The results of the last few weeks working with their mentor's are about to be revealed.
The club will see the finished images and select their favourite mono print and PDI. There will be plenty of discussion of how the mentor helped the photographer bring the best out of their image.
Which beginner will be victorious and more importantly, which mentor will reign supreme? Barry Lau ARPS or Dermott Sweeney LIPF?
News
Coming Up: 14th November - An Evening With Dermott Sweeney LIPF
Club member (and 12/13 BPIC Photographer of the Year winner) Dermott Sweeney LIPF covers his varied portfolio of rally and bike photography, and his off-camera flash techniques.
Rally Finland
12/13 Season Review
As the 12/13 season draws to a close it's a great opportunity to thank everyone for making it a great season and to look back over the highlights from the last 12 months.
June 2012
- Club Trip: H.M.S. Caroline
July 2012
- Club Trip: Ulster American Folk Park
August 2012
- Stephen Wilson had an image selected as the runner-up in the BBC Countryfile Photo Competition
- BPIC hung an exhibition at Belfast City Hospital
September 2012
- Brian Bennett received an EAPU Panel Award at the East Antrim Open
- Brian Bennett's mono print "Christine" was selected for inclusion in the NIPA entry in the Celtic Challenge 2012
- Karen McCrea, Melissa Gordon, Martin Lamb and Brian Bennett each had images selected for the Celtic Challenge
- Roger Eager's image came second in the Shorts Camera Club - My Titanic Belfast Competition
October 2012
- Guest Speaker: Janine Walker
- Martin Lamb had an image selected for the Natural History section of the PAGB PDI competition
- Gareth O'Cathain received a Highley Commended in the 'Best black and white' category of the Belfast Zoo 2012 Photographic Competition
- In the NIPA Round 1 competition Stephen Wilson and Brian Maguire received NIPA stars, Brian also received the top Colour Print honours
- Club Trip: Scott Kelby 5th Annual Photowalk
November 2012
- For our inaugural Mentoring Competition, Mel Boyle achieved the top mono print and Saravanan Appukuttan had the top scoring PDI.
- Club Trip: Belvoir Photowalk
- In the NIPA Round 2 competition Stephen Wilson and Alan Lavery received NIPA stars
January 2013
- Vivienne Beck placed first in the PDI section of the Roy Finlay Memorial Natural History Competition
- Club Trip: Donegal
- Guest Speaker: Roy McKeown FRPS
- Guest Speaker: Glenn Norwood
- In the NIPA Novice Competition Gareth O'Cathain placed 1st in the Mono print section with "The Blacksmith", placed 2nd in the Colour print section with "Helen's Wool" and received a Commended for his PDI "Zimbabwe Danger".
Mel Boyle received a commended for his Mono Print "Indian Labourers".
February 2013
- In the NIPA Round 3 competition Matthew Jeanes received a NIPA star
- Guest Speaker: Carrie Davenport
- The winners in our internal Architectural competition were; Colour Print - Donal McCann, Mono Print - Russell Birch and PDI - Brian Maguire
- Brian Maguire won our Donegal Trip competition
- In the NIPA Round 4 competition Brian Bennett and Barry Lau received NIPA stars
March 2013
- The following members had images selected for the 2013 Annual NIPA Exhibition; Alan Lavery, Brian Bennett, Mel Boyle, Barry Lau, Stephen Wilson, Gerald Gribbon, Russell Birch, Matthew Jeanes, Suzi McBride and Nolan Duffy. Nolan achieved a PAGB silver medal, Mel received a PAGB Bronze Medal and Alan Lavery received two PAGB Ribbons
- Brian Maguire achieved his LRPS
- Martin Lamb was awarded with a Neil Marshall Medal in the Natural History section of the PAGB 2012 Inter-Federation competition.
- Guest Speaker: Ross McKelvey
- Gareth O'Cathain had one of his images displayed on the BBC News website
- Barry Lau reached the final of the Ballymena Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year 2013
- Guest Speaker: Paul Hanley
- In the NIPA Round 5 competition Saravanan Appukuttan received a NIPA star
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 1 competition Vivienne Beck was the Novice winner and Barry Lau won the Advanced category
April 2013
- Guest Speaker: Gerry Coe
- Guest Speaker: Jim Moreland
- Gareth O'Cathain achieved his LRPS
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 2 competition Roger Eager was the Novice Winner and Dermott Sweeney won the Advanced category
May 2013
- In the BPIC Photographer of the Year Round 3 competition Roger Eager was the Novice winner and Stephen Wilson won the Advanced category
- Roger Eager was named as the 12/13 BPIC Novice Photographer of the Year
- Dermott Sweeney was named as the 12/13 BPIC Advanced Photographer of the Year
- The season wrapped up with a lovely dinner
Photographer Of The Year 12/13 - Advanced Category Winner
BPIC's Photographer of the Year competition was held over three rounds, 2 PDI and 1 print.
Congratulations go to Dermott Sweeney LIPF who is the 12/13 advanced category winner and to Barry Lau ARPS who came runner up.
Here are Dermott's entries from the three rounds.
BPIC Photographer of the Year - Round 2
Last night saw the judging for round 2 of BPIC POTY, the theme for this round was "Still Life at Home" as chosen by last year's round 2 winner Donal McCann.
This was a print only round.
The winner of the novice section was Roger Eager.
And the winner of the advanced section was Dermott Sweeney.
BPIC Photographer of the Year - Round 1
Hi All,
First of, well done to everyone who submitted images into the round. As last night demonstrated, the standard was extremely high throughout both categories with a wide range of photographer interpretations displayed.
Novice
1st - Vivienne Beck - Seagulls
2nd - Roger Eager - Beacon
3rd - Brian Maguire - Binnian
Advanced
1st - Barry Lau - In Time
2nd - Dermott Sweeney - The Shower
3rd - Brian Bennett - Seagull
Once again, well done to everyone who contributed. It's still very much anyones game with two rounds to go!
Please take some time to view the full novice and full advanced submission galleries.
NB - There will be NO official club meet next week due to being Easter. The club will resume 11th April 2013.
Have a Happy Easter.
Thanks,
Barry Lau
Chairman
Architectural Competition Results
This month we held an internal competition just for fun.
Members were able to submit one colour print, one mono print and one PDI under the category of architecture.
All members who attended the judging night were given the opportunity to vote for their favourite as well as give feedback on the submitted images.
Here are the full results along with the top image from each category.
Colour Print
- Donal McCann
- Stephen Wilson
- Saravanan Appukuttan
Donal McCann
Mono Print
- Russell Birch
- Donal McCann
- Gareth O'Cathain
Russell Birch
PDI
- Brian Maguire
- Stephen Wilson
- Dermott Sweeney
NIPA - 12/13 - Round 3
On Friday the 1st February the round 3 judging night took place at BPIC, here's how we fared.
PDI
- Gareth O'Cathain - Passing Through - 9
- Stephen Wilson - Looking Up - 9
- Julie McGovern - Triangles - 7.5
- Dermott Sweeney - Light Triangle - 7
Mono
- Matthew Jeanes - Rough Skin - 10.5 (Starred Image)
- Stephen Wilson - Windows - 9
- Gerald Gribbon - Doomsday - 9
- Mark Davison - Triangles - 9
Colour
- Russell Birch - Sunshade - 10.5
- Brian Bennett - Titanic Triangles - 10.5
- Gareth O'Cathain - Head For Heights - 9
- Gerald Gribbon - Titanic Triangles At Sunset - 7.5
After round three BPIC is sitting in 4th place with a score of 277 points, congratulations everyone!
Following is the top scoring image from each category, and here is the full round 3 submission.
Gareth O'Cathain - Passing Through
Matthew Jeanes - Rough Skin
Russell Birch - Sunshade
Success at Athlone
Fantastic results from Martin Courtney AIPF, Melissa Gordon LIPF, Jaime Valente LIPF and Dermott Sweeney LIPF, registered under Imagemakers who were successful on Saturday 19th May 2012 at Athlone. Commiserations to David Donnelly, Ryan Wilson and David Reid at their attempt of the LIPF and also to Ross McKelvey who bravely attempted the FIPF.
Well done to everyone for their hard work and efforts. Images of the panels are due to appear over the next few days.
Jaime Valente Panel
Dermott Sweeney Panel
