This month’s featured photographer is Diane Schives.
Dividing her time between her family, her dogs and being a substitute school teacher, Diane is also a keen student of photography. She puts her vivid imagination and excellent composition skills to good use when capturing her beautiful nature photos. You can see some of Diane’s work on our Photo In Focus page.
In Dave Noordhoff’s absence, Vice-President Vince Gagnier welcomed 42 members and 4 guests to the March 12th Workshop meeting.
Frank Vadovic was our featured Photo Fixer, who showed The Club how he could make several shots more interesting by simply cropping them differently using Photoshop, Elements or acdsee. Well done Frank.
The highlight of the evening was Margaret Manson’s 15 Minutes Of Fame slideshow which featured some of her most outstanding work. Club members were treated to her beautiful nature, landscape and people shots that she has taken on her world-wide travels. This wonderful collection of straight-out-of-the-camera photos showed what a remarkable photographer we have in our group and gave those of us who rely on post processing something to think about. Congratulations Margaret!
Les McCracken reviewed our print displays which followed a “Humour” theme. Oddly, several photos were reportedly taken in Ireland, while others were more of a personal nature. Some talk of “pay-back” circulated among those in attendance.
Judging was completed for our CCC competitions held over from last meeting, with the Novice group submitting in the Panorama category and Intermediate and Senior members showing their entries for Repetition. Several interesting and innovative images were entered. You can view the top scoring shots of the evening on our Club Photos page.
Our next meeting will be on March 26th, when photojournalist Evelyn Symons will be our guest speaker.
There are always two people in every picture:
the photographer and the viewer.
Despite the inclement weather, a good turnout was on hand to welcome three guests and one new member to The Club.
Judging was held for upcoming CAPA competitions in the Open and Nature categories, with some excellent photos being chosen as our entries.
Dave Noordhoff led a demonstration of different ways to carry cameras, lenses and accessories with the help of Vince Gagnier and Jim Pollock. The Club was shown several products, including equipment made by Think Tank,
Cotton Carrier and Black Rapid. Paul Schmoldt showed us some of the essensials he carries in his gadget bag, including cleaning cloths, bandages, kneeling pads and plastic bags.
Due to the icy road conditions that were developing, the meeting ended early and the judging for the CCC competitions will be held at our March 12th gathering.
Photography is a way of capturing moments that deserve to be seen again.
This month’s featured photographer is Noel Courtice.
Since joining the CCC about four years ago, Noel has been an enthusiastic contributor to our competitions, especially CAPA. Now retired from his career as a pharmacist, Noel seized the opportunity to take an African Safari a couple of years ago and returned with many once-in-a-lifetime pictures. The beautiful garden at his home also provides him with excellent photo opportunities. A small sample of Noel’s work can be viewed on our Photo In Focus page.
This month’s workshop meeting kicked off with our Photo Fixer segment, featuring Bill Godfrey. Bill demonstrated how he uses Nik Software to enhance tonal contrast, boost detail, introduce lens blur, add an oval vignette, change the shot to black and white and put a border around the picture. You can download a fully functional, 15 day trial of Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2 and Viveza. Free on-line tutorials are also available. These programs are a staple of many of our Advanced members.
Paul Schmoldt presented CAPA’s best shots from this year’s Altered Reality competition, which contained some truly inspiring work. Great job on the slideshow Paul!
A video demonstration on How A Camera Is Made gave us all a deeper appreciation for the technology that we often take for granted. You can see it again here:
Les McCracken reviewed our displayed prints and complimented several fine efforts.
Our newest member, Chad Barry, showed The Club how he achieves variations of a picture by adding clouds using Photoshop layer masks, changing the shot to black and white, turning a photo into a night scene and overlaying a texture. There are several good tutorials available on YouTube for those interested in learning Chad’s methods.
Our next meeting on February 26th will be highlighted by CAPA competitions for Open and Nature. The CCC competition for the Novice group is Panorama, while the Intermediates and Seniors will enter photos that feature Repetition. See the Meeting Schedule page for more details.
Photography is the art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.
Our Photo In Focus feature this time around is Angel Rublik.
Traveling to our meetings from La Salle, Angel is an enthusiastic shooter who enjoys all types of photography. Always anxious to learn, she makes excellent use of her artistic ability and has made great strides in her knowledge in the year and a half that she has been with The Chatham Camera Club. Have a look at some of her work in our Photo In Focus section.
This month’s main meeting featured the judging of our CAPA entries for Sports Action as well as Club competition for our Novice group in the One category and Intermediate and Advanced in the Panorama category. The top scoring images by Colin Cooper, Angel Rublik, Dave Noordhoff, Harry Arneill, Doug Cooper, Paul Schmoldt and Mike Blazek, can be seen in our Club Photos section.
Jim Pollock showed us the various tools he uses to modify flash, including:
Our next meeting is on February 12th, when printmakers are asked to bring in a print of their choice. (Open)
Photography is no more about cameras than mathematics is about calculators.
Our first meeting of the new year, called Novice Night, was an evening of instruction in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Elements. Adam Harpula, Dave Noordhoff and Jim Pollock provided tutorials that were designed to show the power of these programs and encourage those not shooting in RAW to venture into a brave, new world. Several members expressed their thanks and we look forward to doing more of the same in the future. Because of the length of both programs, Margaret Manson graciously agreed to re-schedule her 15 Minutes Of Fame to another meeting.
Our topic for print display was Black and White Portrait, which saw several fine examples of this type of photography.
Dave Noordhoff gave a brief tour of our website and urged us to explore the pages and links provided.
Our next meeting, on January 22nd, will feature
See our Meeting Schedule for details.
Good photos are like good jokes, if you have to explain, it just isn’t that good.