FAQs
How do I join PhotoSoc?
What do I get for joining PhotoSoc?
How do I purchase a PhotoSoc shirt?
How do I gain access to the Darkroom?
What do I get for being a Darkroom Member?
I have extensive experience with Darkrooms, do I have to meet the Darkroom Manager?
There is something not right with the Darkroom
How do I hire a tripod?
What is the UPA?
How do I join PhotoSoc?
Step 1: Grab an Access Card (It is awesome for so many things so you totally get a lot out of it!)
Step 2: Come to any of our on-campus events with a little purple note ($5) and tell us you want to sign up!
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What do I get for joining PhotoSoc?
Too much to just list here!
1. Discounts from our sponsors
2. Free entry and/or heavily subsidised access to all PhotoSoc events (including free lunches, workshops, outings, parties, competitions and the list goes on!)
3. Opportunities to enter competitions (win prizes!), have your photographs published in journals, exhibited at galleries
4. Opportunity for professional photo assignments to add to your portfolio
5. Opportunity to utilise PhotoSoc’s Darkroom
6. Opportunity to gain experience in study related areas; eg. marketing if you join our Publicity and Promotions Team
7. Free entry and/or heavily subsidised access to events of the UPA
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How do I purchase a PhotoSoc shirt?
Rock up at any of our on-campus events and ask us if there are any shirts left!
How do I gain access to the Darkroom?
Step 1: Be a PhotoSoc Member
Step 2: Catch our Darkroom Manager at any of our on-campus events and pay a one-off small fee of $20
Step 3: Meet our Darkroom Manager to attend a introductory Darkroom session to understand the policies and procedures of the Darkroom including insurance matters
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What do I get for being a Darkroom Member?
An entire year’s* access to the Darkroom during business hours of the Clubs and Societies Office. Your membership fee includes cost of chemicals and equipment maintenance.
You must provide your own paper, however, and if you wish to use different chemicals to that provided, you must purchase it yourself.
*Period between O-Week of the current year and O-Week the following year. For example, if you sign up as a Darkroom Member at O-Week 2010, you can use the Darkroom up to the second week of February in 2011 (that is, prior to O-Week 2011). If you sign up as a Darkroom Member in September 2010, you may use the Darkroom only up to February 2011 as well, so it is to your advantage to sign up earlier.
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I have extensive experience with Darkrooms, do I have to meet the Darkroom Manager?
Yes. It is for insurance and liability matters. We risk having our privileges to the Darkroom relinquished otherwise.
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There is something not right with the Darkroom
Please contact us at usydphotosoc@gmail.com and/or the Clubs and Societies Office immediately with as much detail as you can, such as what is wrong (it can be as small as we have run out of developer), when you found it that way, was it there when you got there, did you cause it (I mean, someone had to have used the last of the developer, it isn’t necessarily a bad thing).
Action will be taken, however, if it is found that you caused serious damage to the Darkroom. We have a record of all and any members using the Darkroom so we will find you. This may include placing a ban on you from accessing the Darkroom and paying for damages and/or replacement.
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How do I hire a tripod?
Step 1: Check out the hiring policy
Step 2: Take your PhotoSoc membership card as well as your Access Card and/or Student ID card to the Clubs and Societies Office and let them know you wish to hire a PhotoSoc tripod.
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What is the UPA?
Universities Photographic Alliance. This makes us affiliates of UTS Exposure and UNSW Photo Club. Members from all three societies can attend select events from any of the societies in the UPA with no additional cost. Contact the relevant society for more information.
UNSW: unswphotoclub@gmail.com
UTS: utsphoto@gmail.com
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