Ron Smith is an honorary member of ours who had a long career in teaching photography in London before moving into our area to retire. He continued to teach an extremely popular U3A class until ill-health forced him to stop but he can claim to have taught photography for over 60 years. In the 1970s he […]
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Chairman’s Choice 2016
For over ten years now our chairman has made his “Chairman’s Choice” award during presentation evening. Our awards naturally tend to be for successes in our competitions and just two of them; Chairman’s Choice and the Ron Smith Cup, are in recognition of other qualities. The Ron Smith Cup is awarded for special creativity displayed […]
Paul Gallagher at RPS DIG 1/5/16
Some of us went to talks by Paul Gallagher on processing and printing. Here are some notes I made during the two talks, which I thought might be of interest. Paul uses Adobe Camera Raw (ADR) and Photoshop (Ps). ACR is functionally the same as Lightroom. He works largely in mono. Starting in ACR…. Don’t […]
May’s Monthly Theme is Warm
We’ve decided to remove the restriction on when your ‘Warm’ themed photographs were taken so browse your archives and for your warm photos and share them with other members. Upload as many as you wish to May’s Monthly theme in your Forum. If anyone wants to see Ian’s document on uploading images to a post, please […]
Final meeting of the 2015-16 season
The Roaches Workshop Recently Paul Hill led a group of members on a visit to the Roaches in Staffordshire for a landscape workshop. This evening we saw a slideshow which Peter Robinson had compiled of some of the photographs taken. It was beautifully done, showing off the variety and quality of the work while illustrating […]
Inter-Club Competition with Nantwich CC – 14 April
We always enjoy inter-club events because it’s interesting to see what our neighbouring clubs are doing. This season one club, Whitchurch CC has backed out of all external competitions and so our tri-battle with them and MCCC earlier in the year will be the last we will see of their work. That is a pity, […]
Paul Hill’s Landscape Photography Workshop
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 […]
Portrait Competitions – 7 April 2016
The Maurice Ashwin Trophy for portraits is a print competition which has been with us for many years now but declining entries threatened its continuation a little while back and a PDI (Projected Digital Image) portrait competition was proposed. The projection competition became the Howard Edwards Trophy when Tom and Mary Seaton donated a trophy […]
Members Evening 31 March 2016
If you want to photograph something that has been pictured a million times before, and make it matter, you need to bring all your skills to bear. Peter Robinson has done just that with this shot of the Grand Canal. On the big screen in looked very impressive; it is against the light, but this […]
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.