Author: ksccc

Shoot a deer?

Inspired by Jim Cummings’ presentation at the November 6th KSC Camera Club meeting, Barrie Thomas checked out the NCC Old Quarry Trail southeast of the intersection of Hazeldean and Eagleson (map).

Here are some notes he sent us:

Eve and I decided to get up really early one morning and try it out. Well, we could have kicked ourselves for having such an excellent wildlife area right in the middle of Kanata. We have been back five or six times since looking for a buck as we found a number of does, along with wild turkeys. If there are does, then somewhere there is a buck. Although during rutting season, it may not be a great idea to get too close.

We got rather lucky as we were trailing this buck off the main trail through the bush, and had given up hope of finding him again when I came past this big bush and looked left, and there he was, 20 feet away from me! I said “oh my God”, brought the camera up very quickly and snapped of a couple of quick shots to ensure I got something before he bolted. I always do this and don’t worry about settings until I have taken those first couple of shots. In this instance, he just stood there and posed for us.

Having a slow 80-400 zoom in this environment does not help as I had set it up with a high ISO of about 2000 and compensation exposure of about 3. Shooting with a lens this long into the woods requires those settings, but this guy was out into an open spot in the woods; therefore the images below are not smooth but have some pixelation in them. Nevertheless, not bad shots.

and a note from Louise Robert:

We access the Green Belt from the other end. I included 2 shots of the our buck taken from our bedroom window.

Thank you both for shring your great photos.

Fluke Photography – Travel Photographer’s Tips

Frank Knor was written a really interesting piece on what he calls “Fluke Photography”. It’s full of trips for getting travel photographs one might otherwise miss. Here’s his introduction:

Fluke can mean many things, however in this context and in accordance with the Webster dictionary
it should be taken to mean “something produced by a stroke of luck, an unexpected benefit or advantage
resulting from an uncertain course of events.” When applied to photography then a great fluke photograph is
one taken quickly in difficult situation which turns out to be a success. For a travel photographer when it
comes to fluke photography one can do a number of things to improve the odds of you having that stroke of
luck on occasion. Many of history’s great photographs are really flukes, not carefully planned photos.

Click here to see Frank’s whole article including his example photographs.

Thanks to Frank for contributing this article.

 

 

Future Plans

At today’s steering committee meeting, the following three events were tentatively planned:

  • a hands-on workshop designed to make the members more familiar with their camera functions tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 13 January, from 1-4 pm.
  • a workshop to help members create slide shows using various software platforms (e.g. Pro Show Gold, Pictures to EXE, etc). tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 14 April, from 1-4 pm.
  • if members would be willing to prepare and share short slide shows (3 to 4 minutes) to show at the May meeting. This will be after many members will have taken winter holidays and may be willing to share their experiences and after the club’s slide show preparation seminar.

Please let us know what you think of these ideas.