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.
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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.
The schedule for the 2025 – 2026 competition season is not 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.
You won’t want to miss a very special presentation detailing the upcoming photographic technology that will radically change how everyone takes photographs in the very near future. The CPS Special Interest Group meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 will premiere Dave Busch’s new presentation, “Photography in the Future (and Today).” While everyone predicts higher resolution sensors, improved dynamic ranges, and sophisticated tools for autofocus subject detection, true innovations – many of which are already being implemented – are much more surprising. Time-of-flight sensing makes it easy to adjust an image’s plane-of-focus, bokeh, and depth-of-field, even after the image is taken. Quad-Bayer digitizers and pixel-shift technology can quadruple the amount of information in your photos. Expect exciting breakthroughs in lens design, real-time in-camera computational processing, and amazing pre-buffering techniques (which let you capture action that happened before you actually pressed the shutter button). The Cleveland Photographic Society is getting an exclusive first look at this presentation, so we hope to see you there, and for the regular camera-specific problem-solving discussions that follow.
