Club meetings suggestions...

kelly1

Hello all,

I'm a member of the Athy camera club and I'm looking for ideas to retain
members and attract new members.

We run internal competitions and workshops, we're starting to get involved with other clubs but we need to do more field outings.

Would really appreciate it if people could make a few suggestions on activities we could do in the club to keep people
interested.

Thanks, Noel.

bullpost

Altamont Garden Carlow is close to you. Great photo ops. there :

http://www.endacavanagh.com/panoramic_ireland/river_slaney_altamont_gardens_carlow_ireland

or

http://www.straffanbutterflyfarm.com/

kelly1

bullpost wrote: »

Altamont Garden Carlow is close to you. Great photo ops. there :

http://www.endacavanagh.com/panoramic_ireland/river_slaney_altamont_gardens_carlow_ireland

or

http://www.straffanbutterflyfarm.com/

Thanks for that. I've just edited my post to clarify what I'm asking

We've had a drop in club attendance and the club needs an adrenaline shot to get it moving again. So I'm looking for ideas to keep people interested and to attract new members. Thanks.

bullpost

You're doing the right thing.
Get people actively involved as much as possible and provide lots of ops. to take photos. These days with strobist kit so affordable its really easy to always be taking shots and learning new stuff regardless of the weather conditions.

Also ask your members to help with suggestions and organise some outings themselves.

kelly1 wrote: »

Thanks for that. I've just edited my post to clarify what I'm asking

We've had a drop in club attendance and the club needs an adrenaline shot to get it moving again. So I'm looking for ideas to keep people interested and to attract new members. Thanks.

monosnaps

You will always lose a few members this time of the year, but a well planned calendar with a guest speaker each month might help, send out mails reminding members who the guest is a week or two before the event or do text broadcasts and maybe a link to their photographs, keep members informed.
A studio night or lighting night is always good fun even a low tech lighting night using household lights.
Another idea is a project based night where members produce a panel of 4 images on any choosen subject, with a few novelty prizes Easter Eggs for example just to highlight the fun element.
A print battle where a member is judge and the other members are divided into two groups, judge picks a subject something like "red" or "clouds" and each team produces an agreed print. Judge picks best print and they get point, highest at end of night wins. This can also be done with another club.

kelly1

Thanks for that Monoshaps. Very helpful.

Ballyman

Get in a few guest speakers also will help keep people interested. Use the guest speaker to be a judge for a competition etc on the night.

Paulw

We have guest speakers once a month. We also ask them to judge out monthly competitions.

So far, it's been great.

Boards is a great resource for speakers on select topics.

Personally, I've also given talks (on sports photography) and judged competitions in other clubs. Always interesting and fun.

nilhg

Paulw wrote: »

We have guest speakers once a month. We also ask them to judge out monthly competitions.

So far, it's been great.

Boards is a great resource for speakers on select topics.

Personally, I've also given talks (on sports photography) and judged competitions in other clubs. Always interesting and fun.

Absolutely, quite a few folks from here have been down to Newbridge to enlighten us including Paulw, many thanks folks.