Cranleigh Camera Club

CCC is a small friendly club catering for people of all ages and photographic abilities and is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain through the Surrey Photographic Association.

If you enjoy photography and may be looking to improve your photographic skills, or wish to share your photographic experiences with other like minded people, then please come along to one of our meetings. The "About Us" tab above provides more information about the club and how to find us. You can also find us on the Cranleigh Camera Club Group Facebook page on the internet. (See "Useful Links" on this page to access our Facebook site.)

Roundup of recent club activities

(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)

27 March  - Our Reg Mullard wild flora and fauna competiton was judged by Roger Mendham LRPS. There were 28 prints and 23 PDIs and, in what proved to be a strong competition, he judged Julian Hall's print of two dragonflies mating as the overall winner, narrowly beating Ann Smith's winning PDI of Pelican preening.

Those receiving awards in both print and PDI sections are shown in the table below.

Dragon flies mating by Julian Hall.

Pelican preening by Ann Smith.

20 March - Club member Ron Boon gave a very interesting presentation on the subject of Mobile phone photography and apps. Mobile phones are making a big impact in the world of photography and reaching levels of quality previously the domain of mainstream cameras. He stressed that it was essential at the outset to set up your phone's camera settings to suit your style of photography and post processing workflows. He demonstrated how to do this using an iPhone, although stating other phone systems such as Android all use similar set-up routines for their own generic phone cameras. Ron discussed the use of camera modes such as general photos, portraits, panorama as well as clarifying the meaning of various iPhone settings including formatting the camera settings to capture raw images and deciding whether to preserve control functions such as macro, lens correction etc in order to suit the photographers requirements.

Using a number of pictures taken on his own mobile camera phones he covered how to control depth of field, blur backgrounds, adjust focus, use slow shutter speed settings and make best use of live view etc. Ron also gave some useful tips when describing their capture such as deliberately tilting the camera to include more elements in a picture and turning the phone upside down - perfectly suited for getting low down to the ground while taking reflections in water. He concluded with a demonstration of how he employs a number of photo apps to post process the images such as Snapseed and Lightroom amongst others.

All in all,it was a very informative talk that will no doubt inspire other club members to use their phone's camera more frequently. After all a phone is nearly always with you whereas your conventional camera may not be.

13 March - There were 23 PDIs and 29 mono prints entered in the 4th round of the open PDI and Mono print competitions plus the Set subject: Motion/Movement. The competitions were judged by Tim Clark LRPS who, after giving the reasons for his scoring, also suggested how some of the images might be improved.

In the PDI Open section awards went to images from Tim Cheshire, Mike Guy, and Miles Thompson and in the PDI set subject section to Julian Hall.

In the Mono print Open competition maximum marks went to images from Ron Boon and Angela Karney and to Stefan Foryszewski for the set subject.

PDI Open section:

    
Fly On Wood Avens Seed by Tim Cheshire and The entrance to the Mill House by Mike Guy

Baby Alligator by Miles Thompson

PDI Set subject section:

Porsche flat out at Goodwood by Julian Hall

Mono open section:

    
Railway Night Shift by Ron Boon and Three trees - mirrored by Angela Karney

Mono Set subject section:

Caterham by Stefan Foryszewski

6 March  - A presentation by Fred Barrington FRPS titled An opportunistic snapper in the UK. Although Fred is a very well travelled and enthusiastic photographer who has won various awards and given solo exhibitions this talk concentrated on his images from the UK - mostly London. His photography is basically what and how he sees an image using colour and smart use of angles etc.

Two images below (© Fred Barrington) are typical of what we saw on the night.

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