Club Meeting, Members Image Editing Evening - Tuesday 14th March 2023.
On Tuesday 14th March Morpeth Camera Club held an in house meeting to view the responses to the annual Editing
Challenge. All members had been invited to show off their editing skills on five of the eight images supplied and were
expected to discuss their methods. These were the original unaltered images;
Glyn Trueman, who led the evening, began by saying that there had been a lot of creativity and imagination used by
the twelve members who took up the challenge. This was an ideal opportunity for novice photographers in the club to
have a go at image manipulation and to explore the many applications available with today’s’ software. There were
numerous variations of each image with some examples shown below;
A simple jetty with the horizon in the distance had been transformed by creating a telescopic circle with an added fishing
boat, had a paint filter added, had been flipped, someone had used an other-worldly mosaic effect and another had used
a swirl effect to resemble a tsunami with the addition of a jet skier riding the wave. Robin of Pegswood, was by far the
favourite image to work on, it was transformed by using a pencil sketch, whirl and prism filters, made into a heart shape
using a distortion tool. With a pinch filter and by using polar coordinates, another version had been superimposed onto
the jetty image with great effect. Sepia toning and a menacing infra red filter had introduced a feeling of incarceration,
whilst others had blended the original into a block of nine images or warped them using lens flare, to a create a sense
of global warming.
A blue window image had been flipped eight times and spherized, had been broken up into sharp triangles, made into
a collage, had a poster filter and had a broken glass filter applied. A deserted, dilapidated garage had been re-coloured
using a pencil sketch filter, another was pixilated to resemble a needlepoint creation. Neon colour popping, inversion, a
swirl pattern resembling smoke and another made into a pattern picture which resembled an art installation at Coventry
Cathedral were quite different takes on the original image.
The Isle of Skye mountain landscape had the mausoleum from another image placed within it, had a hiker introduced
into the landscape and had been cropped to remove the distracting mountain path. Fishing nets had been transposed
into a fisherman’s hat, a cartoon filter added, a vibrant find edges filter used, a winter filter to depict frost, a blurred
macro version and had a marble bust added to create more of a focal point. The image of the church and mausoleum
had been treated with eerie inverted colours, had been transformed into a Gothic scene which contrasted with a high
key foggy version and in another the church had been placed within the garlic woodland from one of the other images.
A pathway through Bothal Woods was the final post processed image. An edges filter was used to emphasise the trees,
a cartoon like filter was introduced and this transformed it into a snow scene with a glow and wintry effect. In another
version, a colour balance adjustment and window layer produced a colourful oil painting effect. Throughout the evening
all images were discussed by the authors who explained their methods. Co Chair Roseanne Robinson thanked Glyn for
hosting the evening, adding that we all should rethink the adage that the camera never lies.
Big thank you to Sue Dawson, Karin Jackson, Pat wood, Martin Goble, Glyn Trueman, John Thompson, Jeremy Cooper,
Stephanie Robson, Davy Bolam, Roseanne Robinson, Peter Downs and Dave Bisset whose time and effort made this an
interesting and different evening of photography.
Challenge. All members had been invited to show off their editing skills on five of the eight images supplied and were
expected to discuss their methods. These were the original unaltered images;
Glyn Trueman, who led the evening, began by saying that there had been a lot of creativity and imagination used by
the twelve members who took up the challenge. This was an ideal opportunity for novice photographers in the club to
have a go at image manipulation and to explore the many applications available with today’s’ software. There were
numerous variations of each image with some examples shown below;
A simple jetty with the horizon in the distance had been transformed by creating a telescopic circle with an added fishing
boat, had a paint filter added, had been flipped, someone had used an other-worldly mosaic effect and another had used
a swirl effect to resemble a tsunami with the addition of a jet skier riding the wave. Robin of Pegswood, was by far the
favourite image to work on, it was transformed by using a pencil sketch, whirl and prism filters, made into a heart shape
using a distortion tool. With a pinch filter and by using polar coordinates, another version had been superimposed onto
the jetty image with great effect. Sepia toning and a menacing infra red filter had introduced a feeling of incarceration,
whilst others had blended the original into a block of nine images or warped them using lens flare, to a create a sense
of global warming.
A blue window image had been flipped eight times and spherized, had been broken up into sharp triangles, made into
a collage, had a poster filter and had a broken glass filter applied. A deserted, dilapidated garage had been re-coloured
using a pencil sketch filter, another was pixilated to resemble a needlepoint creation. Neon colour popping, inversion, a
swirl pattern resembling smoke and another made into a pattern picture which resembled an art installation at Coventry
Cathedral were quite different takes on the original image.
The Isle of Skye mountain landscape had the mausoleum from another image placed within it, had a hiker introduced
into the landscape and had been cropped to remove the distracting mountain path. Fishing nets had been transposed
into a fisherman’s hat, a cartoon filter added, a vibrant find edges filter used, a winter filter to depict frost, a blurred
macro version and had a marble bust added to create more of a focal point. The image of the church and mausoleum
had been treated with eerie inverted colours, had been transformed into a Gothic scene which contrasted with a high
key foggy version and in another the church had been placed within the garlic woodland from one of the other images.
A pathway through Bothal Woods was the final post processed image. An edges filter was used to emphasise the trees,
a cartoon like filter was introduced and this transformed it into a snow scene with a glow and wintry effect. In another
version, a colour balance adjustment and window layer produced a colourful oil painting effect. Throughout the evening
all images were discussed by the authors who explained their methods. Co Chair Roseanne Robinson thanked Glyn for
hosting the evening, adding that we all should rethink the adage that the camera never lies.
Big thank you to Sue Dawson, Karin Jackson, Pat wood, Martin Goble, Glyn Trueman, John Thompson, Jeremy Cooper,
Stephanie Robson, Davy Bolam, Roseanne Robinson, Peter Downs and Dave Bisset whose time and effort made this an
interesting and different evening of photography.