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Over 30 members of the Ivybridge & District Camera
Club turned out on April 2nd for the annual Nature Portfolio
Competition, despite the evening also having a major
football screening on TV.
A portfolio for
this competition comprises three mounted images conveying
a theme and the subject this year was ‘seashore’.
Display boards were utilised to present each of the
3 images as a coherent panel from each entrant and judging
was by voting slips from all present.
The presentation
of a portfolio is somewhat trickier than a straightforward
print. Ideally the prints should be mounted sympathetically
to each other and the content of each clearly convey
the same sub-theme. Even the position the images are
displayed in could be important although as a ‘portfolio’
rather than a ‘panel’ this should not necessarily
matter, but could help the interpretation.
When one considers
the need to illustrate nature on the seashore as well,
it’s probably unsurprising that not every entrant
perfected all the goals. However the wide variety of
images with some technically good photography more than
made up for any shortcomings and a very interesting
evening was had by all, both in judging the entries
and enjoying the portfolios.
Ivybridge member
Keith Mason won first place in the print section with
a theme centred on a lobster creel. Second place was
taken by Neil Doggett with a panel called ‘Bigbury
Blight’ and third went to new member Tony Dommett.
Well done Tony!
The slide section
was somewhat more difficult to judge as a portfolio
but members were up to the job, placing Collin Wilkins
in first place, David Rayner in second with Keith Mullin
in third.
Colin Wilkins and
Chairman Keith Miller critiqued the entries while counting
of the votes took place and David Rayner collected last
entries for the next digital competition during the
tea-break.
On May 6th Colin
Wilkins will be hosting the practical evening and the
subject will be image sharpening. The next competition
will be the 2nd Digital Shield on the 13th May. Visitors
are always welcome to the club meetings and we meet
at Bittaford Community Hall from 7:30pm normally on
the second and fourth Tuesdays in the month. Our programme,
members’ photographs and much more are all available
elsewhere on this website.
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