Well, This report is very late due to some slight hiccups at the start of the year.
Our First PI competition was for any subject matter, it was judged by Trevor Gellard FRPS. We had a goood turn out for this competion, 68 images were submitted. Upon setting up the projector we relised that the colour was wrong, Martin Tomes recalibrated the projector to no avail, there was a pink colour cast around the edge of the frame. After realising that there was nothing that could be done for that evening we had to inform the judge and press on with the procedings.
Trevor marked quite a lot of images down for not being sharp. There was some concern that the as the projector was faulty it might be a little soft, but as many of the images were pin-sharp that couldn't be true.One of my images was markeddown as it was not sharp enough where it should have been sharp.Some pictures can look sharp at home on your PC screen but when blown up on to a big projected screen the results can look rather different to your expectations. A way around this is to check your image at 100% to see if it is sharp enough to be reproduced on to a big screen.
Trevor treated all the images the same, not commenting on the slight colour hue, but informing us what would make the pictures stronger, (focus point elsewhere, cropping, cloning out unslightly marks, more contrast if needed).
We asked trevor to re-look at the entries at home on his computer to see if the results he gave would be the same if viewed on none faulty equipment. All the results he gave will stand as all the entries were viewed under ther same conditions. A fair result I think.
We had four eighteens awarded:
- Mike Eddowes - 'A Little more Off, Sir?'
- Liz Barber - 'When I Grow Up Can I ...'
- Jean Macwhirter - 'Polar Bear Couple'
- Steve Harvey - 'Paddling The Flag'
Two Nighteens
- Derek Grieve - 'See The Light Blue Ones In The Window'
- Daisy Kane - 'Mare And Foal'
Ten Twenties:
- Anne Nagle - 'Puffin With Sand Eels', 'Razorbill Pair' 'Black Eyed Susan'
- Mike Eddowes - 'Venice' 'Santa Croce'
- Christ West - 'Silver Surfer'
- Martin Kulin - 'On The Hop'
- Janet Brown - 'Portrait Of Gold medallists'
- Paul Hayward - 'How Much More'
- Martin Tomes - 'House Boat At Shoreham'
- Robert Allison - 'Off Like A shot'
Best of the night went to Ane Nagle for 'Razorbill Pair', and also well done for getting twentys for all her images.