Club Meeting - Thursday, 8th May 2008

Time: 7pm
Place: Cherry Park House, Kerikeri
Club Competition: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Speaker: Graham Richards will talk on ‘Originality in Photography’.

Critique: Avis will critique our pictures on ‘Colour’ and ‘The Essence of Summer’

Still Life Workshop

Our workshop on ‘Still Life’ will be postponed until another session.
Keep this in mind.  We would like each person to bring into this workshop their own expertise and experience so we can be learning from all.  Read up and learn, then we will pool our knowledge.  We will spend
a whole meeting on this.

Waipapa Landing fun

For the Camera Club meeting on Thursday evening, March 13, 2008, we made double use of the Waipapa Landing reserve at Kerikeri.

Some of us met at 6 pm to take photographs of the river and whatever else we could find around the reserve. Since the light was getting down it was an ideal time to use slow shutter speeds to create smooth water flows over the rocks.

The photo below was with the settings of ISO200, F29, 1/5sec. Normally a tripod is required for these slow shutter speeds but with some of the newer VR (Nikon - Vibration Resistant) lens - they might be called also IM for Image Stabilization - this image was taken with the camera hand held.

The Waipapa River running over rocks at the Waipapa Landing Reserve.

For the Camera Club meeting itself we were honoured to have Keith Williams take us in a live workshop showing us how to photograph a family in existing light. He made use of the reserve as the shoot location moving the family, and us, around to different places to make use of the different natural lighting. All in all a very enlightening experience.

Regular Meeting Thursday, 13 March, 08

Speaker: Keith Williams
Date: Thursday, 13 March, 08
Place: Cherry Park House, Kerikeri
Time: 7 pm.

Keith Williams will be speaking to us on family portraits and lighting. He will be starting at 7pm with the light in mind at that time. So be punctual. We will have our regular meeting after this.It is nice to support our guest speakers so I hope there will be a good turnout.

Topic
Keep thinking about the topic which is ‘Open Colour’ and bring along three prints. This topic should be easy but I am having trouble thinking of something.

Workshop - just before out Regular Meeting:
Date: Thursday, 13 March, 08

We were going to go to the parrot place but they will not be open so this has been cancelled.

Instead we will have a photo session at the wharf at Waipapa Landing. Leave our cars at Cherry Park House at 6pm and cross the road to Waipapa Landing.

The evening light around the boats, rocks, cascading water and birds could be interesting.

If you bring your tripod it may be an opportunity to try slow shutter speeds on the rocks and cascading water.

Place: Cherry Park House – Waipapa Landing
Time: 6 pm

This is if weather permitting.

Ring Denis at 401 1871 or Jill 407 6524 if there is some doubt.

Camera Club is for all ages..

An eager young photographer on our outing to the Rangemore Llama Farm.

Club Outing to Rangemore llama Farm - February 17th

The trip proposed for February 16th to Wairere Boulders was cancelled due to a poor weather forecast, and on the advice of one of our members who has been there several times a spring time visit - probably October - was decided upon.

However to fill the gap we have arranged a visit on Sunday afternoon to the Rangemore Llama Farm at Waipapa, Kerikeri. Those going to meet at the farm at 2.00 p.m.

Update: February 18th.

Due to the short notice of this outing only 3 members turned up which was unfortunate, for those that didn’t come, as the weather was good and there were plenty of photo opportunities.

Whangarei Club Trip to Auckland Polynesian Festival

This is an advance notice of a proposed bus trip by Whangarei Camera Club.

When - Sat 8 March
Where - Auckland Polynesian Festival, Western Springs

Bus to leave Whangarei at 7.30 am sharp.
(Dargaville members to be at Brynderwyn turn off by 8.00am please
- Wellsford members could also meet at a suitable assembly point along the route)

Bus to leave Festival 3.30 - 4.00pm

Cost - approx $30.00 per person (lunch not included)

We are hiring a bus to go to this colourful event in March. It will be bigger than the bus we usually hire through the Equip church, therefore more comfortable & more roomy.

IF we get 35 passengers the fee for this outing all be around $30/head; obviously if we get a smaller response the charge will increase accordingly.

Can you please advise your members of this forthcoming outing & ask them to contact me direct at pgpix@slingshot.co.nz or phone 09) 438 6757 if they would like to join us. Seats will be on a first come, first served basis & we will require payment BEFORE the outing (20th Feb).

Club Outing - February 16, 2008

Our first outing of the year will be to the Mangungu Mission House and the Wairere Boulders at Horeke.

Meet at the Mission House at 2 p.m. where we will be for about an hour before we go around to the Wairere Boulders. The afternoon visit is so we can be there to take advantage of the afternoon/late afternoon light. Plan on not getting home until dark. Bring some food so we can have a picnic meal later in the day.

There is an entry fee of $10 per adult to the Wairere Boulders but we may be able to negotiate a group fee once we have an idea of how many will be going.

Phone Denis at 4011871 or Jill at 4076524 to arrange car pooling.

The Wairere Boulders web site is at http://www.wairereboulders.co.nz/

Welcome to 2008

This will be the official web presence of the Mid North Camera Club…

The first Camera Club meeting for 2008 will be at Kaikohe - the Senior Citizens Hall in Tawanui Rd at 7 p.m.

The photo competition subject for this meeting is - Essence of Summer.

For those that can come earlier we will be holding a workshop/photo opportunity beforehand at the Hone Heke Memorial reserve at the top of Monument Rd, off Orrs Rd. See you there at 6.15 p.m. - weather permitting of course.

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