Last night (11th October 2012) CPS members did something important in voting unanimously to make membership for “Juniors” (those lucky enough to be under 18) practically free. We sincerely hope that this makes our (presently 3) younger members feel especially valued and welcome to our society. We all know that it is likely that you […]
Copyright
Google will now allow you to search for places where your images appear on the Web. Go to http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html to find out more. A couple of weeks back I talked about copyright. I said that you can easily add a copyright note to your image by writing in the FILE INFO in your image processing software. […]
Meeting Thursday 11th October
The Results of the Robertshaw and the final PDI 1 2013 are now posted. This week we will be talking about mounting photographs and we will make reference to Cotswold Mounts http://www.cotswoldmounts.co.uk/ , Bailey Arts (Dagfields) http://www.baileyarts.co.uk/ , and Alexanders (Dagfields) http://www.alexanderpapersupplies.co.uk/ for mounting material or ready cut mounts. If you want to cut your […]
Success in the Robertshaw Trophy!
We were delighted last night with success in the annual inter-club competition for the Robertshaw Trophy in the face of strong competition from our friends from Leek, Holmes Chapel, Blythe Bridge and Macclesfield. The competition treated us all to a varied display of engaging images, many of great originality. The final scores were: Crewe 171, Leek 169, […]
First Competition Of The Season
The results are now posted here. Some observations – I think all the newcomers who put work in did very well. Everyone had at least one good score and please remember that the lowest score is often 12 and judges can go down to 8! You can modify your images before entering them again in the […]
A Special TWEET
You do not need to sign up to Twitter to see what Crewe PS is tweeting! Just go to www.twitter.com/@crewephotosoc and you can find out what Austin Thomas is up to in Africa (mainly taking photographs) and get all sorts of links to all sorts of photography. Enjoy! We did the selection for the Robertshaw […]
L&CPU Website
You can now view nearly 400 photographs from the L&CPU Archives via the website. If you are interested in photography as Art you will appreciate that line, form and composition have not changed since Art gained free expression and there is a great deal to admire in these images from yesteryear. With the question “Is […]
The Robertshaw Trophy Competition and Print League...
This week we have the first PDI Competition of the season – very good response with 31 entrants and some very promising work from people entering their first competition. Please read my earlier post about what to expect. The following week we host the ROBERTSHAW TROPHY and we will be welcoming visitors from Blythe Bridge, […]
Meeting 20th September; Sheila Davies DPAGB
Well Sheila certainly showed us what AVs are; superb sequences illustrated her jog round the globe. You don’t realise how cold it can get in the tropics and how very moist the atmosphere can be; so take extra layers for night shoots and waterproof bags and silica gel are needed to dry out equipment. Other nasties like […]
Your First Competition
A warm welcome to the new members and a big thank-you for entering our first competition – which many of you have. At Crewe we do not divide the field up into Advanced, Intermediate, Beginners etc, so everything is judged together. This first competition is also to be judged on the night , which means […]