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:

• 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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