London Salon travelling exhibition CD.

If your not sure that your coming along to the next meeting then let me try to persuade you that it will open your eyes to a side of photography that will either see you arguing that it's not photography and asking everyone what the hell is that supposed to be.  Or you will absolutely love it and think it's amazing.

The London salon seems to either bring out the greatest admiration for photographers trying to extend the boundaries of what is acceptable or make you think that the judges and people who took the pictures were on very strong hallucinogenic drugs!

On the front page of their website is the following statement;

'The aim of the London Salon is to exhibit only that class of photographic work in which there is distinct evidence of artistic feeling and execution'

It's not often that you can say it, but it's an organisation that certainly keeps to it's mission statement!

Club Battle: Reflex vs A1

As you all, should, know we had A1 Camera Club from Weston Super Mare visit us for a club battle.
I'm glad to say no one tried to smuggle baseball bats or any other weapons into this weeks meeting. So the only person who could cause any kind of trauma, all be it only mental anguish, was the judge Tony Byram. I have to say he did a fantastic job. Not only did he give each picture a fair score. For every negative comment on a photograph he also made two positive ones. The judging of the print section went smoothly with some fantastic pictures being shown from both clubs.

We went to the half time break with the scores at 227 for A1 and 238 for Reflex. So as you can see it was really close with either of us still able to win.

With the break over we all sat down to listen to Tony's thoughts on the Digital Projected Images. Unfortunately the club's laptop seemed to have other ideas and we had to ask Eddie House to run home and grab his laptop. So a great big thank you for that and apologies to his daughter for suddenly finding herself without a computer for a couple of hours. So with the laptop problems sorted we settled down and listened to what Tony had to say about the rest of the images.

I'm very pleased to say that the final score was 474 points for A1 and we were the victors with 494 points.

It was an enjoyable evening and all of us at Reflex want to thank A1 for taking part and hope you enjoyed visiting us. We're looking forward to the rematch next year.

DPIC Results

Clevedon Pier © Richard Price

The DPIC results are out. We managed to get equal 43rd out of the 51 clubs that entered. 1,020 photographs were submitted and the average score was 10.60 with the highest being 15. So if you received higher than 10 you did well. Our scores ranged from a 12 down to 8.

Congratulations to Rich Price for getting that 12 point score with his picture of Clevedon Pier, shown to the left. That put his picture in the top 18% of submissions. If you look at the score sheet you will notice a cross symbol next to Rich's name. Which means at least one judge awarded him a top mark. The points shown are the average of the three judges score's.

Club Battle

This week we have A1 Camera Club from Weston Super Mare paying us a visit for a Club Battle. But please don't bring baseball bats or any other weapons along it's not that kind of battle. Over the last month or so we've scoured the photographs you submitted and chosen the ones that will represent us on Thursday night. Lets see if we can improve on the result we got last year. We won every category but unfortunately didn't win over all because we didn't get enough points in total. I've got a good feeling about this year and I'm sure well do really well.

Also don't forget, this Thursday is your last chance to enter prints or digital images for the 4th round of our Open Competition. Bring your prints on the night and you can submit your Digital images via Dropbox (preferred), email or bring them in on a memory stick.

The Other Ones

(c) Alison Davies

Sorry for the delay in updating the Blog and if some of the writing seems to make less sense than normal you'll have to forgive me. 

Last Thursday we had a practical night and it was great to see so many people coming along and enjoying themselves. There were some great pictures taken of the band and Rich's macro demo went down a storm as well. 

Don't forget if you took pictures please send them in via email, Dropbox or bring in on a memory stick or CD.

The band gave up their free time and we asked them to come along. So its only fair that they get something out of it. 

The next meeting is a guest speaker David Southwell who will be giving us a presentation on using HDR and other techniques. Unfortunately the website I have for him no longer exists.