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Cape Camera January 2023

Social Media • Creating a printed body of work for the end of the year.
• Create WhatsApp groups for photographic outings – eg. In- Judged in Ranking groups (6 – 8 images).
viting group members to join you on an informal shoot. • Encourage people to be creative and produce a panel of
• Open facebook page to the public. work.
• Make an effort! Go beyond comfort zone.
Outings
• Once in a while have a “buddy” partner on outings – not to Online meetings - ZOOM
assist but to learn what your partner sees or thinks or ex- • Offer more E&D learning, etc via Zoom.
change ideas and maybe try to implement that idea. • The difference between Zoom and meetings in person is
• Fewer outings as it is normally not well attended. the “personal connection” element. People won’t attend in
• Monthly outings – More outings on Saturday mornings. person meetings if they only get out of in-person meetings
• Street photo walks with guidance from professionals – safe- what they can get out of Zoom.
ty in numbers. • We need to look at the balance between live and Zoom ac-
• Improve outing participation. tivities. The world has changed – perhaps we should em-
brace it.
Socials • Make all Zoom recordings available.
• Have social evenings? • Expand on Zoom to an even better level to allow remote
• Have a cheese and wine social evening participation more.
• Filter coffee at competition evenings • Make all zoom recordings available afterwards.
• I would like to have a more social aspect – perhaps drinks • Please keep zoom meetings of techniques in future too, so
after competition evenings or outings. we won’t miss it – with recordings please to re-listen to it.
• Better coffee • Encourage participation by stopping zoom.
• Congratulate people on birthdays
• Appoint someone to look out for visitors and particularly at Judging
tea time. • Set subject – how closely is this applied? What’s the point if
• Reserve good seats for visitors. images do not comply?
• Name badges for members • We are too focused on counting rather than weighing. No
scoring.
Audio Visuals • More creative judging with comments that help to improve.
• AV activities must be advertised to ALL members. • Have less boring competition judges making loong boring
• More AV training and showing evenings.
• Better promotion of AV’s and Video • Better judges who are experts in set subject.
• Show an AV at each session to stimulate creation of AV’s • Shorten time a judge dwells on an image, sessions not
(best way to showcase work within the club). This could also punchy enough.
be training via AV on photographic techniques.
Buying and selling of gear
Competitions • Find out from members who would like to sell photos and if
• Have special prints evenings with wine and snacks instead many (>15) create a web for that.
of trying to sandwich them alongside regular monthly com- • Forum for buying and selling secondhand gear.
petitions. Then we can have the monthly competitions on Grow the club
zoom and able to watch at another time.
• Do not publish everybody’s scores on website – rather just • Market the club more actively on social media. Members
give Photovault scores. badge on profile?
• Reduce the looongness of competition evenings. • If membership numbers are a problem, rather than adver-
• Stop judging prints in same evening as PDI’s. tise, encourage members to introduce like-minded individ-
• Splitting print and PDI evenings may be an opportunity for uals – helps build a cohesive group of people.
more social interaction. Maybe have PDI on zoom only. • More public awareness – advertising local newspapers.

Attract young members Promotions
• Involve pupils in schools to take an interest in photography. Have one more junior ranking – between Intermediate and Ad-
Encourage the formation of sub-branches of CTPS in school. vanced.
Start by having a photographic salon for school going learn- Website
ers.
• Partner with schools/universities/colleges to draw mem- • Make the resource page on the website more visible.
• Website: Resources section with build-up of educational
bers. What can we offer them?
• Attract younger members through focus on cellphone pho- material over time – facilitates self-education rather than
group education requiring someone’s time and effort.
tography and social media. • Availability of technical information via the club website.
• Actively recruit new members – especially younger ones. • Members to have a classified section in the “Cape Camera”
• Once a year outreach program to create photographic skills and on website.
in youth category (lectures, day workshops etc)
Special Interest Groups
Body of work
• Try to do something different – experiment. • Re-introduce special interest groups that can meet via
Zoom and run themselves with club members coordinating
• Building a portfolio with guidance from a professional artist.
(not council).

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