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The Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada has just mounted Photography in Canada 1960-2000. From the exhibition web page:

Experience the diversity of Canadian photographic practice and production from 1960 to 2000 in this exhibition organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada. Bringing together more than 100 works by 71 artists — including Raymonde April, Edward Burtynsky, Lynne Cohen, Angela Grauerholz, Michael Snow, Jeff Wall and Jin-me Yoon — it explores how the medium articulated the role of art and the artist in an ever-changing world, along with differing ideas of identity, sexuality and community. Formulated around themes such as conceptual, documentary, urban landscape and portrait, this exhibition celebrates the enormous growth of the practice, collection and display of photography over more than four decades.

The show runs until September 17th.

The next Camera Club meeting with be held on Friday April 7th at 9:15 AM.

Our meeting will include:

• Three member presentations
  • iPhone Photography by Anne
  • Composite Photography by Ron
  • Group of 4’s, 52 Week Challenge by Fraser
• Announcements on the Canadian Camera Conference 2017 and the Kanata Cultural Festival
• Marg’s photography hint and joke
• Slide show of member images from March “Fixed in Post” assignment.  Members may submit one original unedited photo (straight from the camera) and the same photo edited.  See below for additional information on submitting images.
• Slide show and suggestions for member’s unedited photos.  For members who are not comfortable with a photo editing program, they may submit one unedited photo for review.  See below for additional information on submitting photos.
• Tip of the Day “Depth of Field” by Phil
• Announcements

Your images from the March “Fixed in Post” assignment include either:

• Two photos; one unedited and one edited.  In Photo 1 include the word “original” in the filename e.g. Snowy beach original by John Williamson.jpg.  In Photo 2 include the word “edited” in the filename e.g.  Snowy beach edited by John Williamson.jpg; OR
• One unedited photo for members to provide suggestions on how it could be edited e.g. Snowy beach by John Williamson.jpg

Your images for the March assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, March 31st to be included in the slide show. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles (see above for title changes to the filename for this assignment) go to our Galleries page.

The Mentors will be available before the meeting to help you with any technical or creative questions you have about photography.

See you on April 7th.

The club will be holding a shoot-out at Mud Lake this spring.

 

• May 12th (rain date May 19th) at 08:30
• Lead by Anne Jones and Phil Tughan
• More details at April 7th and May 5th meetings, in the blog and by email.
• Shooting assignment for May changed to “Nature”
• Parking along Cassels Street adjacent to Mud lake just west of filtration plant.
• Club members who are experienced nature photographers will be wearing their name badges and will be glad to help out members with tips on how to get the best images they can.

For more information on Mud Lake, check out the NCC web site.

 

Ottawa Photographer David Barbour is leading a photo tour to Havana May 27-June 3.

Explore Havana with David, improve your skills as a creative photographer and be introduced to one of the most fascinating cities in the world. The one-week workshop will balance specific photo assignments with evening critiques and presentations. Each day, students will travel to various locations in the city and concentrate on photographing people and the architecture of the city. Side trips to the East Beaches and a day trip to Regla will complete the week. More details here.

Register at School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa.

David also teaches at the Ottawa School of Art:

• Intro to Digital April 18- May 11 9 classes
• Intro to Film April 8-20th 6 classes

To see examples of David’s work, visit his website.

Your camera club executive has decided to participate in the 2017 Kanata-Carleton Cultural Festival which will take place May 27th at Earl of March High School and in Sandwell Green park.

There are 5 confirmed groups taking part in the visual art exhibition in the Earl of March foyer: Kanata Art Club, Richmond Art Association, West Carleton Arts Society, Kanata Civic Art Gallery (possibly the Ottawa West Arts Association). Each group will provide volunteers for their own booth. Visual Art Organizer for Kanata-Carleton Cultural Festival, is Judi Miller, local Artist. 

The Kanata Civic Art Gallery has offered to provide 10 display grids to our group, to set up a booth. The Grids are 6’x2′. The Earl can provide us with a table for information, if required. As participants we must present a hands-on arty activity for children. The Kanata Civic Art Gallery will lead this activity. We will need to decide and submit our activity by second week in May.

Those who wish to show their photographs, you will also volunteer 2 hours (or more) while engaging the public about your work and the Club’s activities during your showing period.

Photographs will be Artist’s choice. They must be matted, mounted or framed with your name. There will be a “People’s Choice Award” with the public voting on their favourites. The Club is looking for a sponsor to provide an incentive for the Artist.

Set up and take down timing has yet to be determined but the venue opens at 9:00 am and ends at 9:00pm.

If there are people who are interested in showing their work please contact me by email here.  There may be other gallery opportunities in the region during the year so stay tuned.

Visual Art Organizer for Kanata-Carleton Cultural Festival, Judi Miller, Artist

Let’s have some fun folks!

Val Collins

 

If you’ve looked at the list of upcoming monthly assignment on our Galleries page, you might have noticed the March assignment is called “Fixed in Post” and wondered what it was all about.

When we see an interesting landscape, person, event or scene, we grab our camera and take a photograph. However, oftentimes the photograph we capture with our camera is not quite what we had originally imagined.

Many photographers, from amateur to professional, do some form of editing or enhancement of their photographs. Photographic editing can range from straightforward techniques such as straightening a horizon, cropping, and fixing red-eye to more challenging techniques such as highlights/shadows, tonal adjustment and sharpening.

The March assignment “Fixed-in-Post” will give Club members an opportunity to submit original (straight out of the camera) and edited photographs. Please keep in mind that the deadline for submitting photographs is noon, March 31^st.

All Club members are encouraged to submit ONE original photograph (straight out of the camera with no editing) rather than the usual three photographs that are normally submitted:

• For members who do some editing, please submit your one original photograph (straight out of the camera in jpeg format). Also please submit the edited/enhanced version of your original photograph.
• For members who do no editing, please submit one original photograph.
• For members who do not usually submit photographs, please consider submitting a photograph.

At the April 7^th meeting, we will view the submitted photographs, discuss various editing techniques and perhaps learn some new editing skills. We hope to promote an interactive, learning environment and encourage all members to send in photographs and participate in the April meeting.

For more details and some example images take a look at these slides.

Ron Pierce

The Canadian Association of Photographic Arts and the RA Photo Club are hosting the Canadian Camera Conference 2017 in Ottawa from June 28-30, 2017. This coincides with the national celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation on July 1st. It is shaping up to be a very special experience for photographers from across Canada. In addition to a stunning line-up of speakers and presentations, there will be hands-on sessions and photographic outings as well as unique opportunities to visit special collections such as the works of Karsh through a joint venture with Archives Canada.

For more information visit their website.

 

APRIL 7 UPDATE:

• to receive a $30 reduction in the conference price use the promo code Dave Haggarty gave us: CLUB PROMO NCR & ONT
• To see the videos Dave showed plus others go to the Canadian Camera Conference YouTube channel

The next Camera Club meeting with be held on Friday, March 3rd at 9:15 AM.

The  meeting will include:

• Slide show of member images from February “Light” assignment.  See below for additional information on submitting images
• Feature speaker will be Ted Simard discussing “Lightroom Editing”
• Marg’s photography hint and joke
• Review of Chosen Photos
• Discussion of March “Fixed in Post” assignment
• Tip of the Day “Metering Mode”
• Announcements

Your images from the February “Light” assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, February  24th to be included in the slide show. Images submitted after the deadline will only appear in the online gallery. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles go to our Galleries page.

The Mentors will be available before the meeting to help you with any technical or creative questions you have about photography.

See you on March 3^rd.