• 52 members and 4 guests attended our December 11th meeting.
• The evening featured our annual Buy/Sell Night, where members offered their surplus photo equipment for sale. Several quality items changed hands and more are available on our Buy & Sell page.
• Herman Giethoorn shared his expertise on How To Photograph Christmas Lights, where he offered some excellent pointers on how to capture the holiday season’s decorations. Thanks Herman. Your efforts are much appreciated.
• We viewed a video in which Phil Steele talked about the importance of Using a lens hood to prevent lens flare and increase contrast in our photos. If you don’t have a hood for your lenses, Amazon.ca is a good place to get one.
• Keith Blackwell and Mike Blazek shared how they went about capturing their beautiful Abstract Nature photos in Algonquin Park last Fall. Their Nikon D850 cameras allow them to blend multiple exposures and moving the lens while taking the shot generates interesting abstracts. The results look like these:
Nice job, gentlemen! We all enjoyed your lesson.
• Two more quick videos rounded out our night. The first was called Remember The EGG, where Joe Edelman demonstrated the effect that moving your light source has on how a shadow falls in our photographs.
In preparation for photographing friends and relatives over the holiday season, we watched a tutorial in which Mark Wallace showed us how to Avoid Flash Reflections in Eyeglasses. Remember, if you can’t move your light source like Mark did, you could have your subject turn their head or tilt their glasses slightly to increase the angle of reflection.
• Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 when we will have our first Bring Your Camera To The Meeting event. We’ll have several stations set up for members to practice macro and close-up photography, including water drops, flowers, and other interesting objects. If you have a tripod, a flash, and a cable release, we invite you to bring them, however, you do not need any of these or a macro lens for this exercise. This is a great opportunity to gain some hands-on experience for novice and advanced shooters alike.
• Our Christmas breakfast will be held at The Satellite Restaurant, 145 King St. West in Chatham at 9 A.M. You are more than welcome to bring a guest. Come on out and visit with your Camera Club friends and hopefully meet some new ones.
• Remember: Our monthly Photo Challenge pics need to be submitted by midnight, Sunday, January 13th. The Novice group are presenting Harvest photos and the Intermediate, Advanced and Salon members will be showing their In The Rain pictures.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
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