Waverley Camera Club

If the oohs and aahs every time the flash fired at the sound triggered flash workshop last Tuesday were anything to go by, it was a quite successful workshop. Every year that we run this workshop it goes smoother and smoother, this time allowing for some experimentation in the form of nesting one balloon inside the other.

As pictures speak louder than words, it is best to see the results:

Next Tuesday, 21 June 2011 is a sound triggered flash workshop and if you attended either of the last two you’ll know what they’re about.

If you haven’t then some explaining might be in order. A sound trigger will fire the flash when there’s enough sound to activate it. In the past we have popped balloons, smashed light bulbs and even blown up an apple. Because the trigger can react faster than any human being, and the duration of the flash is so short, we are able to capture the moment fairly easily.

If this sounds like fun and I can assure you it is you will need to bring your CAMERA and a TRIPOD. A longish lens is probably best so that we can get as many people shooting as possible. You should also bring something to shoot, please don’t rely on the same three or four people who always bring things because I have no idea whether they are going to turn up or not.

Some snooping around in Google will give you an idea of the kinds of things we are after, but please NO GUNS.

See you then,
Pete

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.

For our April workshop night on Tuesday, 19 April 2011, we are proud to be hosting a presentation from Pele Leung, Photographing the remote regions of China. Pele will be sharing his perspective of the remote regions of North West and South West China.

Please Note: Due to circumstances beyond WCC control, there has been a last minute venue change for this event and it will no longer be at the AIPP Headquarters and is now at Huntingdale Hall. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The new venue can be located at: Corner of Germain St & Huntingdale Rd, Huntingdale 3166
Melway 69 J11

Please arrive at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

For this night we will not be using our usual venues of Wadham House or the Craft Room, instead we will be using facilities at the AIPP National Office.

AIPP National Office
Suite 5, 205a Middleborough Road
Box Hill South, Victoria 3128
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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