| Ivybridge
& District Camera Club has come to its busiest time
of the year with meetings running every week all through
November and into mid December.
The last of the
present series of digital practical evenings was held
on Tuesday 7th November and was well-attended with both
visitors and members. David Rayner demonstrated the
importance of keeping the number of pixels in digital
images high and showed how to keep detail high when
reducing images for digital projection – an important
subject for many members as the club will be running
a new class of competitions throughout next year using
the club’s digital projector. In recognition of
the lottery award that made the digital projector available,
the new competition and trophy will be called the National
Lottery Digital Trophy. After tea and discussion, Colin
Wilkins showed the final part of his PowerPoint presentation
covering camera exposure settings.
Chairman Keith
Miller wound up the evening and the series with thanks
for the presenters and all who had attended the lectures.
A new series of practical evenings will start in February
2007, with subjects being decided based upon a poll
of members.
On Tuesday 14th
November the club viewed the travelling slide portfolio
of 100 slides selected from the entries of nearly 100
clubs throughout the Western Counties. Each club in
the federation can enter 3, 4 or 5 slides depending
on the size of their membership, so Ivybridge &
District members were very pleased to find all three
of their entries had been selected for the portfolio.
Colin Wilkins’s slide ‘Inside the Waterfall’
was positioned in the top 100 while David Rayner’s
‘Plumed Basilisk Lizard’ was placed in the
top 50, but star of the evening’s entertainment
was when Keith Miller’s ‘Swan in Flight’
was displayed in 17th place.
The next meeting
is on Tuesday 21st November when we shall be viewing
the travelling print portfolio and hoping for a similar
success rate! On the 28th November we shall be holding
the Challenge from the Chair competition and on the
5th December we will hold our AGM followed by the Best
of Year competition. Visitors are welcome to attend
any event from 7:30 pm at the Community Hall, Jubilee
Terrace, Bittaford. Further information and directions
are available elsewhere on this
website
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