Karori Camera Club

Close up and personal

This will be a fun session experimenting with close-up photography for that very challenging Hutt battle topic “Senses”.

Bring your camera with macro setting or camera with macro lens / close-up filters / bellows. If you have none of these and are using an SLR camera with a detachable lens, you can actually create a macro lens by putting your standard lens on back to front with the help of an adaptor ring.

This is a great opportunity to stretch the boundaries of your creativity and learn techniques you can use in your other photograph

Guest speaker: Liz Finnie

Liz is a very talented and creative photographer who has had some
interesting travels lately. You'll also be inspired by her breathtaking
artistic images.

Flash Workshop

Learn how to flash appropriately… we’ll run through all the tricks you can use
to light your subject without overexposing. Bring your camera and separate flash unit if you
have one.

PLUS please bring any potential interclub battle entries you’ve created so far (either prints or
digital) so we can see what topics we need to do more work on.

Below are some links that can be interesting

• Strobist: Lighting 101
• Strobist: Lighting 102: Introduction
• Flickr: Discussing Canon Wireless Quick Start Guide in Canon Wireless
• Neil van Niekerk – 01 - natural looking flash
• Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part I.
• Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part II.
• Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras - Part III.

Guest speaker: Andrew Bonallack

Andrew Bonallack from CityLife Independent Herald will give us some insights
into the challenges of working as a news photographer and show us some of
his favourite images.

How to create slide shows and audiovisuals.

This is going to be a workshop. Dennis Hamblin and Heuchan Hobbs will show us how. Dennis will use a Mac program and Heuchan a Windows program.

Meeting is at usual venue at Karori Arts and Crafts, Newman Centre, 3 Beauchamp Street, Karori

Here’s a chance to show your best images from the Cuba St Carnival and salsa@sunset (or any other
recent images). Get hints for improving your results if you didn’t get what you were hoping for and
can’t work out why. Come prepared with any questions you need answers for.

Touched by the Light

10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Firday 21st November to Thursday 27th November
Figaro Atrium
Malvina Major Retirement Village
134 Burma Road, Khandallah

This is our last meeting before our exhibition, so if you absolutely can't make it to the hanging on Thursday 20th (4.45pm till however long it takes), please bring your exhibition pictures to this meeting (though of course we would prefer that you come and help with the hanging!).

We could also take a look at photos from our outing to Courtenay Place on 1 October - just a small selection, say 6 max each.

Then Carol Anderson and Gayle Cullwick will treat us to a tour of Antarctica. Carol and Gayle have enticed us with a few select images for the interclub battles, so this is an opportunity to see a wider sample of their work.

With the end of the year coming up, it’s time to think about the programme for next year, and who the club officers are going to be. Please let us know your thoughts on activities you’d like to see more of, and anyone you know of that would be an interesting guest speaker. And please put your hand up if you’d like to take a more active role in the club management - surely someone would like to be the newsletter editor?

Going commercial – Robyn Greening and Bill Alp

Robyn gave up her full-time job in the health sector in 2005 to do the Massey diploma of photography. She'll show us what that involved, then talk us through the ins and outs of setting up a photography business. Her partner Bill is a keen b&w photographer and has always done his own traditional darkroom printing, including the prints for Robyn's business. Bill has just closed his darkroom though, and you'll find out why.

Even if you're not planning on going commercial or doing a full-time photography course, you'll still pick up heaps of interesting and helpful info - and, of course, see some good photography.

And then there'll be supper! Could everyone please bring some food to share.

We intend to try something a little different. At the end of the last meeting, we set a theme "Regret" and asked people to bring along up to 6 recent photos that meet the theme. Interpretation of the theme is up to each photographer. For each photographer, we will display their set of 6 and by vote decide on their best 3.

Depending on the response, we might have to try something else. As mentioned in the Newsletter, that could be a surprise!

As usual 7:30 p.m at the Karori Arts and Crafts Center.