When Paul kindly offered members of CPS a landscape workshop on the Roaches several of of immediately jumped at the chance. We were rewarded with and enjoyable and education evening during the golden hour. At ‘base camp’ Paul explained what to look out for compositionally when finding a suitable landscape. He also taught us about […]
April’s monthly theme is ‘Opposites’
April’s theme is chosen to make us think a bit harder of how to photograph the concept of opposites. The scope is wide and once you start thinking the ideas will flow. Show us what you can come up with.
John Holt ARPS DPAGB BPE4 – Digital AVs
Though we would claim to be far from competition driven at Crewe we certainly seem to be in the thick of them at the moment, with the L&CPU Annuals and our own Annuals, not to mention the competition with Sandbach and the North Cheshire Challenges. So, it was such a pleasure to sit back and […]
March’s monthly theme is ‘When Colour Matters’
The monthly theme for March gives you plenty of scope to use your imagination to experiment with colours. While to many colours can cause confusion, the use of few can be easier to control and be more effective. The subject matter is open, it’s just the clever use of colour that we’re looking for.
February’s Monthly Theme is ‘Focus for Effect’
Inspired by Ian’s recent Forum post entitled ‘The fetish of sharpness isn’t new’ I’ve decided use this topic as February’s theme. So don’t worry what a judge might say, just use your focusing techniques to create a pleasing effect for yourself and share it with our members. Here’s a chance do try something a bit […]
January’s Monthly theme is ‘January’
Happy New Year! A new year. A fresh start. New Year resolutions and all that stuff. What does thoughts does January bring to your mind? Sales, bad weather, early spring flowers, exercise? Demonstrate your ideas in this post.
December’s Monthly theme is ‘Christmas’
The theme for December 2015 is ‘Christmas’. Firstly, let me apologise for kicking off this months’ theme a few days late, but it’s been worth the wait. I’ve chosen the seasonal theme of Christmas to get everyone in the festive mood. It’s a simple enough theme that everyone can find all around them so it […]
19 November 2015 Talk by Paul Hill BPE
At this week’s meeting we viewed all the prints in the latest L&CPU Folio. Since PDIs of the prints had been asked for the presentation of the accompanying AV was very good and improved our enjoyment of the prints. After the break we had member Paul Hill talk to us. He had not publicised what […]
Front Page October 19 2015
This week we featured the work of our student member, Morgan Griffiths on the front page. Although this shot didn’t figure in the leaderboard in our first PDI of the season it is a very note-worthy shot; brave, bold, sharp and depicting our busy urban life. It is the kind of work we are growing […]
Robertshaw Trophy meeting at Holmes Chapel
Last nights meeting at Holmes Chapel saw us compete for the Robertshaw PDI Trophy against Leek, Holmes Chapel, Bylthe Bridge and Macclesfield. A good turnout of Crewe members saw a high standard of work keenly judged by Robert Millin who gave us a talk on Sports photography a couple of weeks ago. After spending over […]