Weekly MCC News #30 – 14-August-2022

This week we are commencing Week 3 of our 5-week Introduction to Photography Course program, thank you to all the volunteers who have been helping out. Today, Peter Chapple shared his expertise in the Light and Lighting Workshop with participants practising both indoors and outdoors with people portraits.

Note that the Thursday night Zoom details for Hybrid meetings are now included in Weekly News each week for those wishing to join Thursday night events from home, as this reduces the amount of emails we are sending out. This week’s guest speaker event will be a Hybrid meeting, please join us in the Clubrooms, or via Zoom, starting at 8pm. Refer below to the What’s On This Week section for the Zoom Meeting details.

Image: Intro Course 14 August 2022, Mark Devaraj

News Updates

Volunteering Opportunities at MCC: Exhibitions Team

Volunteering at MCC is a fantastic way to contribute to the Club, network with other members and give back to the Club.

We are looking for Members interested in helping to plan and coordinate the Exhibition Program for the year ahead. Please get in touch with Sally Paterson if you are interested in participating.

Contact MCC Secretary

2022 Inter-Club Portrait Competition

Thank you everyone for submitting your images for selection to represent the Melbourne Camera Club in the 2022 Club Portrait Competition being run by the Camberwell Camera Club.

A panel of four curators have selected the 21 images (out of over 140 images submitted by you), which have now been submitted to the competition.

The judging and awards presentation night will be held on Tuesday 23 August commencing at 7:30pm via Zoom.

The following week on Tuesday 30 August at 7:30pm, there will be a further Zoom gathering, where photographers of winning and various award images will be invited to discuss their image in some detail.

Zoom link to both events, 23 & 30 August 7.30pm:

Zoom link
This same Zoom link will also operate for the Meeting the Awarded Photographers Zoom session at 7.30pm 30 August.

Slideshow of all images entered in the competition – click here.

A very short and very basic “Meet the Judges” video – click here.

Slideshow of all images

The next Introduction to Lightroom Course will be held on Saturday 8 October, starting at 8.30am

This workshop covers the Library and Develop Modules.

Format: 1-day workshop where participants will follow along with an instructor using LR on their laptop. Workshop is limited to 20 participants. The objective is to introduce Lightroom Classic to photographers who have never used Lightroom to process images before.

This workshop has been developed by MCC in response to members indicating via survey that they would be interested in learning more about Lightroom.

Course information

What’s On This Week

Digital Editing Group

Monday 15 August, 8pm

This month we have something a little different. Have you ever thought of the world of ultra-macro photography like photographing the eye of an insect. Colin Booth has been exploring this are of photography for some time and is going to share with us how he goes about it. The gear, setting up, capturing images and processing those images.

This promises to be a very interesting evening.

Introduction to Photography Course

Tuesday 16 August, 7.30pm, Session 3

For registered participants

Course Information

Conceptual Photography Group

Wednesday 17 August, 7.30pm

Guest Speaker

Thursday 18 August, 8pm

Due to the late cancellation of our guest speaker, and ahead of next month’s competition set subject topic ‘Minimalism’, Paul Dodd will be speaking about minimalist photographers.

Please join us in person at the Clubrooms, or via Zoom.