• Club member Keith Blackwell delivered an engaging tutorial on architectural photography, with a primary focus on indoor shooting. He demonstrated how different lenses and focal lengths can dramatically change the look of a scene, and emphasized the importance of taking your time and carefully aligning vertical and horizontal lines for the best results. For outdoor photography, he highlighted the need to watch for and eliminate distracting background elements. Keith also brought several of his own cameras and lenses to show the tools he uses to achieve his images. The Club extends its thanks to Keith for an excellent and informative presentation.
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• Jeff and Wendy reviewed the results of our November Photo Challenge that included several outstanding images. You can see the top scoring shots on our Club Photos page.
• Club member Jonathan Beavas was our featured photographer in this month’s What I Shoot presentation, where he shared his delightful collection of street scenes, night photography, sunrises and sunsets, night skies, and dramatic cloud formations. Well done, Jonathan — we thoroughly enjoyed your presentation!
• We viewed a collection of digital images that were brought in for our Show And Tell segment. As always, we saw some excellent photos and we encourage more members to show us some of their favourite work. Size your images to no more than 2100 px wide and 1575 px tall and put them on a flash drive. We’ll take care of the rest.
• Mike Blazek and Keith Blackwell reviewed some of the images from this month’s print display. Your next opportunity to show us some of your printed work will be at our January 27th meeting.
• Our next get together will be at Grace Church on December 9th at 7 PM when we will celebrate the Chatham Camera Club’s 90th anniversary. The meeting will feature a lesson on how different camera lenses will affect your portraits.
“Photograph the world as it is. Nothing is more interesting than reality.” – Mary Ellen Mark
