Melbourne Camera Club

Nature Outing
2023-02-26 10:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | VIC
Visit to Bunyip National Park – to be confirmed – weather dependent

APG February meeting
2023-02-27 19:30 - 22:30 | VIC
Show and Tell, feedback on printmaking, Passion Projects, Work In Progress, sharing of interesting cameras.
What makes a good print. Members to bring along prints for discussion. Talking points; composition, exposure, developer, development times, toning.

Introduction of Photography Course
2023-02-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-03-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Introduction to Photography – Enrolments Open

Board Meeting
2023-03-01 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-03-27 19:30 - 21:00 | VIC
The MCC Board meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
Any items for the Board should be sent to secretary@melbournecameraclub.org.au

International Women's Day Exhibition – Opening Event 7.30pm
2023-03-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

International Women's Day Exhibition
2023-03-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-05 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-18 11:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-19 11:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Introduction to Photography Workshop
2023-03-05 09:30 - 12:30 | VIC

Portrait Group
2023-03-06 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/)

Mid-Week Outing
2023-03-07 09:30 - 15:00 | VIC
Nature Exhibition Geelong
Details sent via mailout on Mon 20th Feb 2023
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

Grace Lock Group meeting - What makes an appealing image?
2023-03-08 19:30 - 21:30 | VIC
Meet at the club rooms to review images from the current International Women’s Day Exhibition and discuss what makes an image appealing. How can I apply those same elements into my own photography practice?
Members are also invited to bring their own images for constructive feedback and discussion.
The Grace Lock Group focuses on women photographers, supporting conversations on personal projects (eg. the creation of portfolios or new bodies of work), as well as the work of other women photographers. It explores our visual expression in a like-minded group in a non-competitive way. Participants are encouraged to bring along their idea or images for discussion.

Print Competition (Club rooms only)
2023-03-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Serenity
Judge: Alli Harper
Competition Entry Date: Wednesday 8 March 2023
Club Competitions: https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/members-only/club-competitions/

Photowalk Community – Moomba Festival
2023-03-12 17:00 - 21:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us for our March photowalk, we will be visiting the Moomba activities on the Yarra, including dinner/drinks then fireworks (optional).
We will meet outside Hamer Hall then start with a walk along the Yarra and Alexandra Gardens area, along Swan St bridge, and returning to Fed Square past the water skiing and carnival area.
Moomba program link, click here.
We welcome all photographers – bring along your favourite camera: digital, film, phone, Polaroid etc.
All visitors, friends and members of the Melbourne Camera Club are welcome.
Casual drinks/dinner will be at a city pub, followed by fireworks from Birrarung Marr.
What to bring:
• Tripod for fireworks
• Spare battery as long exposures can drain batteries quickly
• Warm clothing as we will be waiting around for the fireworks
Date: Sunday 12 March
Time: 4.50pm for 5.00pm start
Meeting location: Outside Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd – across the bridge from Flinders St Station
Duration: 4-5 hours, including dinner and fireworks

Public Holiday
2023-03-13 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Conceptual Photography Special Interest Group
2023-03-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Check the Group pages for more information about the Group Meetings

Club Member Barney Meyer: Drones Presentation, and Panorama Demo
2023-03-16 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

IWD Exhibition – Print Collection 3-4pm
2023-03-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Digital Editing Group
2023-03-20 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 programmes.
Topics for the nights’ discussions will be:

Lightroom – importing and exporting including how to size for PDI competition;
Photoshop – following from our discussion last month on layers, we will look at how layers can be blended using a couple of techniques, blending modes and blend if.
Finally we will have a look at a couple of Photoshop’s AI based neural filters.

Mid-Week Outing
2023-03-21 10:30 - 14:00 | VIC
MGA Exhibition, Wheelers Hill
Details sent via mailout on 28 Feb 2023
To receive the mailout tick ‘MidWeek Outing Group’ on your profile page.
See Mid-Week Outing Group

IWD Exhibition – Print Collection 7-8pm
2023-03-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

PDI Competition (Zoom only)
2023-03-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Set Subject: Serenity
Judge: Ian van der Wolde
Competition Entry Date: Wednesday 8 March 2023
Club Competitions: https://melbournecameraclub.org.au/members-only/club-competitions/

Nature Outing
2023-03-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Nature Outing to Western Treatment Plant

APG March meeting
2023-03-27 19:30 - 22:30 | VIC
Show and Tell, feedback on printmaking, Passion Projects, Work In Progress, sharing of interesting cameras.
Hand colouring and spotting prints. Bring along your prints and try out hand colouring and spotting.
Pinhole Day preparation.

Photographic Lighting Group
2023-03-28 19:30 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Continuous lighting. Yes that’s the topic. After many request and discussions last year, we’ve lined up something special to kick off the first lighting group meetup of 2023.
We’ve partnered with Protog to bring you a Nanlite continuous lighting demo!!! YAY! I can visualise everyone jumping out of their chairs right now.
We’ll have 2 studio setups, 1 for portrait and 1 for light painting.
This will be very cool. Bring your lenses and cameras and please be familiar with your camera settings (ISO, SHUTTER, APERTURE). We’ll be using these in creative ways.
Your leader to the lightside,

Erik

Guest Speaker: Jesse Marlow- Street Photographer and Leica Ambassador
2023-03-30 20:00 - 21:30 | Melbourne Camera Club, 254 Ferrars St, South Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Jesse Marlow is a Melbourne-based and internationally recognised photographer. Over the last 25 years he has worked for a range of local and international editorial and commercial clients. His works are held in public and private collections across Australia and the world, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Parliament House Collection. In 2003, he published his first book of photographs: Centre Bounce: Football from Australia’s Heart, (Hardie Grant Books). In 2005 he published a book of street photographs titled Wounded, (Sling Shot Press). In 2006 he was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. In 2010 he was one of 45 street photographers from around the world profiled in the book Street Photography Now (Thames & Hudson). In 2011 he was the inaugural winner of the International Street Photography Prize. In 2012, Marlow won the MGA Bowness Prize, one of Australia’s leading Photography prizes.
In 2014, Marlow published his third monograph – ‘Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them’. In 2021, Marlow published his fourth monograph ‘Second City’. With a highly developed eye for colour, pattern and subtle humour, Jesse is constantly searching for an ambiguity that lies just below the surface. Each image in his books is a perfect compositional gem full of delight. These images showcase Marlow’s ability to find wonder amidst the banality of everyday life.
His current reprinted book, ‘Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them’ will be available for sale on the night at a discounted price for club members.
Jesse is a member of both the international street photographers’ collective, UP Photographers and Institute Artists and is a Leica Ambassador.
Jesse will talk about his street photography and aspects of his career.

Photowalk Community – Port Melbourne Sunset
2023-04-02 17:00 - 19:30 | VIC
Join us for our April photowalk, we will be doing a sunset shoot in Port Melbourne.

We will meet outside Mr Hobson cafe (9 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne) and make our way to Princes Pier for sunset (6.13pm). There will be time for golden hour and blue hour photography from either Princes Pier or along the nearby beach area.

All visitors, friends and members of the Melbourne Camera Club are welcome.

Casual drinks/dinner will follow at a local pub (optional).

What to bring:

Tripod for long exposures
ND filter/s (optional)
Spare battery as long exposures can drain batteries quickly
Warm clothing depending on the weather forecast

Date: Sunday 2 April
Time: 4.45pm for 5.00pm start
Meeting location: Outside Mr Hobson cafe (9 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne)
Public transport: Tram 109 is a very short walk to the meeting point
Duration: 2 hours, plus dinner at local pub
Note that the Grand Prix will be on in Albert Park, so suggest to avoid that area as some roads will be closed.

IMPORTANT please RSVP by email to book reserve a seat at dinner: photowalks@melbournecameraclub.org.au

All visitors, friends and members of MCC are welcome.
