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14th October 2008

This week was – Ron Smith Pictorialism & Modernism In Photography

Meticulously planned and spiced with delightful anecdotes Ron Smith’s talk was a delight from beginning to end. He took us through the work of significant photographers from Henry Fox Talbot to Paul Strand.  Only Ron would be able to illustrate his talk with paper negatives, glass negatives, cut film, a field camera and make-shift portable darkroom.  He made us realise that first photographers struggled with limitations which were due to the labourious processes involved, later they battled over what was an acceptable view of the artistic expressions of which photography was capable.  This was a gem of a talk; not just because of the content but the almost palpable feeling of respect and admiration this grand old man of photography drew from the audience.

I told you not to miss it – I can only feel sorry for you if you did.

Alsager Battle 6th November 2008

I was unable to give you the results last week. We were ahead after the print round but positively surged on with the slides, scoring no less than 5 19s and one 20 – Peter Robinson’s Spiral Staircase. We can all learn the techniques of photography but you need the “eye” – that special gift of imagination and vision of what makes a good picture. Peter has that, so too have some of our newcomers and I look forward to a very powerful team indeed next season.
 

NEXT WEEK – PDI #1 2008

No need to tell you about this really – very eagerly anticipated by at least 28 of you that have entered. The judge is Gordon Jenkins.

John Royle
14th November 2008
CREWE PS
 

7th October 2008

Victory Over Alsager : Open Evening at CREWE : Ron Smith Next Week: L&CPU Knock Out

This week was – TWO MEETINGS!!

Battle with Alsager at Alsager

We always enjoy our visit to Alsager and they are joining us here in January for the Bebington Salon. It is a joint meeting.

I was hoping to report the results but I haven’t been sent them yet.  However, the main news is..

WE WON BY A GOOD MARGIN.

Open Evening At Crewe

The evening featured…

NEXT WEEK – Ron Smith

On Thursday Ron got rather concerned when I put up a photograph by Philip Henry Emerson because next week Ron’s talk is about the “Development of Pictorialism and Modernism in Photography” and Emerson was a leading figure in this.  Ron’s talks are a yearly highlight. There have been times when – well, I don’t think I’ve laughed as much in public – but they are also always deeply interesting. There cannot be many people who can call upon such a wealth of knowledge about photography – he is still teaching it after what must be over 60 years!

Don’t miss it!!!

The L&CPU KNOCK-OUT

We have never entered before – it costs nothing – save your Chairman’s time (!) as Simon and I have to be in Chorley on the day so – why not.

It has proved a harder job than expected since the images I have to hand are all 1024px and 1400px ones are required. Still thanks to all those who got something in to me in time for the deadline (TODAY!)

We viewed the pictures on Thursday. They are:-

LOCAL HISTORY

Some of you will not know that we have a link-up with the Local History Society. We have photographed buildings, places and objects which they think are worth recording.

If you are interested in helping there is a fairly big suggested project at present. I quote from their secretary’s email…

"Two buildings: Mirion House on the corner of Mirion Street; Ludford Street School - especially the interior quadrangle. On Nantwich Road, we thought most of it. from the Crewe Arms down to at least Dane Bank Ave (both sides) Much of it woud be details - especially on the first floor, above the modern shop fronts, but there are some fine houses as well."

John Royle
8th November 2008
CREWE PS
 

31st October 2008

First Print Competition – Chris Kay ARPS
 

This must have been the most eagerly awaited competition for a while! Chris Kay did an excellent job with helpful comments, encouraging tone and good spread of marks.

Thanks to so many of the new members for “having a go”. There was lots of promise there from you and you all made a good showing. It is not easy to enter your first competition and I like to think that the large number of entries means that we have given you the right encouragement. As Simon always says – we were all in the same place once!

One problem is that we like to maintain anonymity in order not to discourage anyone from entering – even the judge doesn’t know whose work it is. Then we just announce the names of those who have the top scores – assuming that they don’t mind everyone knowing!! BUT you sit there not knowing who has produced what. Last year we started to try and get round this by displaying the winning prints and saying who the authors were but last night there wasn’t the time to do this, which is a shame.

We will try to do something about this – I think it is important to know who is doing what so that you know who to talk to if they are doing similar work or seem to have an answer to a problem which is besetting you.

RESULTS

COLOUR

Horse Whisperer – Dot Johnson – 20

Dot produced some excellent images last year – her first full year with us - and it was good to see her make this great start to the new season.

Castle Guards – Les Simpson – 19

Les will be delighted that this image of his did so well. He always enters prints which are well balanced for colour and are sharp and detailed but I thing this may have been his first excursion into the more “creative” aspects of Photoshop. Expect more!

Moto Cross Racer – Ian Whiston – 18

Ian is really skilled at capturing these action shots and this was another exciting one.

Tomb, Laycock Church – John Royle -18

I thought my Val D’Orcia Evening was better because of its serenity but Chris is right, there were all kinds of lovely tints in the image of the tomb. This was printed on Permajet Papyrus, which I think adds a lot to the qualities of a picture like this.

Female Southern Hawker – Patrick Whalley – 18

Everything you look for in a shot like this; good overall sharpness, whole animal clearly depicted, few distractions, good lighting.

MONOCHROME

Leaf Skeletons – Carol Cotter – 20

An outstanding piece of work in every way. A “no-brainer” as a winner from the start. We may already have seen the best mono picture of the season in this one.

Leading Boxer To Work – Ken Dickenson – 19

Was a lovely study which I guess was taken at the Black Country Museum.

Twos Company – Ken Dickenson – 18

Next week – we do “battle” with Alsager.

They have said that they have problems with their digital projection so would rather stick with the traditional prints and slides and not include PDIs as originally proposed.

We have selected the prints and slides to be used on the usual basis of looking at what did well last year and also looking to variety of subject matter too.

As you know, we have booked the Library room for next week too so that a contingent can go to Alsager while the rest of you (perhaps mainly the newcomers) remain at Crewe for a session about presentation of work and the artistic side of photography. I don’t expect to be demonstrating Photoshop tricks, although it is inevitable that the way we process our pictures will come into it.

John Royle
31st October 2008

26th October 2008

This week was…Robertshaw Trophy Leek

Leek Photographic Society hosted an excellent night and the judge, Alan Towse, had a tough job picking the winners from the great selection of images from all 4 competing clubs.  Although we didn't win, Crewe came a creditable second:

Results - LEEK 206, CREWE 198, MACCLESFIELD 191 and BLYTHE BRIDGE 189.

Alan is a professional photographer and a stickler for detail and freely admitted that he's not too keen on overly manipulated or digital art type images.  Alan also mentioned that he'd been sent the image files before the competition and had found that a number of the JPEG images contained detailed information in the EXIF metadata not only about how the image was taken but also in some cases who the authors were (if they'd included this in the EXIF data).  If you want to know more about this there's a thread on the L&CPU forum here.
 

NEXT WEEK – Thursday 30rd October - 1st League Print Competition

Last year our entry for the print competitions was simply stunning! We saw outstanding work which eventually gained us a very good place in the L&CPU Annuals – but, more important, delighted us. So what has this year in store? We had several new members last year who were just starting out in Club photography yet they amazed us with their work. We had existing members who really got into their stride with printing and handed in some of their best work yet.  Then we had a handful of photographers join us from another club and their work – as expected – came right in at the top.   I can honestly say, having looked at the newcomers pictures this year that there is loads of promise there and I particularly like the imagination that has gone into so many of the prints - they are really like a breath of fresh air and I'm sure we will be greatly increasing the pool of talent in the club.  So it will be a very exciting.
 

17th October 2008

This week was…L&CPU DOCUMENTARY PRINTS and MINI OPEN EVENING

We didn’t use the commentary supplied with the folio but just discussed the pictures. I think we got far more out of it. New members will have got to know the established ones a little better too as they made their comments.

We then viewed the ROBERTSHAW TROPHY 2007 images and our submission for 2008.

We then quickly scanned through an item on resizing PDIs. This underlined the points Simon made last week.

An issue which arose I don’t think I was emphatic enough about and I posted the following message on the L&C Forum this morning…

“Last night we were going through re-sizing etc to help those who were entering their first projected digital image comps.  One issue that came up was filling the unused area of the 1024x768 with black. Some wanted to use 50% grey or a "colour".  The point about using black is that you do not see it. As soon as you use anything else it becomes a "frame" and attracts your attention.  Someone said a black changes you perception of the image like a black mount card would a print - no, because perceptually it does not exist.  I asked the question a few years back - when we were all leaning - why not use "frames" for our PDIs? - lots of interesting effects could be created. The answer is that they immediately become part of your picture and may ruin it.  I even wonder about the wisdom of using a 2, 3 or 4 px "stroke" round the image - it can easily get lost if it is at the immediate edge of the picture on any side. I would say OK but be careful.  Stick to black.”

A mount card displays your print, a frame on a PDI becomes part of the image.

NEXT WEEK – Thursday 23rd October - Robertshaw Trophy Leek

The event is at Leek Photographic Club who meet at the Moorlands District Council Offices in Stockwell Street, Leek (DIRECTIONS). The postcode is: ST13 6HQ.  They have booked a bigger room than their normal meeting place.  It starts at 7.30.  Paul Hill is offering lifts, so is Simon Cotter. My car will be full. Email me if you need a lift and I’ll pass the message on.

There will be NO MEETING at CREWE LIBRARY – unless you are interested in POLISH POETRY – they are using the room.

30th October – First Print Competition – also HAND – IN for the first PDI Comp

Please name your files with COMPETITION NUMBER and TITLE e.g.

33 The Old Barn
33 Barn Owl At Dusk
33 Nuthatch (well, there has to be one – at least!!!!)

Then be sure that there is a SECOND way I can identify the author (you!) – if you EMAIL it – fine – I know who it is from. If you bring a CD – write your name on it (no labels please). If you bring the images on a memory stick to load on to the club laptop put them into a FOLDER with your name on it and copy the FOLDER onto the desktop of the computer.  There will also be a REGISTER available. Check that you are on it if you have already given me images, fill it in if not.  Remember that there are now NO CATEGORIES, NO SUBJECTS.

Phew! Then they say entering digital comps is easy!!!

Simon and I have updated the instructions for entering a digital comp and they're available on the Downloads page.

6th November – Split meeting. Contingent to Alsager for the Inter-Club Battle – others at Crewe Library for an Open Evening.

John Royle
17th October 2008
 

11th October 2008

This week was…An OPEN EVENING

Here is Simon’s account of what went on. So pleased to hear that you all had a useful and enjoyable evening.

“Thanks to everyone for their input and participation at last Thursday’s Open Evening, it was really great to see so many new members who are actively getting involved in the society (and on the L&CPU forum http://www.lcpu.org/forum/index.php , why not come and join us?).  We’ve already started to get a good entry for the first print competition (don’t forget your entries need to be in next Thursday) and it looks like its going to be a good one!

 Despite the society’s laptop suffering a bout of hard drive indigestion, we spent the first half of the evening on digital image preparation and some digital imaging techniques:

 ·         For anyone who didn’t get a copy of John’s handout on preparing images for digital projected images competitions (the hand in date for our first one is the 30^th of October) you can download a copy from the downloads section of our website:  http://www.crewephotosoc.com/downloads.htm ..  Remember when you’re re-sizing your images that if your image is in landscape format (i.e. wider than it is tall) you want the maximum dimension to be the width at 1024 pixels and if its in portrait format (taller than it is wide) you want the height to be the maximum dimension at 768 pixels high.  Also don’t forget that when you’re reducing your image size to use the Bicubic Sharper option to prevent your images becoming soft (as Ian Whiston showed us you can set that as your default setting in preferences) and that once you’ve reduced an image’s size you can’t increase it again so always use a copy and not your original file.  Its also important to ensure that your images are in the sRGB colour space and you can check and convert them by using the “Convert to Profile” command in Photoshop.  Although on the night we weren’t able to find out how to achieve the same thing in Paint Shop Pro I’ve had a quick look on t’internet and at least for version X it appears that you need to go the “File” menu then “Color Management” and the “Color Working” Space.  Finally when saving as jpegs make sure the image is in 8-bit mode (Image\Mode\8-bits/Channel) otherwise, as I know from experience, you’ll spend ages trying to figure out why you can’t save your file as a jpg.

·        Next we had a look at using the “Shadow/Highlight…” command to recover blown highlights (over exposed sections) in an image and despite my attempt to by-pass it, we then did a quick and dirty sky replacement on Les’ Ramsey pier shot.  Ron Smith gave us some excellent advice about shooting stock sky shots through the year and each time taking shots North, South , East and West so that you’ve always got a shot with the light in the right direction.  Again John Royle has a handout on “How to Transfer Part of One Picture into Another” on the Downloads page of the website.

·         I then gave a demonstration on how to use the Dodge and Burn tools at Exposure settings of no more than 5% to respectively gradually lighten and darken images.  I’m grateful to Ken Dickenson and Ian Whiston for pointing out that these tools only really work well on monochrome images and then giving us a brilliant two-handed ad hoc demo on how to achieve the same effect non-destructively for colour images as follows:

o        From the “Layer” menu select “New” then “Layer…” and in the New Layer dialogue box select “Overlay” from the Mode drop down list and then tick the “Fill with Overlay-neutral colour (50% Gray)” box and the “OK”

o        Select the Brush tool with a soft edged brush and set the brush opacity to a fairly low setting (e.g. 10-20%).

o        Set the colour picker colours to Black and White (click on the little black and white box symbol above the colour picker to quickly set them and use the curved double headed arrow to switch between Black and White as your brush colour).  Then paint on the new layer in black to darken parts of the image and white to lighten them.

o        The great thing about this technique is that it works for colour and monochrome images, you can undo any changes by just painting back over it with the opposite colour or if you really make a mess you can just delete the layer without effecting your original image.

·         Finally we had a brief session on using Masks in Photoshop to make selective adjustments to part of an image such as “Popping Colour” (creating a layer copy of your image, converting it to monochrome and then painting in black on the layer mask to reveal just part of the original colour image).  Again I have a handout on the Downloads page of the website about Layers and Layer Masks and one of the key things to remember is that when you want to work on the Layer Mask you need to first click on the Layer Mask thumbnail on the Layers palette.

After the tea break, we entered into the spirit of Blue Peter’s current 50^th birthday celebrations with Ken Last giving us a really entertaining and informative demonstration on mounting prints using PVA adhesive.  Ken extolled the virtues of PVA: it’s solvent free - no smelly chemicals; won’t damage prints and easily washable.  Although it eventually provides a permanent mount initially you can re-position the print on the backing board and sandwiching the mounted prints under re-usable sheets of baking parchment and the Yellow Pages produces a nice flat, well mounted print.  Let’s hope Ken can give us some more demonstrations in the future, since despite his protestations, he’s a natural.

We finished off the evening with the first part of the digital image section of the Royal Photographic Society’s Natural History Exhibition and wasn’t there some stunning natural history images on show and the narrator was a real Fun Guy (sorry!).  Hopefully there’ll be an opportunity at a future meeting to see the rest of the exhibition.

Simon"

Changes To The Programme

We are absolutely delighted that so many new people have decided to join us and we are keeping you very much in mind in making a few adjustments to the programme.

Our first meeting and our first Open Evening were both designed around your needs. This next week we have one of the L&CPU Folios and we would normally devote the whole evening to that but we are planning one or two extra items for you. If there is anything in particular you would like us to deal with please email me back straight away.

Now; there are two meetings in the next few weeks which take place at other clubs and there would normally be no meeting at the Library. As you can imagine we have to book the room well in advance and we said that it would not be needed on those occasions. However, we have tried to rebook the room so that we can have a “split” meetings – anticipating that the new members would prefer to spend a little more time on things aimed directly at them rather than go to the other clubs.

The bad news is that it was only possible to get the room for one of those evenings.

So the programme is now looking like this:

We trust that you will appreciate these changes being made for you and give the events your full support.

HAND-IN FOR FIRST COMPETITION EXTENDED -  You now have until Thursday 16^th October.

CREWE PS EXCURSION PLANNED - Les Simpson is organising a trip to BURY MARKET on December 6^th. So you can stock up with black puddings for Christmas and also do some street photography. The day will include a visit to the East Lancs Railway. Sign up next week.

John Royle

11^th October 2008

2nd October 2008

Great atmosphere last night – partly because we had a speaker – Gordon Jenkins – who shares our approach that it should all be good fun as well as helpful and informative!

 Before I say something about Gordon’s talk though, here are some news items:-

This week was…GORDON JENKINS - COLOUR

Gordon plays a leading role in running the L&CPU. He has been President twice, has served on the Executive Committee for nearly 30 years and is presently Treasurer and Webmaster AND PAGB Representative. You will not find anyone with a better knowledge of the clubs and photographers in the North West.  His qualification for tonight’s talk, however, was 40 years working in the printing industry.

We learned that how we see colours depends on several things. Firstly our own eye and brain; 8% of men and 1% of women are “red-green” colour blind, a small number are totally colour blind, seeing only in mono! Even those with good colour vision no doubt see colours differently. Secondly, the light we are viewing by; things appear coloured because of the quality of the light reflected and if the light shining on an object differs in colour, so will the object (metamerism). Thirdly the adjacent colours and tones affect our perception of colour – important in choosing colour of print mounts for example.  You can never get a print of a photograph to look identical to the image on your monitor. The image colours are being produced in quite different ways and also the brightness of your monitor exceeds the white base of your paper many times over.  However, it is possible to get an acceptable representation.

Gordon next talked about “Colour Space”. Munsell (1911) was the first to try and quantify colours by arranging them by hue, saturation and brightness. The whole “model” is really what colour space is all about.  Unfortunately our monitors and digital projectors, and to a lesser extent our  printers are not capable of reproducing the full range of colours which our eyes can perceive. The “range” of normal monitors and projectors is more like that known as  sRGB. Adobe RGB is a bigger “colour space” and, in the early days of digital photography we were told it was better and we should use it but we cannot see it on our monitors and projectors and so working in sRGB is more sensible and ensures at least that what we see on our screens is what should be seen on any other (if both are properly “calibrated”). So, work in sRGB.

Finally Gordon alarmed us all by talking about the colours in your inkjet print fading. Dye-based inks are particularly prone to this and we are seeing a gradual switch to pigment inks in the latest printers. Pigment ink is far more “light fast”.  

A great evening and great atmosphere. Thanks Gordon.

NEXT WEEK – Open Evening

Simon is organising some Photoshop demos to cover points such as masking that you have asked about. He will also get you started on preparing images for digital competitions. Ken is demonstrating mounting pictures and we also have several digital exhibitions to look at. Don’t forget to bring in any pictures you want opinions on.

John Royle

CREWE PS

27th September 2008

It was so good to see many of the new faces again this week. Remember that you can attend three meetings without joining but I am very pleased to see that many of you already have.

This week was – Tony Pioli – Photographing Insects

Tony’s talk was absolutely jam packed with information and advice. He paid full attention to those two elements of successful picture making; the art and the craft.

Craft – the technical aspects. He has been using  100 ISO film until recently and the ability to use a much higher sensitivity setting with a digital camera makes life easier. He surprised me by saying that most of his pictures are taken at 1/125 and f5.6 but this is the stricture of using relatively slow film.  With a 135mm lens and flexible extension tubes he can work at about 16in and get half life size. He also had an 80mm lens which gives life size and a working distance of about 10inches. This is on a 35mm camera. Most digitals have a smaller sensor. We can go into this point again.  There is a trade-off. Longer lens = bigger working distance but it is heavier and produces a smaller depth of field. (With Canon you can get a 60mm which is made for the smaller sensor SLRs which is a good neat and SMALL lens, but many prefer the 100mm for it’s bigger working distance and ability to throw the background more out-of-focus. The 180mm is a really fine lens but considerably bigger).  Another trade-off is aperture choice. A smaller aperture (f22-f32) gives you a bigger depth of field but the sharpness can fall off badly due to diffraction. A very large aperture (f2.8) lets in lots of light, allows a faster shutter speed but may give you a depth of field so small as to make focussing a real headache.

Tony sometimes uses twin flash heads. This gives plenty of light but often makes a dark background which is not liked by judges (but you may have a saleable picture).  He uses a monopod because of its flexibility over a tripod, but there is the limitation that you cannot get low down. When he needs to do this he just rests the camera on his camera bag and lies down to take the shot.  With a small depth of filed to work with rock the camera back and to, up and down to check that the plane of the camera is in line with the insect – that way you will get more in focus. Don’t worry about the antennae they will usually be unsharp – especially in a side shot and in species where they are long.

Art – when Tony was showing us his pictures he started talking mainly about composition. This is where he achieves the high standards which have earned him an ABPE. Very few hold this honour – it is awarded on the basis of the number of acceptances in certain National Competitions. 

Some of the points he mentioned were:-

Thanks Tony for an excellent evening. As I said Tony will be back later in the year as a judge if you want to ask him anything else about his macro-work.

Next week – Gordon Jenkins – Colour

Gordon Jenkins has twice been President of the L&CPU and is currently Treasurer, Webmaster and PAGB rep. He has served the L&C for over twenty years. The reason he will be with us though is that he gives an excellent talk on COLOUR. He works in the printing industry and so has to deal with issues of representing colour everyday.  Getting the colours right is sometimes absolutely vital and it is always a factor in making a pleasing colour print of PDI.   Come along and gain the vital background knowledge to this subject.  Gordon has the presence and sense of humour to make this technical subject engaging and accessible.

John Royle

26^th September 2008

20th September 2008

A very warm welcome to the Club to all the potential new members who visited us this week. I hope you found us as welcoming as we promised and that we have something to offer you in your photography.

PHOTO DAY – 13^th September 2008

It was hugely enjoyable – and I think successful as an introduction to our Club. Proof is that we had over a dozen new visitors last night at the first meeting.

There were about 20 entries in the PRINT COMPETITION.  The 3 winning images are here

First prize went to PAUL HILL for his “Kingfisher”, which was an absolutely first class natural history shot. Paul could be right up among our leading natural history workers straight away. Paul won a year’s membership to the club so he can come to all 33(?) meetings completely free!

We enjoyed EMMA SWAIN’S picture of the little boy in the school sports sack race. It was well done, full of life and well printed and took SECOND PRIZE of a portrait session with Stella Rew-Dixon our professional studio photographer member (see http://www.modernimagesphotography.co.uk/  ).

THIRD PRIZE went to Darren Carter for his beautifully composed shot of a lighthouse and stormy sky (why didn’t we ask for titles??). Darren wins a £20 Jessops Voucher.

We should make special mention of two other images which we considered. Jules Hornbrook’s picture of a rock group – this was an exciting shot, full of drama and well composed – if we can help Jules get a good quality large print off this image I think we could see it do very well this year. Stage shots are quite popular and this was as good as any in last years L&CPU Annuals. Don't miss Jules's excellent Crewe Blog on www.crewe.tv .  Another print that we liked was one of a dragonfly. The insect was really sharp and detailed and well placed in the frame, no distracting bits in the picture – the only thing which let it down was an overpowering green cast to the image. Again I felt we could help this person turn this image into something really special.

Open Evening 18th September 2008

COMPETITION RULE CHANGES

PLEASE READ THE RULES. Every member gets a paper copy – they are also on the website.

MOUNTING PRINTS

Tom spoke for a few minutes about print mounting. This was just intended to get you started. We recommend buying a really good quality bevel cutter and ruler such as the LOGAN – the nearest stockist I know is HOBBYCRAFT. It will set you back £50-60 and you also need a straight cutter, their flat knife is good and takes the same blades, £8.  Tom uses the Longridge kit which features a Logan bevel cutter.  The mounting board is best bought from Alexanders at the Dagfield Craft Centre – you will get a 10% discount if you buy 10 sheets and they will guillotine it to 40x50cm. You get two mounts that size from each sheet. Their 1.5 or 1 millimetre thick “grey board” is OK for backing and works out at 90p sheet. I have started to risk the thin card which is 50p.  You could alternatively ask Les Simpson for the address of the nice lady who does his for him (mounts that is!) or buy smaller cut card from Wilkinsons – who, incidentally, are great for frames – but check the quality before buying.  Check out our Downloads page for a couple of guides on print mounting.

I’m leaving it at that for this week but in signing off I remind you that we have Tony Pioli with us next week. His pictures will delight you all I know, but I especially asked him to talk about Photographing Insects because of the widespread interest in macro photography. Don’t miss it!!

Oh, and don’t forget our monthly topics of SHADOWS or FLORA & FAUNA.  

Bring ‘em in!!

John Royle

PHOTO DAY 13th SEPTEMBER 2008

Crewe Photographic Society held our first free Photo Day from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday the 13^th of September at Crewe Public Library.  The highlight was our free photo competition and we had some excellent entries which made our judges' job very difficult but eventually they whittled the entries down to three worthy winners:

It was great to meet everyone who attended and we hope you all enjoyed the exhibition of our member's work.  Our free Photo and Camera clinic's were kept very busy offering help and advice on improving visitor's images and getting the best out of their cameras and a free Top Tips" help sheet was available which can also be found on our Downloads page.

It was  a great  opportunity to meet our friendly member’s, find out what we get up to and get a preview of our brand new season’s programme. which starts this Thursday evening, 18th September.  We are back at our usual home of Crewe Library and meeting start every Thursday evening from 7:45 pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Programme.  Do come and see what we are all about, potential new members can give us the “three meetings trial” before joining if you like.  Full details of the season's programme are available here.

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