Special presentation from Mieke Boynton focusing on Bright and surrounds

In advance of our club weekend away to Bright we have a special presentation from Mieke Boynton focusing on Bright and surrounds.

Mieke is well know to the club and is an internationally acclaimed landscape and aerial photographer. Mieke and her partner Matt Palmer own and run the Alpine Light Gallery in the beautiful alpine township of Bright in Victoria, where you can visit and view a large selection of their fine art landscape prints.

The presentation will be on Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 7:30pm over Zoom.

Macro/Close-up workshop with Aaron Harivel – April 2023

Our April workshop will be a presentation from Olympus specialist Aaron Harivel on macro and close-up photography.

When: Tuesday 18th April 2023 at 7:30pm
Where: Mount Waverley Community Centre Main Hall
Format:

  • Short presentation followed by hands on
  • Bring your camera, subjects for macro photography, tripod and lighting if you wish
  • Aaron will also bring some camera equipment, lighting and subject matter

AGM followed by workshop with Albert Tay

Below is some information from Albert on tonight’s workshop (after our AGM), do come along and find something new to do at home!

Workshop Summary

Do you have enough photography ideas to keep yourself busy during weekends or rainy days? Albert Tay has done a lot and will be sharing the secrets behind his Levitation and Multiplicity photos. He will talk about the preparation, setup, tips and go through the post processing (if time permits).

Workshop Outline

  • WOW photography – a reveal
  • Breaking the ‘magician’s oath’
  • Story and inspiration behind the shoots
    • Levitation (self portraits)
    • Levitation (products)
    • Multiplicity
  • Preparations – ideas, concepts, locations, props and setup
  • Tips
  • Before & After
  • Learning by example – props, tools and post processing
  • Q&A