Judging for CAPA’s Architectural Interiors competition was held, with entries by Harry Arneill, Cathy Dent, Larry Kearns, Les McCracken, Paul Schmoldt and Carson Plant being selected for submission.

The Club’s Novice group was judged in the CCC “Rust” competition, where Tere Deslippe, Colin Cooper, Melanie Denis, Diane Guay and Jason Wamboldt scored top marks.

Intermediate and Advanced members had their “Purple” shots reviewed, with Laura Regnier, Larry Kearns, Herman Giethoorn and Mike Blazek leading the way.

You can see the top scoring entries in our Club Photos section or see slideshow thumbnails next…

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Butch Dompierre was featured in our What’s In My Camera Bag segment, where he shared some of the equipment and techniques used to capture his terrific images. Thanks Butch!

Long-time member Jean De Bruyn delighted the crowd with her What I Shoot slideshow, which featured a wonderful collection of cityscapes. Great work Jean!

In our first Improve My Image segment, four of our members were asked to try their hand at improving a couple of images and each came up with different slant using a variety of techniques. Lorie Cooper, Larry Kearns, Margaret Manson and David Summerfield took turns showing how they went about improving a pre-determined shot using their favourite photo editing software. Some of the methods used were cropping, lightening, increasing contrast, cloning out distractions, converting to black and white and flipping a shot horizontally. Thanks to all four for their time and talents and for showing us how some simple editing can greatly improve a basic image.

Print manager Les McCracken reviewed the prints that we brought in and encouraged everyone to participate in our monthly Print Display, no matter what size prints you have.

Martha Gillier was featured in this month’s What’s In My Camera Bag demonstration, showing The Club her amazing collection of fine photo equipment. Thanks for the well organized display Martha!

Butch Dompierre showed The CCC What I Shoot with his slide show of beautiful photographs. His eclectic display showed impressive results in a wide variety of photo topics, giving members of all levels something to aspire to. Well done Butch.

Bob is an Executive Assistant who is always ready to help with Club activities and has recently organized our annual Christmas Breakfast. His other interests include curling and volunteering at Outreach For Hunger. Bob has recently moved up to a Nikon 3100 DSLR and has not missed a single entry in our photo competitions in the past four years. You can see a small sample of Bob’s work in our Photo In Focus section.

President Dave had several reminders for us, including:

• The Christmas Breakfast is to be held at The Chatham Breakfast House,
  525 Grand Ave East (the old Saxony Restaurant)
  on Saturday December 3rd at 9 AM.
• We will hold a “swap meet” at our February 28th meeting, so bring in any photo equipment that you want to sell or trade.
• We can still use some more pictures for the headers across our web pages. Crop your shot to 1000 px X 288 px and send them to Paul.

Jim Pollock used his “Fifteen Minutes Of Fame” to demonstrate a proposed competition or print category called “Song Title”. You can see it again on YouTube

Judging took place for the CAPA competition “Altered Reality”, with shots by Larry Kearns, Gavin Stuart, Paul Schmoldt, Jim Pollock, Les McCracken and Jason Wamboldt being chosen for submission.

In our monthly CCC photo competition, Tere Deslippe – 24pts & 22pts, Adam Harpula – 22pts and Angel Rublik – 22pts. took top marks among the Novice group for “Domesticated Flowers”

Jim Pollock – 24pts, Paul Schmoldt – 23pts, Patricia Kral – 23pts and Larry Kearns – 23pts, had the highest scoring shots in the Intermediate and Advanced group’s entries for “Rust”. Photos can be viewed by clicking on “Club Photos”

Carson Plant’s In Your Element tutorial showed us how to adjust shadows and highlights in Photoshop Elements. You can review the method HERE

Dave Noordhoff kicked off the first in his series about Canon’s proprietary software for RAW file adjustments called DPP by explaining that the utility is included with a purchase of a Canon camera capable of shooting in RAW and how to install and update it. Future lessons will include how to use this amazing, free software.

Check out some of this weeks top scoring pictures…

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Detailed information about any of this equipment can be obtained by searching Google

The CCC wishes to thank Herman for his clear, concise and well organized presentation.

Print manager Les McCracken discussed the displayed Farm prints and encouraged members to bring in more than one print for our December 6th meeting. The category is “Open”. Special thanks to Frank Vadovic and Vince Gagnier for expanding our display racks.

Paul and Jim reviewed the Club’s new website design, updated by webmaster Tom Gillier. All members were asked to submit photos that will make up new page headers. They should be cropped to 1000 wide by 288 tall at 300 dpi and saved at maximum quality. Send yours to Paul at viking@mnsi.net

Frank Vadovic showed The Club “What’s In My Camera Bag”, displaying a wide variety of lenses, filters and gadgets that help him capture his fine images.

Paul Schmoldt showed our members some of the amazing capabilities of Faststone Image Viewer, a free photo editor that can be downloaded at www.faststone.org

Diane is a retired school teacher who enjoys walking, card making and helping others by volunteering at the CK Woman’s Centre and VON.
Photography is a new hobby that Diane is rapidly developing and her enthusiasm is reflected in her fine work, a sample of which can be seen on our  Photo In Focus page.

Chris Jorgensen was our first member to have his “Fifteen Minutes Of Fame” and presented a wonderful slideshow that gave CCC members a glimpse of what it’s like to shoot pictures at a rodeo. Chris’ excellent shots showed us just how entertaining and dangerous these events really are. Nice job Chris!

A Club competition for Beginners in the Open category was judged with Melanie Denis and Adam Harpula receiving top marks for their efforts.

Intermediate and Advanced members competed in the Domesticated Flowers category, with high scores being given to Jean DeBruyn, Harry Arneill, Carson Plant, Patricia Kral, Keith Blackwell, Fred Schaller, Laird VanderEnde and Jim Pollock.

The shots that scored 23 points are featured in our Club Photos section. Member’s gallery of pics that scored +21 in each category follows…

Advanced and Intermediate groups – Domesticated Flowers

Novice Group – Open Category

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