Chatham Camera Club » Paul Schmoldt

75th Anniversary Celebration

Paul Schmoldt — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:24:16 +0000

The Chatham Camera Club is celebrating our 75th Anniversary.

In conjunction with this, there are currently several public exhibits at various venues in the City of Chatham.

The Chatham-Kent Museum has an exhibit on the History of Photography running till February 2011, ARTspace downtown has 13 large prints and a running slideshow display till September 1st 2010, the Thames Art Gallery has 20 large prints as well as a running slideshow all showcasing the work of various members of the Club.

The Chatham Camera Club wishes to thank the various people involved in making this possible, in particular Thames Art Gallery Curator Carl Lavoy, Curatorial Assistant Mindy Bowls, Chatham-Kent Museum Curator Stephanie Saunders, ARTspace Assistant Gallery Administrator Sonya Blazek, Guest Curator and Artist Hank Bos and Joanne Kjeldsen, City of Chatham-Kent (IT Dept.).

Please celebrate this milestone with us by visiting the exhibits.

Workshop February 9 / 2010

Paul Schmoldt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:38:13 +0000

Despite a medium size snowfall, aproximately half of our members attended the workshop on Depth Of Field, Better Composition and High Dynamic Range by Carson and Paul. Dave also demonstrated a handy PC “Directory Printer” program. Next meeting agenda is a busy one. Please see Meeting Schedule for more info.

CAPA Award Winner

Paul Schmoldt — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:45:45 +0000

In the Spring CAPA Nature Competition, Margaret Manson received the Bronze Medal for third place. Congratulations Margaret. A larger version of her winning image can be seen under ‘Club Photos’.

Meeting May 12th 2009

Paul Schmoldt — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:01:31 +0000

On Tuesday, May 12th, 2009, the Chatham Camera Club held their Awards Night, where the winners of the Photo Competitions for 2008-2009 season were presented with Certificates honouring their achievements.

Bob Allen received the ‘Most Improved Photographer’ Award.
Carson Plant received the ‘Best Photo’ Award. See Carson’s photo under ‘Club Photos’.

In the ‘Advanced’ Division, 1st place went to Les McCracken, Paul Schmoldt was 2nd, and Harry Arneill 3rd.

The recipients in the ‘Intermediate’ Division were Jim Pollock 1st place winner, Doug Woodman 2nd, and Dave Noordhoff 3rd.
As a result of their win, Jim, Doug and Dave will move up to the ‘Advanced’ Division.

In the ‘Beginner’ Division, 1st place went to Martha Gillier , 2nd to Vince Gagnier and 3rd to Bob Allen.
Martha and Vince will move up to the ‘Intermediate’ Division as a result of their win.

Paul showed images from a visit at Hiram Walker’s Canadian Club Head Office in Windsor with ‘Windsor Photo Guild’ and Les showed visits from ‘Open Doors’ – COSY / CFCO , Caleb Retirement Home and ‘The Pines Chapel’.

The results of the Club Elections to follow.

‘Photo In Focus’ – December 16/2008

Paul Schmoldt — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:20:44 +0000

This time we are featuring one of the long-time members, Dennis Skipper.
Dennis is a past president of the Chatham Camera Club and currently serves as Slide and Film manager. He is equally at home with both Digital and Film Media and likes to take nature photos as well as being an excellent event photographer. Please follow the link to ‘Photo In Focus’ for a few of his images.

Meeting November 25/08

Paul Schmoldt — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:24:57 +0000

Many thanks go out to Carson for his very informative show on his trip this past summer to Newfoundland. The photographs were ‘par excellence’. Very exciting to see pictures of whales that close and people almost touch them. I can see why he wants to go out East again.

Also thank you to our CAPA rep. Herman for his excellent tutorial on how to photograph outside Christmas Lights. Just in time for the season.

October Main Meeting – October 28/08

Paul Schmoldt — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:24:27 +0000

Margaret Chrysler gave us a very informative and enlightening presentation on Egypt. It made me want to catch the next flight there. Excellent presentation. I can’t wait for your next one. Thank you Margaret!
Les updated us on the progress on the printing workshops and our new monitor calibrator and Fred updated us on the budget as well.

“Photo in Focus” – October 22th/2008

Paul Schmoldt — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:55:44 +0000

We are now featuring the talents of Patty Arsenault. Patty started her membership in the club last season and is always willing to lend a helping hand when needed and is in charge of publicity. She is comfortable with either Digital or Film format. Patty likes to take candid and action shots of kids as well as landscape scenes. Congratulations Patty. To check out some of her images please go to ‘Photo In Focus’.

Tuesday Oct. 14th Meeting Highlights

Paul Schmoldt — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:05:50 +0000

Paul gave us another update on CK Web Portal. Les talked to us about print making with the new Large Format Printer Epson 3800 Pro, can’t wait to see the results.
CCC, CAPA Competition and Workshop
Viewed and Judged the Pictorial and Nature shots for CAPA and the CCC CK Architecture competition shots, there were some really great pictures, well done to everyone who participated.
Photoshop/Elements/FastStone Tutorial:
Text, Titles and Shadows – Paul & Tom.
Paul gave us a short tutorial on how to add borders, shadows and text to our prints using Faststone Image Viewer and Photoshop Elements 6, great info Paul now lets all give it a try and see if we remember what we were taught.

CCC New Meeting Facilities

Paul Schmoldt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:39:23 +0000

Due to our greatly increased membership, our new meeting venue will from now on be at McNaughton Ave Elementary School Library. The facility is larger and is capable of being darkened for our projection requirements. We sincerely thank the nice people at Queen Elizabeth II School for having us the past years.