About the WPC

FAQ: Frequently asked questions

What is the WPC?

WPC or: The Winnipeg Photo Community is a FREE, Winnipeg based community for photography enthusiasts from beginners to professionals who want to learn and share their passion for photography with others.

The community was created in September 2004 when founder and president Dan H. continued to meet and talk with people while out shooting. In talking with all of these different people he noticed the potential for a Winnipeg based photo community where photographers could discuss their experiences, learn from each other and most of all hang out, have fun and shoot together.


The WPC's mandate:

"To bring together local photography enthusiasts in a comfortable environment."


What the community does:

-Forum: The most active, daily part of the community is it's forum. The largest and most active of it's kind in Manitoba, this site boasts hundreds of new messages a day and has forums for everything from critiques, gear as well as places to post and show your photos.

-Monthly meetings: These completely informal meetings are gatherings to talk with other members about the hobby. Everyone is encouraged to bring their photos of any kind including loose prints, photo books and even lap top slide show presentations.
Occasionally there is a short program, a photo walk or other presentation.

-Workshops and seminars: Another large part of the community are it's workshops and seminars. Everything from high end model photography workshops all the way to seminars about photo manipulation, Photoshop, Lightroom and other seminars.

-Group photo shoots: The WPC organizes several group based photo-shoots on a monthly and annual basis.
It also allows individuals to plan their own non-commercial events for when they're going out to a fun place to shoot such as Fort Whyte Alive or even just the Forks!


-Buy and Sell: The WPC has the most active public photography related buy and sell (in the forum) which allows any individual to sell or buy items locally from people in and outside of the community.


Tutorials: contains tips tricks and of course tutorials for all sorts of techniques. These will give you great new ideas for shoots and help you make better more interesting shots.


Who is it for?

This site is for you! If you want a place to discuss photography, show off a gallery of your own work and/or hang out and shoot with fellow enthusiasts and professionals.

According to polls we run a couple of times a year, most of our members (about 93%) are hobbyists. Many of our members have just bought their first camera. A small % of our members (about 5-10 ppl) are full time photographers and many of our members (about 50-70) do a bit or a lot of photography on the side to supplement their income. Again, having these diverse groups to learn from is another great resource!


What can it do for me?

The #1 thing being a part of the WPC can do for you is help you learn and improve in a comfortable environment with other enthusiasts.

Experience: With all the events, workshops, different photographers and other information on the forum, the WPC has helped several hobbyist photographers become much more experienced as well as others it has helped to make the transition to full time professionals.

Jobs & employment opportunities: There are several listings on a monthly basis for requests for photographers. These can include everything from standard commercial photo contracts as well as other paid photo opportunities.

But the main thing the WPC does is provide a comfortable environment to learn and share passion for photography in!


How do I join?

Since there is no membership sign-up, the best way to become a member is to join up to the forums and start participating!