As an extension of our workshop last year, Keith Costello taught us about managing light for effective portraiture in outdoor settings, including using shade, reflectors and dappled light as well as general posing and posing to utilise light. We worked in groups with the three models and could see an improvement in our images as the session progressed.
More images can be viewed in our Natural Light Portraits gallery.
At our recent workshop, David Williams, a renowned portrait photographer, shared concepts, tips and tricks to inspire and enhance our portrait photography. These included studying art, using everyday lighting and unique methods of developing engagement.
The setup of how these excellent photos of Doug Porter were taken:
For more details see Portraiture with DIY lighting on our resource site.
Our next workshop is Tuesday 17 February at 7.30pm in the main hall where David Williams will give two one hour presentations.
Art Influences in Photography
This presentation shows both direct ‘homage’ images by David, influenced by painting and recent advertising. He will point out how you can create a mental ‘filing cabinet’ to draw ideas from and will make suggestions on painters and photographers to study and more importantly and why.
Lighting from Bunnings?
David will demonstrate how to find good existing lights, determine colour influences, blend flash and existing light, and using on-camera flash more effectively. The last part of the presentation will be a live demonstration (some audience members will be required as ‘human light stands’) where David will make a black & white portrait in 1930’s style using cheap lighting.
There will be a short break between the two presentations and the evening will conclude at approximately 9.45pm
Our next and final workshop for 2025 is as follows:
| Date: | Tuesday 18 November 2025 |
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| Time: | 7.30 pm |
| Location: | Main Hall, Mount Waverley Community Centre |
| Topic: | Conceptual Photography |
Conceptual photography refers to the use of photography to express an idea. For some it may overlap with our Portfolio, for others it may offer a step forward, a deeper intent or a new direction.
The presenter is Bob Warfield, one of the coordinators of the Melbourne Camera Club’s Conceptual Group. By all accounts, Bob is an interesting and lively presenter.
Hope to see you there.
The next workshop is on Tuesday 21st October at 7:30pm in the main hall.
Keith Costello (aka Pixel Monkey) will be presenting on Natural Light Portraiture. Keith is a really talented and creative photographer who make some interesting headdress and props for his photography.
Cameras are NOT required. It should be a great session.
We trust that everyone enjoyed the Night Photography workshop facilitated by Greg Thomas last Friday night. We had a great variety of opportunities and ideas.
More images from our members are available in the workshop gallery.
Tomorrow night is a workshop bought to you by club members on the subject of Creative Nature photography.
Tuesday 14th April 2025 at 7:30pm, online via Zoom.
Do come along and also note other opportunities for assisting with club functions such as helping with meetings, outings etc. Your input is what makes Waverley a vibrant club.
Daryl Lynch (one of our members) recently ran an interesting and informative zoom workshop, teaching us about different styles of fireworks photography; the details of preparation and things which need to be considered as well as settings to use.
He followed this with a hands-on session observing and photographing the Moomba fireworks from a vantage point he had decided upon based on launch sites, wind and crowds. It was a great learning experience and time with other members. We captured some amazing images on that night and also on the following nights.
More images from our members can be found in our outing gallery.
Last weekend the two part “Pep Ventosa Style Photography” workshop, run by club member Jenny Adams, showed us how to create painterly style images reminiscent of Spanish photographer Pep Ventosa.
During the first session, at Springvale Botanic Cemetery, we learned key points of identifying suitable subjects and taking up to 30 images from different but equidistant angles. Participants enjoyed taking images of trees, rotundas, memorials and other structures.
The second session was on zoom; Jenny walked us through techniques to blend the groups of images in Photoshop to create a painterly style images. We had time for some questions and discussion. It was inspiring to learn technique that allows the transformation of a series of simple images to one quite lovely and artistic one.
A link to the presentation notes can be found under Workshops and presentations on our resources site.
Images from the outing and the results from various members are in our workshop gallery.
Recently Geoff Shaw (one of our members) presented a workshop and ran a hands on session about macro and close-up photography.
Geoff set up multiple workstations with various lighting scenarios. It was a fabulous opportunity to get help with camera and flash settings including focus stacking, to discuss the pros and cons of gear. Geoff’s enthusiasm for the genre of macro photography is contagious and we am sure that many of us will be inspired to further experiment. There was lots of discussion between members with more experienced members helping others.
More photos from our members can be found in our Macro skills session gallery.