CPA Camera Club

Round 2 - Open, Large Prints

Tuesday night was the second round of the NIPA inter-club competition. This round was open themed but entrants were allowed to make use o f images and mounts up to 50cm*40cm.

The larger permitted image size led to a number of excellent and inspiring prints to be entered.

Judging duties were performed by Newtownards own Leslie Armour . Leslies judging was excellent, with time given to each print and valuable feedback provided for all levels of photographer.

Leslie spent time talking about the importance of having good ranges of tone and texture within images. He also give good advice about the 3 chances a photographer gets to get the shot right - Capture, Post processing and mounting - reminding the club that a well mounted shot goes a long way towards helping an image really shine.



At the end of judging the results were as follows:

Mono -
1st - Giants Causeway, Ossie Bruce
2nd - Portavogie, Brian Bennett
3rd - Top Hat, Kieran Close
4th - Boulders Below Binnian, Ernie Patterson
Novice print submitted to NIPA - Christine, Sean Harkin

Colour -
1st - Tranquillity, Ernie Patterson
2nd - Lakeside Villas, Ossie Bruce
3rd - Regatta, Brian Bennett
4th(a) - Stone Sculpture, Ossie Bruce
4th(b) - Waterfront Bridge, Vittorio Silvestri
Novice print submitted to NIPA - City Hall, John Jefferson

PDI -
1st - Seals, Brian Bennett
2nd - Portaferry, Brian Bennett
3rd - Takeoff, Vittorio Silvestri
4th - Kelly, Gordon Johnson
Novice PDI submitted to NIPA - A Brief Encounter, Petra Wood-Stewart

Congratulations to all the winners.

For up to date scores check the competition results link on the left.

The Irish Heritage Club Competition for the Roland Bainbridge memorial trophy, took place this evening. Our judge was John Belshaw from Shorts Camera Club.

John had 29 prints to judge, a great entry from the members. There was a mixture of colour and monochrome images which made his task even more difficult. He gave a fair, constructive comment on every print.

After tea John narrowed down his selection and awarded first place to Ray Arnold for his print titled "Riley's Place and Gasometers". The Roland Bainbridge memorial trophy was presented to Ray by our judge John Belshaw.

Congratulations Ray and many thanks John.

Tonight we had our own David Boyd talk to us about the Islands of the South Pacific.

David was to give us this presentation last year but was unable to as he was out of the country.

We rescheduled him for this year and we were not disappointed. He showed us many wonderful slides of Mount Cook and Fiji. David spoke with passion and his knowledge on the subject was amazing. His talk was extremely interesting.

Many thanks David.

Many thanks to Paul for guiding us through the requirements that are necessary for submitting your PDIs to NIPA.

Click on the link below to view his presentation from last night.

Projected Digital Images.ppt

You will need Microsoft PowerPoint to view it. This can be downloaded at the following link.

Power Point Viewer

Here are some links to utilities that Paul mentioned in his presentation for resizing your images.

Power Toys for XP

Picasa 3

Gimp

Round 1: Open, Judged (15th Sep 09), Results (14th Oct 09, Merville)
Round 2: Open(50x40cm), Judged (20th Oct 09), Results (26th Nov 09, CBPPU)
Round 3: Portraiture, Judged (17th Nov 09), Results (21st Jan 10, Shorts)
Round 4: Macro, Judged (19th Jan 10), Results (16th Feb 10, Carrickfergus)
Round 5: Open, Judged (16th Feb 10), Results (26th Mar 10, Donaghadee)