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A plea from the webmaster
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED ON THE GALLERY PAGE PLEASE CONTACT JANET janet@kirkbymoorside-camera-club.co.uk WE WOULD LIKE TO SHOW MORE MEMBERS’ HERE SO PLEASE CONSIDER PUTTING A SELECTION OF YOUR PHOTOS IN THE GALLERY
Club Photo-Shoot at Saltburn
Following the successful outing to Saltburn it was suggested the club organise a two-day trip, with an overnight stay, to a venue such as The Dales or Northumberland some time in the Autumn. If any club member is interested please speak to Janet. More details to follow next month.
	Club Successes in Yorkshire Photographic Union 2008 Exhibition
Kirkbymoorside & District Camera Club again found success both in the ‘club’ and in the ‘individual’ sections of the Annual YPU Exhibition.
In the club awards KCC won the ‘Keighley Trophy’; the Society Award for Monochrome Prints. This is awarded to the club having the highest average score in the monochrome print section.
In the individual awards the most notable success was that of our club chairman, David Ireland, winning the ‘G & S Neal Trophy’ for the Best Natural History Colour Print with ‘Elephants Making Dust’.
YPU - Club Successes: In addition to winning the ‘Monochrome Print General Section’, KCC came 6th out of 34 clubs in the ‘Colour Print General Section’. Fair to say we failed to feature in either of the ‘Applied Print’ Club Awards this year. It was great to see that as a club we submitted 64 prints into the exhibition of which 20 were accepted. By way of comparison, York Photographic Society submitted 114 of which 21 were accepted. Additionally we had an acceptance in the Projected Image Section. Well done to all. Of the 21 acceptances into the 2008 Exhibition, 1 achieved an award and 3 gained certificates. Additionally, from the 64 prints submitted 4 were selected by a panel of YPU Judges to go forward to the PAGB Exhibition.
YPU - Individual Successes: Print Acceptances Janet Burdon - 3 (incl. 1 Cert) Richard Burdon - 2 Alan Clark - 2 (incl. 1 Cert) Stephen Hailey - 2 David Ireland - 2 (incl. 1 Award) Harry Kingman - 2 Neil Lewis - 2 Tracey Phillips - 4 (incl. 1 Cert) Martin Williams - 1 Projected Image Acceptance Barrie Tuck - 1
PAGB - Successes Janet Burdon - ‘Customs Lookout, Whitby’ (Print) Richard Burdon - ‘BMX Boys’ (Projected Image) Richard Burdon - ‘Charm Park’ (Print) Martin Williams - ‘Come in the Water’s Lovely’ (Projected Image)
Peer Assessment Evening
It has been suggested that some members would like to receive feed-back on their work but prefer not to enter club competitions. With this in mind we will be holding a ‘Peer Assessment Evening’ on 3rd July 2008 when all club members are invited to submit up to 5 images (prints or digital) for ‘peer assessment’. If you would like to receive a critique of your work from two very experienced photographers, David Ireland (colour) and Alan Clark (monochrome), why not give it a go. It is not a competition, no scoring will take place, and the comments will offer the author constructive comment and suggestions aimed at taking their photography to the next level . Anyone wishing to take part is asked to submit their images a fortnight beforehand - more details to follow.
results of feedback from members' questionnaires
Members may recall the committee sought your views regarding the way the club was being managed and about its future progress. All members were invited to complete a questionnaire, anonymously if preferred, to offer their views on various aspects of the clubs’ programme. A full report of that feedback, including the many comments made, has been produced and presented to the committee at its re-cent meeting. Anyone wishing to see the report is invited to contact Steve Hailey and he will email a copy to you (in PDF format) . In summary, a total of ten questionnaires were returned; the club membership presently stands at sixty-five. It would be nice to think that the majority were happy with the status-quo and therefore felt no need to comment. In terms of the specific areas of the ‘programme’, ‘guest speakers’, ‘competitions’ and ‘members’ evenings’ the results can be summarised in that respondents appeared happy with the clubs’ annual programme, they felt the frequency of guest speakers was about right and the number of club competitions was also about right. There appeared to be an interest in having a few more ‘members evenings’ and to hold them at other times during the year, rather than purely during the summer months. If you were unable to complete a questionnaire but wish, at any time, to put forward your ideas, comments or suggestions don’t be shy, send me an email and I will pass it on to your committee. Steve Hailey
RPS Digital Imaging Group Yorkshire Region
The DIGI Group will be holding a meeting at Selby Community Centre, Scott Road, Selby, YO8 4BL on Sunday 8th June 2008. Ample free parking space. The day will comprise a presentation in the morning by Margaret Salisbury, FRPS, EFIAP, APAGB entitled ‘The Digital Dragon’ and after lunch a ‘Demonstration on Colour Management with Fotospeed’ given by John Herlinger. Entry is by ticket only: £5 (RPS Dig. Members), £6 (to non-RPS Dig. Members) Contact for tickets: Robert Croft LRPS, Regional Organiser, Tel: 01977 685 262 Email: Robert@robertcroft.wnadoo.co.uk Web: http://yorkshire-digi.mysite.orange.co.uk Meeting starts at 10.00am with tea, coffee and biscuits (small charge) Break for lunch approx. 12.30pm — 1.30pm. (bring a packed lunch) Meeting scheduled to end at 4.00pm.
CLUB COMPETITION NEWS
2008 Creative Competition - Format Change. Winner 2007 - Reflections on Wet Sand by Steve Estill
The 2008 Creative group competition will be held on 21st August 2008 and is open to all members of the club this year. We are fortunate that we will be accompanied by Keith and Clare Laflin to whom the "Laflin Trophy for Creative Excellence" is dedicated. We have decided to adopt a different format and set of rules to last years competition and the evening will revolve around projected digital images. Each entrant is encouraged to supply 4 creative images and these images must be submitted to Neil Lewis (mail@neillewis.plus.com) no later than 7th August 2008. Images should be jpeg format, resized to maximum 1024x768 for projection on the evening. The images will be judged prior to the evening, independently by 3 people; Clare Laflin, Keith Laflin and Neil Lewis (Neil has agreed not to enter the competition to remain impartial). Each image will be scored out of 5 by each judge giving a score out of 15. In order to attain a score of 10 or above, the image must display real creativity. We regard creativity as something new, either the image content or the way it is shot or processed. Images that are simply emulations of someone else’s work are not strictly speaking creative. Keith and Clare will present the images on the night and will read out the comments of the judges. Individual scores will not be divulged to the group but can be given out individually afterwards if interested. We will hopefully have an overall winner on the night and any close runners will be classified as highly commended. We feel this is a more encouraging way of running this particular competition which we hope will be a positive experience for all.
Audio-Visual Competition—Ashley Trophy This years’ AV Competition will be held on the 19th June 2008. All club members are invited to take part. The competition is for a sequence of projected images with accompanying sound. The presentation can be either slides or digital images. Entries may be either traditional ‘AV’ (where words or story and a specific beginning, middle and ending is required) or ‘Photo Harmony’ (where the emphasis is on matching a selection of images with appropriate transitions and harmonising them with the sound). The sequence should consist of no less than 20 images and a running time of between 2.5 and 5 minutes. Members may enter up to 2 sequences. The entries must be clearly marked with the number of the entry and the duration (e.g. 4mins 33secs). If there are too many en-tries only the first will be judged. The Author’s name must not appear in the production. (See the club website for full details of the competition rules). Would all entrants please make sure their entries are with Harry Kingman on or before 5th June.
Just in case you missed it…….

If you are interested in joining a group please come along and try one out, you don’t have to commit to joining the group. Please note that group meetings are £1 per session per person to pay for room hire.

Audio Visual Group - TREVOR BARLOW t.barlow@perceptaconsulting.co.uk

The AV Group is currently exploring the use and manipulation of the spoken word within AV sequences, to provide an accompanying dialogue to our images. We looked at some ‘work in progress’ sequences from two of the members, which will no doubt feature in the upcoming Club AV Competition on 19th June. It was agreed that we could all benefit from some further advice in this area and are hoping to arrange for an experienced AV worker to pro-vide us with a tutorial on the subject.

Trevor gave a report on the recent RPS Geoffrey Round International AV Competition in Bradford, in to which he had entered his LRPS Clouds… sequence. The technical quality of the majority of the 64 shows in the competition was very high indeed, against which he acknowledged his sequence was ‘lightweight’ by comparison.

The Group also spent some time looking at work from a variety of AV authors and, as always, agreed that there is scope within the AV medium for a very wide range of topics and treatments – although the work of one well-known AV’er, which included images of dead daffodils and slugs wasn’t quite our ‘cup of tea’...

Our next meeting at Wrelton is on 10th July 2008 at 7.30pm, when we shall be considering the ‘challenge’ that Ken Biggs FRPS, our judge for the AV Competition, has set for us.

Audio-Visual Competition—Ashley Trophy

Just a reminder that this years’ AV Competition will be held on the 19th June 2008. All club members are invited to take part. The competition is for a sequence of projected images with accompanying sound. The presentation can be either slides or digital images.

Entries may be either traditional ‘AV’ (where words or story and a specific beginning, middle and ending is required) or ‘Photo Harmony’ (where the emphasis is on matching a selection of images with appropriate transitions and harmonising them with the sound).

The sequence should consist of no less than 20 images and a running time of between 2.5 and 5 minutes. Members may enter up to 2 sequences. The entries must be clearly marked with the number of the entry and the duration (e.g. 4mins 33secs). If there are too many entries only the first will be judged. The Author’s name must not appear in the production. (See the club website for full details of the competition rules). Would all entrants please make sure their entries are with Harry Kingman on or before 5th June.

If you have any queries, please mail Trevor Barlow, AV Project Group Leader at t.barlow@perceptaconsulting.co.uk

Creative Group - Neil Lewis mail@neillewis.plus.com

Members had been asked to take photographs in their kitchen for the latest Creative Group project and the results of this produced a very interesting meeting on the 10th April. Members rose to the challenge and we were treated to a very diverse set of images. Steve showed us pictures as varied as a set of scourers, to reflections in pans and waste bins. Our new member Helen got into the swing of things with some lovely flower and food shots with very tricky lighting. David followed with another varied set starting with a picture he had taken of his daughter and son in law, where he had re-placed the background with a lovely sunset he had taken in Minorca. He then ended at dog level showing Sammy eating his dinner. Janet had taken shots of Richard peeling a parsnip for dinner followed by cleaning up. Richard had concentrated on the washing up and the water running from the tap and ended with a rather disturbing shot of his cat being boiled for dinner! Neil of course was the star with a superb set of images taken of eggs. I didn't realise how hard it was to get white eggs in the UK. Neil really put some thought and preparation into his project and the results really reflected this. Harry then closed the evening with his monochrome shots of Crufts? (I guess we will see his Creative images at the Monochrome Group in two weeks). One member quipped that the project had been fun as you could then eat the props, although none of us really fancied Sammy's dinner! We then moved on to discuss the next project which is 'minimalism' and we showed some examples to give the group a few ideas. The next meeting is on June 26th, same place and time.

Developers Group - Janet Burdon ja.burdon@tiscali.co.uk

The latest Developers meeting started with a short presentation about Metering and Histograms and lead to a lively discussion about these subjects. Members then showed their photos from the latest project which was to take a series of photographs throughout the day to show the different lighting conditions you can get at different times.
The next project is landscape photography. Landscape photography can be surprisingly difficult to achieve a satisfactory result with many variables, such as time of day and weather conditions, etc, so Janet suggested making a feature of something in the foreground of the picture to give added interest. Our advice is to find a scene you particularly like, which you can reach without travelling too far. You are then able to keep going back to it when the weather and light is just right. It was suggested that we organise some outings and one proposal was to go to Saltburn, which some of us managed to make on the 3rd May. Please bring five landscape or Saltburn pictures to the next meeting on 22nd May, 7.30pm at Wrelton.

If you have any aspect of photography you would like to have covered in a tutorial and discussion session at the forthcoming meetings, then please let us know.

Digital Imaging Group
Harry Kingman harry@kingman-welburn.fsnet.co.uk & Steve Estill steve.estill@virgin.net

Friday morning group - Harry Kingman harry@kingman-welburn.fsnet.co.uk

At this months’ meeting we took a look at Adobe’s ‘Photoshop Lightroom’. Harry gave an overview of just a few of the many things that this software can do for the digital photographer. He also showed an example of one of the many publications available.

It is fair to say that it was initially designed for the professional photographer but it has also proved to be a very useful tool for the serious amateur.
To quote the website, ’Luminous Landscape’;.…. In a word or two, Lightroom is best described as next-generation photographer's software. Simply calling it a raw file converter, or an image processing program, would miss the fact that Light-room also is designed for sorting, cataloguing, presenting and printing ones files. It is intended to offer photographers the vast majority of the tools they need when working on their images ……. providing photographers with new, powerful, and in many cases easier to use tools for processing their images.
Interested in learning more? Why not come along to the next meeting at Wrelton on Friday 13th June

Beginners Digital Group - Steve Estill- steve.estill@virgin.net

At the April meeting we tried the new format for the meetings, where one group, led by Steve, started from basics, looking at file management, backing up and computer maintenance; and the other group, led by Harry, looked at Photoshop preferences. It seemed to work very well, using two laptops and two beamers for the groups. It was good to see lots of new faces at the meeting. We hope you enjoyed it and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the next meetings.
The next meeting is at 19:00 on Wednesday, 21st May (a week early due to the college half term). The beginners group will be looking at using the file browser and setting up preferences in Photoshop / elements, while the more advanced group will look at RAW file conversion. The June meeting will be on 25th June. We hope to see you there. If you’ve got any work you’ve done, particularly where layers have been used, we’ll be happy to see it, and / or discuss any problems you’ve encountered.

Monochrome Group - Alan Clark clark9@btinternet.com

1923 Balda Camera - Steve’s fathers’ 21st Birthday Present

At the last meeting of the Monochrome Group on Thursday April 24th Steve Estill gave a very interesting informal talk about his involvement with photography. This came from his father who was a keen photographer with his own darkroom, and from an early age Steve was taking his own black & white photographs and developing them in his father’s darkroom. Steve showed us some of these early photographs, mostly taken of Robin Hood’s Bay where he was born. As a young man Steve went to sea, with a camera given to him by his father. He showed us a photograph of a young man in a naval uniform which he claimed to be himself, but only David Ireland believed him. The rest of us thought the chap in the photo was too good looking to be Steve…
Steve showed us a collection of his father’s old cameras; some were over seventy years old. In this digital era these were almost like things from another planet, they were looked at and handled with real curiosity by the members present. Also of great interest were two of Steve’s father’s al-bums of photographs from World War 2. Steve brought the whole thing back to the present with his own latest digital photographs, leaving us in no doubt that he is much more at home with digital photography than he ever was with film.

Everyone present agreed that this was a most interesting presentation and he is forgiven for showing some of the most colourful black & white pictures ever seen at a Monochrome Group meeting. Many thanks Steve! And thanks also to all the other members who showed us their latest photographs.

The next meeting of the Monochrome Group will be at 7.30pm on 12th June, at Wrelton village hall when the main presentation will be given by Shaun Haselden. Everyone will be welcome, especially new members. You don’t have to be an active black & white photographer to come; it is my hope that everyone with a general interest in photography will get some-thing from these meetings.

Club meetings - The club meets at 7.30pm on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, in the Royal British Legion Club, Shaw Drive, Kirkbymoorside. Click here for a map.
29th May	‘Sport/Pastime/Portraiture Competition’ - Judged by Andrew Linscott
6th June	AGM followed by ‘Best of Year Competition’ - Judged by Mike Barnard ABPA LRPS BPE2*
19th June	Ashley Audio Visual Competition - Judged by Ken Biggs FRPS
3rd July	Members Assessment Evening - See below for details

Project Group meetings
21st May	Beginners Digital Group ~ Askham Bryan ~ 7.30pm
22nd May	Developers Group ~ Wrelton ~ 7.30pm
12th June	Monochrome Group ~ Wrelton ~ 7.30pm
13th June	Digital Group ~ Wrelton ~ 10.00am
25th June	Beginners Digital Group ~ Askham Bryan ~ 7.30pm
26th June	Creative Group ~ Wrelton ~ 7.30pm

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