Sunday, 22. February 2009, 23:39:58
The NIPA Round 5 competition was judged this evening. This was the final round of the competition were the larger prints of 20x16 mount size are allowed.
Our judge for this evening was Alan Turkington.
Alan judged the prints fairly and commented on every print giving a fair appraisal and pointing out how he thought prints could be improved. Many thanks Alan.
Congratulations to Ray Arnold for picking up 1st place in the Monochrome section.
Congratulations to Brian Bennett for picking up 1st place in the Colour section.
Congratulations to Vittorio Silvestri for picking up 1st place in the Slide section.
A full table of results can be found at the following link:
Monthly Competitions RD5
Sunday, 22. February 2009, 23:39:25
The club competition for Photo Essays was judged this evening.
Our judge for the competition was Stanley Matchett
There were only 4 panels entered, a poor turn out by our usual standard.
Stanley commented on each of the panels and explained how he thought each could be improved.
Congratulations to Ray Arnold for his winning panel.
Unfortunately Ray could not be with us so Kieran Close collected the trophy for him.
Stanley had brought along some of his own panels and chatted about these after the tea break.
Many thanks Stanley.
Sunday, 25. January 2009, 18:07:42
The NIPA Round 4 competition (Street Life) was judged this evening.
Our judge was Bob McDonald (APAGB,CPAGB) from N.I.E. camera club.
Bob judged the prints fairly and commented on every print. Many thanks Bob.
In the Mono section there were 1 novice and 10 advanced prints. Congratulations to Ray Arnold for picking up 1st place overall in this section.
As usual the colour section was better supported with 7 novice and 15 advanced prints. Congratulations to Kieran Close for picking up 1st place. The judge selected one of Paul Kavanagh's prints to represent the club as the colour novice print at NIPA.
There were 11 advanced slides only to be judged, no novice work. Congratulations to Brian Bennett for picking up 1st place.
A full table of results can be found at the following link:
Monthly Competeion Rd4
Tuesday, 20. January 2009, 00:18:25
This was Ernie's second digital workshop of the year.
Following on from the mounting presentation that Ernie and Vittorio gave at the start of the year Ernie showed the members how to prepare their images for mounting.
He explained how to put a fine key line around images and also how to select a colour from the image to put around the print.
He also looked at how to prepare images for producing panoramic landscapes using the "Photomerge" tool in Photoshop.
He finished with a quick explanation on "Curves", which I found very useful and am certainly looking forward to curves part 2.
Many thanks Ernie
Friday, 9. January 2009, 01:17:15
This evening we had the pleasure of having Jim Moreland (FBIPP, FRPS) at the club.
Jim is a long time member of CBPPU and their current Chairman. Jim is also heavily involved in the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and has been a judge for the society for over 10 years.
This evening Jim brought along some of the panels submitted to the society for both the Licentiateship and Associateship distinctions.
Most of these were projected and gave the members an idea of the quality expected by the RPS.
He finished by showing us some prints submitted by two photographers from Hong Kong for an Associateship distinction. Jim commented before showing them, that they were so good that if the photographers had submitted another 5 each, they would have awarded the Fellowship distinction.
They certainly were fantastic prints, and well worth seeing.
Many thanks to Jim for coming to the club and sharing them with us.
Wednesday, 17. December 2008, 23:09:04
This evening Ossie gave us an informative tutorial on audio visual.
He began by explaining how music could be prepared for a slide show in free software called Audacity, which can be downloaded at the following link:
AudacityHe then showed us how to add the music to the slide show in Pictures to EXE. A trial version can be downloaded at the following link:
Pictures to EXEHe explained how to add fade-in effects and how different ones could work with different slides. He finished by showing us some on his own slide shows.
Many thanks Ossie.
Many thanks to Liz and Colin McGregor who also showed some of their own slide shows.
Saturday, 13. December 2008, 00:13:29
Here are a few images supplied by Gordon Johnston from last Tuesday, with Will in full flow.
I believe it was a great night.
Thanks as usual to Will. Sorry I Had to miss it, Vittorio
Wednesday, 19. November 2008, 17:06:33
The NIPA Round 3 competition was judged this evening.
Our judge was Liam O'Reilly from BPIC camera club.
Liam judged the prints fairly and commented on every print giving a fair appraisal and pointing out how he thought prints could be improved. Many thanks Liam.
In the Mono section there were 4 novice and 13 advanced prints. Congratulations to Petra Wood-Stewart for picking up 1st place overall. This went forward to NIPA as the Mono novice print.
As usual the colour section was better supported with 19 novice and 12 advanced prints. Congratulations to Vittorio for picking up 1st place. The judge selected one of Paul Kavanagh's prints to represent the club as the colour novice print at NIPA.
In the this we had a few more slides than usual with entries from 4 members. There were 6 novice and 8 advanced slides. Congratulations to David Boyd for picking up 1st place. We had 2 novice slides select by John Jefferson and Paul Kavanagh.
A full table of results can be found at the following link:
Monthly Competitions Rd3
Wednesday, 12. November 2008, 23:36:56
Hi Folks
Many thanks to Ernie and Vittorio for their excellent demonstration on mounting last night it was most informative. It was just a pity that so few members turned up, but those that came thought it was more than worthwhile.
Thanks again Ernie and Vittorio.
Colin McGregor
Programme Secretary
Wednesday, 5. November 2008, 12:29:54
Tonight the members were very privileged to have Gordon Gray (FRPS, FIPF, AFIAP) at the club. Gordon is a leading light in the world of AV and the RPS AV Group Organizer for Ireland.
He began the evening by showing us some of his prints many of which went back to his early days with a film camera while others were more recent, being captured with a digital camera.
He concluded the evening showing us several spectacular audio visual presentations, the field in which Gordon has become renowned.
Many thanks Gordon.
During the evening the members also selected the 6 digital slides to be submitted to NIPA as a trial run for the switch over from conventional slides to digital slides. The submitted images can be found at the following link:
Digital Slide Selection
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