Entering the adjudication process for the Awards for Photographic Merit can be a daunting but rewarding task. At the start you have the choice of entering PDIs or mounted prints. My preference was to enter prints as I could be confident of the image quality and colour without relying on a third party projector. In general prints also do a little better in the adjudication process than PDIs as I believe the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain prefer images to be printed. The process for mounting and labelling the prints is quite specific and requires careful planning and a degree of skill.
For CPAGB ten photographs require to be entered and each is judged on its individual merit by six adjudicators. The voting process is complex but essentially an average score of 20 points (the lowest score per photo is 12, the highest is 30) is required in order to give a pass mark of 200 or over to gain the award. Choosing ten photographs is a nerve wracking process and it can take up to a year to select and appropriately edit the ten to submit. They can be in black and white or colour, or any combination. What will help in the selection process is entering photos into Camera Club Competitions, entering photos into National and international salons such as the Rushden Open and taking part in judging feedback sessions held by the Photographic Federations, in my case at Carluke by the Scottish Photographic Federation. I also greatly appreciated the help and advice given by my fellow members of the Aberdeen Camera Club and my family who helped narrow down my selection and ultimately providing advice and feedback on editing, composition and comparative merits. Time and patience is required until there is a final nail biting moment when the adjudication happens, in my case in Nottingham. This can be attended as a live event, or in my case by waiting at home in Aberdeen for some feedback. Being honest it was touch and go as I knew a couple my photographs were weaker images and I was relying on seven or so images that had done well in national competitions. They saved the day and carried me through and I am now the proud owner of a CPAGB badge. My advice to anyone considering entering and award process is plan carefully, follow all the advice and recommendations of the Photographic Alliance, ask your camera club colleagues for help and above all produce and display your images to the very best of your ability. Rob Buchan CPAGB [More details of these awards can be found here: https://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/pagb-awards] Congratulations go to one of the Club's members, Rob Buchan, for his recent success in achieving the prestigious CPAGB award (details here https://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/pagb-awards), one of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain's "awards for photographic merit". His successful panel of 10 images is shown below. Hover over each image to see the number of points it received at the PAGB adjudication and click on an image to see a larger version.
Two of our members, Rob Buchan and John Thom, have recently had several of their photographs accepted into this annual exhibition's portfolio. Out of over 5000 total submissions, our two members gained 4 acceptances. More details of the exhibition can be seen at https://photoexhib.com/dingwall/results-2023/results.htm.
Two Club members have had great success in this year's Scottish Photographic Federation Portfolios competition. The majority of Scottish photography clubs are represented in this annual event so competition is fierce.
Overall, the Club came 4th in the Monochrome Print section and 6th in the Colour Print section. The awards (SPF Gold Medals) for the best photographs overall in these two sections both went to Club members: John Thom for "Edge of the Storm" and Rob Buchan for "Osprey Fishing". The winners of the Club's Print & PDI events have already appeared in this blog, but we have other events whose results are now available, they are:
** Monthly competitions (6 events spread through the season): * Monochrome Prints: George Hay, * Colour Prints: George Hay, * Projected Digital Images: John Thom. ** Joyce Russell Portrait Trophy (monochrome prints this year): Sandy McIntosh. ** Contemporary Aberdeen (aimed at maintaining an historic record of the city): Len Findlay. ** Audio-visual Trophy (best AV production): Sandy McIntosh And the winners of this season's Print and PDI (projected digital image) of the Year events are:
PDI section: 1st Sandy McIntosh, 2nd and 3rd George Hay Colour print section: 1st John Thom, 2nd and 3rd Sandy McIntosh Monochrome print section, 1st George Hay, 2nd Doug Winton, 3rd equal Sandy McIntosh and John Thom The results of this prestigious annual event are now out and several Club members had acceptances with one (George Hay with "Global") achieving a Judge's Award and a full score of 15 points for his "Global" image. Overall the Club gained 7 acceptances and achieved 7th place (out of 26) in the Projected Digital Images section, though we weren't as successful in the two print sections. Below are some of our accepted entries - click on each for a larger version. Our 7 acceptances were:
"Strive For The Light" from Alistair Birnie "Dining Out", "Global" and "Watching" from George Hay "Seaside Garden" from Sandy Mcintosh "The Watcher" from John Thom "Leaves" from Doug Winton You might not have heard of this photo-editing program, but some may remember a spreadsheet program named "Lotus 1-2-3". The creator of Lotus 1-2-3, Jonathan Sachs, was a programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and created the first version of the 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. He is also the creator of "Picture Window Pro" (PWP). After many years of development as a commercial product, PWP is now a free download from Digital Light & Color's website (www.dl-c.com). The program offers these features:
The latest issues (February 2017) of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) E-News and supplement are now ready for download from:
http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/newsletter/issue-179 http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/newsletter/issue-179-extra. |
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