Club Meeting, Members Image Editing Evening - Tuesday 19th March 2024.

  
  
  

On Tuesday 19th March, Morpeth Camera Club met to view images that had been submitted in response to this seasons’
Editing Challenge. Members had been invited to use their imaginations and computer skills to edit up to 5 of the 9 images
supplied. Glyn Trueman, who led the evening, began by showing all nine original images first. These were Oil cans at the
Tanfield Railway, a low level view of Cragside House, Sycamore Gap, a pier taken in Poland, a knitter at Beamish Museum,
the sculpture of Tommy, modern architecture, the Tyne pedestrian tunnel, and a printers block of letters of the alphabet.

  

Some entries used two or more of the images to create compilations while others used simpler techniques like adjusting
tone, contrast and cropping. The image of the Pier was treated to a square format, a postcard effect, sketch and texture
filters, oversaturated, a brick block window patterned view and one using a photocopy filter. The image of Sycamore Gap
was flipped to create a lake scene, with the Beamish knitter superimposed below, the tree replaced by St Cuthbert and
Tommy, one was after Van Gogh, and one with a chainsaw incorporated.

  

The statue of Tommy had been superimposed into the Sycamore Gap, had been converted to monochrome, and had been
textured, grey tinted, reflected and flipped or transformed using a burnt parchment filter. The scenic view of Cragside had
seen a rope fence removed, given an autumnal glow, lightened or vignetted. The Tyne Pedestrian tunnel, was treated and
softened with painterly and split tone effects, distorted to resemble a cross-section of an orange, with the Sycamore gap
tree transposed along the walls, and had been made into a pattern picture by using polar coordinates and one author had
used a neon glow filter.

  

The modern architecture image had been transformed using a prism filter, with the typeface block lettering replacing the
windows, flipped four times to create a pattern picture, a Turneresque version, a kaleidoscope four-way pattern picture
and had been displayed as a triptych. The wooden typeface block, not at first sight an easy subject to edit, had quite a
few interesting edits. Some blocks had been superimposed with the names of the author, with the nine images selected
for the challenge, with titles, and also made into a brick wall.

  

The Knitter and pram, which had been taken at Beamish Museum had been edited with Tommy inside the pram, had
been cropped to create a portrait, or been given an interesting heat map filter. The dusty oil cans had been enhanced
with HDR, by using cut-out, painterly, speckled effects, had been aged or had been converted to monochrome. Another
abstract collaboration of Sycamore Gap, the tunnel, and printing blocks spelling Selfish concluded an interesting exercise.

  

Chairman Peter Downs thanked Glyn for organising the evening and collating the images, Davy Bolam for supplying
most of the original images, and to the following members Dave Bisset, Sue Dawson, David Moore, Jeremy Cooper,
Davy Bolam, John Thompson, Karin Jackson, Glyn Trueman, Peter Downs, Pat Wood, Stephanie Robson, Paul Appleby
and Ursula Pierce, who rose to the challenge by showing a wide variety of editing skills which made it a very creative
evening.

Steph.