Tuesday 10/04 Simon Davidson – Car Culture
A great presentation, members found this different and interesting.

Tuesday 13/03 Meredith Schofield – Analogue girl in a digital world.
“I describe myself as an ‘Analogue girl in a digital world’.
“I use my extensive experience in film photography to get the look I want and enhance my work as well as embracing the digital world. This gives my work a distinctive style which is instantly identifiable and full of impact.” Meredith is a photographer and community arts worker based in Sydney & the Illawarra region of NSW, Australia. Specialising in reportàge, lifestyle, travel and portrait photography her passion is in telling stories and capturing images that evoke a response – visually, emotionally, intellectually or otherwise.

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...Meredith Schofield describes herself as an ‘analogue girl in a digital world’. With a Diploma of Photography from Sydney Institute of Technology she has a grounding in film based photography where every frame counts and calculating exposure variations mentally is part of the everyday photographic task.
Meredith’s presentation for Norths Photographic Society demonstrated her enthusiasm as well as her bubbly personality. She covered a lot of ground quickly and illustrated her various specialties such as lifestyle, travel, portrait and reportàge photography. Film is her preferred medium when she has a project that allows her to slow down and think of the consequences of each and every shutter click although some commercial contracts need the masses of frames that can only be produced economically by digital photography.
Meredith has a background in social work which has led her to tutoring people with intellectual and physical disabilities and she likes to use the camera and photography as way to connect. She manages to combine both areas with grants and commercial projects for community groups.
All Meredith’s work is brought into the digital realm by either direct import into Lightroom or by import via a film scanner and she gave us a quick synopsis of her general workflow and backup systems. Bringing the world of film into the digital realm gives Meredith’s work a distinctive ‘gritty’ feel, especially her monochrome images.
After a break for supper where Meredith encouraged people to chat with her about photography, she resumed her presentation with a quick series of guides for anyone wanting to venture into the world of commercial photography.
Meredith Schofield kept us entertained throughout her presentation and we were all buoyed by her enthusiasm and extrovert personality….. Max Perkins

Tuesday 13/2 ‘Heery’s World’ presented by film director Liz Jones.
Heery’s World is a fascinating and compelling journey into the creative life and mind of Gary Heery, one of Australia’s most renowned portrait photographers.

Hi Liz,
A big thank you for giving your time and presenting the fabulous documentary to our group.
We received great feedback not only from our members but also from visitors and other club members.
The showing of the documentary was a perfect start to our year ahead.
Many thanks again, it was great.  Sue

          
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Tuesday 10/10 – Great evening with Tom Putt, inspiring images on aerial /drone photography.
Thanks Tom for making it entertaining too!
https://inspirephotographyworkshops.com/collections/aerial-landscape-photography

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I attended with two other friends the club meeting on 10 October 2017.
We were warmly received at the door and welcomed in.
We found the guest speaker and presenter, Tom Putt, very knowledgeable and a professional at his work. His passion for photography, particularly aerial photography, was inspiring. I took his card and intend visiting him when I’m next in Melbourne. His aerial photography was absolutely amazing. So happy that we attended.
I hope to be back, participating and competing. – Richard Shakenovsky

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Tuesday 12/9 Alfonso shared his experiences taking us on interesting travels through Japan and Spain, with Q&A along the way.
Thanks Alfonso it was fun and entertaining!
Unlock your creativity; Start a Project – Alfonso suggests we all try and have a project going on. Challenges to go on your learning adventure unlock that creativity within yourself!
Link here:
https://www.photographytravel.net/single-post/2017/09/06/Seven-Ways-to-Unlock-Your-Creativity

 
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Tuesday 08/08 Adam Williams – The Formula for Interesting Landscape, a practical presentation.
Thanks for a great evening Adam, your montage images were especially inspiring!

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Tuesday 13/06 Pamela Pauline – The Sky is the Limit.
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Last nights presentation by Pamela Pauline was excellent and very well attended by our members.Pamela provided us with her background and future aspirations in photography together with an excellent representation of her “Fine Art Photography”.Pamela’s skill as a photographer combined with her interesting techniques in post production produced many beautiful” Fine Art Prints” which were on display.All of our members in attendance came away feeling very motivated. – Les Atkins

Tuesday 27/06 Competition Open – judge Stuart Bowey

Online subject Negative Space – judge Michaela Clarkson
Thanks for the opportunity. Always great to see the members’ work.

Tuesday 9/05
Patricia Beal – Improving your photos generally, based more towards the less experienced members who often are less catered for. Composition etc and looking from a judge’s point of view.

Glen Parker – Blending seascape images. Using some of the images from different members who attended the Kiama outing Glen shared his knowledge on how to blend seascapes.

Milky Way; some members had an additional challenge photographing the Milky Way from the Northern beaches. More experienced members were on hand to give advice on this challenge. – John G

Tuesday 23/05 Competition Nature – judge Luke Tscharke

Online Open – judge Nina Beilby

Tuesday 4/04 Valerie Martin, Travel Photography; Ethiopia +portraits, markets & wildlife.
A very interesting evening with Valerie Martin, a freelance photographer based on Sydney’s northern beaches. She has had an exciting and varied career working as a press photographer in London, freelancer in the United States and senior staff photographer at Australian Consolidated Press. Her style is to work in a contemporary manner using as much natural light as possible. Being versatile and working quickly especially on street photography for portraits and market opportunities. Valerie showed wonderful travel images on Ethiopia, a taste to inspire anyone to travel there. Working with her street photography images she gave helpful tips on taking the shot quickly and not messing around. Plus the type of lens she travels with giving the approximate focal length, and using manual or aperture settings.

Tuesday 18/04 Competition Open – judge Alfonso Calero
It is always great to see wonderful work presented. We can’t all be winners but more importantly it’s learning from the judge’s critique that counts, the awards are a bonus!

Online subject – Framed – judge Gavin Marchio

Social dinner; Thursday 27/04.
Papaya Thai Cammeray, a great night. Sixteen enjoyed a unique menu of delicious food, full of flavour and colour, and very generous servings.

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Tuesday 14/03  Audio Visual.
A very moving Tribute to ANZAC by Les Atkins. Photos from WWII, Vietnam War, memorabilia shots taken from the Australian War Memorial Canberra and leading up to ANZAC day in Sydney. We experienced Australians at war and connected with stories of  people and events that shaped Australia and what it means to be Australian.

Making Selections Using Channels – Christine Nelson.
Christine is always bubbling with information when it comes to Photoshop manipulation.
Ready to share her wealth of knowledge to members on techniques and tools of the trade in photoshop. She demonstrated changing backgrounds in an image by making selections and using Channels. Just magic!  Once you know how to master these techniques using photoshop, well, the skies the limit. Photo artistry, there is a bit of creativity in all of us!

Tuesday 28/03 Competition Action – judge Malcolm Fackender
A challenge to members to get out and about and build a portfolio of Action photos.
Using creative flare, showing some blur, movement, freezing the action and catching the peak of action. Judge Malcolm Fackender, experienced and always gives a very good critique.
Congratulations to members for a great display of Action images.

Online – Open – judge Tammy Bateman
I would like to say what a talented group of photographers,such wonderful images  it was great to judge.