• 61 people, including 4 visitors and 3 new members attended our meeting.
• President Vince Gagnier led the entire membership in thanking our retired Welcoming Manager, Margaret Chrysler, for her many years of dedicated service to The Club.
• Vince reminded all of those who enter our Club competitions that their images need to be sized no wider than 1400 pixels and no higher than 1050 pixels. As a review, you can check out our notes on Instructions For Submitting Photos For Competitions.
• Competition Manager Gavin Stuart showed the results of our latest photo competition, which featured several excellent images from each division. High marks in the Novice group in an Open category were given to Paul Chettleburgh (22pts), Wendy Beasley (22 pts) and Mary Craig (22 pts). The high scores in the Intermediate, Advanced and Salon groups for their Flowers shots went to John St. Pierre (25 pts), Lorrie Cooper (24 pts), Steven Taylor (24 pts), Gavin Stuart (24 pts) and Jim Pollock (24 pts). Several others in all divisions had high marks as well. Congratulations to all who entered for a job well done. Our next competition is due Friday, November 13th at 8 PM with the Novices doing Flowers and the Intermediate, Advanced and Salon members creating Still Life / Table Top.
• Tere Deslippe was featured in our What I Shoot segment, where she showed us a brief sample of her portfolio. Her unique crops and compositions, coupled with tasteful post processing, have produced a series of excellent nature, scenic, portrait and table top photos that impressed the entire audience. Well done Tere! Her slideshow was created in a free program called FastStone, available at www.FastStone.org.
• Carson Plant was our first member to present 12 Photos In A Year Is A Great Crop, a phrase first coined by famed photographer Ansel Adams. Carson showed us a dozen of his favourite images that he has taken recently, proving that it takes great attention to detail to capture an average of one great photo per month. As always, great job Carson! You never fail to impress.
• Dave Noordhoff continued his series of Tech Tips by explaining how to read a Histogram. Dave’s enlightening tutorial was much appreciated by many of our members who brought their cameras to the meeting so they could follow along. As a review, you can view or download a copy of Dave’s Presentation. You don’t need to log in, just give it a few seconds to load. You can also see the YouTube video below.
• Our next meeting will be on November 10th when our guest speaker will be Anthony Chodas from Camera Canada and Herman Giethoorn will present his tutorial on Macro Photography. We’ll also feature another print display, so if you have a printed shot you’d like to share with the other members, we’d love to see it.
Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.
A wide-angle lens provides a wider angle of view than what you can see with your own eyes. On a full-frame or film camera that’s any focal length wider than about 40mm. On an APS-C camera that’s focal lengths wider than around 25mm.