Kanata Seniors' Centre Camera Club

Understanding Aperture

Fraser Campbell found this excellent primer on understanding aperture and its effect on depth of field and brightness.

Play with your Camera

Come to the Centre Wednesday afternoon January 13th from 1:00 to 3:00 in the Program Room. Bring your camera, its manual, and your tripod (if you have one).

Visit our several “learning stations” where you’ll be able to experiment with:

aperture priority
shutter priority
manually fix focus
lighting
portraits
spot metering
exposure compensation
using a soft box

Snowy Owl Traffic

As this story explains, Robert Poëti, the Quebec Transport Minister has figured out a new way to do wildlife photography – use a traffic cam!

December Gallery Online

The December gallery of your “Traditions” images is online.

Remember that all 3,786 images members have submitted to the galleries since the club was established in 2009 are linked to the Galleries page.

Alan Mirabelli at Ottawa Art Gallery

Alan Mirabelli, who gave us such a great presentation last March, is showing his photographs at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

National Geographic 2015 Photo Contest

Hopefully these images, which were recognized for their excellence by the photo editors at National Geographic, will inspire you to take great photos in 2016. Thanks to Fraser Campbell for suggesting them.

January shutterBUG available

You can get the January issue of the shutterBUG:

by clicking on the above image or by going to the shutterbug page.

Fireworks!!

Just in time for all the New Years Eve celebrations with fireworks:

Ken found this great article with tips on how to photograph fireworks.

New Years

Happy 2016 everybody!

New Years falls on the first friday of January and the Seniors Centre will be closed so the monthly meeting is rescheduled to January the 8th at 9:15

Winter Photography

Now that winter has finally arrived, here are some web sites with tips you may find useful: