Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon Viewfinders Photography Challenge 2021 – Countdown Challenge!

COUNTDOWN CHALLENGE – You have until FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER to enter your image into the following categories: Numbers 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 19, 24.

On Friday we will pick the winners from those categories regardless of how many entries have been submitted.

You can enter your image via our social media channels or by email to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk – make sure to give the number and title of the challenge and your name clearly.

Free entry into a £10 draw just by entering your first photo into #photography_challenge_2021

Full rules at Photography Challenge 2021.

#2 A somersault:

AND the WINNER of 2 POINTS is….. GLENN STALLARD.

#4 A belly laugh:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for a BELLY LAUGH, is… MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

#5 A jumping rope:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for a JUMPING ROPE is…. JANET BUCKNALL.

#6 Shoelaces tied together:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for SHOELACES TIED TOGETHER, is…. DAVE HOOK.

#8 Clouds that look like something else:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for CLOUDS THAT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING ELSE, is…. MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

#9 A happy reunion:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for A HAPPY REUNION, is…. DAVE HOOK.

#10 A bald spot:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for A BALD SPOT, is…. MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

#14 A stain:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for A STAIN, is…. MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

#15 A wonderful surprise:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for A WONDERFUL SURPRISE, is…. (maybe should be Jim Uney for his van-less lighthouse, but is)…. JANET BUCKNALL.

#16 Chapped lips:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for CHAPPED LIPS, is… MIKE REDHEAD.

19 A cat sleeping in a window:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for A CAT SLEEPING IN THE WINDOW, is…. MIKE REDHEAD.

#24 Hanging laundry:

The WINNER of 2 POINTS for HANGING LAUNDRY, is…. MIKE REDHEAD.

Spring Valley visit and other news

Spring Valley Campsite visit, some other trips and photowalks, and Photography Challenge update…

Short Photo Trip – Wednesday 18 August 2021 – 7-8pm -All welcome!

Out & about trip on Wednesday with Hedon Viewfinders (18 August meeting at 7pm). Join us at Spring Valley Campsite for a short photo walk. Lake, fish, birds – pleasant company with other enthusiastic photographers. All welcome.

Find Spring Valley Campsite with what3words: https://w3w.co/miss.skies.carriage

Latest from the Photography Challenge 2021.

Locked subject, points awarded:

95. Fashion.

The two points awarded for the most novel response to Fashion is DAVE HOOK for his very fashionable looking horse!

98. Hard work.

98. Hard work.

The winner of two points for a pose that looks like strenuous hard work is going to take place… is…. GARETH HUGHES. I know, I know, Jim Uney’s photo looks like a much more hard-working character. 🙂

Check out the Challenge League Table.

In order to speed things up on the Challenge, we are running a countdown on certain subjects on our Facebook Group page. Starting with #1 A sweatshirt. Post a photo to the subject and the first one received will lock that subject.

Photo opportunities.

A few upcoming events:

Sun 15 August – Hull City Centre Photowalk with Hull Creative Photography Group. Meet Queen Victoria Square 2pm for 2.15pm departure.
Wednesday 18 August – Club Trip: Spring Valley Campsite, Sproatley Road, 7pm for an hour.
Sat 21 August – Ruben’s Voice Concert, Ketwell Playing Field, Hedon from 1pm – 10pm. Great event planned. Great photo opportunities.
Sun 22 August – East Hull Festival, East Park, time to be arranged

Christmas Party December 2021.

An early shout out for our Christmas Festive get-together. Thinking Entertainment (an artist), Xmas Quiz, the awarding of The Eddies and a buffet. What about Fancy Dress? A “Pirates of the Hedon Haven” theme perhaps.

Possible date Wed 15 December. Costs in the £20 per person range for Viewfinders and Partners/Friend.

Hedon Viewfinders Photography Club at the Haven Arms

Hedon Viewfinders is 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, Havenside, Hedon HU12 8HH. But check our key dates to see if we’re inside or out and about.

ALL WELCOME.

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Challenge Night! Hedon Viewfinders Wed 4 August 2021

Pick your Challenge from the list. Bring your props and kit, create a wonderful tabletop scene and image, or seek help and advice to implement your concept.

WEDNESDAY 4 August 2021 at 7pm will be a Creative Tabletop Photography Challenge Night at the Haven Arms.

Pick your Challenge from the list below. Bring your props and kit, create a wonderful tabletop scene and image, or seek help and advice to implement your concept.

You can pick one or more of the following to inspire you! We’ll be making some spot prizes in recognition of your creativity and endeavour!

An image with a sparkly background
Mirror magic
A sweat shirt
A wonderful surprise
Create your own raindrops
The colour is Yellow!

Other items during the night:

Settings and kit surgery. Got issues, problems or questions about your kit?

Update on Open Photography Competition. Report and feedback from our successful day at Preston Show.

Bring your pin-up print to next week’s meeting (11th August) for a constructive critique.

Note: At Wednesday’s 11 August meeting we will hold a Constructive Critique session on prints produced on the 4th August, plus any others (up to 5 in total) that you would like some constructive feedback on.

Difficulties with getting your images printed? Speak to Ray.

EVERYONE WELCOME.

You don’t have to be a ‘member’ to enjoy your photography with Hedon Viewfinders. Free, fun and friendly club rooted in the local community.

** Whilst COVID-19 restrictions have eased, caution is still recommended so please respect those who seek to socially distance and wear masks **

Photography Challenge 2021 – latest.

Latest update and League Table from the Photography Challenge 2021. Not taken part? Enter to take part in our free draw.

More scores from Locked Subject – A barking dog:

No. 62 A barking dog.

Two points awarded go to DAVE HOOK for the drama expressed by his obviously barking dog. A welcome to Michelle who joins the League Table and gets to take part in the £10 draw.

And the current League Table – includes the points from above.

Remember: We’ll only accept one photo from each person to each subject. After we’ve received 5 photos to a particular subject, then that subject will be closed for entries.

Not taken part yet? Enter a photo to take part in our free draw for £10.

In whatever way you send us your images for the challenge, use the hashtag so that we can find them easier:

#photography_challenge_2021

Visit: Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and the club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.

East Yorkshire Falconry Night

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.

Photography Challenge 2021 update.

Another Locked subject result.

80. Sparks.

And the winner of 2 points is… the sparks from LYNN LEEDHAM’S firework.

See the Competition’s latest League Table.

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.

Leaves photo editing challenge

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Latest from Photography Challenge 2021.

74. An unmade bed.

And the winner of two points is the Black & White extra-legged bed of MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

In the League Table this now puts Maggie clearly into 5th position with 58 points.

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Workshops to Restart. Photography Challenge 2021

YELLOW LIGHT to begin our 6-people-strong workshops again. Latest update and League Table from the Photography Challenge 2021.

YELLOW LIGHT to begin our 6-people-strong workshops again.

News: We have got the yellow light (go ahead but with Covid-19 precautions) to start our workshops once again. Each will be designed for six people only. Note: Photo Dave Hook.

Initially (until mid-May when we can use indoors again), these will be OUTDOOR events; demonstrations, photo walks and other photography opportunities. We plan to use Wednesday evenings at 7pm at the Haven Arms (outdoor meet-ups only) as our club nights again. But we can use other times and days to organise socially distanced events subject to the demand from members. We will of course be guided by the weather when holding outdoor events.

We have organised and run two workshops to date via our Facebook page, one on Lens Ball photography, and a second with a water theme. Both were successful – and fun!

We now invite you to express a general interest in attending workshops at our email viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk and please do suggest your ideas for subjects and themes you would like to see us tackle.

Workshops will be organised in advance and each group will be limited to six people. Booking will be essential once again. Keep an eye on the website for further information.

From water-themed workshop – Photo by Peter Loft.

More scores from Locked Subjects:

62. A barking dog

Two points winner for his close-up is DAVE HOOK.

100. Cosy (Cozy in the book).

The winner of two points for his feet like toast – is GARETH HUGHES.

And the current League Table – including the points from above:

Dave Hook	108+2 =110	£25
Janet Bucknall	105	2nd
Gareth Hughes	69+2=71	3rd
Steve Denniss	70	4th
Mike Redhead	56	5th
Maggie Wingfield	56	5th
Jenny Young	31
Paul Benson	24
Jim Uney	22
Glen Stallard	8
Richard Winchester	5
Mike Bartlett	3
David Pike	2
Malcolm Seville	1

League Table 8.30am, April 16 2021.

Remember: We’ll only accept one photo from each person to each subject. After we’ve received 5 photos to a particular subject, then that subject will be closed for entries.

Not taken part yet? Enter a photo to take part in our free draw for £10. There are still lots of subjects in the challenge for you to tackle. Click the link below and have a look.

In whatever way you send us your images for the challenge, use the hashtag so that we can find them easier:

#photography_challenge_2021

Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and the club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.

Photography Challenge 2021 – More scores and latest League Table.

Latest update and League Table from the Photography Challenge 2021. Not taken part? Enter to take part in our free draw.

More scores from Locked Subjects:

62. A barking dog

Two points for the most bemused expression at her messy hair, is JENNY YOUNG.

35. A view from above.

The winner of two points in a keenly contested subject is MAGGIE WINGFIELD for her overview of a gull colony.

51. An accident waiting to happen.

A truly scary accident waiting to happen, is that depicted in JANET BUCKNALL’S photo! She wins two pointss.

57. A neon sign.

Two points are awarded to MIKE REDHEAD for Money Talks.

67. A spider web.

Which website has won two points? It is MIKE REDHEAD and his web network!

70. Running water.

For his excellent composition and long exposure, MIKE REDHEAD wins two points.

76. A winding staircase.

The two points go to MIKE REDHEAD for his graphic monochrome.

86. Sunny side up.

Coming ‘sunny side up’ in this challenge today is PAUL BENSON. I like his simple composition matching what became an ‘eggy’ theme. With respect to Jim Uney for interpreting the theme in another less obvious way.

93. Stripes.

The best representation of stripes is the natural ones worn by the zebra! Wins another two points for MIKE REDHEAD.

And the current League Table – including the points from above:

Dave Hook	108
Janet Bucknall	103+2= 105
Steve Denniss	70
Gareth Hughes	69
Mike Redhead	46+10= 56
Maggie Wingfield	50+2 = 52
Jenny Young	29+2= 31
Paul Benson	21+2 = 23
Jim Uney	22
Glen Stallard	8
Richard Winchester	5
Mike Bartlett	3
David Pike	2
Malcolm Seville	1

League Table 5.30pm 25 March 21

Remember: We’ll only accept one photo from each person to each subject. After we’ve received 5 photos to a particular subject, then that subject will be closed for entries.

Not taken part yet? Enter a photo to take part in our free draw for £10.

In whatever way you send us your images for the challenge, use the hashtag so that we can find them easier:

#photography_challenge_2021

Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and the club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.

Photography Challenge update – some subjects yet to fill.

Some ideas for your photography – and you could send the photos to us as Photography Challenge entries.

Photography Challenge 2021 update.

Use your imagination to create an image that fits the theme. You can send an entry to us at email viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk – at the very least your photo will automatically enter you into the £10 draw!

These are some subjects that are still open. If you have not entered the competition yet, perhaps these will spark ideas! Send your photos to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.com.

1 Sweatshirt. 1 slot left.

2. Somersault. 2 slots left.

62. A barking dog

4. A belly laugh. 2 slots left.

5. Jumping rope. 3 slots left.

6. Shoelaces tied together. 2 slots left.

8. Clouds that look like something else. 1 slot left.

9. A happy reunion. 3 slots left.

10. A bald spot. 3 slots left.

14. A stain. 3 slots left.

15. A wonderful surprise. 2 slots left.

16. Chapped lips. 2 slots left.

19. A cat sleeping in a window. 1 slot left.

24. Hanging laundry. 2 slots left.

27. Pierced ears. 3 slots left.

28. Thumb wrestling. 2 slots left.

29. An arrow pointing up. 2 slots left.

58. Today’s date. 1 slot left.

Send in your entries to email: viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk.

In whatever way you send us your images for the challenge, use the hashtag so that we can find them easier:

#photography_challenge_2021

Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and the club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.

Photography Challenge update!

RESERVED subjects become UNLOCKED and open to all at 5pm Sat March 13th.

Photography Challenge 2021 update.

Those that haven’t played yet, we have RESERVED a few subjects specifically for you to have a go at:

2. A somersault.
4. A belly laugh
6. Shoelaces tied together
15. A wonderful surprise
24. Hanging laundry

BUT… the Reserved list ends 5pm on Saturday 13 March. The above subjects are then open to claim by other challenge participants!

More points have been awarded in the following LOCKED categories.

36. Something hidden.

And the winner of the two points is JANET BUCKNALL. What is hidden in the darkness!?

46. Dancing.

Two points go to MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

64. Graffiti

The two points are awarded to PAUL BENSON for his beautiful capture of Dan Kitchener’s ‘Queen of Colours’.

65. Wild animal.

Some really cute wild animals – but the ‘wildest’ is the Gorilla by MAGGIE WINGFIELD.

81 Messy wires.

The winner of two points for clearly the messiest wires is DAVE HOOK.

The current League Table (as of 6pm on 12 March 21):

Dave Hook	100+2= 102	£25
Janet Bucknall	93+2= 95	2nd
Steve Denniss	70	3rd
Gareth Hughes	69	4th
Mike Redhead	44	5th
Maggie Wingfield	39+2+2= 43
Jenny Young	26
Jim Uney	22
Paul Benson	20
Glen Stallard	8
Richard Winchester	5
Mike Bartlett	3
David Pike	2
Malcolm Seville	1

League Table 7am 7 March 21.

Remember: We’ll only accept one photo from each person to each subject. After we’ve received 5 photos to a particular subject, then that subject will be closed for entries.

RESERVED subjects are for those new to the game or with 5 points or less. We encourage you to send in your entries to email: viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk. The Reserved subjects stop being reserved from 5pm on Saturday 13 March 2021.

In whatever way you send us your images for the challenge, use the hashtag so that we can find them easier:

#photography_challenge_2021

Photography Challenge 2021

Hedon-based photographic club. It’s free to join in and take part, and the club prides itself on its good reputation for its fun and friendly approach.