Kanata Seniors' Centre Camera Club
Seniors Enjoying Photography
This is a reminder that the Ottawa Orchid Society annual show is coming up on April 27th and 28th. They allow the use of tripods Sunday morning from 9:00-11:00.
This is a great opportunity to shoot some amazing flowers.
For more details, check out their website.
This is a call to all KSCCC members to submit short slide
shows or videos of their work for presentation to the KSCCC membership at one
of our monthly meetings.
We are looking for either images, slide shows or videos that you have put
together on a theme that you would like to show to the club members. These presentations should run for between
two and four minutes and can include a sound track with a voice over and / or
background music. A good rule of thumb
is that each slide should be shown for no more than around 7 seconds, excluding
any transitions. If you wish you can
include a picture of yourself at the end of the presentation, so people can
identify who you are.
Please resize your images so that they are a maximum of 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high. Any videos submitted should also adhere to these same maximum dimensions. If you are submitting images, rather than a prepared slide show or video, please the following naming convention to ensure that the images are shown in the correct order:
ImageNumber PresentationName by Photographer Name.jpg
for example:
Please send your submissions to: contact@ksccc.ca
The Kanata Seniors Centre needs our help. Janet Baigent asks:
The Centre is having a Victorian Fashion Show and Tea and I am searching for a willing photographer! Event is on Thursday, April 18 from 1-3pm. I would ask that the photographer arrive at 12:45pm, take pictures of fashion show and attendees having a great time throughout event.
If you’re interested in being their photographer, please contact Janet at the Centre by calling 613-580-2980 or by email.
Club members Phil Tughan, Ed Lascelle and Bill Robertson have all shot fashion shows like this in the past. They’re lots of fun.
Here are some images from the fashion show Phil shot a couple of years ago.
Here are five videos on Motion Photography which were presented at the April 5th 2019 meeting.
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 15: Panning by Mark Wallace from Adorama TV
Shutterspeed – Easy Explained. Photography Tutorial for Beginner by Benjamin Jaworskyj
Canon: Tips for Shooting Vehicles in Motion with Kevin Wing
How to Photograph Motion at Night by Ryan Visima from Black’s
Capture Motion Blur Ep 105: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey: Adorama Photography TV
Phil Tughan
The gallery of images from March’s Negative Space assignment is now online here.
Here are links to the galleries of images from the 6 winter challenges that were presented at the April 5th meeting:
For more on the 2019 Winter Challenge refer to this blog post.
The featured speaker at our meeting on April 5th will be Danielle Barabé-Bussières
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Danielle Barabé-Bussières learns photography every day by watching tutorials, researching photography projects and gets some of her inspiration from great photographers. Danielle likes to explore nature, flowers, wildlife and is very passionate about macro photography.
In the recent years, her images have earned several awards in Provincial and National competitions with the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC). Recently, Danielle has participated in the National Image competition and is a “finalist” for the prestigious title of Photographic artist of the year with the PPOC. She is very devoted to photography and she worked hard to achieve a professional level. She is also very involved with artists’ associations and takes every opportunity offered to her to display her art in the Ottawa area and surroundings.
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To learn more about Danielle and to see more of her beautiful images, visit her website. To see the slides she showed describing her equipment, settings, software, tips, and contact information, click here.
Last fall some members of our Executive were provided an early tour of the Beaverbrook Library’s new Digitization Lab and were most impressed . The Kanata Library has the first such capability in the city of Ottawa.
The facility is now open for business and the library will be scheduling a special group tour for camera club members in the near future.
You may sign up for one of their monthly tours, by registering here.
In the meantime, you are welcome to start using the equipment in the lab by booking on their website.
If you’re one of the lucky people who have a camera that knows when to “spring ahead — fall back” you can ignore this blog post.
This message is for the rest of us.
Don’t forget to change the clock in your camera so the time recorded in the EXIF data of your images is correct!
In a recent discussion about creativity, club member Sue Carey said:
It is not only, or always, the most exotic trip, or the most Photoshopped photo that has the greatest impact. One does not have to risk life and limb in the winter, or go on exotic trips, to ‘get the shot’. It may encourage all members to look and play with their camera, within a meter of where they are.
Sue recommended this exercise from Freeman Patterson to stimulate creativity:
The best place in the world to SEE is wherever you are.
Time and again I’ve had somebody ask me the question “Where’s a good place to make pictures?” The translation is: “Where can I photograph my preconceptions?” Answering this question is one of the best ways I know to stand still creatively. It’s rather like taking a bus tour to Washington, D.C. to see the cherry blossoms without ever having noticed the beauty of the wild flowers (weeds) in your back yard.
Long ago I came to realize that a good, simple exercise for improving a person’s ability to see is to ask a friend to pick a number, let’s say between 20 and 50 (perhaps 36) and a direction “left,” “right,” or “straight ahead,” then to take 36 steps in the given direction and stop. Using your camera or your smartphone make a minimum of 30 thoughtful compositions in that place (staying within a circle no wider than a metre.) Beginning is easy, as you’ll photograph things you always notice in ways you always see them. However, if you feel like tearing out your hair after struggling to “see” more than 15 or 18 good pictures, you can be almost certain that persisting will reward you with a visual breakthrough.
You have to get on the other side of your normal ways of seeing, to challenge your perfectly natural need to label everything in order to see what’s there, to see in ways you’ve never seen before.
The challenge is often hard, but the achievement is always exhilarating. Give this exercise a serious try at least once a month – especially right around home where everything is so familiar you don’t see it. This is a great exercise, not just for photographers, but for everybody who wants to be more observant.Freeman Patterson
I made the photograph on page one and the three that follow at spots I move through so often that, every now and then, I make a conscious effort to observe them carefully in order to “see” what normally doesn’t register at all.
Thanks to Freeman Patterson for permission to use the above quote from his IMAGES, IDEAS, and REFLECTIONS Periodical Letter #6 March 2019. For more ideas and images from him, check out his website.
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