Month: April 2020

Two weeks ago we put out a challenge to the members, to download and edit two members Images from the raw state and Interpret them as if they were their own Image.

The brief was to simply edit as they thought best suited the Image, with no barrier to creativity or software choice. Other than the original raw Image basically ‘a blank canvass’ to work from!

The Images provided to download were from Committee members Ant who offered a great portrait of a muscular man and George who gave us a great composition landscape of an old character barn set in woodland. This week we reviewed the results! We had 30 Images presented covering both portrait and landscape

The variation in changes through the editing and authors Imagination was amazing with some really great Interpretations and clever use of software and editing skills. Each author spoke about their Individual Interpretation and editing method explaining how they arrived at the final Image.

Thank you to Cat, Vanessa and George for controlling the night and to everyone who took part in the challenge or just tuned in for the Interest.

Once again, a great Interactive enjoyable night, bringing the club together in the face of adversity, caused by our current lockdown situation.

Steve

It’s great that technology as enabled us to continue our season programme online. This week we had our scheduled trophy competitions for both Portrait and Landscape, With everyone tuned in from the safety of their homes.

We were joined by experienced Judge Lloyd Moore from Watford Camera Club who had the difficult task of finding the winning Images on the night

The normal club high standard of Images were entered for the competitions with 36 Landscape and 23 Portrait, giving 59 to Judge.

Thank you to everyone that entered and congratulations to the ultimate winners of the trophies. You can see all the details and Images on our Website.

Steve

The Importance of post processing was the focus of this week’s online workshop where we had two excellent tutorials presented by two of our talented Committee members.
George gave us an Insight into the tools offered by ‘Affinity’ software, demonstrating several stages of control and methods on this relatively new product which is fast growing in popularity.

Ant gave us a master class in the art of ‘dodging and burning’ plus more in ‘lightroom’ setting up, to accompany his presentation with a demo mode to enable members to work alongside his presentation.

The evening was captured on video, enabling the countless techniques and tips shared during the evening to be tried by members at a later date. Downloads and viewing available on the members section of the Clubs website.

We are really grateful to both George and Ant for the professional presentations given during the evening, which once again underlined the vast talent we have within the club.
In addition to the Interactive tutorials we also gave details and launched our process challenge of both landscape and portrait Images (download yours from the website) to be viewed in two weeks.

We also tried a game of Adobe/Affinity virtual bingo which ran through the evening!

Steve

‘Photography at home’ was the theme of this week’s online meeting. Members were asked to submit Images recently taken during the enforced ‘lockdown’ while they were at home.

We had over 40 PDI Images presented with an amazing variety of subjects, all representing our current situation.

It was a really Interactive meeting with each member giving a short overview of their own Image and briefly discussing feedback with the other photographers.

The evening was a really enjoyable, good humoured and Inspiring event with 30 members in attendance.

We were also pleased to announce the winners of the recently completed PDI league competition, and also Inform the member promotions to the advanced league for next season. Congratulations to those photographers and a big thank you to all our members that make our competitions so competitive. Updated PDI league table here.

Steve

PS: No recording this week