his image ‘cobblers Nightmare’ and in third place Charles Kidd with his ‘Land of the Giants’. The overall winner was Roy Packers ‘Birkenau’. Jan concluded the evening with a selection of her own images, many that had won medals in the various shows, explaining to members how and why she changed an image from colour to black and white, whether to saturate and distort to give the desired effect, how she sharpened some images and cropped and blurred others. Before saying goodnight Jan reminded the members that competitions are fun and should not be taken seriously, each judge has a different opinion, what has a low mark tonight – elsewhere will be judged higher.

              

20^th March – Camera club AGM