80 current members welcomed 1 new member and 2 guests to our November Main Meeting.
• The Club’s Bruce Warwick is now the Chairman of the local Time Capsule Committee, who are planning a time capsule that will be opened in 100 years. The Committee is looking for prints of local schools, churches and historic buildings. Submissions may be dropped off at the Chatham News, attention Editor, Dean Muharrem.
• Executive Assistant Shannon L’Ecuyier was featured in our What I Shoot segment where she showed pictures of her family at play, at the beach and at leisure. Also included were landscapes, old buildings, flowers, food, birds, bugs, butterflies, abstracts and panoramas. Our thanks goes out to Shannon for a job well done.
• Paul Schmoldt and Herman Giethoorn reviewed our CAPA “Nature” entries from last October. Although we submitted several excellent shots, The Club finished tied for 21st place out of 28.
• Martha Gillier critiqued a series of recently submitted photos and offered suggestions on how some of them could have been improved. Cropping out dead space, more attention to proper exposure and more accurate focusing were the main recommendations.
• Dave Noordhoff’s Tech Talk centered on Macro and Focusing
Dave reviewed some of his experiments which showed that in macro work, when you stop down to f-16, the depth of field increases, but sharpness falls off after f-11. This phenomenon is called Diffraction Limited Aperture. Thanks Dave for a clear and concise lesson that we can all put to use.
• The final CCC photo competitions of the calendar year had the Novice group offering “Barns and / or Silos” and the Intermediate / Advanced / Salon members showing the unusual topic of “Nuts”. As always, there were several original and clever creations submitted that stretched the bounds of our imaginations. The top scoring shots from the Novices were by Jacqueline Gruszka, Steven Taylor, Glen Spooner, Larry Taylor and Diana Donkers. The Intermediate / Senior / Salon group was led by Richard Armstrong, Keith Blackwell, Dave Noordhoff, Carson Plant and Chad Barry.
• Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 9th.
Pack your gear wisely before every photo shoot. Remember, opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
The world’s first digital camera was invented by Kodak in 1975. The 8 pound camera recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette tape. The first photograph took 23 seconds to create. To play back images, data was read from the tape and then displayed on a television set.
