Karori Camera Club

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.

Just a reminder that our next meeting - to select images for the Wellington regional interclub competition - is this Wednesday instead of the first Wednesday in August.

This will give people more time to get prints ready for the competition (which is on Tuesday 12 August).

PLEASE BRING ANY DIGITAL IMAGES OR PRINTS YOU HAVE OF THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:

• Plumbing
• Clouds
• Night
• Abandoned
• Liquid
• Glass (not reflective)
• Rocks
• One Tree
• Glint in the Eye
• Wide
• Interior (Architecture)
• Orange

The regional interclub competition is done differently from the Hutt-Karori battle - each of the five clubs puts one print in for each topic. The prints need to be matted or mounted on board, but don't need to be in frames - in fact it's easier to handle them if they're not in frames.

We don't have to have them enlarged and matted f<>or this Wednesday's selection meeting though. If you can't make the meeting could you please contact me or Mark about how to get them to us. Look forward to seeing your images!

Remember that this week we're hosting the Hutt Camera Club for our annual interclub battle.

It's always a great night's entertainment. You'll see a great range of photography and learn heaps from our judge.

Club members, please remember to bring a plate to share for supper.

Venue is at the Club Rooms at the Karori Arts and Crafts Centre, Beauchamp Street, Karori.

Start time is 19:30.

It’s our turn to host the annual competition with our friends from the Hutt Club. The battle will be on July 16. As you can see from the following list, each club has to supply 20 prints and 20 digital images, a formidable task for our small club, so we hope YOU can participate. As for this meeting, the selection process is in some ways more interesting than the actual battle, because club members get to make the decisions and to agonise over what image best fits the topic.

Prints: open subject (10 images from each club)
Prints: set subject: portraits (10 images from each club)

Digital: open subject (10 images from each club)
Digital: set subject: weather (10 images from each club)

If you’re a new member, don’t be put off by the thought of having to cut a matte and frame your print – more experienced club members will be happy to help (and that also applies to the KACC exhibition and the regional battle below).

Make sure you come to our meeting this Wednesday night - Kent Blechnynden from the DominionPost will be there to entertain us with some of his great photography - we hope!

I say "we hope" because we had him lined up for a meeting last year but that morning he was told to go to Napier to do some photos in the late afternoon and there was no flight back after that.

Our back-up plan if he gets called away again is to go out and pretend to be news/documentary photographers ourselves. I'll let you know on the day if this does happen.

See you at the Karori Arts & Crafts Centre this Wednesday 21 May, 7.30pm.

Could everyone please bring something to share for supper. We hope to have some Hutt Camera Club members there too.

Portrait Workshop

“Portrait” is one of the subjects for the Hutt battle, but possibly
one of the most difficult photo subjects to master. That is perhaps
because we immediately have a mental vision of sophisticated lighting
systems, and studio backgrounds. However, Stella is going to lead this
session, focussing on how to see the light (so to speak), and showing
how easy it is without specialised equipment. The lighting demonstration
would also apply to shooting in daylight.

The guest speaker is Loma Dellabarca on creative photography. Even if creative photography isn't your thing, you're bound to pick up some tips you can use in your photography.

The venue? Karori Arts & Craft Centre - at last!!! (As long as we don't go upstairs, as work is still being done there.)

Please make an effort to come along to this, because you will get some insights into creative photography and perhaps creative ways of seeing things in general.

See you at 7.30.

We now have a venue for our next meeting.

Beauchamp Street Chapel
21 Beauchamp Street
Karori

It's on the left side of Beauchamp Street as you come from Karori Road, a brick building almost at the corner with Lewer Street.

See you at 7.30 pm with your best plumbing pics and your 6 best pics taken over this summer!

At our next meeting (this Wednesday) Bruce Girdwood will lead a hands-on session using Photoshop. See below for details.

But first, most importantly, where? Because the Karori Arts & Crafts Centre is still being renovated, we will meet at Clark Configuracion's house - thank you Clark!

Address: 54B Monaghan Ave, Karori. The house is on the corner of Monaghan Ave and Hawick Street (on the right as you come up from Karori Road).
Start time: 7.30pm.

Bring your laptop if you have one and it has Photoshop loaded on it, plus an image you'd like to work on and some ideas about what you want to do with it.

To start with though, we'll get you to upload one of Bruce's images and he will teach us how to use various Photoshop tools on that image so we're all working on the same thing. We'll also have the image projected on the screen through our digital projector for those of us without laptops.

Then you can work on your own image and Bruce will do the rounds to give help as needed.

See you Wednesday at 7.30.