Category: News

“Fixed in Post” Assignment

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 31st.

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 7th 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

Canadian Camera Conference 2017

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

March 3rd Meeting

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 3rd.

Photography at the National Gallery

The  Cana­dian Pho­tog­ra­phy In­sti­tute at the National Gallery of Canada has several photo exhibitions this year. From the CPI website:

Joseph Sudek

Continuing until February 26

Known as the “poet of Prague,” Josef Sudek created some of the 20th century’s most evocative images of nature, monuments, objects and streets.

A true “flâneur,” he enjoyed meandering through the streets of the Czech capital, recording intimate and beautiful details of the city he loved. Over many decades, he took thousands of photographs of its architecture and inhabitants.

Organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, The Intimate World of Josef Sudek features a thoughtful selection of 163 works by the photographer and his artistic circle.

Spanning his career, the exhibition explores how Sudek’s photography reflected his deeply personal relationship with the city of Prague during its artistic heyday and reveals his sensitive understanding of light — and its absence.

On display are works of Sudek’s photographic experiments carried out within the privacy of his studio, images of the garden seen from his window and pictures taken during his walks through the city.

PhotoLab 1

Continuing until 02 APRIL

Windows have fascinated artists for centuries. In photography, the transparency and reflectivity of glass as both a subject and symbol have made windows a particularly popular theme. Since the invention of the medium, photographers have been attracted to the subject, whether as an exploration of still life, portraiture, popular culture or even abstraction. With their ability to both reveal and obscure, to challenge ideas about the viewer and the viewed, or to dissolve the boundaries of inside and outside space, windows have been used as a metaphor for the act of looking itself.

 

Photography in Canada: 1960–2000

  07 April – 17 September

Experience the diversity of Canadian photographic practice and production from 1960 to 2000. 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.

Pho­toLab 2: Women Speak­ing Art

07 April – ?

Cel­e­brates con­tem­po­rary art pho­tog­ra­phy by women that features text, in­clud­ing posters, prints and videos.

Expanded Executive

At the January meeting we asked members to join the executive and several did. After the February meeting,  where we met to discuss plans for the rest of the season, we took this snapshot:

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We are:

  • Standing left to right: Phil Tughan, Ed Lascelle, Frank Knor, Louise Robert, Ron Pierce & Carol Brown
  • Seated (L to R): Amy Lo, Anne Jones, Catherine Easton
  • Missing: Sue Carey, Marilyn Martin, Val Colins, Stu Moxley

If you have any questions about the club or suggestions about what we can do better, please talk to any of us at the monthly meetings or email us here.

February 3rd Meeting

Remember that our next Camera Club meeting with be held on Friday February 3rd at 9:15 AM.

Our meeting will include:

  • slide show of member images from January “Contemplative” assignment
  • slide show of members images from January “Shoot In”
  • discussion of selected images from the above submissions
  • Marg’s photography hint and joke
  • announcements

Our feature speaker will be Vanessa Dewson speaking about Travel Photography. You can preview her work here.

We will also present a video on metering modes and follow it with a discussion.

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

Your images for the assignment and from the “Shoot In” must be emailed by noon on Friday January 27th 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 assignment for February is “Light” and will be displayed at the March 3rd meeting.

See you on the 3rd,

Shoot-In Recap

Thanks to Sue who suggested the idea of a shoot-in and set the whole thing up, to all who helped out and to the participants who learned lots about their cameras and how to use them.

Here are some snapshots of the event taken by Amy Lo and Bill Robertson. If you want to share your images from the shoot in with the club, please submit them for the February meeting.

We plan on doing this again and would appreciate feedback from club members about what we can add or improve. Email the executive here or talk to us at a meeting.

Canadian Camera Conference

The Canadian Association of Photographic Arts (CAPA) and the RA Photo Club of Ottawa are hosting the Canadian Camera Conference, to be held on June 28-30, 2017 in Ottawa. The Conference will be held in conjunction with the 2017 Canada Day celebrations. It will include a host of interesting presentations by well-known professional photographers, special in-depth workshops, a trade show and a range of special events that will take place before, during and after the Conference. For full details, see the Conference website.

Ron Pierce

Merry Christmas!

Did Santa bring you a new camera for Christmas? If you’re new to photography then this article on camera basics that Fraser Campbell shared with us will help you get started.

If you want to learn even more about your new camera why not try it out at our Shoot In which we’re holding as part of the meeting on January 6th. Don’t forget to bring your manual.