Fraser Campbell found this collection of old Ottawa pictures.
Thanks for sharing Fraser.
Shooting Tulips
This blog post by Laura Greenwald on the PictureCorrect web site has some great ideas about shooting tulips – in case spring ever really arrives 😉
How I Got The Shot
Ron Pierce, a new club member, submitted these two images:
for the March assignment. Click on the captions to see his originals on flickr.
He’s written an article on how he shot both images that will appear in the May shutterBUG.
Orchidophilia
If you want to get some great pictures of some exotic flowers, the Ottawa Orchid Society annual show will be held April 16th and 17th at the RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive. Photographers are only allowed to use tripods 9-11 on Sunday.
Got more details, visit their web site.
Free Lightroom Course
CreativeLive is presenting a free, 4 week long course on Adobe Lightroom.The course, which started Monday April 4th will cover:
- Basic Lightroom Workflow
- Organizing and Adjusting Images
- Getting the Most Out Of Lightroom’s Special Features
- Fine Tuning Your Workflow
The course is streaming live each day for free and will be available later as a download for $129US.
Free Nik Tutorials
Amy Lo found these free tutorials that go along with the free Nik photo editing software we posted about here. Thanks for sharing Amy.
Photoshop Layers Basics
At the March meeting we ran out of time for John to present the video on Photoshop layers. Hopefully we’ll have time to present it at the May meeting. Meanwhile you can watch the video yourself here.
Suzanne Warren Powell’s Miksang Photography Presentation
Thanks again to Suzanne for her excellent presentation at this morning’s meeting.
For more about Suzanne and Miksang, see this earlier blog post.
The three books she mentioned were:
The Practice of Contemplative Photography by Karr and Wood
Looking and Seeing by McQuade and Hall
True Perception by Chögyam Trungpa
If you have other questions for Suzanne she can be reached by email.
Request for Assistance
A senior is looking for a videographer to record his wife’s 70th birthday party. The event is on April 30 from 4:00 to 10:30pm If you are interested, please contact Shae Ali directly at 613-838-5657.
This would be negotiated between the videographer and Shae and is not a function of the Digital Camera Club or the Kanata Seniors Centre.
Linify?
Just for fun, the Linify web site can turn normal images:
into a strange kind of line art:
Visit the web site to see several examples, click on their About link for more details on what it’s doing, upload a picture or two of your own to see how it works, and play with the settings and see what you can come up with.
Kanata Seniors' Centre Camera Club 