Parkland Photography Club April 2011 meeting


President	Neil Anderson	873-2356
Vice President	BJ Madsen
Sec./Treasurer	Darlene McCullough	873-2030

APRIL 26, 2011

President Neil Anderson welcomed fourteen members to the April 26 meeting of the Parkland Photography Club held in the Doghide Gallery.

Secretary - Treasurer Darlene McCullough reported that the Doghide Gallery had been purchased by Marion Ritter and she has agreed to let the club continue to hold their meetings there.

Discussion on the topic of a photo shoot ended with Bj Madsen volunteering to further investigate the suggestion of a shoot at the Tisdale Museum, possibly in early June.

Suggestions for next year's theme shoots were given to Neil Anderson and he will continue to accept these until Monday, May 2. He will then email the list to the members and ask them to choose eight of these. After he has tabulated the eight with the highest number of selections, those will be the theme shoots for next year. He will assign one to each month and then pass the information to the members at the May meeting of the club. All theme shoot entries for next year must be taken after the May meeting. This is done so that the members are urged to take new photos and not just dig some photos out of the old shoe box.

Neil Anderson prepared a PowerPoint presentation on Light Aperture and Shutter Speed. The aperture refers to the size of the of the opening in the lens and is measured in f stops. The higher the "f" stop number, the smaller the opening. The smaller the "f" stop the more light that reaches the sensor. The aperture size controls the depth-of-field. A very fast shutter speed 1/1000 will freeze the subject. A very slow shutter speed is used to capture a lot of light - example for night scenes or to blur objects such as water. The aperture and the shutter speed need to work together in virtually unlimited combinations. A negative number on a light meter means an underexposed image and a positive number means an over exposed image. A middle number means the camera thinks the image will be exposed properly. The white balance is used to make white look white even in different lighting situations. Light sources such as sunlight, shade, fluorescent light and incandescent light have different colour temperatures. Neil urged the members to do some experimenting with this.

Anne McIntosh presented her five photos to the other club members. She enjoys wildlife photography and many of these photos were taken when she was on a sailboat trip among the islands of British Columbia.

There were eleven entries in this month's theme shoot which was movement. first place went to Jillian Anderson who recreated her image using two flashlights; second place to Lia Boxall for her photo of the Snowbirds flying in formation; and third place was a tie between Cindy Neilsen's photo taken during her grandson's hockey game (bottom of page) and Neil Anderson's photo of water moving over rocks in a stream.

Thanks to Alan Caithcart for supplying the lunch for this meeting.

The next meeting of the club will be held in the Doghide Gallery on Tuesday, May 24 at 7 PM. Bj Madsen will present information on depth-of-field. The theme shoot will be Sports in Action. Final details for the photo shoot will be discussed. This will be the final meeting of the year as the club does not meet during the summer months.