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The Battle - 2022

22/3/2022

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Last night was the night of the annual battle between Liskeard, Ivybridge and ourselves.
As you know each club submits 8 prints and 8 DPI's and marks are awarded out of 20.
Ivybridge were the organisers but unfortunately at the last moment due to various circumstances, non of their clubcould attend. Luckily we managed to get the listing of entries and score sheets from them in time for the event.
David Bridges from Bodmin was the selected judge, who did a compressive review of each entry and gave marks appropriately.
The scores after the prints were, Ivybridge 118, Saltash 125 and Liskeard 128, so all pretty close at the top with the DPI's to come after the tea break.
Our top score for the prints was MODERN MAN taken by Dan with a score of 19. This happened to be the highest given to anyof the entries all evening, so well done Dan.
After perusing the DPI's and the scores tallied,
Ivybridge had 124, Liskeard 126 and Saltash 131.
Our top scorers for the DPI's of 18 were, KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE by Michael, OPEN THE GATE by Jason and SNOW AT POSTBRIDGE by Steve.
As you have probably calculated, the final result was a WIN FOR SALTASH with 256, closely followed by Liskeard with 254 and Ivybridge with 242.
Well done to everyone, great team effort which resulted in an enjoyable evening socialising with friends from Liskeard and looking through 48 wonderful images.
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Gerry Trophy 2022

6/3/2022

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The Gerry Competition is an annual competition held between Saltash, Plymouth, Plymstock and Plymouth and District Camera Clubs. Plymouth Camera Club have the honours of hosting and it is quite the competition between the clubs.

Each club has 10 entries - prints - and these are scored out of 20 by the judge.

​This is always a tough competition - Plymouth have held the crown and hold on tight - this year being no different! There were some amazing photos on the night and we did admirably with some of our photos scoring very high indeed.

​Below shows the gallery of our selections for this year's trophy:

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Merits - Night Time

28/2/2022

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​It was really great last night to have the Ashtorre buzzing again with around 25 in attendance for the 'Nightime' merit competition.

Lovely to see the likes of Paul, Simon and Mike who had not visited for a while, so look forward to seeing you all again soon.


COLOUR PRINT,         1st Louise Richey,   2nd. Steve Evans,   3rd. Michael Nancekivell.

BLACK AND WHITE,   1st. Steve Evans,  2nd.  Louise Richey,  3rd. Michael Nancekivell.

PROJECTED,              1st.  Louise Richey,  2nd. Michael Nancekivell,  3rd. Steve Evans.

OPEN,                         1st.  Dan Foote,  2nd. Kay Wilson,  3rd.  Louise Richey.   

Well done to everyone who entered and to the winners.  A great show of images.

An interesting statistic is that from the 22 entries in the projected,  20 scored points while in the colour prints there were 16 entries and 15 scored points.

I wondered if it would have been educational if during the period when the scores were being collated,  the authors of some selected images explained to
others how the picture was achieved and what camera settings etc. were used.   I am sure that a lot would find this useful for future uses.

Regards,

Michael.
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The Tamar Trophy 2022

11/2/2022

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Plymouth Camera Club last night hosted the annual Tamar Trophy competition for mono prints contested between Plymouth, Plymstock, Ivybridge and ourselves
where Petro Landers of Milton Combe was the judge.

The hosts ensured we were as covid safe as possible by increasing the size of the room, spacing the seating with larger gaps and ensuring there was plenty of ventilation,
so it was a shame that a few more from our club did not make the effort to attend.

After giving his good points and recommended improvements to each entry as judges do, marks were awarded from 11 to 20 for each.

After all the judging was complete, the marks were totaled and we came a creditable 3rd which seems to be traditional.

Plymouth 172,  Plymstock 153,  Saltash 147  and Ivybridge 143.

Dan's 'Modern Man' and Mike's 'Trials Car'  were our top scorers with 18 each,  while Plymouth had 2 with a maximum score of 20 together with 2 at 19,  while Plymstock had 1 with the top score and 1 with 19.


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Colour Print Trophy

2/2/2022

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From Mike:

​What a fantastic evening we had last night at the Ashtorre for the judging of our Colour Print Trophy.  There were about 20 members present and it was 
great to see so many there, so thank you for coming.  Let's hope that numbers will now grow from this and return to what we remember.

Shame that time did not allow for us to socialise more but hopefully we can do so in the weeks to come.

Last nights judge Simon Van - Orden from Samford Spiney was very thorough with his critiques giving us the good points and suggesting ways to improve.

The results were as follows,

Highly Commended,   Dave Pemberton,   Jason Donavan and Jason again.

3rd  Kay Wilson,     2nd  Dan Foote,    Winner Kay Wilson.

Well done to you all.
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Black and White Trophy

1/12/2021

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​Last night we held the judging of our annual Black and White Trophy competition.

We were fortunate to have Peter Hyett as our judge, who is a highly qualified and accomplished 
photographer from Exmouth.  Peter gave his comments on each of the 48 entries and offered tips especially 
on how the impact of  an image can be improved just by cropping differently.

The results are as follows,

H/C  Dan Foote,    H/C  Dog watching and waiting. ( if this is yours then please let me know)    H/C  Steve Evans

3rd place,  Dan Foote,        2nd place,  Kay Wilson,          Winner,  Michael Nancekivell.

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Christmas in the Community

27/11/2021

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This year the club has decided to join in with the Christmas Tree Festival at St Nicholas & St Faith church on Station Road in Saltash.

Adrian and his wife Christine have taken on the role of producing a fabulous tree for the club and have added it to a display of over 60 trees in the church.

The church is open:

Sat 27th Nov. 10a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sat 4th Dec.  10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sundays.        2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Weekdays.     2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Entry to the church is free. Donations welcome

The festival ends on Friday 10th December

It is well worth a visit. Adrian has sent across a photo of our tree in place and it does indeed look fabulous and is a great avert for our club. Thank you very much to Adrian and Christine for the time and effort they have clearly taken in doing this for us.
 

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Club Merits - Street Life

15/11/2021

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Our second merits competition of the year was on the subject of "Street Life". This proved to be a challenge for many members who commented how much out of their comfort zone this was.
There were a number of entries in the colour, mono and projected categories for the night but we were lacking in the open print competition. There is no need to feel apprehensive about entering a print competition - if you need help with printing or with the rules for mounts etc then please do ask one of the more established members who will be able to give advice and help. The open is a great chance to stick a toe in the water and see how you go as the subject can be ANYTHING. If you're really unsure about printing or find yourself short on time then pop something in to the projected section - give it a go - we learn, improve and gain confidence the more we do something and it would be great to have some new names swiping the win!

So to the results...

The colour print was well entered the results are as follows:

1st - Sue Etheridge
2nd - Dave Pemberton
3rd - Louise Richey

Sue's print - taken at the Illuminate festival - was fab. It captured the atmosphere and was full of vibrancy and interest. Many congratulations to Sue - I believe this was one of her first entries into the print competitions and she definitely nailed it with this one! 

The Mono print:

1st - Louise Richey
2nd - Louise Richey
3rd - Keith Morriss

Louise's image of bollards on the pavement reflecting people on the street was an alternate view and members clearly liked this and voted into 1st position. 

Projected:
1st - Louise Richey
2nd - Dan Foote
3rd - Steve Evans

Louise's 'British Summer Time' captured the irony of the classic British summer with a wet and dull day on the Barbican outside a shop with a large plastic ice cream cone enticing people in to buy their wares.


All the images were of high quality and there were some very interesting entries - considering lots of us felt uncomfortable photographing strangers in the street - we did well!

Images from the winners are in the slideshow below.




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Projected Image Trophy

1/11/2021

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As sent to members by Mike. Thank you Mike for organising the judging once again.

"Last night was the judging of our Projected Image Trophy when we were fortunate to have one of the most highly qualified photographers in the WCPF directory, namely Clive Greenland from Corsham in Wiltshire.

Clive went through all of our 64 entries giving his opinion on the good points and also assisted us on how we could have made some of the images slightly better with a little more forethought in composition and undertaking adjustments in post processing.

After viewing all he selected the best set of 4,  together with the best single image.

The winner of the set of 4 was David Pemberton with the best individual being awarded to Jason Donovan with an early morning take of Mam Tor, a 517 metre hill near Castleton in Derbyshire.

Well done to David and Jason."

The winning images are in the gallery but also in the slideshow below:
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Jason Donovan's winning single image of Mam Tor
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Transport Merits

12/10/2021

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Monday 4th October saw our return to the internal club merits competition. The subject for this year's first merits was "Transport."

It was great to see some more members returning to club in person and while we didn't have as many entries as pre-covid it was so good to see the stands out and prints being submitted just like the 'old days'.  We are beginning to see attendance rise each week and this is reassuring. We are all getting used to doing our Lateral Flow Tests before club and it really does help the over all feeing of being safe among our friends. 

There were a number of different entires with some imagination used to interpret transport in different ways. Members voted for their favourite images in the colour, mono, DPI and 'open' sections of the competition and the results are as follows:

Colour:
1st:  Louise Richey 
2nd:  Dan Foote
3rd: Steve Evans

Mono:
1st:  Steve Evans
2nd:  Adrian Petts
3rd:  Dan Foote, Keith Morris, Louise Richey

DPI (Digital Projected Image):
1st:  Louise Richey
2nd:  Mike Nancekivell
3rd: Steve Evans

Open:
1st: Kay Wilson
2nd:  Sue Etheridge
3rd: Louise Richey
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