Category: meeting

            Tim welcomed forty-three members and 4 guests. He introduced Fletch Fletcher of the Brighton Barns project. Fletch expressed his appreciation to those members who volunteered their time and photographic skills to complete the project. Harry spoke on the summer scavenger hunt and announced the winner, Andrew Mason.

            Next, Tim introduced club member Joseph Leduc and his “Cold Weather Projects.” Joe described in detail the equipment, camera/flash settings, and props needed to photograph all of the unique images displayed in the accompanying poster above. He gets most of his simple props from the dollar store. The underlying message of his presentation was to have fun.

            For example, look at the water bead picture in the above poster. The background is a piece of coloured, patterned paper. Joe prints his own patterns, but you can use any colourful paper. The props include a piece of clear glass, an improvised platform to hold the glass, a can of Rain Ex (windshield cleaner) to bead the water drops, and a dollar store water atomizer. Set your camera’s controls to manual: shutter speed to sync with your flash (1/125 works), ISO 100-200), aperture f5 6 – f:8. Nest set your flash to manual and at its lowest power. Point the flash at the paper. The light bounces up and voila- abstract art. Move the paper and camera angles around to get different images. This was a fun and informative presentation that you can spend hours on (especially with your grandkids!!)

            After the break, Tim chaired a short AGM. The minutes will be posted separately. Your new executive is: Chair – Marie Mitchell, Co-Chair – Joseph Leduc,Secretary (remains open), Treasurer – Harry Kranenburg. The program/outings committee while not elected positions, will consist of Harry Kranenburg, Carol Wilson, Don Halcrow, Phyllis Naccarato, and Anita Reid.

            Ron Visockus presented the member’s slide show. Nine members submitted spectacular images, which once again highlighted the talent and diversity of club members. Finally, Mike Gaudaur critiqued the Theme submissions (Remembrance) in his imitable style. The most poignant image was submitted by Debbie Smit – an image of a pile of shoes taken at Auschwitz concentration camp.

            Next Month’s theme is “Christmas”………. Happy shooting.

Our presenter for the November 6th meeting is Club member Joseph Leduc. Joe has an extraordinary talent for making common everyday items into photographic works of art. His presentation will feature the “how-to” aspect of his photography, complemented by real time demonstrations. You will be amazed!!

Following the break, Ron Visockis will have a short slide show of member’s submissions, which really highlights the talent and versatility of club members’s work.  A brief viewing of the scavenger hunt winner’s pictures and prize presentation will follow..

Next on the agenda,  the new executive and program committee members will be elected

Finally, we will receive a critique of members’ theme pictures. This month: Remembrance.

Guests are welcome and will be charged a nominal fee of $5.00 for this meeting.

Remember to lug a mug.

1. Our guest speaker will feature Phil Norton, widely known as the County Photographer. He is recognized for his wide variety of workshops, photo excursions with individuals or groups, as well as his featured articles in several publications. His latest undertaking is drone photography and drone photo instruction. To view his biography, and to get an idea of his talents and diversity, visit his web site at philnorton.net
2. The second half of the program will feature our member’s slide show and the critique of this month’s theme submissions “Spooky”
3. DUES: Membership fees are due at this meeting. Still a bargain at only $35.00 per year. Cash and correct change preferred.
4. Please arrive a little early to assist with the set-up.

            We wrapped up the season with 36 members, as well as one new member (Andy Penrose), and three guests present. Before our feature presentation, Marie gave a small token of our appreciation to Marylyn Pickell for setting up refreshments at all of our meetings. Tim spoke briefly about Brighton Council’s decision to replace the projector system in the meeting room. This will result in a much more true to life rendition of presentations and member submissions. Marie also spoke about the June field trip, which can be found elsewhere on this site.

            Our feature presenter was Ian Dickenson who spoke about the impact bird photography made on his life. After a full career in the work world, he invested in a camera and took his first shot. He showed us a rather mediocre shot of some ducks playing in the water. When he studied the image more closely, he realized that these ducks were all different. This led him into the world of birding and photography, or as he calls it, photobirding. Key points in Ian’s presentation, besides great images, were to look at the world around you. In photographing birds, or for that matter, any type of wildlife, understand the subject’s food sources through the season, as well as migratory paths (and rest stops). This will lead you to the venue and your patience will be rewarded not only with great photos but also with what he calls “in the zone.” (aka away from the rat race!!)

            After the break, we viewed 54 slides in the popular segment of member’s submissions. No critiques during this segment… just an enjoyment of the imagery of our talented members.

            Next Mike Gaudaur conducted his popular teaching critique member’s theme submissions (Tiny). We had seven theme submissions and five member’s choice. In this segment, John Zerafa deserves special mention for his incredible hummingbird in flight taken at 1/8000^th of a second. Well done to all members who submitted.

            New for the summer, the club will conduct a photo scavenger hunt. Details may be found elsewhere on this website.

            Last but not least, Ted Porham, one of our guests, went home with $23.00 from our 50/50 draw.

            Safe holidays and may the “light” be with you.

Our May meeting will include the member’s equipment sale, which will be on going from start to finish. Bring your unused stuff: you know, the things you absolutely needed to have and haven’t used since you opened the box. You can sell it, barter for it, or swap for other neat stuff.

The program will consist of a number of member presentations:

Bill Murtha                 Barns

David Lawler             Compact Cameras

Ron Viscockis             I Love Paris

Mike Jones                 Water Lilies

Lewis Parker              Wild Flowers

After the coffee break and announcements we will:

Present the members slide show

Do a print appraisal of this month’s theme “From a Different View”

Doug Banks Equipment Cleaning. Doug Banks will be present to clean your camera ($20.00 or lenses for $10.00) If you haven’t already done so, email Marie Mitchell at mitchellmm5@hotmail.com

Guidelines for members slide show: Maximum of 5 images in jpeg format sized to 500-600 kb. Send to rvtrains@gmail.com

April 3, 2018 Meeting

We had 38 members (including two new members) and 12 guests present at today’s meeting. Bill Murtha went straight into the introduction of our guest speaker, Don Martel. Don is a professional photographer who has travelled extensively, cycled across the country, published a book of his travels, and has treated photography as a “life experience.”

The basic premise of his talk was that what you see with your eye is not what you get with your camera. While your eyes and brain perform as nature intended, interpreting the panoramas and colours of the natural world, the camera sees only what the engineers have built into their algorithms.

Following an initial explanation of the different metering systems in modern cameras as well as how the camera renders everything in neutral grey, he went on to explain how to compensate…. or not!!! Using many of his photographs, he showed how leaving the camera to meter would give those different results (like grey snow or a grey black cat). However, by letting the camera interpret the scene, he demonstrated that your results could be quite artistic. Thanks Don for a very informative session!! We have several members who are just starting out on their photographic discovery, and when they say that they learned a lot in this session, you know you’ve hit the bull’s eye…. Or spot meter!!!

Because this was a full session presentation, there was no theme critique or member slide show. The theme for our next meeting in May is “from a different viewpoint” Our 50/50 winner was Susan Guy who hopefully took Clint to lunch with her $29.00 winnings.

Perceiving your Camera Vision

Location is The Community Centre nest to the King Edward Arena, 75 Elizabet Street, Brighton

Time: 9:30 AM to 11:45 AM

Meeting date:  Tuesday, December 5th, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Location:          King Edward Park Community Centre, 75 Elizabeth St., Brighton  
                                          Parking at the back of the building

Our speaker will be Jonathon Van Bilsen and his presentation will be about Water and Ice. Jonathan hails from Port Perry, is a world traveller, and photographer extraordinaire!! If you want to preview some of his outstanding work, just Google his name and you’ll be directed to various web sites. His Facebook page also has a large collection of his images.

Ron Visockis will give a ten minute slide show of member submissions, and of course, the display of images for the Theme Abstract Fall Colours. If you photographed the Santa Claus parade, don’t forget those images…..

Just a friendly reminder that the meeting on November 7th will be devoted entirely to a presentation by Philip Sun. For this presentation, guests will be charged $10.00

His  presentation “Work The Light” has four segments. The program is specially designed to help  camera club members to better understand the concepts of light, and train their visual senses toward seeing the light. Once they have mastered the technique on how and where to look for the light, they will begin to see a lot more interesting subjects that they normally would have passed up on.

 

Segment A: How and where to look for light

Segment B: Understanding the concepts of light

Segment C: How to make use of nature’s elements to help enhance the image quality

Segment D: Post processing on images that were taken in unfavorable lighting conditions

 

The duration of the show is about an hour and forty five minutes, with a fifteen minute break. He will have a small number of CDs made available to the club members to purchase at a cost of $5. This way, club members do not have to jot down notes in the dark. The contents on the CD will provide all instructions and image references of the evening program.

Greetings & invitation to BPG Members and your Friends as our Guests

Meeting date:  Tuesday, October 3rd, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Location:          King Edward Park Community Centre, 75 Elizabeth St., Brighton  
                                          Parking at the back of the building