Small but Meaningful
Bring along your images of Reflections and Looking Up for the first two of our themes for the Wellington Interclub competition. It doesn’t matter if they’re not in their “final” format yet – we can discuss, critique and toss around ideas and see if we can come up with some winning images!
So, bring along your ideas and we’ll select the best 4 (not necessarily the 4 that we already have the most photos in our back catalogs, but perhaps the 4 that we think will be the most fun and/or challenging to do)!
And other things photographic…
Theme: Wellington by Night
Date: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Meetup Time: 6:30pm (sunset is at 5:53pm)
Meetup Place: The front of the Wellington City Library (in Victoria St)
Duration: Shoot ‘til ya drop! Or until enough of us feel like resting… inside one of Wellington’s establishments that has a convivial atmosphere and serves refreshing beverages!
Weather: No contingency plan. If it’s dry then we’ll get photos of a dry Wellington. If it’s raining, there’ll be just that bit extra of reflection off the roads!
Equipment: Feel free to bring a tripod if you want. And a flash too, if you think it’ll help!
Followup: Bring your best shots along to the following meeting (April 27th)
Making it our own
Following on from Brian’s great tech talk on Lightroom last time, we sent out two images (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sufiwwnxx1c4v0g/AABZxQ8sQzqkYvs5DfvWGG66a?dl=0) for you to “make your own“. Bring them along on a USB stick tomorrow night and talk us through why you made the images that way and the steps you went through to achieve that.
Interclub Challenge
Let’s have a chat about the topics for the 2016 Wellington Region Interclub Battle (Wednesday 17 August):
Need a hand?
Got an idea for a photo – maybe for the Interclub, or PSNZ Canon Online or perhaps a personal project, and you need a hand? Want to flesh out a concept? Or do you need an assistant (reflectors don’t hold themselves up, do they?!!!) for a shoot? Feel free to tell us what you’ve got on your mind.
Hutt Battle
This is an annual competition between us and the Hutt Camera Club and is held in November. The format is projected only. Each club contributes 10 images in each of the 4 categories. These are displayed randomly and the judge gives a score, normally out of 10. The team with the highest score at the end of the evening wins – we won last year’s battle!
Last year’s subjects were:
We get to choose this year’s topics, so let’s bounce around some ideas.
Night Shoot
Let’s put a stake in the ground and come up with a date and time that would suit for a night shoot. Maybe one evening in the bush (Otari) and another one in the City?
Tonight we have a few things to do
Suggest that total number be kept to a dozen, split how you want between those that you took at Princess Bay and those from the Christmas break.
* Can people please size images to 1280px on the longest side, and name the images as follows (this will help Heuchan with organising images):
By now we should all have paid the Arts and Craft Centre portion of our fees to them, which just leaves the Club portion ($5.00) which may be paid directly to Heuchan tonight.
Bring along your ideas for what outings we can go on, sites we can visit, topics you’d like to cover, people you’d like to see and, most importantly of all… what you can contribute to the club in terms of organising speakers, events etc.
The current projector is no longer “cutting edge” and its habit of mis-rendering colours means that it is probably overdue for a replacement… but with what? A more modern rojector? A W-I-D-E screen tv? Let’s talk through a few ideas.