Melbourne Camera Club

Photo Discussion Group
2026-04-13 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.

Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom
2026-04-12 10:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-11 13:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-22 10:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-21 13:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-08 10:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This Analogue Photography course is open to MCC members as well to non-members. It is designed for those people who are just starting to process and print film. It can also be taken by those who wish to update their film processing and printing skills. Course participants must be over 18 years old.
The course is divided into two units:

Processing the exposed film – Unit 1
Printing from a set of negatives – Unit 2

This course has been pre-booked and full. For more information and if you are interested in the course please contact the organiser via the course page below:
https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/courses/analogue-photography-basics-course2/

Lighting Group SIG
2026-04-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us at the club for the Lighting Groups’ April get-together, where we will experiment with lighting – how to feather light

Print Competition (Club Rooms only)
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Street Photography/Street photos (workers, police, cafe life, shoppers, people communicating, shadows, ICM)
Judge: Alli Harper ( )
Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 8 April 2026

Mid-Week Outing
2026-04-07 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kensington Street Walk
Details sent via mailout on 17 March 2026
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Portrait Group
2026-04-06 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/)

Special Guest Presenter- Aaron Walker – Exploring the Art of Performance Through the Lens
2026-04-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Aaron Walker is a Melbourne-based photographer whose work pushes the boundaries between performance, portraiture, and art. With a background in theatre and an instinctive sense for human emotion, Aaron’s images capture the fleeting moments where movement, light, and story collide. His photography often explores identity, vulnerability, and the body in motion — inviting viewers to see beyond the surface into something deeply personal and raw.
Through his innovative approach, Aaron continues to inspire others to see photography not just as documentation, but as a living, breathing performance.
You will not want to miss this very special presentation .
http://www.aaronwalkerphotography.com/

Wine & Cheese Social Event
2026-04-02 19:30 - 20:00, 2026-03-19 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.

Nature Outing March
2026-03-29 10:00 - 14:00 | Newport Lakes Reserve, Newport, Vic
Newport Lakes Reserve (subject to change)

Newport Lakes Reserve is a regenerated wetland and bushland reserve with twin lakes, boardwalks and native vegetation. In March, birdlife is active around the water and reed beds (waterbirds, wrens, honeyeaters), with chances of spotting frogs, lizards and early autumn insect life. It’s an easy, scenic walk with plenty of photographic opportunities close to the city.

(email will be sent our closer to date)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EYGtXCYuHiw8cFc79

PDI Competition (Zoom only)
2026-03-26 20:00 - 22:00 | Via Zoom
Set Subject: Contrast texture and form in Monochrome
Judge: Masa Hoss ( )
Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 11 March 2026
Zoom Link: published in the Newsletter

APG March Meeting
2026-03-23 19:30 - 22:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Agenda:

Welcome: welcome guests and new members. Apologies.
Introduce guest speaker: Russell Mason on Street Photography.
Presentation 45 minutes.
Q&A 15 minutes.
Show and tell of projects, cameras and all things analogue.
Questions and answers on analogue issues.
Announcements of upcoming workshops, excursions, presenters, activities.
Film swap or dates for film swap to occur.

Santina Velo and Andrew Lang will host this meeting.

Very Special Guest Speaker - Jodie Hutchinson-Grillmeier
2026-03-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Naarm/Melbourne-based photographer Jodie Hutchinson_Grillmeier works across commercial portraiture, theatre photography, and environmental photojournalism. Jodie began her career working for major Australian networks including ABC, Channel 9, Channel 10, and Channel 7, on shows such as Neighbours, Stingers, Wilfred, and MasterChef, before specialising in theatre and rehearsal photography, performance documentation, and the creation of promotional imagery for Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Finucane & Smith, the Lyric Opera, and a range of independent theatre companies.
A graduate of the Master of Fine Art at RMIT University, Jodie is a photographer with Vets for Compassion, documenting search and rescue and veterinary care. Her work explores human–animal relationships and responds to the ongoing crisis of species extinction. She is a three-time finalist in the Olive Cotton Portrait Prize (2013, 2015, 2025) and a finalist in the Australian Professional Photography Awards (Animal category, 2021).

She is currently developing a major exhibition with Museums Victoria examining loss and extinction in Australian wildlife. The first series from this project, Remembering the Thylacine, will be exhibited in November through the City of Melbourne.

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IWD Artwork Pickup (Option 2)
2026-03-19 19:30 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Conceptual Photography Group
2026-03-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Check the Conceptual Group Home Page for details of each monthly meeting.

Mid-Week Outing
2026-03-17 10:30 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Southwest CBD Laneways
Details sent via mailout on 5 March 2026.
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Digital Editing Group
2026-03-16 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.
This month we will be looking at how to refine our images in Lightroom using it’s most powerful tool – masks.
For those interested in Photoshop, we will be going back to basics. This will ideally suit Lightroom users who are overwhelmed by the apparent complexity of Photoshop.

IWD Artwork Pickup (Option 1)
2026-03-15 15:00 - 15:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

International Women's Day Exhibition
2026-03-15 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-08 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-07 11:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

B&W Reversal workshop (APG)
2026-03-15 10:00 - 17:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
In this workshop, participants will bring an exposed roll of B&W film (Preferably low ISO film from major brands, such as Ilford or Kodak 50-100 ISO film).
During the workshop each participant will develop their film with a special process that results in B&W transparencies (i.e. B&W slides).
Please contact Shane Booth or Selby Markham if you are interested in attending.

Print Competition (Club Rooms only)
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Contrast texture and form in Monochrome
Judge: Masa Hoss ( )
Closing Date for Entries: Midnight Wednesday 11 March 2026

MCC Lighting Group SIG
2026-03-06 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us in the Club Studio to explore some product lighting – Please bring an object you would like to photograph
