ACE newsletter
"Innovation and diversity is becoming to be the key to success in photography"
CLUB ACTIVITIES
What's on Tuesday?
Photowalk and studio activities.
ACTIV @ 10.30am.
ACE ENTERPRISE:
Our members have a wide range of skills that many turn into a small businesses selling hand-crafted items and providing a range of other services that we'd like to support.​
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Link- Hand-made crafts by Leearna- https://www.facebook.com/handmadecraftsbyleearna
NAME CHANGE
At the last committee meeting we decided to phase out the group name A-TEAM and just run all our activities under the ACE banner.
The A-TEAM began as a side project and has since become the major focus of our club.
In the past few years our members have demonstrated an extraordinary capacity in learning new skills and achieving goals. This is something that photography provides the perfect base for.
Teamwork got our members to where they are today and although it's no longer in the name it's still remains as strong as ever in the DNA.
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY AND WPPD
With just about everything being digital it's good every now and then to get back to basics for a bit of analogue photography in it's simplest form.
Pinhole photography has a lot to offer as an alternative to what we've become used to via the complexities of the modern digital camera.
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Pinhole photography offers some interesting ways of producing alternative images that have a unique look of their own. The more you get into it, the more you discover what weird and wonderful possibilities that can be discovered.
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We're just commencing a project for a DIY camera made from matt card that we hope will form an exhibition at the Vancouver Arts Centre and if we can get as many photographers out and about on April the 27th for World Pinhole Photography Day, we hope to beat our number of entries of previous years.
There's something magical about seeing an image appear in the developing tray before your eyes and if you built the camera and got all the settings right it's an unbelievably great experience that no digital camera can match.
Above- Colin Lowe's pinhole camera
prototype for this years projects.
Below- A photo of Middleton Beach Albany, taken with a pinhole camera.
NEW COMMITTEE APOINTMENTS
Our club has a strong commitment to inclusivity and we need to remain aware of the contributions and support members can make to the future development and success of the club.
We're very pleased to welcome Jasmine and Denise to the committee and we all look forward to the valuable ideas and perspectives they will bring to the group.
OUR BIGGEST HARDWARE UPGRADE EVER
Technology is racing ahead in leaps and bounds and there comes a time when older equipment no longer is able to fully utilise the host of new advancements on offer.
Thanks to funding received from LotteryWest and the Bendigo Community bank, we have the opportunity to purchase top quality video equipment, new mirrorless cameras and iPads for educational projects. The club will be involved in a large community collaboration leading up to the Albany Bicentenary and this new equipment will ensure we can produce the best quality media along with enhanced training capabilities.
