Time and Place
Our meeting place is the North Chadderton Conservative Club (The Blue Club), Victoria Street, Chadderton, OL9 0HH.
Map to North Chadderton Conservative Club.
Parking: there is free parking in the evenings in Victoria Street in the car park opposite the club.
Meetings are at 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start. Doors open from 7 pm. A few meetings will offer streaming by Zoom.
Temporary change of meeting time
From 9th May to about the end of July (date TBC), doors will be open at 7:30pm and meetings will start later than usual.
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| Date | Meeting/Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 30th May | Paul Mitchell FRPS | Also via Zoom. Paul is a highly regarded judge and lecturer. Topics for his lectures cover Landscape, Creative, Pinhole and Photoshop/Lightroom techniques |
| 6th June | Street Photograhy Evening in Manchester | Details to be announced. |
| 13th June | “What are we going to do about AI?” Christine Widdall FBPE MPAGB EFIAP etc | Also via Zoom. A preview of Christine’s new lecture on AI covering, what it is, how it works, where it hides in your software and how it can be used. |
| 20th June | Members’ Evening – Panoramas Gallery | An evening to show and discuss your stitched or cropped panoramas. Upload to portal. |
| 27th June | Table top photography (practical) | Different from the Close up and macro shots these are more general still life. |
| 4th July | Night Time Photography Aftermath – Gallery | Upload your night time images to the portal beforehand. |
| 11th July | Appraisal PDI / Prints | Upload images to the portal. |
| 18th July | Warwick Style Fun Competition | Upload to portal by Friday 12th July |
| 25th July | 4th Quarterly Competitions | Upload to portal. |
| 1st August | Summerschool – Lightroom, working with folders and tethering a camera for live shooting. Batch processing. | Gavin Taylor |
| 8th August | Summerschool – Basics of cataloguing. Processing from RAW. | Mike Lawrence |
| 15th August | Summerschool – Putting your passion into image processing…creating something more than just a record. Chris will show her own style of processing, with the stages of production of some of her images, including some of the techniques involved. | Christine Widdall |
| 22nd August | Summerschool – Processing Questions and Answers | Panel of experienced members |
| 29th August | HDR Techniques with Justin Garner | “This is a lecture on the history of HDR photography and my approach to creating High Dynamic Range images. I speak about the things I look for and the techniques I use. “ |
| 5th Sept | Annual Club Competition part 1 | Rules in members area of the website |
| 12th Sept | Annual Club Competition part 2 | Rules in members area of website |
| 19th Sept | President’s Evening | |
| 26th Sept | AGM plus Awards Night | The night we vote for the President and Council Members for next year. If you think you can help by joining the council, please speak to the Secretary or president for more information. We will also be presenting the awards won over the last 12 months of competitions. |
| 3rd Oct | “Scotland” with Stephen Ball | |
| 10th Oct | Oldham Camera Club Mono Print Competition | NB this is an away battle at Oldham CC – no meeting at the Blue Club that night |
| 17th Oct | Appraisal PDI / Prints | Upload to portal |
| 24th Oct | Print Folio from the L&CPU | |
| 31st Oct | Halloween – Photo shoot – with Models | Bring camera! |
| 7th Nov | First Quarterly Prints and PDI | Upload to portal |
| 14th Nov | Self Portrait Gallery | A show and tell session |
| 21st Nov | TBC (speaker) | |
| 28th Nov | Home battle and social event with Evolve Group | |
| 5th Dec | L&CPU Folio of prints | |
| 12th Dec | Architectural / Record Shots- Gallery | A show and tell session |
| 19th Dec | Christmas Party | Fun and games and festive food |
| 26th Nov | No meeting | Happy Festive Season to all members and friends |