Interclub
competitions are becoming more of a highlight of the
Ivybridge & District Camera Club’s calendar
and the 4-way battle kindly hosted by Plymouth Camera
Club on the 5th March was no exception. Called the Tamar
Trophy it is a black and white print competition held
between quite a few local camera clubs, although the
number taking part this year was only four.
Ivybridge did
particularly well to come a very close second to Plymstock
with Saltash third and Plymouth fourth. Particularly
impressive was the quantity of high-scoring prints from
Ivybridge with Neil Doggett’s How the Other
Half Live scoring 20 out of 20 and prints from
David Rayner, Keith Mullin and Kevin Moore scoring 19.
Many thanks are due to all the Ivybridge members who
offered prints for selection and to Plymouth for being
such good hosts. By agreement with all the clubs attending,
the event will return to a November slot, starting this
year, thus avoiding clashes with various events in early
spring.
The Practical
Evening this month was hosted by Keith Mason who took
members and visitors through the intricate stages of
making an audio-visual of a page-turning photograph
album. Keith showed how so much of audio-visual production
is really fashioned in Photoshop rather than in the
slide-show program itself. First the Album cover had
to be created, and then the template for the pages.
After this the images for the album have to be cropped
and re-sized, also in Photoshop. The creation of the
audio-visual merely involves taking the images and mixing
them with the page templates, plus setting the page-turning
parameters and adding the music. A very full and interesting
evening was enjoyed by all. Thank you, Keith.
On the 10th March
the club held its annual Portrait Competition, kindly
judged by Mr John Hawkins from Newton Abbot. This year
the subject was animal portraits and with over 80 prints,
this was a tough job for our judge who said the quality
of the colour prints in particular made for a tricky
decision with the running-up entries.
The Colour Print
section was won by Bernard Howley of Saltash with
Pelican, a fabulously detailed head and shoulders
work. Second was Grey Squirrel by John Palmer
of Harberton while third place was given to Geoff Brimblecombe
of Ivybridge with Gorilla. Mr Hawkins found
he had to give three Highly Commended as well as places
4th – 6th , “such was the high standard
of work entered”, he said.
The Monochrome
section was won by Bernard Howley with Gorilla –
Powerful Profile, while second place was taken
by Keith Mullin of Ivybridge with Young Griffon,
a fluffy and startled bird with a scary portent. Third
was Snowy Egret, also by Bernard Howley. The
Portrait Competition has no slide or digital sections
from this year onwards.
The annual free-to-visit
exhibition of members’ photographs is well under
way at the South Brent Old School Community Centre,
but don’t panic if you haven’t been to see
it yet as this year the club has booked March and April.
The exhibition is open during library opening hours,
Monday to Saturday. Some seventy photographs are on
display and there will be a change-over of prints at
the end of March.
Visitors are
always welcome to club meetings and we meet at Bittaford
Community Hall from 7:30 pm on the second and fourth
Tuesdays in the month. Our programme, members’
photographs and much more are all available elsewhere
on this web site.
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