Mats and Frames Barry Povey will give a presentation on mats and borders. It will cover important questions like: Why? What is it? Why should you care? Purpose. Colour problems. Layers. Width. Frame. Watermarks - Why? Signature - Why? He will also demonstrate the use of predefined “actions” in Photoshop to handle the issues above. […]

Having just had a chat with Martin, we feel that the weather conditions are too uncertain to be able to confidently go ahead with the planned Astro shoot. Instead, we will meet at the Hub at the normal 7.30, and bring your top 10 favourite photos on a USB stick to show and talk about. […]

The comp follows on from a workshop presented by Janette. "Minimalist photography is a form of photography that is distinguished by austere simplicity. It emphasises sparseness and careful composition, shying away from overabundance of colour, patterns or information." Anyone is welcome to attend the evening, however only members may enter. Maximum of 4 images per […]

HPS Committee meeting. Venue, agenda, etc TBA.

Wayne will run a workshop where we will bring our laptops (if you have one, we can double up with another person if not). Wayne will give us all the same raw file to edit, and see what we can all come up with.

Paul will run a Portrait workshop, which will be followed up by a portrait shoot, with models that I will source, at a subsequent meeting.

HPS Committee meeting. Venue, agenda, etc TBA.

OPEN DEFINITION  "Any subject that is treated pictorially, embodying the elements of good design, arrangement or composition, which reflects the personal interpretation of the photographer." Anyone is welcome to attend the evening, however only members may enter. Maximum of 4 images per person, colour or black and white. All entries must be in jpg format. […]

Our guest speaker, Glynn Lavender, will be discussing with us "My photos are shit and I don’t know why I bother" (and hopefully giving us some insights on how we can rectify the problem!). I am sure many of us think the same thing over and over again when reviewing our images.  Glynn spoke recently […]

HPS Committee meeting. Venue, agenda, etc TBA.

Details of our meeting for the 25th of July, which will be a social/fun night, and we will  have "Getting to know you" members talks from Eric Yates and Kathie Thomas. We will have a short photography video tutorial, subject to be advised closer to the date. We will have a "mystery quiz", where we […]

This competition follows on from our Street photography workshop by Adrian Whear. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY:  Is a non-formalised genre of photography that features subjects in candid situations within public places such as streets, parks, beaches, malls, political conventions and other associated settings. Images can often be ironic or emotionally detached from subject matter, focusing instead on […]

Annual General Meeting followed by a presentation by Des Lavery of his recent overseas trip.

 Definition :- "A portrait is defined as a photograph of a human in which the face and its expression is predominate. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Portraits may be formal or candid, ranging from head and shoulders to full length. Animal portraits will not be […]

Samual is an acclaimed photographer with lots of excellent credentials, not least being the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the year for 2023. His topic will be Landscape Photography Composition, delving into basic and advanced compositional techniques for landscape photography and how light interacts with the given location. If you would like to have a […]

We will be having a presentation by member Torbjorn von Strokirch. The topic is Citizen Science and also a close up presentation. Torbjorn will be exploring why people take photos, and the purposes and importance of photos and what they are used for, including scientific identification of species, changes in the environment, business use, etc. […]

Anyone is welcome to attend the evening, however only members may enter. Maximum of 4 images per person, colour or black and white. All entries must be in jpg format. The maximum horizontal dimension allowed is 1920 pixels and the maximum vertical dimension allowed is 1080 pixels, with a maximum 5000 kb (5 mb) sizet. […]

Hi all, subject to the vagaries of the weather we are going to hold an Astro Photography session at Martin's place on Thursday the 14th November. The main reason is that he has a reasonably open area with minimal light pollution Attached below is a map/image of his property. No 4 is the second driveway […]

Barry will talk on the use of Lightroom  to catalogue your photos. He will also talk on basic processing using Lightroom. Even though not all members use Lightroom, the techniques he will demonstrate can be applied to other photo processing programs.