Edwardstown Photography Club

On Tuesday 20 July, 19 members of the Edwardstown Photography club were educated and entertained by the guys at Total Photographic Supplies, who showed us the studio setup and equipment for hire, the latest tool for cleaning those sensors, and a pretty nifty tripod, as well as attachment for speedlight flash units.

This was followed by a visit to Graphic Arts Supplies, conveniently located across the road at Kent Town, where we learned about the importance of monitor calibration, and setting the ICC profiles of the paper for the photo printer being used.

This Sunday, April 11, our club outing will be to Indofest, Adelaide’s festival of Indonesian arts and culture.  The festival runs from 11 am to 4 pm and is a free event, and a good opportunity for Environmental Portraiture, just in time for our next set subject competition on 11th May.

There are 2 meeting places and times:  At 10 am at Scoozi Caffe Bar on Rundle Street for a coffee, or at 10.45 am on the corner of Rundle Street and East Terrace.

Unfortunately our guest speaker who was scheduled for tonight is now unavailable, so there will be a change in the program.

Our Immediate Past President, Peter Phillips, will be giving a presentation on one of his trips up north, and is calling it “Outback and Camel Safari”.

Our guest presenter for Tuesday 23rd March will be Joe Janko, who is a keen sports photographer. With the recent car racing event held in Adelaide he may have some great images from it.

This is a change to our printed program due to the unavailability of Ron Willems, who we hope to reschedule at a later date.

This is an annual event where club members gather at a specified place and are given a list of 8 subjects to photograph on the day. What’s the catch?  Members can’t use their own equipment, but are given the use of a cheap fixed lens compact camera which is loaded with a roll of 24 exposure film. This is a challenge to see what you can come up with using the most basic of equipment. At the end of the day, all cameras and films are returned to Reg, who will arrange to get the films processed and returned to members at the next meeting. The idea is to choose the best shot of each subject to be entered into a special, fun, competition. The 6 x 4 prints are entered as is, with no re-printing or manipulating of the images allowed.

The club outing for February will be to the Uraidla and Summertown Show, on Saturday February 20.  We will be meeting at the Uraidla Hotel at 10 am.

The definitions for the 2010 Set Subject Competitions have been added to the site here.

After satisfying the requirements of the set subject definitions, every effort should be made to use the highest level of artistic skill in all set subject photographs.

A photograph in a set subject competition which the judge feels is out of category will not be awarded any points and may be used again in another monthly competition.

The Edwardstown Photography Club has moved from the Mitchell Park Neighbourhood Centre to the Clark Building at the Glandore Community Centre, 25 Naldera Street, Glandore. The first meeting for 2010 will be on January 19 and members are asked to bring photos from the holiday period.

The hall is much bigger than our previous premises, so we have lots of room to set up for practical workshops. There is plenty of off-street parking. See pictures below.

Our End of Year Exhibition will be held this Saturday, 12th December at the Mitcham Village Institute, 103b Princes Road, Mitcham. The main hall is located on the corner of Princes Road and Torrens Street. Plenty of car parking is available in the car park off Torrens Street. The proceedings will start at 7.30 pm.

Digital entries for the end of year competition must be received on USB or disk no later than 10th November 2009, but preferably 3rd November 2009.  The digital entries will be judged by a panel of judges on 17th November.