Virtual Meeting, 'Image Editing Challenge' - Tuesday 1st June 2021.

       

At Morpeth Camera Clubs virtual meeting on Tuesday 1st June, Glyn Trueman presented the results of their
first image editing challenge. During our extended season (due to the Corona Virus Lock-down) we’ve been
looking for different evenings to run, which would be suitable for our current online presence. The premise
of this challenge was quite simple, prior to the evening six unprocessed images were made available for
members to download, edit and re-submit to show how, given a free reign, they would edit the images.

       

The six images featured a view of Morpeth Clock Tower, a Boat on a Beach, Glass Beads in a Bowl, a Dales
Landscape, Reeds in a Pond and a Figure in a city Street. It was hoped that with this varied selection of
subject matter we could use our imaginations, and perhaps have a try using some new editing techniques.
It was also thought that as there is no right or wrong way when it comes to editing an image, everyone
would have their own personal idea on what looks best and be more willing to experiment.

     

On the night, each of the original images were shown followed by the now edited versions and as each member’s
image appeared they were asked to say a little about how they had reprocessed the image and what had inspired
them to edit it that way.

   

It was soon clear that the twelve members who responded had enjoyed the challenge and with no restrictions had
been very creative in their efforts. We saw versions of the original images that had been cropped, colour popped,
sepia toned, lightened, darkened, saturated or turned to monochrome.

                     

It was also fascinating to get an insight into what different members saw in an image with items removed, added,
cloned and duplicated. Filters, blur, creative abstracts and traditional high standard images were produced, each
showing great imagination and skilled post processing techniques.

   

This turned out to be an interesting, informative and amusing evening which allowed members to have fun and
practice different editing methods. Comments during the presentation and questions that followed showed that it
had given those watching an insight into what they could do with their images and a similar evening must surely
be repeated in the future.

Davy.