Mornington Rose and Dragon outing – March 2019
by Helen Warnod on Feb.15, 2019, under Outings
Join us on Saturday 2 March 2019 at the Mornington Botanical Rose Gardens followed by a sunset shoot at Dragon’s Head, Rye.
Register with outings@waverleycameraclub.org by 5pm Thursday 28 February 2019
February 2019 Workshop – Printing with Starleaton and Epson
by Vicki Moritz on Feb.14, 2019, under Workshops
For our February workshop Starleaton has partnered with Epson to teach us everything we need to know about printing (well, some if it anyway!!)
This means a change of venue to Epson – 1155 Malvern Rd, Malvern, 7.00 pm start. Epson will provide catering.
At our last visit to Starleaton many members came home with excellent prints. In addition to learning about printers, papers and colour management there will be another opportunity to print your images with a range of papers available including fine art papers.
This is a great opportunity – do come along. Please let me know if you are coming so we can assist with numbers for catering. Thanks
February 2019 ‘My home environment’ results
by Stephen Edmonds on Feb.05, 2019, under Competitions
Judge: Rob Sloane
Set subject EDI
Intermediate: Hans Huysmans – Erin & Bridget icing Papas Birthday cake
Advanced: Wolf Marx – All Work No Play
Open EDI
Intermediate: Hai Thi Nguyen – Infinity Lake Tyrrell
Advanced: Geoff Shaw – Lemur 1
Open Print
Intermediate: Rahul Kapur – Live Sketch Artist
Advanced: Richard Conn – Checking for Danger
A warm day at the water gardens
by Helen Warnod on Feb.04, 2019, under Outings
On Saturday 2nd February, members and friends participated in a visit to the Blue Lotus Water Gardens in Yarra Junction. Despite the warm 38°C day, 23 people arrived at the gardens and enjoyed strolling around the ponds and enclosed pools. Most participants were so occupied photographing in the vast grounds that they didn’t even stop for a coffee break!
We enjoyed chatting whilst enjoying our picnic lunch under the shaded eating area. The day also provided a fantastic opportunity to meet and chat with some of our new members.
From there some departed for home, and a smaller intrepid group headed off to the Redwood Forest in East Warburton. The light was very challenging but it was enjoyable all the same. Then a tired group of people straggled home to check their handy work.
Photos from this outing can be found in the outing gallery.
Blue Lotus Water Garden Outing – February 2019
by Helen Warnod on Jan.10, 2019, under Outings
Our first outing for the year 2019 will be held on Saturday 2nd February 2019 from 10:00am at the Blue Lotus Water Garden. The address is 2628 Warburton Hwy, Yarra Junction, Victoria 3797.
The gardens provide many opportunities for photographers, including waterways lakes, ponds, lagoons, and waterfall. Waterways contain hundreds of varieties of flowering lotus, waterlily & bog plants and colourful surrounding garden beds. Trees provide plenty of shade.
Proposed procedure to date:
- 10:00 – Meet at 10:00am at the coffee stand near the entrance
- 10:15 – Photograph the gardens
- 12:00 – Meet under the reserved shelter for WCC. BYO picnic and drinks
- 13:00 – For those who would like to continue on (weather permitting) we will drive to the Redwood Forest in Warburton for a photoshoot before returning back to Melbourne
Entry Fees
- Adults: $18.00
- Senior & Pensioners: $16.00 (cards required – Vic Seniors Card, Nat Seniors, Aust DSP, Aust Age Pension Card
- Student: $16.00 (Must be a student studying in Australia and produce ID card or parents with tickets)
- Kids (0-15 years): FREE
Please let Helen know if you are interested in carpooling. Carpooling is now quite popular, so if interested or you are happy to offer your car, please let Helen know when you register.
Please register with Helen at outings@waverleycameraclub.org by 5pm Wednesday 30 January 2019.
Mentoring Group – Wednesday 23rd Jan 2019
by Dave Sumner on Jan.04, 2019, under Special interest groups
What is The Mentoring Group?
The Mentoring Group is open to all paid up members.
Where: Wadham House (upstairs), 52 Wadham Parade, Mt Waverley, 3149 (behind the Library)
When: Wednesday 23rd Jan 2019 starting at 7.30pm
For those who don’t know, the initial aim of the Mentoring Group which was originally started by the late John Hadfield at his home, was to help members with photographs that they perhaps intend to enter into club monthly competitions. However, when I took over the group from John, we opened it up to all members and used Wadham House as the classroom. I did find that on occasion there was a need for people to also discuss their photographs more generally as some people needed more basic assistance in deciding on whether they even had good photographs in the first place. Inevitably, discussing photographs often led to discussions about sharpness, composition and getting it right in camera etc. This in turn led to more in depth discussions about other aspects of photography such as focus, depth of field and other more technical subjects. So, I decided to introduce a 30 minute session at the start of Mentoring based around feedback from members and what problems they were struggling with so we could discuss it at some depth.
The night is about you and your images and I like to promote a relaxed environment and encourage open discussion. If you are new to the club and are unsure about other people seeing your images please let me know at the start of the evening, there is no pressure to be involved. I do like to ask for everyone’s opinion not just my own on the photographs people bring along so this is a great opportunity to introduce new members to other people seeing their images for the first time and have them commented on. We only provide positive comments and there is strictly no rude or derogatory behaviour allowed, the night is about learning and moving forward with your photography skills.
What Happens on the Night?
- Come along to the meeting and bring with you a USB stick with some images that you think have potential or you just want to discuss. If you shoot RAW and/or have done some editing already to a JPEG, please bring the original file and the edited version.
- We’ll start by discussing a particular topic for about 30 minutes. In January we will discuss ‘Club Competitions an in depth look at what happens’, from editing and labelling right through to who sees the images, how they are judged and who knows which image belongs to who?
- We will then discuss as a group in a casual environment, the images that people have brought along, we can also do some basic editing in Photoshop and discuss images generally. I am a registered judge so we can look at both a judge’s perspective and from the group’s personal one. If you don’t want to discuss your images as part of a group then that is fine and I can talk to you at the end of the session or take them home and provide feedback via email.
- We normally wrap up about 9.30pm but, I realise people work and need to get up early so please don’t feel you need to stay until the end.
Social BBQ on Tuesday 8th January 2019
by Stephen Edmonds on Jan.01, 2019, under General
Our first activity of 2019 will be a social BBQ at Brickmakers Park in Oakleigh on Tuesday 8th January 2019 from 6:30pm. Seats might be needed as there is limited seating, but plenty of space at the BBQs.
This is also the due date for our February competition, so bring along your print entries and make sure you are a paid up member!
Our venue:
Brickmakers Park
23-29 Stamford Road, Oakleigh 3166
Definitions for monthly competitions in 2019
by Stephen Edmonds on Dec.30, 2018, under Competitions
February – My Home Environment
An image which tells the viewer something about the club members home – inside or outside.
March – Perspective
All entries in monochrome.
An image in which linear perspective is a key element. The image may be taken from a different angle or viewpoint that would normally be expected from a photographer. Examples of perspective can be overhead, low to the ground, acute angles or closer than normally seen.
April – Landscape or Seascapes
A landscape is a photograph of natural scenery with land and sky based elements displayed in a pictorial fashion. It may include evidence of man, people, animals, even part of the sea provided that none of these additional elements dominate the photograph. A seascape is a photograph of natural coastal scenery, a wave study, or a picture of the open sea, provided always that the sea is the centre of interest of the photograph. People, boats and man-made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph.
May – Portrait/Creative
A photograph of a person or persons that may range from a head study to full body length. This includes candid photographs and formal portraits.
June – Movement
An image that incorporates or expresses movement. The maker can use subject movement or even implied movement where picture elements suggest directional motion.
July – Animals
A picture of living animals, birds or insects either confined or in their natural environment. Studio style images of animals are acceptable.
August – Travel
A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally. There are no geographic limitations. Images from events or activities arranged specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment. Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable adjustments are removal of dust or digital noise, restoration of the appearance of the original scene, and complete conversion to greyscale monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared, are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural.
September – Minimalism
An image that is simple without complicated subjects and backgrounds and has only one or two elements in the scene. The KISS principle applies to images taken for this category.
October – Food
An image of food taken in any environment such as a picnic, BBQ, your kitchen, a restaurant or any other place where food is prepared and/or eaten is acceptable. The image may contain people, animals or man-made objects such as a table and cutlery etc. but, the food must remain the dominant subject in the image for e.g. cutlery on a plate full of food is acceptable whereas an empty plate with cutlery is not.
November – High key/low key
All entries except creative must be monochrome.
An image which is predominantly bright with darker subject elements (high key) or predominantly dark with brighter subject elements (low key).
A Taste of Activities for 2019
by Vicki Moritz on Dec.20, 2018, under Competitions, General, Workshops
The committee has been busy planning activities for next year and we have been guided in this by the responses from the survey in terms of set subjects and workshops. A number of these are now confirmed and our first few competition nights will be as follows:
| Month | Judge | Set subject |
|---|---|---|
| February | Rob Sloane | My home environment |
| March | Jen Fawkes | Perspective (monochrome month) |
| April | Tom Putt | Land/Seascapes |
| May | Christopher Ian | Portrait (also creative section) |
So that you can prepare, other possible set subjects are travel, animals, movement, minimalism, food and low key/hi key. Once judges are organised these will be confirmed. The “creative months” will be May/July/September/November, so there is plenty of time to get creative before they are due in!
Workshops currently being organised are printing, black and white photography, low key/high key lighting (Kayell), travel photography, camera function and maintenance, macro photography, astro-photography and more.
We are also well on the way to securing Mark Galer who will be doing a half day workshop on LightRoom where we are hoping to cover some of the more advanced features. The first weekend in March is the likely date for this event and there will be a small charge which will be subsidised somewhat by the club. An advanced photoshop workshop is also being planned so watch this space.
Vicki Moritz
President, WCC
A look back at the outings from 2018
by Stephen Edmonds on Dec.13, 2018, under Outings
Throughout 2018 the club went on a number of fantastic outings, a huge thanks goes to Ross and Helen for organising them.
For each outing we create a gallery and encourage members to upload their images, from these a “mystery judge” will select one image.
The winners of the outing awards for 2018 were:
Fred Seeber – Path to the Castle
Tim Keane – Blues Window
Ray Stabey – Pearly Whites
Jason Kim – autumn lake and tree
Janelle Bichel – Highland Afternoon Tea
Anthony Pearsall – Speed 2
Jiancheng Cao – The Bridge 2
Marlene Chaitra – Balancing
Ross Eddington – Just for two
Marlene Chaitra – A long way to jump
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Waverley Camera Club is a member’s photographic club based in Mount Waverley.The Association aims to promote all forms of Photography, whilst fostering community spirit through the use of competitions, workshops and outings.
Visitors are very welcome!
February 2019 - Set Subject EDI - Enthusiast
February 2019 - Set Subject EDI - Intermediate
February 2019 - Set Subject EDI - Advanced
February 2019 - Open Print - Intermediate
February 2019 - Open Print - Advanced
February 2019 - Open EDI - Enthusiast
February 2019 - Open EDI - Intermediate
February 2019 - Open EDI - Advanced
