March 8, 2013
Members of the Murgon Camera Club took a walk around Kinbombi Falls last month to practice tricks and techniques they’d learned at recent camera club meetings.
This Saturday afternoon they’ll be showing the results of their trip at the club’s April meeting.
The Murgon Camera Club is one of four long-established camera clubs in the South Burnett.
It meets on the second Saturday of each month (except January) between 2:00pm and 4:00pm at the new Studio building at the rear of the Wondai Regional Art Gallery.
The club consists of a mixture of amateur and professional photographers, and covers all age groups.
The one thing that unites its members is that they love photography and want to take better pictures.
While the club originally concentrated on film photography when it was founded several decades ago, today its main focus is digital photography.
“Most of the techniques that were pioneered with film photography translate to digital photography perfectly,” member Max Walters says.
“The quality of digital cameras has improved dramatically over the last decade, and you can now do nearly everything with digital that you could do with film.
“However, most of these capabilities are hidden in the fine print of a camera’s instruction manual, so most people only use a tiny fraction of their camera’s real capabilities.
“What our meetings do is show people all the other things their digital cameras can do too.
“And we have a lot of other fun activities throughout the year that let members put what they learn into practice, so that these tricks quickly become second nature.”
The Club’s Kinbombi Falls shoot was one of those “fun activities”.
And if you want to bring your camera along to this Saturday afternoon’s meeting, there’ll be another impromptu shoot at a mystery location afterwards where you’ll be able to quickly put what you learn into practice.
You can find out more details about the Murgon Camera Club by phoning Ivor on (07) 4169-0180.
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[Photos: Murgon Camera Club]
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