In our Second Workshop Meeting of the year, Herman Giethoorn demonstrated “Photography After Sunset”, using different shutter speeds to capture a low light image and moving lights. His informative slideshow will inspire many of our members to try this unique form of photography.

Jim Pollock showed The Club how he replaces a portrait background using a “Green screen and Photokey software”. For those interested, you can download a trial version of the program from Photokey and watch a demonstration of green screen portraiture on YouTube

Our Print Manager, Les McCracken, led a discussion on this evening’s print assignment, “Architectural Detail”. Les reminded the group to please include their name with their prints so others can ask about the technique used to achieve the photo.

Dave Noordhoff presented a tutorial on “Photo 101 – Light / ISO / F-stop / Shutter speed relation”. You can review Dave’s lesson by viewing his notes on The Exposure Triangle.

Please also have a look at the latest 6 entries to CAPA on the theme “Altered Reality” in the Club Photos section.

Due to inclement weather (cold, slippery streets and more snow forecast) the Workshop Meeting is CANCELLED.
We will reschedule in 2011.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The Prez

The Chatham Camera Club is celebrating our 75th Anniversary.

In conjunction with this, there are currently several public exhibits at various venues in the City of Chatham.

The Chatham-Kent Museum has an exhibit on the History of Photography running till February 2011, ARTspace downtown has 13 large prints and a running slideshow display till September 1st 2010, the Thames Art Gallery has 20 large prints as well as a running slideshow all showcasing the work of various members of the Club.

The Chatham Camera Club wishes to thank the various people involved in making this possible, in particular Thames Art Gallery Curator Carl Lavoy, Curatorial Assistant Mindy Bowls, Chatham-Kent Museum Curator Stephanie Saunders, ARTspace Assistant Gallery Administrator Sonya Blazek, Guest Curator and Artist Hank Bos and Joanne Kjeldsen, City of Chatham-Kent (IT Dept.).

Please celebrate this milestone with us by visiting the exhibits.

Despite a medium size snowfall, aproximately half of our members attended the workshop on Depth Of Field, Better Composition and High Dynamic Range by Carson and Paul. Dave also demonstrated a handy PC “Directory Printer” program. Next meeting agenda is a busy one. Please see Meeting Schedule for more info.

In the Spring CAPA Nature Competition, Margaret Manson received the Bronze Medal for third place. Congratulations Margaret. A larger version of her winning image can be seen under ‘Club Photos’.

On Tuesday, May 12th, 2009, the Chatham Camera Club held their Awards Night, where the winners of the Photo Competitions for 2008-2009 season were presented with Certificates honouring their achievements.

Bob Allen received the ‘Most Improved Photographer’ Award.
Carson Plant received the ‘Best Photo’ Award. See Carson’s photo under ‘Club Photos’.

In the ‘Advanced’ Division, 1st place went to Les McCracken, Paul Schmoldt was 2nd, and Harry Arneill 3rd.

The recipients in the ‘Intermediate’ Division were Jim Pollock 1st place winner, Doug Woodman 2nd, and Dave Noordhoff 3rd.
As a result of their win, Jim, Doug and Dave will move up to the ‘Advanced’ Division.

In the ‘Beginner’ Division, 1st place went to Martha Gillier , 2nd to Vince Gagnier and 3rd to Bob Allen.
Martha and Vince will move up to the ‘Intermediate’ Division as a result of their win.

Paul showed images from a visit at Hiram Walker’s Canadian Club Head Office in Windsor with ‘Windsor Photo Guild’ and Les showed visits from ‘Open Doors’ – COSY / CFCO , Caleb Retirement Home and ‘The Pines Chapel’.

The results of the Club Elections to follow.

This time we are featuring one of the long-time members, Dennis Skipper.
Dennis is a past president of the Chatham Camera Club and currently serves as Slide and Film manager. He is equally at home with both Digital and Film Media and likes to take nature photos as well as being an excellent event photographer. Please follow the link to ‘Photo In Focus’ for a few of his images.

Many thanks go out to Carson for his very informative show on his trip this past summer to Newfoundland. The photographs were ‘par excellence’. Very exciting to see pictures of whales that close and people almost touch them. I can see why he wants to go out East again.

Also thank you to our CAPA rep. Herman for his excellent tutorial on how to photograph outside Christmas Lights. Just in time for the season.