Lake Macquarie Camera Club Inc.

Objectives of the Club

To provide members of the club with opportunities to advance the standard of their pictorial and technical photographic work.

To promote the exchange of information and ideas about photography through the provision of education and training programmes, newsletters, a website, and other means.

To encourage and assist members to participate in photographic competitions both within and beyond the Club.

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May – Raw Image Challenge NEW

In this world of digital photography, it is often said that today’s photograph involves 2 processes. The first is the capturing of your image with your camera/device and the second involves editing this image using your preferred software. This is a challenge open to all members of the 16’s Camera Club. You will be supplied with a raw image file and we would like you to edit the image using some software. One of the goals of the club is to assist members in their photography skills. Here is your chance to improve and practice your editing techniques. Here’s how it works

Download the raw image file from the website. To download the image, go to the members area to enter the “May Raw Image Challenge NEW” This will open a new window where you will see a blue button to “DOWNLOAD FILE.”
Download the file to your computer.
Open and edit the file in your preferred software (or try something different)
When you have completed your edit upload it to the website by entering the “May Raw Image Challenge” using the usual EDI format for your image.
The challenge will open May 1^st and close May 31^st
After closing members will then be able to see all the images entered, and vote for the winning entries using our online voting system.

This is an ideal opportunity to experiment with your editing skills and to see how others would process a raw image. You can manipulate this image in any way e.g. crop, rotate, monochrome conversion, filters etc, the list is endless. We would like you to experiment!

However just 1 rule. You can only work with what you are given. You are not allowed to add other elements e.g. sky replacements etc and just remember you cannot enter your edited image in a normal EDI competition as it is not your own capture!

Keen to give it a try? Great! The first challenge is a portrait.

Any issues please contact Greg Carruthers (contact details can be found in the members area of the website)

by Greg Carruthers, April 29, 2020

Lightroom Tips and Tricks Workshop

This course will now run on Monday February 10^th at the 16 Footers from 10am for 3hrs

There are still some available spots for anyone who wishes to attend. Cost is just $2

Course outline

An overview of Lightroom Classic (desktop version)
Setting up your Lightroom interphase
Importing images from your SD card or hard drive
Sorting and arranging these images into folders and collections
Editing your images including presets
Finally exporting your images for EDI and printing so you can enter competitions

If you have your own laptop running any version of Lightroom, please bring it along. If not, we will team you up with another person.

This workshop will be full of tips and tricks to help you edit, organise and export images ready for entering into competitions.

Please contact me if you have NOT already registered and you would like to attend

CONTACT – Greg Carruthers gkcarruthers@gmail.com

by Greg Carruthers, February 2, 2020

Lightroom Workshop

I have been given the go ahead by the committee to try and run a Lightroom workshop in the new year. This will involve a hands-on approach to learning some of the basics of Lightroom editing and organising so as to help members import, edit their photos and arrange them in a way so they are easy to export at the correct size for entry into our competitions.

This course will need to run at the 16’s and require a min of 10-15 people.
It will be held on a weekday from approx. 10am to 1pm (3 hrs). The exact day at this stage is unknown and will depend on room availability at the club.
Cost for the course will be $10 per head (to cover some costs in hiring the room) No payment is required at this stage!
Where possible those attending will need to bring along their laptop with Lightroom installed and operating
If you cannot bring along your device, it should be possible for 2 people to share.

At this stage we are looking for a show of interest for this course to run. If numbers are sufficient then a confirmed date and booking will be made, and more detail of the workshop content will be made available.

If you are interested in a hands-on Lightroom Tips and Tricks workshop could you please email me with your name and if you are able to bring along your laptop for editing.

Please Email gkcarruthers@gmail.com

Thanks Greg Carruthers

Equipment manager and Committee member

by Greg Carruthers, January 10, 2020