CPA Camera Club

Tonight we had Jim Maginn from The University of Ulster at the club.

Jim spoke about his passion for portraiture and in particular the decisive moment.

He began the evening with a look at some of his self portraits and continued by showing some of his own private family portraits.

Jim's message was clear, shoot what appeals to you and not what appeals to the judge. Record personal memories as they are irreplaceable.

See Jims work on his website at the following link Jim Maginn

Many thanks to Jim for a very interesting evening.

Thank also to Jim McKeever for arranging this.

This evening due to popular demand we had Charlie Rutledge from Ballynahinch camera club back to give his presentation on Old Ballynahinch.

Charlie had been at the club last year judging the Irish Heritage competition and gave us a taster of the show to wet our appetites.

Charlie showed us some fantastic traditional slides which he had restored from glass plates. He finished with some digitally projected images which were of similar quality.

Many thanks Charlie.

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.