Waverley Camera Club

Hi Folks,

I am very happy to announce that the November workshop on the 15th will star two of our recent and very well received judges Andrew & Fiona Harrison.

Fiona and Andrew run Passion8 Photography (http://www.passion8photo.com.au/) and have very kindly agreed to pay a second visit to our club for a workshop evening.

The workshop will be on Posing & Lighting. It will be free for members which is a massive bonus as the Harrisons are much in demand as speakers.

I have absolutely no doubt that the evening will be hugely entertaining and highly educational so please clear a space in your diary and make sure you attend. Bring something on which to take notes, these guys are Masters in Photography and we will all have a fantastic opportunity to learn from them.

See you at 7:30pm on Tuesday the 15th of November at Wadham House.

Cheers,
Pete

Tomorrow night won’t be a panorama workshop as originally planned, instead we will be staging an exhibition (a rather large exhibition it must be said) at Wadham House to showcase the work of one of our members.

What I thought we could do to compliment that is to turn it into a wine and cheese evening. So the plan is: doors will open at 6:30, if I could have a few people to help me set up that’d be nice.

If you are coming then perhaps you could bring something to share with others in the way of food or drink.

Please come along, I think it will be a good night.

Cheers,
Pete

On Tuesday 16th August we had the well known photographer Ian Rolfe visit and give us a presentation on landscape photography and the light. Ian opened his presentation to a packed Wadham House with a slideshow of his landscape images which were truly stunning. It was immediately obvious to us all that this man knew how to find and capture the light and use it to his advantage in his work. Ian went on to talk about the different types of light as well as composition, exposure, Depth of Field and many other factors that effect all of the shots that we take. Ian showed us that it is the work prior to taking the image that is important and less towards the post production that we have all come to expect from images.

Ian finished his talk with a slideshow of King Island and passed on some information about the tours that he runs there, four times per year.

Ian Rolfe Photography

All in all we had a very good evening and I think we all came away with something that we never knew prior to it. So thank you very much to Ian and we look forward to seeing his techniques applied to shots submitted into future club competitions.

Dave

Hi All,

On Tuesday night we are to be graced with a presentation by the well renowned photographer Ian Rolfe.
Ian is much in demand as a speaker (you’ll know why once you have seen him) and we are lucky to have him before he goes jetting
off around the world for the rest of the year. His speciality is landscape photography and you can check some of it out here:

Ian Rolfe Photography

Please come and see what he has to say at Wadham House, 7.30pm for an 8pm start or just come for free coffee, tea and biscuits.

Pete

To those who didn’t attend the Monochrome workshop last night, you missed a very good session led by Pete which studied what makes an image a good B&W or monochrome. We studied 100 of the best B&W/Monochrome images before going into the different ways used to convert images from the ins and outs of B&W in camera to the many methods of PhotoShop. Pete treated us to some demonstrations with the assistance of Warren’s Photoshop Group members who had been working on this very subject the night before. We were able to compare several different methods, their advantages and disadvantages as well as visually compare the results. Anyone who simply desaturates an image to make it B&W should have been there to see why this isn’t the ideal method.

We also touched on creating monotone, duotone, tritone and quadtone images, where we would possibly use these and how the results differ.

Here is the link that Pete provided us with giving us the various methods of converting to B&W or monochrome and their pro’s and con’s Black and White Digital