54 members, including 3 new ones, welcomed 2 guests to our final meeting of the 2014 calendar year.
• President Vince Gagnier informed The Club that our Nicole Maynard has had one of her photos used for the cover of Trucking Today magazine. Congratulations Nicole.
• Our CAPA representative, Herman Giethoorn, gave us the results of the most recent “Digital Fine Art” competition, where Jean DeBruyn and Reagan Smolders each scored 24 and Carson Plant was given an Honourable Mention for his 28 point shot. As a group, The CCC placed 8th out of 27 competing clubs. Great job everyone!
“Jenny” by Carson Plant
• Dave Noordhoff’s Tech Talk was aimed at those who are challenged by resizing and renaming images for Club competitions. Step by step instructions were giving for
Photoshop,
Lightroom,
FastStone,
Elements
Canon’s DPP.
• Patricia Kral led a group discussion of our recent “Barns and Silos” entries where she suggested several ways some of the images might have been improved. Thanks to all who participated.
• Keith Blackwell reviewed his Technical Challenge #1 – Design Guides, by showing four excellent examples that were submitted to him. For more on this fascinating subject, check out Digital Photography’s page on Divine Composition.
• Les McCracken and Dave Noorhoff reviewed some of the prints that our members brought in for display. As always there were several beautiful shots that received high praise. If you would like to show The Club one or two of your favourite photos, your next opportunity to do so will be at our January 13th meeting. We encourage all of our members to bring in a print and show the rest of us what you’ve been shooting.
• We’d like to remind everybody that entries for the next CAPA competitions, “Altered Reality” and “Light”, are to be sent to Paul Schmoldt at viking@mnsi.net no later than Friday, January 2nd at 8 PM. 1 entry per category per member. All entries should be sized 1400 pixels Horizontal, 1050 pixels Vertical Maximum for ultimate projection impact – jpg format.
People insist on assigning limits to cameras and lenses, but the limits reflect more about the people who want to limit the devices than about the equipment’s capabilities.
Lens caps will transfer dust and debris to the lenses you mount them on. Cleaning your lens caps every time you clean your lenses is a very small chore, but it will help keep your expensive gear functioning at its best.