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.)
(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)
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 | ||||
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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
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.
Chairman's challenge 2025 - there will be no set subject, genre or style set for this challenge and it will be an open style competition with the following caveats:
Your PDI entries should be sent to Phil Copestick at ccc.pdi.images@gmail.com by Sunday 11 May 2025
The best print and PDI of the year competition which this year will be judged by Rob Bonfield. Eligible images include:
Any member who may not have achieved the automatic qualifying scores may also submit one of their own highest scoring images shown in club competitions this year.
See the competition rules for more details using this link
Competition rules.
Colour versus monochrome assignment. More details to follow shortly.
The full club programme for 2024-25 can be seen using the programme tab in the main menu bar above.
There are no further outside club events planned at this point in time
Visit Cranleigh Camera Club Group on our Facebook page using the link below
Other photography links:
SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.
Photographic Alliance of Great Britain