Digital Night
Nights on the Third Monday of each month as per the program.
Regular Segments
Before and After
Send your nominations to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a brief write up of what steps you went through.
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
Bin or Win
So you've been on another fantastic BCG outing event and now have 583 images to sift through. How do you make that choice? Why did you choose that image over all the others?
Send your best shot, along with the two or three others you rejected to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
Image Show
The email address for image submissions is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Details for image dimensions are here.
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
Digital Night 18 February
This month's speakers
BCG presents Dean Holland who will be a regular presenter at BCG over the coming months.
Dean is a professional trainer and runs Take Better Photos (takebetterphotos.com.au) where he has taught many hundreds of people how to improve their photography, both at the moment the shutter clicks and later during the processing stages.
Over the next few months, Dean will be presenting at BCG digital nights on many varied subjects.
Tonight Dean will cover the fundamentals of digital image presentation "Getting it out there".
Digital Night April
Editing by Histogram
If you were present at the March Digital Meeting you'll know that April's Digital night is one not to miss. Dean Holland continues his talks on taking better photos and will show you how to edit your photos by reading and analysing the histogram. Your image has so much more to tell you if you can understand what's there.
Dean is a professional trainer and runs Take Better Photos (takebetterphotos.com.au) where he has taught many hundreds of people how to improve their photography, both at the moment the shutter clicks and later during the processing stages.
Smooth Skin
How do you correct skin tones and clean up blemishes? Rod Talbot will show us the tricks of the trade to smooth skin and clean complexions.
Ray Lockett will show you alternative software designed especially for portrait editing, Portrait Professional. Definitely worth a look and if you're working with portraits.
Before and After
Send your nominations to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a brief write up of what steps you went through.
Bin or Win
So you've been on another fantastic BCG outing event and now have 583 images to sift through. How do you make that choice? Why did you choose that image over all the others?
Send your best shot, along with the two or three others you rejected to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Image Show
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
The email address for image submissions is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Details for image dimensions are here.
Digital Night June
AV Showcase
In preparation for the Annual Competition, Ray will be showing examples of award winning AVs to illustrate the art.
Masking For Digital Photography
Andy Cross will show us some more tricks with photoshop and how to select and modify using masking layers.
Regular Segments
Before and After
Send your nominations to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a brief write up of what steps you went through.
Bin or Win
So you've been on another fantastic BCG outing event and now have 583 images to sift through. How do you make that choice? Why did you choose that image over all the others?
Send your best shot, along with the two or three others you rejected to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Image Show
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
The email address for image submissions is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Details for image dimensions are here.
Digital Night March
Print Preparation
18 March
Continuing our month of printing, we'll be looking at the how to get your image out of the computer and to the printer. There are a number of steps involved to ensure the colours you see are the colours you are going to get.
Darren Jew (darrenjew.com) will show you some of the techniques he uses to print his gorgeous work, ensuring that the colours he's captured are the ones which appear on his prints.
Darren is one of the worlds most accomplished underwater photographers and has shot in the exotic locations of Africa, Alaska, Patagonia and Antarctica. He has had his work published internationally in books and magazines and was named the Canon/AIPP Australian Science, Environment and Nature Photographer of the Year for 2007, 2009 and 2010.
Image Editing
After the break, Dean Holland will continue his series on editing and adjusting images. Tonight Dean will cover histograms, brightnesss, contrast in the topic "Get the Brightness right"
Dean is a professional trainer and runs Take Better Photos (takebetterphotos.com.au) where he has taught many hundreds of people how to improve their photography, both at the moment the shutter clicks and later during the processing stages.
Digital Night May
Infra-Red
IR photography was previously only achieveable using special film. Now, thanks to special modifications, IR can be captured on digital cameras. Understanding how it works and how to make it produce images is quite difficult. Fortunately Dave Edney can explain these technicalities and show you the new look of images now possible with and IR camera.
Image Refinement
BCG presents Dean Holland with another instructive installment to help you take better photos.
Dean is a professional trainer and runs Take Better Photos (takebetterphotos.com.au) where he has taught many hundreds of people how to improve their photography, both at the moment the shutter clicks and later during the processing stages.
Regular Segments
Before and After
Send your nominations to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a brief write up of what steps you went through.
Bin or Win
So you've been on another fantastic BCG outing event and now have 583 images to sift through. How do you make that choice? Why did you choose that image over all the others?
Send your best shot, along with the two or three others you rejected to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Image Show
You can also post your selection to the BCG Forum in the Digital Night section.
The email address for image submissions is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Details for image dimensions are here.
Competition Subjects
Open and Set Subject entries are welcome at Monthly Competitions
| January | No Competition |
| February | Macro / Close-up |
| March | Sport |
| April | Textures |
| May | On The Street |
| June | Wide Angle |
| July | Shallow Depth of Field |
| August | Scapes |
| September | Lines |
| October | Minimalism |
| November | 2013 Annual Competition |
| December | No Competition |