As you may know Catherine Easton (camera club slide show creator) and Jack Coutts are currently wandering around Africa. Catherine sent this update on what they’ve been seeing and doing. Sounds like they’re having a great time!
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November Meeting
Our November Camera Club meeting with be held next Friday November 4th at 9:15 AM.
Our meeting will include:
- slide show of member images from September “Autumn” assignment
- slide show of member images from Carp Fair shootout
- slide show of member images from Carleton University butterfly shootout
- critique of selected images from the above submissions
- Marg’s photography hint and joke
- announcements
Our feature speaker will be Dan Jones. For more details, please see this earlier blog post.
The Mentors will be available before the meeting to help you with any technical or creative questions you have about photography.
Your images from the September shootouts and assignment should have been emailed by noon on Friday September 28th to be included in the slide shows. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles go to our Galleries page.
The assignment for November is “Black and White” and will be displayed at the December 4th meeting.
After the main meeting, we’ll have a get together across the hall to talk photography. Why not grab a coffee and join us.
Special Guest at November 4th Meeting
At the monthly meeting to be held on November 4th, Frank Knor will introduce Dan Jones, our featured speaker.
Dan has been a member of the Camera Club of Ottawa for 19 years. During this time he has become a master of photography, and won many awards for both prints and slides. Over the past several years he has had the opportunity to serve as a judge in many photo competitions, and has done critiquing for the club’s members to help them improve the quality of their images.
Over the past 22 years, Dan has been photographing as a hobby and as a part-time profession. He has sold his images to stock agencies and publishers, one of which chose him as their photographer for the Ottawa calendar. Dan’s latest photography endeavour has been to produce his own giclée prints (It is a process that uses a 12 colour ink jet printer, acid free papers, and pigment based archival inks. This process insures that your prints will never degrade or yellow over time and allows a better longevity. Giclée printing allows the artist to provide a quality product for their customers that will never fade.) Dan’s work has been on display in many art galleries in Ottawa and southern Ontario.
Dan is passionate about his photography and enjoys sharing his work with others who share his passion.
Join us on the 4th for what will be a very interesting presentation.
Night Photography Critique
Pocket Shooters Podcast
Podcasts are a great way to learn and keep up-to-date while doing housework, driving, waiting in line at the grocery store, exercising, …
The TWIP network of photography podcasts already includes podcasts on:
They’ve just announced a new podcast called Pocket Shooters about smart phone photography covering android and iOS devices and apps.
Upcoming Club Activities
Don’t forget these upcoming Camera Club activities.
Butterfly Show
- When: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 starting at 9:30 am
- Where: Carleton University Campus The Nesbitt Biology Building
- Further Activity: get together for lunch (at your own cost) in the cafeteria in the University Centre Food Court building starting at 11:00 am
Thanks to Catherine Easton for sharing her great images.
October Meeting
At the October meeting Friday October 7th (first Friday of the month) starting at 9:15. we will:
- Welcome members and remind them of club features
- Show a slideshow of the September “Motion” images
- Discuss a proposal to highlight individual members
- Present a short video on how to get free online photography courses
- Be enlightened by Marg’s hint on building confidence in photography and entertained by her joke
- Give a short technical presentation on an easy way to make selections in Photoshop
- Discuss selected photos from the September submissions
We look forward to seeing you at both of these club activities.
Carp Fair Shootout
The camera club’s first shootout of the 2016/2017 season will take place at the Carp Fair this Thursday, September the 22nd. We will meet at the Rotunda building at 6 pm. Since we will be shooting in the dark you might want to bring a tripod. This will be a great chance to shoot pictures for the September “Movement” assignment.
Summer Images
Next Camera Club meeting
Meeting delayed one week
Because of the Seniors Centre open house on September 2nd, the next meeting of the Kanata Seniors Center Camera Club will be delayed until September 9th, 2016 starting at 9:15 at the Kanata Seniors Centre, 2500 Campeau Drive, Kanata Ontario K2K 2W3.
Assignment
Please note: All assignment and review images must be sent to the club’s email before noon, Friday, September 2nd, 2016.
Due to the extended summer break, at the June meeting the club gave three separate topics for the summer assignment:
Summer – images depicting your concept of summer. This could be your kids playing in the yard, a family bar-b-que, playgrounds, end of or start of school, festivals, the outside, the sun or anything else that your imagination would consider to represent “summer”.
Water – images that show water. This might be a poolside shot, images from a trip to the beach, the lake, river, ocean or any other body of water, kids running and jumping through the sprinkler, puddles after a rainstorm, just to name a few suggestions. Let your imagination run wild.
Gardens/gardening – images that show either the act of gardening, or the resulting gardens. This becomes a fairly broad topic that could show either world class gardens you have visited on your travles, right up to you own garden at home. beautiful images of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, even just lawns are just a few of the full range of shots that could reflect this theme.
Images are due before noon Friday September 2 2016.
News
At a recent meeting of the executive of your club, the newsletter shutterBUG was discussed. In basic terms, all of the information that was put into the newsletter is all readily available on the website, under the tab of “news” or elsewhere on our site. This being the case, it was felt that the newsletter is redundant. Considering the effort that went into putting the newsletter together, and considering the previous assessment, we have decided to cease production of the shutterBUG effective immediately. As such, there will be no further issues, June 2016 will be the last production.
Scheduled Club Shootouts
Your club has made plans for various “Shootouts” over the coming year. Details of the following “Shootouts” will be provided and/or reviewed at the next meeting:
Carp Fair
- When: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 starting at 6:00 pm
- Meeting location: The Rotunda building, located at the Carp Fairgrounds
- Topic: The fair activities including, since this is an evening event, the midway, rides, etc.
- Rain date: Friday, September 23rd, same time and place.
Butterfly Show
- When: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 starting at 9:30 am
- Meeting location: Carleton University Campus The Nesbitt Biology Building
- Further Activity: get together for lunch (at your own cost) in the cafeteria in the University Centre Food Court building starting at 11:00 am
Becoming a Travel Photographer
Amy Lo has pointed out another free course on the Creative Live web site titled Becoming a Travel Photographer. While it seems to be aimed at commercial photographers, it does sound interesting and we all love to travel.
Here’s their description of the course:
Get Paid To Travel By Capturing And Telling Unique Stories
The world is full of unique and beautiful places. By learning the business behind travel photography and mastering how to capture and write those stories, you can get paid while filling up your passport; more importantly, you can brand yourself as a travel photographer.
Laura Grier is a photojournalist who has made a life out of exploring the world, capturing, and writing about her experiences. She has worked for National Geographic, Huffington Post, and is the owner of Beautiful Day Photography (one of LA’s most highly regarded destination wedding companies). In this class she’ll teach you:
- How to break into the travel photography world
- How to pitch story ideas and get trips funded
- How to prepare for destination and travel shoots
It will air for free July 28th and 29th. After that, it will cost $99US
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