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Committee members of the Ivybridge & District Camera
Club travelled to Budleigh Salterton on Saturday 17th
May to assemble the club’s entry for an all-Devon
photographic competition. Over 100 people turned up
from various Devon Clubs to compete for the coveted
Best Club Trophy as well as the individual awards. Sadly,
Ivybridge did not win - that honour went to Crediton
- but we did not at all disgrace ourselves as the judge
was very complementary about the Ivybridge print panel
and gave the Highly Commended mark to our digital slide
entries.
On May 6th Colin
Wilkins hosted the practical evening at Bittaford with
a presentation about image sharpness. Members were treated
to both a technical discussion of the maths involved
and the basic use of image sharpening tools. The presentation
was illustrated with examples of images before and after
sharpening and supported by a discussion of some of
the things that can go wrong during sharpening an image
- such as halos and colour aberrations - and how to
avoid them.
The following
Tuesday saw the club hold its second competition in
the Digitally Projected Image League, a set of competitions
held throughout the year that do not require prints.
All the images are supplied electronically either by
email or on disc.
The winning entry
was ‘Storm Clouds Brewing’ by Stuart Barnes
of Plymouth. Second place went to Ivybridge member Colin
Lennox-Jones with a solarised image of Clevedon pier
and the third position was taken by David Rayner with
‘Poppies in an Olive Grove’.
On June 3rd David
Rayner will be hosting the practical evening and the
main subject will ‘Curves – how to get them
in Elements’. The next competition will be the
2nd Challenge Cup, held on the 10th June. .
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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Winning
enrty by Stuart Barnes |
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