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 6th 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.
20th March – Camera club AGM
