While COVID-19 restrictions have eased officially, we are advising members to exercise caution and respect those others you meet that wish to continue wearing masks and maintain social distancing.
Open Photography Competition at Preston Show.
Don’t forget your entry to the competition of a colour, black & white, or altered reality print with your entry form can be accepted up until 10.30am on the day of the competition (this Saturday 31 July 2021). More details click here.
In a late announcement regarding the competition, we will now also be awarding an Annual Shield to the Preston Show’s best Young Photographer of the Year (aged 16 and under).
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.
The Lighting for Portraits night has been rescheduled for Wednesday 14 July, 7pm at the Haven Arms. Covid-19 precautions are still in place. Read about our current competitions and challenges.
OUR MEETING scheduled for Wednesday 7 July has been postponed. England is playing Denmark in the semi-finals of the Euro football competition.
The meeting Lighting for Portraits has been rescheduled for Wednesday 14 July, 7pm at the Haven Arms. Covid-19 precautions are still in place.
The meeting will look at the effects of the placements of lights. We’ll be using one set-up, but the different placement of lights will be explored. You will have the opportunity to experiment with different light set-ups and see the results.
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.
Hedon Viewfinders photography club has sponsored the photography competition at PRESTON SHOW with trophies and will help promote the event.
A ‘new’ Annual Photography Competition is to take place and judged at the PRESTON SHOW on Saturday 31 July 2021. Hedon Viewfinders photography club has sponsored the competition with trophies and will help promote the event.
The traditional village show in Preston features classes of entry from ‘best vegetables’, ‘cookery’, ‘wine making’ through to various ‘arts’ and ‘crafts’ including ‘photography’. There has been a photography element as part of the traditional annual show in Preston for many years. However, this year, Hedon Viewfinders hopes to encourage more interest in photography, more entries from local people and a bigger exhibition of local talent at the show.
There will be three classes of entry. You can enter only one photograph into the competition in one of the classes.
Colour,
Black & White, or
Altered Reality (this category will suit those who love to artistically manipulate their images).
Your prints (no mounting and framing) can be up to a maximum size of A4 (210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 inches). Prints (in protective sleeves please) can be sent in advance to Hedon Viewfinders c/o 6 Johnson Court, Hedon, HU12 8EF or dropped into any Hedon Viewfinders meeting on a Wednesday evening from 6.45pm – 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon (see Club website for details). Or you can bring them in on the morning of the Preston Show at the Nag’s Head, Sproatley Road, Preston BEFORE 10.30am on SATURDAY 31 July 2021.
An Entry Form needs to be submitted with your print.
See the exhibition of prints and results of the judging at the Preston Show from 1pm. There will be trophies awarded for the winners of each class and an Annual Photographer of the Year trophy. Trophies will be held by the winners for one year.
Following the competition and Show, prints can be collected by photographers via arrangement with Hedon Viewfinders.
It is expected that COVID-19 restrictions will have eased by the time of the Preston Show on Saturday 31 July, but any advice issued by organisers on the day must be followed.
News from the Club, including our new Open Photography Competition via Preston Show, our Trip to Northern Studios, and the East Yorkshire Buses photo competition.
Treasure Hunt – Wednesday 16 June 2021.
The starting point for the Photography Treasure Hunt/Photo Walk tomorrow (Wed 16 June, 7pm) is at the crossroads Whitefriargate/Silver Stree/Land of Green Ginger and Trinity House Lane at: https://w3w.co/square.hiking.decide.
Anyone wishing to meet earlier at the Interchange for the walk through town just contact us first to arrange.
OPEN PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AT PRESTON SHOW. SATURDAY 31 JULY 2021.
SPONSORED BY HEDON VIEWFINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB.
A ‘new’ Annual Photography Competition is to take place to be judged at the Preston Show on Saturday 31 July.
There has nearly always been a ‘photography’ element as part of the traditional show which sees classes of entry from ‘best vegetables’, ‘cookery’, ‘wine making’ through to ‘arts’ and ‘crafts’. but Hedon Viewfinders hopes to encourage more interest in photography, more entries and a bigger exhibition of local talent at the show.
There will be three classes of entry.
You can enter only one photograph to the competition in one of the classes.
Colour,
Black & White, or
Altered Reality
Your prints (no mounting and framing) can be up to a maximum size of A4 (210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 inches).
Prints (in protective sleeves please) can be sent in advance to Hedon Viewfinders c/o 6 Johnson Court, Hedon, HU12 8EF or dropped into any Hedon Viewfinders meeting on a Wednesday evening from 6.45pm – 7pm at the Haven Arms, Hedon (see website for details).Or you can bring them in on the morning of the Preston Show at the Nag’s Head, Sproatley Road, Preston BEFORE 10.30am on SATURDAY 31 July 2021.
See the exhibition of prints and results of the judging at the Preston Show from 1pm.
There will be trophies awarded for the winners of each class and an Annual Photographer of the Year trophy. Trophies to be held by the winners for one year.
An Entry Form needs to be submitted with your print.
A visit to Northern Film Studios on Wednesday, June 23 2021. This will be a visit to the grounds (outside) of the film studios. You must be at the location for prompt entry to the grounds and start at 7pm. Park up on the kerbside at Saltmarsh Court. Find on what3words: https://w3w.co/twigs.salt.empty
East Yorkshire Buses Photography Competition.
Photographers from around the region are invited to submit their best photos to bus company East Yorkshire’s popular photographic competition.
All entries must have an East Yorkshire buses theme, whether that’s featuring the company’s buses, coaches, vintage vehicles, staff or buildings.
Twelve winners get their photographs featured in East Yorkshire’s 2022 calendar, with the overall winner also receiving £100 of photography equipment.
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.
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.
WE ASKED people to take the unprocessed image and edit it. These are the results and ‘how to’ notes.
WE ASKED people to take the unprocessed image and edit it.
These are the results and ‘how to’ notes.
First up was PAUL BENSON.
Edits on Photoshop:
Rotate clockwise to level top of wall
Applied Nik Collection filter detail extractor
Applied lens correction to remove distortion, change vertical and horizontal perspective
Cropped the image
Applied Auto contrast
Increased Saturation
Sharpened the image
Added a little more Contrast
Remove a little red in Colour Balance.
Filter Artistic – Cutout.
Next up is JANET BUCKNALL.
I applied a filter entitled ‘morning’, straightened the pic up a bit, and cropped out the signpost. I tried adding a frame but it didn’t work.
Also taking part was MAGGIE WINGFIELD.
I used the ‘Photos’ editing App in Windows to crop the image, taking out some distracting items. I also enhanced the colour and sharpened the image.
DAVE HOOK was next:
I changed the image to monochrome, then used the compositing tool in the Canon Pro 4 software to create three images, one on top of the other. I then used a filter to introduce a new colour using the App in Windows.
Next was LYNN LEEDHAM who named her image “Stripe”.
Cropped enhanced sharpened noise reduction stripe added using In Pixio.
Then came NIGEL ROBSON with his Tornadoes Fly Over:
I used Elements 19. I adjusted/realigned the picture. Cropped the bottom and sides. I blanked out the top and created a new layer. The plane picture was resized and fitted.
And finally, I had to have a go too. RAY DUFFILL:
Straighten, crop and highlights in Picasa3. Then into Elements, used NIK (Silver Effex 5. High Structure (harsh)) to turn B&W, cropped again in Elements, then added a Layer Mask and painted (to reveal) the brighter colours back in.
Hopefully those who took part found the exercise useful and fun? And those reading this and viewing the results might like the photographers’ notes? Do let us know!
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; 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 Monday 26 April evening.
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
First Test Image to edit.
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 Sunday 25 April 2021.
Hedon Viewfinders. The only photographic club based 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.
