Southport Photographic Exhibition

Its been a busy few days. Went to an open day at Annabel Williams Studio on Friday. If anyone is thinking of attending one of their excellent courses it is a good idea to go to their open day (it isn’t a hard sell for one of their courses) or perhaps one of their short courses to get a feel of the type of style they use. Not everyone responds the same way to instruction. One of the speakers was an ex student of their “Bespoke” course, a lovely and genuine young wedding photographer called Jodie Chapman have a look at her web site.

Sunday I was judging at Southport Photographic Exhibition with the redoubtable Bob Moore and renowned Don Byatt. 1300 projected images with a very high overall standard. Any that got accepted did very well and there were many excellent images that just fell short of the acceptance level. The awards were a very close fought contest, we would have liked to award twice as many certificates as were available. There was no disagreement to the top three in the projected images.

Some of the best ideas just tripped themselves up at the finish post with little things like not grounding people and objects. That tiny little shadow that you may not even notice when its there is very conspicuous by its absence.

There were very few landscapes entered in the projected section and even fewer that made it into the exhibition I did see a few that would have benefited from use of HDR techniques.

Mike