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
I Thought Macro Photography Would Be Easy
While we’re all cooped up at home, we might want to try some macro photography.
Phil Tughan
Learn Photoshop Elements
During this period of social isolation due to the COVID-19 virus, why not learn to use Photoshop Elements? You can download a fully functional 30 day trial copy of the latest version of Photoshop Elements here using your Google, Facebook or Apple sign-in or by creating a free Adobe account.
Once you have Photoshop Elements downloaded and installed, take advantage of the free tutorials from Adobe, the many useful YouTube tutorials, and the free instruction on Lynda.com available through the Ottawa Public Library (as described in this earlier blog post).
Until the Centre re-opens, if you need help with any of this and if you are running Windows 10, I’ll be glad to schedule one-on-one remote tutorial sessions. Send an email to contact@ksccc.ca to arrange a time.
As always, if you have questions about photography, send them to contact@ksccc.ca and we’ll try and find you an answer.
Bill Robertson
Manfred Mueller at SPAO
Unfortunate timing, but the A+ Exhibition, at the SPAO Gallery (77 Pamilla St, in Little Italy) opened on Saturday March 14 and runs until April 9th. The gallery is normally open from noon until 5:00 PM, Monday through Saturday.
Two of my images are part of this curated exhibition; one print and one digital image. Three highly qualified external curators selected the images that are on display.
The image of the dancers is one of the prints hanging on the wall and the portrait of the boy is shown on the 75″ screen. This is my first venture into the world of modern fine art photography, so I was pleasantly surprised when these two works were selected.
Manfred Mueller
High/Low/Odd Angles Monthly Challenge
Please go ahead and submit your High/Low/Odd Angles challenge images as usual by noon on March 27th to contact@ksccc.ca. They will be uploaded to the a new monthly gallery on Friday morning April 3rd. A slideshow will be created and made available through our website.
We will post our plans and assignments for the following month here.
Kanata Seniors Centre Closed
This afternoon (Friday March 13) the City of Ottawa announced that all recreation and cultural facilities including the Kanata Seniors Centre will be closed from March 16th to April 5th. Our meeting scheduled for April 5 is cancelled.
Any updates to this information will be posted here.
Five Simple Tips to Improve an Image
You can review Manfred Mueller’s presentation on Five Simple Tips to Improve an Image here.
February Gallery Now Online
Fix My Pic for April Meeting
The image for Fix My Pic is now available by clicking here then clicking on the download icon (a downward pointing arrow) in the upper right corner. No RAW version is available.
The cut off date for submissions is the same date as for the Monthly Challenge – in this case – Friday, March 27th.
Images must be emailed to the regular club email address: contact@ksccc.ca
Members submitting images will be asked during the meeting to share their reasons for why they made a change and how they made the changes.
Submissions should be renamed to:
Whip by {your name}.jpg
John Williamson
March Camera Club Meeting
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on March 6th, at 9:15 a.m.
- Slideshow of Member Images from the Detail Assignment
- Member’s Travel Videos
- 2019 Rainbow Mountain by Amy Lo
- Cuba by Carol Brown
- This Land of Ours by Frank Knor
- Yungang Grottoes by Ko Fung
- Holi by Manfred Mueller
- Italy, Sicily & Venice by Marg Jackman
- The Camargue Part 1 by Debbie Pinard
- Barbados by Valerie Clement
- Review of Chosen Photos
- Tip of the Day “How to Get a Better Picture” by Manfred Mueller
- Concluding Remarks
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, February 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.
Don’t forget about the 2020 Winter Photo Challenge to “Create a Photography Project”. Images for this challenge must also be submitted by noon on Friday, February 28th.
The next assignment is High/Low/Odd Angles and these images will be shown at the meeting on April 3rd.
See you at the meeting.
Photo Exhibitions
Sandy Sharkey, who presented her brilliant images of wild horses at our club in November 2018, has an exhibition at the LaLande + Doyle exhibition space in the lower lobby area at Shenkman Arts Centre until February 23rd. You can meet Sandy there on Sunday afternoon February 16 from 1-3 pm. More information here.
The School of Photographic Arts of Ottawa is showing Meditations on Black Lake by internationally acclaimed Montreal-based artist Nadia Myre at their gallery located at 77 Pamilla Street just east of Preston Street. This exhibition continues Monday-Saturday 12-5 until March 6. More information here.
