Camborne & Redruth Camera Club

Camborne-Redruth Camera Club (C-RCC) met last Thursday (24-01-08) at the Treleigh Church Hall. Reg Poad (Chairman) informed the members that the Exhibition at the Cornwall Centre, Alma Place, Redruth was up and running and had received very favourable reports from the viewing public. The exhibition closes on Saturday afternoon (02-02-08). The Chairman thanked Jenny Goodman, Mary Poad and Peter Keverne for their help in hanging the exhibition.
The speaker for the evening was the Club’s President Malcolm Jenkin whose subject was ‘The Preparation and Presentation of a Panel of Five Prints’. As far as he was aware there were no set rules for the production of a panel and he discussed the formation of a panel whether it was to be in ‘Landscape’ or ‘Portrait’ format or a mixture of both.

In an interactive session he projected five groups of five slides and asked the members to form a panel of five slides selecting one from each group. The result was a variety of combinations and very few were duplicated, thus proving that selection was a personal thing.

Malcolm talked about the consistency of mounting the prints – same size mount and bevelled frame, same colour and ideally all the finishing work to be carried out at the same session.

In almost any panel there is going to be a ‘strong’ print and as the western world reads from left to right, so it is with pictures. The placing of that print was very important and usually placed to the right of centre.
Using his Associate RPS portrait panel he asked members to select five prints to form a panel. Duplicate prints were also introduced with different printing tones and though some were of better quality they did not necessarily fit into the display. The result showed that ‘impact’ pictures with more contrast work well in a panel.

Barbara Jenkin then took up the theme and this time it was choosing images to form an Audio/Visual sequence. She showed a short sequence entitled ‘Animals of Las Vegas’ that included dolphins, lions and tigers. Again the members were involved in choosing images from a digital lightbox to make and compare the communal sequence with the original one. The result was interesting - though the starting and ending images were the same the mix was very different with more images chosen covering the same piece of music.
Mary Poad in her vote of thanks thanked Malcolm and Barbara for a very interesting and informative evening.
This Thursday at the Treleigh Church Hall starting at 07.30 pm Steve Hicks and Lee Searle will be talking about ‘Submitting images for a Photo-library’ and ‘Portraiture’.

The Camborne-Redruth Camera Club is staging an exhibition of members’ work at the Cornwall Centre, Alma Place, Redruth from Monday, January 21 to February 2.

The exhibition will feature a wide range of styles of photographs from the clubs’ members on an eclectric range of subjects from nature to family and from street scenes to seascapes.

The newly formed Audio/Visual Group of Camborne/Redruth Camera Club held its second meeting on Tuesday evening (15-01-08) at the Treleigh Church Hall. The Chairman Reg Poad welcomed visitors from the Helston Camera Club. First Mary Poad demonstrated techniques for the preparation of images suitable for projection including resizing, straightening horizons, correcting colour casts and adding a border to a picture. She then went on to show how an A/V sequence was assembled using the popular PicturestoExe software favoured by most A/V workers in the UK. The second part of the evening was devoted to the projection of members’ sequences and these showed a wide range of subject material and choice of music. Members showing programmes were Jenny Goodman, Barbara Jenkin, Mary Poad, Clive Kingsley and Peter Keverne. The next Group meeting will be Tuesday 19 February 2008.
Last Thursday (17-01-08) was competition evening, the subject being ‘The Spirit of the Place’. The judge, Neil Souch of Camborne was introduced to members by Reg Poad (Chairman). Neil in his opening remarks defined his interpretation of the set subject that the emphasis should be purely on ‘The Place’ but some entries had not met this criterion.

Results

Advanced Monochrome Prints

1. Gt. Newport Street, London. Jenny Goodman

2. Angel Paul Davis

3. Interior Gloucester Cathedral Paul Davis

H/C Grand dad’s Cottage Bob Morgan
Advanced Colour Prints

1. Church Interior, Italy Pam Pearce

2. London Commuters Bob Morgan

3. The Local Bob Morgan

H/C Gull Rock Clive Kingsley

H/C The Pope, St Peter’s Sq. Rome Pam Pearce

H/C Spirit of Venice Reg Poad
Projected Images Intermediate

1. After the Evening Rain Mark Ormrod

2. Piran Falls Mark Ormrod

3. The Old Dynamite Store Mark Ormrod

H/C Spirit of the Moor Christine Hocking
Projected Images Advanced

1. Tehidy Clive Kingsley

2. Portreath Harbour Clive Kingsley

3.  St Ives Night Scene Jenny Goodman

H/C Botallack Mine Reg Poad

H/C Venice Reg Poad
In his concluding remarks Neil Souch said that he was surprised that there were not more night shots which are more ethereal than the same scene in daylight. Of the seascapes he would have preferred to have seen either crashing waves or a dead calm sea with its associated reflections rather than several of the in between pictures that had been presented. Reg Poad thanked Neil for his interesting and very helpful comments.

To finish the evening images were projected of the 2007 Western Counties Photographic Alliances’ Exhibition held at the Shire Hall, Bodmin.

Camborne/Redruth CC’s Photographic Exhibition opened on Monday 21 January at the Cornwall Centre, Alma Place, Redruth and work will be on show until Saturday 2 February. Times of opening as the Cornwall Centre.

Last Thursday evening (10/01/08) members of the Camborne/Redruth Camera Club (C-RCC) met at the Treleigh Church Hall to view the Western Counties Photographic Federation’s Travelling Portfolio of 100 prints. Members gave their views about the work that was on display. Delia Trathen (Secretary) read the judge’s commentary that accompanied the Portfolio.

Tonight (17/01/08) at the Treleigh Church Hall starting a 07.30 pm there is a set subject competition for prints and projected images entitled ‘Spirit of the Place’. The judge is Neil Souch ARPS of Camborne.

Next week (24/01/08) the Club’s President Malcolm Jenkin will talk about ‘The Preparation of a Panel of Prints for Competition or Display’ which is applicable to the last set subject competition of the winter programme on 6^th March.
Starting on Monday 21^st January at the Cornwall Centre, Alma Place, Redruth, the

C-RCC is staging an exhibition of members’ work. The work will be on display until Saturday 2^nd February. Times of opening will be as the Cornwall Centre.

The Camborne-Redruth Camera Club (C-RCC) met last Thursday evening at the Treleigh Church Hall for the start of the second part of its Winter Programme. Reg Poad (Chairman) welcomed members and wished them a Happy and Prosperous Photographic 2008. The Chairman thanked Philip Williams for his gift to the Club of four large aluminium framed display boards. 

The 2007/08 Travelling Portfolio of slides from the Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF) was projected which gave members a chance to see and comment on work by other photographers in the area. Among the 100 slides were images by Club members Delia Trathen, Mary and Reg Poad.  Bob Morgan was the projectionist. The included commentary was read by Mary Poad. 

The evening finished with a short demonstration by Mary Poad ‘How to Remove Colour Casts from Digital Images’. 

Tonight (10-01-08) at the Treleigh Church Hall commencing at 07.30 pm will be the 2007/08 WCPF’s Travelling Print Portfolio. The evening will conclude with the projection of Digital Images. 

On Tuesday 15^th January will be the second meeting of the Club’s A/V Group at the Treleigh Church Hall starting at 07.00 pm. This will include a 30 minute tutorial on basic A/V techniques after which members will present their own A/V sequences. A warm welcome is extended to anyone interested in the projection of A/V sequences.