Photo Discussion Group
2025-02-10 20:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Photo Discussion Group provides a regular forum where you can discuss your passion for photography with like-minded people.
In a friendly, helpful environment, we explore a diverse range of photography topics – what makes competition winning images, creative techniques, how do judges evaluate our work, what tools we use to create the images we love, and how we may progress our skills to a higher level – to name a few.
Whatever your interests – photographic genres, image capture, image processing, printing, PDI, the latest tools, or just looking for tips – you will not be disappointed.

Introduction to Photography Course
2025-02-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-16 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-02-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-02 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-03-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Introduction to Photography Course – Free 12 Month Membership – February 2025
Tuesday, Starting the 5th August 2025 at 7:30 pm (AEST)
254-256 Ferrars Street – South Melbourne, VIC 3205 – Australia
More information to follow.

Print Competition (Club Rooms only)
2025-02-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Food

Judge: Sam Mariani (link)

Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 12 February 2025

Silver gelatin toning workshop
2025-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Silver gelatin toning workshop run by Selby.

IWD mat cutting workshop
2025-02-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Come to the MCC studio to join others in cutting our mats for the IWD exhibition.

Digital Editing Group
2025-02-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
As the level of understanding of digital editing techniques varies enormously among members, we will aim to provide information to members at basic, intermediate and advanced levels in each meeting.
The focus is not on how to capture an image, but on what can be done with it in post-processing after downloading the images to your computer. Topics such as adjusting exposure and saturation, compositing, HDR and special effects will be just some of the areas covered. The digital editing techniques discussed will primarily be applicable to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, however these techniques are generally transferable to many other digital editing programs.
For the first meeting of 2025, we are going back to basics of Lightroom and Photoshop. For Lightroom, we will look at some of the most fundamental adjustments – white balance, exposure, sharpening and more. In Photoshop, we will examine some settings and the most fundamental feature of Photoshop – layers and masks which will keep our process non-destructive.

Mid-Week Outing
2025-02-18 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
NGV – Yayoi Kusama Exhibition
Details was sent via mailout on Wed 5th Feb.
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Conceptual Photography SIG
2025-02-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Check our homepage for the plan for 2025.

The Conceptual Photography Group will kick off 2025 with a presentation on the topic:

What is Conceptual Photography (with a new slant).

Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Date: Wednesday 19th February
Place: MCC Gallery, 254 Ferrars St

Whether you are familiar with Conceptual Photography or not, come along to join the discussion or merely listen. We will have a new slant relative to previous discussions on this topic.

Bring a notepad or sketchpad, as we will discuss ways to create your concepts for a photographic body of work.

We will also decide on the theme for the Fourth Annual Conceptual Photography Exhibition in October.

Best Regards

Bob Warfield
Andrew Tan
garrie maguire
Wayne Harridge
Robin Tully

IWD Exhibition – Drop Off Prints: Option 1
2025-02-20 19:30 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Artwork Drop Off

Thursday 27 February between 6.30pm-7.30pm
Alternate drop off dates: Thursday 20 February 7.30pm-8pm / Sunday 23 February 5pm-5.30pm
Artwork to be delivered, printed, matted and mounted and ready to install to Melbourne Camera Club, corner Ferrars St and Dorcas St, South Melbourne (refer Terms & Conditions for size information).

Terms & Conditions and Entry information link

Wine & Cheese Social Event
2025-02-20 19:30 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prior to the guest speaker this Thursday, we will be holding a Wine and Cheese Social Event, from 7.30pm-8pm in the Gallery, please come along to socialise with other members prior to the presentation, and check out the new look gallery if you haven’t seen it already.

Very Special Guest Presenter - Tobias Titz
2025-02-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
So proud to bring Tobias Titz to the Melbourne Camera Club .
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet this inspirational man and hear his stories of his amazing experiences.

Tobias is a multi-award winning Photographer based in Melbourne and has worked the last 10 years for a respectable range of national and international magazines and commercial clients.
He is very passionate about all aspects of people and portrait photography and takes on long distance travelling to the remote Australian outback for his projects.
He has exhibited his work extensively in Australia, Germany and
the US.
Tobias has worked with indigenous communities in the Pilbara, the
Kimberly, the Western Desert, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands,
South and Central Australia for over 15 years and photographic
work from these interactions is held in the Museum of Australian
Democracy, the National Library, Canberra and the Southeast
Museum of Photography, Florida,USA.
In the award winning Polaroid Project participants are invited to
etch their message in the wet emulsion of the large format Polaroid
negative.
His photographs are also included in the Polaroid Collection, USA,
the National Library of Australia, the Moran Foundation, Australia
and numerous private collections in Australia, Europe and the
USA.
Tobias won the HeadOn Photography Prize 2008, the Doug Moran
Contemporary Photography Prize 2012, the Art Handler Award at
the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 and the People’s
Choice Award at the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize 2023.
Tobias lectures Photography at Monash University.
www.tobiastitz.de

**CANCELLED** Nature Outing
2025-02-23 10:00 - 14:00 | werribee treatment plant gate 5
THE OUTING TO THE WESTERN TREATMENT PLANT IS CANCELLED
Unfortunately, a Total Fire Ban has been declared for Sunday in the Central and North Central districts. The Western Treatment Plant is closed to birders during a Total Fire Ban. As a consequence, we have had to cancel the Nature group outing.
We would appreciate it if you could pass this information on to anyone who might have been planning to attend.
With thanks, Jo and Julie

IWD Exhibition – Drop Off Prints: Option 2
2025-02-23 17:00 - 17:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

IWD Exhibition – Entries Close 11.59pm
2025-02-23 20:00 | VIC
Closing date for Exhibition entries.
Terms & Conditions and Entry information link

APG February Meeting
2025-02-24 19:30 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
February 24, 2025 @ 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Guest speaker: Renato Colangelo
Renato is visual artist whose practice is focused and concerned with cultural identity, social awareness, anthropology and experimentation within different mediums.
He continues the use of analogue techniques in the production of his artwork and runs Nero Darkroom in Melbourne & workshops in aspects of analogue photography.
Predominantly works in the medium of Photography, Video and large-scale installations including several works in Camera Obscuras, ‘Standpoint’ for Eyes Lies & Illusions at ACMI in 2007 and ‘Locked Treasure Room’ 2011 at Centennial Gardens Sydney.
He’s been exhibiting since 1997 with solo and group exhibitions including residencies in Italy and Australia along with being the recipient of various awards including the prestigious Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2002.
Annual exhibition update
We are still seeking volunteers to help with the exhibition.
Without volunteer help the exhibition cannot happen.
Desley will outline the help needed.
Show and tell
Show and Tell, feedback on printmaking, Passion Projects, Work In Progress, sharing of interesting cameras.
Analogue Still Life 29th March
Barrie will introduce the workshop and give more details on the activity

IWD Exhibition – Drop Off Prints: Option 3
2025-02-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

PDI Competition (Zoom only)
2025-02-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Via Zoom
Set Subject: Food

Judge: Sam Mariani (link)

Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 12 February 2025
Zoom Link: published in the Newsletter

MCC Lighting Group (March 2025)
2025-02-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
For March we will be visiting the new St Kilda pier to explore the evening / sunset light at the pier and around the St Kilda area, we hope you can join us.
We will meet at the start of the pier (shore end) at 7:30pm

Portrait Group
2025-03-03 19:00 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This is the monthly meeting of the Portrait Group – first Monday of each month. An excellent chance to practice portrait photography skills, learn about studio lighting and grow your portfolio.
The meeting is a practical photography session. We use flash lighting in a studio setting. We will have 2 sets operating and 2-3 models, so there will be ample opportunity to shoot.
Open to all MCC members (and visitors may attend up to 2 sessions).
If you want to shoot, please bring:

your camera (with a standard hot shoe on top for the flash trigger)
$10 for a shooters licence.

Please come along at 7pm to help set up. We start shooting at 8pm, and stop when the models say they’ve had enough (typically 2-3 hours).
Please remember that after the shoot you are required to send some photos back for the models. (See https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/interest-groups/portrait-group/portrait-image-returns/)

Mid-Week Outing
2025-03-04 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Outsiders Exhibition, CBD
Details sent via mailout on 18th Feb 2026.
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

IWD Exhibition Launch: Doors open 7.30pm / Formalities 8.00pm
2025-03-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

IWD Exhibition
2025-03-08 11:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

IWD Exhibition
2025-03-09 11:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Board Meeting
2025-03-11 19:30 - 21:00 | VIC
Any items for the Board should be provided on the standard proposal template – link here
and emailed to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Print Competition (Club Rooms only)
2025-03-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Long Exposure

Judge: Masa Hoss (link)

Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 12 March 2025
