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.)

22 May Our thanks to Rob Bonfield for judging the 2024-25 Best print and PDI competition. The overall winning entry and best PDI was Fly on a Wood Avens seed by Tim Cheshire. Julian Hall's Ferrari under the Lights in Singapore took first place for colour prints and Emerge from Darkness by Pete Baldrey was the best mono print.

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Fly on a Wood Avens seed by Tim Cheshire

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Ferrari under the Lights in Singapore by Julian Hall and Emerge from darkness by Pete Baldrey

The full table of awards for best colour prints, mono prints and PDIs is shown below.

Print section Colour PDI section
  Photographer Title of print   Photographer Title of PDI
1st Julian Hall Ferrari under the Lights in Singapore 1st ** Tim Cheshire Fly on a Wood Avens seed
2nd Stefan Foryszewski Autumn Textures 2nd Julian Hall Textures of an Elephant Trunk
3rd Julian Hall Dragonflies Mating 3rd Mike Guy The entrance to the Mill House
HC Julian Hall Brothers in the Wild HC Tim Cheshire Tachinid Fly Feeding
HC Julian Hall Textures of an Elephant HC Julian Hall African Sunrise
Print section Monochrome
1st Pete Baldrey Emerge from Darkness      
2nd Angela Karney 3 Trees - Mirrored      
3rd Elizabeth Bulley The Lamp      

** Overall winner in competition;     HC = Highly Commended

15 May  - Chairman's challenge - Creative photographic imagery. The challege was to produce a photographic image with a distinct creative style. There were 33 PDI enties for the chairman to judge and the gold award this year went to Pete Baldrey's image Flying chair. Silver went to Elizabeth Bulley's image Creative colouring and bronze went to Ron Boon for his image Horsham blue.

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Flying chair by Pete Baldrey

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Creative colouring by Elizabeth Bulley and Horsham blue by Ron Boon

The full list of awards is shown below.

  Photographer Title of PDI
Gold Pete Baldrey Flying chair
Silver Elizabeth Bulley Creative colouring
Bronze Ron Boon Horsham blue
Ribbon Miles Thompson Rotary daffodil
Ribbon Angela Karney Caught in the storm
Ribbon Norman Price Darby and Joan
Ribbon Stefan Foryszewski Waterside city of screws
Ribbon Ann Smith Figures in blue

Judge: Ed Hull

8 May - Club member Pete Baldrey gave an insight into how he uses Lightroom and Photoshop when post processing his images. Pete is well known in the club for his portrait photography but in order to demonstrate live the capabilities of the Adobe software he also included some of his landscaape photographs as well. After a photo shoot Pete always sets up three folders to store the photos; a camera raw file, a high resolution file for the subsequently exported tiff images and a low resolution file for jpegs for sharing his images. This he finds useful for organising files in Lightroom's excellent cataloguing system. Using his laptop he demonstrated how, as a starting point, he often uses his own custom presets in the Lightroom develop module to begin processing the raw images and then making any further small adjustments, masking etc, for achieving the desired end result. He also demonstrated the seamless integration between Lightroom and Photoshop, the latter mainly for any more complex work required on the images. He finished his talk with an AV slide show recording a recent photoshoot in Brighton with one of his favourite models.

1 May - There were 26 PDIs and 26 mono prints entered in the 5th round of the open PDI and Mono print competitions judged by Graeme Wales ARPS, CPAGB, BPE2. In the PDI competition he scored three images from Pete Baldrey, Julian Hall and Mike Harrison the maximum 10 points. In the Mono print competition he awarded 10 to the images from Ron Boon and Stefan Foryszewski .

PDI Open section:

    
To the side by Pete Baldrey and African sunrise by Julian Hall


Peace lilly by Mike Harrison

Mono open section:

    
Shoreham on Sea by Ron Boon and Wargraves by Stefan Foryszewski

24 April - Anything goes! - 5 club members gave a short talk on a photographic subject of their choice as follows:

17 April - No meeting - our Easter break

10 April - This was our 5th and final colour print competition of the season and judged by Roy Williamson. After holding back 12 of the 36 entries the judge awarded 10 to the images from Phil Copestick, Stefan Foryszewski and Ken Lillywhite.

The winning images were:

    
Damselfly by Phil Copestick and Take off by Stefan Foryszewski


Tulip by Ken Lillywhite.

3 April - Ludshott hosted the 2-way interclub competion which was judged by Ann Healey FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE5. Congratulations to Ludshott Camera Club who were the overall winners of the competition with a strong selection of images. Although they won the Nature section convincingly

Cranleigh narrowly beat them in the Open section. The overall points awarded were:

Section Cranleigh Camera Club Ludshott Camera Club
Nature   66   75.5
Open 134 133.5
Total 200 209

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.

  Print section   PDI section
  Photographer Title of print   Photographer Title of PDI
1st  Julian Hall ** Mating dragonflies 1st  Ann Smith  Pelican preening
2nd Tim Cheshire Love in a Mist - Nigella damascera 2nd Angela Karney  Slimy beech tuft
3rd Julian Hall Pheasant in the field 3rd Chris Flood  Portrait of a Desert Gecko, Nevada
HC Tony Brookes Silver birch HC Chris Flood  Beached jellyfish, Donegal
HC Anne Ingram Poppy HC Ron Boon  Osprey in the wild Rutland
HC Ann Smith  Bittern fishing by stealth HC Elizabeth Bulley  Lizard

** Overall winner in competition.     HC = Highly Commended

    
PRINT - Dragon flies mating by Julian Hall     and     PDI - Pelican preening by Ann Smith

 

Latest News

CLUB MEETINGS

Doors open at 7:45pm for 8:00pm start

Unless stated otherwise all club meetings in 2024-25 will be held in the school room at the rear of the Baptist Church in St James's Place, Cranleigh.

 

Thursday 29 May 2025

Colour versus monochrome assignment. It is planned as a fun evening in which all members are requested to take part to ensure we have sufficient images for a full evening's entertainment.
The idea is as follows; bring along at least one or two of your (unmounted) prints after making two versions of each image, one in colour and one in black and white. The two versions of the same image will be put up on the easel side by side for discussion and then members will be asked to vote on which image they deem to work the best by shouting 'better or worse'. It's a way of seeing how colour, or the lack of it, can make a big difference to an image.

 

Thursday 5 June 2025

Photoshoot walkabout. More details to follow nearer the time.

 

Thursday 12 June 2025

AGM and awards, followed by details of the summer challenge and finishing with refreshments.

 


The full club programme for 2024-25 can be seen using the programme tab in the main menu bar above.

 

OUTSIDE CLUB EVENTS

TBA.

There are no further outside club events planned at this point in time


 

Useful Links

Visit Cranleigh Camera Club Group on our Facebook page using the link below

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Other photography links:

SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.

Royal Photographic Society

Photographic Alliance of Great Britain


 

 

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