Our final workshop of 2009 featured
How To Use Pro-Show Gold / Producer by Carson Plant,
Photographing Christmas Lights by Herman Giethoorn,
How To Read And Use EXIF Data by Dave Noordhoff and
Printing Techniques by Les McCracken. The Chatham Camera Club wishes to express its thanks to these members for preparing these tutorials and for sharing their knowledge. With suggestions from the membership, more workshops are scheduled for 2010.
This month we are featuring the photographic skills of Doug Woodman. Doug is a CCC Executive Assistant who is involved in helping to set up our display equipment for our monthly meetings. His dedication and helpful manner is much appreciated by our members. Take a look at some of Doug’s fine work in our Photo In Focus section.
Guest speaker Don Martel of The Windsor Photo Guild presented Principles Of Visual Design, which showed our members how to look for primary and secondary shapes while composing a photo. The Chatham Camera Club thanks Don for his informative and entertaining presentation and looks forward to more interaction between our two clubs in the near future.
The club reviewed the submissions for this month’s Competition Theme: “Life Forms” (Except Humans), with high scores going to Nelson Harrison, Carson Plant and Dave Ladore.
Our first workshop of the season included tutorials on Creating an Apple iBook by Lorie Cooper, An Introduction To FastStone by Paul Schmoldt, Point and Shoot Basics by Les McCracken, Photo editing on a Mac by Gabriel Blanchard and Using Canon’s DPP for RAW conversion by Dave Noordhoff. We thank these members for sharing their knowledge with the club and look forward to more workshops in the near future.
47 members and guests enjoyed a travelogue on Jordan by Margaret Chrysler, which showed a fascinating view of the country’s ancient culture, highlighted by Margaret’s excellent commentary.
The club reviewed the submissions for this month’s Competition Theme: “Back Lighting”, which featured many beautiful and creative shots. The top marks of the night went to Carson Plant, who achieved a combined score of 41 for his two entries.
This month we are featuring the work of Lorie Cooper. Along with her interest in Nature, Landscapes, Wildlife and Human Interest photography, Lorie is an enthusiastic community volunteer who brings multiple talents to the Chatham Camera Club. To see more of her fine work, please go to
‘Photo In Focus’
Our first meeting of the season saw a good showing of most of the membership. A Thank You goes out to Kathy Davidson and Frank Vadovic for presenting their very interesting slideshow which gave us a look at how people lived and are living in Cuba. Also thanks to Mrs. Vadovic for her help in producing it.
During our second last meeting of the season, club members were shown which of our photos will grace the walls of the Outreach For Hunger office. Thanks to Doug Woodman for heading up this project.
Carson Plant entertained the group with his excellent Travelogue on Louisburg, Nova Scotia.
Paul lead us through a review of the comments from the St.Thomas Photographic Guild on our Fences exchange.
The CCC got a chance to show their creative skills in the Objects That Form a Letter or Number competition, in which we saw many entertaining submissions.