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St Ives Photographic Club

Founded in 1972, the St Ives Photographic Club is a friendly and active club in Cambridgeshire, dedicated to the encouragement and development of photography in the community.

The club meets at 8pm every Tuesday evening between September and April in the Free Church, St Ives. We also have an active programme of outside events from May to August.

Our autumn/winter programme of meetings offer a lively mixture of talks from both amateur and professional photographers, practical evenings, internal competitions, practical demonstrations of photographic techniques and equipment, and competitions with other clubs. To see more details of our programme, look under the Programmes section.

Our summer programme is focussed on a series of outdoor activities across a range of photographic subjects.

Members are keen to share their expertise over a wide range of photographic techniques and subjects, from natural history and landscape to creative work.

If you are interested in photography and live in St Ives or the surrounding area, this is the club for you and we welcome new members who enjoy photography at all experience levels, young and old, amateur and professional.

Image of the Month

The image of the month for January, as chosen by the Club President, is “Racing against the ghost runners” by Ian Montgomery.

Upcoming Events 2024-2025

  • Tue
    28
    Jan
    2025

    Competition - Monthly 4 - David Steel

    8:00 pmFree Church
  • Tue
    04
    Feb
    2025

    Closeup/Macro Flower Lecture - Ken Payne

    8:00 pmFree Church

    Ken will start the evening with a short slide show about the equipment he uses and the lighting set up, which is daylight with a white board for the fill.

    He follows with a practical in Lightroom and Photoshop during which you will see how Ken stacks several images together to get a full depth of field result. Backgrounds are also changed to complete the picture.

    A full slide show of flowers in all disguises for the second half.

  • Tue
    11
    Feb
    2025

    "Speed dating"

    8:00 pmFree Church

    Will we love your images? One-to-one critique sessions

    1. Bring in 3 images, by way of Print or DPI that you would like feedback on. Please bring DPI images on a Laptop, Tablet or Phone - we only have a limited number of laptops to use if the image is on a USB key.
    2. There will be chairs set up with randomly chosen members sitting on each one.
    3. Choose one of your images to present to the member next to you for friendly, constructive feedback.
    4. Members will be rotated to sit at each chair for 3 minutes to either give or receive feedback. At the end of each interval a bell or whistle is given to alert members to move onto the next chair.

 

Header Image © Steve Laws