When I bought my camera a few years ago I joined a club to improve my photography getting tips and keeping motivated to improve. The club puts on an annual interclub competition, it's a monochrome competition against 5 other clubs, some of them not so local...
Ringwood Black and White Camera Club - http://ringwoodblackandwhitecameraclub.blogspot.com.au/
Rosanna Photographic Club - http://rosannaphotoclub.com/
4 catergories
Print and Electronic Digital Image (EDI) although I thing I'm meant to call these projected images...
Novice and Open
There was an initial culling of images, we could submit 4 images from each of the categories and the club competition committee chose the best to go forward to the interclub.
Below are the images I submitted 4 in print (5x7) and 4 EDI
The EDI's
The fist image is a Gentleman sitting having a coffee in Melbourne central, it's had a lot of post production, I need to go back to this spot and drink a lot of coffee whilst waiting for another opportunity. Perhaps using my polariser to reduce some of the reflection and a wider aperture to blur out some of that building across the street (this was chosen to represent the club but didn't rate)
The "rickety bridge" is an old trestle bridge on a disused railway although it wasn't chosen I will submit this for an evaluation later to see if by itself it stand up to scrutiny.
I think this will end up as a larger print with a few other mono flowers I have.
During the evening there was a comment that portraits do well due to our psychological programming regarding people and faces perhaps this is why this image didn't get to represent. Then again it may have been the square format cropping which perhaps doesn't suit a landscape?
The Prints
As a novice only 5x7 prints are allowed (soon there is a rule change to this) but a 5x7 is not that impressive so I might get a couple of these done at a larger size.
This magnolia could have done with a little more texture in the petals.
This closely cropped image of an Austin 7 will go well in the shed. This was taken on my old 5 megapixel Olympus.
Another Olympus image from the snow that fell in Olinda some 8 years ago. Probably a bit soft through the fog, this was purposely "blue" to reflect the cold.
The image that did the best for me on the night. An image from a hill looking back towards where we live. I love taking these misty morning shots and try to go out whenever there's a misty weekend morning. This managed a 3rd in the Novice Print category and will certainly get printed at a larger size the next time the club send off images for printing and at sometime in the future I might get it printed on some fine art paper to bring out even more of the detail in the mist.
