The McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park is a prominent gallery, set in eight hectares of landscaped bushland in Langwarrin, 4kms east of Frankston. It is the location of our December outing on Sunday 5th December.
Plans are to have a picnic lunch, weather permitting of course. The gallery opens at 10am and there will be at least one club member there at that time. However, plans are to meet at the gallery building at 11am.
The flash/portrait group will not be running this week.
Hi Folk!
At last a non-rainy relatively warm Friday night outing for the Waverley Camera Club. Hooray!
Rosie and I joined Steve, Leif, Jason – yes Jason with his wife – John and Jan, Pete, Diana and Ian at Brighton Beach for the Friday evening (twilight) shoot. A twilight shoot because we have been judged wanting – wanting light in the sky that is.
Anyway, the colourful beach boxes stood out in contrast against the yellow beach sand the huge brightly coloured and translucent kites presented a spectacular sight against a brilliant blue sky and the Surf Life Savers reminded us of the ever present danger that has become a major concern for Victorians at this time of the year. Drowning.
There were lots of people on the beach all enjoying the weather and members of the Waverley Camera Club were not the only ones swinging cameras on the end of tripods. There were a couple from South America with lenses like bazookas and others whose cameras reminded me of the little plastic camera shaped toys I had as a small boy but i’m sure these had steel bodies, ground glass lenses and 14 mega pixels.
Some of us took some good images and some of us, I for one, took some spectacularly bad ones. Having said that Rosie and I know that Brighton Beach is not far from home and we could be there again, time and weather permitting of course. For those of you who couldn’t join us “no worries” there will be other days and other outings, you will always be welcome.
Cheers,
Andy
This is more of a sunset shoot than a night shoot but given the subject it’s probably better to have some light.
The subject is Bathing Boxes at Brighton Beach.
The forecast at this stage looks quite good so come along and have a crack at a very iconic subject. Meet at the northern end of the boxes around 7pm.
If you want to bring partners/porters/models/chauffeurs or whatever please feel free to do so.
See you there,
Pete
The workshop this Tuesday at Wadham House will be an image evaluation night.
It requires you to:
You can bring prints or EDI’s but we would prefer it if you emailed the EDI’s to comp@waverleycameraclub.org before lunchtime on Tuesday. Doing that will save a fair bit of hassle on the night.
If you have had images which were previously in a competition and you didn’t agree with what the judge said then this would be the ideal opportunity to get a second, third and fourth opinion. The main objective of the night will be to try and explain what judges are searching for when they look at our images.
Should be fun, you should learn something and hopefully improve your chances in a competition.
Visitors are most welcome.
see you there,
Cheers,
Pete
After a few alterations to the start time due to the weather and being ousted the week previous by Hilary Clinton, we finally managed a trip to the Melbourne Uni Campus today. Ignoring the late start because of the weather, Dave Sumner and Leif Anderson met up at the original meet time and were rewarded with some of the best photography light seen this year, isn’t that just Melbourne weather for you? We walked around the campus finding perfectly lit buildings and superb old staircases etc which we couldn’t shoot quick enough. A quick coffee and cake saw 12.30 approaching fast so we headed back to the meeting point to wait for the others. 1.30 arrived and the numbers had swollen and we again set off into the campus looking for the perfect shots. Unfortunately for the late comers, the light had gone really flat and it looked like it might rain. Besides this we all took quite a few images and a lot of camera knowledge was banded about and it seemed that everyone was using or at least trying to use, HDR. John couldn’t remember where to set it on his camera whilst Alan didn’t know he had HDR and Diana didn’t have HDR thanks to Nikon (got that one in) and last of all poor old Andy couldn’t get his camera off 1/3rd stop difference between the exposures. Both Andy and I tried to find the setting but we couldn’t increase the difference which Andy has since mastered after reading the manual. At one point we were almost inundated with wedding parties all coming for the their photographs taking. When one party were coming towards us I really did think that they’d seen that we had that A Grader, Rosie with us and were coming for some advice on photography. We were all pleased when they went off to use the area that we had already shot earlier.
All in all it was a good day but I think that both Leif and I had the best light although I hope to see others efforts at the workshop night.
I’m looking forward to the next Sunday Outing as I hope you all are.
Dave Sumner
Above photos by Dave Sumner
Photo by Andy Armitage
Printed images of the month
A grade: John Mallett – Cyclamen
B grade: Andy Armitage – Goodnight Birdies
EDI images of the month
A grade: Alan Scott – Before the Storm
B grade: Diana Ferdinands – Tails for Sale