From Ken Wilson:
This recent post from Digital Photography School has several tips on cold weather photography that will be helpful when you join us on our Old Quarry photo walk on the 19th. The ziplock bag and battery tips will be essential if it’s really cold 🙂
The links in our December post have some other useful tips.
The Photofocus Podcast “network” has changed their monthly schedule to the following:
Download them and listen while you’re doing housework, stuck in traffic, at the gym …
Between the podcasts listed above they also have frequent blog postings.
Google announced today that effective May 1 they will no longer develop the desktop version of Picasa, their photo editor and cataloguer. Pictures stored in Picasa albums will be moved to Google Photos. More details in this TechCrunch article.
If you missed our recent “Learn your camera” workshop, don’t despair. Before every monthly meeting the Mentors are available to help you with issues you have with your camera. They are also there to help you improve your photography with ideas on composition and post processing. Between meetings they can be reached by phone and email.
One-on-one help is also available from the Seniors Council Computer Tutors on topics such as:
One hour sessions can be booked at the front desk for $8. Three one hour sessions can be booked for $20.
Were you inspired by Phil Tughan and Ian Buchanan’s wildlife pictures from the Old Quarry Trail? Want to try your hand at taking some of your own? Want to do it in the company of folks who know where to find the local wildlife?
The Camera Club is holding a photo walk on Friday February 19th at 08:00 AM.
Meet at The Old Quarry Trail parking lot (NCC Parking Lot P5) on Eagleson just south of the intersection with Hazeldean.
At the last meeting, Phil Suggested you bring carrots to hand feed to the deer and seeds to feed the birds. Phil says “It is also a good idea to bring some bird seed as the small birds will eat out of your hand and provide some good photo opportunities. The birds seem to like sunflower seeds the best, but you can get general wild bird seed at Bulk Barn.”.
If we have to reschedule due to issues with the weather, come to the blog for updates.
At today’s steering committee meeting Sue Carey reminded us that, if you have a library card from the Ottawa Public Library, you have free access to all 4300 professionally created courses for creatives at Lynda.com. Some of that photography topics include:
(numbers indicate how many courses are available under each topic)
Normally this access would cost $30 per month.
Just go here to begin.
If you enjoyed the beautiful images in the album Ian Buchanan showed off at the February 5th Camera Club meeting, you can see more by going to his web site. Hopefully they’ll inspire you to come out to the Old Quarry Trail club “shoot out” later in February. Stay tuned here for the date and time (and a map).
For those who haven’t already discovered it, the January gallery of member images is online here. Thanks for sharing your great and very funny pictures.
Marg Jackman found this great National Geographic wildlife video from 2012. Be sure to watch it in full screen mode with the sound turned on. Lots of beautiful images.
