Waverley Camera Club

The workshop this coming Tuesday is supposed to be about how to matt and frame your prints.

I haven’t done anything to organise such a thing yet so what I thought we could do is hold a general discussion night.

If someone would demonstrate how to frame prints that would be very, very welcome but in case no-one does what I thought we could do is answer any questions you might have. We have a vast wealth of experience in our membership at the club and if you want to know anything at all I’m sure that you could get several answers from others.
For example, you might want to know what your next lens purchase should be or you might be having trouble with editing.

You may want to bring some images in for discussion, whether to show off or to get some critical feedback on.

I know that this is just the type of thing you all discuss when you get together at club outings and so forth so lets make a night of it on Tuesday.

Cheers, Pete.

Places are filling fast for the final two Beginners Courses for 2011.

If you are a novice and want to learn how to get more out of your camera and you have Monday nights free read on.

The course will run for 9 consecutive Monday nights (even on Public Holidays) and will be held at Wadham House in Mt. Waverley from 7:30 – 9:30pm. Topics covered will include: Camera Controls, Basic Camera Operation, Composition, Lighting, Digital Workflow and Editing, The mode dial, Exposure, Metering and Exposure Compensation.

Classes will be limited to 6-8 students to allow for maximum interaction between pupils and teachers. You will need to bring your camera with you every week and ideally it should be an SLR rather than a compact point and shoot camera.

The two terms will run as follows:

Term 2 commences Monday 25th July
Term 3 commences Monday 10th October

As well as the 9 Monday night lessons each term will also include 2 outings (on a Sunday) and possibly a night shoot.

The cost is $225 and needs to be paid by the first lesson. The price includes membership to Waverley Camera Club for 2011 but if you have already joined this year your membership fees will be deducted from the $225.

To register please email president@waverleycameraclub.org and state which term you want to do.

Cheers,
Pete Davies
Pres – WCC

Waverley Camera Club are now taking registrations for the three Beginners Courses for 2011.

If you are a novice and want to learn how to get more out of your camera and you have Monday nights free read on.

The course will run for 9 consecutive Monday nights (even on Public Holidays) and will be held at Wadham House in Mt. Waverley from 7:30 – 9:30pm. Topics covered will include: Camera Controls, Basic Camera Operation, Composition, Lighting, Digital Workflow and Editing, The mode dial, Exposure, Metering and Exposure Compensation.

Classes will be limited to 6-8 students to allow for maximum interaction between pupils and teachers. You will need to bring your camera with you every week and ideally it should be an SLR rather than a compact point and shoot camera.

The three terms will run as follows:

• Term 1 commences Monday 2nd May
• Term 2 commences Monday 25th July
• Term 3 commences Monday 10th October

As well as the 9 Monday night lessons each term will also include 2 outings (on a Sunday) and possibly a night shoot.

The cost is $225 and needs to be paid by the first lesson. The price includes membership to Waverley Camera Club for 2011 but if you have already joined this year your membership fees will be deducted from the $225.

To register please email president@waverleycameraclu.org and state which term you want to do.

Please also include a second preference.

Pete Davies
President – Waverley Camera Club

Hi All,
there’s is a Composition workshop coming up this tuesday night which will begin at 7:30pm.
The venue is Wadham House, 52 Wadham Pde, Mt Waverley and we will be downstairs.
Composition is the art of framing an image and is quite easy to learn, you don’t need any technical know how whatsoever
and as such is the quickest way to start improving your photography.
If you have any images which don’t look as good as you were hoping they would it may be that the composition could be improved.
If that’s the case then bring your images along tomorrow night on a usb memory stick and we will see what can be done.

This exercise is open to all but could be especially handy for those of us just returned from the weekend’s trip to Aireys Inlet.
Chances are that some of the locations you photographed were also snapped by someone else and that the two sets of images will be very different
from each other. It will be interesting to discuss why one way works better than another or just to see if the audience is evenly split about their favourite compositions.

The first part of the evening will be taken up with a chat on the psychological aspects of how/why/what we see so if you’re thinking “oh I’ve read/heard all about composition before”
then make sure you get there on time because I doubt you will have.

Cheers,
Pete

Hi Folks,

The next outing on the calendar is this Sunday (being the first Sunday of the month) and for the third year running we are off to Blue Lotus Water Gardens. This is a fantastic place to take pictures, indeed much of the layout has been designed with photographers in mind.

Have a look at their website and you’ll see what I mean: http://bluelotusfarm.com.au/

If flowers are not your thing then consider this: Blue Lotus is also a wonderful place to do landscape and portraits.

The gates are open at 10:30am by which time we will all have congregated in the car park. The address is 2628 Warburton Hwy Yarra Junction.

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Bring your partners/children and bring a picnic lunch (no BBQ’s) or buy lunch at the cafe. This is the perfect opportunity for new and prospective members to get to know everyone.

Cheers,
Pete