Lytham St. Annes Photographic Society
Imagination in Imagery
The 3rd Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 19th March by John Riley. There were 81 images to judge on the night and John cracked on at a good pace, making only a few suggestions such as providing more punch to mono images. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is
Read moreThe 2nd Genre competition of the season – Scapes Prints – was judged on 19th February by David Goodier (LSWPP, LRPS, QGWP) from Lancaster Photographic Society. There were 58 prints to judge on the night and David introduced his concept of avoiding ‘Nearly’ Photography. For example avoid being nearly central – either commit to a central subject or push it
Read moreThe 2nd Open Print competition of the season was judged on 22nd January by Rebecca Entwhistle from Prestwich Camera Club. There were 57 print images on the night to judge on the night which Rebecca judged with a good range of scores. She noted a number of images where the subject was very close to the edge of the frame,
Read moreThe 2nd Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 11th December by Miles Turnbull (CPAGB, BPE1) from Warrington Photographic Society. There were 87 images to judge on the night and Miles reviewed them all at a good pace with a lot of good humour throughout. He picked up particularly in small elements that introduced distractions that could easily
Read moreThe 1st Genre competition of the season (Mono) was judged on 20th November 26th September by Michael Whittaker (DPAGB, BPE5) from Burnley Camera Club. There were 84 images to judge on the night and Michael picked up particularly on areas of over-processing that can introduce halos or overly textured skies – something to be careful of when processing mono images
Read moreThe 1st Open Print competition of the season was judged on 23rd September by Keith Barber (FIScT, CPAGB, LRPS) from Swinton Camera Club. With 62 prints on the night, the total entry was down a little on previous competitions. Keith used a range of marks, but did hold back about a third of the images and awarded a few top
Read moreThe 1st Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 26th September by Adrian Hendley (CPAGB) from Colne Camera Club. With 97 images to judge on the night, Adrian’s comments were necessarily brief, but he did a good job of sticking to the times and awarded a wide range of marks, though relatively few images were held back at
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