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April Meeting

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.

Mud Lake Shootout

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

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Screech Owl by Anne Jones

 

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Black Capped Chickadee by Barry Thomas
  • 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.

 

Photograph Havana with David Barbour

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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.

Kanata-Carleton Cultural Festival

coverYour 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

 

Ted Simard on Lightroom

Thanks again to Ted Simard who gave us a great presentation on Lightroom at the March 3rd meeting.

A little bit of Ted’s background:

  • 50 years photography experience
  • started with black and white and film
  • learned camera settings prior to in-camera light meters
  • using Lightroom and RAW since 2015
  • owns Nikon D500 plus 2 zoom and 4 prime lenses
  • self taught
  • official photographer for Robert Stanfield political campaign in the 70’s and Church of Canada Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • teaches photo classes at Trinity Presbyterian

He recommended these websites for more information:

“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.