The Second Round of the Print Competition in 2024-2025

This was the second round of the season. Each round has two “themes” set by the Club. The challenge for participants is to then to submit images that have a roughly defined “genre” with the added condition that each submitted image must have a different “genre”.

A further change was the combination of the two Print divisions into just one. The judge then looked at the submitted images as two separate groups before and after the break.

This first round was set to have Open and Monochrome as themes.

Deep from the soul

This was from the third Beverley Knight concert that we had attended since the start of her 50th celebrations. This concert was at Sinah Warren hotel on Hayling Island.

I chose “Portrait” as the genre . . .

Summary of judge’s comments
… she is well into her singing isn’t she?
… what is coming over to me is the souls that she is putting into her singing
… she is really feeling it
… I like the way that it it is just the face and hand
… that’s the other hand down here just coming in, I am finding that just a bit of a distraction, a bit of a let down, it could be taken out quite easily
… but the emotion that comes through on her face is the strong element of this
… a square crop is quite appropriate
.. I’ll give it a 9 now

Halloween smile

This street portrait was from my workshop around Soho on Halloween in 2024.

I selected “Street” as the genre . . .

Summary of judge’s comments
… gruesome isn’t it!
… I like the way that you have managed the eyes, highlighted?,
… it goes together well with a black background , there is some background detail here but well back
… you’ve got the blacks in the jacket, with some nice highlights here, and a chain nicely picked out
… it is a nice little cameo,
… I wouldn’t have printed it any larger than that as it would be frightening
… hold that back please

Summary of held back prints:
… a strong interaction with the subject, through his eyes
… 9.5

The scores

There were 15 prints in the Open  group and 16 prints in the Monochrome group “Halloween smile” scored 9.5 and “Deep from the soul” scored 9.

The original images

Deep from the soul
The image for this competition was edited from the mono JPG out of the camera.

Here are the other images from the Beverley Knight concert at Sinah Warren.

Halloween smile