Take Care of Your Flash Cards

There’s a really great article on the PhotoFocus website by Steve Eilenberg on how to take care of your flash cards.

I’d like emphasize his Tip #7 about not inserting or removing a flash card with the camera turned on. On my Nikon D-90 there is a little green light that flashes whenever I turn the camera off. As long as that light is on the camera may be accessing the card so IT IS NOT SAFE TO INSERT OR REMOVE THE FLASH CARD! I always wait for it to turn off.

Bill Robertson

Animated GIF files

If you look at Sue Carey’s submission for week 2 of the Winter Photo Challenge in the flickr album here it looks pretty boring. Turns out flickr doesn’t support animated GIF files. Below is what Sue submitted:

week 2 food by Sue Carey.gif

Way to go Sue!

Note that some web browsers don’t support animated GIF files. If the above image isn’t moving, try downloading the file from flickr to your computer/phone/tablet.

 

Using an External Flash.

This video deals with the basics of flash:

And now, here are those same principles applied to real world settings:

Phil Tughan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monthly Meeting January 5th

The next Camera Club meeting with be held on Friday, January 5th at 9:15 .am.

Our meeting will include:

  • Slide show of Member Images from the Pictures that Tell a Story assignment
  • Phil’s Tip of the Day on External Flash
  • Members’ videos
  • Questionnaire Q&A
  • Review of Chosen Photos
  • Announcements and Closing Remarks

Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, December 29th to be included in the slide show. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles go to our Galleries page.

Ron Pierce has organized a Winter Photo Challenge which runs from January 1st to February 23rd.

The next assignment is  Just the Three of Us and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the February 2nd meeting.

See you at the meeting.

Adobe Sale

If you’re interested in buying or upgrading Adobe Photoshop Elements for image editing or Adobe Premiere Elements for video editing then this sale is for you. Until January 7th you can get either program for $69.99US (regular price $99.99US) or a package of both programs for $99.99US (regular price $149.99US).

If you’re not sure you can download the full featured 30 day free trial of Photoshop Elements or the free trial of Premiere Elements and try it out for 30 days. Note that you do have to create a free Adobe account to download either program.

The Kanata Seniors Council Tech Tutors offers one-on-one tutoring on Photoshop Elements for $20 for 3 hours or $8 for one hour.