Our busy workshop meeting started with Bob Allen reminding us of the annual Christmas Breakfast at the Chatham Breakfast House, 525 Grand Ave E. on December 8th at 9 AM. All of our members are encouraged to come out and join us for this event.
Bob and Val West will be featured at ARTspace, 165½ King St. West in Chatham on Thursday, November 15th at 7PM. Be sure to stop by and have a look.
Tom Townsend showed The Club a free panorama stitching program from Microsoft called I.C.E. (Image Composite Editor), that will produce high quality panoramic shots. This easy to use program can be downloaded from Microsoft by clicking HERE. You can see how to use the program on the YouTube video below.
Dave Redfern demonstrated a more sophisticated and powerful photo stitching program called Kolor Autopano Giga, available for free trial from Kolor.com. Many of our members expressed great interest in both of these programs and The Club wishes to thank Tom and Dave for bringing them to our attention. Great job gentlemen!
Dave Redfern also suggested these alternate photo stitching programs:
- PTGui
- Hugin (free)
- Serif Panorama Plus (free)
- Autostitch
- PanoEdit
- Panorama Factory
- Panavue
Print Manager Les McCracken reviewed and critiqued a collection of member’s prints that showed “Strong Graphic Design”. Thanks go out to Les for once again challenging us to expand our photographic horizons.
Our featured presenter for What I Shoot was Melanie Denis, who showed The Club a small sample of some of her favourite images. Melanie’s collection not only showed her great imagination, but her strong eye for composition, which gave us all something to aspire to. Great shots Mel. Thanks for sharing these!
We remind everyone of our next meeting on November 27th. Details can be found on our Meeting Schedule page.
Any camera will record what you see… but YOU have to see!