For those who haven’t already discovered it, the January gallery of member images is online here. Thanks for sharing your great and very funny pictures.
More National Geographic
Marg Jackman found this great National Geographic wildlife video from 2012. Be sure to watch it in full screen mode with the sound turned on. Lots of beautiful images.
Ginny Fobert
At the May 6th meeting of the Camera Club, Ginny Fobert will make a presentation on her approach to making photographs versus just taking them. If you know you won’t be able to make it to our May meeting or if you’d just like to see Ginny’s presentation earlier, she’ll be at:
West Carleton Arts Society
Wednesday February 17 – 7PM
St. Paul’s United Church,
3760 Carp Road, Ottawa
Members free, Guests $5
There’s a map here.
For more about Ginny and her work, take a look at her web site.
Explore Your Camera Workshop
Many camera club members got together on January 13th and had a great time learning more about their cameras.
Under the guidance of Sue Carey, and with the assistance of members of the Camera Club Executive, topics included aperture priority, shutter priority, manual fixed focus, lighting, portraits, spot versus matrix metering, and exposure compensation.
More pictures of participants and some of their results are in this gallery. The handouts are here.
Special thanks to Sue Carey for coming up with the idea for the workshop and for making it happen.
February ShutterBUG available
You can get the February issue of the shutterBUG:
by clicking on the above image or by going to the shutterbug page.
Henry’s Kanata Event: February 14
Alexandra from Henry’s in Kanata passed along this:
we’re running an event here at Henry’s Kanata on February 14th from 9am-noon, and we are extending the invitation to you guys and the Lanark camera club first. The whole event is centered around education, not selling (there wont be a till open, but there may be something offered to attendees that they can take and use at a later date).
The idea is that the store will be divided in to 6 sections (Action Cameras, Nikon, Canon, sigma/tamron/3rd party lenses, mirrorless, and lighting) and there will be little presentations going on in each section. Since not all the attendees will be interested rotating through all the stations to hear all the presentations we are bringing in a bunch of gear to create a “play”/demo section in the middle of the store.
Do you think this is something that your club would be interested in? And would you perhaps be able to connect me with the best person to help us get the word out and confirm who would like to come? (We do unfortunately have limited spot available)
For more details, and/or to register please email Henry’s in Kanata or call them at 613-836-1016.
Shoot People?
Fraser Campbell found this one for photographers who take themselves too seriously. You don’t have to buy the mug to appreciate the joke 🙂
The Big Picture
About once a week, the photo editors at the Boston Globe put together a collection of brilliant images from around the world that they call The Big Picture.
Sometimes they focus on a single story for example: Perseid meteor shower. Sometimes the images are a collection like this story: 2015 Year in Pictures: Animals. Often they cover news events like: Paris attacks.
If you’re looking for inspiration take a look at this blog.
How to Photograph Shiny Objects
Sue Carey found David Peterson’s post titled How to Photograph Shiny Objects on the Digital Photo Secrets blog. She thought his tips might be helpful for people who were photographing shiny objects at the recent workshop.
Sale at Henrys!
Ken Wilson passed along news about this sale:
I noticed a sale advertisement in today’s Citizen that Henry’s Orleans Location (613-830-8500) is closing Jan 23, 2016, and “everything must go”. I just thought I’d pass this information along in case camera club members may be interested.
Kanata Seniors' Centre Camera Club 