Linlithgow Camera Club http://www.linlithgowcc.org Club for Linlithgow Photographers Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:08:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 West Lothian Competition 2012 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=393 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=393#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:08:30 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=393 Tonight, Linlithgow hosted the 2012 West Lothian Competition at Springfield Community Center, Linlithgow

Tonight’s judge John Simpson, gave a great appraisal of the colour, monochrome and digital images from the 4 clubs.
His comments providing many useful tips, which I’m sure will be taken on board for the future.

At the end of the night the final results were …

Livingston – 262
Mid Calder – 252
Armadale – 243
Linlithgow – 227

Congratulations to Livingston Camera Club on their win

]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=393 0 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=391 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=391#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:32:08 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=391 For members of the other clubs travelling over to Linlithgow for the West Lothian Competition on Tuesday night, the 27th March 2012 – the details are

7:00 pm (prompt) start

Springfield Community Education Wing

Springfield Road

Linlithgow EH49 7SN

(The Community Wing is to the rear of the school – see http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?page_id=11 for detail)

Unfortunately, there is another event on at the school, so parking in the school grounds will be limited and you may have to park on the main road – apologies for that

Neil

]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=391 0 Open Competition 13th March 2012 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=382 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=382#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:34:32 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=382 Winners for this Open Competition are

  1. John Preece - Yours
  2. John Preece - Dont stop me now
  3. John Preece -  And over
]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=382 0 11 Way Battle http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=375 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=375#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:06:36 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=375 Today was the East/West Lothian & Borders Inter Club Battle at the Mining Museum, Newtongrange

The standard was extremely high, with some brilliant photos – we did earn quite a few 17s

Overall results were …

  • 1st Musselburgh 177
  • 2nd Haddington 171
  • 3rd Beeslack 168
  • 4th Livngston 166
  • 5th = Galashiels 160
  • 5th = Mid Calder 160
  • 7th Midlothian 159
  • 8th = Biggar 157
  • 8th = Linlithgow 157
  • 10th Kelso 148
  • 11th Armadale 141

Scoresheets to be added …

]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=375 0 Theme Night – Food & Drink http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=370 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=370#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:12:41 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=370 Winners from last weeks Theme Night - Food & Drink

  1. Neil Dunlop - A glass of red
  2. Neil Dunlop - A wee dram
  3. Ian Lorraine - Oxo
]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=370 0 Open Competition 29th Nov 2011 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=364 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=364#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:44:24 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=364 Winners for this Open Competition are

  1. Simon Boyle – Water Locked
  2. Simon Boyle – Evening Falls
  3. Andrew Marriott –  Incoming Arrows
]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=364 0 Theme Night – View from the top of a hill http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=354 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=354#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:50:45 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=354 Winners from last weeks Theme Night – View from the top of a hill

  1. Ian Lorraine – Kruzkogle
  2. Simon Boyle – The North Face
  3. Neil Dunlop – Glen Coe
]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=354 0 Open Competition 25th Oct 2011 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=346 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=346#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:54:42 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=346 Winners from last weeks Open Competition

  1. Ray Brown – Treescape
  2. David Hale – Peyto Lake & Mistaya Valley
  3. Andrew Marriott –  Grangemouth Towers
]]> http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?feed=rss2&p=346 0 Meeting 11th October – Slide/Film Scanning http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=339 http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=339#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:27:05 +0000 NeilR http://www.linlithgowcc.org/?p=339 For a bit of fun, we asked members to bring in old slides and films to scan and convert them to digital images.

Although not competition standard, the results were reasonable after a bit of tweaking in Photoshop – good enough,  at least, to bring back some fond memories.

The scanner used was Traveler TV6500 Film Scanner, purchased from Aldi.
Capture software included with the scanner is PhotoImpression 6

Some of the scanned images …

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  1. Simon Boyle – Sunset
  2. Neil Dunlop – Misty Canal
  3. Simon Boyle – Bridge Sunset
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