Author Archives: Jim Pollock

December 6th / 2011

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The Chatham Camera club welcomed two new members and one guest.

In our first Improve My Image segment, four of our members were asked to try their hand at improving a couple of images and each came up with different slant using a variety of techniques. Lorie Cooper, Larry Kearns, Margaret Manson and David Summerfield took turns showing how they went about improving a pre-determined shot using their favourite photo editing software. Some of the methods used were cropping, lightening, increasing contrast, cloning out distractions, converting to black and white and flipping a shot horizontally. Thanks to all four for their time and talents and for showing us how some simple editing can greatly improve a basic image.

Print manager Les McCracken reviewed the prints that we brought in and encouraged everyone to participate in our monthly Print Display, no matter what size prints you have.

Martha Gillier was featured in this month’s What’s In My Camera Bag demonstration, showing The Club her amazing collection of fine photo equipment. Thanks for the well organized display Martha!

Butch Dompierre showed The CCC What I Shoot with his slide show of beautiful photographs. His eclectic display showed impressive results in a wide variety of photo topics, giving members of all levels something to aspire to. Well done Butch.

Photo In Focus

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Our Featured Photographer is Bob Allen

Bob is an Executive Assistant who is always ready to help with Club activities and has recently organized our annual Christmas Breakfast. His other interests include curling and volunteering at Outreach For Hunger. Bob has recently moved up to a Nikon 3100 DSLR and has not missed a single entry in our photo competitions in the past four years. You can see a small sample of Bob’s work in our Photo In Focus section.

November 22 / 2011

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The club welcomed two new members and two guests to our fifth meeting of the 2011 / 2012 season.

President Dave had several reminders for us, including:

  • The Christmas Breakfast is to be held at The Chatham Breakfast House,
    525 Grand Ave East (the old Saxony Restaurant)
    on Saturday December 3rd at 9 AM.
  • We will hold a “swap meet” at our February 28th meeting, so bring in any photo equipment that you want to sell or trade.
  • We can still use some more pictures for the headers across our web pages. Crop your shot to 1000 px X 288 px and send them to Paul.

Jim Pollock used his “Fifteen Minutes Of Fame” to demonstrate a proposed competition or print category called “Song Title”. You can see it again on YouTube

Judging took place for the CAPA competition “Altered Reality”, with shots by Larry Kearns, Gavin Stuart, Paul Schmoldt, Jim Pollock, Les McCracken and Jason Wamboldt being chosen for submission.

In our monthly CCC photo competition, Tere Deslippe – 24pts & 22pts, Adam Harpula – 22pts and Angel Rublik – 22pts. took top marks among the Novice group for “Domesticated Flowers”

Jim Pollock – 24pts, Paul Schmoldt – 23pts, Patricia Kral – 23pts and Larry Kearns – 23pts, had the highest scoring shots in the Intermediate and Advanced group’s entries for “Rust”. Photos can be viewed by clicking on “Club Photos”

Carson Plant’s In Your Element tutorial showed us how to adjust shadows and highlights in Photoshop Elements. You can review the method HERE

Dave Noordhoff kicked off the first in his series about Canon’s proprietary software for RAW file adjustments called DPP by explaining that the utility is included with a purchase of a Canon camera capable of shooting in RAW and how to install and update it. Future lessons will include how to use this amazing, free software.

Check out some of this weeks top scoring pictures… Continue reading →

November 8th / 2011

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Herman Giethoorn gave an informative workshop on close-up and macro photography, which included detailed information about:
Equipment – close up filters, extension tubes, extension bellows, macro lenses
Lighting – natural light,  ring flashes, indoor continuous lights, reflectors, light boxes
Backgrounds – poster board, glass, hand painted backgrounds

Detailed information about any of this equipment can be obtained by searching Google

The CCC wishes to thank Herman for his clear, concise and well organized presentation. Continue reading →

Photo In Focus

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Our Featured Photographer is Diane Guay

Diane is a retired school teacher who enjoys walking, card making and helping others by volunteering at the CK Woman’s Centre and VON.
Photography is a new hobby that Diane is rapidly developing and her enthusiasm is reflected in her fine work, a sample of which can be seen on our  Photo In Focus page.

October 26th / 2011

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Ted Kloske of Henry’s Photo in Windsor gave a very informative presentation about lenses, how they work, what their numbers mean, and which are used for different applications. Ted was also gracious enough to answer several questions, which many of our members found extremely helpful. The CCC thanks Ted for sharing his time and his talents.

Chris Jorgensen was our first member to have his “Fifteen Minutes Of Fame” and presented a wonderful slideshow that gave CCC members a glimpse of what it’s like to shoot pictures at a rodeo. Chris’ excellent shots showed us just how entertaining and dangerous these events really are. Nice job Chris!

A Club competition for Beginners in the Open category was judged with Melanie Denis and Adam Harpula receiving top marks for their efforts.

Intermediate and Advanced members competed in the Domesticated Flowers category, with high scores being given to Jean DeBruyn, Harry Arneill, Carson Plant, Patricia Kral, Keith Blackwell, Fred Schaller, Laird VanderEnde and Jim Pollock.

The shots that scored 23 points are featured in our Club Photos section. Member’s gallery of pics that scored +21 in each category follows… Continue reading →