Whether you are just starting out in photography or are an experienced professional, Crosstown Camera Club is a great place to sharpen your skills, share ideas and socialize with others who share a passion for the art of print and digital photography. Our meetings throughout the year provide opportunities to:
- Develop, improve photographic techniques (photo capture and post-processing).
- Learn design, emotional impact, storytelling and other fine-art techniques.
- Socialize with other photographers.
- Participate in monthly digital and print salons critiqued by experienced judges.
- Gain photography-related insights from guest speakers at monthly programs.
- Join members on photography field trips.
For more information, refer to the General Information menu to the right and click on About Our Club.
Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month, September through May (with the exception of December when we have our holiday party). The meetings include a digital or a print salon competition and photographic presentations. Guests are welcome but you must be paid members to compete in the monthly salons.
Yearend Banquet and Awards Wednesday June 19:
It’s Time to Submit your images for the Yearend Competition
From now until Thursday May 23 you may submit images for the 2018-2019 Yearend competition. If you want to be part of the competition you must submit your images per the instructions below.
Open to any image with an acceptance from a 2018-2019 salon
Unlike the monthly salons, you can submit more than 3 images, all acceptances are eligible
Images can not be altered from the original submitted in the monthly salon
Print and Digital images are judged together for the category award
You must assign a category to each submission from one of the 7 listed below
Categories for 2018-2019 Yearend Competition:
Digital Submissions -
We already have your image, you don’t need to resubmit it
BUT…
You must email digitalsalon@crosstowncameraclub.org as follows
Subject — Yearend Competition
In body of email –
You can send one email listing all the images you want to submit to the yearend competition. Just be sure to include all the above information for each image.
Print Submissions -
Drop the print off at the Edina Art Center before
8:00pm Thursday May 23ed
Label the back of each print on the top left with:
If you previously submitted a digital copy of your print then we have it, there is no need to resubmit it.
If you have not already submitted a digital copy of your print image
you must also submit the image via email digitalsalon@crosstowncameraclub.org as follows:
Subject — Digital Copy
In body of email -
Monthly Salon Topics for 2019-20 Season
A list of some things that may be of interest to CCC Members
Just Added – Several new events and workshops starting in June
May 2019 Salon First Place Topic Color (Portrait):
Portrait of a Turkey by Sandy Swanson
May 2019 Salon First Place Topic Mono (Portrait):
Laughing by Peter Wong
May 2019 Salon First Place Open Color:
Being Blessed by Peter Wong
May 2019 Salon First Place Open Mono:
The Boxer by David Suggs
Click Here to See all the May Acceptances
May was a Print Salon – Topic: Portrait
Our May judge was Lars Michael
Born in Germany in 1967, Lars Michael has been practicing photography since he received his first SLR camera at the age of 15 years. While in high school, he studied Ansel Adams’ classic books about the “zone system” and put this newly acquired knowledge to use in the wet darkroom.
He opened his own photographic business in 2003 after graduating at the New York Institute of Photography with a degree in Professional Photography. He also completed a judging class in 2005, and now serves as judge for photography salons in the greater Minneapolis area.
Our May Speaker was Chris Grey
Secrets of Great Stock Photography or
How to Work an Idea to Death and Make Money!
It’s an evening of information with
professional photographer Chris Grey.
Chris sold his first stock photo at age 18, owned a stock agency in the ‘80s and currently has several thousand images available for use. He’ll discuss how to work a shoot, how to frame and compose for various markets, what stock agencies like to see and how they work. How to shoot an idea until you start creating something special.
Our April speaker was Carlyn Iverson talking about:
Galapagos Islands Wildlife Photography
For three decades Carlyn Iverson has worked as a creative professional bringing art and science together.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences with a Bachelor of Science Degree, Carlyn worked in the Biomedical Graphics Department of the University of Minnesota Hospitals learning skills of the medical illustration profession. From there a career in illustration for medical and college textbooks began spanning a period of twenty years contributing to the visual content of over 200 textbooks and many other publications for the general public.
Ms. Iverson’s web page is Absolute Science Studios
Our March Speaker was Tom Olmscheid:
Photojournalism – The Story Behind the Picture
Tom Olmscheid is a photojournalist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
He was chief photographer for the Minnesota House of Representatives for over 35 years documenting many of the events at the State Capitol during that time.
Tom has also been a stringer for 33 years with a major wire service covering professional and college sports as well as political events in the Twin Cities. His images have appeared in USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and many other major cities periodicals. His image of the May Town Hall on election day 2001 was included in Time Magazines first ever Best Pictures of the Year 2002.
TOMO Photography
May Town Hall by Tom Olmscheid
Don Tredinnick spoke at the February Meeting
Don is offering free Photo Hikes & Lectures at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Check out all of Don’s workshops and classes at his website.
Our January speaker was Curt Brown of Brown Imagery
To learn more about the image stacking technique that Curt talked about here is a short, easy to follow discussion on Photo Stacking for Night Photography
Here is an article by Bryan Hansel about using Low Level Lighting for Nightscape Photography. Bryan does a lot of shooting and workshops on the North Shore.
The program (for Mac only) that Curt uses for image stacking noise reduction is Starry Landscape Stacker
Here’s information on Windows software that does the same thing -
Sequator – FREE PC Milky Way Stacking software that reduces noise
Lightroom User Group Facebook Page
Photoshop User Group Facebook Page
Photoshop User Group Webpage
Crosstown’s top images from 2017-18 are on display at
Edina City Hall
4801 W. 50th St
Edina, MN 55424
Image of the Year – Silo Storm by Scott Board
The top 12 images from Crosstown’s 2017—18 season are on display now through September 2019 at Edina City Hall.
The photos are available for viewing in the Community Room during regular business hours (best over the noon hour when the room is less likely to be in use). Enter city hall, walk up the stairs and head straight back to find the Community Room.
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