About

The summer program meets on the first two Monday’s in the months of February, March, April, May, September, October and November.

The winter program meets the first Monday only in June, July and August with day time weekend workshops to replace the second Monday.

Our meetings are held at Jubilee Hall in Macedon with a $3 entry fee required, on the first Monday of each month an optional $2  raffle is held. Prizes are mostly related to photography.

Our meetings may consist of any of the following activities:

Information session for new members – prior to the official start of the meeting, new members are asked to attend a brief presentation to help familiarise themselves with Club activities and events. This generally takes place twice a year and takes approximately 30 minutes. It is a worthwhile meeting for new members to help them navigate our website, a primary resource tool for club members.

General Information – at the start of each meeting members are provided with relevant information on upcoming events and activities.

Image Critique and Discussion – members provide an image for group discussion. This exercise provides helpful feedback for the photographer but also assists members with editing suggestions and self critiquing skills.

Presenters – throughout the year we may invite a special guest to give the members a presentation in relation to their careers, photographs, genre of photography etc. These presentations help provide members with useful information in relation to different types of photography, techniques, processes and other such information.

During the summer program the second Monday of the month is set aside for the technical aspect of photography. 
These meetings are to help members with different techniques and ways of processing photographs etc. This may include:

Mini Tech Nights – a quick presentation is provided on a specific techical aspect of photography. Topics such as Printing, Light Painting, Portrait Photography etc are just some of the topics that are covered during the year.

Practical Exercises – either following the presentation mentioned above, or by itself, undertaking practical exercises on a specific technical aspect helps members to learn by doing. These are extremely important to help learn new and different techniques.

Software – there is a lot of different editing software available and occasionally we provide presentations on the most common software used to help members with their post editing.

One Image Three Ways – A member supplies a photo for editing by club members. They then receive back three different photos to edit themselves. The object of this exercise is to make alterations to the photographs the member receives to enhance or make better/different. At the meeting the member will provide the members with information on their observations of the photo, what they have changed and why (i.e. post-production changes). This helps members see things from a different perspective and gives them information on ways to make changes to photographs that they may want to try. Each person sees things from a different perspective and this is evident when one image can be edited in a multitude of ways.

Competition Information – Four times a year there is an externally judged competition.

Club members can submit two PRINT and two EDPI (Effective Dots Per Inch AKA a digital image) in an OPEN category and two PRINT and two EDPI in the SET SUBJECT. Refer to the competition page on the website for subject definitions and specific size requirements for both the print and EDPI submission.

Competition entries – Prints are to be handed to the competition steward at the club meeting one month prior to the judging night.

Both EDPI and a digital version of the print image are to be uploaded via the club website before the close of competition.

Guest Judges – We endeavour to get highly experienced judges to review and provide feedback on our key competitions during the year: April, June. August, October and our End Of Year competition in December (often a panel of three judges)

Competition Results – The judges will award a winner, highly commended and commended of each category and give scores out of 15 as well as offering constructive feedback. The scores are tallied for an end of year club aggregrate.

*Partner attendance:  Space permitting MRPS members partners are invited to attend the MRPS overnight walkabouts as follows:
– Partners must be with an accompanying MRPS member.
– Any associated costs, entry fees, meals, accommodation etc is the responsibility of the inviting MRPS member.
– Complete an attendance and disclaimer form

Venues attended can have entry fees but there are no charges to the club itself. Any club member may attend