51 members, including 7 new ones, were joined by 4 guests at our October 11th meeting.
• President Carson Plant introduced our guest speaker for the evening, Russ Salamon. Mr. Salamon, who has been a commercial photographer since 1988, introduced The Club to his light painting technique, which produces very pleasing still life images. To accomplish his results, Russ uses a Canon 5D MkII paired with a Canon 100mm macro lens and employs several different types of flashlights and modifiers such as copper elbows, toothbrush holders, straws and coloured gels. His common settings include ISO 160, f/18 for 10, 15, 20 or 30 seconds and sometimes up to 2 minutes. You can see some of the results that Russ has been able to obtain on his website.
The Chatham Camera Club wishes to thank Russ for his time and his extremely informative and entertaining presentation. Our members are very anxious to try this fascinating type of photography.
There are very few good YouTube videos about light painting with a flashlight, but below is one we managed to find.
• Carson Plant reminded The Club that Herman Giethoorn will present Natural Treasures Of Southwestern Ontario on November 12th at the Jeanne Gordon Hall, 505 King St. in Wallaceburg. For more details, see their website.
• Our next meeting will be held on October 25th when representatives from the Chatham-Kent Library will be on hand to tell us how to access free photo magazines on line. Les McCracken is sure to entertain as our featured speaker, and our first photo competition of the year will be reviewed.
The more passionate you are about photography,
the better your results will be.
When shooting with a medium-quality lens, try to optimize the aperture to create the sharpest photos possible. Many “kit” lenses are typically sharpest from about f8 to f11.