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The Club has two general meetings every month between February and December.

The first meeting is held on the first Tuesday of the month.  The meeting is held at Dromkeen and a $3 entry fee is required.

This meeting usually includes a few of the following (different activities can be held on alternating months):

New members – prior to the official start of the meeting, new members are asked to attend a brief presentation to help familiarize themselves with the Club, Practices and any other relevant information. This generally takes no longer than 15 minutes.  It is a worthwhile meeting for new members to help them navigate things that we do within the club such as Cluster, Competitions, Meetings, Walkabouts etc.

General Information – at the start of every meeting any relevant information that has come up since the last meeting that members should be informed about are provided.

Competition Results – every two months we have a competition (see further explanation below).  Entries are required by a certain date and then the results are presented at a meeting the following month.  This usually involves the Judge giving detailed feedback for each entry.

In-House Displays and Discussions – some months we may have a subject in which members will provide an image or images and then at a meeting they will discuss the image with members, providing details of why the took the picture, technical aspects of the picture, how they edited the picture etc.  This provides members with information on different subjects and techniques while being able to provide feedback and discussion.

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.

The second general meeting is held on the second Monday of the month and is set aside for the technical aspect of photography.  This is also held at Dromkeen and a $3 entry fee is required.

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 – during the year we will have a technical exercise where members who wish to be involved will supply one photo and then have three photos returned to them.  The object of this exercise is to make alterations to the photographs the member receives to enhance them or make them 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 in an ‘OPEN’ category and two two PRINT and two EDPI in the ‘SET SUBJECT’. Refer the to program for topics and definitions. There are specific size requirements for both the print and EDPI submission. If you have an ’Experienced’ club member card your entries will be scored and contribute to an overall annual aggregate. They are also eligible for achieving a ‘Commended” Highly Commended’ or ‘Winner’ status. If you have joined as ‘Novice’ club member you may still enter the compeition and you will receive the same useful feedback from the judges however your images do not get scored. Typically a club member changes from Novice to Experienced after they have entered a year of compeition or have received any of the awards.

For the InHouse and Competition entries: Prints can be brought to the designated due date (a general meeting night as per calendar). Both EDPI’s and a digital version of the print image are uploaded via the club website.

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)

They can be a great opportunity to take images related to these topics. Venues attended can have entry fees but there are no charges to the club itself. Any club member may attend

There is usually a small charge to attend these sessions (generally $10-20 approx) to cover additional room hire, equipment, models, handouts, etc.

·       VAPS Interclub: At the convention all the camera club submit previously selected images to be judged at a state level.