Organising the Weekend Workshops included:
- Deciding on a theme and venue suitable for the Frankston Photographic Club's scheduled monthly competition
- 2.5 - 3 months out : Organising contacts, permissions and committee approvals and notifications to members
- 2 months out : Run the Weekend Workshop (to give members time take and an image)
- 1 month out : Submit the final image to the monthly competition (to give judges time to asses and score images)
Streamlining the the process and documentation led to
- Developing a template of required information for the committee to approve a Weekend Workshop, and
- Providing relevant and interesting information for club members about the Weekend Workshop in a branded, downladable PDF document
Resources and Downloadable Cheat Sheets
- Cheat Sheet : Portrait Lens Selections and Aperture and Depth of Field Basics
- Cheat Sheet : Photoshop and Adding Guidelines when / for editing Images (Rules of Thirds etc.)
- Cheat Sheet : Sizing and Image for Competition. Print and Digital
- Cheat Sheet : Six Step Guide for Taking and Submitting Images
- Cheat Sheet : Some Basic Rules for Composition
Weekend Workshops (Information brochures)
- 2019_xx : Photographing Food
- 2019_04 : Red
- 2019_00 : Subjects and Definitions
- 2018_xx : Royal Botanical Gardens (Cranbourne)
- 2018_10 : Halloween Photoshoot (Bittern)
- 2018_09 : Elements (Ice on_Fire)
- 2018_07 : Christmas in July
- 2018_05 : Mornington Gallery Crawl
- 2018_03 : Tyabb_Air_Show (Tyabb_Airport)
- 2018_02 : Valentines Day Workshop
- 2017_10 : Yarra Glen Day Trip
- 2017_09 : Ballarat International Foto Biennale
- 2017_04 : Frankston Avenue of Honour
- 2017_xx : Luxury Car Experience
- 2017_xx : City Walk
- 2016_09 : Tesselar Tulip Festival (Dandenongs)
- 2015_04 : NGV Shifting Gears Exhibition and City Tour
Long Term Projects
These were designed for members to take a long term view of image taking to submit into an Open Competition without the need to meet any specific deadlines, but to also be able to more fully explore techniques.
- 2019_xx : Long Term Project (Make your own 3D Hologram)
- 2019_xx : Long Term Project (Recreating a Famous image using Composite Images)
Presentations
Newsletter Articles
Handover - For the Next Social Secretary
When I took over the role of, I was not given any paperwork and had a difficult time finding venues and organisation that was acceptable.
As part of stepping down from the Social Secretary's role (aka : Cruise Director, Chief Entertainment Officer), I wanted to make sure the next person had a bit of an easier time.
- Handover Document : 2017 xx (Event Attendance Record)
- Handover Document : 2018 12 (Event Planning : Ideas and Suggestions)
- Handover Document : 2018 12 (Weekend Workshops : Five Year Plan)
Calendar
Making Downloadable Calendar entries
- https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/calendar/
- https://support.office.com/en-us/article/video-create-a-downloadable-holiday-icalendar-ics-c0c5e9ca-c5df-448e-a110-a6ee0eac408b
- Keep an eye on the competition submission dates. Download an ical calendar to add to your own Outlook, Gmail or Apple calendar
