Calendar 2019
Upcoming
December
The 2020 Calendar is posted.
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Full Year 2019
January
Monday 21 Welcome dinner – The Main Cafe Bar Restaurant – Berwick – 6.30 pm.
Saturday 26 On location – Australia Day Balnarring Races. 10.00 am. Go to person TBA
February
Sunday 3 On location – Midsumma Pride March, St Kilda. 10.00 am . Fitzroy Street St Kilda. Go to person Barry Povey.
Monday 4 Members Showcase, Christmas Challenge (James),
COLLECT FOR AGG 1 – Open subject
Monday 11 Tutorial – preparing images for competition, including image selection, prepping, matting,
preparing labels.
Monday 18 No club night (Committee meeting)
Monday 25 Guest speaker – CCD Camera Service. Technician speaking on visual light basics, and will take you inside a modern camera, look at lens fundamentals and zooms, how to care for your camera,
and a Q&A session.
March
Sunday 3 Alison Pouliot Tree workshop – fees apply. All day workshop starting in club rooms, then transferring to field site. Workshop is fully booked.
Monday 4 JUDGING AGG 1/ COLLECT FOR AGG 2 – Set subject “Legs”
Sunday 10 On location – “Lost Trades Fair” – Kyneton. Go to person Steve Ferran.
Monday 11 No club – Labour Day
Sunday 17 On location – Melbourne Zoo – go to TBA
Monday 18 Bring your camera. See note above.
We will be conducting an internal judging to find the image that will be used by Framing to A T to demonstrate matting and framing of the image. Your image can be uploaded to the competition section in the website. It’s the ’Special’ comp with a theme of ‘Framing to a T’ prize (3rd from the bottom).
Monday 25 Visit to Framing to a T. Address Fact 19/2-10 Hallam S Rd, Hallam VIC 3803. Time 7.30.
April
Monday 1 JUDGING AGG 2/ COLLECT FOR AGG 3 – Open subject
Monday 8 Tutorial – Star trails – how to capture them and how to process them, Mike Wharton
Sunday 14 Autumn winery images – winery tour – go to person Laurie Higgins
Monday 15 Tutorial – Lightroom – Barry
Monday 22 No club – Easter Monday
Monday 29 JUDGING AGG 3/COLLECT FOR PAKWICK
May
Monday 6 Mark Rayner will do a Bird and Wildlife Presentation for us on the night of the 6th.
He’ll talk about the techniques that he used to capture certain images as well as settings, aperture, focus methods etc.
He will also do a hands on ‘Back Button Focus” setup session. He usually do this after everything else including all normal club business as it is time consuming and can go on for quite a while depending on how many people want to set up their cameras. Those that are keen will hang around.
He’ll also squeeze in a couple of slide shows on the Kimberly Photo Tour 2020.
Mark will also be running a two day workshop in Cranbourne on the 5th and 6th May . Link is here.
Wednesday 8 COMMITTEE MEETING at Steves
Sunday 19 On location – Cape Liptrap – go to person James Milward
Monday 13 Tutorial – Lighting, flash, portraits – Phil
Monday 20 Guest speakers – “Michele & Rod Adler”
The title of their presentation is: “Photographing Wildlife in the Galapagos Islands.”
Monday 27 Pakwick Interclub comp – we host
June
Monday 3 COLLECT FOR PUB NATIONAL /Tutorial – Slide Show Creation – “A New Way”. with Preparation, Development, Sharing – Using Creative Cloud Subscription Barry
Monday 10 No club – Queen’s Birthday Weekend
Monday 17 Pub National Night. COLLECT AGG 4 – Set subject “Architecture”
Monday 24 COLLECT FOR TRI CLUB and GUEST SPEAKER. The guest speaker will be Barry Povey. Barry will demostrate, on the big screen, CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH THE IPHONE. It will cover the new technologies, applications and processing ability of mobile devices such as the iPhone. Eg 360º creativity, panorama creativity, artistic creativity and novelty creativity. The objective is to bring members up to date on their awarness, appreciation and understanding of recent developments. You may even be inspired to explore this area of photography as well.
July
Monday 1 Club activity – Canada Day – a special evening full of exciting challenges and activities
Monday 8 JUDGING AGG 4/ COLLECT FOR AGG 5 – Open subject
Monday 15 Club activity – Photo aerobics
Monday 22 Tri Club – interclub competition – we host
Sunday 28 Puffing Billy trip from Emerald Lake Park to Gembrook. Fees apply. Full information at a later date.
Go to person David Norris
Monday 29 No club night – COMMITTEE MEETING
August
Monday 5 JUDGING AGG 5
Monday 12 Annual General Meeting/sausage sizzle
Monday 19 Tutorial – photo processing – TBA
Monday 26 Guest speaker: Ewen Bell. Editorial photographer, journalist and publisher of “Photography for Travellers” website.
September
Monday 2 On location – Web Bridge/city shoot 7.30 pm.– go to person James Millward
Monday 9
Calendar selection night, members slideshow. We produce a calendar each year showcasing some of our members’ works. Please, if you wish to submit an image for this completion it must be printed and mounted and brought to Club on this night for judging by your fellow members. Images must be landscape orientated as the fit better on the pages, thanks.
We will have time for members slideshows so if you’ve been on a trip or just have a selection of images you’d like to show, make up a little slideshow, put it on a USB to share with us all.
PLEASE NOTE: Collection for AGG6 “Negative space” will also be on this night.
Sunday 15 On location – Sorrento/Queenscliff Ferry/Queenscliff – go to person tba – from 10:00-13:00
Monday 16 No club night – COMMITTEE MEETING
Monday 23 Guest speaker – Nella Pixels aka P1xels
October
Monday 7 On location – Princess Pier/Port Melbourne
Sunday 13 On location – Rhododendron Gardens
Monday 14 Judging AGG 6 – Negative space, collect AGG 7
Monday 21 Hills and Vines Interclub Comp – we host
Monday 28 Guest Speaker Yana Martens
November
Monday 4 No club (cup day long weekend)
Monday 11 Judging AGG 7, collection for Print & Slide of the Year
Monday 18 No club night – COMMITTEE MEETING
Monday 25 From 19:30-22:30. The blacksmithing group at the Berwick Men’s Shed will be putting on a display and we’ll all be able to practice our long exposures and other techniques – bring your camera, tripods etc! Akoonah Park, Cardinia Street
3806 Berwick, Victoria
December
Monday 2 On location – Frankston Pier, fish and chips – go to Gail McTaggart
Sunday 8 BBQ lunch at Rosies. Details to come.
Monday 9 Dinner – Print and Slide of the Year – Berwick Inn