4-Club Interclub Results

Dave Sumner

The 4-Club Interclub competition was held last night, 17th Apr at Maroondah’s Club Rooms in Ringwood. The night was quite hotly contested between Berwick Viewfinders, Maroondah Photographic Society, Eastern Suburbs Camera Club and Waverley Camera Club. There were some very good images presented and the judge Rob Sloane did his best to tell us about each image. Thanks you to everyone who contributed to the competition and to Paul Spence, Vicki Moritz, Rosie Hughes, Dave Sumner and especially Donna Clarke for the efforts in getting the images together. The results were as follows:

Club – EDI Images – Mono Prints – Colour Prints

Berwick – 62Pts – 64Pts – 71Pts (=1st)

Marroondah – 68Pts – 66Pts – 61Pts

Estn Suburbs – 69Pts (1st) – 67Pts (1st) – 57Pts

Waverley – 66Pts – 60Pts – 71Pts (=1st)

A very special mention must go to Vicki Moritz, our star photographer who scored a 1st in EDI for Southern Cross Station and a 2nd in Open Prints for St Kilda Dawn (my absolute favourite image), well done Vicki.

Sunday Outing Report – Bellarine Peninsula

Dave Sumner

I arrived 10 minutes late at the meeting point at Barwon Heads to find 4 members looking distraught as they thought they were the only ones there. I had seen others about as I looked for a parking space and in the end there were 9 of us. We discussed what to do and agreed that regardless of where anyone went, we would meet up at Clifton Springs at 5pm for the sunset (if there was one). After a few shots under the bridge a few went on to point Lonsdale whilst several of us went along and made something of the waves that were crashing into the sea wall past the famous ‘At The Heads’ café.

After a while taking shots here, of the 4 of us that remained at Barwon Heads, 3 of us went further on to Point Lonsdale, whilst 1 went to another location. the 3 of us at point Lonsdale set up on the pier to shoot back towards the lighthouse. the light wasn’t brilliant but we did get a slight glimmer of nice light for about 30 seconds.

Time was getting on and at 4.20 we set off on the 30 minute drive to Clifton Springs saw us there for 4.50 and just in time to setup for a few images of the old jetty. The sunset wasn’t brilliant and we only got a sliver of nice sky on the horizon but the clouds worked well for our images. The stormy looking sky working well for a lot of our shots. We were all secretly hoping for some lightning from the approaching black skies and although we did hear a rumble of thunder, the clouds dispersed and we were rewarded with some great clouds as a backdrop instead. I re-affirmed that my next purchase has to be some graduated ND filters after wrestling with my variable ND affair which I have found to be not worth the money I paid for it, thanks HOYA.

All in all, we had a really good time and it was worth the trip, just a shame it wasn’t supported by a few more members.

Please remember that we now have a website for posting images from outings which can be found HERE

Dave Sumner
WCC Secretary

Sunday Outing 14th Apr 2013 and Upcoming Workshop 16th Apr

Pete Davies

The Sunday outing which was supposed to be last week is now on this coming Sunday (14th). It’s a bit of a tour of the Bellarine Peninsula. Meet at the bridge at Barwon Heads on the Barwon Heads side at 1pm. From there we’ll travel around the coast in an anti-clockwise direction to see what we can find with the aim of being at Clifton Springs by about 4:30pm. We’ll photograph what
WILL BE a magnificent sunset before heading back (maybe grabbing a bite to eat on the way).

The workshop this Tuesday will be downstairs at Wadham House and is aimed more at the lesser experienced members and those who want to find out about printing and matting. We are really keen to encourage printing especially for lesser experienced members so if you have considered it, then please come along. Also, if you have any questions about any of your camera gear, bring it along and we’ll attempt to sort it out. If you suspect your lenses aren’t focussing properly or you are having a hard time finding certain menu items or anything else that’s baffling you technically then come along on Tuesday night.

Thanks

Pete

Audio Visual Group – Mar 12th 2013

Paul Spence

The audio visual group will meet on Tue 12th Mar upstairs at Wadham House, Mt Waverley at 7.30pm. Also come along and ask questions about your AV’s and Mr Bob Thomas, winner of the VAPS best AV in 2012 will answer them for you. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the 2012 VAPS AV Winner. The night will be split into two sessions as follows:

Using Layers – ‘Learn how to Set Show Options’, ‘Add Layers to Your Show’ and ‘Layer Sizing and Positioning’.

Meet Bob Thomas – Bob Thomas, the winner of the coveted VAPS Best AV 2012 prize and he will be answering all your questions.

If you are not sure what Audio Visual is then why not come along and see what we do? If you’ve ever had the desire to put music or words to a slideshow of your holiday images to show to your relatives or create stunning presentations of your photographic work to show everyone else. Or maybe you are interested in taking part in the many AV competitions held around Australia, whatever the reason, the AV Group is for you.

Please see the flyer below for more information

Changes to upcoming workshops

Stephen Edmonds

We have a couple of changes to our workshops in March and April.

The March workshop on Tuesday 19 March 2013 will now focus on astrophotography and using the landscape/seascape with long exposures at night. The presentation will be given by Alex Cherney and by all reports it wiil be a most excellent evening.

The workshop on Tuesday 16 April 2013 will be devoted to instruction on printing and mounting prints.