Ōmokoroa Photographic Society

By Gary Maynell

The Ōmokoroa Photographic Society’s last meeting for the year was in December After no get-together in January, we will kick things off for the 2023 year with our first meetup on 14th February

For our final session for the year, our president Andrew McWilliam spoke about the many changes that have taken place across the last year in the society Our club is certainly growing in many ways and will strengthen even more throughout the 2023 year as we incor- porate some of the new ideas we have planned

One of the improvements we have planned for 2023 is to increase the number of photography field trips

These outings will be both local as well as further afield These field trips will

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During the second part of the evening, we took the time to look at, comment on, and formally review the ‘Celebration’ images submitted for this month’s theme These images were reviewed and discussed for the purpose of educating everyone on the various aspects one needs to consider when shooting an image

Various topics were discussed, including noise, distortion (intentional and non-intentional), depth of field, clarity, focus techniques, colour choices from the colour wheel, shapes in an image, light sources, shadows and their uses, fill light, ISO, shutter speed and aperture Some of the images presented on the night are shown here for your viewing pleasure

The third and final part of the evening was purely social Everyone brought a plate, and we gathered around the food and got to know each other a bit better

Anyone wishing to come along and see what we ’ re about is reminded that you are welcome to attend two free meetings to assess whether the club is for you Let me just say at this point that if you have any desire at all to increase your photography skills, then this is likely to be the best value training you will ever get

The Ōmokoroa Photographic Society wishes you and your family the very best for 2023