Chris Palmer who judges from club to international level and is in much demand came to Park Street to judge our final contest of the season. As would be expected of such an experienced judge his comments were very appropriate and constructive. Chris suggested that some of the prints...
62 Images were entered for the PDI of the year for Mark to judge. He was able to assess them in advance which was appreciated. His comments were fair and precise on each image and ended up holding back 19 before the final placings were announced. The top honour went to Jeremy for his...
Daniel was welcomed back to the club to give what was a very comprehensive and well illustrated talk on Macro photography. He began with discussing what is the definition of true macro photography and compared it to close up photography using for example zoom lenses. He discussed the...
This was the final round of this season's print league judged by Naomi Saul. A total of 26 images were entered on the night. Naomi who is a very experienced judge (and who hadn't visited Park Street for very many years) made some very apt comments about all of the images. She ended up...
We were taken on a photographic trip through Vietnam by Jeremy following his visit last September. Starting with the hustle and bustle of Hanoi, through river trips and the highly photogenic and colourful rice fields Jeremy made the most of his subject matter with plenty of excellent...
The annual Creative Cup competition attracted 49 images with a maximum of 5 entries from each member. This was a chance for members to maybe experiment with images that they might not have entered in other competitions during the season. Sarah Sands made full use of her instructions to...
Only a few weeks since Andy wowed us with his own wildlife images he was back to judge our own set. There were a total of 27 PDIs and 15 prints to be judged and using his vast experience of wildlife photography was able to make some useful comments on the set we provided. An evening with...
This was the final round of this season's open PDI league judged by Malcom Rapier. There were 36 images entered and Malcom was able to give plenty of time to discuss each entry. More than half of the images were initially held back before the break and breaking with tradition the top three...
The panels competition was introduced to the club by Dave a few years ago and has been very successful. Images were considered to be either panels or montages depending on the number of photos within the frame although occasionally there did seem to be a slight overlap. The way individual...
There were 24 PDIs and 15 prints entered for this season's Peoples Cups judged by Kevin Day from Stoke Poges. Kevin gave plenty of time to each image and made plenty of constructive comments. 11 images were held back from the PDIs and 7 prints were held back for final consideration. Kevin...
Although there were only 24 prints entered for this competition this gave Peter plenty of time to comment on each and he was able to offer a number of useful suggestions as to how some of them could be improved. After the initial critiques 12 images were held back before the final...
We always know when Andy comes to the club that we will have an entertaining and informative evening and this was no exception. Andy split the evening into sections beginning with birds with some great images ranging from short eared owls in flight to curlews that have started to become an...
David very kindly stepped in at short notice to give us a talk on infrared photography.
Most of us have seen infrared images but very few of us have actually taken any. This is because one has to have a camera that has been converted for the purpose.
...There were 36 entries for Open PDIs round 3 and Chris held back 13 for a second look. The final outcome was a win for Terry Day with his mono image of a second hand bookshop.
Results:
1st Terry Day Second Hand Bookshop
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Colin Southgate returned to Park Street to judge our Mono PDI and Print competitions. There were 33 PDIs entered and 15 prints. Initially 13 PDIs were held back warranting a second look before being whittled down for the final placings. Jeremy's atmospheric portrait 'Traditional Music' was...
Twenty eight images were entered for the round 2 open prints competition. Michael Lurie began by congratulating the club on the presentation and in particular the mounting of the prints. He also emphasised that he was looking for a degree of originality. Before the break he gave a fair critique...
This years Landscape Cup competition was judged by Rojer Weightman who made several useful suggestions about some of the images. A few of them would have been improved by sharper focusing and a few appeared to be oversaturated but this was largely due to the brightness of the projector image...
A good turn out of members together with a very respectable entry of 46 images made for a good evening. Amanda made some useful and constructive comments on many of the images and held back 18 of them before the break. Eventually 6 were highly commended, 3 were commended and after admitting that...
Jeremy gave an introduction as to the different ways that we could think about our projects in terms of not only subject matter but final presentation and ended with a sample project of his own from last season. In order to get us going we each chose at random a magazine from a pile of '...
First...
This was the first competition of the new season judged by Ken Payne on his first visit to the club. There were 38 images on the night and Ken gave a very constructive critique on each during the first half of the evening before whittling down the numbers into a shortlist from which the...
Terry drew on his substantial street photography archives to illustrate PSCC's first talk of the new season. He underlined the advantages of using prime lenses 35-70mm rather than using long zoom lenses which could become somewhat intrusive. He also emphasised that it was important to...
A bumper entry of 76 images (probably rather too many) were entered in this competiton. After the competiton the feeling was that maybe we should exclude the images from the panel competition in future. Tom Peck was an excellent judge and gave constructive critiques on all of the images. 22...
There was an entry of 45 images for the print of the year judged by Chris Forster. Chris made many suggestions as to how several of the prints could have been improved and additionally how the choice of printing paper could have enhanced some of the images. In the end 16 images were held back...
The final league scores have been amended to include scores from the Creative Cup competition.
Without the distraction of colour there is something very appealing about seeing a collection of mono images displayed together. It's another way of seeing the world and is somehow much more than just applying a desaturating filter.
The images we presented to Colin were as usual...
Another round with good images, making life more difficult for the judge, Michael Lurie of Pinner. His analysis of each image was very instructive and good humoured. Not all held back images...
This competition was judged by Chris Drury, St Albans CC, who was faced with 24 very good prints. He examined each print in detail and held back about 12 for further consideration and awarding places and highly commended and commended. No easy task. The final outcome was as follows:
...This was probably a first for PSCC. We promoted Assaf's talk on local Facebook sites and managed to attract a good number of non members who contributed £55 to our accounts.
Assaf took us on a round trip of Israel from the rural farmland where he grew up with his parents helping to...
Terry, a self confessed 'motorhead', gave us an enthusiastic talk about the Silverstone Classics. This is a 3 day event savouring the very best of historic racing, vast displays of classic cars, during which one gets a chance to mingle amongst classic models Formula One, sports cars...
This year the committee decided to make this competition PDI only and not contribute marks towards the Photographer of the Year. It was felt that this might encourage members to be rather more experimental and to try and maximise creativity.
Sarah Sands was once more the judge for...
Another enjoyable evening with Mark, missed by three regular members who were otherwise committed. Mark gave very detailed comments on each print, always welcomed as it helps members to improve their photography. He left the decision on the placed and highly commended and commended prints until...
Having lost a few of the more 'specialised' wildlife photographers in the last couple of years the number of entries for this season's competition were rather disappointing. Nevertheless there were still many good images for our judge Andy Sands to consider for the evenings awards and...
This is a relatively new competition over the last couple of years for the club having been introduced to us and judged by our resident judge Dave Hipperson.
The rules were that between 5 and 15 images including the background could be arranged either as a panel...
Unfortunately Amanda Wright, the booked judge, had to pull out at the very last minute because of illness. We were extremely lucky at such short notice to get Colin Southgate.
As always, his comments were fair and constructive. 20 of the 47 images were held back for further viewing...
Organised and run by Jeremy and what an evening it turned out to be!
We had a good number of our members entering up to 20 images which were divided into groups of 5, and in the first session, members were divided randomly into pairs and instructed to comment on the...
Street photography to studio shots and everything in between were on display during our annual people competition.
Our judge for the evening was Kevin Day who had also judged our first print competition of the season. Kevin as well as being an...
From Slime Moulds to Hares and from Insects to Birds this was another brilliant talk from Andy. The fact that all of these images were shot during the last year is testament to both his skills as a photographer as well as his patience and perseverance. How many of us are willing to get up at 4 o...
Landscape Cups Jan 5 2023
Owing to a number of members being on vacation a small but select audience were present at the annual landscape competition judged on the evening by Rojer Weightman. There were 24 PDIs and 15 prints entered. Rojer an experienced judge, was very constructive...
Unfortunately due to the icy cold weather and some people having flu we had to change the planned pub
visit to a zoom meeting.
It was a very amusing event. It was good to see Barbara there with her customary glass of whiskey on top
form challenging us all.
Everyone seemed to...
A very cold winter's evening outside was appropriate and timely for Jeremy's excellent talk on his travels in Iceland earlier this year.
A map of Iceland indicating the route taken, predominately the west side of the island, together with places of interest was shown at the beginning. The...
Our open prints round 2 was judged by Paul Burwood who held back a few more prints that was needed, so members were kept on the edge of their seats until the final outcome was announced. Each print was commented in detail and some very useful comments made.
The results were:
...Another very interesting Zoom lecture, this time by Huw Alban. There was certainly a good selection of landscape images, but also plenty of outdoor images that probably would not necessarily be classified as landscape.
Clearly, Huw had a good eye for an interesting outdoor...
The open round 2 projected image competition was judged by Michael Lurie who made some very constructive comments on our images.
The results were:
First Place: Ropes Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell
Second place: Show me the way Assaf Frank
Third place:...
This competition was very well judged by Mark Buckley-Sharp who provided useful comments on all the images. An enjoyable evening was had by all those able to attend.
The results were as follows:
1st Place The London Office Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell
2nd Place Desert...
This competition was judged by Kevin Day who commented on each print in detail and in each case provided valuable and constructive advice. We are very grateful for him giving us his time.
A good evening was had by all PSCC...
Peter Colley presented a fascinating insight into the world of night photography illustrated with some superb images, each one accompanied with technical details particularly focal length, ISO and exposure time. Many images were multiple exposures to improve...
Emma Finch is based in Manchester having started as a keen camera club member. She has now been a successful professional portrait portrait photographer for the last 10 years. She has received many awards during this time and passed on her knowledge and many tips in her talk to PSCC...
Essentially, this covered:
Landscapes–blurring the moving clouds, leaves on trees, or waving grass
Seascapes–softening the water or make it completely flat
Waterfalls and rivers –textured / creamy / flat water
Architecture–blurring skies with soft...
The Bricket Wood Gardening Club invited us to display some of our prints at their annual show on 20th August 2023 at Greenwood Park. As we had already had a major exhibition running at the Radlett Centre, we were rather short of prints, particularly as we have not been doing prints...
On the evening of 18th August 2022, a large group of PSCC members and guests attended a private viewing of our print exhibition at the Radlett Centre. Guests included ex member Rosemary Wenzurul, some friends of members and Andy Sands, Sarah and daughter.
An ample supply of drinks...
Dear All
The coming season's programme which might be subject to some changes along the way is published on the website.
Chris
A very reasonable number of members turned up on a very warm
summer evening for a barbeque followed by presentation of cups. Some
members who arrived early took the opportunity of walking round the
spacious lawns of Jeremy’s grounds.
It was a good moment for members to have a...
The judge Richard Speirs, based in Cumbria, was very complementary about the images produced
by our club. This was clear from the number of images he praised without holding them back. This took the best of the best to a different level.
The results were as follows:
First...
Our judge for this important competition was Dr Tom Peck (Enfield). He had 69 excellent images to
view and to even pick hold back images was a gruelling task.
He spent time carefully appraising each image and providing detailed comments. In the end, he held
back 16 images which...
Considering the sheer quality of the images shown by a few of the members, it is a pity that only ten members were able to attend.
The images presented by David Butler and Terry Day were taken two weeks before at the previous members evening, already reported on. Interesting images,...
Unfortunately, a few technical problems delayed the start of the competition. On this occasion we were joined via ZOOM by Graham Parry from Essex who gave some very useful comments on each image displayed. He emphasised the importance of cropping and removing distractions.
...Numbers were affected by illness, but a total of eight PSCC members turned up with cameras and tripods for an exercise in taking images in poor light.
We split into two groups, one group, comprising Sue and Chris, Norman, David Butler, and Terry chose a local walk and the other group...
Dan trains photographers on how to improve their photographs for a living and this showed up in his delivery and careful presentation of important aspects of photography.
1 GET OFF AUTO
With a set of specially taken photographs, Dan illustrated the pitfall of using a camera...
This competition was judged on a ZOOM connection by Harry Emmet, Accrington Camera Club. Each
image was examined in detail and useful and particularly constructive comments made on all of
them.
The top images and full results are listed elsewhere but the principal results...