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2018 / 19 Trevor Wain UK Landscape Competition
Last night saw the 2018 / 19 Trevor Wain UK Landscape Competition. This is an externally judged print competition with the theme of UK Landscapes. There were 49 entries and it was Judged by Nat Coalson ARPS. Nat gave a master class how to analyse an image and described what was good and bad with each of the entries. He included plenty of advice and tips on how they could each be altered / improved. The evening ended with 3 images scoring the maximum but James Botterills image “Combesgate Beach” was selected as the Judges winner with the comment “there isn’t much that could be improved on this” From Phil Mallins “Last Man Standing” And Julie Holbeche-Maund with “Porlock Weir” Results Author Image Score James Botterill Combesgate Beach 20 1st Phil Mallin Last Man Standing 20 Highly Commended Julie Holbech-Maund Porlock Weir 20 Highly Commended Phil Mallin After the Harvest 19 Commended Steve Bexon Parkhouse And Chrome From Hitter Hill 19 Commended Steve pears Canna 19 Commended Steve Bexon Hen Cloud From The Roaches 19 Commended Dave Carter Bolderwood New Forest 18 Chantal Cooper Cementworks Hope Valley 18 Trish Rudin Crummock Water Reflection 18 Julie Holbech-Maund Snowhill Lavender 18 Steve pears Steephill Cove 18 Rob Jones Stourhead 18 Ian Waite Tarn Howes 18 Geoff Whitelocks The View From Rhos On Sea 18 James Botterill Crow Point Wreak 18 Geoff Whitelocks Morning Scottish Sun 18 John Denny Normanton 18 Robin Astle Sheep Country 18 Gary Wood The Crowns 18 Trish Rudin Wrynose Pass 18 Steve...
2018 / 19 POTY 3 Monochrome Print Results
In first place “White Feathered Goddess” by Julie Holbeche-Maund Lrps with 23.82 2nd “Wensley falls” Phil Mallin 23.00 3rd “Duckpool” Gary Wood with 22.55 Full Table of Results 2018 / 19 POTY 3 Standing after POTY3 2018 / 19 POTY 3 Gallery ...
2018/19 POTY 3: Open Monochrome
Last night was the POTY 3: “Open Monochrome”: 3rd round of POTY. It was an Open Themed print competition but the prints had to be monochrome. Usual print rules and peer voting applied and 33 members voted on the 58 submitted images. The voting was followed by a presentation from one of our new members James Botterill entitled “The confession’s of a virgin Wedding Photographer.” during which James explained the importance of preparation and planning in this case in relation to his first ever attempt at wedding photography for his Cousin (so no pressure). Weddings are probably the single most planned event in a persons life with the planning starting months in advance if not years but on the day the only fixed point in time is when the bride arrives at the church, registry office, ceremony what ever but who often is late. The rest of the day sort of follows a pattern but is quite fluid in when and what happens. He described how he undertook both physical and virtual web research, looked at other peoples images for ideas, locations near the wedding venue and the realisation that the presentation of the final images needed to have a common look and feel to them. How when he went to the actual locations found they weren’t quite as shown but how on the day the previous visit scouting locations paid dividends as events didn’t go to the expected timetable and he end up with just 5 minutes to whisk the bride away to get some images. How he got he bride and groom to practice poses like in the professional images which are actually...
2018/19 “British Landscapes Colour & Mono”
Last night we had a presentation from Bill Allsopp LRPS LBPPA from Leicestershire entitled “British Landscapes Colour & Mono”. During his talk Bill explained the ins and outs of what it takes to be a Landscape Photographer and presented lots of good images to enforce what he was saying. You can see more of Bills work on his web site https://lightiseverything.co.uk/home or you could buy his...
2018 Workshop
The Camera Club (Earl Shilton Camera Club) had its 2nd members workshop last night. Phil and Jules took 4 sets up for macro photography. 2 with continuous lighting and 2 for flash (Nikon and Canon). 40 of the 43 members turned up and everyone took part. There were also Lightroom, Photoshop, and camera techniques sets...
2018 / 19 POTY 2 Birds
Tonight we had the critique for the 2nd round of POTY. This was a themed PDI round with the them being Birds. It attacted 61 images from 32 members and we 38 scoring. The image finishing in 1st place with a score of 25.41 was “Swooping Falcon” by Peter Lawrance 2nd “Male Barn Owl” by Ian Waite with 22.41 And 3rd “Herring Gull In Flight” by Gary Wood with 22.22 Click for Full Table of Results 2018 / 19 POTY Table Click to View Gallery...
2018 Lighting Workshop
Tonight we had a one light Lighting Workshop hosted by Jules and ably assisted by her lighting technician Phil. It was held at The Frame Game so thanks to Jo Pettigrew for allowing us to use her space and to our model for the evening Georgia The Workshop The...