The Hedon to Paull hour-long walk starts from the Haven Arms car park at 6 pm on Sun Jun 13th. It will follow the route alongside the Burstwick Drain and Humber Bank.
This week, on Sunday 13 June 2021, a Photo Walk is being held (weather dependent) that will take in the industrial and countryside views around Saltend.
The Hedon to Paull hour-long walk starts from the Haven Arms car park at 6 pm. It will follow the route alongside the Burstwick Drain and Humber Bank.
A one-hour leisurely stroll. Remember to factor in your journey back to your car, organise lifts, etc.
Everyone is welcome to attend and take photos. It’s free, and you don’t have to be a member of Viewfinders to take part.
Social distancing applies. If over 30 people arrive, there will be two distinct groups setting off at staggered times.
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
Meets Wednesdays every week 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon. But check our key dates to see if we’re inside or out and about.
Following our hugely enjoyable visit to East Yorkshire Falconry Club on Wednesday, we present a gallery of photos from some of the Viewfinders who attended…
Following our hugely enjoyable visit to East Yorkshire Falconry Club on Wednesday, we present a gallery of photos from some of the Viewfinders who attended (there were 26 of us)! Will open in random order.
Barn Owl by Keith Maddon
Little Owl by Brenda Crossan
Eagle eye by Ray Duffill
Owl eyes by Lynn Leedham
Hawk by Pam Watson
Barn Owl by Mandy Broadbent
Owl eyes by Peter Loft
Eagle by Jenny Young
Hawk by Jim Uney
Little Owl by Janet Bucknall
Barn Owl by Carl Cooper
Apologies for not remembering the names of the different species!
The Falcons Night at Sunk Island was one of the many trips, outings, meetings and photography workshops organised by Hedon Viewfinders.
If you want to get involved in our fun and friendly photography club (it’s free!) then contact us! 🙂
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
Meets Wednesdays every week 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon. But check our key dates to see if we’re inside or out and about.
‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ will be the theme of our creative tabletop photography night at the Haven Arms on Wednesday, 9 June2021 at 7pm. Note: (tables of up to six. No mixing between tables. Social distancing still applies).
What can you bring in that might make a good subject for a shot? Use one of the elements or all three. What else might you add to make an interesting composition?
Think background, lighting and use of shadows. Can you add another dimension? A reflection, creative blur, or an entire detailed tabletop scene perhaps?
Google this ‘Photography Rock Paper Scissors’ for some ideas.
A few games to be had on the night too. Arrive early and pair up and reveal your bag of props to each other at the same time… in rock, paper, scissors style. And we might award some novelty prizes for good ideas… three themed prizes. You might go home with a prize rock!
Photo. Okay it’s paper and pliers – but you get the idea!
Advance notice: Outdoor Photography Treasure Hunt style challenge on Wednesday 16 June (weather dependent)… details to be posted soon.
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
Meets Wednesdays every week 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon. But check our key dates to see if we’re inside or out and about.
On Wednesday 2 June we have a trip arranged to East Yorkshire Falconry (kindly booked for us by Peter). This is an opportunity to photograph birds of prey. Meet at the location BEFORE the 7pm start, please.
We are asking for a minimum donation of £2 from each of us attending. This goes towards feeding the birds.
We can meet in larger groups of up to 30 outdoors so hopefully, this will be well-attended. If you let us know that you intend to come along, we’ll ensure that you are sent an email about the trip.
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
Meets Wednesdays every week 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon. But check our key dates to see if we’re out and about.
Latest editing challenge results. Club Nights on Smoke & Flame and Falconry. News on Junior Photography Competition from the Picture It club.
We asked you to re-edit our basic image taken on the Club’s last Photo Walk of ‘Bridge Shadows and Road’.
The results are in and they are all very interesting!
First up is Paul Benson with “SOW” who says he got distracted and zoomed in rather close to one of those windows…
How I did it:
Cropped the image
Applied the Nik Collection filter – Detail Extractor
Applied the Nik Collection filter – Wet Plate 9
Cut out the window and increased the contrast
Reduced the saturation
Sharpened the image
This is “The Album Cover” by Nigel Robson:
How I did it:
I used Elements 19 The picture was heavily cropped. The shadows were enhanced (shadowing tool) A special effects kit called Pop was used to quadruple the picture. The spot healing tool was used to remove Ask Italian. Dreamed up a pop group! Using the Text facility I created text boxes with psychedelic touches.
This is Lynn Leedham’s “Who are we?”
How I did it:
Entry for the photo challenge. Who-are-we? Cropped, used textures and opacity tool, using Inpixio.
“Munch’s Ghosts” by Keith Madden.
How I did it:
Convert to 16-bit ROMM
Straighten
Select human shadow area, mask and darken shadows.
Put through GMIC artistic filter
Crop
Add edging using NIK
With a monochrome version is Ray Duffill.
How I did it. Simple B&W conversion using Silver Effex in Nik.
This is Janet Bucknall’s funky edit.
How I did it:
I cropped out the car, then did some stuff on Google and Snapseed, but I didn’t write it down, and now I’ve forgotten what I did! Sorry! Quite like the effect though!
So do we, Janet. How often do we ‘play around’ with an image and then forget what we’ve done!?
This is Dave Hook’s edit which concentrated on the Road side.
And this is Maggie Wingfield’s edit.
We hope you enjoy seeing how these editing challenges are undertaken. There really are no limits other than imagination to what we can do with a basic image.
Other Club News:
It was lovely to meet up again last Wednesday at the Haven Arms following the easing of lockdown restictions. Members had to stick to their own tables. No mixing of tables was allowed. Social distancing still had to be exercised. And masks worn when moving around the pub. Yet despite these restictions members hung around long after the business had finished to chat and catch up with each other.
We discussed the new Public Photography Competition to be held at the Preston Show and will bring you more information about this soon.
Smoke & Flame Night
We have arranged to meet next week WED 26 MAY 2021 at 7pm for a practical photography session on “Smoke & Flame”. Each table will have its own photography opportunities and challenges. And there will be one central feature that can be accessed in turn by each table. Expect candles, matches, sparklers, incense sticks and other surprises!
East Yorkshire Falconry Night
On Wed 2 June we have a trip arranged to East Yorkshire Falconry (kindly booked for us by Peter). This is an opportunity to photograph birds of prey. We are asking for a minimum donation of £2 from each of us attending. This goes towards feeding the birds. We can meet in larger groups of up to 30 outdoors so hopefully, this will be well-attended. If you let us know that you intend to come along, we’ll ensure that you are sent an email about the trip.
We were delighted to welcome Keith and Dorothy to their first meeting on Wednesday. We also met up briefly with Kris before the meeting to accept some lighting kit from him which he has kindly donated to the club. Kris is leaving the area but we hope to catch up with him before he leaves.
Finally, we are delighted to promote this Junior Photographer Competition for our friends at Withernsea’s Picture It group. Please do share and help promote the competition.
A key item to discuss will be a Summer Photography Competition and Show to be held at the end of July (Government regulations permitting). There will be more information available on Wednesday.
WE ARE MEETING UP (tables of up to six. No mixing between tables. Social distancing still applies) on Wednesday 19 May 7pm at our Haven Arms club base in Hedon.
A key item to discuss will be a Summer Photography Competition and Show to be held at the end of July (Government regulations permitting). There will be more information available on Wednesday. This meet-up will also be a chance to plan club meetings and activities for the coming weeks. Your ideas and suggestions are very welcome!
Really looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. If you could let us know by comment, message, email etc that you’ll be coming along, that would be really useful.
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
Hedon Viewfinders – New Editing Challenge – All photographers invited to have a go. Download and edit this unprocessed JPG.
Hedon Viewfinders – New Editing Challenge Number Three – All photographers invited to have a go.
We present this basic starting image (JPG) for you below. We invite you to download it, edit it how you wish and with whatever editing programme you’ve got. You might want to straighten, crop or frame and consider composition; maybe saturate or desaturate the colours. Lighten or darken, add clarity or blur. Create an abstract, painterly or traditional image. The choice is up to you!
Send in your re-edited photo with your “How I did it!” information, and we will present all the results in a gallery next Saturday 22 May. Send us your re-edit by 10pm Friday 21 May 2021.
We want this to be instructive for beginners, and a chance to experiment for the more experienced amongst you. So please join in and have a go!
Download your starting JPG image here. Click and then right-click to download the image
Send your completed edited image to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk or rlduffill@gmail.comby 10pm Friday 21 May 2021. Include your name and new image title, include your “How I Did it!” information and tell us what program you used
Hedon Viewfinders. Hedon’s own community photography club. It’s free to join. It’s free to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
WE ASKED you to edit our unprocessed photo of leaves on the cobbles. It really was a case of ‘anything goes’ using whatever editing tools you like.
We hope the participants enjoyed the challenge. And we hope that other photographers will be inspired by the ‘How I did it’ notes to have a go themselves next time.
Here are the results:
Leaves on road re-edit by Carl Cooper
Leaves on road re-edit by Carl Cooper
I basically found the images I wanted to add and cut them out, copied them in, adjusted the sizes and positions, adjusted the levels so they blended, added a gaussian blur, added a vignette and changed the colour to black n white.
“Please don’t leaf me here” by Tony Beacock.
Please don’t leaf me here! Tony Beacock.
How I did it: A fairly simple edit using GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). I duplicated the image and desaturated the top layer in order to make it greyscale, before adding a layer mask to it. Using the eraser tool, I then erased the areas of the image, exposing the colour from the second layer, lying beneath, and untouched.
“Leaves illegally parked” by MH Seville
“Leaves illegally parked” by MH Seville
How I did it: Unfortunately, my knowledge of Microsoft Office Picture Manager is limited, and I just used “crop” to remove the cars, and then to crop small left & right sections to improve the resulting composition, and then just “auto correct”!
“LEAVES” by Paul Benson
“LEAVES” by Paul Benson
How I did it:
Cropped the image
Used the Photoshop add on Nik Filter ‘Detail Extractor’
Used the PS add on Nik Filter ‘Multi Camera’
Used the Photoshop Noise filter ‘Dist & Scratches’
Reduced the saturation.
Re-edit by Keith Maddon
Re-edit by Keith Maddon
How I did it:
I thought I’d have ago at your challenge by way of an ice -breaker. I haven’t done anything whacky just some tweaking to try and give the image more “pop”.
I’ve used Affinity Photo and the free version of the NIK collection.
Changed the colour space from 8-bit RGB to 16-bit Adobe.
Reduced the saturation and luminance of the greens to de-emphasise the moss.
Tweaked the white level.
Removed small bits and blemishes using clone, inpaint and patch tools.
Changed the perspective.
Added some noise to the top of the picture to de-emphasise the cars and the wall.
Added vignette and some tonal contrast using NIK.
“On yer bike!” by Lynn Leedham.
“On yer bike!” by Lynn Leedham
How I did it: My entry for the photo challenge. On Yer Bike. Cropped, enhanced, bike and rider added using In- Pixio.
Re-edit by Janet Bucknall
Re-edit by Janet Bucknall
How I did it: I cropped out the car, and added a watercolour filter, on my phone, then blurred it. On Snapseed, I added glamour, and the double exposed it.
Street Photo Edit by Gareth Hughes
Street Photo Edit by Gareth Hughes
How I did it:
1/ Rotated and cropped the original image
2/ Copied the photo to a second layer
3/ Mirrored the 2nd layer and faded both to blend them together
4/ Darkened both images
Leaves Re-edit by Dave Hook
Leaves Re-edit by Dave Hook
How I did it: I composited the image in CanonPro4. I put another layer over the image, cropped it, altered the colour slightly by fading.
“Sucked into the Vortex!” by Ray Duffill
“Sucked into the Vortex!” by Ray Duffill
How I did it: In Elements I added saturation to boost the colours. Then Filter – Distort – Twirl for the vortex effect.
Leaves re-edit by Nigel Robson
Leaves re-edit by Nigel Robson
How I did it:
Cropped top and sides
Adjusted tone & colours
With the use of the Spot Healing Brush Tool removed debris/leaves off the footpath and some of the road
We hope that participants enjoyed the challenge. If you enjoyed viewing the results then please do consider joining in with the next editing challenge to be published soon.
Outdoor Event. Toy Photography. Wed 5 May 2021. Haven Arms car park 7pm.
Toy – Keith Sykes
Outdoor Event. Toy Photography. Wed 5 May 2021. Haven Arms car park 7pm. In the proximity of the Haven Arms (avoiding the beer garden area), your task is to find some good settings/scenes for your favourite toys/models/figures, etc.
For those who really want to ‘play’ then let’s create some rain/wind/smoke/flame/lighting effects for your action figures!
Search Toy Photography on the internet for some inspiration. Will you go cute & cuddly, or blood & guts!?
Social distancing still applies. Will split into different groups of six people. No booking necessary.
104 Photography Challenges will fill up the Mayor of Hedon’s album.
As we begin to return to more ‘normal’ circumstances we want members to get back in touch with us – we need your ideas and suggestions for how the Club can serve you and your photography needs.
Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and Viewfinders prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.
Hedon Viewfinders – New Editing Challenge – All photographers invited to have a go. Download and edit this unprocessed JPG.
Hedon Viewfinders – New Editing Challenge – All photographers invited to have a go.
We present this unprocessed JPG image for you below. We invite you to download it, edit it how you wish and with whatever editing programme you’ve got. You might want to straighten, crop or frame and consider composition; maybe saturate or desaturate the colours. Lighten or darken, add clarity or blur. Create an abstract, painterly or traditional image. The choice is up to you!
Send in your re-edited photo with your “How I did it!” information, and we will present all the results in a gallery next Friday evening 7 May.
We want this to be instructive for beginners, and a chance to experiment for the more experienced amongst you. Will you join in and have a go!?
Download your starting JPG image here. Click and then right-click to download the image
Send your completed edited image with your name and new image title, include your “How I Did it!” information and tell us what program you used to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk or rlduffill@gmail.comby 10pm Thursday 6 May 2021.
Hedon Viewfinders. The only photographic club rooted in Hedon. It’s free to join in and to take part in our activities. The club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach to studying and enjoying photography.
