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2017 New Fosse Challenge Trophy
This evening saw the New Fosse Challenge Trophy held by Fosse Coop Camera Club. Its a 6 print open competition which this year had 10 clubs enter and was judged by Adrian Stone. At the end of the evening Earl Shilton managed to retain the trophy having scored 110 from a possible 120 from Sileby PS & Leicester Forest PS who finished in joint 2nd with 106 Our images were Phil Mallin – The Old Breakwater 18 Julie Holbeche-Maund – In the Pose 18 Chantal Cooper – Save me a bit 19 Trevor England – The Hive 16 Nat Coalson – Desert Survivor 20 Phil Mallin – Husfrey Ya 19...
2017 Secretary’s Challenge
On October 4th we held our annual Secretary’s Challenge which was an Open Print Competition judged by David Grounds LRPS. Winner was “Pingvellir Iceland” by Jules Holbeche-Maund which scored 20 points Highly commended with 19 points were: “Conflict” by John Smith and “Lu Lu” by Phil Mallin. Commended with 18 points were: “Antique Restorer” by Peter Lawrance and “Dog Fight” by Gary Wood. Commended with 17 points were: “Bluebell Wood” by Trish Rudin, “At One With Nature” by Jules Holbeche-Maund”, “Just Looking” by Rob Jones and “Harvest Mouse” by Ian Waite Click For...
Exhibition 2017
On Wednesday September 25th the club held it’s meeting at the Atkins Building where we are currently displaying our annual exhibition. We were able to feature a pop-up studio with our own lights and backdrops and employed the services of Sophie, a professional model that people were queuing up to photograph! We had a good number of visitors who enjoyed the chance to meet members and talk about the club and it’s...
2017 An Audio Visual Experience
Well it was certainly that. After a few minor windows related teething issuets Graham from the Leicester Forest photographic society recovered skillfully and took us on his”Audio Visual Experience”. The presentation included a selection of his digital audio-visual sequences. Aka Pictures set to music along with a few commentaries and sound effects. A wide selection of subjects to suit most tastes. You can find out more about Graham on his web site and see his...
2017 Interactive Critique
Last night we had an open discussion with emphasis in regard to judging and critical image appraisal based on our 3 part process of “Impact”, “Technique” & “Composition”. It was hosted by Andrzej Jablonski and consisted of a review of members submitted PDI images for the themes of “Transport” or “Nature”. Andy gave some quite insight full comments on how well each image met the 3 criteria and also some minor modifications that could be done to improve...
2017 MCPF Travelling Portfolio
This week was the MCPF Travelling Portfolio which is made up of prints and PDI images selected from the Photofolio Exhibition held in June. The winning images plus some of the accepted images from this Exhibition go into make up the evening’s entertainment. You can view the images on the MCPF...
2017/18 Meet & Greet
Last night saw a very informal first meeting of the 2017/18 due to renovations to the usual room the meeting was held in the main bar and basically consisted of a resume of the AGM and the programme for the new season with a question and answer session as well. You can find the full programme on the website and also in the members handbook which is currently available electronically on the home page. There was a good turn out of past members and it was also good to see some potential new members. Also for the Interactive Critique evening please email 3 or 4 electronic copies of images that meet the themes of either Transport or Nature to compsec@earlshiltoncameraclub.org.uk The images need to be sized nominally 1920 x 1080 pixels sRGB Colour space...