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January to May 2013:
January 14 • Showcase Theme: Passages : Windows, Doors, Stairways, Tunnels, man-made or naturally existing. You are invited to bring 10 photos on this theme. Photos from each presenter will be entered in our theme competition in May. • Tips and Tricks – Point and Shoot Cameras - What can your point and shoot camera do? Ray Walkerdine will share with us how he makes his camera reach its potential and what new features are packed into some of these excellent cameras. • What have you done lately with your point and shoot camera? Bring 10-20 photos to share with us. • What will your point and shoot camera do? Members are encouraged to share their expertise and practice making adjustments to their cameras. • Members are asked to bring their images for the North Shore Challenge so they can be vetted and submitted to the contest prior to the Feb. 9 deadline. • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. Bring one or two images if you wish. January 28 • Members are asked to each bring 3-5 photos to this meeting to share. These are photos that beg for editing. From these photos submitted, Henry Schnell will choose 5-8 photos, place them into a folder and then copy photos onto any participating member's thumb drives. You will then have the opportunity to work with them with your own editing programs and return next meeting with your creative "masterpieces." • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. If you want critiques, bring 1-2 images on a thumb drive. • Tips and Tricks – Lightroom Basics by Wendy and Ian Clay • Jim Hoskins – Hiking trips to Mt Assiniboine (SW of Banff) and Tonquin Valley (near Jasper). February 11 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. If you want critiques, bring 1-2 images on a thumb drive. • Tips and Tricks - Having Fun Editing Photos and Being Creative by Ian James and Henry Schnell. • Ian will show before and after samples of the five to eight photos from last meeting and possibly some of his own photos, in which he and Henry have created their own dynamic or creative changes. They will also show a video(s) on editing photos as examples of what people can do. Afterwards, members will form work groups, according to editing programs and on their laptops will share their own editing experiences with the same photos, using Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CS, Lightroom, Picasa or similar programs. - Members are encouraged to bring their laptops to share their editing experiences for this project. February 25 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. • Tips and Tricks - Winter Photography – Clive Bryson will present a slide show, followed by tips on exposure compensation protecting your equipment, subject matter (what it encompasses). • Showcase Theme: Textures – Pictures you wish you could touch. Bring 5-10 images each between 6:40 and 6:50 pm for downloading. Two photos from each presenter will be entered in our theme competition in May. March 11 • Critiques of members' photos by Clive Bryson. · Showcase Theme: Share that Creative Moment – Members to bring 4 images they had fun taking or making and share the inspiration that made these images happen. Photos could be based on what you learned and worked on at the Feb. 25 meeting. Two photos from each presenter will be entered in our theme competition in May. · Tips and Tricks – Catching the Essence - Henry Schnell Photographic. African Safari will be shown in the 2nd half of the meeting. March 25 · Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. · Black and White Photography and More by Ed Spiteri from Notch Hill. His works are located in National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Ed has been a free-lance photographer for over fifty years. His first published photographs were in his High School Year Books in the early fifties, his most recent assignment is his still ongoing documentation of the homeless. He has traveled nationally and internationally on assignment. April 8 Showcase Theme: Ages and Stages: How does time touch the world around us? Two Photos from each presenter will be entered in our theme competition in May. · Tips and Tricks - Shooting HDR: Brief instructional to members for HDR processing at April 22 meeting. A website link on this will be provided. · Members are asked to shoot pictures to bring to meeting on April 22. HDR processing software to be purchased or downloaded to members' laptops. April 22 • Critiques of members'photos by Jim Hoskins. • Tips and Tricks - HDR Presentation and Workshop by Ward Strong. Members are encouraged to bring 5 images each for the workshop. Several members are encouraged to bring laptops to practice processing HDR images that they photographed earlier. May 13 • Presentation with Jamie Allen: Sports action (how to take pictures at any time of daylight, how to shoot in the direction of the sun and still have a great image, how to set camera settings to get the image, how to change the type of shots to match your camera, how to edit the images to recover the shot you took.) September to December 2012: September 10 • Meet and greet members – find out peoples’ interests – share for one minute • Critiques from members of photos from a source outside the club • Tips and Tricks – Henry Schnell to present on low light and night photography • Members' potluck photos – bring up to 10-20 of your 2012 spring and summer photos September 24 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins • Ward Strong Microsphere photography of insects, Oyama, BC - Ward will be talking on Micro and Macro photography as well as landscape photography. He works as an Entomologist at the BC Forestry Research Station and he also sells his work as prints. Some of his work and a bio can be seen here at http://microsphere.shawwebspace.ca/, and at http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/details.asp?portfolio=29197&catid=58 email: http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/email.asp?portfolio=29197 October 15 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins. Several members are requested to bring one or two images for Jim to critique. • Clive Bryson – techniques for improving photo sharpness and understanding depth of field • Members' photos – theme: - patterns - regular, irregular and repeating, man-made or natural. Members are requested to shoot photos or select previously shot images and bring 10 to 20 images to this meeting. • Tips and Tricks – Resizing photos October 29 Jamie Allen from Kamloops - long exposure photography - night and day. The skills that are required are the same. There will be a short demo using our laptop and projector, followed by an outdoors place to shoot. Bring your camera, tripod, shutter release cable (if you have one), flashlight and warm clothes, raincoat and hat. Be familiar with how to adjust the ISO in your camera in low lighting. November 12 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins – Bring up to 2 images on a thumb drive for downloading them between 6:40 and 6:50 pm. • Members photos – images that include numbers – man-made or natural. Consider numbers on buildings or signs, numbers of items, animals or whatever numbers mean to you. Use your imagination. Bring up to 15 images on a thumb drive the meeting for downloading them between 6:40 and 6:50 pm. • Tips and Tricks – Using Layers to your advantage in Photoshop Elements - Martin Kyllo November 26 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins • Sandra DeVries – slide show on wildlife • Digital slide shows – Martin Kyllo will present digital slide shows on Lisbon and a cruise along the Danube River. December 10 • Critiques of members' photos by Jim Hoskins • Members' photos – bring 5-10 photos each of night photography from our Oct. 29 outdoor shoot, or other photos you have shot at night. • Show photos from the 2012 North Shore Challenge photo competition. • Social – members to bring munchies and refreshments and have time to chat. January to May 2012: Jan 9, 2012 7:00 PM Our guest Monday evening, January 9, 2012 will be Dusty Viedeman from Revelstoke. He has owned and operated Revelstoke Photohouse from 1969 to 2007, his passion in the last 6 or 7 years is bird photography, and he currently works part time as an industrial photographer for BC Hydro. Among his other interests are flying, snowmobiling in the winter and motorbiking in summer. He flies radio controlled aircraft as well and has a class three Ham Radio License. I initially asked Dusty to share some of his bird photography with us. When he returns from southern Alberta later this week from his Snowy Owl expedition, I hope to convince him to also share some of his experiences as an industrial photographer if he is able to do so. There appears to be quite a bit of interest from our club in that area as well. I am hoping that there will be time for a guided " Practice Tips " session at the end for those of us with camera our cameras. I know Dusty is looking forward to meeting some of our local Photo Arts enthusiasts, as he has been here photographing many times on his own and is aware of the richness of our area and we look forward to seeing him and you Monday evening. Feb 13, 2012 7:00 - 7:15 PM. Business Matters. a: Discussion - increasing Honoraria for guest speakers to $50 for a 2 hour presentation plus fuel (.20/Km) - one way - Yes or No b: Discussion - North Shore Competition Entries - Update c: Discussion - Lighting workshop for April 16 Meeting- Yes or No d: Discussion - Breakout session - Yes or No e: Discussion - Upgrades to Website Foundation programs f: Discussion - Volunteers to manage specific webpages 7:20 - 8:00 Part 1 Henry Schnell: Work can become a big part of our lives, yet so often we leave the description of what we do, or how we occupy our time at work to "backhoe operator" or some other term that rarely does justice to the "works" role is in our everyday existence. Henry Schnell will join us on Monday evening to look back on some of our predecessor's views on "work", as seen through their cameras, to discuss some of the important features of how we should view work and how specific aspects of work can be captured successfully. Do cultural differences affect how we perceive work and how do people from different cultures photograph work? This view overlaps also with "street photography”. He will take the time to share some of his personal experiences with industry and street photography in Europe, South America and Africa. Henry, who has been a long-time enthusiastic member of the Saskatoon Camera Club and Versailles Images in France, will bring an international perspective to our meeting. He will undoubtedly catch our attention. Finally, Henry has organized a photo-shoot on the weekend after the meeting (February 18) to help those of us who wish to put some of the elements of his presentation to the test. He will need to know the numbers of participants expected next Saturday. Henry's Webpage is http://aiglebayphoto.com/about.htm 8:00 - 8:15 Refreshment Break 8:15 - 8:45 Part II Henry Schnell 8:45 - 9:00 Intro for SPAC Club members to Website Member Page Features Feb. 27, 2012 Note that the photos from the Feb. 18 Work Place Photo Shoot of Gort's Gouda Cheese and DeMille's Farm Market previously scheduled for Feb. 27 will be shown at a future meeting, to allow time for participants to prepare their photos. Revised Agenda: Jim Hoskins will discuss macro photography techniques and show some of his lenses and equipment. A number of macro photos from a source outside our club will be shown, with discussions on how these photos could be taken. Jim will also lead a critique session of these photos, with members invited to give their comments. During the second half of the meeting, there will be a critique session on photos on general subjects, again with comments from members. March 12 Gerry Buzzell will lead an explanation on water photography. "Shooting the Falls - Photography of moving water". Moving water is one of the most attractive subjects for photography, but the resulting photos are often disappointing, failing to capture the sense of being there. Gerry will discuss the ins-and-outs of this subject, using as examples waterfalls, rapids, waves, and precipitation. He will aim to educate and entertain. If time allows near the end of the meeting, images from the Lions Gate Camera Club sponsored Celebration of Nature Photography 2011 photo competition will be shown. March 26 Ian James has offered to lead the session Monday evening with an agenda that has lots of opportunity for questions and discussion. The topics we hope to cover are outlined in his summary below 1) - rodeo video 6 minutes.. (Falkland rodeo is coming up in May) 2) - some before and after comparisons – we hear a lot of “my pictures look so dull.. it’s depressing” – all RAW amd many JPEG images need some degree of editing – also some comparisons of RAW images to RAW images with “in camera filters being used. 3) - Where can I get interesting shots? – show some shots from the new Askews store being built... and how to get creative with boring subject matter. .. such as a construction site. 4) - Scanning slides/negatives – a few examples and a few tips as to what worked for me. (10,000 scans later) 5) - example of a NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) tutorial video covering photo editing – 12 minutes. 6) – If there is an interest, I can provide a short Lightroom review – ( I just downloaded version 4) 7) – Again.. if there is an interest I can review the making of Coffee table books via MyPublisher (I’ll bring a couple of example books) – I’ll load the software on the laptop and do a walk through showing how easy it is to make a book. 8) – time permitting a few “people” images and a few shots from our trip across Canada 9) General discussion on any topic the group would like – all of the above should, as much as possible be interactive... ie: it should be a casual evening with lots of discussion. Noreen Sadiwynk is asking members to get their pictures for the Library exhibit ready and to bring them to the meeting on Monday. She will be there early if you need assistance. It would be good to advise Noreen if you will be bringing your pictures later and to indicate how many pictures you are providing. April 16 Presentations: 1. Victor Toy : Preparation and organization for optimum photo opportunities in a wedding setting. 2. Lila Karmali and Vikki Skofteby : Their 2 person shooting style for weddings and special occasions. April 30 Presentations: 1. Lynda Miller, District Representative for the South Interior, Pacific Zone, CAPA (Canadian Association for Photographic Art) from Kelowna will be sharing with us on what is new from CAPA. Some of the Four Nations Photo Contest images on a DVD she is bringing will be available to be shown at the meeting. Lynda will also show us photos on metal and plastic substrates that are being printed. May 14 Presentations include: 1. Harry Ogloff, from Salmon Arm, will present photos of his Sept. 2011 vacation on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. Harry has presented previously at our club, in which he showed dramatic lighting of vegetation, beaches and sunsets. Taking photos early and late in the day and using NIK filters in his computer further add to his wonderful composition. This is an evening you will not want to miss. 2. Jim Hoskins will show images from the North Shore Photo Competition. May 28 Presentations include: 1. Members are requested to bring 10-20 of their favorite images. Arrive between 6:40 and 6:50 pm to download photos from thumbdrives to the club laptop. 2. Members are welcome to bring new photograph equipment and toys to discuss their uses. 3. Discussion on agenda topics for future meetings in Sept. to Dec. 2012, as first proposed at the May 22 planning meeting at McDonalds at 2 pm. All members are welcome. If you are unable to attend, please email your ideas to Ian or Len so they can be discussed at the May 22 meeting. 4. Discussion on possible field outings for spring and summer. Bring suggestions on places to photograph. Perhaps you have ideas on particularly scenic or interesting locations. At a meeting next season we can view and compare how photos were taken. 5. As this is the last meeting, please bring goodies to eat, such as vegetables, fruit, cookies or juice. |
