Author: oscameraclub

A Canadian based community photography club located in Owen Sound, Ontario.

iPhone 4s vs. Canon 60D

Yesterday a few of us went out to the Indian River to practice our veiling technique. As you know the iPhone takes great pictures and with all the apps out there available for shooting and editing I thought I’d try a little test. Out of the two photos below, numbered in the bottom right corners, can you tell which one was taken with the iPhone and which one was taken with the 60D? Sound off in the comments.

Now I must confess, one of them was edited to try to match the correct crop, colour and brightness/contrast, but it really didn’t need a lot of work. I think there is still a distinct difference between the two, don’t you?

Greg

Foto Art Contest Winners

As some of you may know Foto Art runs a friendly little contest for the club members twice a year. The latest contest was “Wind” and the winners were as follows:

First Place: Denise Bonte

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Second Place: Darlene Van Laar

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Denise won a $25 gift certificate from Foto Art and Darlene won a complimentary issue of Shutterbug magazine. Great job ladies!

November Theme: Re-Creation

Our theme for November is a tricky one but should be fun and really stimulate your creativity. The idea here is to re-create a situation or event from some point in your past using a new photo that incorporates an old photo. It could be yesterday or yesteryear. How do you do it? Use your imagination.

We discussed two methods at out last meeting; one was to scan the old photo (or take a picture of it with your digital camera) and the other, most popular way amongst the members, was to take the “Dear Photograph” approach and hold up the old photo in the place it was originally taken and retake it. You can get a lot of ideas for this at the Dear Photograph site.

Here’s an example of what it may look like. Not a great example but just something I snapped in a hurry on Thanksgiving Day.

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Members, you can submit the usual five versions for the next meeting, but don’t be discouraged if you don’t get five. Have fun with this and enjoy you walk down memory lane.

We’ll Get Better, We Promise.

Hello world. As you can see by the last post we haven’t done a very good job of keeping things up to date here, but we will get better at it. That’s a promise.

You can look for more impromptu posts of photos, tutorials, and maybe even a video how-to now and again. We’ll get our Calendar page updated soon so you will know what to expect at our meetings. And we love to hear from you. Please don’t hesitate to give your feedback about the site. What you like, what you don’t like, what you’d like to see, etc. the more feedback we get, the more we can improve the site.

Thanks,
Greg McMillan, webmaster