Stations around the room will help with Photoshop, Lightroom and BeFunky editing – and possibly Affinity (tuition will depend on the specific expertise of members who are willing to share their knowledge).

Members will have been given an image to process, and this evening we will look at their edits and see what different ideas are presented

The first half of the meeting is full of information!  We will start by seeing your best image from the summer events – members can email their image to the programme secretary.  We will then be looking at the upcoming programme to see what is on offer over the season.  As part of that we will introduce the Buddy Scheme and also a new Edit challenge (see links below). For this, members have been given 6 images, which they can edit any way they like.  Members can choose how many of the 6 to edit.  We will look at  the results on 10th November.   (To help with the Edit Challenge and Buddy Scheme, on 15th September there will be a post processing night – stations around the room will help with Photoshop, Lightroom and BeFunky editing – and possibly Affinity. – Tuition available will depend on the specific expertise of members who are willing to share their knowledge)..

In the second half of the first evening, Gary will present images taken by our members for the Millennium.  It will be interesting to see how much change there has been in the last 26 years!   We are delighted to have the original prints, which were being stored for us at Huntingdon Library.

For more information on the Edit Challenge and Buddies’ Scheme, please use the links

Edit Challenge

Buddies Scheme

Naomi Saul will be judging the competition between St Ives. St Neots, Ely and Swavesey.  Members of all clubs are welcome to attend.

A review of all the summer events with awards for the Best Summer Images.

An introduction to the new Buddy Scheme.  Those who wish to will be paired with a “Buddy” to work on a photographic project together for presentation to the club at a later meeting (3rd February 2026).   The project will involve composing an image, and processing it for presentation.  The subject matter is “Just Two”.     We will try to make sure that inexperienced photographers are paired with someone with more experience.

If you would like to be a part of the Buddy scheme, you can sign up before the first meeting by contacting Nicky – programme@stives-photoclub.org.uk

Prints should be entered in 4 out of 6 categories of the entrant’s choice.

The 2025-2026 season categories are:

Creative – defined as Altered Reality. There must be a change to an original image, although the main content should still be identifiable. Artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be included as part of the image. The image cannot have been constructed by computer.

Landscape – Images of inland, coastal or maritime scenes.

Natural History – Images conforming to the definition of Nature, which is as follows:
▪ May depict landscape, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant
organisms as the main subject matter.
▪ This includes subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical
gardens, aquariums or enclosures.
▪ Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
▪ Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour
correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and
sharpening, is allowed.
▪ Cloning of image defects and minor distractions, including overlapping elements, are
permitted.
▪ Photographs of anthropology or archaeology, human created hybrid plants, cultivated
plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is
any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.

Architecture – An Architectural image must have the primary emphasis on either the interior or exterior of a building or architectural structure.

Macro – A macro image must portray either a small subject (such as an insect) or a small part of a larger object (such as a leaf on a tree) in great detail. The subject is not limited to the natural world.

Street – Informal, candid portraits of people and incidents in public places.

Monochrome Competition

Any monochrome image entered in either class of the monthly competitions or in either class of the annual competitions, scoring 9 or over, shall also be eligible for the monochrome trophy.

DPI Images should be entered in 4 out of 6 categories of the entrant’s choice.

The 2025-2026 season categories are:

Creative – defined as Altered Reality. There must be a change to an original image, although the main content should still be identifiable. Artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be included as part of the image. The image cannot have been constructed by computer.

Landscape – Images of inland, coastal or maritime scenes.

Natural History – Images conforming to the definition of Nature, which is as follows:
▪ May depict landscape, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant
organisms as the main subject matter.
▪ This includes subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical
gardens, aquariums or enclosures.
▪ Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
▪ Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour
correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and
sharpening, is allowed.
▪ Cloning of image defects and minor distractions, including overlapping elements, are
permitted.
▪ Photographs of anthropology or archaeology, human created hybrid plants, cultivated
plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is
any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.

Architecture – An Architectural image must have the primary emphasis on either the interior or exterior of a building or architectural structure.

Macro – A macro image must portray either a small subject (such as an insect) or a small part of a larger object (such as a leaf on a tree) in great detail. The subject is not limited to the natural world.

Street – Informal, candid portraits of people and incidents in public places.

Louisa is well known for her textured images which are artworks taken from various elements of her photography.  In this session she will talk us through how to work with textures in order to create effects to elevate your photography.

Please bring a camera!