Time to get learning

Our summer educational programme got off to a great start last Thursday with a session all about the exposure triangle, aperture, ISO and shutter speed. We had a great turn out and Im sure that most members learned something that evening.

This week is all about lens and focus where we will be exploring various types of lenses, lens compression, auto versus manual focus, focus points and modes. Hope to see you all there.

Photo marathon Results

Hi Julie sent me a load of information for the results of the Photo marathon. The important bits are reproduced below along with a short piece written by her. She also sent me a table that she’d obviously spent a while working on that showed everyone's results all nice and neat. Trouble is the way that Blogger & the software we use to write the Blog posts works I can’t put the table up without spending a helluva long time transposing it by hand. So you probably won’t get to see that. Anyway here’s what Julie had to say..

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Good afternoon all, I hope you enjoyed looking through the photos last night it certainly was interesting to see how creative you all are when put under pressure like that.

I know I mentioned how close the voting was but I thought you might like to see the individual results you scored for each category. These are in the grid below and the overall winners are shown below in a 1^st 2^nd 3^rd ranking for each category. Once again congratulations to everyone who got some points, you all rose to the challenge admirably.

(as I said in the opening part of this post I’m afraid I can’t post the nice neat table she worked on for you all to see your individual scores)

Category: Street Sign

1^st Mark O’Grady (5 points)

2^nd Sally Coombs & Mark Stone (4 points)

3^rd Debbie Duncombe, Eddie House & Hanneke Ter Veen (3 points)

Category: Door

1^st Alison Davies (6 points)

2^nd Eddie House (5 points)

3^rd Hanneke Ter Veen & Mark O’Grady (4 points)

Category: Shadow

1^st Mark O’Grady (10 points)

2^nd Richard Price (7 points)

3^rd Ian Coombs (6 points)

Category: Gate

1^st Joe Scudamore (6 points)

2^nd Simon Xu (5 points)

3^rd Debbie Duncombe & Mark Stone (4 points)

Category: Commercial Vehicle

1^st Hanneke Ter Veen (7 points)

2^nd Mark O’Grady (5 points)

3^rd Maurice Iles (4 points)

Category: Open

1^st Mark O’Grady (18 points)

2^nd Ian Coombs & Maurice Thompson (3 points)

3^rd Steve Hallam , Theresa Driscoll & Wendy O’Brien (2 points)

Overall Winner

1^st Mark O’Grady (21 points for his Open Category entry)

2^nd Alison Davies (6 points for her Door Category entry)

3^rd Mark O’Grady (5 points for his Shadow Category entry)

Awards

Well I had my eyes well and truly opened with the Skittles  match during last weeks awards, I am not exagerating when I say I genuinely feared for my life sitting next to the alley, how there weren't holes made in the floor I will never know :)

It was a great turn out with most of the club coming along for the social meet and  Im sure we managed to stink the club out with garlic too :) Thankyou Alison for arranging the food for us all.

The award winners -

 Winner of the tickets to Fairford - Michelle Donohoue

Novice of the year  - Julie Coombs

 Print photographer of the year - Richard Price

 DPI photographer of the year - Angi Nelson

John Hankin Shield Best Print - Mark O'Grady

Stan Scantlebury Shield Best DPI - Angi Nelson

 Photographer of the Year - Richard Price

Now we are entering the summer months and the committee plus a few extra members have put together a programme to keep us occuppied whilst those other lucky few are away in pursuit of summer sunshine abroad. This week we start with Barry taking us through images he has judged for other clubs.