What Do We Do?

Cranleigh Camera Club was established in the 1960s.  The age and ability range of the members is wide, and anyone interested in joining the Club need not feel that the meetings would be too technical!  Although digital photographers outnumber film photographers all are very welcome. NO distinction is made between film and digital prints for the purpose of workshops and competitions.

We have a variety of internal club competitions, talks from members and guest speakers on many varied subjects, workshops designed to improve our chances of good competition scores (!), trips away both to take pictures and to compete against other clubs, Christmas social evenings, and of course, our Annual Exhibition held in the Village Hall.

How to Join Us

We welcome all interested people to come and attend a couple of our meetings to see if you like us - we don't ask people to pay up immediately!

The Club  meets most Thursdays (September to June) at the Cranleigh Arts Centre, located at the eastern end of the village at the junction of the High Street, Ewhurst Road and Horsham Road (opposite the Esso filling station).  Limited car parking is available at the rear of the centre, accessible by turning into the road immediately next to the Centre. If full, there is ample parking in the car parks close by.

Meetings open at 7:30pm for 8:00pm start and consist of talks, demonstrations, competitions and practical sessions. 

Committee Members

Please feel free to contact any of the above.

CLUB RULES

　

1. CLUB NAME
The club shall be called Cranleigh Camera Club.

2. FUNCTIONS AND OBJECTIVES
The Club shall be non-trading and non-profit making, shall exist for the benefit of members and those interested in photography and shall meet on frequent occasions.

3. CLUB HEADQUARTERS
The Club shall meet at such premises as the Committee may from time to time decide.

4. COMMITTEE
a. The Committee of the Club may consist of a President, a Vice President and a Vice Chairman, and shall consist of a Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Programme Secretary and as many Committee Members as is felt to be necessary and who will take office at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting after being duly elected by the members. The Committee may amalgamate the posts of Secretary and Programme Secretary if they see fit to do so.

b. All business of the Club as well as the domestic and other arrangements for its establishment and management shall be conducted by the Committee, who may form sub-committees as deemed necessary. One committee member shall act as Public Relations Officer.

c. The Committee shall meet at least 4 times in one year.

d. Four Committee members shall form a quorum.

e. The Committee shall have power to co-opt members to the Committee if deemed necessary.

f. Cheques shall be signed by any two of the following; Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.

5. MEMBERSHIP
a. Membership shall be open to any person.

b. The Committee has the right to approve or reject any applications for membership without disclosing reasons to the applicant.

c. The Committee reserves the right to terminate the membership of the Club to any person without disclosing reasons. Such decision will be communicated in writing by the Chairman of the

Committee to the member concerned who shall have the right to a personal appeal to the Committee.

6. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
a. The rate of the Annual Subscription shall be determined at the Annual General Meeting.

b. If a subscription remains outstanding after 1st October, membership will be automatically suspended. If still unpaid after a further month, re-application will be necessary.

c. Juniors up to and including 18 years of age, those in full-time education and partners of members shall pay 50% of the full subscription.

d. Members joining after 1st January shall pay 75% of the full subscription.

7. GENERAL MEETINGS
a. The Annual General Meeting of the Club shall be held on the last Club meeting of each year, when all matters relating to finance and administration in the past year and in the future will be discussed as required. At least seven days notice will be given. The election of the Committee for the ensuing year will take place then.

b. An Extraordinary General Meeting may be called at any time by the Committee, seven days notice being given. An EGM may also be called at the request, in writing, of not less than 15% of the membership, the request stating the purpose of the meeting and is to be in the hands of the Secretary not less than fourteen days before the date of the meeting.

c. Each member shall have one vote. In the event of an equality of votes at a meeting, the Chairman may exercise his right to the casting vote. A quorum will consist of 35% of the membership.

d. At Annual General Meetings an audited income and expenditure account, together with a report of the finances of the Club shall be presented.

e. Matters for discussion under Any Other Business at Annual General Meetings must be submitted in writing, at least 14 days before the meeting.

8. ANNUAL REPORT
The Chairman shall provide a report on the activities of the Club over the previous year to be circulated with the Agenda of the Annual General Meeting.


9. WINDING UP
Any proposals for the winding up of the Club must be signed by at least 51% of the up membership and the decision to wind up must be taken at a General Meeting at which at least 75% of the members present and voting must agree. Any liabilities of the Club are vested in the members and likewise any assets shall be equally distributed between members.

10. RULES
All members shall agree to abide by the Club rules.

11. CLUB COMPETITION RULES
a. The procedures governing club rules are documented in Cranleigh Camera Club Competition Rules.

b. The Rules for the Club competitions for the following season shall be recommended by the Committee for discussion and agreement at the Annual General Meeting. All members will be given a copy of these rules.

12. ALTERATIONS OF THE RULES
The foregoing rules shall be the rules of the Club until amended or rescinded by the members at a General Meeting. Fourteen days notice must be given in writing for any proposed changes.

13. ANNUAL EXHIBITION
a. The Club’s Annual Exhibition is open to all fully paid up members. All images submitted for the Club’s Annual Exhibition must be the work of the entrant. With the exception of the portrait section, which must be home produced prints, prints may be either home or commercially produced. Images may be of any age.

b. The Annual Exhibition shall be held each spring. Images previously shown in an Annual Exhibition are not eligible. Club Competition Rules shall apply although images entered in section 9 of the Annual Exhibition (Portraits) must not be commercially processed.

c. All entries for the Annual Exhibition must be submitted by a deadline to be determined by the Committee.

d. The categories of images for the Annual Exhibition shall be:-

Section 1 Monochrome Prints – Open Subject
Section 2 Colour Prints – Open Subject
Section 3 Projected Images – Open Subject
Section 4 Monochrome Prints - Landscape
Section 5 Colour Prints – Landscape
Section 6 Projected Images – Landscape

Section 7 Colour Prints – Nature
Section 8 Projected Images – Nature
Section 9 Monochrome and colour prints – Portraits
Section 10 Monochrome Panels – 6 related prints
Section 11 Colour Panels – 6 related prints
Section 12 Projected Image Panels – 6 related images

e. The maximum number of entries per member per section (sections 1 – 8) shall be 4. The maximum number of entries for section 9 shall be 6 per member. Members may enter 1 panel in each of the panel sections. Prints are to be no larger than 40cm x 50cm (including mounts). Print panels shall not be larger than 60cm X 85cm.

a. An award shall be given for the best entry in each section. An award shall also be given for the best entry in the Annual Exhibition.

b. Queries or complaints must be addressed to the Secretary in writing. Judge’s decisions are final.

c. The Club cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss occurring to any work submitted in the Club’s Annual Exhibition.







　

COMPETITIONS

Introduction
These are the competition rules for the Cranleigh Camera Club for internal club competitions in the 2009 -2010 season. The print and PDI (projected digital images) sizes are in line with those stipulated for SPA interclub competitions, as is the PDI mode; this is to minimize the required adjustments to those images which are subsequently entered in external SPA competitions. The format of the image titles for PDI are similar to that required by the SPA, but have the added requirement of the photographer’s name. This is to aid our own competition administration, but, rest assured, names will not be projected during club competitions and will be stripped from the title if the image is subsequently selected for an external competition.


General
Internal competitions are open to all fully paid-up members.

All images submitted for competitions must be the work of the entrant.

The Club cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss occurring to any work submitted in competitions.

During the season there are be 5 internal club competitions each of which has 4 sections:
Monochrome Prints,
Colour Prints,
Projected Digital Images (PDI),
Slides.
The entrants are sub-divided into 2 classes, (except for the slide section for which there is a single class):
Executive Class
Club Class

All new members commence in the Club Class. It is important that Club class members should have the opportunity for progression to the Executive Class. To facilitate this, at the end of the season, it is intended that the top three in the Club Class of each section will be promoted to the Executive Class. In addition to this, it is an important consideration that the work load per evening on the external judges should be both feasible and evenly distributed across the competition evenings. This will be achieved, at the start of the season, by promotion of Club Class members and demotion of Executive Class members (in each section) according to their performance in the previous season.

The title of each image will be announced by the officiating club member immediately prior to being viewed by the judge. If an image is to be judged as natural history then the scientific name should be supplied as part of the title.




Internal Competitions
Open Subject: Two images per section per member per leg of the competition in either the Executive Class or the Club Class.
Set Subject: One image per section complying with the set subject (gains 5 bonus marks for compliance) and one open subject image per member per leg of the competition in either the Executive Class or the Club Class.
Judging: The judge can award marks in the range 0-10 with half marks permissible. The judge’s decision is final except in the case of the set subject compliance, where it rests with the Club’s Committee.

Any image may only be entered twice unless it gains a 10 on its first showing, in which case it cannot be entered again.

The same image cannot be shown in multiple sections.

Each member should raise a score sheet (club supplied) for each section of the competition in which he/she is participating at the 1st leg of the competition. They must record the marks gained by their images on the score sheets. It is their responsibility that these are correctly recorded. Score sheets are to be returned to the folder at the end of each competition evening and should not be removed from the Club.

Members should arrange amongst themselves for the showing and recording of the marks when they cannot attend in person.

The internal competition secretary will collate the scores into a spreadsheet for each class in each section following each leg of the competition and arrange with the club’s webmaster for the spreadsheets to be uploaded to the club website (www.cranleighcameraclub.org.uk).

Colour Prints and Monochrome Prints
The maximum size including mount is 40cm x 50cm (NB. NOT 16 inches by 20 inches).

The entries should be brought on the night of the competition.

PDI
The maximum size is 1400 pixels wide by 1050 pixels high. The image must fit within these dimensions.

Images must be in JPEG format (.jpg).

The image mode should be sRGB. Any images supplied in any other colour space will be projected as supplied.

All PDI images should EITHER be handed to the officiating member on a CD or usb pen drive etc by not later than the Thursday evening prior to the competition evening OR sent to him/her by e-mail not later than the Sunday evening immediately prior to the competition evening. Late entries will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances and on payment of a late entry fee.

The filename of each image must be constructed of the SPA club code (C6), the title and the photographer’s name in the following format:
<C6 – (as listed in SPA handbook)> + <space, hyphen, space> + <image title> + <space, hyphen, space> + < photographer’s name>.jpg

By way of example, if Fred Bloggs were to submit an image called "Street Scene" he would need to give the filename C6 - streetscene - fredbloggs.jpg

Slides
All slide entries must be 35mm film transparencies, captured in camera without post exposure manipulation. These should be mounted and spotted and brought on the night of the competition. The entries will be sorted into Set subjects and/or Open by the officiating member. The position and title of each slide will be registered by the officiating member so that he/she can announce it prior to judging. It is the responsibility of each entrant to register his/her slides with the officiating member.

The Best of Tens
After the completion of the 5th leg of the internal club competition, there is a further competition in which a judge is invited to mark (out of ten with half marks permissible) all those images which received 10 marks during the season and, where there are more than a single ten in a section, select the ‘star’ image to determine the winner. These marks will feed into the selection process for the SPA interclub competition for the following season.

Also on the same evening, each club member will be invited to select the 15 images in each section which he/she considers to be the best. These choices will also feed into the selection process for the SPA interclub competition and other external competitions for the following season.

The final selection for the SPA interclub and other external competitions for the following season will be made by the club external competition secretary and the chairman.

Chairman’s Challenge.
The format and rules for each year are decided by the Club Chairman