Waverley Camera Club

Wadham House resembled a packed media conference at Tuesday night’s sound-triggered flash workshop. After everyone had set up their camera gear, the night started off with a bang.

With Stephen Edmonds on props, Pete Davies at the light switch and some generous supplies from some forward-thinking members, many party-poppers were detonated at various angles and millisecond delay settings; no single one popped the same: some fizzled, a few backfired onto Stephen’s fingers, some hit Dave Sumner in the head – entertainment on its own! Using the club’s sound triggered flash system (built by Craig Terry), in a dark room with about 15 open camera shutters, those attending got the opportunity to photograph some unique action,especially towards the end of the night when positioning and timing of the flash had been perfected.

Some more members brought a few [increasingly rare] tungsten lightbulbs to smash up with a metal wrench (these glass bulbs proved surprisingly difficult to shatter!) Keeping to the pyrotechnic flavour of the night, the workshop finale involved an exploding apple that had to be seen to be believed.

A fun night of photography and many a laugh was shared between club members for another highly successful WCC workshop.

At the workshop this Tuesday we will be having another sound triggered flash workshop.

This was awesome fun last time and those that were there will know what sort of things to bring.

For those who weren’t: bring your camera and a tripod. Last time around we were setting off party poppers, smashing light globes and bursting balloons.

If you can think of anything else which happens at high speed and will set off a sound triggered flash please bring them along.

Another successful monthly workshop got underway on Tuesday night with a steady crowd of around 20 members keen to brush up their skills or share advice for still life photography. The kitchen theme saw a variety of objects to capture.

A highlight of the night was Leif Anderson’s demonstration of his polarised light box, where plastic objects were lit and photographed through polarised filters with colourful effect.

Coming up in the next few weeks at Waverley Camera Club:

This Tuesday the 18th
STILL LIFE with kitchen objects
Bring your camera, tripod etc.. and something(s) from your kitchen to photograph.

Tuesday the 25th
Beginners night with John Hadfield.
John has very kindly agreed to step in and take my place.
He has planned a very informative and entertaining evening
SO MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR CAMERA AND TRIPOD etc…

Wednesday the 26th
Flash/Portrait Group.
Bring your gear.

Monday the 31st
Camberwell camera club monochrome interclub.
Address to follow.
Please come along if you can, after our fantastic showing at the last 4 Club a few weeks ago hopes are high for another good result.

Tuesday the 1st of June
Comp night at the Community Centre
This months comp is SLOW SHUTTER SPEED and our judge is Julie Bird, a well known member at Knox Photographic Society.

Sunday the 6th of June
Arcades and Alleyways 2.
This trip hasn’t got an exact route yet, I went into the city yesterday to scout around and will post the route shortly.
There’s a good chance that the walk will start at Jeff’s Shed after we have visited the PMA expo.

Saturday/Sunday the 6th/7th of June
PMA exhibition at Jeff’s Shed
Register online for free entry

See you there,
Pete

Hi Folks,
Here’s what’s coming up in the next few weeks.

Tonight
Tonight at the Community Centre our Landscape comp will be judged by a former member Chris Dowd. Please come along a little early and help by moving a couple of chairs.

Monday the 12th
Berwick Viewfinders are hosting the 4 CLUB inter-club competition.

Tuesday the 13th
AV special interest group upstairs at Wadham House. Starts at 7:30pm.

Sunday the 18th
It’s not the first sunday of the month, but because we missed out due to Easter there will be a trip to Toorongo Falls near Noojee.

Tuesday the 20th
Workshop night downstairs at Wadham House. Door open from 7pm starts at 7:45pm. The topic of the workshop will be MACRO. BRING YOUR CAMERAS AND TRIPODS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU OWN A MACRO LENS OR NOT. There will be a brief discussion about Macro photography and then we’ll do some ourselves. BRING SOMETHING TO PHOTOGRAPH. It doesn’t have to be something small, it could be a large object which you want to shoot a part of in some detail.

Thursday the 22nd
Possible night shoot at Sandown Greyhound Races.

Tuesday the 27th
Beginners group upstairs at Wadham House. Starts at 7:30pm. BRING YOUR CAMERAS AND TRIPODS

Wednesday the 28th
Flash/Portrait special interest group upstairs at Wadham House. Starts at 7:30pm. BRING YOUR CAMERAS AND FLASH GEAR.

Sunday the 2nd of May
Moorabbin Air Museum