Special Fellow by Paula Brown
The next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, June 2nd starting at 9:15 a.m.
The agenda for the meeting is:
There is a free photographic exhibition at the ‘Galerie Montcalm’ in Gatineau. This exhibition is based on RENKU, a collective poetic form. This exhibition comprises 54 photos.
The images are on display from March 16th, the date of the vernissage, to April 30th.
Click here for more information.
Michelle Faber
You can review the slides from Manfred’s excellent presentation – “Still Life Photography – An Overview” here. Note that you can click on the links in his pdf for more detail.
Manfred also recorded a video which you can watch:
Audiovisual Presentation Workshop aka Slideshow Workshop – February 5, 2022
This workshop will focus on how to enhance your AudioVisual (AV) presentation, (the term used by the OCCC). This workshop will look at the guidelines that the OCCC uses to judge AV presentations: quality, production, purpose, and audience appeal. It will also look at how to do a presentation in the ZOOM world with PowerPoint and minimal use of video.
There will be AV examples for demonstrations, critiquing, and discussion.
A sample of some areas that will be covered are:
Time: 9:00 am until Noon
Date: February 5, 2022 (Saturday)
About your instructor: Ursula Tweddle is an award-winning amateur photographer, who has a love for all types of photography, the digital darkroom, and most especially the creative genre. Ursula is a past Competition Chair for the Mississauga Camera Club. More recently, along with giving travel presentations, she has embraced the storytelling opportunities of the AV world, taught an AV workshop, as well as run a year-long Mac Special Interest Group/Workshop on helping users enhance their post-processing abilities by understanding their computers. Becoming an OCCC competition judge has also helped her hone her design and composition skills.
Avoiding the Recycling Bin – March 5, 2022
In this workshop, we will highlight the amazing ways to optimize digital images. (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.)
Time: 9:00 am until Noon
Date: March 5, 2022
About your instructor: Peter Van Rhijn has taught the Art of Photography since 1974.
Peter’s interest in photography was fueled early on by his interest in the production of AV presentations. His 3-projector, medium-format shows were seen in many places in North America.
His show ‘Strength in Beauty” was presented to round out the very first meeting of the North American Nature Photography Association in Fort Meyers FL.
Peter is an associate of the New England Council of Camera Clubs (ANEC). Peter was sponsored by Fujifilm USA and was a member of their Talent team.
Peter’s work was/is marketed by Superstock, All Canada Photos, Design Pics, and his own domain: www.naturephotos.com. For more details see www.naturephotos.com/about
Guests are welcome to attend our Workshops at the cost of $20. Register here.
Once payment has been received, a ZOOM link will be provided within 24 hours. Please ensure your email address is correct. If you do not receive the link within a day, please check your spam folder and if you still don’t have it, please contact us.
If you have any questions or issues, please reach out to: WorkShopGuest@mississaugacameraclub.ca.
Holly Lumley
Workshop Coordinator
Mississauga Camera Club
At our December 4th meeting, John Williamson gave an excellent presentation on Getting Photos Ready For Sharing. You can review it here.
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on Friday, April 5th at 9:15 a.m.
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, March 29th to be included in the slideshow. For details on how to submit photos, including formats and titles, go to our Pictures/How to Submit page.
The next assignment is Solitude and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the May 3rd meeting.
See you at the meeting.
Your Camera Club Executive
The Hazeldean branch of the Ottawa Public Library is offering two introductory courses on photo editing that may be of interest to some of our camera club members.
The first is Basic Digital Photo Editing (Demo Only) on March 4th from 6-8 PM
The second is Basic Digital Photo Editing (Hands On) on March 25th from 6-8 PM
Both courses require registration with the library as described in the links above.
At the February 1st meeting, club member Frank Dugal will give a presentation on portraiture.
Frank is a self-taught life-long photographer. He was the founding co-leader of the RA Photo Club Digital Group, President of the Orléans Photo Club and the leader of its Digital Group. He is a member of the Kanata Seniors Centre Camera Club and the Arnprior Photo Club. He has been shooting digital since 1998 when he bought his first Digital Camera. Now, his cameras of choice are the mirrorless Fuji XT1 and his iPhone.
For a number of years, he was a weekend warrior and photographed weddings and special events. People photography is his first love.
Frank believes Photography is a school from which you never graduate. It is a continual learning process.
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You can review Frank’s presentation here.
The next Camera Club meeting will be held on Friday, December 1st at 9:15.
Our meeting will include:
Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, November 24th to be included in the slideshow. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles go here on our website Galleries page.
The next assignment is “Picture that Tells a Story” and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the January 5th meeting.
See you at the meeting.
Your Camera Club Executive
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