The Cleveland Photographic Society isn’t your typical camera club. We are an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Broadview Heights, Ohio which offers a variety of activities for members and visitors alike — from guest speakers to special interest groups, competitions to classes.
Check out our calendar or sign up for a newsletter to see what CPS has planned next!
Our annual CPS Summer Picnic will be held this August 23 outside the clubhouse. We are in need of volunteers to help make arrangements for equipment and to coordinate the event. If you want to help out to help make this event possible, email us at info@clevelandphoto.org. We need volunteers to help make this event a reality.
On Open Critique nights, which the club holds four times a year, you can submit up to 3 images in your style. These are to be emailed to info@clevelandphoto.org. The images do not have to be resized and can be sent one image to an email if they are large sized. On Critique Night, when your image is on the screen, we are able to make any changes that are suggested in real time while your image is being displayed so that you can see what the suggestions look like. It’s a fun night without pressure or stress! This is not a competition.
CPS has launched a Facebook group where CPS members can connect, post and comment on photos, seek advice, plan meetups, and share “things to do”. We only have about 100 members so far and we know the club is bigger than that! Please consider joining! You will need a Facebook account to join. You need to be Facebook friends with another CPS member already in the group to be invited. You can see why it’s been difficult to grow! It’s not meant to be exclusive, it’s just how FB works with private groups, undiscoverable groups. And we want to be certain only CPS members can find it and join. Members of “Your CPS Group” can invite others to join the group. Give it a try. Remember, though, that the group is for CPS members ONLY. Administrators and Moderators for the group review and approve all requests to join. Those invited still have to agree to the Invite and accept it before finally becoming a member of the Group. This is a “work in progress” and we may not have the settings quite right yet. Please have patience with us as we figure it out!
All members are invited to send in a favorite image of theirs to be displayed on the back wall of the Meeting Room. Just email the image as a JPEG cropped to 8×10 to Lisa Adcock at delph99@gmail.com. Make sure it is not downsized. We will have it printed for you.
The schedule for the 2025 – 2026 competition season is now posted on the website under the Programs tab and click ‘Competitions.’ For a printable copy of the schedule you can click here. All descriptions and rules for each of the categories can be found on the Competitions page of the website.
Magic with Monochrome
Creative uses of monochrome images — black-and-white, sepia, cyanotype, and beyond – can give your photographs a new perspective. David Busch will explore all the ways you can exploit the strengths of monochrome imagery. We’ll also look at the other side of the coin: is it possible to convert your old black-and-white photographs to color? The evening’s presentation will wind up with open-ended discussions of camera-specific topics for the owners of Nikon, Sony, and Canon cameras, with users of Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Leica, Pentax, etc. encouraged to come represent their brands.
