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Knockout Competition – 30th September 2019

Knockout Competition – 30th Sept 2019The first competition of the season produced some excellent entries and made the decisions really close for the vote counters – several rounds even required re-counts as the tension mounted!At the end of the evening members chose an action shot of a Kingfisher – complete with stickleback – by Fara […]

Summer displays

Fresh from our stand at Party in the Park the club display has been totally refreshed by June and is now on show at Royal Hampton Residential Home. Pictured alongside are Karen Taylor-Williams, Manager and Alison Young, Activities Facilitator. The display features winning images from recent competitions along with some of our favourites – why […]

Ryton Inter-club

This week saw the return half of last season’s Inter-club competition with Ryton Camera Club. Our judge for the evening was Peter Yearnshire LRPS of Blyth Photographic Society on his first visit to Merton Hall. To a full house Peter explained clearly and with good humour his thoughts on each of the 48 prints and […]

Set Subject – Macro – 4th March 2019

Set Subject – Macro 4 March 2019The second Set Subject competition for the season featured Macros and close-up shots. We were lucky to secure the services of Peter Maguire LRPS CPAGB from Gosforth Camera Club with his extensive knowledge of flora & fauna as our judge. Peter was able to not only describe exactly what […]

Macro Winners!

Last night saw our second attempt at showing the results from the Set Subject Competition – Macro, and it was well worth waiting for! Fortunately our judge, Peter Maguire LRPS CPAGB from Gosforth Camera Club, was able to return for which we were very thankful.The picture above shows Phil Robson, centre, with his winning image […]

How to – with Veronica & Phil

This week our famous How To session was hosted by Veronica Congleton and Phil Robson and featured PhotoShop tutorials available from YouTube. As you would expect there are literally thousands of videos available on the Internet to demonstrate all sorts of techniques to help you improve your pictures. So many, in fact, that it’s difficult […]

Open PDI – 29th October 2018

Open PDI Competition 29 October 2018 Our judge, Catherine Ball, was very entertaining and her style of judging – appreciative and insightful, rather than overly critical, went down particularly well with members. She was really good at making suggestions aimed at revisiting our images to get even more out of them, without denigrating what had […]

Net Night

Our meeting on Monday covered ways of sharing your pictures using the Internet and the cloud based services available online. Phil brought us up to date with the Guru Shots project and how members can add their pictures to the challenge. He also let us know that Fara has moved into the top Guru ranking […]

Knockout Winners

The picture above is exactly what members were presented with in the final round of this season’s Knockout Competition – quite a decision! The competition arrived early in the season this year which meant some members were still enjoying summer holidays. Nonetheless a high quality of entries meant nine voting rounds in all to decide on […]

Knockout Sept 2018

Knockout 17 September 2018 The first competition of the new season has arrived very early in our schedule this year but members still managed to enter an excellent selection of pictures to make the choice difficult! As usual two images are projected onto the screen side by side and members then vote for their preferred picture. The […]