It is August already and the Outlaws are undertaking their fourth Projected Digital Image (PDI) competition of the year and it’s just not the summer days that are warming up, the PDI competition is too. Preceding this month’s competition, the DPI leader-board was as follows, Lois Webb on 216 points, Malcolm Nabarro 209 points & Sue Jackson on 206 points.
The evenings judge was Roy Maddison from Long Eaton Camera Club, Roy offered constructive comments and scored the images in his own unique style.
There were two categories for Roy to judge on the evening, the Open category and the Themed, which this month was “Metal”. There were approximately thirty-two in the Open category and thirty-four in the themed.
The Open competition attracted many genres of photography from portraiture study, wildlife, sport, and landscape images to name but a few.
The themed competition equally had a wide variety of images with many different visual interpretations of the theme and Roy again offered his opinion, critique & some suggestions of editing that would (in his opinion) benefit the image.
It is late July and the third NOPS print competition of the year was about to take place. Going into this round Lois Webb currently leads on 211 points with Malcolm Nabarro very close 210 points, so there is still all to play for & there are several other Outlaws that are challenging for the Print Outlaw of the Year (POOTY) tittle.
The judge for the evening was Dave Hollingsworth who had visited the Outlaws on a number of previous occasions. Dave is Chairman of Arnold & District Camera Club. Dave congratulated the members on the quality of their printed images on a number of occasions throughout the evening.
June is already upon us and we are experiencing a heat wave and things are also starting to warm up for the Outlaws on the competition front. They are now midway in their digital competition year and the league table is beginning to take shape with the leaders emerging.
As we head into this round of the competition Lois Webb is the current leader with 145 points, which is 9 points clear of second place Sue Jackson, followed closely by Lester Woodward on 135 points. What effect will this round have on their league position and points tally?
This month as per usual has two categories one being an “Open” where members can submit images of their choice across a whole gambit of photographic genres, the other being the “Theme”, which was “Abandoned Buildings”. There were thirty-four entries in the Open category and thirty-one in the themed competition.
Gary Gough, professional photographer & YouTube star will be presenting at Nottingham Outlaws Photographic Society Chairmans evening this November.
Gary is noted for his love of fine art photography but his photographic genres goes far & wide as he embraces an array of subjects and then delivers them in an entertaining manner.
You are invited to come along and join Gary and the Outlaws on Thursday 20th November at St James church hall, Marshall Hill Drive, Mapperley, Nottingham. NG3 6FY.
Admission is £5.00 (pay on the door) which includes refreshments.
Come along and join us and be inspired & entertained by this YouTube star.
The first print competition of Twenty twenty-five was held back in March at St James church Hall Mapperley the home of the Nottingham Outlaws.
Print competitions are run on a bi-monthly basis, through to the final round which is held in November and members scores are aggregated as the competition proceeds. The leader board following that first competition stood with Malcolm Nabarro in the lead, followed closely by Lester Woodward & in third place, Lois Webb.
The judge for this second-round print competition was Louise Langley who is a member of Long Eaton Photographic Society. There were two categories for Louise to judge, the Open category and the Themed category which in this instance was “Framing”. In total there were twenty-two entries in the Open category and twenty-nine in the themed.
The Outlaws photographic competition year is now in full swing and this is the second projected digital image (PDI) competition this year, with a further three rounds to follow ending in late October.
This month’s competition had nineteen entrants in the Open category and seventeen in the Themed, increasing entrant numbers indeed as members embrace the club competitions.
The current Outlaws PDI league standings (prior to this competition) has Lois Webb & Ray Andrews level on seventy-one points, Malcolm Nabarro, Sue Jackson & Nigel Stewart tying for second place on sixty-nine points, followed closely by Lester Woodward & Lloyd Dunkley on sixty-seven points.
The first print competition of 2025 was held at St James church Hall the home of the Nottingham Outlaws. The print competition is run on a bi-monthly basis, through to the final round which is in November and points scored by the entrants contribute to their position in the Outlaw’s print league table.
The judge for this first round of the competition was Richard Houghton from Market Harborough who has judged at the club previously. There were two categories for Richard to judge, the Open category and the Themed category which in this instance was “Black & White”.
Richard gave a description of the criteria that he would be working to and it went like this, 1 Composition, 2 Focus, 3 Exposure, 4 Storytelling, 5 Impact (a WoW moment!) and finally 6 Impact on the judge.
In total there were twenty-seven entries in the Open category and twenty-nine in the Themed.
February is the start of the Nottingham Outlaws competition year and the first competition is a projected digital image (PDI), over the course of 2025 there will be a further four PDI competitions.
This month’s competition had twenty-one entrants which includes a number of new members, this is of real significance as the club membership continues to grow and goes from strength to strength and the members are enjoying the competition challenges.
The judge for the evening was Sean Taylor from Eastwood Photographic Society, this was Sean’s first visit to the Outlaws and he was made to feel very welcome by all attending. Sean made an initial comment (having taken an initial look) that the quality of the images was very high and this was going to make his selections challenging!
There were two categories for Sean to judge, the Open category and the Themed category which for February was “Steps”. In total there were thirty-eight submission entries in the Themed section and thirty-seven in the Open.
The Outlaws are back at the clubhouse and January see’s the start of the competition year with a unique standalone event which is in both PDI & Print formats. This is a really popular competition with the members as they are both the entrants & the judges. There are no prerequisites regarding categories or themes and generally speaking many of these images are getting their first ever public showing, so it is quite an exciting time.
The evening starts off with a set of score sheets issued to every member with the instruction to choose six images and rank them in order of preference. The images are then projected onto a large screen for all of the membership to see and judge and after several run throughs voting commences.
