February’s Photo In Focus features the fine work of Gavin Stuart.
As an Executive Assistant, Gavin’s steady approach has brought many fresh ideas to this year’s Club activities. He is well versed in the workings of his Canon 7D and his knowledge shines through in his excellent flower shots. For a sample of some of his more interesting creations, see our Photo In Focus page.
This evening’s meeting featured Noel Courtice’s excellent slideshow, which showed the highlights from his eight day African safari. His thought provoking photos raised our awareness of how precious these endangered animals are.
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… Continue reading
The Club’s instructional evening, Out Of The Green Box, proved to be an overwhelming success, with most of the membership and six visitors attending. Individual instruction was provided to novice members by more experienced mentors on how to effectively use Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority as well as the proper use of ISO settings. We encourage all members to teach and learn from each other any time the opportunity presents itself. That’s why we’re all here. You can see some pictures from the evening in our Club Photos section.
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!
Our Featured Photographer is Tere Deslippe.
In her two years in the Club, Tere has shown interest in a wide variety of photographic subjects. Her brilliant imagination has helped her capture many unique images that would score well at any competition level. Currently she is in first place in her division. To see some of Tere’s images, see our Photo In Focus page.
The Chatham Camera club welcomed two new members and one guest.
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.
On December 3rd we celebrated our Christmas get together with a festive breakfast at the Chatham Breakfast Grill. A good time was had by all. Thanks Bob for making all the arrangements. Here are a few snapshots from today’s event… Continue reading
Our Featured Photographer is Bob Allen
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.
The club welcomed two new members and two guests to our fifth meeting of the 2011 / 2012 season.
President Dave had several reminders for us, including:
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… Continue reading