January Camera Club Meeting

The monthly meeting will be held online on January 8th at 9:15 a.m. using Google Meet. For information on how to use Google Meet for our meetings go here. A link to the meeting will be posted on our website the morning of January 7th.

The agenda for the meeting is:

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Royalty Free Music

If you’re going to publish your slideshows online on where they’re publicly accessible you have to use royalty free or copyright free music, otherwise you may be liable for copyright violation.

Catherine Easton has been doing our camera club slideshows and since COVID they’ve been posted to the club’s YouTube channel. When asked where she was finding the music, she said:


I did a google search on the subject of Royalty Free and Copyright Free music — and lots of sites come up.  These are two that I’ve explored and downloaded some tracks:  

  • Mixkitwhich, in addition to free music, provides stock video clips, sound effects, and video templates
  • Bensoundwhich provides hundreds of royalty free songs in categories including acoustic, folk, cinematic, corporate, pop, electronica, urban, groove, jazz. rock, and world.

You have to be prepared to spend an hour or two researching the various pieces of music — there is a reason why some of it hasn’t made the “top 100 list”.    However,  I’ve managed to get a collection of a dozen or so pieces that should keep me going for the 2020/2021 season of slide shows.

Catherine Easton

Ross Laing Presenting in January

Ross Laing will be presenting Buying Used Photography Equipment at our meeting on Friday, January 8th, 2021.  He has been a keen amateur photographer for over 50 years and shoots a variety of genres. Ross especially enjoys taking images of landscapes and abstracts. A career as an educator took him to many countries and encouraged his interest in travel photography. More recently he has been focused on developing both macro and portrait photography skills. Ross is an active member of the RA Photo Club and is nearing completion of the Photography Techniques Program at Algonquin College.

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Facebook Group

A Facebook Group, restricted to KSCCC Members, has been operational for several months. This group is being used by camera club members to post pictures for comment and review. You only need to have a Facebook account to join this group. If time permits, photos posted to the Facebook Group for review may be shown during the monthly meeting.

For additional information click on the following post KSCCC Facebook Group

If you have any problems or questions email us at contact@ksccc.ca

DIY Slideshows

We’re starting a series of posts on how to make your own slideshows in hopes than more club members will be inspired to submit slideshows to share at our meetings like the one Debbie and Catherine shared at our December meeting.

The guidelines are here and there’s a (slightly out of date) post here.

We’ll be providing information on how to find royalty free music, on making slideshows with Windows, and with Apple devices.

Stay tuned…

Fix My Pic for January Meeting

The Fix My Pic candidate for this month is from Ted Timmons.  Images are available for download in dng, nef, and jpeg formats by clicking one of the formats in the list below then clicking on the download icon (a downward pointing arrow) in the upper right corner.

Barcelona-Sagrada-Familia as shot by Ted Timmons

Due to the Holiday schedule, for this month only, submission of your “Fix” must be submitted by noon on Sunday, January 3rd.

Images must be emailed to the regular club email address: contact@ksccc.ca

Submissions should be renamed to:

Fix Ted's Pic by {your name}.jpg

In the event that you may not be able to participate in the meeting to provide your comments on what steps you did, please include some notes on your process.

John Williamson