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January 2023 Cape Camera

CTPS members collaborate to

take the club to the next level

On 28 January, CTPS conducted a brainstorming session with 25 club
members to gather ideas on how to improve the club. The purpose of the

session was to engage the members and obtain their perspectives on the

current state of the club, as well as their ideas for making it better.

by Andre Mouton

The session began with a brief introduction of the purpose of • Improve CTPS offering to new members through additional
the brainstorming session. Members were asked to provide an- social events. Such as image discussions (live meetings).
swers to the following three questions by writing them down • Submission of 1 image per month for a club E&D e.g. resolve
on pieces of paper. particular questions.
• What must we do that we are not currently doing? • Give training on what judges look out for in images.
• What are we doing that we must stop doing? • Training in the art of selection images
• What are we doing that we can improve on? • Discuss images in more depth. Give members more feed-
The participants were encouraged to share their thoughts, ide- back on images.
as, and suggestions openly and candidly and a facilitator cat- Venue
egorised the ideas into themes. The session generated a wide • Buy a building with photo studio
range of ideas, as set out below:
• Improve our offering to members by purchasing a club-
Image discussion house (including an auditorium and a studio).
• Position the speakers better so they’re not blocking the
• Have evenings where members present an image and talk
about the process, planning, execution and post processing. view of the photographs from some of the members.
Audience are then invited to comment, have general discus- • With the reality of Eskom, consider upgrading IT resources
sion and ask questions. in respect of UPS capacity, speed of hardware, data connec-
• Evaluation and discussion on submitted images. tion.
• Give the judge of the evening an image from a previous Exhibitions
CTPS competition that has scored a particular high mark • Host regular exhibitions (2 per year)
and ask him or her to explain in detail why this image is • Create a task team for this
good in the eyes of judges. This would help us better com-
prehend the mysterious art of judging. Cape Camera
• Perhaps ask the senior photographers in the club to look at • Get editors or people experienced in putting together
one of their best images and explain precisely how and why books/journals or magazines to step up and assist.
they took it and what they did to it in post processing. One • Have shorter articles in monthly Cape Camera to read online
image per competition evening could be explained in this – with one bumper issue every quarter.
way. • Re-introduce an editorial committee for Cape Camera as
• More in depth commentary on member's photographs by we had a few years ago (all publications are put together by
experts – with no scoring. various people with the editor merely collating).
• Regular image discussion evenings, live or on zoom.
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