Waverley Camera Club

Tuesday, September 1st is our main “Club Night” where the monthly competition entries are judged.

The theme for this month’s competition was “Open” and our judge on the night will be Pele Leung. Pele will also be giving a presentation on the evening of his own very interesting and unique photography work.

It promises to be a great night. We have a record number of entries this month, particularly in the “B” grade, so get there early and listen and learn from our judge’s comments.

Don’t forget, Tuesday is also the closing date for submission of your entries for next month’s competition. Bring your prints to the club and submit your EDI images via e mail. The theme for the October competition is “Blue”. If you haven’t yet prepared your entries, you stll have time!

See you on Tuesday at Wadham House at 7.30pm sharp!

David has asked me if I could put this plea for help onto the BLOG in the hope that someone can help him with a bit of Photoshop editing. If you think you think you can help, please contact David via this BLOG (make a comment) to find out how he wants them arranged.

A good friend of mine from Adelaide has asked me to complete the only full family photo he has.

The problem is it is missing the 4 people included in the other scans and he has set a challenge of having them (face or more) included in either one of the ‘group’ family photos.

This is well beyond my novice photoshop skills but I am really hoping one of our talented members might have a quick play around with it to get a semi-desirable result – it doesn’t have to be perfect.

In return for anyone willing to ‘give it a go’ I would be happy to owe a favour of equivalent time (or free use of any of my photo gear)

thanks, David.

The portrait session held on the Tuesday workshop night was again another huge success. 28 members and 5 guests signed the book but a few of us agreed that there were many more that attended, probably nearer 40.

The night started with Pete showing off the clubs latest equipment, a new aluminium stand and backdrops. This combined with the old stand and new backdrop set up in the front room and the crowds building up, it quickly became obvious that we wouldn’t be able to run this event in the one room and half of the gear was moved to the back room. With both of these and a darkened room set up for longer exposures, we were all keen to get started.

The President addressed the room and announced that the models for the night were all of us. This didn’t get the negative response that was expected and the night was started by Fred Bullock posing in the back room. It soon became apparent that we have some natural models amongst us and it wasn’t long before most of us had sat for the paparazzi like mobs that surrounded each model.

Anne poses whilst John snaps away

Jill posing whilst her husband Peter Takes shots.

The darkened room had some fantastic shadow patterns showing from the blinds in the windows, courtesy of the bright car park lamp shining in through the window.

All in all a great night was had by all and I for one can’t wait for the next portrait session.

Don’t forget Tuesday August 18th is another in our excellent workshop series.

Tomorrow we are holding a “Portrait Night“. We will be transforming the downstairs rooms at Wadham House into a studio setup, with studio lighting and backdrops, suitable for a professional portrait shoot!

Bring your cameras. You probably will not need a tripod or a monopod.
Also bring some props: hats, glasses, masks, chairs etc…

With any luck we will have new backdrop system to unveil but if you want to bring your own please do so. We will use the lights we have stored in the darkroom but if you want to try some different lighting, something more moody and mysterious then bring along torches, lamps, candles and whatnot.

Same old story: the more you put in the more you will get out of the evening.

As always all members, guests and people interested in joining the club, are welcome. Refreshments, good company and good humour will be provided free of charge as usual.

See you there at 7.30pm sharp!

Don’t forget…tonight (Tuesday Aug 11th) we have our second meeting of the A/V group…all welcome.

The meeting starts at 7.30pm at Wadham House, and tonight Ross is going to demonstrate how to start the process of creating an A/V from scratch…

See you there.