If you have not previously had an opportunity to look at Tuck’s macro and nature photography, then come along to our workshop on Tuesday 21 February 2012. Tuck has kindly offered to give us, not only a look at his work, but also to give us some information to help us if we wanted to have a go. Sometime later down the track we might even have a competition to see what we have learned.

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

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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