Portrait Group
2020-08-03 20:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Via Zoom
Special exercise – August Zoom meeting
For this meeting David Gilliver will be guiding everyone through some camera exercises with on-camera flash to teach some basic flash concepts. These concepts may be useful for taking portraits in your own home.
To participate you will need:
– digital camera with manual controls for aperture/shutter/ISO/white balance
– “speedlight” flash (most exercises can be done with popup flash if required)
– something to take photos of (eg. coffee mug, bowl of fruit, stuffed toy, another person, store mannequin)
– a white piece of paper
If there is time at the end, David will demonstrate using a speedlight as an off-camera flash.
If you need the Zoom meeting info, please email portrait@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Please Note
Until further notice Portrait Group shoots are being replaced with online Zoom Meetings.
For meeting details please make sure you are on the Portrait Group mailing list (email portrait@melbournecameraclub.org.au if you are not).

This is the monthly meeting of the Portrait Group – first Monday of each month. An excellent chance to practice portrait photography skills 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) and $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.

Mid-Week Group (Virtual Meeting)
2020-08-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2020-09-01 10:30 - 11:30 | VIC
Click here for further details about the Mid-week Outing Group

Board papers due
2020-08-05 19:00 - 19:30, 2020-09-02 19:00 - 19:30 | VIC
All submissions to the Board must be to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.au by this date.
Any proposal to go to the Board must use this proforma otherwise it may not be considered.

Virtual Meeting: MCC Member - Tuck Leong "Impressions of Nature"
2020-08-06 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.

Board Meeting
2020-08-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-09-09 19:30 - 21:30 | VIC
The MCC Board meets on the second Wednesday of the month. All Board items must be to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.auby the previous Wednesday.

Board Meeting
2020-08-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-09-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Via Zoom

Virtual PDI Competition
2020-08-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-09-10 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
PDI Competitions
Set Subjects
Competition Scores
Rules
Rules for Monthly Competitions
Entry format & presentation rules
Competition entry rules

Print Competition
2020-08-13 20:00 - 23:00, 2020-09-10 20:00 - 23:00 | VIC
The monthly competition for printed images

Virtual Meeting Conceptual Photography Group
2020-08-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Via Zoom
Write like an Artist

What makes a good Artist Statement?
Create my Artist CV
Artist Statement v’s Artist Bio v’s Artist CV
Member participation with photo discussion

Virtual Meeting: Guest Speaker-Andy Campbell “Wonders of the Universe, Exposed”
2020-08-20 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.

Visitors please email Lesley.Bretherton@melbournecameraclub.org.au for Zoom access details.

Digital Editing Group: Special Event
2020-08-21 10:00 - 23:30 | VIC
Members who would like to join this Special Event, please contact Gail Morgan: digital.editing@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Analogue Photography Virtual Group Meeting
2020-08-24 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
The Analogue Photography Group meets on the 4th Monday of the month. Members are encouraged to bring along their current work- either completed or in progress. Each meeting will have either a talk, a demonstration or an activity (or all of the above). The APG program can be found on the website.
Visitors who would like to attend can send an email to analogue.group@melbournecameraclub.org.au to obtain the Zoom details.

Nature Group (Virtual Meeting)
2020-08-25 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
Chance for members to share nature images taken prior to lockdown

Projected Digital Image Competition - Set Subject - Industrial
2020-08-27 20:00, 2020-09-24 20:00 | Via Zoom
The monthly competition for digital projected images.
The images must be uploaded via —- by the previous Thursday

Virtual PDI Competition
2020-08-27 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-09-24 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
PDI Competition
Set Subjects
Competition Scores
Rules
Rules for Monthly Competitions
Entry format & presentation rules
Competition entry rules

*MCC Clubroom Events are cancelled until 30 September 2020*
2020-09-01 | VIC
https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/2020/03/21/announcement-from-mcc-board-15-march-2020/
https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/2020/04/05/announcement-from-mcc-board-1-april-2020/

Club Night
2020-09-03 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC

Virtual Meeting : Guest Speaker – Matt Palmer “The power of personal photography projects”
2020-09-03 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event

Portrait Group - meeting cancelled
2020-09-07 19:00 - 23:00 | Via Zoom
Please Note – there will NOT be a Portrait Group meeting in September 2020
Our September 2020 meeting has been called off.

Virtual Meeting: MCC Members - Nicole Andrews, Lesley & Ken Bretherton, Paul Dodd, Ruth Woodrow, Marg Huxtable "The Natural Wonders in danger from climate Change"
2020-09-17 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Please join us to hear from our talented Nature photographers:

Nicole Andrews “Sand Dunes”
Lesley & Ken “Landscapes”
Paul Dodd “Birds”
Ruth Woodrow “Flora”
Marg Huxtable “Fungi”

Please refer to email to all Members for Zoom login details for this virtual meeting – the email will be sent a couple of days in advance of the event.

Digital Editing Group: Guest Speaker – Christian Fletcher (Virtual Meeting)
2020-09-21 20:00 - 22:00 | VIC
Digital Editing Group: Guest Speaker – Christian Fletcher
Christian Fletcher has been a professional photographer for 30 years. He has won many awards including AIPP Landscape photographer of the year in 2011 and the inaugural International Photographer of the year in 2014. Christian Fletcher lives in Dunsborough, WA.
Christian Fletcher has perfected the art of light, composition, colour and post processing. He believes that all great landscape images have to have the ‘perfect light’ at their core. He also believes that the use of Photoshop is very important in his work. “I could not get my photos the way they look without Photoshop. It is how I create my art. I don’t use paint on canvas – I smear pixels around on my Wacom Cintiq 24HD Touch. You have to post process your images, all files need it. The camera will not capture the image perfectly, it can’t. It is a dumb instrument.”
As well as having his photographs available in physical and on-line galleries Christian Fletcher offers training and mentorships.
Further information can be found at www.christianfletchertraining.com
Zoom meeting details will be emailed to MCC Members in advance of this event.

Conceptual Photography
2020-09-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Via Zoom
Work in progress

Discussion of work in progress
