Melbourne Camera Club

Mid-Week Outing
2022-10-18 10:30 - 14:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | VIC
Rhododendron Gardens in Olinda
Details sent via mailout on 3 Oct 2022
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group webpage

Digital Editing Group
2022-10-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
For the October meeting we have the following organised:
For those new to Lightroom, demystifying some of the tools you will use;
Intermediate: How to combine exposure bracketing and focus stacking to generate a single image (Lightroom and Photoshop); and
Advanced photoshop: What is “Blend if” and how is it used.
Finally if time permits, we can look at start to finish processing by the professionals.

Digital Editing group meets on the Third Monday of the month from February to November. The aim of the group is to help the members of the group to improve our ability to edit images digitally regardless of the end requirement – be it for Print Comp, PDI Comp, AV, slideshows, books or any other use.
Most meetings with be broken into topics suitable for beginners, intermediate or advanced users.
There is a range of software available but our focus will be on Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.
We also happy to look at processing issues you might have – email your image to digital.editing@melbournecameraclub.org.au a few days before an upcoming meeting.

Nature Outing
2022-10-16 10:00 - 14:00 | VIC
Nature outing to Truganina Park, Altona
Contact: mcc-nature@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Print Competition (In club rooms only)
2022-10-13 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Club Competitions
Print Upload
PDI Upload
Set Subjects

Change to Competition Entry Submission Date starting July 2022
The submission date for the electronic versions of both Print and PDI entries are to be changed to the Wednesday night before the Print Competition, at 11:59pm.
This will allow the stewards time to identify potential duplicate images prior to the Print Competition night and prior to images being sent to the judge for PDI.
If a member puts up a print image that has not been submitted electronically the night before, then it will be moved to the Image Critique section.
We believe this will make the competitions fairer for all entrants.
Competition Committee

Competition Entries Due
2022-10-12 23:59 | VIC

Photo Discussion Group
2022-10-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-09-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Photo Discussion Group is a photographic discussion group open to all Members.
We have a night of discussion on all things photographic – prints, PDI, cameras books etc. You are may bring prints or photographs on a memory stick or even a computer to show on the large TV.
You are also welcome to just join in the discussion.

Photowalk Community – Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens
2022-10-09 14:30 - 19:00 | VIC
For our October photowalk we will be heading the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens to see the spring blooms and to enjoy all the gardens has to offer.
The gardens are home to more than 8,500 plant species from around the world are presented in a kaleidoscope of colour and texture. Sweeping lawns, tranquil lakes and majestic trees are home to an amazing range of wildlife.
Casual drinks/dinner will follow at a pub nearby to the gardens.
All visitors, friends and members of the Melbourne Camera Club are welcome.
Date: Sunday 9 October
Time: 2.30pm for 2.45pm start
Meeting Location: Outside Jardin Tan Café, near Melbourne Observatory, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
Bus: Route 605 (Melbourne Observatory/Birdwood Avenue)
Tram: Routes 3/3a, 5, 6, 16, 64, 67 and 72 (Stop 19 Shrine of Remembrance/St Kilda Rd)
Parking: Street metered car parking for up to four hours is generally easy to find close to entry gates.
Duration: 3.5 hours, plus dinner
Any queries, please contact the Coordinators: photowalks@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Introduction to Lightroom Course
2022-10-08 08:00 - 17:00 | VIC

MCC Annual General Meeting
2022-10-06 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC

Mid-Week Outing
2022-10-04 10:30 - 14:00 | VIC
Australian Jazz Museum. For details click: Jazz Museum Outing Details
Details sent via mailout on 15 Sep 2022
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Scheduled and future Mid-Week Outing details

Portrait Group
2022-10-03 19:00 - 23:00 | 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 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/)
Due to changes in government and MCC COVID-19 policy, our restrictions are somewhat relaxed, However, we strongly recommend wearing a mask, especially when socialising between taking shots.

Club Night: Guest Speaker: Alexander Bogatyrev - From Father to Sports Photographer – Clubrooms & Hybrid Meeting
2022-09-29 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
By day Alex is a Research Scientist at The Alfred Hospital, during his “spare” time he is a world-class Sports Photographer. He started by photographing his daughter at school gymnastics events, but as she improved, he started accompanying her around the state, the country and the world taking photographs of the events. Now, not only does he photograph his daughter at sports events, he travels to events all over the world taking photographs.
“I am a freelance photographer, affiliated with a boutique International Photo Agency, SOPA Images, based in HK. 3 times finalist of #WISPAA (Women in Sports Photo Action Awards) awards. And winner of Travel Photography award in 2017.
I also contribute to Getty, Alamy and Shutterstock, specialising in Editorial Images – mainly sports photography as well as some photojournalism.
Contributed to “The Women’s Game” magazine (Inside Sport) still contributing to Unification newspaper and sometimes Australian Jewish News.

My images from 2018 season were compiled in the book “Great Aussie Sports: Netball” by David Rafferty

In 2019 travelled to Azerbaijan as an Australian National Team official photographer to Gymnastics World Championships.

My work is published in The Guardian, WSJ, Daily Mail, a number of International Sports media (including ESPN).

Most recent event I covered was The World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.”

https://alexbogatyrev.passgallery.com/
Please join us in person at the Clubrooms or on Zoom for this event.
Zoom details will be emailed to members a couple of days before the event.

APG monthly meeting
2022-09-26 19:30 - 23:00 | VIC
Monthly club meeting

Analogue Photography Group 22nd Annual Exhibition
2022-09-24 - 2022-09-25, 2022-09-18, 2022-09-17 | VIC
The APG will be holding its 22nd Annual Exhibition of prints created through analogue photographic processes. Exhibition open 10am – 4pm

Public Holiday – Friday before AFL Grand Final
2022-09-23 | VIC

PDI Competition - Zoom Only
2022-09-22 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
Club Competitions
PDI Upload
Set Subjects

Change to Competition Entry Submission Date starting July 2022
The submission date for the electronic versions of both Print and PDI entries are to be changed to the Wednesday night before the Print Competition, at 11:59pm.
This will allow the stewards time to identify potential duplicate images prior to the Print Competition night and prior to images being sent to the judge for PDI.
If a member puts up a print image that has not been submitted electronically the night before, then it will be moved to the Image Critique section.
We believe this will make the competitions fairer for all entrants.
Competition Committee

Projected Digital Image Competition - Set Subject - Industrial
2022-09-22 20:00 | Via Zoom
The monthly competition for digital projected images.
The images must be uploaded via —- by the previous Thursday

Public Holiday
2022-09-22 | VIC

Conceptual Photography Group
2022-09-21 19:30 - 21:30 | VIC

Mid-Week Outing
2022-09-20 10:30 - 14:00 | VIC
Cranbourne Royal Botanic Gardens
Details sent via mailout on 5 Sep 2022
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Scheduled and future Mid-Week Outing details

*Cancelled* Digital Editing Group - September meeting postponed
2022-09-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Digital Editing Group meeting scheduled for 19 September has been postponed due to other significant events occurring at the same time.
The program scheduled for September will now occur at the October meeting.

For the October meeting we have the following organised:
For those new to Lightroom, demystifying some of the tools you will use;
Intermediate: How to combine exposure bracketing and focus stacking to generate a single image (Lightroom and Photoshop); and
Advanced photoshop: What is “Blend if” and how is it used.
Finally if time permits, we can look at start to finish processing by the professionals.

Digital Editing group meets on the Third Monday of the month from February to November. The aim of the group is to help the members of the group to improve our ability to edit images digitally regardless of the end requirement – be it for Print Comp, PDI Comp, AV, slideshows, books or any other use.
Most meetings with be broken into topics suitable for beginners, intermediate or advanced users.
There is a range of software available but our focus will be on Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.
We also happy to look at processing issues you might have – email your image to digital.editing@melbournecameraclub.org.au a few days before an upcoming meeting.

Nature Outing
2022-09-18 10:00 - 14:00 | VIC
Nature outing to Truganina Park, Altona

Annual Analogue Photography exhibition opening
2022-09-16 18:30 - 22:30 | VIC
Opening night for the 22nd Annual Analogue Photography Exhibition from 6.30 pm
Opening by Barrie Bunning 7.30 pm

Club Night: Ruth Woodrow, "Lockdown Imagery" – Clubrooms & Hybrid Meeting
2022-09-15 20:00 - 21:30 | VIC
The story this picture tells is both deeply personal and also needed telling. Each image represents a happy memory of time spent walking my neighbourhood with my husband, Paul, over a period of three months, from March to June 2020.
It is a record of my experience of a point in time that will be marked down in history as a societal turning point.
When I found out that I would be working from home during lockdown, I decided that I was going to go for a walk every day for both my mental and physical wellbeing. During my walks I started noticing the various signs and markings on the ground. The lack of people and traffic was making me see many things as if for the first time. Photographing my feet with these signs and markings seemed to be a way that I could capture my experience of lockdown and isolation. Before long, I noticed that I had hundreds of these images and it seemed like a good idea to combine them into a sort of collage.
Taking inspiration from the rainbow, I thought I could arrange the images from red through to violet, but what I discovered was that I didn’t have enough magentas and violets, but I had heaps of grey, so my collage ended up fading from the rainbow through to grey, which talks to me of the gloss and excitement of early lockdown fading into what we now think of as the new normal.

This image is a product of our daily walks during lockdown and I’d like to thank my husband Paul for accompanying me day after day after day on our walks and insisting that I take a camera with me. He “donated” his Leica Q2 to me as it was so much lighter than my Canon. Needless to say, it hasn’t left me since.
This image tells a powerful story of lockdown in Melbourne in 2020. This seat is at the Victorian College of the Arts, normally a bustling vibrant locale full of arts students dressed like arts students.
During our lockdown walks we visited this area quite frequently and to say that it was the opposite of what it was like before lockdown is an understatement. There was no-one there, it was like a ghost town.
The government decided that playgrounds and community facilities – and peculiarly, park benches and seats were off limits and needed to be taped off. What attracted me to this scene was the colour of the seat and wall and the jarring impact of the red and white tape. It was as if art itself was forbidden (which surprisingly almost turned out to be the case).

Please join us in person at the Clubrooms or on Zoom for this event.
Zoom details will be emailed to members a couple of days before the event.

Board Meeting
2022-09-14 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.

Lighting Group
2022-09-13 19:30 | VIC
Lighting Group will meet at MCC studio at 7.30pm.

Photowalk Community – Toorongo Falls, Gippsland
2022-09-11 13:30 - 19:00 | VIC
Photowalk Community – Toorongo Falls, Gippsland

We welcome MCC members and friends to the September photowalk.

For this month’s outing we heading out of the city to Toorongo Falls in Gippsland.

In addition to photographic opportunities of the waterfalls, keep a look out for bats, sugar gliders and possums who call the dense eucalypt bush home.

Date: Sunday 11 September

Drive time from Melbourne approx 1hr 45min
1.30-1.45pm: Meeting location: Noojee Heritage Centre / Tourist Information Centre, 405-415 Mt Baw Baw Tourist Rd, Noojee
2.00pm: Leave for Toorongo Falls and Amphitheatre Falls carpark (20 mins drive from Museum)
On arrival at the Falls, park in carpark – start the hike uphill to Toorongo and Amphitheatre Falls. The round trip will take approx 2.5 hrs
Dinner at 6pm at Noojee Hotel 411 Mt Baw Baw Tourist Road, Noojee (20 mins drive)

Notes

Bring a tripod, ND filter/s if you plan to capture long exposures of the waterfall
Check the weather and bring hiking boots or gumboots if it is wet.
Warm clothing, check weather forecast

RSVP is essential for planning purposes and dinner numbers, please advise by Friday 9 September, 8pm if you will be joining the outing and dinner. Email: photowalks@melbournecameraclub.org.au

All MCC events require all attendees to check in using MCC QR code. If you are unwell at all, please stay home. Please see the Photowalk Coordinators on arrival to register.

We look forward to you joining us on Sunday 11 September.

Any queries, please contact the Photowalk Coordinators: photowalks@melbournecameraclub.org.au
