Club Meeting, Image Editing Evening - Tuesday 1st March 2022.

                                    
                  

On Tuesday 1st March 2022 Morpeth Camera Club met for a member's evening to view & discuss the response to
the clubs’ latest image editing challenge, organised and led by our Programme Secretary Glyn Trueman. Members
had been provided with a selection of images to download, edit and re-submit, using their imagination and editing
skills to come up with their own creations from the original and explain their methods to the rest of the audience.
This was an opportunity to explore the many new editing techniques and it was suggested that there is neither a
right nor a wrong way to edit an image, everyone would have their own personal idea on what looks best and be
willing to experiment.

                 

The seven original images were, part of a combine harvester, a Newcastle cityscape, the iconic Selfridges building
in Birmingham, a poppy, dogs cavorting in the sea, retro telephones, and a wheat field. Filters used included chalk
smudge, cloudy, a painterly effect, pixelation, posterization, pencil sketch, aged, sepia-toned, colour popped, the
creation of mirror images, flipped and repeated to create abstract patterns, and graphic 3D effects.

  
  

Some members chose to combine elements from two or three images resulting in surreal, other worldly creations
resembling alien invaders, moonscapes, space stations, cells multiplying, and vibrantly coloured futuristic and
dystopian cityscapes.

  

Glyn then projected each of the original images followed by the new edited versions, showing what had now been
achieved from editing and it was fascinating to get an insight into what different members saw in an image. It was
clear that the ten members who responded had enjoyed the challenge, and with no restrictions had been very
creative in their efforts to produce some high standard images, each showing great imagination and skilled post
processing techniques.

  

This turned out to be an interesting, informative, and amusing evening which gave those watching an insight into
what they could do with their images. Glyn thanked everyone for taking part by providing a variety of conventional
and abstract images and in turn, Co-Chair Roseanne Robinson thanked Glyn for organising the evening after which
enthusiastic conversation continued over refreshments.

         

We are indebted to the following members who have allowed some of their images to be reproduced in this report,
John Thompson, Peter Downs, Sue Dawson, Paul Appleby, Glyn Trueman, Roseanne Robinson, Stephanie Robson,
Dave Bisset, Kate Phillipson, Davy Bolam.

  

Steph.