The Kanata Seniors’ Centre Camera Club (KSCCC) meets once a month at the Kanata Seniors’ Centre in Kanata, Ontario. To find out more about the club and how to join click on About Us
Fix My Pic for November Meeting
The image for Fix My Pic is now available by clicking one of the formats in the list below then clicking on the download icon (a downward pointing arrow) in the upper right corner.
The cut off date for submissions is the same date as for the Monthly Challenge — in this case — Friday, October 30th.
Images must be emailed to the regular club email address: contact@ksccc.ca
Submissions should be renamed to:
Fix Phil’s Pic by {your name}.jpg
John Williamson
Change to the September Monthly Challenge
The Monthly Challenge for September has been changed from Celebrations to Black & White Photography. Pictures should be submitted by September 25th for the meeting on October 2nd.
This change to the Monthly Challenge will allow members to practice B&W photography tips presented by Manfred Mueller in our virtual members’ meeting of September 4th. The Celebrations Monthly Challenge has been moved to December.
When you take pictures of people it may be advisable to get their permission before it being put on our club website.
A complete list of Monthly Challenges can be found here.
Manfred Mueller on Black & White Photography
You can review the slides from Manfred Mueller’s presentation on Black and White Photography here.
At the end of his excellent presentation, Manfred recommended this article.
Photograph That Song Slideshow Now Online
Because we’re meeting online in September, we are sharing the slideshow of images from our June/July/August Photograph That Song challenge online.
In order to view the slideshow full screen, please click Play (above) then on the word YouTube or click on this link.
Thanks again to Catherine Easton for creating this slideshow of our images.
June/July/August Gallery Now Online
In spite of the fact that the club can’t meet every month, lots of members still submitted images. The gallery from our June/July/August Photograph That Song challenge is now online here.
Link to September Meeting
Click here to join our September meeting.
The dial in link is: +1 289-434-9046 PIN: 353 790 904# This is a southern Ontario area code so long distance charges may apply.
The Google Meet “room” will be opened so that people can connect at 8:45 AM on Friday morning.
If you have any issues email us here and we’ll try to help.
Results are in for the KSCCC Member Survey!!
Thank you to all those KSCCC members who participated in our online survey. The overwhelming majority of our members are interested in continuing with our Club activities via online “virtual” meetings. Our Club members continue to be interested in learning and sharing ideas about photography and are especially interested in hearing speakers discuss interesting photographic topics, showcasing members’ photographs and learning about specific photographic tips and techniques.
Many members have told us that they are already familiar with the online meeting technology and either had no technical issues with it or were able to work through their problems themselves. Most found that the audio and video of these online delivery products was good.
Stay tuned for more announcements on our website about our upcoming fall 2020 season.
Some of the key results from the survey are:
September Camera Club Meeting
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on September 4th, at 9:15 a.m.
Because the Seniors’ Centre is still closed our meeting will be held online using Google Meet. A link to the meeting will be posted to our website the morning of the 4th. For details on how to use Google Meet go here. If you’re new to online meetings, we will start at 8:45 a.m. to allow you to test your setup.
The meeting will be shorter than our normal meetings and will consist of:
- review of online meeting procedures
- Slideshow of Member Images from the June/July/August – Photograph That Song assignment
- Black and White Photography by club member Manfred Mueller
- Concluding Remarks
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, August 28th to be included in the slideshow. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
The next assignment is Celebrations and these images will be shown at the meeting on October 2nd.
“See” you at the meeting.
Survey Reminder
Reminder: KSCCC Online Survey Closes Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.
This is a reminder to please fill out the KSCCC Online Survey that was posted on our Website on August 10th, 2020. Thank you to those Club members that have already done so.
The closing date for our Online Survey is Thursday, August 20th at 5:00 p.m. It is very important that we have as many Club members as possible participate in this Survey. It will only take a few minutes of your time.
The future direction of our Club depends on you.
Thank you for your help and cooperation!
Your KSCCC Executive
Recommended Critique and Editing Video
I generally don’t recommend a lot of websites and videos I see on the Internet, but I ran into this one last night and it is particularly good for a couple of reasons; he takes images that were submitted to a well known American photo competition and then discusses what could be improved and then demonstrates how to implement those improvements. He happens to use Capture One, but that is really more of a detail as these edits can be done with any editing tool.
The person doing the talking is Kevin Raber. Kevin used to run the highly regarded photography website, Luminous Landscape (LuLa), after its founder, Michael Reichmann died a few years ago. He seems to have founded photopxl.com and took a number of LuLa contributors with him. Unlike LuLa, the new website is not a pay site and is free.
I’ve watched his first four edits and he nailed the issues I had with the image (and missed a few, in my view), but regardless, he made significant improvements to each one. The important lesson is how he identifies the flaws; that in my experience is where most people struggle a bit.
The link to the article and video are here.
It is a long (over 1hr 15min) video, but is easy to watch in small pieces.
Manfred Mueller
