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Hot on the heels of the announcement that Colin had been awarded a CPAGB, Mike Lawrence of Oldham PS came to encourage him to try for the DPAGB. Mike gave a spirited talk on the requirements of these awards and the pitfalls he faced in getting his CPAGB and DPAGB. He confessed that he had joined his local club (about 8 years ago) partly as a result of his young lad Christopher (then 12 years old) wishing to join. He found that the digital prints he was entering into the club’s competitions did well, and this encouraged him to try for greater things. He decided to try and get a CPAGB rather than a LRPS award since the latter seemed more expensive and involved an annual fee to keep it going. The present one-off payments appeared to be £50 for a Credit, £60 for a Distinction, or £65 for a Masters award. Additionally, of course, prospective entrants had to show evidence that they regularly supported their local Regional group (the L&CPU) in this case. 10 images were required when entering for the Credit award. He soon discovered that the standard required was that of a successful competitor in a good club’s internal competitions. He also learned that it was best to seek outside opinions when choosing the images to present. Photography has fashions and one needs to know what has gone out of fashion. 15 images were required for the Distinction award, and the general standard was that of Open Exhibition Photography. The best way of getting a feel for the standard required was to enter images for these Exhibitions and see which were selected. He had found that judges were inherently conservative when judging images, and observed that images which did very well at the C level did not automatically repeat their success at the D level. He thought that Record images were the hardest to do to please D level judges. This no doubt pleased Gerald Hallworth who had obtained his DPAGB by such images. Mike discussed the method of marking (6 judges each awarding between 2 and 5 for an image) and noted that an average of at least 20 was required for an award. In the case of the Master’s Award the pass average was raised to 22.5). The judges kept back one image (obtaining an average mark ) for standardisation purposes. They would look at such images to remind themselves of the standard previously required. Mike kept the attention of his audience throughout his presentation and received a well-deserved round of applause at the end. It is not recorded who bought whom the drinks in the Grapes Pub afterwards. Bill Chadband |
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